The Concord Agriculture Committee's Spring Forum Event: Turning the Soil: The Dirt on Tillage and No-till A presentation by Sam Glaze-Corcoran from Umass Extension about what tillage is and a discussion with local farmers about what that means for Concord Farms. Wednesday April 26th from 7pm to 8:30pm at the Harvey Wheeler Center
Considerable attention has been paid to male furniture-makers and the glory of their work in museum collections like the Concord Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Women, too, served an important part in the furniture industry and the development of utilitarian and decorative forms. Join Alyce Perry Englund, Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts […]
In an evening of engaging music and conversation with the audience, two descendants of a Confederate enslaver, one Black and one white, share their story and discuss what it was like to discover each other’s deeply held feelings, pain, and hope. Presenting are folk singer and social activist Reggie Harris and longtime educator Wallis Wickham Raemer. […]
Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997 to 2000, joins us for a reading and conversation on writing, teaching, and poetry’s place in the world. It was said of Robert Pinsky in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, “No other living American poet—no other living American, probably—has done so much to […]
On Friday, May 19 at 7:30pm, in the Parish Hall, we will have a panel discussion titled Democracy: Its Value and for Whom? with four excellent speakers: ● Danielle Allen, Harvard professor and founder of Partners in Democracy ● Tania Vitvitsky, direct experience with the importance of democracy to Ukraine ● Tanisha Sullivan, President of […]
On Saturday, May 20, from 11:00am-2:00pm, First Parish in Concord will be hosting a non-partisan Democracy Festival. Our goal is to bring together people from all over to celebrate democracy, have fun, enjoy food from local restaurants Nosh and Comella’s, sing together, explore our artistry, meet local politicians, and learn about current issues facing our […]
What can Thoreau teach us about working? How can we make our work more meaningful? Professor John Kaag and Professor Robert A. Gross will discuss Kaag’s new book Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living — why we do it, what it does to us, and how to create more meaning in our work. […]
Kerem Shalom of Concord is delighted to have Professor Steve Whitfield present "Oppenheimer: The Movie & Man." Christopher Nolan’s 2023 biopic of “the father of the atomic bomb” raises the most harrowing questions about the formation of scientific genius and the exercise of military power. What the movie could not cover in more than three […]
Are you noticing the changing patterns in who is coming to our border? Are you involved in immigration issues, or are you curious? You are invited to a talk “Why are they coming? The multiple roots of migration today,” by Dr. Aviva Chomsky, Sunday, March 17 at 4:30 in the Parish Hall of First Parish […]
Prof. Shams will share her experiences and read her poetry. Question and Answer Period and Reception will follow. Shams currently serves as Associate Professor of Persian Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been living in exile since June 2009 and her lived experience has served as a springboard for her […]
