“Empire of My Fireflies” by Ibiyinka Olufemi Alao, First-Place Winner of the United Nations International Art Competition and Nigeria’s Arts Ambassador to the United Nations and United States.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Join midd.data for a Lightning Talk with Michelle Leftheris (Studio Art). NOWSPACE is an online, live-streaming observatory which collects video from cameras pointed at the sky across North America. In this immersive, web-based artwork, multiple streams are collaged into singular compositions of a synthesized view of the nation’s skies.
Davis Family Library 105A
The Counseling Center presents “Body Process”: a counseling group to help students explore and process their relationships with their bodies. This is a confidential space for students to explore this issue with counseling interns Dana Williams and Sam Rothberg. The group will occur once per week on Thursdays from 1-2pm for the spring semester.
Please contact srothberg@middlebury.edu for more info/to sign up.
Axinn Center 219
The Counseling Center presents, Deconstructing perfectionism: Silencing negative self-talk. This is a weekly counseling group that will help students in understanding the origins of perfectionism, exploring its effects on their relationships with themselves and others, and learning how to disrupt it.
Axinn Center 219
Middlebury Debate Society: Come to enhance your debating and critical thinking skills. Stay for the community.
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 538
The George Lakey Documentary Film presents the life and work of a nonviolent revolutionary, a deeply spiritual man with a rebel heart, who has been guided in life by his ideal of societal transformation.
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
An engaging and fun way to experience and learn about Israeli art and culture.
Each week will provide something new and different according to students’ requests - including making art and learning calligraphy; Mystical topics of spells, amulets, and witchcraft in ancient Judaism and contemporary Israel; watching Israeli films and shows; graffiti in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem; listening to Israeli music; meeting interesting people from various sectors of Israel; and cooking and eating lots of Israeli foods.
Munroe 416
Join us for a time of community, socializing, and study of God’s word through the Bible! EVERYONE IS WELCOME
Forest East Lounge, Room 152
Join us for a dynamic conversation with guest speakers and community members about how art can reflect, engage, and resist apocalyptic ideas and futures.
Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center
The annual Gensler Symposium will feature invited guest speakers and a day full of talks, discussions, and activities focusing on feminist interests with the title: “Gensler Family Symposium 2023: Performing Feminist Joy.”
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Crossfit Middlebury hosts 1 hour workouts open to all students. Crossfit is “constantly varied, high-intensity functional movement” — a mix of gymnastics, weightlifing, and cardio. Beginners welcome! Classes meet in Nelson Half Dome.
Memorial Field House Nelson Multi-Use Area
A weekly session devoted to learning about and playing jazz in a small-group setting. Previous jazz experience is not required. Open to Middlebury College students only.
Mahaney Arts Center 221
Join Hillel for our weekly Shabbat services and home-cooked dinner! Services start at 5:30, followed by dinner at 6:30. All are welcome!
Jewish Center at the Freeman International Center
Evening large group is a time of exploration of how to pray, what it means to worship in a community, as well as how to be comfortable with silence. Welcome to anyone who is searching, hungry, lost, or lonely!
McCullough - Mitchell Green Lounge
Acclaimed Cellist Sophie Shao collaborates with our Performing Arts Series each season to bring a fresh chamber music performance—this year, responding to our request for a program celebrating composer Sergei Rachmaninoff’s 150th birthday. She’s joined by violinist Scott Yoo and pianist John Novacek for Rachmaninoff’s Piano Trio élégiaque No.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Ibiyinka Olufemi Alao, Nigeria’s art ambassador to the United Nations, visual artist, filmmaker, architect and author will lead a visual art (painting) workshop as part of the Art vs the Apocalypse event. Alao’s paintings center redemption, peace and love, and lately reflect a long-standing fascination with fireflies. Materials provided. Open to Middlebury College students.
Mahaney Arts Center 221
