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Sunday, January 11, 2026

  • DREAM

    DREAM Mentor Meeting

    Sponsored by:
    DREAM Mentoring

    DREAM is an organization that mentors and engages in a variety of activities with youth from the Middlebury area. We connect with children living in low-income housing and form relationships through weekly meetings and fun projects such as baking, arts and crafts, sports, and more. Furthermore, we cultivate a positive, welcoming, and encouraging environment for all children and mentees! We will be meeting to discuss and plan for the week’s DREAM Friday activity with the kids.

    LaForce Hall Seminar Room

  • Spencer Prize 2025 Finalists (left to right): Yasmina Errahioui, Lily Jensen, Stephanie Snyder, Ranyely Gil Rojas, Reed Hyde, Matt Stevenson. Photo by Todd Balfour.

    Spencer Prize in Oratory 2026 Qualifying Rounds

    Sponsored by:
    ORATORY NOW

    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

    Open to the Public

Monday, January 12, 2026

  • Person writing on a chalk wall

    Before I Die

    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 The original cat has been replaced by Hello Kitty.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

    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

  • Ward Prize Celebration

    Sponsored by:
    Writing and Rhetoric Program

    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 Abernethy Room (221)

    Open to the Public

  • WTW: Money Talks: Weekly Wealth Conversations

    Sponsored by:
    Sustainability & Environmental Affairs

    Do you ever think about your socioeconomic class at Middlebury, but feel afraid to discuss it with others? What if there was a cozy and open space to chat about these things? Our workshop will provide educational materials and community building examining socioeconomic class at Middlebury. Using materials from organizations like Resource Generation and readings such as The Financial Activist Playbook, we will talk about our family backgrounds and money stories in a relaxed environment with tea and snacks. People of all class backgrounds are encouraged to attend!

    26 Blinn Lane (CCE) Conference Room