Community Chest Luncheon "Impact of the Pandemic on the Community" Wednesday, October 20, 2021 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Outdoors at Nashawtuc Country Club (Or “view only” from the comfort of your own home) Join us under the tent at the Nashawtuc Country Club for lunch and a conversation about the impact of the COVID-19 […]
CCHS PA Speaker Series Join us as We Reimagine Mental Health in Just 30 Minutes! Brain Health Bootcamp talk followed by Q&A, led by co-founders Bryce Bjork and Ting Gao. In February 2020, the Bjork family lost Chase Bjork, a beloved son, brother, and friend, to suicide. As a kind, outgoing, and active community member who was […]
In recognition of Filipino American Heritage Month, The Umbrella Stage Company will present a special program exploring the Filipino American Experience through the dramatic writing and production process as part of the 29th annual 2021 Concord Festival of Authors. On October 30 at 8PM, join an interactive discussion with playwright Hortense Gerardo, director Michelle Aguillon, […]
Ann Sussman will talk about about her new book Cognitive Architecture, 2nd edition, (2021) co-authored with Justin B Hollander, which reveals the technologies, including eye tracking, that show how subliminal human behaviors direct our experience of the built environment more than most realize. The book explains how new understandings in psychology reframe the history of […]
Please consider joining us this Friday, January 21st at 6:30 pm on Zoom, for a live character portrayal and video depicting how MLK’s “Poor Peoples Campaign” was a turning point in intersectional advocacy. Our keynote speaker is Ron Jones, an Emmy Award winner and Executive Director/Artistic Principal of Dialogues on Diversity (https://www.dialoguesondiversity.com). Please click here […]
Do you ever wonder what your animal is thinking and feeling? Jeannie Lindheim, author of Loving Animals: Conversations with an Animal Communicator will discuss how animal communication works and techniques she uses. She will tell some touching stories and share some techniques that you can use with your animals. There will also be time for […]
Join Mass Climate Action Network (MCAN) Executive Director Sarah Dooling to learn about how buildings can be a core part of equitable decarbonization. Come hear updates on the net zero stretch code currently being developed by the state and the value that home rule petitions are bringing to this process. Clean Energy Director Logan Malik […]
Braiding the wild, the spiritual, and the human into poems and meditations, Chrissa Ventrelle focuses on the soothing wisdom of nature and the gift of togetherness in her second collection, What Nature Knows: Poems & Meditations. She is joined by artist Hillary Waters Fayle who provided the artwork for the volume. The two share a conversation […]
To research books, films and articles, Sy Montgomery has been chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Zaire and bitten by a vampire bat in Costa Rica, worked in a pit crawling with 18,000 snakes in Manitoba and handled a wild tarantula in French Guiana. She has been deftly undressed by an orangutan in Borneo, […]
Professor Kerry Emanuel has focused his research on hurricane physics and was the first to investigate how long-term climate change might affect hurricane activity. He is co-director of MIT's Lorenz Center, a climate think tank devoted to basic, curiosity-driven climate research. He is the author of three books including What We Know About Climate Change, […]
