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Friday, September 19, 2025

  • Person writing on a chalk wall

    Before I Die

    This interactive public art installation invites members of the Middlebury community to reflect on what matters most. By sharing personal hopes and aspirations on a communal wall, the project fosters connection, introspection, and a celebration of our shared humanity. Inspired by the global Before I Die project, this installation transforms public space into a canvas for gratitude, memory, and possibility.

    Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

    Free
    Open to the Public
  • A bowl of chocolate with sheet music in the background

    Arts and Chocolate Days

    Students, get involved with the performing arts! Come by the MAC for chocolate and a free PAS ticket!

    Arts at Middlebury invites first year students to claim one free ticket to a Performing Arts Series (PAS) event, as a welcome gift from the Mahaney Arts Center. And, any student, regardless of year, who becomes a Performing Arts Series Society (PASS) Scholar can also receive a free ticket.

    Mahaney Arts Center Upper Lobby

    Closed to the Public
  • view of the chapel steeple where the carillon is located.

    Carillon Concert Series

    The Carillon Concert Series features beautiful concerts from Middlebury Chapel’s bell tower. The melodic sounds of the carillon bells will ring out across the campus. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket! Free and open to the public.

    Performer: Charles Semowich, Carillonneur Emeritus, Riverside Church, NYC

    For more information about the performers and programs, please click here.

    Middlebury Chapel

Saturday, September 20, 2025

  • Person writing on a chalk wall

    Before I Die

    This interactive public art installation invites members of the Middlebury community to reflect on what matters most. By sharing personal hopes and aspirations on a communal wall, the project fosters connection, introspection, and a celebration of our shared humanity. Inspired by the global Before I Die project, this installation transforms public space into a canvas for gratitude, memory, and possibility.

    Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

    Free
    Open to the Public

Sunday, September 21, 2025

  • Person writing on a chalk wall

    Before I Die

    This interactive public art installation invites members of the Middlebury community to reflect on what matters most. By sharing personal hopes and aspirations on a communal wall, the project fosters connection, introspection, and a celebration of our shared humanity. Inspired by the global Before I Die project, this installation transforms public space into a canvas for gratitude, memory, and possibility.

    Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

    Free
    Open to the Public
  • The artist, Matthew Quayle, during a performance.

    Recital by Matthew Quayle & Friends

    Composer-pianist Matthew Quayle (Visiting Assistant Professor of Music) presents an eclectic recital of original music, joined by cellist Jameson Platte and clarinetist Kate Forman Quayle. This energetic and expressive program features premieres of several works: Sonata No. 6, Episodes for bass clarinet and piano, and Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (revised, in an arrangement for cello and piano). Other pieces include Sonata No. 5 and Quayle’s virtuosic take on the pas de deux from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. 

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Free
    Open to the Public

Monday, September 22, 2025

  • Person writing on a chalk wall

    Before I Die

    This interactive public art installation invites members of the Middlebury community to reflect on what matters most. By sharing personal hopes and aspirations on a communal wall, the project fosters connection, introspection, and a celebration of our shared humanity. Inspired by the global Before I Die project, this installation transforms public space into a canvas for gratitude, memory, and possibility.

    Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

    Free
    Open to the Public

  • Korean Drumming

    Mondays in September, come learn to play the Korean percussion genre samulnori. Samulnori blends traditional Korean rhythms into dynamic pieces using four Korean percussion instruments: janggu (hourglass drum), buk (barrel drum), jing (large gong), and ggwaenggwari (small gong). Participants will start by learning technique and basic rhythms and progress to more complex rhythms and sequences. No experience needed.

    The Bunker (FIC 121)

    Open to the Public

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

  • Person writing on a chalk wall

    Before I Die

    This interactive public art installation invites members of the Middlebury community to reflect on what matters most. By sharing personal hopes and aspirations on a communal wall, the project fosters connection, introspection, and a celebration of our shared humanity. Inspired by the global Before I Die project, this installation transforms public space into a canvas for gratitude, memory, and possibility.

    Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

    Free
    Open to the Public
  • 5 Ballet Dancers

    Ballet with Barbara Doyle-Wilch

    Tuesday-Beginner/Intermediate

    Wednesday-Intermediate/Advanced

    Ballet returns to the Dance Department this Fall. Classical Ballet technique in traditional ballet class structure. No pointe shoes, please.Each session is open to a maximum of 20 participants. PE credit is available for attendance at 8 classes. Previous dance experience in any form is recommended. Open to Middlebury students only. 

