Charlotte Jones’ Airswimming follows the story of Dora Kitson and Persephone Baker, two unlikely friends who are confined to life in St. Dymphna’s Hospital for the Criminally Insane beginning in the 1920s. Watch the evolution of their relationship - one of friendship, familial love, and romantic tension - as they cope with the pressure of 50 years of isolation by forming alter egos: bibliophile Dorph and Doris-Day-loving Porph.
Hepburn Zoo
Charlotte Jones’ Airswimming follows the story of Dora Kitson and Persephone Baker, two unlikely friends who are confined to life in St. Dymphna’s Hospital for the Criminally Insane beginning in the 1920s. Watch the evolution of their relationship - one of friendship, familial love, and romantic tension - as they cope with the pressure of 50 years of isolation by forming alter egos: bibliophile Dorph and Doris-Day-loving Porph.
Hepburn Zoo
Welcome by Pieter Broucke, Director of Architectural Studies
Introduction and Q&A by Ben Allred, Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture
Susan Rodriguez will discuss designing in the public realm and the creation of buildings and spaces that distill the essence of cultures and communities. She will share a series of projects that serve a diverse range of communities from off-the-the-grid rural locations to dense urban neighborhoods of New York City.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
A rich taste of African culture that provides amazing, vigorous, high energy, and powerful movement. Let the beat of the drum move your body. Participants will learn songs, rhythms, dances, and culture as we embark on a journey of dances from the African diaspora.
Class is accompanied by live musicians to help participants understand the communication between the music and the dance.
Open to students, faculty, staff and community members age 13 and up!
No credit. Attend one or all classes!
Mondays 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Middlebury College
Welcome by Pieter Broucke, Director of Architectural Studies
Introduction and Q&A by John McLeod, Associate Professor of Architecture
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Drop-in to learn to play the traditional 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)
Welcome by Pieter Broucke, Director of Architectural Studies
Introduction and Q&A by Misty Kaplan, Visiting Instructor in Architecture
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Welcome by Pieter Broucke, Director of Architectural Studies
Introduction and Q&A by John McLeod, Associate Professor of Architecture
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Welcome by Pieter Broucke, Director of Architectural Studies
Introduction and Q&A by Sam Ostrow, Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture
Johnson Classroom 204
Dance Company of Middlebury (DCM) is a two-semester (Fall 2024 and JTerm 2025)
commitment that provides students with pre-professional dance and performance
training. As a member of DCM, students create, rehearse, and perform an original
performance in the Fall and tour the work in January. DCM meets six to eight hours
weekly. DCM is limited to sophomores through seniors, by audition. Students must have
taken DANC0260, ‘Technique and Composition’, or be enrolled for the Fall of 2024 to
participate in DCM.
Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre
Watch the livestream of the performance here
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
The dynamic and charismatic Heath Quartet—our series’ first quartet-in-residence—is one of the most exciting British chamber ensembles of the moment, steadily building a reputation for their upbeat and integrated sound. We celebrate our 20th year of support from the Sunderman Family Concert Fund with this free concert, including works by Bach, Haydn, Henriette Bosmans, and Erick Korngold.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
A rich taste of African culture that provides amazing, vigorous, high energy, and powerful movement. Let the beat of the drum move your body. Participants will learn songs, rhythms, dances, and culture as we embark on a journey of dances from the African diaspora.
Class is accompanied by live musicians to help participants understand the communication between the music and the dance.
Open to students, faculty, staff and community members age 13 and up!
No credit. Attend one or all classes!
Mondays 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Middlebury College
Drop-in to learn to play the traditional 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)
In this presentation, master pipa player Gao Hong will introduce the audience to the storytelling aspects of Chinese music spanning the ages through 2000-year-old traditional pipa music and 21-century new music formats. She will open her presentation with a performance of traditional pipa music, including a 100-year-old piece that was recently reconstructed and a wide array of storytelling pieces in different performance styles taught to her by the 6th-generation definitive Pudong school master Lin Shicheng.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
HIRSCHFIELD THURSDAYS PRESENTS:
MAMBAR PIERRETTE, a free-spirited seamstress navigates poverty and patriarchy in the Cameroonian city of Douala.
Cameroon/Belgium - 2023 - 93 minutes - A Film by Rosine Mbakam.
Join us outside Dana to celebrate with pizza and popcorn at 6:30 PM.
Watch the trailer HERE
Co-Sponsored by the Hirschfield Film Endowment
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Play by Sarah Ruhl, adapted from the original by Virginia Woolf. Directed by Claudio Medeiros.
Wright Theatre
Play by Sarah Ruhl, adapted from the original by Virginia Woolf. Directed by Claudio Medeiros.
Wright Theatre
