Middlebury College Activities Board

Get ready for a night of sweet surprises at the annual Winter Carnival Improv Comedy show featuring Otter Nonesense and Middlebrow. The show will start at 8:30 in Wilson Hall, so grab the best seat in the house for a candy-tastic show!

We finally made it to the “Candy Castle”. Celebrate a sweet night over at Nelson Arena from 10:00 PM - 1:30 AM featuring music by DJ duo New America. Tickets are $10 upfront and $15 at the door. All 21+ students should bring two forms of ID and $5 for the bar.

Start down the magical road to sweet surprises with one of Winter Carnival’s best traditions! Come warm yourself by the bonfire in front of Millikin starting at 8 PM and stay for the beautiful firework display at 9 PM. Sweet treats and hot cocoa will be provided.

Students and members of the Middlebury community are welcome to join this meditation circle with world renowned Mevlevi Sufi Shaikh Kabir Helminski.

Come see up-and-coming indie folk star Squirrel Flower perform a concert at the Gamut Room! Maria Bobbitt-Chertock ‘18 will perform an opening set, and Fiasco Food & Drink will be served.

Come join Project Pengyou for a skype call with Sidney Rittenberg as he shares his incredibly intriguing experiences. Rittenberg is an American journalist, scholar, and Chinese linguist who lived in China from 1944 to 1980. He worked closely with Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, and other leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the war, and was with these central Communist leaders at Yanan. He witnessed first-hand much of what occurred at upper levels of the CCP and China’s historical Culture Revolution.

Middlebury Stop Traffick is bringing Emily Waters and Jasmine Grace, two survivors of sex trafficking, to tell their stories and explain how they have engaged in activism.

“Playboy Manbaby is an energetic rock band from Phoenix AZ. They kind of sound like a mix of The Talking Heads and 70’s funk.”

Four of New York’s top longform improvisers take you on a tour of everything cute and brutal.
This supergroup of improv veterans includes Alexandra Dickson, Connor Ratliff (Orange Is the New Black), Zach Cherry (Spiderman: Homecoming), Rachel Pegram (Don’t Think Twice) from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. They’ll perform a wholesome, longform improve set and debut a new improv group here at Middlebury! Come thru!