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Middlebury College Musical Theatre (MCMT) is holding open-call vocal auditions for our spring production of “Mamma Mia.” All are welcome, regardless of singing/dance background. Please go to go/mammamia/ for more information. We hope to see you there!

Jennifer Fraser, Ph.D., Professor of Ethnomusicology and Anthropology, Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College

In this workshop, Dr. Fraser will share her experience of designing and implementing a large-scale Digital Humanities (DH) project, Song in the Sumatran Highlands, using the digital platform, Scalar, along with presenting an argument for ways in which DH might be evaluated and celebrated both within academic processes of tenure and promotion and within relevant scholarly societies. 

Kofi Bazzell-Smith will share his knowledge about manga techniques that he learnt under the tutelage of Japanese artists and will teach the audience how to draw Japanese comic books.

Kofi Bazzell-Smith will share his knowledge about manga techniques that he learnt under the tutelage of Japanese artists and will teach the audience how to draw Japanese comic books.

: Participants are encouraged to bring a pencil and ruler, if possible, and to sign up using this form.

Come audition for the Middlebury Michords: Middlebury’s oldest all female-identifying acapella group on campus! Please prepare a verse and chorus of a song! No sign-up necessary.

INVENTING ABSTRACTION, CA. 950

Recasting Carpeaux’s Why Born Enslaved!: Sculpture and Slavery in the Second Empire

Jennifer Fraser, Ph.D., Professor of Ethnomusicology and Anthropology, Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College

In this lecture, Dr. Jennifer Fraser will trace the reinvention of her pedagogical and scholarly praxis in recent years as she has become committed to the design of scholarly projects that are responsive to community needs and desires, to public-facing scholarship, and high-impact pedagogies involving community-based learning and digital humanities project. 

Critical Intercultural Communication: Sitting in Tension, Setting Intention

Visit the Clifford Symposium website for details.

Attend a screening of leading Chinese musician Wu Man’s documentary film, in conjunction with her concert the following evening. A question-and-answer session with the artist will follow the screening. Sponsored by the Performing Arts Series, with support from the Department of Chinese and the Committee on the Arts. Wu Man’s visit is funded in part by the Expeditions program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from the six New England state arts agencies. Free