Somos Worcester Somos Americanos: Connecting Worcester’s Latino History to the National Story

HOLY CROSS COMMUNITY - Luth Concert Hall - 1 College St, Worcester, MA, United States

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.

Jane Marsching | Visiting Artist Lecture: The Urban Tree Oracle

DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ARTS - Rehm Library in Smith Hall - 1 College St, Worcester, MA, United States

The Department of Visual Arts presents Jane Marsching, a multi-media artist dedicated to fostering wonder and connections with our environment. Her latest project, The Urban Tree Oracle, invites us to explore the vital relationships we share with urban trees, enhancing our awareness of their role in climate resilience.

Papermoon Puppet Theatre | Puno, Sewing Memories

PRIOR PRESENTS - Boroughs Theatre - 1 College St, Worcester, MA, United States

How do we experience loss? How can we hold and appreciate what has been left to us? A new program from the Papermoon Puppet Theatre Company of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Puno, Sewing Memories tells the story of Tala, a young girl coping with her father’s passing, through a poignant performance with astonishing modernist puppets.

Pamela Z: Lecture-Demonstration

DEPARTMENTS OF MUSIC AND COMPUTER SCIENCE - Booth Media Lab - 1 College St, Worcester, United States

Pamela Z, a pioneering composer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist, blends live looping, extended vocal techniques, and custom-designed, gesture-controlled music technology to create interactive, multilayered performances that fuse sound, image, and movement. Join us for this lecture-demonstration at The Prior's Booth Media Lab, part of Pamela Z’s five-day residency with the Departments of Music and Computer Science as a Distinguished Visiting Practitioner. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost. Free and open to the public.

Pamela Z: Recital

DEPARTMENTS OF MUSIC AND COMPUTER SCIENCE - Luth Concert Hall - 1 College St, Worcester, United States

Pamela Z, a pioneering composer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist, blends live looping, extended vocal techniques, and custom-designed, gesture-controlled music technology to create interactive, multilayered performances that fuse sound, image, and movement. Join us at The Prior’s Luth Concert Hall for a dynamic and immersive recital by Pamela Z, showcasing her work for voice, electronics, and video. Part of her five-day residency with the Departments of Music and Computer Science as a Distinguished Visiting Practitioner, the recital opens with Holy Cross students, led by Prof. Sergio Muñoz Leiva, performing alongside Z in a realization of her Twenty Answers, for chamber ensemble and magic oracle. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost. Free and open to the public.

Irish Music & Song with Liz Knowles*

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC - Brooks Concert Hall 1 College St., Worcester, MA, United States

Join us for a collaboration of music & song with Liz Knowles, fiddle, Diarmuid Ó Meachair, accordion & voice, and John Hannagan Brooks Scholar, fiddle and accordion, Ulysses Loken, piano. *Funded by The Patrick E. Moriarty, M.D. '57 Visiting Scholars Program.

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series: Ezequiel Menendez

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC - St. Joseph Memorial Chapel - 1 College St, Worcester, MA, United States

Dr. Ezequiel Menendez, Artist-in-Residence and Organ Professor at the College of the Holy Cross, will perform a captivating recital titled Passacaglias: Past and Present.

Mike Monaghan & Friends

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC - Luth Concert Hall - 1 College St, Worcester, MA, United States

Renowned jazz musician Mike Monaghan and his friends, Ben Cook, Marshall Wood, Marty Richards, John Wilkins will perform an exciting evening of jazz improvisation.

Osvaldo Golijov | Creation

PRIOR PRESENTS - Luth Concert Hall - 1 College St, Worcester, MA, United States

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.

Living Threads: Community, Culture and the Áo Dài

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery - 1 College St, Worcester, MA, United States

Step out in style and join us for an unforgettable afternoon filled with food, art and Polaroids -- come dressed to impress! Explore The Vietnamese Áo Dài in a Time of War through guided gallery tours, then make your mark on our Living Áo Dài with a hands-on fabric art project.