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Sacred Arts Festival
2007 Festival
The St. Thomas Sacred Arts Festival is an annual series of events focusing on the artistic traditions that
articulate humanity's understanding of the divine.
The Sacred Arts Festival presents a broad range of artistic forms, such as music, drama, dance,
poetry, painting, and film. The festival seeks to engage the university and wider metropolitan communities.
Habiger Lecture
by Father Jan Michael Joncas
“From ‘Dies Irae’ to ‘In Paradisum’:
The Mystery of Death in Catholic
Sacred Music”
7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m.
O’Shaughnessy Educational Center
auditorium
All Souls Day Solemn Evening Prayer
5:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 2
Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas
“Pandemic: Imaging AIDS”
Nov. 5-Dec. 7, O’Shaughnessy
Educational Center gallery
“Pandemic: Facing AIDS”
by Rory Kennedy
6 p.m., Monday, Nov. 5,
O’Shaughnessy Educational Center
auditorium
“The Fountain” (2006)
Directed by Darren Aronofsky
Discussion following led by
Terence Nichols
7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 9
O’Shaughnessy Educational Center
auditorium
“Pandemic: Facing AIDS”
with Rory Kennedy
8 p.m., Monday, Nov. 5
O’Shaughnessy Educational Center
auditorium
Exhibit, “Pandemic: Imaging AIDS”
John Stomberg, Williams College,
and Laurie Cassidy, Marywood
University
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m, Tuesday, Nov. 6
O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center
Leather Room
Swedish Organist, Hans Fagius
Commemorating the 20th
anniversary installation of the
Gabriel Kney organ
8:15 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 6,
Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas
UST African Music Ensemble;
Sowah Mensah, director
7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 7
O’Shaughnessy Educational Center
auditorium
by Mary Rose O’Reilley
“Controlled Burn: Poetry, Memoir
and Forest Ecology” poetry and
selections from her book
The Love of Impermanent Things
7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 8
Owens Science Hall 3M auditorium
“Songs and Meanings”
featuring the premiere of
“Five Songs of Walt Whitman”
Composed by James Callahan with
Alan Bryan, baritone
3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 11
St. Mary’s Chapel, School of Divinity
For assistance call:
(651) 962-6560