” Unlauch’d Voices ” – an Evening with Walt Whitman as Portrayed by Stephen Collins

Harvey Wheeler Community Center 1276 Main St, Concord, MA, United States

Stephen Collins returns to the COA with his one-man show "Unlaunch'd Voices" - an Evening with Walt Whitman. The show opens as the elderly Whitman celebrates his 70th birthday... he begins to reminisce and to question his success as a man and a poet. Whitman transforms into his younger self and we learn the story […]

Free

Friday Flicks @ Fowler: Celebrating Germany Through Film

Fowler Library 1322 Main Street, Concord, MA, United States

January 17, 7:00 p.m. THE COUNTERFEITERS (Austria/Germany 2007) Academy Award winner for best foreign language film based on a memoir written by Adolf Burger about the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Nazi Germany during WWII. Written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. German/English subtitles. 98 min. R

Reception for A Change in Atmosphere at The Umbrella Arts Gallery

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

A Change in Atmosphere January 9 - February 16 2020 A group show celebrating contemporary atmospheric firing of New England juried by Trevor Youngberg Reception: Saturday January 18, 1:00-3:00PM A Change in Atmosphere is a juried, group show representing works that have been fired with Wood, Salt, Soda, Pit, Sagger, or Raku processes. The art […]

Author Talk with Anne Boyd Rioux at CFPL

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

Join us to hear author and professor Anne Boyd Rioux discuss the challenges of adapting the novel Little Women and how each era produces its own Little Women, from the first adaption for the Broadway stage to Greta Gerwig's 2019 film. Anne Boyd Rioux is the author or editor of six books about American women […]

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Local author Jennifer Kelly presents “Stone Skimmers”

Concord Bookshop 65 Main St, Concord, MA, United States

Please join us on Sunday, January 19 at 3pm when Concord resident Jennifer Kelly presents her collection of short fiction, Stone Skimmers. Jennifer Wisner Kelly grew up in Connecticut, where most of the stories in Stone Skimmers are set. Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Greensboro Review, Massachusetts Review, and Beloit Fiction Journal. […]

Martin Luther King Jr. Day Open Hours

The Old Manse Monument Street, Concord, MA, United States

Meet the minister who sparked a revolution, his grandson that inspired the transcendental movement, and artists, musicians, and scientists who all called the Old Manse home during this house tour. From the American Revolution of 1775 through the literary revolution of the mid-19th century, you'll discover why the Old Manse is home is home to […]

Concord Museum’s A Tribute to filmmaker Jenny Phillips

Concord Museum

Jenny Phillips, a longtime resident of Concord, was an award-winning filmmaker who produced several documentaries focused on prisons and criminal justice reform. This forum will include clips from Jenny’s films and a conversation with those who knew her and the genesis of her work including her husband, Frank Phillips; her filmmaking partner, Bestor Cram; Di […]