Check out the dynamic arts performances and events that Holy Cross has lined up.
Fall 2022 Arts Events
- For directions to Holy Cross and arts venues on campus, please visit our Maps, Directions and Transportation and Parking site.
- All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Please visit the sponsoring department or program’s website for further information and updates about attending.
- See our Events Calendar for a complete listing of events taking place at Holy Cross.
- View past concerts and receive alerts for upcoming concerts on the Holy Cross Department of Music YouTube channel.
September 12, 2022 – June 30, 2023 Ongoing
Cantor Window Commission
Justine Hill: The Travelers
A site-specific installation created by New York-based painter Justine Hill ‘0
Image courtesy of Justine Hill ‘08
Sponsored by the Cantor Art Gallery
September 12 - October 23 | M – F 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Sat & Sun noon – 5 p.m.
Afterimage: 2022 Visual Arts Faculty
Afterimage features the work of Holy Cross Visual Arts Faculty, whose integrated practice as artists, teachers, and mentors connects them to the Liberal Arts curriculum.
The exhibition will include work by Michael Beatty, Rachelle Beaudoin, John Carney, Hilary Doyle, Colleen Fitzgerald, Matthew Gamber, Victor Pacheco, Cristi Rinklin, Susan Schmidt, and Leslie Schomp.
Sponsored by the Cantor Art Gallery
Image courtesy of Cristi Rinklin
September 13 | 7 p.m.
St. Joseph Memorial Chapel
Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series
Bálint Karosi, Cantor, Saint Peter’s Church, New York
An all Bach program performed by a world renowned organist.
Sponsored by the Department of Music
September 14 | 5 – 7 p.m.
Opening Celebration forAfterImage: 2022 Visual Arts Faculty
Image courtesy of Michael Beatty
Sponsored by the Cantor Art Gallery
September 20 | 8:00 pm
Through the Rear View
Jennifer Ashe, soprano
Brian Church, baritone
Matthew Jaskot, piano
Jonathan Hess, percussion
Brooks Concert Hall
Vocalists Jennifer Ashe (soprano) and Brian Church (baritone) join percussionist Jonathan Hess and composer/pianist Matthew Jaskot in presenting a concert of songs that reflect on time, memory, and the past, featuring excerpts from Close and Apart, a song cycle (based on Eric Gregory's memoir All My Tomorrows) that Jaskot is developing in collaboration with poet Susan Elizabeth Sweeney.
Sponsored by the Music Department and the English Department, Office of Sponsored Research
September 20 | 12:15 p.m.
Faculty artist Cristi Rinklin in conversation with Mark Freeman, Psychology Department
Image courtesy of Cristi Rinklin
Sponsored by the Cantor Art Gallery
September 21 | 12:15 p.m.
Faculty artists Matthew Gamber and Colleen Fitzgerald in conversation
Images courtesy of Colleen Fitzgerald and Matthew Gamber
Sponsored by the Cantor Art Gallery
September 24 | 1 – 5 p.m.
Prior Performing Arts Center
Community Day
This event will give our Holy Cross and the greater Worcester communities the opportunity to see our brand-new Performing Arts Center. There will be food, performances, and lots of opportunities to explore the PAC.
Produced by Arts Transcending Borders with the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery - Creative Writing Program - Department of Music - Department of Theatre & Dance - Department of Visual Arts
September 27 | 4 p.m.
Faculty artists Victor Pacheco and Leslie Schomp in conversation
Images courtesy of Victor Pacheco and Leslie Schomp
Sponsored by the Cantor Art Gallery
September 29 | 12:15 p.m.
Faculty artist Michael Beatty in conversation with Amy Finstein, Visual Arts Department
Image courtesy of Michael Beatty
Sponsored by the Cantor Art Gallery
Sept 29 | 7:30 p.m.
Seelos Theater
Reading by Nicole Walker
Free and open to the public
Come enjoy a literary event with noted author, NICOLE WALKER who will read and talk about her work followed by a question and answer session. Walker is the author of eight books, most recently Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh and Navigating Disaster (2021) Sustainability: A Love Story (2018) and the collaborative collection The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet. (2019) She is the co-president of NonfictioNOW and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award and a noted author in Best American Essays. Her work has been most recently published in the New York Times, Longreads, The Georgia Review and The Southern Review, among other places. She teaches at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ and serves as the Crux Series Editor for University of Georgia Press. On August 18th, Walker’s Opinion Essay was published in the Sunday Edition of The New York Times.
Image courtesy of Nicole Walker
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program
October 4 | 12:15 p.m.
Faculty artists John Carney and Hilary Doyle in conversation
Images courtesy of John Carney and Hilary Doyle
Sponsored by the Cantor Art Gallery
October 18 | 4 p.m.
The Load, a performance and talk by faculty artist Rachelle Beaudoin
Image courtesy of Rachelle Beaudoin
Sponsored by the Cantor Art Gallery
October 18 | 7 p.m.
St. Joseph Memorial Chapel
Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series
Ezequiel Menendez, College of the Holy Cross
Holy Cross’ organ professor performs works by Bach, Mendelssohn and Buxtehude.
Sponsored by the Department of Music
October 19 | 4 p.m.
Artists & Poets, Collaborative Books: faculty artist Susan Schmidt in conversation with Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, English Department, with a reading by poet Susan Roney-O’Brien
Image courtesy of Susan Schmidt
Sponsored by the Cantor Art Gallery
October 20 | 7:30 pm
Rehm Library
Reading by Rachel Mennies Goodman
Free and open to the public
Come enjoy a literary event with noted author, Rachel Mennies Goodman who is the author of The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021) and The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards (Texas Tech University Press, 2014), winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry and finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. Her poems and essays have been published at The Believer, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere. She serves as the book reviews editor for AGNI and the series editor, since 2016, of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry at Texas Tech University Press. Originally from the Philadelphia area, Mennies currently lives in Chicago, where she works as a writer, editor, and adjunct professor.
Photo credit Rachel Mennies
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program
Thursday, October 20 | 8:00 pm
Mike Monaghan & Friends
Prior Center for Performing Arts
Sponsored by the Department of Music
Saturday, October 22 | 2:00 pm
Senior Recital
Rose Grosskopf, soprano
Brooks Concert Hall
Sponsored by the Department of Music
October 26 | 4:30 p.m.
Location: Media Lab in the Prior Performing Arts Center.
Artist’s Talk by Justine Hill
Image courtesy of Justine Hill ‘08
Sponsored by the Cantor Art Gallery
October 27 │ 7:30 pm
Rehm Library
Reading by NANA KWAME ADJEI- BRENYAH
Free and open to the public
Come enjoy a literary event with noted author NANA KWAME ADJEI- BRENYAH who is the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black (Mariner Books, 2018). He was selected by Colson Whitehead as one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honorees, the winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for Best First Book and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from numerous publications, including the New York Times Book Review, Esquire, Literary Hub, the Paris Review, Guernica, and Longreads. He is currently working on his debut novel Chain-Gang All-Stars (forthcoming 2023).
Photo credit Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program
Friday, October 28 │ 8:00 pm
Family Weekend Concert
Autumn Landscapes
Holy Cross College Choir
Prior Center for Performing Arts
Sponsored by the Department of Music
November 1 | 7 p.m.
St. Joseph Memorial Chapel
Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series
Johann Vexo, Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris
Monsieur Vexo performs French masterworks. At 8 p.m. All Saints Liturgy with Maestro Vexo’s improvisations.
Sponsored by the Department of Music
November 3-5 and 10-12 │ 7:30 p.m.; November 6 and 13 │ 2 p.m.
Prior Performing Arts Center, Buroughs Theatre
“Iphigenia”by Euripides
Translated and adapted by Mary Ebbott
Original music by Ulysses Loken
Directed by Edward Isser
Tickets for Iphigenia go on sale October 1
General Public $15 / HC Community $10
Get tickets here
“Iphigenia” combines two plays by Euripides, “Iphigenia at Aulis”and “Iphigenia Among the Taurians,”with material from Homer’s “Iliad”to tell the story of King Agamemnon’s eldest daughter. Iphigenia is a young girl who sacrifices herself for a hollow and meaningless endeavor, the Trojan War, and becomes an embittered, murderous avenger who is miraculously redeemed by her love for her brother. This inaugural production at the Prior Performing Arts Center, translated by Professor Mary Ebbott of Holy Cross’s Department of Classics, transposes the action to the latter half of the twentieth century and explores how the idealism of the young is exploited in pursuit of the cynical ends of their elders.
Sponsored by the Department of Theatre and Dance
November 7 - December 17
Closed Nov 11 Veterans Day and Nov 23-27 Thanksgiving Break
M – F 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Sat & Sun noon – 5 p.m.
Cantor Art Gallery
Selections from the Collection of Brad and Gabrielle Schuller (‘03 + ‘02)
A collection of contemporary works by emerging west coast artists, including: Simphiwe Ndzube, Tala Madani, Brandon Landers, and Razvan Boar.
Image courtesy of Simphiwe Ndzube.
Sponsored by the Cantor Art Gallery
November 8 | 5 p.m.
Rehm Library
Cantor Art Gallery opening at 6 p.m.
Building a Collection of Contemporary Art: A conversation with collectors Brad and Gabrielle Schuller
Sponsored by the Cantor Art Gallery
Image courtesy of artist Brandon Landers
November 10 | 7:30 p.m.
Rehm Library
Literary Panel "Writing Globally"
with RODRIGO FUENTES, MEGAN MCDOWELL , JEE LEONG KOH
Free and open to the public
Come enjoy a literary event moderated by Jenks Chair Xu Xi. In this panel, titled "Writing Globally" three noted authors will read and discuss their work.