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Studio

    Closed to the Public

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

  • Person writing on a chalk wall

    Before I Die

    This interactive public art installation invites members of the Middlebury community to reflect on what matters most. By sharing personal hopes and aspirations on a communal wall, the project fosters connection, introspection, and a celebration of our shared humanity. Inspired by the global Before I Die project, this installation transforms public space into a canvas for gratitude, memory, and possibility.

    Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

    Free
    Open to the Public
  • two musicians standing next to each other holding their instruments

    Tuvergen Musicians

    This lecture-demonstration journeys from the traditional soundscapes of the Mongolian steppe to the creative and dynamic innovations of the global present. Through a combination of musical sound and spoken lecture, listeners will be transported into the complex and interconnected sound worlds of Mongolia, Tuva, and Inner Mongolia. This event will feature Inner Mongolian musicians and co-founders of the Chicago-based duo Hun Hazy, Tamir Hargana and Naizal Hargana, along with researched commentary by Skidmore ethnomusicologist, Charlotte D’Evelyn.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Free
    Open to the Public
  • 5 Ballet Dancers

    Ballet with Barbara Doyle-Wilch

    Tuesday-Beginner/Intermediate

    Wednesday-Intermediate/Advanced

    Ballet returns to the Dance Department this Fall. Classical Ballet technique in traditional ballet class structure. No pointe shoes, please.Each session is open to a maximum of 20 participants. PE credit is available for attendance at 8 classes. Previous dance experience in any form is recommended. Open to Middlebury students only. 

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Studio

    Closed to the Public

Thursday, September 25, 2025

  • Person writing on a chalk wall

    Before I Die

    This interactive public art installation invites members of the Middlebury community to reflect on what matters most. By sharing personal hopes and aspirations on a communal wall, the project fosters connection, introspection, and a celebration of our shared humanity. Inspired by the global Before I Die project, this installation transforms public space into a canvas for gratitude, memory, and possibility.

    Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

    Free
    Open to the Public
  • Etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi showing dramatic architectural subjects

    Piranesi: 'Extraordinary Fellow, 'Madman,' 'Sublime Dreamer,' 'Inventive Genius'

    Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an artist like no other. Working as an architect, printmaker, polemicist, archaeologist, interior designer, and art dealer, he created works that even today define our notions of Ancient and Modern Rome, and which helped establish a taste for Neoclassical design that spread across Europe. His powers of invention were prodigious, and his influence enormous—maddeningly so for some of his contemporaries.

    Mahaney Arts Center 125

    Open to the Public

  • Hirschfield International Film Series - "Love"

    “Love”
    Norway, 2024

    In defiance of societal norms, a pragmatic doctor and a compassionate nurse seek intimacy beyond the bounds of conventional relationships.
    Written and directed by Dag Johan Haugerud.

    Sponsored by the Hirschfield Film Endowment and the Film and Media Culture Department.

    Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

    Open to the Public

Friday, September 26, 2025

  • Person writing on a chalk wall

    Before I Die

    This interactive public art installation invites members of the Middlebury community to reflect on what matters most. By sharing personal hopes and aspirations on a communal wall, the project fosters connection, introspection, and a celebration of our shared humanity. Inspired by the global Before I Die project, this installation transforms public space into a canvas for gratitude, memory, and possibility.

    Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

    Free
    Open to the Public
  • actor sitting in the spotlight on a dark stage

    Special Collections Open House: “The Other Mozart” and Forgotten Sisters

    Visit Special Collections for a pre-show open house featuring “forgotten sisters” from Middlebury’s collection of archives and rare books. Set the stage for the 7:30 PM performance of The Other Mozart by transporting yourself back to the 18th century and beyond through archives that reveal the contributions of women that history left behind.

    Davis Family Library, Special Collections Reading Room

    Open to the Public
  • view of the chapel steeple where the carillon is located.

    Carillon Concert Series

    The Carillon Concert Series features beautiful concerts from Middlebury Chapel’s bell tower. The melodic sounds of the carillon bells will ring out across the campus. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket! Free and open to the public.

    Performer: George Mattthew Jr. Carillonneur, Middlebury College and Norwich University.

    For more information about the performers and programs, please click here.

    Middlebury Chapel