The first Theatre Department faculty show of the semester ran with huge success Oct. 30 to Nov. 1 in the Wright Memorial Theater to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Hillel, an official College organization that provides an outlet for those interested in Judaism and Jewish issues. Mendel, Inc., a play ...
Walk down to the quiet center of Johnson Memorial Building, and you will stumble across an artistic gem: the Pinhole Photography showcase, which lasts until Thursday, Nov. 6 and is bound to intrigue its viewers. The product of one month’s worth of experimentation by Fletcher Professor of Studio Art ...
Last year Heather Dewey-Hagborg became the world’s first DNA portrait artist. For her controversial art project Stranger Visions, she collected genetic detritus such as hair, cigarette butt saliva and sequenced portions of DNA from skin cells on the streets of New York City. After uploading the genetic ...
The phrase “in a world” evokes that overly dramatized Hollywood movie trailer voice. But what does that voice sound like? The voice you now hear in your head is almost certainly a deep, booming, male voice. Lake Bell’s 2013 debut feature, In a World…, in which she also stars, deals directly ...
On Friday, Oct. 24, the Middlebury MothUP hosted the second annual Cocoon in the Mahaney Center for the Arts. Featuring six storytellers from wildly different backgrounds each tackling the theme of blood, Cocoon was an intimate and singular experiment in narration and audience engagement. For the ...
Despite a lack of advertising, the Hepburn Zoo hosted a full audience for the Drama Lab on Friday, Oct. 24, presenting six student-written ten-minute plays. Featuring topics ranging from abortion to drug use to death to insanity, the plays demonstrated an impressive level of skill in playwriting, performance ...
Nathan Laube is the New Meghan Trainor. Are you all about that bass? Do you think bigger is better? This Sunday, Nov. 2 at 3 p.m., Mead Chapel will be taken by storm by one of the largest and most majestic instruments in the state. Twenty-five year old musical phenomenon Nathan Laube is returning to ...
No one but Jonathan Safran Foer – who spoke at the Middlebury College Commencement in 2013 – could have written Everything Is Illuminated. Of course, this is true to a degree of any piece of writing, but one can imagine that if another author was, for example, given the outline of an Agatha Christie ...
Fifty-four years ago this past September, in 1960, the global cartel known as the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded. Thirteen years later, in 1973, the Arab members of OPEC played their trump card, initiating the ‘Arab Oil Embargo’ in protest to American involvement ...
On the first Thursday of every month, students fill The Gamut Room in Gifford Hall to hear their peers tell a story as a part of The Middlebury MothUP. The live storytelling events are, indeed, as simple as they sound – each student storyteller takes the microphone, without notes, for about ten minutes ...
In the intimate setting of the Middlebury College Dance Theatre, artist-in-residence Scotty Hardwig and guest performer Keanu Forrest Brady, accompanied by media operator Michael Ryba, explored masculinity in the digital frame. The six works presented, including two short film installations, came together ...
On Sept. 9, 2014, one of the most highly anticipated games of the year was released. The game was called Destiny. I’m sure you saw and/or are seeing ads for it everywhere. The game was advertised on TV, billboards, trucks – the whole nine yards. They even had it up on the screens in Times Square ...
Nobel laureate and Columbia University Professor of Biological Sciences Martin Chalfie visited the College last Thursday, Oct. 16 to give two lectures. One talk focused on his research on the green fluorescent protein (GFP), which earned him the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the other on his current ...
From Oct. 2 to 4, the Theatre Program sponsored the 19th Annual First Years Production: A Cautionary Tale and Others. Directed by alum Bill Army ’07 and composed entirely of first-years, sophomores, and sophomore Febs. A Cautionary Tale and Others was staged in The Hepburn Zoo to a sold out crowd. A ...
On Oct. 3 and 5, the Opera Company of Middlebury (OCM) presented a concert staging of Guiseppe Verdi’s La Traviata at the Town Hall Theater. The production, directed by OCM Artistic Director and Executive Director of the Town Hall Theater Doug Anderson and joined by the College Choir under the direction ...
In a shocking – though not unforeseen – development, China has recently surpassed the European Union in greenhouse gas emissions per capita. This means that on average, each person in China in 2013 produced 7.2 tons of carbon dioxide compared with 6.8 tons in Europe, 16.4 tons in the U.S. and 1.9 ...
Why do we tell stories? How do we tell stories? How do the stories we tell shape our identity? These are the questions at the center of filmmaker Sarah Polley’s 2012 documentary feature, the aptly named Stories We Tell. Polley asks each of her family members (and a few family acquaintances) to tell ...
Following a year of traveling throughout New England, local artist Kate Gridley’s latest exhibition, Passing Through: Portraits of Emerging Adults, has returned to the town that inspired it. With seven portraits on display in the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts (MCA) and ten on display ...
This year marks the launch of a new arts-themed social house on campus. Located in Prescott House on Ridgeline Road, the Attic was founded by Hannah Giese ’16, Emma Gee ’16 and Jackie Wyard-Yates ’16.5, and currently houses thirty students. Last year, Giese, Gee and Wyard-Yates heard that there ...
When the Emperor Was Divine is slow. That is not to say that it is boring or disengaging. To the contrary, its slowness is a powerful stylistic choice by author Julie Otsuka. The novel follows the lives of four members of a Japanese-American family struggling through the racism and gross injustice of ...