Mahaney Arts Center

Middlebury Chapel and surrounding lawns


Amy Heebner ‘93
City Carillonneur, Albany, NY

Each year, musicians from around the world come to Middlebury to perform in the Middlebury Chapel’s bell tower, soaring high above the College campus. The melodic sounds of the carillon bells are a staple of summer life on the Middlebury College campus. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket! Free

Middlebury Chapel and surrounding lawns


Sydney Nguyen
Assistant Carillonneur, Wellesley College

Join us as we kick off the 38th Annual Summer Carillon Series. Each year, musicians from around the world come to Middlebury to perform in the Middlebury Chapel’s bell tower, soaring high above the College campus. The melodic sounds of the carillon bells are a staple of summer life on the Middlebury College campus. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket! Free

Join VSO Artistic Advisor and Project Conductor Matt LaRocca ’02, composer and Assistant Professor of Music Matthew Evan Taylor, and filmmaker and Animation Studio Producer Daniel Houghton ’06 for a talk about their artistic process.

Staying on campus for mid-semester break? So are we! Rehearsals Cafe is open for beverage service and light fare. The grab-and-go menu includes coffee, tea, espresso drinks, yogurt parfaits, salads, sandwiches, hot soup, and sushi. Come enjoy a delicious day at the Mahaney Center for the Arts!

Staying on campus for mid-semester break? So are we! Rehearsals Cafe is open for beverage service and light fare. The grab-and-go menu includes coffee, tea, espresso drinks, yogurt parfaits, salads, sandwiches, hot soup, and sushi. Come enjoy a delicious day at the Mahaney Center for the Arts!

An encore presentation from the 2022 Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival.  A Night at the Movies features a live, 22-piece VSO chamber orchestra accompanying seven documentary and animation films with Vermont ties. The program weaves through a breadth of musical styles and film stories, from two animated shopping carts searching for love to the story of Hansel and Gretel. Adventurous lemurs learn to fly, a little girl grows up in an undocumented farmworker family, and a director chronicles his path from prison to filmmaking.

Please join us for a participatory workshop with Stuart Paton of Burlington Taiko Group! To kick off the Mahaney Arts Center’s 30^th anniversary, Burlington Taiko will on campus for a weeklong residency. This Lunch and Learn is a chance for you to learn about the Japanese art form of Taiko, and even play the drums yourself! This event is open to Middlebury College faculty and staff.

Join Burlington Taiko Founder and Artistic Director Stuart Paton for an exciting workshop designed to invigorate body and spirit, bridge international cultures, and rebuild the sense of community that was diminished during the pandemic. Since 1987, Burlington Taiko has been mesmerizing audiences with the powerful, spellbinding and propulsive sounds of the Taiko drums. Burlington Taiko Group estimates it has introduced over half a million people to the power of Taiko via performances from the Boston Marathon toBurlington’s First Night to the Black Ships Festival in Newport, RI, and more.

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