Cocoon

Inspired by storytelling phenomenon The Moth, Cocoon is a special evening of true stories told live without notes. This year's theme: Before I Die.

Storytellers include Hafez Sami-Sadeghi ’28.5; faculty members James Fitzsimmons (Anthropology), Jerry Philogene (Black Studies), and Susan DeSimone (Biology); Director of Middlebury’s Abenaki School Jesse Bowman Bruchac, and three-time Moth GrandSLAM champion and educator Dr. Christine Gentry. They’ll all be telling stories on the theme “Before I Die,” in association with the public art installation in the lower lobby. Stay for a reception with the storytellers and organizers after the show. Cash bar.

This event is presented with real-time captioning. Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes, including one intermission. For mature audiences.

Tickets: $15 public, $10 Middlebury faculty/staff, alumni, and emeriti; $8 youth; $5 Middlebury College students. Buy tickets: https://go.middlebury.edu/tickets (on sale beginning September 3). An encore stream of this event will also be available starting Wednesday, October 8 on the Robison Hall YouTube channel.

You may also like the following events from Arts at Middlebury:

• Next Friday, 26th September, 07:30 pm, The Other Mozart in Middlebury

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