RODRIGO FUENTES won the Carátula Central American Short Story Prize (2014) and the Juegos Florales of Quetzaltenango Short Story Prize (2008). His story collection Trout Belly Up was shortlisted for the 2018 Premio Hispanoamericano de Cuento Gabriel García Márquez prize for short-story writers in Latin America. He recently published a new nonfiction novel Mapa de otros mundos. He is co-founder and editor of the magazine Suelta and of the digital publishing house and literary journal Traviesa, and is on the Spanish and LALCS faculty at Holy Cross.
MEGAN MCDOWELL has translated many of the most important Latin American writers working today, including Samanta Schweblin, Alejandro Zambra, Mariana Enriquez, and Lina Meruane. Her translations have won the English PEN award and the Premio Valle-Inclán, and been nominated four times for the International Booker Prize. Her short story translations have been featured in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Tin House, McSweeney’s, and Granta, among others. In 2020 she won an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is from Richmond, KY and lives in Santiago, Chile.
JEE LEONG KOH is a novelist, poet, publisher, and the founder/organizer of Singapore Unbound. He is Editor-In-Chief of Gaudy Boy, a press associated with Singapore Unbound. His most recent book is the novel Snow at 5 pm: Translations of an Insignificant Japanese Poet, a finalist for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize in fiction, and his five poetry collections includes Steep Tea, a finalist for the Lambda literary awards that was named a best book of the year by the Financial Times, and The Pillow Book. He was raised in Singapore and currently lives in New York.
Co-sponsored by the W. H. Jenks Chair of Contemporary Letters, Asian Studies, Spanish & LALCS (Latin American, Latinx and Caribbean Studies.)
Wednesday - Nov. 16 | 8:00 p.m.
Holy Cross Orchestra Concert
Luth Concert Hall
Prior Center for Performing Arts
Open to the Public
The Holy Cross Orchestra will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Coeducation at Holy Cross with an unforgettable concert. This program will feature works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw and Florence Price, the first African American woman to have her music performed by a major symphony orchestra, among others. The event will also feature pianist and Holy Cross faculty member Professor Matthew Jaskot.
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
Sponsored by the Department of Music
November 16 l 12:15 p.m.
Figuration in 21st-Century Art
Gallery talk with Melissa Trafton, Visiting Assistant Professor, Visual Arts
Sponsored by the Cantor Art Gallery
Image courtesy of Melissa Trafton
November 17 l 4 p.m.
Exercises for the Quiet Eye: Reflecting on the work in See You Through It
Gallery program with Annie Storr, Visiting Lecturer, Visual Arts
Sponsored by the Cantor Art Gallery
Image courtesy of Annie Storr
Thursday, November 17 │8:00 pm
Holy Cross Chamber Singers
Winters Night
Prior Center for Performing Arts
Sponsored by the Department of Music
Tuesday, November 29│ 8:00 pm
Holy Cross Jazz Concert
Brooks Concert Hall
Sponsored by the Department of Music
November 30 | 4:00 p.m.
Virtual studio visit and conversation with artist Simphiwe Ndzube
Register: https://holycross.zoom.us/j/95852322636
Sponsored by the Cantor Art Gallery
Image courtesy of Simphiwe Ndzube
Wednesday, November 30│8:00 pm
Chamber Music Recital
Brooks Concert Hall
Sponsored by the Department of Music
December 1-3 │ 7:30 p.m.; December 3-4 │ 2 p.m.
The Pit – O’Kane 37
“Almost, Maine”by John Cariani
Directed by Patrick O’Konis
Tickets: No admission charge; reservations at (508) 793-3536
John Cariani’s magic-realist romantic comedy is set on a clear midwinter evening in the fictionalized town of Almost, Maine, where you never know exactly when love and the northern lights will make their mystical appearance. The play is a series of vignettes in which both locals and visitors find, lose and rediscover love. An Alternate College Theatre production.
Sponsored by Alternate College Theatre
Sunday, December 4 │3:00 pm
Holy Cross Wind Ensemble
Prior Center for Performing Arts
Sponsored by the Department of Music
Tuesday, December 6 │6:00 pm
End of Semester Student Recitals
Brooks Concert Hall
Sponsored by the Department of Music
Thursday, December 8 │ 8:00 pm
Advent Festival of Lessons and Carols
Holy Cross College Choir & Orchestra
St. Joseph Memorial Chapel
Sponsored by the Department of Music
December 10 │ 7:30 p.m.
Prior Performing Arts Center, Luth Concert Hall
Gamelan Gita Sari Concert
I Nyoman Catra’s gamelan and Balinese performing arts students collaborate on a concert at the end of each semester that mixes traditional and new pieces and features the contributions of special guests.
Sponsored by Department of Theatre and Dance and the Department of Music