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Film
MIDDLEBURY NEW FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL
The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival [MNFF] was formed to support, promote, and exhibit the dynamic and imaginative efforts of new filmmakers. The emphasis at the MNFF will be entirely on filmmakers who have created within the past 24 months either their first or second full-length feature film or first or second short film. All genres are welcome including narrative, documentary, animation and experimental. MNFF presents an annual festival each August, along with a Monthly Film Screening Series.
Galleries
Enjoy a continually expanding selection of creative work in a wide variety of media including pottery, wood, jewelry, re-made, textiles, painting, crafts, and photography. Special professional & community exhibits, receptions, artist demonstrations, and other events throughout the year.
Museums
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART
The Middlebury College Museum of Art is located within the Mahaney Arts Center and houses several thousand objects ranging from antiquities to contemporary art and includes distinguished collections of Asian art, photography, 19th-century European and American sculpture, and contemporary prints.
Performing Arts
Middlebury Festival on the Green has been acclaimed by Vermont Life as “the best series of free performances in Vermont” and as Vermont's “Favorite Festival.” The festival is held every year the weekend after July 4th on the Middlebury green in the center of town.
Opened in 1992 as the Middlebury College Center for the Arts, this visual and performing arts facility serves the College and the surrounding communities. Its primary purpose is to provide an environment for the creation of art and to invite audiences to experience the work of local, national, and international artists.
Founded in 2001, the Middlebury Acting Company’s mission is to produce plays locally, provide skilled actors, directors, and designers with a chance to work, and to engage, challenge and educate our audience. They produce a classic play each fall, and coordinate with local high schools to provide workshops and student matinees.
Since 1959 the Middlebury Community Players have been producing local theater for Addison County audiences. The present comedies, dramas and musicals with all-volunteer casts and crews.
Town Hall Theater regularly holds plays, musicals, operas, dance and acting classes, wedding receptions, benefits, and celebrations, and serves as a meeting place for Middlebury residents.
Constructed in 1897‚ the City Hall and Vergennes Opera House is still the center of Vergennes' business and cultural life. The beautifully restored‚ acoustically superb Opera House presents a year-round schedule of jazz‚ opera‚ folk‚ classical and theater performances.
