Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author David E. Sanger will deliver a talk and Q&A on China, Russia, and the challenges for the next President moderated by World Languages Department Chair Amy Singleton Adams, followed by a book signing in the Beehive at The Prior.
Singer-songwriter River Glen will deconstruct some of his own songs before working directly with students on their in-progress songs in this workshop.
The Gospel Choir from St. Augustine's Church in Washington, DC, the Mother Church of Black Catholics in the Nation’s Capital, will provide music for All Saint's Day Mass followed by a mini-concert of their repertoire.
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Flower will perform a new work commissioned by Composer-In-Residence Osvaldo Golijov for modular synthesizer and string quartet. A Series of Resolutions aims to live outside genre definitions where moments of harmonic exploration and dissonance can coexist with earnest melodies.
Brooks Scholar Rhiannon Hurst ’25 presents an afternoon of jazz selections drawing from her Fenwick Scholar project celebrating underrepresented voices in jazz.
Shakespeare's beloved play comes to The Prior in this co-presentation from Holy Cross' Scholarship in Action & Clark University’s Office of Global Engagement, directed by Martha Douglas-Osmundson and starring students of the Clark University-Hefei University of Technology Summer 2025 Program.
This documentary tells the story of the Nipmuc/Native American identity of the land on which Holy Cross now sits, covering Nipmuc relations with colonial settlers and the Jesuit community from the 1500s to today. The film visits sites that will be familiar to students and community members and views them through a Native American perspective and through the stories they tell of the profound environmental changes to this area.
A presentation and discussion of Latino contributions to Worcester and American history, featuring Dr. Tey Marianna Nunn, Associate Director for Content and Interpretation for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino (NMAL). The event will feature a discussion between Dr. Nunn, Latino History Project of Worcester, and Worcester community leaders.
From Grammy- and MacArthur-winner Osvaldo Golijov, The Prior's Composer-in-Residence, comes a thrilling new work-in-progress on the creation of the universe. At this special sneak peek, audiences will hear selections performed by three of Golijov’s closest collaborators, each of whom embody entire cosmogonies in their music-making. Reservations limited to students, staff and faculty of Holy Cross.
SOLD OUT. The Science Ball is a celebration of the fusion of art and science. Lab coats are transformed by designers into couture and presented on the runway by the scientists whose research inspired them.
