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Saturday, April 22, 2023

  • Ibiyinka Olufemi Alao (artist) standing in front of a painting

    Art vs. the Apocalypse Arts Workshop

    Ibiyinka Olufemi Alao, Nigeria’s art ambassador to the United Nations, visual artist, filmmaker, architect and author will lead a visual art (painting) workshop as part of the Art vs the Apocalypse event. Alao’s paintings center redemption, peace and love, and lately reflect a long-standing fascination with fireflies. Materials provided. Open to Middlebury College students.

    Please Register Here

    Mahaney Arts Center 221

    Closed to the Public
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    Destroying Angels

    After returning home for their father’s funeral, a trio of Mormon siblings; Hem, Zooey, and Ollie; embark on a desperate adventure to spread their father’s ashes and escape a bloodthirsty serial killer. Written by Middlebury playwright Cole Merrell (’21), Destroying Angels is a twisted road-trip dramedy that discusses the effects of religion on your family, your friends, and yourself. Senior 700 project in acting for Maggie Connolly. Senior 700 project in directing for Zachary Maluccio.

    Hepburn Zoo

    Open to the Public
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    Art vs. the Apocalypse presents "The N Word: Nature, Revisited"

    Join Dr. Carolyn Finney, Artist-in-Residence, Environmental Affairs, for a unique presentation that brings her life in conversation with historic figures and contemporary issues. Central Park birder Christian Cooper. George Floyd. The removal of Confederate Statues. Renaming of institutions. Reparations. Systemic Racism. Finney asks, what’s environment got to do with it? How do we meet this moment? Drawing from her book, Black Faces, White Spaces, her relationships “in the field” and her lived experience, Dr.

    Axinn Center 232

    Open to the Public
  • Image of choir members in front of a flight of steps

    Middlebury College Choir Spring Concert

    The Middlebury College Choir will perform a concert of new music, spirituals, and classical repertoire. 

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Free
    Open to the Public
  • Image of three people with wings and halos

    Destroying Angels

    After returning home for their father’s funeral, a trio of Mormon siblings; Hem, Zooey, and Ollie; embark on a desperate adventure to spread their father’s ashes and escape a bloodthirsty serial killer. Written by Middlebury playwright Cole Merrell (’21), Destroying Angels is a twisted road-trip dramedy that discusses the effects of religion on your family, your friends, and yourself. Senior 700 project in acting for Maggie Connolly. Senior 700 project in directing for Zachary Maluccio.

    Hepburn Zoo

    Open to the Public

Sunday, April 23, 2023

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    Research As Action

    Research as Action is a community-activated, dance-based research installation conceived by Artist in Residence Meshi Chavez. This event includes multiple formations of artistic processes, audience participation, and live music created by Lisa DeGrace and Debora Felmeth. Research as Action investigates the questions: How is the worth of dance determined when it is enmeshed in the very fabric of the lives of those living it? Is it possible to make tangible these unseen moments? This event can only accommodate 25 people. 5 people will participate at a time. There will be several start times.

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

    Open to the Public

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

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    Middlebury Afropop Band Concert and Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble Joint Concert

    This concert opens with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble performing repertoire that showcases the stylistic and instrumental diversity of traditional East African musical cultures. In the second half of the concert, the Middlebury Afropop Band performs original compositions and arrangements of classic and contemporary popular songs from all over Africa. The band uses pop and rock instrumentation as well as styles that blend traditional African with Western and/or Afro-diasporic musical idioms.

    Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center

    Open to the Public

Thursday, April 27, 2023

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    Artist Talk with Middlebury's Artist in Residence Meshi Chavez

    Join the Middlebury College Dance Department’s Artist in Residence Meshi Chavez for his artist talk - The Value of Life Lived With and Through Dance. This intimate evening reflects the processes and life events that led him to understand his worth while influencing his choreographic methodologies. Chavez will complete his two-year residency at Middlebury College at the end of this term.

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

    Open to the Public
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    Bright Half Life

    Bright Half Life by Pulitzer Prize finalist Tanya Barfield is a play about love, heartbreak, skydiving and the infinite moments that make a relationship. The play follows the four-and-a-half-decade story of Vicky and Erica, who meet, fall in love, and go through all the trials and tribulations of marriage and building a family. This project is Meili Huang’s senior work in acting, Will Napper’s senior work in lighting design, and Aidan Amster’s independent project in directing. The show runs for about 80 minutes with no intermission. Purchase tickets at go/halflife/

    Hepburn Zoo

    Open to the Public

Friday, April 28, 2023

  • Image of two women's faces in profile

    Bright Half Life

    Bright Half Life by Pulitzer Prize finalist Tanya Barfield is a play about love, heartbreak, skydiving and the infinite moments that make a relationship. The play follows the four-and-a-half-decade story of Vicky and Erica, who meet, fall in love, and go through all the trials and tribulations of marriage and building a family. This project is Meili Huang’s senior work in acting, Will Napper’s senior work in lighting design, and Aidan Amster’s independent project in directing. The show runs for about 80 minutes with no intermission. Purchase tickets at go/halflife/

