Events
Sunday, January 11, 2026
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Open Skate
- Sponsored by:
- Middlebury College Figure Skating Club
Join us every Sunday in the Kenyon Arena for Open Skate! Email us at figskate@middlebury.edu with any questions!
Chip Kenyon Arena
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Mens and Womens Squash vs. Dickinson
- Sponsored by:
- Women's Squash Team and Men's Squash Team
Bostwick Family Squash Center Courts
Open to the Public
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Shape Note Singing
- Sponsored by:
- Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life
Described as spiritual, joyful, powerful, and raucous, Shape Note (or Sacred Harp) singing is a traditional American style of four-part, a capella, community singing popular in the United States before the Civil War. This style still thrives across the US and in the UK, with strongholds in the American South and New England. It is called Shape Note because the notes of the scale are indicated by distinctive shapes and names.
McCullough - Mitchell Green Lounge
Open to the Public
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Mock Trial Meeting
- Sponsored by:
- Middlebury Mock Trial
J-term weekly meeting for Mock Trial members.
Axinn Center 104
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Football Games at The Grille
- Sponsored by:
- Student Engagement Office and The Grille
Join us every Thursday and Sunday to watch the football games at The Grille and enjoy weekly menu specials!
McCullough Wilson Cafe
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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
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Sunday Night Environmental Group
- Sponsored by:
- SUNDAY NIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP
If you’re passionate about climate change and the environment, come join SNEG to get involved in a multitude of environmental campaigns (you can pitch one too)!
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Monday, January 12, 2026
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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
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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
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Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation
- 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
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Label First, Evidence Later: Terrorism Designations, Venezuela, and Trump’s War on ‘Antifa’
- Sponsored by:
- Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs J-Term Speaker Series presents “Label First, Evidence Later: Terrorism Designations, Venezuela, and Trump’s War on ‘Antifa’” with Jason Blazakis.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Open to the Public
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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 Winter Garden
Open to the Public