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November 2019
Wreath Decorating with Copper Penny Flowers
Join Concord's Copper Penny Flowers at the Old Manse to decorate your own wreath for display this holiday season. Each participant creates a personalized wreath using designer greens, cones, decorations, and a hand-made bow. Participants can purchase additional wreath making materials in advance to make addition wreaths during the workshop. Participants may make additional wreaths; each additional wreath costs $75. Pre-Registration required; registration closes November 12. Register online at: http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/metro-west/event-48972.html
Find out more »The Concord Players Perform Funny Girl
With humor, talent and chutzpah, young Fanny Brice, an awkward Jewish girl from New York’s Lower East Side who “isn’t pretty,” is determined to become a headliner. See how she defies the odds to become one of the greatest entertainers of her time – a star of the Ziegfeld Follies, radio, Broadway and Hollywood. Book by Isobel Lennart from an original story by Miss Lennart Music by Jule Styne Lyrics by Bob Merrill Directed by Brian Kelly Music Direction by…
Find out more »Concord Youth Theatre’s Anne of Green Gables
Don’t miss the heartwarming musical based on Lucy Maude Montgomery’s beloved classic of a spunky, red haired orphan girl, Anne Shirley, whom Mark Twain called “the most delightful child of fiction since the immortal Alice.” After aging farmer Matthew Cuthbert suffers a heart attack, his sister, Marilla, convinces him to adopt an orphanage boy to help out with the farm work. However, to their surprise, a chatterbox girl arrives. At first, Marilla wants to send Anne home right away. Fighting…
Find out more »August Wilson’s Fences
Winner of both the Pulitzer and the Tony Award, August Wilson’s FENCES is a true American masterpiece. Deeply affecting and a profound theatrical experience, FENCES focuses on Troy Maxon, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues who now works as a garbage man. Excluded as a black man from the major leagues, his bitterness takes its toll on his relationships with his wife and his son, who now wants his own chance to play ball. With one of the…
Find out more »free author talk with Cass Sunstein and “Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide”
Please join us on Sunday, November 17 at 3pm, when Cass R. Sunstein presents "Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide," an essential guide to the impeachment process that rises above politics and goes beyond punditry, from one of America’s foremost legal experts. This edition includes an appendix on the Mueller report, and puts the current national debate in its proper historical context. In direct and approachable terms, it dispels the fog surrounding impeachment so that Americans of all political convictions may use…
Find out more »Bilingual (Spanish/English) Storytime (Main Library)
Join us at the Main Library for a new storytime! A 5 week bilingual (Spanish/English) Storytime and song will be held Mondays at 10 am in the Main Library. This is a great way for kids to be exposed to Spanish and English. The 5 week session will be repeated. 1st session: 10/7, 10/21,10/28, 11/4, 11/18
Find out more »Armchair Travel: Spain and Portugal
Anita and her husband, Hagos, enjoyed a 10-day tour of these rich sea-faring countries in May. The tour started and ended in Madrid, traveling to Toledo, Granada (where they visited the exquisite Alhambra Palace), on to Seville and Córdoba, before crossing over into Portugal, where they visited Lisbon and Fátima. Coming back into Spain, they visited Salamanca, the walled city of Avila, and Segovia. Enjoy the highlights of these wonderful cities through their photos.
Find out more »Book Discussion at Debra’s Natural Gourmet, 98 Commonwealth Ave.
The Concord Free Public Library is teaming up again with Debra's Natural Gourmet for a discussion of This Is How It Always Is, by Laurie Frankel. The book discussion will take place on Monday, November 18 at 7:00 p.m. at Debra's Natural Gourmet, 98 Commonwealth Avenue, in West Concord.
Find out more »Coffee Connect
Coffee networking event for Concord Chamber of Commerce members and other local businesses. Venue - Fiorella's located at 24 Walden Street
Find out more »Walking Through History, Part II – England and Scotland
Slip on your hiking boots and grab your walking sticks. Janice and Doug Muir lead you through a DVD lecture series to discover the history, art and beauty of England and Scotland. Each presentation is on Tuesdays October 15 through November 26. Please call the COA to reserve your seat: 978-318-3020.
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