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 […]

Concord Festival of Authors: Writing Across Culture

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

Join celebrated author Marjan Kamali for this intimate look at writing across culture. Born in Turkey to Iranian parents, Marjan spent her childhood in Kenya, Germany, Turkey, Iran before moving to the United States. She studied English Literature at UC Berkeley and received her MBA from Columbia University and her MFA from New York University. […]

Free

Armchair Travel: The Northern Triangle

CCHS 500 Walden St, Concord, MA, United States

What is the Northern Triangle? This new term refers to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras in northern Central America. These are picturesque paradises with volcano-rimmed lakes, colonial cities, Mayan ruins and talented people.

Free

“What We Know About Teen Vaping of Today: THC, CBD, Nicotine”

CCHS 500 Walden St, Concord, MA, United States

The Center for Parents and Teachers, in collaboration with the Boards of Health from Concord, Carlisle and Bedford, invite parents/grandparents to a free program on “What We Know About Teen Vaping of Today:  THC, CBD, Nicotine” When: Monday October 28, 7 to 8:30 PM Where: Concord-Carlisle High School, 500 Walden Street, Concord. To learn more and to […]

Bicentenary Celebration of the Birth of the Bab

Concord Museum

October 28th marks the 200th anniversary of the Birth of the Bab, the forerunner of Baha’u’llah, founder of the Baha'i Faith. Born in what is now Iran 200 years ago, The Bab announced the coming of Baha'u'llah and challenged the society of the time. Indeed, The Bab introduced radical social laws, such as the equality […]

Free