Office of Institutional Diversity Equity & Inclusion

This workshop explores the expansiveness of gender while aiming to address its limitations. In this, we will try to challenge our own understanding of gender through discussing how/why it was constructed, how this impacts social norms now, and where we go from here.

Shakia Barron is a choreographer, performer, and dance educator whose work is rooted in the African Diaspora, focusing on Funk Styles, Hip-Hop, House, and other African diasporic dance forms. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at Mount Holyoke College. She graduated with her MFA in Choreography at Wilson College, she holds an Associate’s degree in dance and psychology from Dean College, a Bachelor’s in liberal arts from Westfield State University, and she received the National Dance Institute’s teaching artist certificate in 2009.

This workshop is aimed to identify, highlight, and discuss the ways in which male-identifying individuals are affected by and navigate toxic masculinity. Furthermore, we hope to discuss how this impacts our communities and ways we can address this moving forward.

This workshop explores how our upbringings have shaped our definition of productivity and how that manifests within our everyday lives. We will also explore the origins of hustle culture and how we can move away from it.

This workshop explores what accountable communication looks like and barriers we face when communicating.

This will be a follow-up conversation to “What would ending affirmative action mean for Middlebury? A Community Dialogue.”

90’s Dance Party with DJ DP One

DJ DP One’s creativity and ability to entertain large crowds with his cross-genre sets, makes him one of music’s most diverse, captivating and innovative performers of today. His experiences in deejaying across the globe allow him to approach each event with a level of expertise that only a select few have acquired. He contributes to the art of deejaying by teaching the fundamentals of mixing and scratching throughout NYC.

Open to Middlebury College students only.

Epiphany “Big Piph” Morrow will present a dynamic and interactive workshop focused on creative writing in the hip hop genres. Through exercises, the students will explore their personal stories in parallel with learning about the evolution of hip hop and its world impact. Emphasis will be placed on the values of discipline, creativity, confidence, communication, and respect of others. During this time students will form creative pieces of their own. Big Piph will assist them through the process which includes, but is not limited to topics, writing, delivery, and beat selection.

Epiphany “Big Piph” Morrow will present a dynamic and interactive workshop focused on creative writing in the hip hop genres. Through exercises, the students will explore their personal stories in parallel with learning about the evolution of hip hop and its world impact. Emphasis will be placed on the values of discipline, creativity, confidence, communication, and respect of others. During this time students will form creative pieces of their own. Big Piph will assist them through the process which includes, but is not limited to topics, writing, delivery, and beat selection.