Office of Institutional Diversity Equity & Inclusion OIDEI

Story Circles 2021-2022: Community

Story Circles are sponsored by Middlebury’s Anti-Racist Task Force. Story Circles are facilitated by Christal Brown, Anti-Racist Task Force Director and Alexander Twilight Artist in Residence. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend the story circles to listen and share. As Middlebury College builds an authentic community that functions on the principles of anti-racism, it is important to acknowledge our collective history as well as our personal stories. Stories are limited to 3 minutes and offered in generosity. No advanced preparation is necessary.

Virtual Middlebury

Closed to the Public

Story Circles 2021-2022: Power

Story Circles are sponsored by Middlebury’s Anti-Racist Task Force. Story Circles are facilitated by Christal Brown, Anti-Racist Task Force Director and Alexander Twilight Artist in Residence. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend the story circles to listen and share. As Middlebury College builds an authentic community that functions on the principles of anti-racism, it is important to acknowledge our collective history as well as our personal stories. Stories are limited to 3 minutes and offered in generosity. No advanced preparation is necessary.

Virtual Middlebury

Closed to the Public

Story Circles 2021-2022: Love

Story Circles are sponsored by Middlebury’s Anti-Racist Task Force. Story Circles are facilitated by Christal Brown, Anti-Racist Task Force Director and Alexander Twilight Artist in Residence. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend the story circles to listen and share. As Middlebury College builds an authentic community that functions on the principles of anti-racism, it is important to acknowledge our collective history as well as our personal stories. Stories are limited to 3 minutes and offered in generosity. No advanced preparation is necessary.

Virtual Middlebury

Closed to the Public

Story Circles 2021-2022: Friendship

Story Circles are sponsored by Middlebury’s Anti-Racist Task Force. Story Circles are facilitated by Christal Brown, Anti-Racist Task Force Director and Alexander Twilight Artist in Residence. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend the story circles to listen and share. As Middlebury College builds an authentic community that functions on the principles of anti-racism, it is important to acknowledge our collective history as well as our personal stories. Stories are limited to 3 minutes and offered in generosity. No advanced preparation is necessary.

Virtual Middlebury

Closed to the Public

**CANCELLED**Freedom Dreaming

Envisioning an Antiracist Middlebury: theatre piece focused on the experiences and dreams of BIPOC students at Middlebury.
“Freedom dreaming is imagining worlds that are just, representing people’s full humanity, centering people left on the edges, thriving in solidarity with folx from different identities who have struggled for justice, and knowing that dreams are just around the corner with the might of people power.” Bettina Love

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Free

**CANCELLED**Freedom Dreaming

Envisioning an Antiracist Middlebury: theatre piece focused on the experiences and dreams of BIPOC students at Middlebury.
“Freedom dreaming is imagining worlds that are just, representing people’s full humanity, centering people left on the edges, thriving in solidarity with folx from different identities who have struggled for justice, and knowing that dreams are just around the corner with the might of people power.” Bettina Love

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Free

Artists in Dialogue: Jon Henry & Mikael Owunna, Moderated by Andrew Plumley '11

Photographers Jon Henry and Mikael Owunna discuss their artistic responses to police murder of Black men. Andrew Plumley ’11 (Senior Director, Equity & Culture, American Alliance of Museums) moderates this online conversation, which will include audience Q&A. Free.

Advance registration required. Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/OwunnaHenry.

Virtual Middlebury

Free; advance registration required
Open to the Public

Vermont's S.148: An act relating to environmental justice in Vermont

Please join us for a virtual panel discussion to raise awareness of and support for Vermont’s S.148: An act relating to environmental justice in Vermont. The bill seeks to establish an environmental justice policy for the State of Vermont and would require state agencies to incorporate environmental justice into their work. The bill will be discussed in this spring’s upcoming legislative session.

Confirmed panelists are:

Senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale, Vermont State Senator and lead sponsor of S. 148

Virtual Middlebury

Open to the Public