MARCH 31 - APRIL 23 Middleton Heights is a dark comedy that follows Meena and her Filipino family as they assimilate to life in a fictional Midwestern suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. The play traces historical events from 1967 to 2014 and the pursuit of the American Dream, refracted through the intersectional lens of the Asian […]
The Patriots' Day Parade goes forward rain, snow or muck and covers a route of approximately 2.5 miles. At the North Bridge a wreath-laying ceremony is held to commemorate the engagement between the Minuteman companies and British troops on April 19, 1775. The parade continues across the North Bridge and returns to Concord Center, with Dignitaries […]
Celebrate the start of the American Revolution by exploring artifacts in the Museum and then visiting our drop-in activities to learn about life and craft in the colonies. Visit a craftsperson in the Museum demonstrating various objects that were made of horn during the colonial period, including powder horns and everyday items like cups and […]
Visit the brave Acton Minutemen company in an encampment outside the Concord Museum on Patriots’ Day and see them drilling with muskets to prepare for battle, cooking over a firepit, and demonstrating colonial spinning and sewing. This program is free and open to the public thanks to the generosity of the Massachusetts Society of Cincinnati […]
2023 Earth Month Exhibition April 5 – 23, 2023 The Umbrella Arts Center Main Gallery Reflections: Listening to Nature Nature is full of reflections produced by light, water, and rocks. It is often the quality of light on a surface, of saturated color, or the whispers of a breeze that invite moments of personal reflection. […]
Explore the smells and tastes of the spices that make chai! Connect with these exotic spices and make your own chai blend to take home. Need a nature moment? Join us in experiencing the tranquility and spirit of nature. Get creative and curious while engaging the senses as we connect to & through nature. Enjoy […]
Living Alloy is an amalgam of two artists coming together in different mediums. Experienced metal worker Ray Ciemny repurposes found metal into inventive and edgy forms. Renowned Scottish artist John Mackechnie transforms scenes of American vintage cars in urban landscapes by combining his photography with painting and printmaking. Together they capture the essence of metal as utilitarian, yet beautiful. The […]
Enjoy reading books with a nature/environmentalism theme? Join NC’s monthly book club! Join us for the second selection in our Spring Reading Series. This month we will be meeting on Thursday, April 20th via Zoom (registration required to receive the link). We welcome people of all backgrounds and abilities to join. Whether or not you’ve […]
Diana Greenwald, Assistant Curator of the Collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and author of Painting By Numbers, joins us for a conversation on 19th century art production. Using new quantitative evidence on five hundred thousand works of art, she examines the extent to which art historians have focused on a limited – and […]
MARCH 31 - APRIL 23 Middleton Heights is a dark comedy that follows Meena and her Filipino family as they assimilate to life in a fictional Midwestern suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. The play traces historical events from 1967 to 2014 and the pursuit of the American Dream, refracted through the intersectional lens of the Asian […]
