Senegalese writer-director Mamadou Dia’s “Nafi’s Father (Baamum Nafi)” is a personal and gripping examination of political, religious, familial and moral intersections in modern-day West Africa. A debut from Dia, a Visiting Assistant Professor in Harvard's Art, Film, and Visual Studies Department, ...
Booming beats, colorful flashing lights and crowds of Middlebury College students packed the Freeman International Center (FIC) Bunker in the late hours of April 17. This second edition of ‘Laylit’ at Middlebury — the annual party sponsored by the Arabic Department in collaboration with the student ...
Gallery hoppers, Spotify stalkers, bookworms, Letterboxd users and anyone who enjoys art, this is the place for you. Makes Ya Feel highlights art across all of its mediums, small and large-scale, that (you guessed it) makes ya feel!
Crossword Solutions 05/07/26: Mums the Word
Crossword 05/07/26: Mums the Word
Christy Liang: Who are you as an artist? Liefe Temple ’25.5: I am a dancer. That is my art. I would say I am fairly new to considering myself an artist. Before I started at Middlebury, I wasn’t. I danced for fun growing up, and I thought I would continue doing that here. But then I met the dance ...
Nothing can quite beat the creative energy that floods Middlebury’s campus each year during Nocturne. After two years pushed inside by rain, singers, artists, students, faculty and community members finally had a chance to experience the full potential of the annual arts festival: trees lit with colorful ...
When you sell out two nights at Fenway Park and become buddies with Bernie Sanders in the span of a year, you must have done something right. Or maybe you just happen to be well-versed in the places and people who make up New England. Either way, Noah Kahan did both — and he has not stopped there. ...
On April 24 and 25, members of the Middlebury College community joined artists Abdullah Elhan, Negina Azimi, Marwa Azimi, Zuhra Nadem, and Sean Kiziltan, five members of ArtLords. Established in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2014, this collective of Afghan artists transformed the city’s blast walls into ...
Crossword Solutions 04/30/26: Highlight Reel
Crossword 04/30/26: Highlight Reel
In the middle of a distant forest, two sisters and a man in a Bigfoot costume are looking for the truth. Things quickly fall into disarray as this search for the truth takes a violent turn: the two sisters begin to doubt one another and the bigfoot impersonator is holding the sisters at gunpoint. As ...
A whirlwind of pink and a packed audience made for a performance that can only be described as “so fetch.” From April 16-18, the Town Hall Theater showcased Middlebury College Musical Theater’s (MCMT) performance of “Mean Girls” the musical. Pink posters of cast members dotted the campus ...
Be honest. If you were looking at your wedding invitations and you saw the words “Don’t marry him” scrawled on the back, would you go through with it? Director Haley Z. Boston explores this question and many more surrounding family, relationships and the gravity of marital commitment in her new ...
Crossword Solutions 04/23/26: Bookends
In a mirror maze of performativity, reality blends into fantasy until the two become nearly indistinguishable. This is on full display in Jean Genet’s absurdist play, “The Maids,” which was produced by the Middlebury Theatre Department this past weekend. It depicts two sister maids engaging in ...
Designers Amanda Ugorji and Sophie Weston Chien like things soft — which is interesting because their work addresses hard issues: immigration, redlining, the climate crisis, flooding and injustice.
Marin Melchior wears the standard college dining services uniform, but beneath the regulation fabric, the markers of a creator remain: a streak of vibrant blue bleached into her hair, a pair of delicate earrings and a blue bow pinned neatly behind her work hat. As the dining servery supervisor at Middlebury ...
Christy Liang: What drew you to photography?