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April 2023
Online: Botanical Notebook: Buds + Blooms in Watercolor
When April springs, you won’t want to miss this workshop devoted to early buds and blooms! Working from live plants and photos, Helen’s live demos and feedback will guide you in the delights of making detailed botanical studies in watercolor. (What’s your fancy—magnolia, pasque flower, apple blossom…?) We will practice sketching flower parts for accuracy, painting in layers using wet-in-wet and dry-brush techniques. All levels welcome. APRIL 1 & 2
Find out more »Massachusetts Historical Society Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize Ceremony for Robert A. Gross
Join us at the Concord Museum for the ceremony of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s 2022 Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize awarded to Robert A. Gross for his book The Transcendentalists and Their World, published in 2021 by Macmillan Publishers. The Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize is given to the best nonfiction work on the history of Massachusetts published during the preceding year. The ceremony at the Concord Museum will feature Robert A. Gross in conversation with Dennis Fiori,…
Find out more »The Okee Dokee Brothers, A Family Concert
Grammy-Award Winners The Okee Dokee Brothers Family Concert Saturday, April 1, 2023 at 2:00 pm Purchase Tickets in advance or payable at the door for this event. ($25 General Admission, Free for babies one-year old and younger held in an adult’s lap). This concert will be held at the Acton Boxborough Regional High School, 36 Charter Road in Acton. The inspirational and infectious Grammy-Award-winning Okee Dokee Brothers are coming back to Concord to play their high-quality, family-friendly acoustic music—songs that…
Find out more »Artrageous Gala & Auction
The 2023 Artrageous Gala will be an extraordinary celebration - a Ruby Jubilee! - to mark The Umbrella’s 40th Season. RESERVE YOUR SPONSORSHIP If you are unable to sponsor the Gala, but would still like to make a gift, please click here. VIEW AND BID IN THE 2023 ARTRAGEOUS AUCTION NOW HIGHLIGHTS The presentation of this year’s Elizabeth Cochary Gross Stewardship of the Arts Award to recipient Kristin Canty Celebratory dinner personally designed by celebrity Chef Allen Campbell, a leader in sports nutrition…
Find out more »EmerSong 5th Annual A Cappella Festival
The Auxiliary of Emerson Health is proud to announce the return of our EmerSong A Cappella Festival! Gather your family and friends and buy your tickets today for this popular community event. Proceeds support inpatient and outpatient Behavioral Health Services at Emerson Health. Seating is limited; all tables can seat up to 4 people. Thank you for supporting the Auxiliary's mission of Enhancing the Patient Experience.
Find out more »The Homes of Henry David Thoreau – A Special Exhibition at Thoreau Farm
Visit Thoreau Farm to get a close look at fifteen historically-accurate, pen-and-ink renderings documenting the houses and landscapes Thoreau called home in the nineteenth century. See places that Henry lived and consider how each home was part of his journey. This exhibit features fifteen historically-accurate, pen-and-ink renderings documenting the houses and landscapes Thoreau called home in the nineteenth century. Several images from this group were featured in the Summer 2022 issue of Discover Concord but the exhibit at Thoreau Farm…
Find out more »Poetry at the Library Series presents Anna VQ Ross and Jason Tandon
Join us for an in-person afternoon with award-winning poets Anna VQ Ross and Jason Tandon who will read and engage in a Q & A about their inspirations and craft. Anna VQ Ross reads from her most recent poetry collection Flutter, Kick (Red Hen Press: November, 2022 and winner of the 2020 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award), for which poet and Award Judge Jeffrey Harrison wrote, “ Ross focuses her sharp description, taut lyricism, and vigilant gaze at the world around…
Find out more »Middleton Heights
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 American Pacific Islander immigrant experience. Middleton Heights is a raw, loving, laugh-out-loud story of an immigrant family and their pursuit of the American dream.
Find out more »Bill McKibben speaks on Climate Change, Migration and Racism
Author and activist Bill McKibben will speak in person in the Concord-Carlisle High School auditorim. Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, is a leader of the climate campaign group 350.org, and the founder of the Third Act. He has authored a dozen books about the state of the environmental challenges facing humanity and future prospects. We think his talk will be of great interest to the community. This event is sponsored by the First Parish Concord…
Find out more »The Homes of Henry David Thoreau – A Special Exhibition at Thoreau Farm
Visit Thoreau Farm to get a close look at fifteen historically-accurate, pen-and-ink renderings documenting the houses and landscapes Thoreau called home in the nineteenth century. See places that Henry lived and consider how each home was part of his journey. This exhibit features fifteen historically-accurate, pen-and-ink renderings documenting the houses and landscapes Thoreau called home in the nineteenth century. Several images from this group were featured in the Summer 2022 issue of Discover Concord but the exhibit at Thoreau Farm…
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