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December 2019
Unite With Light Kits on sale
The Annual luminary night for the nonprofit organization: Unite With Light. Unite With Light is a nonprofit organization run for children, by children. We raise money for Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership and Cradles to Crayons. We raise money by selling luminary kits. At this time in our history, where it feels we are so divided, it is our goal to unite with a continuous line of luminary candles. The Luminary kits can be purchased at www.unitewithlight.org. More information can be…
Find out more »Holiday Book Sale!
Looking for holiday gifts at reasonable prices? Come to the Holiday Book Sale at the Concord Free Public Library! Thousands of gently used books in like-new condition, most for $2 or less, in all categories: fiction, non-fiction, cookbooks, art, photography, etc. Plus an entire room of children's books! Sale runs Friday and Saturday 9-4, Sunday 1-4, with new stock brought out regularly. All proceeds go to Friends of the Concord Free Public Library, to fund museum passes, movie nights, special…
Find out more »Winter Market at the Umbrella Arts
Join us for our 2019 Winter Market! Friday December 6, 1:00PM-7:00PM Saturday December 7, 11:00AM-5:00PM Sunday December 8, 11:00AM-5:00PM Celebrate the holidays with The Umbrella! For one weekend a year, The Umbrella transforms into a bustling marketplace with: 30+ Umbrella artists opening studios and selling their wares 28 guest fine art and craft vendors from the region Our annual small works gallery exhibition, Off the Wall Our Ceramics Program holiday sale featuring a wide variety of work from our students,…
Find out more »The Fete
Enjoy an elegant and festive winter wonderland evening at the newly renovated Concord Museum with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres to celebrate the 24th annual display of Family Trees: A Celebration of Children’s Literature. This year’s Fête is organized by the Concord Museum’s Guild of Volunteers Co-Chairs Michelle McArdle and Gail Hire and helps support the Museum’s educational initiatives. The Concord Museum welcomes over 14,000 students annually to participate in its unique hands-on history education programs. The object-based school programs taught…
Find out more »Poetry at the Old Manse
Gather at the Old Manse to hear poets from the New England Poetry Club read their work. Following the tradition of the Concord circle of authors like Emerson, Hawthorne, Alcott, and Fuller, the Old Manse will once again become a place of inspiration and shared work. Readers are posted about one month in advance, so check back often to see what local poets will be appearing next. This series takes place on the first Friday of each month. Poets are…
Find out more »101 Dalmations Kids
Based on the classic animated film, Disney 101 Dalmatians KIDS is a fur-raising adventure featuring Cruella De Vil, Disney’s most outrageous villain, and 101 of the most adorable heroes to set their paws onstage. Disney’s 101 Dalmation KIDS is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International.
Find out more »The Umbrella Stage Company Presents Tuck Everlasting
Based on the book by the same name which also inspired a 2002 Disney movie, this magical, musical adventure is fun for the whole family and a dazzling spectacle for our award-winning design teams. 11 year old Winnie Foster years for a life of adventure beyond her white picket fence when she stumbles upon the Tuck family and their secret to everlasting youth and faces the extraordinary choice of returning to her ordinary life or continue with the Tucks on…
Find out more »Gingerbread House Workshops
These popular workshops are fun for all ages! Farm stand bakers are on hand with decorating tips or just let your imagination take over! Cost $40.00 (plus tax) includes: assembled, undecorated gingerbread house on a 12" cardboard frosting (gingerbread and frosting made in the farm stand kitchen) candy for trim. Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. No cost for accompanying adult if they do not wish to build a house of their own. Please, only one adult…
Find out more »Concord Museum’s Holiday House Tour
Guests are welcomed inside the front doors of gracious private Concord residences to visit the charming ground floor rooms. From Colonial to Victorian to Shingle Style and more, each house will be decorated in a different holiday theme. The Concord Museum welcomes you to spend the day in Concord, a small town with a big history, and enjoy the elegant streets, charming cafés and shops, as well as the many historic homes. Organized by the Concord Museum Guild of Volunteers,…
Find out more »CYT’s Playtime Theater The Hungry Caterpillar
Spend Saturday mornings with Concord Youth Theatre’s PLAYTIME THEATER – a delightfully interactive theater experience! CYT actors will inspire you with new and improved versions of familiar children’s stories, complete with a sing-a-long! Outgoing audience members may even join the actors on stage to tell a joke or share a special talent. And everyone gets a prize at the end!!! So put on your performing hats and come play with us!!! Performances at CYT’s new home – 53 Church Street,…
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