The Center for Community Engagement COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Flights to Freedom: Lift MLK’s legacy through speech, song and art

Please join the Anderson Freeman Resource Center, the Center for Community Engagement and the Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life as we lift Martin Luther King, Jr’s legacy through speech, song and art on Monday, January 20 at 3:00 pm in College Park (Rain location: Axinn Abernathy).  All are welcome!

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

Preparing for the November Election in your Classroom

This lunchtime event showcases the valuable work underway in the Center for Community Engagement as the November presidential election nears. How could you use the CCE’s democracy guide to shape class activities? What reflections from fellow faculty and what resources from the CCE’s Democracy Initiatives staff might be useful as you aim to foster student engagement around civic dialogue and voter engagement? Come to lunch and find out.
Please register for lunch by Friday, September 27th.

Davis Family Library Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

Closed to the Public

Pokemon Pop Up Museum

Come visit our research center and museum! Middlebury students are creating an immersive community outreach and engagement experience for Vermonters of all ages who love learning about wildlife and the world of Pokémon. Visitors can touch specimens, ask questions, and collect prizes through speaking with student experts on insects, mammals, and more. Costumes are welcome - we’ll be dressed up too!

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220

Open to the Public

The History of Tenryumura - screening and reception

The History of Tenryumura: A documentary on the World War II history of a small village in the mountains of Nagano Prefecture, Japan and how one community reckons with a significant, tragic, and painful segment of its past. The screening will be followed by a reception and Q&A with village leaders, the documentarians, and student translators. Japanese with subtitles.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Closed to the Public
Two dancers against a dark background

Practicing Change: Things to be Repeated- Dance Company of Middlebury

The Dance Company of Middlebury, directed by Professor Lida Winfield is joined by several special guest artists:
Artistic Director Sydnie L Mosley and six Creative Partners, including alumna Jessica Lee ‘13.
SLMDances is a New York City based dance-theater collective that works in communities to organize for gender and racial justice.
Professor Jeff Buettner’s Sing the World into Place Winter Term course.
Music created by Professor’s McLean Macionis and Matthew Taylor and Lighting design by Bert Crosby.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

$15 - General Public / $10 - Middlebury Faculty, Staff, Valid ID Holders / $8 -
Open to the Public
Two dancers against a dark background

Practicing Change: Things to be Repeated- Dance Company of Middlebury

The Dance Company of Middlebury, directed by Professor Lida Winfield is joined by several special guest artists:
Artistic Director Sydnie L Mosley and six Creative Partners, including alumna Jessica Lee ‘13.
SLMDances is a New York City based dance-theater collective that works in communities to organize for gender and racial justice.
Professor Jeff Buettner’s Sing the World into Place Winter Term course.
Music created by Professor’s McLean Macionis and Matthew Taylor and Lighting design by Bert Crosby.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

$15 - General Public / $10 - Middlebury Faculty, Staff, Valid ID Holders / $8 -
Open to the Public