Prior Performing Arts Center

Jazz and Blues with an Irish Interlude at Family Weekend
2024-09-21 19:00 (America/New_York) | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Jazz and Blues with an Irish Interlude – Family Weekend

This one hour performance will feature a number of student musicians from a variety of academic departments on campus. From Freshmen to Seniors, they will join together to present musical opportunities offered here at College of the Holy Cross including Jazz, Blues, and Traditional Irish Music.

Details

September 21, 20247:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Traditional Irish Music at Family Weekend
2024-09-20 20:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Traditional Irish Music at Family Weekend

Joey Abarta, Uilleann piper
Nathan Gourley, fiddler

Boston based Uilleann piper Joey Abarta and fiddler Nathan Gourley are two of America’s greatest Traditional Irish musicians, who have been playing music together daily since 2013. Their debut duo album, Copley Street, featuring Owen Marshall on Greek bouzouki, has an undeniable chemistry and demonstrates a nuanced understanding of each the other’s playing.
Their music includes offbeat settings of well-known tunes and beautiful pieces that seem to languish in obscurity. “Copley Street” is a wonderful album from two stunning young players that adds to Boston’s rich history of traditional Irish music.

Details

September 20, 20248:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Working Writer Series: Vievee Francis & Matthew Olzmann
2024-09-19 19:30 | CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM – Booth Media Lab –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Working Writer Series

Vievee Francis & Matthew Olzmann

Writers Vievee Francis and Matthew Olzmann are featured in this Working Writer Series event co-sponsored by the Creative Writing and Africana Studies programs.

Details

September 19, 20247:30 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Booth Media LabThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Camille A. Brown & Dancers | I AM
2024-09-12 19:30 | PRIOR PRESENTS – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Above: Alain ‘“Hurrikane” Lauture in “I AM” by Whitney Browne

Prior Presents 2024–25

Camille A. Brown & DancersI Am

Buy Tickets: Thu Sep 12, 2024 @ 7:30 PM

Four-time Tony Award-nominated choreographer and director Camille A. Brown is a “prodigious” (VOGUE) Bessie, Obie, and Princess Grace Award-winning choreographer and director. She made history as the first Black director at the Metropolitan Opera to direct a mainstage production when she co-directed Fire Shut Up In My Bones (2021). With the Broadway revival of for colored girls… in 2022 (which earned her a Tony nomination for Best Direction of a Play), she became the first Black woman to direct and choreograph a Broadway play since Katherine Dunham in 1955.
Following her work as the choreographer of the new Alicia Keys musical Hell’s Kitchen, which led to a Tony Award nomination for Best Choreography, Brown returns to the roots of her own dance company, deepening her exploration of Black joy in a new work titled I AM.

“The dancers, strong, flexible, and clean in their moves, seem to exult in their physical prowess, and in the presence of each other, as if each one is challenging each other to go further, dance faster, jump higher, be their best selves. They have community in each other, and they radiate joy…”
— Bess Hochstein, Splash Magazines(from her review of the world premiere ofI AM at Jacob’s Pillow – July 31, 2024)

READ THE FULL REVIEW

Details

September 12, 2024
7:30 PM

Price

$45 | $35 | $25Prices are subject to change without notice

Venue

Luth Concert Hall
The Prior Performing Arts Center

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Outdoor Film Screening | Pakachoag: Where the River Bends
2024-09-04 19:30 | OUTDOOR FILM SCREENING – Patterson Amphitheatre at The Prior –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Outdoor Film Screening

Pakachoag: Where the River Bends
The Native American Identity of Holy Cross Campus

Telling a Native American story of the land where Holy Cross now resides, Pakachoag: Where the River Bends is a documentary produced by faculty, staff, and students at The College of Holy Cross about the transformation of this area over the last 400 years. The film takes viewers on a tour of key sites on Pakachoag Hill (now commonly known as College Hill or Mt. Saint James) and discusses them through a Native American perspective and through the stories they tell of environmental change. It covers Nipmuc relations with colonial settlers and the Jesuit community from the 1500s to today.
We are particularly excited to show this film for the first time at (and indeed on!) the Prior Center, whose site is featured at the start of the film. There was a time when all Holy Cross students knew of Pakachoag, but that knowledge has been lost. This film seeks to revive a widespread knowledge of the indigenous identity and significance of Pakachoag Hill and today’s larger Worcester region.
The documentary brings together primary resources from the American Antiquarian Society, the Holy Cross Archives, the Worcester Historical Museum and other repositories, with perspectives from three narrators: Cheryll Holley of the Nipmuc Nation, Thomas Doughton, Nipmuc historian and Senior Lecturer at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Holy Cross, and Colin Novick, environmental historian and Executive Director of the Greater Worcester Land Trust.

Details

September 4, 20247:30 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Outdoor Film ScreeningPrior Performing Arts Center

Blue Profundity: Contemporary Artists Revisit a Color
2024-08-21 - 2024-12-20 | Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Above: Michelle Samour, Blue (detail), 2019, handmade paper pulp drawing, specimen pins, 10’ x 20’ x 5” (installed). Courtesy of the artist.

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery

Blue Profundity: Contemporary Artists Revisit a Color

This exhibition features contemporary artists who incorporate blue in their work to highlight the symbolic and historic meanings of the color. Blue is celebrated as a marker of socioeconomic status in history, a symbol of cultural pride and economic exploitation, and as a metaphor for sadness and depression. Artworks such as blue-and-white porcelain, hand-pigmented paper pulp, and cyanotype photography explore these concepts by updating forms and materials to reflect current-day concerns with a nod to historical precedent. Confirmed artists include Adam Chau, Ifé Franklin, Michelle Samour, Heather Evans Smith, and Andrea Pettway Williams.

Details

August 21-December 20, 2024

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art GalleryThe Prior Performing Arts Center