    Hepburn Zoo

    Open to the Public

Saturday, April 29, 2023

  • Image of two women's faces in profile

    Bright Half Life

    Bright Half Life by Pulitzer Prize finalist Tanya Barfield is a play about love, heartbreak, skydiving and the infinite moments that make a relationship. The play follows the four-and-a-half-decade story of Vicky and Erica, who meet, fall in love, and go through all the trials and tribulations of marriage and building a family. This project is Meili Huang’s senior work in acting, Will Napper’s senior work in lighting design, and Aidan Amster’s independent project in directing. The show runs for about 80 minutes with no intermission. Purchase tickets at go/halflife/

    Hepburn Zoo

    Open to the Public
  • Man with outstreched arms with Nocturne info printed

    Nocturne Arts Festival 2023 - MAC

    Nocturne Arts Festival showcases the creative work of over 175 student artists!

     

    Don’t miss ice cream, catered food at the pre-event, and a special midnight performance on Johnson Terrace. Featuring original student projects, as well as collaborations with Dolci, Evolution, Riddim, On Tap, ISO, CAT, MiddJumps, The Bobolinks, student bands, and more!

     

    Keep an eye out for special t-shirt giveaways throughout the night. Follow @nocturnefestival to get the details.

    Mahaney Arts Center Plaza

  • Image of two women's faces in profile

    Bright Half Life

    Bright Half Life by Pulitzer Prize finalist Tanya Barfield is a play about love, heartbreak, skydiving and the infinite moments that make a relationship. The play follows the four-and-a-half-decade story of Vicky and Erica, who meet, fall in love, and go through all the trials and tribulations of marriage and building a family. This project is Meili Huang’s senior work in acting, Will Napper’s senior work in lighting design, and Aidan Amster’s independent project in directing. The show runs for about 80 minutes with no intermission. Purchase tickets at go/halflife/

    Hepburn Zoo

    Open to the Public
  • group photo of the artists

    Abdullah Ibrahim and Ekaya

    Legendary jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim last performed at Middlebury 30 years ago, mere days before the opening of the now Mahaney Arts Center.  This time he’ll grace our Robison Hall stage with his band Ekaya, which means “home”—during a weekend that celebrates both South African Freedom Day and International Jazz Day. The face of South-African jazz, Ibrahim (aka Dollar Brand) is known and beloved for his work, Mannenberg, which is regarded as an anti-apartheid anthem.

    Please join us for a reception in the lobby after the concert.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    $25/20/10/5
    Open to the Public

Sunday, April 30, 2023

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    Middlebury College Orchestra

    MCO will present its spring semester concert under the direction of Evan Bennett. Listening for America will feature Copland’s Billy the Kid Suite and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World.”

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Free
    Open to the Public

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

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    Chamber Music Alive!

    Students of MUSC 240 – a lively Chamber Music course - will perform works by Ravel, Brahms, Hudson, and Kamen.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Free
    Open to the Public

Thursday, May 4, 2023

  • black and white tree with red birds

    Hamlet

    The Middlebury Department of Theatre presents Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy of revenge in a production where 10 actors all share the title role. Shakespeare’s masterpiece takes on new meaning when every person onstage embodies the idea that “there is something of Hamlet in us all.” Featuring Beck Barsanti, Brianna Beach, Annabelle Iredale, Naja Irvin-Conyers, Victoria Keith, Ben Knudsen, Peyton Mader, Charlie Porto, Charlotte Roberts, and Zeph Santiago as Hamlet.

    Please join us for a talk back with the company directly after the Friday performance.

    Wright Theatre

    $15/$10/$8/$5
    Open to the Public

Friday, May 5, 2023

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    German Theater Performance

    GRMN 0440, “German Theater in Action”, will perform Peter Turrini’s “Der tollste Tag”, a modern take on the famous French play “Le Marriage de Figaro”, resp. W.A. Mozart’s opera “Marriage of Figaro.” Austrian author Turrini, a master of wit and physical comedy, explores the tensions between physical and rhetorical might as servant Figaro tries his very best to cross his master’s, i.e. Count Almaviva’s plans to make use of an old law that would allowed Almaviva to spend the wedding night with Figaro’s fiancée Susanne.

    Chateau 005 (Performance Space)

    Open to the Public
  • black and white tree with red birds

    Hamlet

    The Middlebury Department of Theatre presents Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy of revenge in a production where 10 actors all share the title role. Shakespeare’s masterpiece takes on new meaning when every person onstage embodies the idea that “there is something of Hamlet in us all.” Featuring Beck Barsanti, Brianna Beach, Annabelle Iredale, Naja Irvin-Conyers, Victoria Keith, Ben Knudsen, Peyton Mader, Charlie Porto, Charlotte Roberts, and Zeph Santiago as Hamlet.

    Please join us for a talk back with the company directly after the Friday performance.

    Wright Theatre

    $15/$10/$8/$5
    Open to the Public
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    Ricochet

    Middlebury College Dance Department Presents RICOCHET, this year’s senior dance thesis concert, featuring works by Hannah Laga Abram and Graham Shelor. 

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

    $15/$10/$8/$5
    Open to the Public