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October 2019
Works in Progress Writer’s Group Begins
Get started on that book or memoir that you have been thinking about for so long. Meet with like-minded women in a comfortable space and write. Boston area journalist, Nancy West will help you to get started. You are welcome to come for as many weeks as you'd like to but please register at http://www.suzanbaldoumas.com/upcoming/
Find out more »Crafty Storytime @ Main Library
Crafty Storytime (Main Library) Join us on Thursdays at the Main Library for a fun storytime. Stories, songs, a puppet show and a simple craft are planned for children age 2 - 2 1/2. LOCATION: Main Library
Find out more »Toddler Time @ Fowler
Join us for songs, stories, rhymes, and play. This interactive program is perfect for busy toddlers and will help develop the early literacy skills that your child needs.
Find out more »StoryArt: Children’s Book Illustration Exhibition
Eight Massachusetts children’s book illustrators share their work in StoryArt, an exhibition of original book illustration: Priscilla Alpaugh, Sarah S. Brannen, Shawn Fields, Wayne Geehan, Brian Lies, Julia Miner, Ilse Plume, and Nicole Tagdell. These award-winning illustrators each have found their own way to tell stories with their art, introducing children and adults to a magical world of art, history, science, nature, fantasy, and stories of all kinds. This is a rare opportunity to see book art up close, learn…
Find out more »Investment and Finance Club
Join Concord Carlisle High School senior, Miles Inman, for a fun interactive investment game and education program. For six weeks you'll use play money to invest in real companies... members compete to to see who gets the largest return on their investment. You'll discuss what's happening in the stock market and make sense of of DJIA, Nasdaq, Dow, NYSE, gold futures and bonds. No experience necessary to join in. Call the COA at 978-318-3020 to sign up.
Find out more »Concord Festival of Authors: Debut Authors Panel
Michelle Hoover, the 2019 CFA Debut Author emcee, introduces the Concord community to five literary stars from Grub Street’s Novel Incubator program, which she has led since its inception. Michelle is a 2014 NEA Fellow and has been a Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis and Bucknell Universities, a MacDowell Fellow, and a winner of the PEN/New England Discovery Award. Her debut, The Quickening, was a 2010 Massachusetts Book Award “Must Read.” Her latest novel, Bottomland, is the 2017 All Iowa Reads selection.…
Find out more »42nd Street Musical @ The Umbrella
The Umbrella Stage Company — Greater Boston’s newest professional theater — looks forward to sharing an expanded, six-show season of bold, daring and innovative theater with you! From high-kicking spectacle to punk rock musical to socially urgent drama, this season will be the first to be staged in The Umbrella’s brand-new, state-of-the-art, multitheater performing arts wing at 40 Stow Street in Concord, MA. The grand opening production in our new space is a moment to celebrate, and 42nd STREET is…
Find out more »Events @ The Old Manse
Home of Two Revolutions (11am,12pm,1pm,3pm) Creative Lives, Artistic Passion: Women of The Old Manse (2-2:45pm) Highlights of The Old Manse (11;30, 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30) Inside Out of the Old Manse (4-5pm) Check website for pricing and schedule
Find out more »Forest Bathing with Lara Wilson
This term is a translation of the Japanese, Shinrin-yoku, which means “taking in the forest atmosphere” by walking calmly in the woods to experience the restorative qualities of being in nature. We’ll traverse the paths of the Hapgood Wright Town Forest to the Old Growth Pine, where we’ll honor the majesty of one of the oldest white pines in Concord, stopping to sense the story it yearns to tell.
Find out more »Forest Bathing to Witness Change
Be Well Be Here mindfully collaborates with Concord’s Umbrella Center for the Arts to raise personal and environmental awareness through their 2019 Art Ramble: Witnessing Change! Please join us at the circle of benches in the Hapsgood Wright Forest to engage in the healing and sustaining practice of forest bathing. Known in Japan as shinrin-yoku, or taking in the forest atmosphere, this ancient practice of walking with calm intention to observe with mindful awareness offers great restorative benefits. FREE and…
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