This exhibition features contemporary artists Adam Chau, Ifé Franklin, Michelle Samour, Heather Evans Smith, and Andrea Pettway Williams, who incorporate blue in their work to highlight the symbolic and historic meanings of the color.
This documentary tells the story of the Nipmuc/Native American identity of the land on which Holy Cross now sits. It covers 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.
The Tony-nominated choreographer, known for co-directing Fire Shut Up In My Bones with the Metropolitan Opera (2021) and choreographing Alicia Keys’ musical Hell’s Kitchen (2023), explores Black joy in a new work with her own dance company.
Writers Vievee Francis and Matthew Olzmann are featured in this Working Writer Series event co-sponsored by the Creative Writing and Africana Studies programs.
Boston based Uilleann piper Joey Abarta and fiddler Nathan Gourley will perform traditional Irish music as part of Family Weekend at Holy Cross.
This performance of jazz, blues, and traditional Irish music will feature student musicians from a variety of academic departments on campus during Family Weekend at Holy Cross.
Organist Dexter Kennedy is the winner of the Grand Prix d’Interprétation at the 24th Concours International d’Orgue de Chartres.
This lunchtime concert features the music of American icon and innovative jazz vocalist, pianist, and songwriter Nina Simone. Performers include vocalist Rhiannon Hurst (Brooks Fenwick Scholar), pianist Matthew Jaskot, and other music department students.
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.
A commissioning and recording project from Grammy Award-winning violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman, This is America celebrates our country’s rich cultural imaginary, offering a vivid counterpoint to the idea that this land can be understood through any singular, dominant point of view.
Traditional Irish musicians Diarmuid Ó Meachair and Sorcha Costello will deliver a very special afternoon performance at Brooks Concert Hall.
What does blue sound like? The Department of Music presents a Lunchtime Concert Series program of works inspired by this question in the ideal setting of the Blue Profundity exhibition in the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is a New York Times-bestselling essayist and poet. Her environmentally attuned work explores how we live in a world she finds rich with wonder.