Troutbeck Symposium Student Film Showcase & Q&A with Rhonan Mokriski

Each spring, students gather at Troutbeck to present original films, artworks, research projects, and performances before a live audience — contributing new knowledge to the historical record while demonstrating the power of young people as historians. This showcase features the work of student filmmakers from Salisbury School and Housatonic Valley Regional High School, created in connection with Troutbeck's 2026 Symposium.

The Troutbeck Symposium is a regional educational program where middle and high school students uncover the histories of their own communities through archival research, oral history, and creative storytelling. Throughout the school year, students work with primary sources, historians, artists, librarians, and community members to investigate stories that have been overlooked, forgotten, or never recorded. At the Symposium, that work becomes public.

Each spring, students gather at Troutbeck to present original films, artworks, research projects, and performances before a live audience — contributing new knowledge to the historical record while…