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. 
 

LECTURE

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

PRAYER

All Souls Day Solemn Evening Prayer

5:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 2
Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas

ART EXHIBIT

“Pandemic: Imaging AIDS”

Nov. 5-Dec. 7, O’Shaughnessy
Educational Center gallery

FILM

“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

MAKING THE FILM

“Pandemic: Facing AIDS”
with Rory Kennedy

8 p.m., Monday, Nov. 5
O’Shaughnessy Educational Center
auditorium

PANEL DISCUSSION

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

ORGAN RECITAL

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

CONCERT

UST African Music Ensemble;
Sowah Mensah, director

7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 7
O’Shaughnessy Educational Center
auditorium

POETRY READING

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

RECITAL

“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