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Friday, Mar 27, 2026

Arts & Culture


The Setonian

Springing into things: An arts preview

As the February chill continues to drag on, it can be hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel (especially with Punxsutawney Phil reporting another six weeks of winter). Luckily, the Middlebury arts scene boasts nothing short of exciting. Offerings span from theatre to faculty lectures, and guarantee ...


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Living through theater: one step at a time like this

Standing in front of the heavy door of the Wright theater, darkness heightened my senses. I could only hear the woman’s instructions coming from my headset, accompanied by subtle music: Open the door. Find a bench. Sit down. I stared at the orange door, hesitated, and slowly followed the instructions. ...


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Finding Kerouac: A West Coast literary sojourn

Even before I booked my plane ticket to San Francisco, Calif. (on a whim), I had wanted to go to City Lights Bookstore — the old gathering place of the Beats, where Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” was first published in 1954, and where generations of Beatniks continued to pay homage. 


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“Envoys” and the tale of an Independent Scholar

I share a wall with Joey Disorbo ’25.5, so I know first-hand that those inconceivable work hours stats cited on his film’s informational poster board are true: 2000 hours, split across a thin crew. I know it from the many weekends I’ve seen him holed up in his room editing; I know it from the ...


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Makes Ya Feel: Art for the cold

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!


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A guide of arts and happenings in our brave little state

Being from Vermont means going to your town bar on Blackout Wednesday with everyone who graduated from your high school in the last 20 years, never learning world geography in your public school education and hiding from your second-grade teacher at the farmers market. It’s about knowing where to ...


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Being a writer at the Monastery

I spent the past weekend at Zen Mountain Monastery in Woodstock, NY, where Professor Waldron from the Religion Department gave a workshop on The Buddhist Unconscious: Yogācāra Buddhism and How It Illuminates Bias. 




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