On view now through August 10
Wafting on a Heavenly Breeze: Hand-Painted Kites from China
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Museum of Art, Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery
A plethora of dragons, phoenixes, snakes, bats, and mythical figures fill the sky in this exhibition of hand-crafted kites using traditional materials—bamboo, paper, and silk. The majority of these kites come from Weifang, the birthplace of kite making.
The Museum will also hold a silent auction of several of the hand-made Chinese kites to benefit the United Way of Addison County from July 8-August 10. Details at http://museum.middlebury.edu/press/news/kite_auction.htm. Free
On view now through August 10
Art Now: Recent Acquisitions in Photography and Film/Video
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Museum of Art, Overbrook Gallery
For the past eight years, the Project in Contemporary Photography and Film/Video has offered students the opportunity to help select works of art for the Museum collection. During the spring, Art Now installations feature videos by Tracy Moffett, Jacco Olivier, and the Swiss team of Fischli and Weiss, along with photographs by Roger Ballen, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and Robert Mapplethorpe, among others. Free
On view now through August 10
Tombs, Temples, Palaces, and Tea: The Social Roles of Ceramics in Asia
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Museum of Art, Robert F. Reiff Gallery
This exhibition explores the practical and social uses of ceramics in Asia. Asian ceramics are the most varied in the world: they have been used for vessels, ritual objects, sculpture, and for even architectural ornament. They are also unrivaled in technical quality and in their sheer volume. We invite you to explore the wonderful world of clay transformed.
This exhibition is curated by students in the fall 2007 College Writing Course on Asian ceramics taught by Colin Mackenzie. Free
On view through August 10
Ancient Mediterranean and Early European Art
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Museum of Art, Lower Gallery
On view in this updated and revised installation are recent acquisitions in Egyptian and Mesopotamian art as well as Greek, Roman, and medieval European objects from the Museum’s permanent collection. Highlights include an Egyptian Old Kingdom relief and an early fifteenth-century Italian panel painting. Free On view through August 10
European and American Art
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Museum of Art, Cerf Gallery
This installation, which changes regularly, features highlights of the Museum’s collection of Western art from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. Landscapes by American painters Jasper Cropsey and John Frederick Kensett are on view alongside sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European religious and devotional images and American and European sculpture. Free
On view through August 10
Robert F. Reiff Gallery of Asian Art
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Museum of Art
This installation features a wide range of East Asian ceramics, including Chinese ceramic funerary sculpture from the Han (206 B.C.E.–220 C.E.) to Tang (618–906) dynasties, celadons and other wares of the Song dynasty (960–1279), and blue-and-white enameled porcelains of the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) dynasties. Korean celadons and Japanese tea ceremony wares will also be represented. Free
July 2, Wednesday
Concert by Julian Gargiulo
9:00 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Presented as part of the Italian School Opening Ceremony. Free
July 4, Friday
Carillon Concert: Sergei Gratchev, City Carillonneur, Hulst, Netherlands;Middlebury Language School Faculty
4:00 P.M., Mead Chapel
Presented as part of the 23rd annual Summer Carillon Series. Free
July 5, Saturday
Congorama [French]
7:00 P.M. and 9:30 P.M., Dana Auditorium
A screening of the Language Schools’ International Film Festival. All films subtitled in English. After each 7:00 p.m. screening, filmgoers are invited to participate in a film discussion in English in Sunderland 100. Free
July 5, Saturday
Works from German Classical Composers, performed by James Campbell, clarinet, and Leo Erice, piano
8:30 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Concert presented by the German School. Free
July 6, Sunday
Lecture: Francophone Cinema, by Philippe Falardeau and Bruno Bazin
10:30 A.M., Warner Hemicycle
Presented by the French School. Free
July 7, Monday
Le Vent du Nord
7:00 P.M., McCullough Student Center
French-Canadian Folk Music Band in concert, presented by the French School. Free
July 11, Friday
Carillon Concert: Charles Semowich, City Carillonneur, Albany, NY
4:00 P.M., Mead Chapel
Presented as part of the 23rd annual Summer Carillon Series. Free
July 11, Friday
Al-Sharq Ensemble
8:00 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Concert presented by the Arabic School. Free
July 12, Saturday
Man with a Movie Camera
7:00 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Silent film with musical accompaniment, presented by the Russian School. Free
July 12, Saturday
Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters) [German]
7:00 P.M. and 9:30 P.M., Dana Auditorium
A screening of the Language Schools’ International Film Festival. All films subtitled in English. After each 7:00 p.m. screening, filmgoers are invited to participate in a film discussion in English in Sunderland 100. Free
July 13, Sunday
German for Singers
8:30 P.M., Mahaney CFA, Concert Hall
Concert presented by the German School, performed by students enrolled in the German for Singers program. Free
July 18, Friday
Carillon Concert: Claire Halpert, Assistant Carillonneur, St. Stephen's Church, Cohasset, MA
4:00 P.M., Mead Chapel
Presented as part of the 23rd annual Summer Carillon Series. Free
July 19, Saturday
Film: L’ora di religione (My Mother's Smile) [Italian]
7:00 P.M. and 9:30 P.M., Dana Auditorium
A screening of the Language Schools’ International Film Festival. All films subtitled in English. After each 7:00 p.m. screening, filmgoers are invited to participate in a film discussion in English in Sunderland 100. Free
July 25, Friday
Carillon Concert: Linda Dzuris, Carillonneur, Clemson University, SC
4:00 P.M., Mead Chapel
Presented as part of the 23rd annual Summer Carillon Series. Free
July 25, Friday
Amuri & Giustizia and Poeti & Eroi
9:00 P.M., Twilight Hall, Auditorium
Concert by Michela Musolino, vocalist, and Kato Hideki, guitar; sponsored by the Italian School. Free
July 26, Saturday
Film: La Misma Luna (Under the Same Moon) [Spanish]
7:00 P.M. and 9:30 P.M., Dana Auditorium
A screening of the Language Schools’ International Film Festival. All films subtitled in English. After each 7:00 p.m. screening, filmgoers are invited to participate in a film discussion in English in Sunderland 100. Free
July 26, Saturday
Music from China
8:00 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Concert and Reception sponsored by the Chinese School. Free
July 30-August 3, Wednesday-Sunday
Twelfth Night
8:00 P.M., Burgess Meredith Little Theater, Bread Loaf mountain campus (Route 125 east)
The Bread Loaf School of English Acting Ensemble presents Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The Bard’s last comedy, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will is considered one of the most accessible yet elusive of Shakespeare’s plays. A fusion of stories, the play contains many Elizabethan themes including identity mysteries, self-love, sexuality, and social mobility. Each performance is preceded by a Bread Loaf Madrigal concert outside the Theater. Tickets are free, but must be reserved by calling the Bread Loaf Box Office at 802-443-2771 or emailing Faye Christensen, Theatre Manager at fchriste@middlebury.edu.