Mahaney Arts Center

This exhibition of posters created by students in Sepi Alavi’s j-term class explores graphic design beyond advertising. Addressing social issues, both local and global, the works explore the vocabulary of typographic forms and their relationship to message and meaning. An M Gallery at the MAC event. Opening reception: April 4 from 5:00–6:30 PM. Free

This exhibition of posters created by students in Sepi Alavi’s j-term class explores graphic design beyond advertising. Addressing social issues, both local and global, the works explore the vocabulary of typographic forms and their relationship to message and meaning. An M Gallery at the MAC event. Opening reception: April 4 from 5:00–6:30 PM. Free

This exhibition of posters created by students in Sepi Alavi’s j-term class explores graphic design beyond advertising. Addressing social issues, both local and global, the works explore the vocabulary of typographic forms and their relationship to message and meaning. An M Gallery at the MAC event. Opening reception: April 4 from 5:00–6:30 PM. Free

What is it like to live with a disability in Russia? What happens when an ethnographer sets out to write a play based on the stories of fieldwork participants? What happens when American theater-makers with disabilities stage a play about Russia? I WAS NEVER ALONE is an ethnographic play about the experiences of people with mobility and speech impairments in contemporary Russia. Playwright-ethnographer Cassandra Hartblay reflects on the process of developing the script, bringing an anthropologist’s sensibility to examining disability studies and performance ethnography.

Join us for a colorful musical celebration of autumn! Internationally renowned violinist Soovin Kim treats us to a Mozart concerto and conducts the ensemble. In collaboration with the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, the concert includes the new film How We See Water by Robin Starbuck with music by Matthew LaRocca ’02. Tickets: $25 adults; $10 students (children ages 6–17 and full-time college students with ID); free for children ages 5 and under

Inspired by the popular storytelling phenomenon The Moth, Cocoon is a special evening of true stories told live without notes. This sixth-annual communitywide event is produced by the Middlebury Moth-UP in partnership with the Mahaney Center for the Arts. A reception with the storytellers follows. Tickets: $15/12/8/6

Inspired by the popular storytelling phenomenon The Moth, Cocoon is a special evening of true stories told live and without notes. This year’s virtual edition, on the theme of “Downpour,” will feature a select group of students and staff. This eight-annual community-wide event is produced by the Middlebury MothUp in partnership with the Mahaney Arts Center. For mature audiences: adult language. Free and open to all.

A public lecture (4:30 to 5:30 pm) and exhibit opening (5:30 to 7 pm with beverages and hors d’oeuvres) by Cecilia Araneda, educator and textile artist, who will share the work of her group Arpilleras, Sitios Y Memoria. This group began in 2016 with the wish to reflect on human rights violations inflicted against Chilean citizens by the military dictatorship in Chile’s Valparaiso Region. Through textile art depicting the locations of such crimes, survivor-participants invite Chileans to reclaim their public spaces and resist forgetfulness and impunity.

Inspired by the popular storytelling phenomenon The Moth, Cocoon is a special evening of true stories told live without notes. This seventh-annual communitywide event is produced by the Middlebury Moth-UP in partnership with the Mahaney Arts Center. This year’s theme is Resilience. Stay for a reception with the storytellers. Tickets: $15/12/6

Tickets for the 2018–2019 Performing Arts Series and other selected events go on sale today for members of the Performing Arts Series Society (PASS).