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February 2023
Monday Night Meditation
NOW is your time to join BWBH’s growing, beloved Monday Night Meditation community! Join us for soothing practice that quiets the mind, relaxes the body and calms the nervous system. These creative 30-minute meditation sessions are available for every age. Share a moment of ease with friends and family. Be present to Be Well! Be Well Be Here offers FREE meditation sessions all week long! Mondays at 8:30pm Tuesdays at 12:30pm Wednesdays at 8:30pm Thursdays at 8:30am Fridays at 12:30pm…
Find out more »Bullying, Cyberbullying and the Effects of the Pandemic on Children
2023 is bringing new challenges for parents. Raising kids today may feel like a dizzying set of issues: managing screen use (especially after a pandemic); promoting healthy social relationships; and avoiding social problems like bullying and cyberbullying. This presentation will focus on concrete, down-to-earth approaches that emphasize ways that parents can help build their child's emotional resilience, improve social skills, reduce screen time use (without constant conflict), minimize fighting and bullying, and help their child emerge successfully from a global…
Find out more »Reset & Rest: Your Way to WellBEing
Overwhelmed or exhausted? Struggling to find time to recover from, well, life? Be present to Reset & Rest and discover YOUR WAY to wellBEing with BWBH! Lifelong meditators and caring, mindful guides Lara Wilson, founder of BWBH, and Ruchika Sikri, who implemented and scaled Google’s Mindfulness & WellBeing Educational Program, lead this unique 4-week online mindful meditation series and wellness retreat. The Reset & Rest program culminates in an in-person Be Well BEtreat at BWBH’s BEtreat space in a beautiful…
Find out more »Art in Action! Welcoming Refugees
Kids will learn about displaced people around the world and the crises that force them to leave their homes. Afterwards, there will be an art project creating postcards to welcome refugee families to our community and inform them about the area. For every postcard created, the Bezos Family Foundation - sponsors of Students Rebuild - will donate $5 to refugee-aid organizations. No registration required. Ages 10 and under. Program in partnership with COAR.
Find out more »Beede and Books Storytime 2022 – 2023
The Beede Swim and Fitness Center and the Concord Free Public Library are teaming up to bring you Beede and Books. This is a free program available to all. Join us at the Beede Center for a Friday collaboration of reading and swimming. A librarian will read books at 1:30pm, then we transition to the Children’s Pool for water fun! This free program happens once a month, usually (but not always!) on the last Monday of each month: September 26…
Find out more »Three Week Painting Series with Namrata Siviya
Tuesdays Practice your painting skills using your choice of water based paint . Learn to paint freely and boldly while we will go over the basics of painting like composition, values and color. The focus of this series will be to connect with your intuitive voice and paint from your heart. All levels are welcome!
Find out more »March 2023
The Umbrella Open Studios 2023
Saturday, March 18 - 12-5PM Sunday, March 19 - 12-5PM The Umbrella Arts Center is home to more than 60 working artists skilled in a variety of fine and applied arts including ceramics, glass, fiber arts, jewelry making, illustration, mixed-media, painting, photography, printmaking, illustration, sculpture, woodworking, writing and more. Since the organization’s founding Studio Artists have been at the heart of making this facility a community asset and wellspring of creative activity. Our annual Open Studios is an incredible opportunity…
Find out more »In Person: Explorations in Collage
All Level Collage Workshop March 25th & March 26th Collage is an exciting process where you select a variety of papers and colors to create exciting compositions, real or imagined. Find new ways of seeing while feeling free to be experimental and explore the boundaries of your imagination. In this workshop you will use new and found materials and learn different ways to create custom papers. The act of collage is being open to discovery and a great way to…
Find out more »April 2023
In Person: Cut. Paste. Construct. The Figure.
All Level Multi-media Workshop APRIL 1st & APRIL 2nd This weekend workshop will explore the figure through collage and sculpture. Working from a clothed model, artists will experiment with the potential of humble materials like paper and cardboard, and will gain an understanding of shape and form. Visual presentations of the work of modern and contemporary artists will supplement the exercises. Please note: An additional model fee of $30 will be paid to the model directly at the workshop.
Find out more »Online: Botanical Notebook: Buds + Blooms in Watercolor
When April springs, you won’t want to miss this workshop devoted to early buds and blooms! Working from live plants and photos, Helen’s live demos and feedback will guide you in the delights of making detailed botanical studies in watercolor. (What’s your fancy—magnolia, pasque flower, apple blossom…?) We will practice sketching flower parts for accuracy, painting in layers using wet-in-wet and dry-brush techniques. All levels welcome. APRIL 1 & 2
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