2-4:30PM Join filmmaker Raouf Zaki on September 27 at 2pm for a screening of his film Dream, in celebration of Blindness Awareness Month! The screening is in partnership with the Lion's Club "Seeing Is Believing" Event, which will take place on the library lawn and in the Goodwin Forum earlier that day on September 27. […]
Goodwin Forum Main Library129 Main Street, Concord, MA, 01742 Please join us for the annual Joel Myerson Lecture: "Stepping Out of Time: Thoreau, Lopez, and the Question of Transcendentalism Today," presented by Prof. Laura Dassow Walls. "Is this who we are?" It's the question of the day, but generations ago the Transcendentalists asked it as […]
Concord Festival of Authors Showcases Outstanding Line-up of Books, Speakers and Stories for All in October 2025 The annual Concord Festival of Authors (CFA), managed by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library, celebrates the written and spoken word this fall with two weeks of literary events throughout town from October 18-November 1. The […]
The Robbins House presents Tara Roberts, author of Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home and Belonging. When Tara Roberts first caught sight of a photograph at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History depicting the scuba and underwater archaeology group Diving With a Purpose, it called out to her. Here were […]
The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present The Debut Authors Panel 2025 moderated by Steve Edwards, Writer-In-Residence at CFPL. Debut Author Panelists Nicky Gonzalez is a writer from Hialeah, Florida. Her fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, BOMB, The Kenyon Review, Taco Bell Quarterly, and other publications. She has received support from […]
The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present CFA Mystery Night 2025, moderated by Kate Flora! This year's event features authors Nicole Asselin, Richard Cass, and Kim Herdman Shapiro. Kate Flora's fascination with people's criminal tendencies began in the Maine attorney general's office. Deadbeat dads, child abusers, and employment discrimination aroused her curiosity about […]
Join National Book Award long-listed author Marcella Pixley to celebrate the launch of her newest middle-grade book, Neshama, with an author talk, reading, and book signing. "Anna sees ghosts. The spirits of her ancestors call to her from the shadows, and no matter where she is, Anna always answers. Kids in her middle school tease […]
Join us as we conclude the 2025 Concord Festival of Authors with celebrated author Cass Sunstein! Mr. Sunstein is author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler, 2008), Simpler: The Future of Government (2013), The Ethics of Influence (2015), #Republic (2017), […]
Do you like to read, write, or draw? Register here: https://forms.gle/zR1xWUgTsX9BHL1D9 for this year's Young Adult Author Symposium (YAAS)! Registration and all programming are free. This free festival is returning to Concord-Carlisle High School on Saturday, November 15, 2025 from 9am-2pm. You’ll get the chance to meet authors and illustrators, hear about how they created […]
Can Bicycling Be a Normal Mode of Travel in Concord? Here’s How. Mass cycling – meaning lots of people riding for everyday transportation – is critical to public health, climate, safety, and livability goals. Hundreds of kids riding to the high school and middle school; hundreds of commuters riding to the train station; thousands more […]