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The Vietnamese Áo Dài in a Time of War explores the significance of Vietnam’s national costume—the áo dài—during the Vietnam War. Honoring the 50th anniversary of a conflict, the legacies of which continue to haunt us to this day, the exhibition highlights the contributions of Vietnamese women to politics, society, and culture. |
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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. |
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This recital from Robert Gardner, Brooks Scholar, is the capstone of a transformative year studying in the bustling, vibrant city of Buenos Aires. |
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A panel discussion about the role of Vietnam’s national costume—the áo dài—in individual and national expression across Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora. With co-curators Prof. Ann Marie Leshkowich, Prof. Martina Thucnhi Nguyen (Baruch College), and Prof. Tuong Vu (University of Oregon), along with fashion designers Si Hoang and Thai Nguyen. 
Join us for the Opening Reception for current exhibition The Vietnamese Áo Dài in a Time of War at the Cantor Art Gallery, featuring Vietnamese appetizers and a cash bar. 
The award-winning Bala Chamber Brass presents a program from across the Americas, featuring two new works for brass quintet by Holy Cross faculty composers Chris Arrell and Matthew Jaskot. |
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Vietnamese American actress Kieu Chinh speaks with fashion designer Thai Nguyen about her trajectory as an actress and her work in the public eye on notable projects such as HBO’s miniseries The Sympathizer and the 1993 film The Joy Luck Club. The conversation is followed by a screening of the drama Journey from the Fall (2006), which traces the struggles of one family after the Fall of Saigon in 1975. 
Ilya Vidrin and Company’s All(Most) interlaces live music and dance to explore fragile human connections. Inspired by attachment theory and Brahms, the work reveals how closeness, distance, and longing constantly shift between bodies and sound. |
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A pop-up concert of Traditional Irish Music - experience the lively spirit of Irish music at a traditional Irish music pop-up concert! |
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MacArthur Fellow Hanif Abdurraqib is an award-winning poet, essayist, and music and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His newest release, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension (Random House, 2024), was a New York Times Bestseller and longlisted for the National Book Award in nonfiction. His 2021 book, A Little Devil In America: Notes on Black Performance, placed as a finalist for the National Book Award. |
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This lunchtime concert program will feature solo piano music by Felix Mendelssohn, Frédéric Chopin, and Alexander Scriabin. 
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. 
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |