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Queens, Gods, and Devotees: Selections from the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery 1 College St, Worcester

Featuring over 30 paintings, sculptures, photographs, prints, and fiber works from c. 1900 to the present, Queens, Gods, and Devotees foregrounds earthly and divine greatness, and their associated devotional objects and ritual practices. On view at the Cantor Art Gallery from August 25-November 24, 2026.

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Boroughs Theatre - Prior Performing Arts Center 1 College St, Worcester

This ferocious, unsettling and often hilarious work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning African-American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins transforms the American family play into a riveting examination of race, memory and the stories families tell themselves.

An Evening with Romance Writer Daphne Elliot ’04

Rehm Library in Smith Hall 1 College St, Worcester

From the HC women's hockey team to corporate lawyer to best-selling romance fiction writer! Join us to hear Daphne Elliot '04 read from her "steamy, small town" romances and discuss her successful writing career with students in the "History of Romance Fiction" seminar. Sponsored by the Holy Cross Office of Alumni Engagement, Creative Writing Program, Department of English, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program.