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St. Scholastica High School Honor Band Festival Concert
Music Department
Summary: The St. Scholastica High School Honor Band Festival brings together high school wind, brass, and percussion players in grades 10-12 from across Minnesota and Wisconsin. Following a day of rehearsals, the culminating festival concert will be open to the public. Is this event open to the public? Yes. Cost: Free Admission. Contact: Emily Nast. Contact Email: enast@css.edu. Student Calendar Type: All Campuses.
Monday, January 19, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Mitchell Auditorium.
A New Morning: Reconstructing a 17th-Century Matins Service
School of Arts and Letters Faculty Colloquium
Summary: In May 2025, Borealis Chamber Artists performed Antonio de Salazar’s Matins for the Blessed Virgin Mary, music that hadn't been heard in 300 years. In this colloquium, Dr. Richard Carrick traces the process of reconstructing the service, from archival research to performance, and reflects on the cultural significance of restoring this 17th-century work and reviving it for a contemporary audience. Is this event open to the public? Yes. Cost: Free Admission. Contact: Kevin Quarmby. Contact Email: kquarmby@css.edu. Student Calendar Type: All Campuses.
Friday, January 30, 2026, 3:40 PM – 4:40 PM.
CSS Library Raven Room.
Rose Warner Reading Series with Carolyn Forché
Summary: The Rose Warner Reading Series presents renowned poet Carolyn Forché. Over four decades, Carolyn Forché’s visionary work has reinvigorated poetry’s power to awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have been testimonies, inquiries, and wonderments. They daringly map a territory where poetry asserts our inexhaustible responsibility to one another. Her first new collection in seventeen years, In the Lateness of the World is a tenebrous book of crossings, of migrations across oceans and borders but also… Is this event open to the public? Yes. Cost: Free Admission. Contact: Kevin Quarmby. Contact Email: kquarmby@css.edu. Student Calendar Type: All Campuses.
Friday, February 6, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
Mitchell Auditorium.
The L.M. Montgomery Bookshelf Project: Reconstructing the Library of a Self-Professed ‘Book Drunkard’
School of Arts and Letters Faculty Colloquium
Summary: What can be learned from reconstructing an author’s library? What might an author’s library reveal about them that their published work does not? Canadian author L.M. Montgomery—best known for her classic, Anne of Green Gables (1908)—was a voracious reader with widely varied tastes in literature. Dr. Emily Woster will discuss the wealth of evidence we have of Montgomery’s reading habits and share insights, surprises, and highlights from her work curating the "L.M. Montgomery Bookshelf Project,” a physical a… Is this event open to the public? Yes. Cost: Free Admission. Contact: Kevin Quarmby. Contact Email: kquarmby@css.edu. Student Calendar Type: All Campuses.
Friday, February 27, 2026, 3:40 PM – 4:40 PM.
CSS Library Raven Room.
Video Games Live: Midwinter Band Concert
Music Department
Summary: The music of video games is largely underappreciated, and yet it shapes the lives of so many people. The CSS Concert Band, Jazz Band, Steel Band, and Handbell Ensemble will present a love letter to the genre featuring music from Super Mario, Zelda, Minecraft, Donkey Kong, and more. Get tickets.
. Is this event open to the public? Yes. Cost: $10 general admission, free for students and Sisters of the St. Scholastica Monastery. Contact: Emily Nast. Contact Email: enast@css.edu. Student Calendar Type: All Campuses.
Saturday, February 28, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Mitchell Auditorium.
For more info visit thecollegeofstscholastica.ticketspice.com. Adoptions from Guatemala: A Historical Reckoning
Alworth Peace and Justice
Summary: Boston University historian Rachel Nolan tells the poignant saga of Guatemala’s adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession. This talk is based on Nolan's book, Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala, finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction. Is this event open to the public? Yes. Cost: Free Admission. Contact: Tim Lorek. Contact Email: tlorek@css.edu. Student Calendar Type: All Campuses.
Thursday, March 19, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
Mitchell Auditorium.
Technology and the Sacred: Interfaith Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence
Braegelman Program in Catholic Studies Lecture Series
Please join us online for an interfaith discussion on the ethical, spiritual, environmental, and social implications of artificial intelligence with our distinguished panelists: Ilia Delio, David Zvi Kalman, Adrian (Naabek) Liberty, and Zahra Takhshid.
This event is sponsored by the Braegelman Catholic Studies Program in collaboration with the Oreck-Alpern Interreligious Forum and The Center for Spirituality and Enrichment, a ministry of the St. Scholastica Monastery.
Summary: The introduction of generative A.I. has not only revolutionized the way we think about our relationship with technology, but has raised fundamental questions about the human condition. Register now.
. Is this event open to the public? Yes. Cost: Free Admission. Contact: Kevin Vaughan. Contact Email: kvaughan@css.edu. Student Calendar Type: All Campuses.
Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Online Webinar.
For more info visit css.zoom.us. The Brontë Sisters: Retrospection
Music Department
Summary: Join us for the Minnesota premiere of The Brontë Sisters: Retrospection – an Art Song-Play by Vicki Fingalson, soprano/playwright and Wendy Durrwachter, piano/composer. The work chronicles the life of three literary trailblazing sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë. Their boundless influence is still being lauded and studied, but perhaps less is known about their remarkable lives and poetry, and these two elements are brought to life in this dramatic piece performed by its creators. Get tickets.
. Is this event open to the public? Yes. Cost: $12 general admission, free for students and Sisters of the St. Scholastica Monastery. Contact: Emily Nast. Contact Email: enast@css.edu. Student Calendar Type: All Campuses.
Friday, March 27, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Mitchell Auditorium.
For more info visit thecollegeofstscholastica.ticketspice.com. AdventuRing!
Music Department
Summary: The St. Scholastica Music Program will host a day-long event for young handbell ringers. High school musicians from around the state will spend the day learning about handbells and making music together, and the final concert will be open to the public. Is this event open to the public? Yes. Cost: Free Admission. Contact: Emily Nast. Contact Email: enast@css.edu. Student Calendar Type: All Campuses.
Saturday, March 28, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Mitchell Auditorium.