Events

Johnson Memorial Building Celebration

Opening Celebration of the newly renovated Johnson Memorial Building

Johnson Memorial Building

Gallery Talk—The Light of the Levant: Early Photography and the Late Ottoman Empire

“The Light of the Levant: Early Photography and the Late Ottoman Empire” traces nearly a century of photography in the region. Curated by History of Art and Architecture faculty Pieter Broucke and Sarah Rogers, the exhibition includes the work of foreign and local photographers, both professional and amateur, to showcase the various scientific, commercial, ideological, and personal uses of the new medium and highlight a network of circulation in which images transported ideas about cultural otherness, imperial desires, and notions of modernity.

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art

Emerson String Quartet

One of the world’s finest chamber ensembles, nine-time Grammy winners, and longtime friends of our Performing Arts Series, the Emerson String Quartet visits our campus on their farewell tour. In this, their 33^rd and final Middlebury appearance, they play quartets by Shostakovich and Ravel, Walker’s Lyric for Strings, and our Music Accord co-commission Drink the Wild Ayre by Sarah Kirkland Snider.

 

Middlebury Chapel

Hirschfield First Thursday Films: The Royal Hotel

Hirschfield is back with a unique once-a-month event every first Thursday. Join us outside Dana to celebrate with pizza at 6:30 PM.

Americans Hanna and Liv are backpacking in Australia and take a temporary live-in job in a remote Outback mining town. Soon, they find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.

Directed by Kitty Green (The Assistant) - Australia/UK - 2023 - 91 minutes

Official Trailer

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

28th annual First Show: Look, Dream, Begin

First Show: Look, Dream, Begin, is a series of brand new, short plays from around the world interwoven into an inventive, truthful, and life-affirming piece about what it means to dream up a future during climate crisis.

Hepburn Zoo

28th annual First Show: Look, Dream, Begin

First Show: Look, Dream, Begin, is a series of brand new, short plays from around the world interwoven into an inventive, truthful, and life-affirming piece about what it means to dream up a future during climate crisis.

Hepburn Zoo

28th annual First Show: Look, Dream, Begin

First Show: Look, Dream, Begin, is a series of brand new, short plays from around the world interwoven into an inventive, truthful, and life-affirming piece about what it means to dream up a future during climate crisis.

Hepburn Zoo

Folk Heritage and Nordic Traditions in Music Today

In this lecture/demonstration, Dreamers’ Circus covers the important role that Nordic traditions play in the trio’s music-making. They will discuss how an understanding of their own folk heritage informs their contemporary approach to the music and performance. By exploring links between past and present, the trio demonstrates the contemporary vitality of the folk culture of Northern Europe. 

Open to Middlebury College students, PASS members, and MCMC families.

Mahaney Arts Center 221

28th annual First Show: Look, Dream, Begin

First Show: Look, Dream, Begin, is a series of brand new, short plays from around the world interwoven into an inventive, truthful, and life-affirming piece about what it means to dream up a future during climate crisis.

Hepburn Zoo

Dreamers’ Circus

This ambitiously inventive Nordic trio is one of the world’s most talked-about acts in the acoustic realm. Their hit “The World Was Waiting” feels spot-on, as we’ve been eagerly awaiting their return ever since their joyous, sold-out Middlebury performance in March 2020, just before the pandemic hit.

 

Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center

Wellesley College Carillon Guild

Middlebury Chapel

The Global Body in Conflict: Movement Matters Series with Sean Dorsey

The Global Body in Conflict: Movement Matters Series with Sean Dorsey
Lunch and Discussion with Sean

Open to Middlebury College ID holders only. Limited to 15 people. Pre-register here

Mahaney Arts Center Cafe

Film Screening: Song of Rapa Nui

“Song of Rapa Nui” tells the story of Mahani Teave, who left Rapa Nui (Easter Island) at age 9 to pursue her dream of becoming a classical pianist. At age 30, on the brink of international success, Teave gives up her career to pursue a new dream; a free music school for the island’s children. Teave hopes to shape a bold future for Rapa Nui and inspire change on Earth, our island home.  Enjoy the screening in advance of Teave’s Middlebury concert on Friday. A brief Q&A with Teave will follow the film.

Mahaney Arts Center 125

Mahani Teave, Piano

Award-winning pianist and humanitarian Mahani Teave is a pioneering artist who bridges the creative world with education and environmental activism. She is also the only professional classical musician on her native Rapa Nui (Easter Island).

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Transient Canvas

Internationally renowned bass clarinet and marimba duo Transient Canvas come to share their unique repertoire with the Middlebury community, including “liminal echoes” by Matthew Evan Taylor, Assistant Professor of Music.

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Film Screening of the documentary Spaces of Exception, followed by Q&A with Filmmakers

Film Screening of the documentary Spaces of Exception (2018, 90 minutes), followed by Q&A with filmmakers Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, moderated by Professor James Sanchez.

Mahaney Arts Center 125

Why Did Writers and Actors Go on Strike, and What Does It Mean for the Future of Hollywood?

Shawn Ryan ‘88, Board of Trustees member and acclaimed TV writer and producer, will discuss the recent WGA and SAG strikes, considering how they might change the future of Hollywood.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series - John McLeod: "Architecture for All - Community Engagement Through Architecture"

Presenter: John McLeod
“Architecture for All - Community Engagement Through Architecture”

Three examples from practice and teaching demonstrate architecture’s ability to serve anyone and anywhere: the Johnson Memorial Building renovation, the Architectural Studies/Habitat for Humanity Housing Design program, and “Design Assembly” - an annual community design-build program with students.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Greek Tragedy

A play by Lia Romeo directed by Michole Biancosino.
Anna is a famous and fabulous Instagram influencer. Jennifer is her drab best friend. But Jennifer is the one who’s been writing all of Anna’s content, while Anna spirals into addiction and out of control. And now Jennifer’s the one who’s writing this play. A story about telling stories… and about how to live our lives when we live our lives online.

Performances: October 26 - 28, 7:30 pm each evening and 2 pm on Saturday.

Wright Theatre

Greek Tragedy

A play by Lia Romeo directed by Michole Biancosino.
Anna is a famous and fabulous Instagram influencer. Jennifer is her drab best friend. But Jennifer is the one who’s been writing all of Anna’s content, while Anna spirals into addiction and out of control. And now Jennifer’s the one who’s writing this play. A story about telling stories… and about how to live our lives when we live our lives online.

Performances: October 26 - 28, 7:30 pm each evening and 2 pm on Saturday.

Wright Theatre