Events

Before I Die

8:00 AM ET

Sponsored by:: Mahaney Arts Center and Elizabeth Hackett Robinson ’84 Innovation Hub

This interactive public art installation invites members of the Middlebury community to reflect on what matters most. By sharing personal hopes and aspirations on a communal wall, the project fosters connection, introspection, and a celebration of our shared humanity. Inspired by the global Before I Die project, this installation transforms public space into a canvas for gratitude, memory, and possibility.

Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

Free
Open to the Public

The image features the Third Princess, one of the female characters in the tale, with her pet cat. The original cat has been replaced by Hello Kitty.

Living with Genji: The "World's First Novel" in 21st Century Japan

8:00 AM ET

Sponsored by:: Japanese and Axinn Center for the Humanities

Davis Family Library, Upper Level Display Cases

The students in JAPN 290 (“Reading the Tale of Genji” in English”) and Prof. Otilia Milutin (Japanese Studies) are cordially inviting you and your students to view their exhibit, “Living with Genji: The World’s First Novel in 21st Century Japan.” The exhibit features a selection of objects, artwork, movies, and manga inspired by the 11th century classic The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. Our exhibit aims to showcase a few selected items that speak both of the tale’s enduring legacy in traditional Japanese arts, and, equally important, of its contemporary reiterations, be they manga and movies adaptations or commercial, consumer-oriented products such as mascots, stationary, fabrics, and other everyday objects. Through our exhibit, we hope to demonstrate how a millennium old classic lives and thrives today in contemporary Japan.

Middlebury College

Open to the Public

YOUPOWER Spin Class

8:00 AM ET

Sponsored by:: Youpower

YouPower Spinning Room

Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

8:30 AM ET

Sponsored by:: Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life

Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students. No registration required. Drop in any day that works for you!

McCullough Crest Room

Closed to the Public

YOUPOWER Spin Class

9:00 AM ET

Sponsored by:: Youpower

YouPower Spinning Room

YOUPOWER Spin Class

12:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Youpower

YouPower Spinning Room

Green Dot - get a Donut and learn about the 3 D's

4:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Health and Wellness Education

What can each of us do to prevent interpersonal harm that can make social interactions unsafe? Join Green Dot and learn what proactive green dots you can do to support safety in the Middlebury community. Learn more about Green Dot at Middlebury by visiting go.middlebury.edu/greendot/

MCCullough Grille Foyer

YOUPOWER Spin Class

4:15 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Youpower

YouPower Spinning Room

MiddRuns Women's Group Run

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Middruns

Adirondack Circle

Samara Gordon Wexler ‘23.5, Watson Fellow, “What does it mean to die well?”

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

What does it mean to die well? Samara Gordon Wexler ’23.5 will speak about her year-long Watson Fellowship project exploring what this means across different cultures and healthcare systems. Samara traveled to the UK, Ghana, South Africa, India, New Zealand, and Ireland, working alongside death doulas, fantasy coffin makers, and medical teams serving remote villages in order to understand how communities support end of life care. Registration is appreciated.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

Alumni: Sonia Hsieh, Graham Shelor, Octavio Rose Hingle

2026 Dance Alumni Takeover Panel Discussion

5:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Dance, Mahaney Arts Center, and Center for Careers & Internships

Sonia Hsieh, MSW ‘10.5, would like to share a message of self-transformation and love. No matter your background, life experiences, setbacks, or challenges, an embodied life is accessible to everyone. For over a decade, Sonia has worked as a psychotherapist in the self-help and inner inquiry space—first transforming herself, then guiding many others through profound processes of change and altered states of consciousness. When mind, body, and soul unite as one, the miracle of love becomes not only possible, but deeply felt and known.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Free
Open to the Public