In honor of the late Professor Emeritus and former trustee John Spencer, Oratory Now is pleased to present the ninth annual speech competition for first-year students (including sophomore febs!). Qualifying rounds culminate in a Jan 27 Grand Championship event. Details are at go/spencer. FREE and open to the public.
Adirondack Coltrane Lounge
Celebration of Nominees and Winners of the 2025 Ward Prize
The Paul W. Ward ‘25 Memorial Prize competition recognizes annually those first-year students who are judged by the faculty to have produced outstanding writing in writing classes during that academic year. Please join us we celebrate this year’s winners and nominees.
Axinn Center Winter Garden
In honor of the late Professor Emeritus and former trustee John Spencer, Oratory Now is pleased to present the ninth annual speech competition for first-year students (including sophomore febs!). Qualifying rounds culminate in a Jan 27 Grand Championship event. Details are at go/spencer. FREE and open to the public.
Adirondack Coltrane Lounge
A public screening of a film as part of the monthly Hirschfield International Film Series.
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Don’t miss the Vermont debut of this wholly original, classically-trained, composing pianist Nahre Sol, who’s amassed over 75 million views on her YouTube channel. Sol’s music draws from her diverse musical influences, from chamber music to ambient soundscapes, improvisation, and more. Expect to hear solo music (both familiar and original) that’s playful, colorful, agile, emotional, and picturesque.
Approximate running time: 100 minutes including one intermission.
About the Artist:
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
This exhibit features the fieldwork and reflections of students in the winter term course: Acting Your Age: Meanings of Adulthood. Through images, sound and text, students will share personal reflections and highlights from readings. They will reveal traces of “adulting” norms found in college archives, and tell stories of growing, ageing and being alive shared by youth and elders in Addison County. They will explore how notions of childhood, adulthood and ageing are shaped by economic, political and social structures, and envision new possibilities for becoming “adult.”
Axinn Center Winter Garden
January 27, Tuesday
Grand Championship: Spencer Prize in Oratory
7:30 PM, Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center
Featuring the 2026 Spencer Prize Finalists… and special guests, the Middlebury Mamajamas!
McCullough - Mitchell Green Lounge
