Anne Janson, director. Performers Malcom Littlefield '13, Sarah Sooyoung Jang '12, Emma Stanford '12, Ben Fimlaid '13, Catherine Hayes '13, Julie Minjung Seo '12, and Amanda Pertierra '13 play J. S. Bach's Greensleeves Fantasia, La Milonga by Caliendo, Nutcracker Suite Overture, and Brian Boru's March.

Monday, November 30, at 7:30 P.M., in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall. Free

Anne Janson, director. Performers include Malcom Littlefield '13, Sarah Sooyoung Jang '12, Emma Stanford '12, Ben Fimlaid '13, Catherine Hayes '13, Julie Minjung Seo '12, and Amanda Pertierra '13. The concert program features J. S. Bach's Greensleeves Fantasia, La Milonga by Caliendo, Nutcracker Suite Overture, and Brian Boru's March.

Monday, November 30, at 7:30 P.M., in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall. Free

This exhibit of beautiful panel paintings from early Renaissance Italy brings together paintings from 10 different collections. Explore how these works were made and how they served as a focus for devotion and as an emphatic statement about wealth and status.  Depictions of the Madonna and child provide a perfect way to look ahead to the upcoming holiday season.

The Museum is open Saturday and Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend, 12 noon - 5 PM. (The Art of Devotion is on view through December 13.) Free admission

A concert in celebration of the season of Thanksgiving, performed by Middlebury College students, staff and faculty, and singers from towns and villages throughout Addison County and across the lake in New York State. The program includes music by Handel, Mendelssohn, Vermont composer Gwyneth Walker, Middlebury's Peter Hamlin '73, and more. Jeff Rehbach conducts.
 
Sunday, November 22, at 3:00 P.M., in Mead Chapel. Free

Surprised and intrigued by his inability to remember his time in the Israeli Army during the first Lebanon war, director Ari Folman interviews friends and comrades around the world to recover the truth. Folman presents his story in stunning animation with the help of chief illustrator David Polonsky. "A memoir, a history lesson, a combat picture, a piece of investigative journalism and an altogether amazing film"- New York Times.

Saturday, November 21, at 3:00 and 8:00 P.M., in Dana Auditorium. Free

Advanced student choreographers under the direction of Christal Brown and Jennifer Ponder show their newest works. Featured choreographers are Catherine Miller '11, Elizabeth Boles '10, Alexandra Vasquez '12, Sophie Levine '10, Philippe Bronchtein '10, and Sonia Hsieh' 11, and Simon Thomas-Train '09.

Friday-Saturday, November 20-21, at 8:00 P.M., in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre. Tickets: $10/8/6, 802.443.MIDD (6433) or http://go.middlebury.edu/tix.

Celebrating 75 years of big-band music at Middlebury, the ensemble plays contemporary compositions and arrangements, as well as a nod to the best music of the swing era. Dick Forman, director.

Friday, November 20, at 8:00 P.M., in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall. Free

Paula Vogel's 1979 play follows the central and re-imagined female characters of Shakespeare's Othello, creating a feminized universe largely unseen in the master text. Senior acting work of Claire Graves '10 and Emily Kron '10.

Friday-Sunday, November 20-22, at 8:00 P.M. each evening, plus 10:30 P.M. on Friday only; in the Hepburn Zoo. Tickets: $4, 802.443.MIDD (6433) or http://go.middlebury.edu/tix.

Students perform a beautiful variety of works by Debussy, Liszt, Chopin, Beethoven, and more. The performers are: Carrie Feng '12, Raina Kennedy '12, Kaveh Waddell '13, Frances Aderhold '13, Richard Chen '13, Sean Dennison '11 (with Zheng Zheng '11, violin, and Sarah Harney '12, cello), Nicholas Tkach '11, Daniel Vikum '12, Julie Seo '12, Marina Pravdic '10, and DaWeon Ryu '10.

Thursday, November 19, at 8:00 P.M, in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall. Free

Museum designer Ken Pohlman invites members of the Friends of the Art Museum to a "Behind the Scenes" gallery talk, where he discusses the design and installation of the exhibition The Art of Devotion.

Thursday, November 19, at 5:30 P.M., at the Middlebury College Museum of Art. Membership and Information: 802.443.2034 or asolomon@middlebury.edu.