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Friday, March 10, 2023

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    Hip Hop: The Art of Creating Community Dance Party

    90’s Dance Party with DJ DP One

    DJ DP One’s creativity and ability to entertain large crowds with his cross-genre sets, makes him one of music’s most diverse, captivating and innovative performers of today. His experiences in deejaying across the globe allow him to approach each event with a level of expertise that only a select few have acquired. He contributes to the art of deejaying by teaching the fundamentals of mixing and scratching throughout NYC.

    Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center

    Closed to the Public

Saturday, March 11, 2023

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    Hip Hop: The Art of Creating Community Dance Master Class

    Shakia Barron is a choreographer, performer, and dance educator whose work is rooted in the African Diaspora, focusing on Funk Styles, Hip-Hop, House, and other African diasporic dance forms. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at Mount Holyoke College. She graduated with her MFA in Choreography at Wilson College, she holds an Associate’s degree in dance and psychology from Dean College, a Bachelor’s in liberal arts from Westfield State University, and she received the National Dance Institute’s teaching artist certificate in 2009.

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

    Free
    Open to the Public
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    Hip Hop: The Art of Creating Community Building & Bars

    Epiphany “Big Piph” Morrow will present a dynamic and interactive workshop focused on creative writing in the hip hop genres. Through exercises, the students will explore their personal stories in parallel with learning about the evolution of hip hop and its world impact. Emphasis will be placed on the values of discipline, creativity, confidence, communication, and respect of others. During this time students will form creative pieces of their own. Big Piph will assist them through the process which includes, but is not limited to topics, writing, delivery, and beat selection.

    Mahaney Arts Center 210

    Registration required: https://forms.gle/7uPyG4rVYKuGZLqc7
    Closed to the Public
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    Hip Hop: The Art of Creating Community S.A.G.E. (Styles Advancing Graffiti’s Evolution)

    S.A.G.E. (Styles Advancing Graffiti’s Evolution)
    Before urban fashion brands became a multi-billion dollar industry and synonymous with the fashion world, urban youth designed and created t-shirts, jackets, hats, etc with markers, paint and pure imagination utilizing graffiti aesthetics. This interactive workshop will explore the history of Graffiti writing/art and its evolution into Street Art and influence on urban fashion. Participants will learn how to design and customize t-shirts utilizing a variety of media and techniques inspired by graffiti aesthetics.

    Adirondack Coltrane Lounge

    Closed to the Public
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    Hip Hop: The Art of Creating Community Shake the Dust Screening

    “Shake the Dust” is a feature documentary that tells the stories of break dancers from conflicted “third- world” communities around the globe who, although separated by cultural boundaries and individual struggles, are intrinsically tied to one another through their passion for dance and hip-hop culture.

    Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

    Open to the Public

  • Songs and Arias

    Advanced voice students present a lively evening of songs, arias, and duets.

    Featuring Sebastian Holbrook ‘26, Blair Jia ‘23, Rohini Prabhakar ‘23, and Urian Vasquez ‘25, with special guest performance by Tevan Goldberg ‘18. Accompanied by Cynthia Huard, piano.

    Vaccinations and boosters (or valid medical or religious exemptions) required. Masks optional (but welcome!) except under certain conditions.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Free
    Open to the Public

Sunday, March 12, 2023

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    Hip Hop: Urban Cadence: Street Scenes from Lagos and Johannesburg

    Urban Cadence tells the multifaceted stories of two urban environments—Lagos, Nigeria and Johannesburg, South Africa—experienced through the artistic expressions of photography and video.

    African cities are growing rapidly, and these two cities have experienced this growth in diverse yet fascinating ways: the first as a mega-city, the latter as a center of industrial development. The street scenes in this exhibition represent the complex narratives of these urban areas: tales of migration, labor, desperation, success, hope, and imagination among others.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art

    Free
    Open to the Public
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    Hip Hop: The Art of Creating Community All The Ladies Say Screening

    Veteran b-girl Ana “Rokafella” Garcia’s first documentary film ALL THE LADIES SAY features the work of female breakdancers in the United States, including Aiko, Baby Love, Beta, Lady Champ, Severe and Vendetta. This film raises awareness of the female presence in Hip-hop and promotes the growth of this dance community in the United States and internationally. Discussions about femininity, motherhood and the representation of women in popular culture are a few of the themes explored by the dancers.

    Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

    Open to the Public
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    40 Poems for 40 Pounds

    Featuring 40 members from the community in an evening of poetry, performance, book-signing, pop-up events — and free cannoli!  This book of poems by Trish Dougherty will come to life on stage through by director, Michole Biancosino (Assistant Professor of Theatre) at Town Hall Theater.

    Town Hall Theater

    Open to the Public

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

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    Lunch with Dance Artist jumatatu m. poe

    Join dance artist jumatatu m. poe for a casual conversation about art making and life over lunch. Lunch provided, but please click on the related url to register! Registration needed by March 15th. Open to Middlebury students, faculty, and staff.

    Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

    Closed to the Public
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    Catherine Grant: Videographic Criticism as Cryptographic Film and Moving Image Studies

    Making video essays can often feel as much of a mysterious process as a scholarly or critical one. Weird things can often happen in the process of editing together sequences from films, television and audiovisual media; curious coincidences, felicitous discoveries, and striking disclosures can often happen because of the technical affordances of the editing platforms we use, or because of the the formal or aesthetic devices, dispositifs or audiovisual interfaces we construct.

    Axinn Center 232

    Open to the Public
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    Sorrow, Tears and Blood: The Enduring Legacy of the Afrobeat Prophet

    Fela Anikulapo Kuti remains the most critical politically focused artist in African music history. This presentation will examine Kuti’s 1977 album, Sorrow, Tears and Blood, which serves as a focal point for his musical and political development. With Nigeria on the verge of a historic presidential election, this presentation takes stock of the conditions under which everyday Nigerians live through the soundscape and messages of the album. 

    This event is immediately followed by “The Huddle and The Higher Ground” (see separate listing).

    Mahaney Arts Center 221

    Open to the Public
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    The Huddle and the Higher Ground

    How do we retain our talented faculty and staff, and how do we ensure that we are all working towards building an inclusive community? Dr. Shonekan will discuss two programs she designed and implemented for faculty and staff. “The Huddle” is a mentoring program for junior faculty, and “Higher Ground” is a series of conversations within staff about inclusion and diversity. 

    This event is immediately preceded by “Sorrow, Tears and Blood: The Enduring Legacy of the Afrobeat Prophet” (see separate listing).

    Mahaney Arts Center 221

    Open to the Public
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    Movement Matters: Global Body in Conflict: transitions into terrestrial Artist Talk with jumatatu m. poe

    jumatatu m. poe will present “transitions into terrestrial,” sharing images, video, poetics, and movement reflecting on transitions in artmaking and life. Having completed a 10 plus year cycle of research and performance with collaborator Jermone Donte Beacham through the J-Sette focused Let ‘im Move You series, jumatatu is reflecting on the vastness of the voyage, the depth of the lessons on both being, and being with, that sprang forth from that intimately collaborative series of processes.

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

    Open to the Public

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

  • Calligraphy Demonstration and Workshop

    World-renowned calligrapher Masako Inkyo will be giving a calligraphy performance based on Oborozukiyo from The Tale of Genji. After her performance, she will lead two calligraphy workshops at 5:30 PM and 6:30 PM where attendees will have the opportunity to practice the art of calligraphy. You must RSVP to attend the workshop at go/inkyo or by emailing japaneseclub@middlebury.edu.

    Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

    Free; registration required for workshops: go/inkyo
    Open to the Public

  • Movement Matters: Global Body in Conflict Masterclass: The Switching

    jumatatu m. poe will present “The Switching”: I like to imagine that this practice in performance improvisation, The Switching, is a strategy in immediate evolution, rapid-fire shifting, sublime learning of and in the moment.

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

    Free
    Open to the Public

Thursday, March 30, 2023

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    NER Out Loud

    NER Out Loud is a collaboration of the New England Review, the Mahaney Arts Center, and Oratory Now. In the tradition of NPR’s “Selected Shorts,” Middlebury student actors read selections from the New England Review in a live performance, lending their voices to the work on the page and bringing it to life for an audience of students, faculty, and community members. Each year the event also features students reading their own work in a “S’More Readings” reception, representing a variety of student-edited journals.

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

    Free
    Open to the Public

Friday, March 31, 2023

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    Pre-Show Talk: VSO’s Night at the Movies

    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.

    Mahaney Arts Center 125

    Free
    Open to the Public