A Carnival of the Animals with The Concord Band

Performing Arts Center 51 Walden St, Concord, MA, United States

The Concord Band will hold its Fall Concert at 8:00 pm on October 26, 2019 at the Performing Arts Center at 51 Walden Street in Concord. Music Director James O’Dell has chosen “Carnival of the Animals” for the theme to salute and perform music that features the animal kingdom — present and pre-historic. The Band […]

Free (donations gratefully accepted)

Concord-Carlisle Masters Swim Mini-Meet

Beede Center 498 Walden St, Concord, MA, United States

The 13th Annual Concord-Carlisle Masters Swim Mini-Meet will be held on Sunday, October 27, 2019 at the Beede Aquatic Center in Concord, MA. This Master Swim meet (recognized by NELMSC) is a fundraiser hosted by the Friends of Concord Carlisle High School Swimming and Diving Team to raise money to support the 2019-20 season. This […]

CFN Halloween Party

Concord Scout House 74 Walden St., Concord, MA, United States

Join us at the annual Concord Family Network Halloween Party! Events include: Halloween games and parade, face painting, pumpkin decorating, photo booth, silent auction, and more! Kids should come dressed in costume!

Dia de los Muertos Arts and Crafts

West Concord Village Commonwealth Ave, Concord, MA, United States

Learn about the Mexican Day of the Dead and decorate a sugar skull with colored icings and baubles, or/and paint in a sugar skull on a t-shirt, bag or apron. Bring your own t-shirt or buy one of ours. 20% of proceeds from t-shirt sales goes toward the Village Art Room's Art for All, art […]

$20

StoryArt: Children’s Book Illustration Exhibition: Monument Maker Interactive Talk

The Umbrella Community Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United States

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 […]

Big & Little Pumpkin Floral Arranging @ Craft.ed Studio

The Craft.Ed Creative Studio 44 Main St, Concord, MA, United States

Seats are limited for our first parent & child workshop where we will create a flower arrangement inside of a pumpkin - a big pumpkin for the parent/guardian/aunt/mom/dad/grandma or other adult and a little pumpkin for your favorite kiddo (ages 5 & up please). Betsy Gibson will lead this workshop @ craft.ed studio.

$2 – $75.00

Concord Festival of Authors: Short Story Master Peter Orner

Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United States

Called “a master of his form” by the New York Times, Peter Orner's insightful short stories invite readers into a radiant, authentic world that “shimmers with life,” according to Andrea Barrett. Peter’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, Granta, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, The Southern Review, Ploughshares and many other […]

Free

MCV Fifes & Drums Fall Concert

Performing Arts Center 51 Walden St, Concord, MA, United States

Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes & Drums (MCV) is pleased to present our first annual Fall concert of fife and drum music, to be held at 51 Walden Performing Arts Center in Concord, Massachusetts on Sunday, October 27, 2019 at 3:00 pm. The ensemble will perform a full afternoon of traditional and contemporary music composed or […]

$10 – $15

Concord Museum’s Sleepy Hollow-een Tour

Join us for this special Halloween event! Take a tour through historic Sleepy Hollow Cemetery with a Concord Museum guide. Learn about the lives and deaths of past Concordians through stories passed down through the generations. $5 Member | $10 Non-Member. Ticket includes same day admission to the Concord Museum. Advanced Registration Required.

Trunk or Treat!

Beede Center 498 Walden St, Concord, MA, United States

Our 5th annual Trunk or Treat will take place on Sunday, October 27th, 2019 in the Beede Center Parking Lot. Trunk-or-treat is a FREE Halloween community event where participants decorate a vehicle's trunk/tailgate and pass out candy as kids move from car to car. Trunk or treating allows kids to have all the trick or […]