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Student Documentary on the Knoll Debuts at Yale Film Festival

The film Breaking Ground by Henry Wang ’27 is an official selection of the 2026 EFFY Environmental Film Festival at Yale University, where it will premiere on March 27.

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Sunday Night Environmental Group Turns 20

Dozens of alumni who helped launch Middlebury’s Sunday Night Environmental Group (originally known as the “Sunday Night Group”) returned to campus recently for SNEG’s 20-year reunion and a two-day conference exploring the question, “What Works Now?”

We asked a few of them to reflect on their time as Middlebury students and to offer some advice for today’s generation of college climate activists. Here are a few of the voices from that gathering.

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Featured Events

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Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Black Queer Dance: How You Movin' (Through the World)?

Dr. Mark Broomfield, Associate Professor of English, Founder and Director of Performance as Social Change™ at SUNY Geneseo, is a London-born, award-winning scholar and artist of Jamaican heritage, with publications in the areas of race, gender, sexuality, dance, and ethnography.

He will deliver a performance and talk on his book Black Queer Dance: Gay Men and the Politics of Passing for Almost Straight.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Economic Sanctions: Lessons Learned from Ukraine and Future Use

The United States has used economic sanctions many times to try to achieve foreign policy goals. Sanctions were used extensively on Russia after it invaded Ukraine. How effective were these sanctions and what can we learn from their use going forward? Elizabeth Rosenberg, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes in the Biden Administration, played a key role in the sanctions effort and will discuss these issues with Q and A afterwards. 

Mahaney Arts Center Seeler Studio Theatre

The Maids

The Maids by Jean Genet, translation by Martin Crimp.

Two maids indulge in a delicious game of role-play as they plot the murder of their capricious mistress. As the stakes rise, their performance spirals into a ritual where adoration, hatred, sacrifice, and glory promise a grand spectacle of liberation. 

Directed by Professor Claudio Medeiros. Senior work in costume design of Juli Valle. Senior work in acting by Zeph Santiago and Ryan Ulen. Performances April 9-11 at 7:30 PM and April 11 at 2 PM.

Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

Museum Family Day

Art lovers of all ages are welcome to the Middlebury College Museum of Art for a special day of art talks, crafts, and fun in the museum! Families will join art educators in the lobby of the MCMA for hands-on craft projects inspired by artworks in the collection. Inside the museum, guides will lead looking exercises for all ages. Light refreshments will be served, perfect for ages 6+. 

McCullough - Mitchell Green Lounge

Shape Note Singing

Described as spiritual, joyful, powerful, and raucous, Shape Note (or Sacred Harp) singing is a traditional American style of four-part, a cappella, community singing popular in the United States before the Civil War. It is called Shape Note because the notes of the scale are indicated by distinctive shapes and names.

No training or musical ability is necessary; the tradition emphasizes participation, not performance. Free and open to all. Led by Professor Emeritus David Rosenberg of the Middlebury Shape Note Singers.

The Knoll

Knoll Garden Spring Volunteer Hours

For 23 years the Knoll has been powered by students and the Middlebury community. Come join us in the garden this spring! No experience required; please check out go/knollhours for more detailed information. 

Spring volunteer hours: Mondays 2:30-4:30 PM, Thursdays 2-4 PM, Fridays 3-5 PM.

Mahaney Arts Center

Come to Your Senses! — Sensiotics and Understandings of Arts and Culture in Africa and Beyond

This multimedia and multisensorial presentation is in the African and African Diaspora tradition of “call and response,” with images, sounds, film, and movement. We will consider Sensiotics, an approach that centers the crucial importance of the senses, our body-minds and sense-abilities, in our experiences with arts, cultures, and histories. 

Hepburn Zoo

BIGFOOT

Alyssa and Holly Auburn are two sisters reuniting after years of silence. Their history is unpacked while the presence of Bigfoot himself looms ever closer. Hannah Alberti’s ’26 senior 700 work in acting, Alex Garcia’s ’26 senior 700 work in lighting design, and Evan Berger’s ’26.5 500 work in scenic design. 

Performances April 17 at 7:30 PM and 10 PM, and April 18 at 7:30 PM. go/bigfoot/ for tickets. 

Middlebury Chapel

1,000th Midday Carillon Concert Celebration

This event marks the 1,000th lunchtime recital by Middlebury College Carillonneur George Matthew Jr., who has played for Middlebury for over four decades, and who teaches Middlebury College students the art of this unique musical form. Stop by to greet George on the Chapel steps, before he makes his way up to the carillon booth, high up in the Middlebury  Chapel’s spire. Then stay to listen to his special program. Free and open to the all.

 

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