Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

356 College Street
Middlebury, VT 05753
United States

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TIAA blue square logo with text that says TIAA.

TIAA Retirement Education

9:30 AM Session: Join TIAA Financial Consultant Hajira Buttar for a session that will help you understand plan details and investments along with foundational ideas such as compounding, pre-tax vs. Roth, and how to access TIAA’s resources.

2:00 PM Session: Join TIAA Financial Consultant Hajira Buttar for a session that will look at steps to help secure your income in retirement - a mid career check-in. 

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

TIAA blue square logo with text that says TIAA.

TIAA Retirement Education

9:30 AM Session: Join TIAA Financial Consultant Hajira Buttar for a session that will help you understand plan details and investments along with foundational ideas such as compounding, pre-tax vs. Roth, and how to access TIAA’s resources.

2:00 PM Session: Join TIAA Financial Consultant Hajira Buttar for a session that will look at steps to help secure your income in retirement - a mid career check-in. 

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Film screening of Valentina, and Q&A with director Tatti Ribeiro

Sponsored by:
Film & Media Culture

VALENTINA is a hybrid film — part narrative-comedy and part documentary – pressed against the backdrop of the busiest border crossing in the United States. Valentina is a young woman caught between small debts and daily pressures in life in a border town.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

Prickly Mountain Film Screening

Sponsored by:
Architecture Table

Join us for a screening and conversation around Prickly Mountain, a feature-length documentary exploring Vermont’s radical design/build movement. The film highlights a hands-on, community-driven approach to architecture that values creativity, collaboration, and intentional living over perfection. Through three decades of personal and collective stories, filmmaker Allie Rood explores how this counter-culture architectural philosophy shaped her life and offers a compelling look at how intentional, collaborative creation can inspire new ways of living and building today.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

A young girl in a swimsuit crouches on dry grass, holding a video camera, looking off to the side. Nearby are other children’s legs, a yellow water balloon attached to a hose, getting filled with water.

Hirschfield International Film Series: Blue Heron

Sponsored by:
Film & Media Culture

A family of six settles into their new home on Vancouver Island as internal dynamics are slowly revealed through the eyes of the youngest child.

Come at 6:30 pm for free pizza, popcorn, and snacks!

“A bold and intimate stunner and extraordinary debut feature.” - IndieWire
“An unexpected triumph…Heartbreaking, masterful, and transcendent.” - The Daily Beast
“One of the best of the year…Hits with such precision, it could break you open from the inside.” - RogerEbert.com

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public
A still from the film The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025)

Hirschfield International Film Series: The Voice of Hind Rajab

Sponsored by:
Film & Media Culture

In this 2025 Tunisian film directed by Kaouther Ben Hania, Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under IDF fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.

Arrive early at 6:30pm for free pizza, popcorn, and snacks!

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

Hirschfield International Film Series: Timestamp

Sponsored by:
Film & Media Culture

In this 2025 Ukrainian documentary directed by Kateryna Gornostai, it has been three years since Russia’s invasion. Despite the war, school life continues in Ukraine, with students and teachers striving to continue learning even under constant threat.

Arrive early at 6:30pm for free pizza, popcorn, and snacks!

“A profound meditation on the resilience of the human spirit within a fractured reality…A haunting, luminous record of a generation being forged in the dark.” - Gazettely

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public