Concord, MA

Birding By Ear with Jerry Berrier
2026-05-31 09:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Walden Pond Visitor Center, 915 Walden Street, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
Join us for a program at Walden Pond State Reservation designed to introduce people who are blind or have low vision to the joys of birding. We are pleased to welcome back veteran birder and Mass Audubon accessibility consultant Jerry Berrier to lead a free program along our ½ mile ADA compliant trail. Our target birds will include some of our charismatic forest dwellers like the piliated woodpecker, the eastern wood peewee, the red-eyed vireo, and the scarlet tanager to name a few.
Parking will be free for program participants. People taking The Ride or being dropped off can come to the Shop Parking lot. The address is 915 Walden Street, Concord MA 01742, and the event will take place on Sunday, May 31st from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. We will start with a short presentation about bird song at the Visitor Center, before we head out on the trail. This event requires registration. Participants and a guest can register by emailing walden.programs@mass.gov with the subject line: “Birding By Ear Sign Up.” After 25 registrants, there will be a waitlist. Preference will be given to the visually impaired and their guest. Reasonable accommodations provided upon request.

Opera 51
2026-06-05 20:00 - 22:00 | 51 Walden
Join us at 51 Walden for Verdi’s last opera as a major fund raiser for your community arts building. June 5 and 6 at 8 pm; June 7 at 2pm
Giuseppe Verdi’s final masterpiece, Falstaff (1893), is a three-act comic opera based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. It follows the aging, boastful knight, Sir John Falstaff, as he attempts to woo two wealthy women, Alice Ford and Meg Page, with identical love letters to secure their money. The clever wives discover the scheme and team up with Mistress Quickly and Nannetta, Alice Ford’s daughter, to subject Falstaff to a series of humiliating pranks.

Opera 51
2026-06-05 20:00 - 22:00 | 51 Walden
Join us at 51 Walden for three performances of Verdi’s last opera as a major fund raiser to support your community arts building in Concord. June 5 and 6 at 8pm; June 7 at 2pm.
Giuseppe Verdi’s final masterpiece, Falstaff (1893), is a three-act comic opera based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. It follows the aging, boastful knight, Sir John Falstaff, as he attempts to woo two wealthy women, Alice Ford and Meg Page, with identical love letters to secure their money. The clever wives discover the scheme and team up with Mistress Quickly and Nannetta, Alice Ford’s daughter, to subject Falstaff to a series of humiliating pranks.

Join us! 5K Walk in Their Shoes (our 6th Walk!) to support South African communities in need
2026-06-06 09:30 - 11:30 | MA
Bring your friends, family, kids and dogs to join us on the beautiful trails of Great Brook Farm in Carlisle. Hang out after to chat and enjoy refreshments on us. This fun 5K community walk, hosted by Concord non-profit Ubuntu Global Connections, supports hardworking South African charities that are working to improve the widespread inequities in education, employment, and poverty still challenging this country decades after Apartheid.
Walk with us and we can help create positive change together.

Charms and Cookies: A Sprinkle & Create and Crafted Together Experience
2026-06-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Hunt Recreation Center, 90 Stow St, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
Kick off summer with a one-of-a-kind creative experience!
In this special collaboration between Sprinkle & Create and Crafted Together, participants will enjoy a thoughtfully designed, hands-on workshop that blends cookie decorating with custom charm making.

Leading with Dignity Workshop Series
2026-06-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Harvey Wheeler Community Center, 1276 Main St, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
Leading with Dignity
WORKSHOP SERIES
at Harvey Wheeler Community Center
1276 Main Street, West Concord
Free and open to the public

Join internationally recognized dignity expert Donna Hicks for a three-session workshop introducing practical tools from the Dignity Model to improve relationships at home, at work and throughout the community.

Thursday, April 16 6:30-8:30pm

Thursday, May 14 6:30-8:30pm

Thursday, June 11 6:30-8:30pm

Curator Spotlight Talk: Revolutionary Legacies
2026-06-12 12:00 - 12:30, 2026-08-07 12:00 - 12:30 | Concord Museum
Join Curator and Director of Exhibitions Christie Jackson and Curator David Wood for a gallery talk in the new special exhibition Revolutionary Legacies.
Free with Museum admission. Members visit free.

Old Hill Burial Ground Walking Tour
2026-06-13 11:30 - 12:30, 2026-08-01 11:30 - 12:30 | Concord Museum
Tour Old Hill Burial Ground and learn about the Revolutionary War soldiers buried in Concord’s oldest cemetery. Visit the final resting place of some of the most well-known figures from April 19, 1775 including Emerson Cogswell, Colonel Barrett, and Captain David Brown. This tour includes about 1 mile of walking on hilly, unpaved terrain.
$15 Members | $25 Non-Members. Includes same-day admission to the Concord Museum.

Concord’s Black History | History Happy Hour
2026-06-18 18:30 - 20:00 | Concord Museum
Celebrate Juneteenth with an evening of wine, beer, and light refreshments in the Museum’s courtyard, followed by a guided tour of the galleries. Explore Concord’s rich Black and Abolitionist histories through powerful stories, images, and objects from the Museum’s collection.
Your ticket includes drinks outside in the courtyard before the tour, which begins at 7:15 pm.
Co-sponsored by The Robbins House.
$15 Members | $25 Non-Members

Juneteenth Family Performance
2026-06-19 10:00 - 23:00 | Concord Museum
Join us for a celebratory Juneteenth performance of the History of Hip Hop Dance from Arts for Learning Massachusetts. Tracing hip hop dance styles from the late 70’s through today, this acclaimed ensemble teaches positive messages, including “Think It—Do It—Become It.” The performance celebrates the art and movement of hip hop and includes a funky blend of locking, breaking, popping, tap and house dancing, vocal percussions, D.J.ing, and modern and traditional dance forms.
Free | Advance Registration Required

Antislavery Walking Tour
2026-06-19 11:00 - 12:30 | Concord Museum
Coinciding with the celebration of Juneteenth, join us for a walking tour introducing participants to the Concord women and men who played a crucial role in the abolitionist movement in the years leading up to the Civil War. This tour includes a significant amount (over 1.5 miles) of walking on hilly, unpaved terrain.
$15 Members | $25 Non-Members. Includes same-day admission to the Concord Museum.

From Concord and Lexington: New Perspective on the Revolution
2026-06-25 19:00 - 20:00 | Concord Museum
The Concord Museum, in partnership with Lexington History Museums, presents an engaging program highlighting new research and evolving interpretations from the communities at the center of the start of the American Revolution. This conversation brings together Curator David F. Wood, whose work Eyewitness to Revolution draws from the Concord Museum’s renowned collection; Paul O’Shaughnessy, President of Lexington History Museums whose institution recently published Revolutionary Stories; and historian and archaeologist Joel Bohy.
As part of the evening, the Concord Museum will present the Robert A. Gross Award for Advancing Concord’s History to Joel Bohy in recognition of his lifetime of work of researching April 19, 1775, that has deepened understanding and ability to accurately interpret this event for institutions like the Concord Museum and Lexington History Museum, and, in turn, the thousands of visitors and students we all serve.
In partnership with Lexington History Museums.
Members Free | $10 Non-Members | Free Virtual

Trivia Night in Concord
2026-07-02 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-08-06 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-09-03 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-10-01 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-11-05 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-12-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Concord’s Colonial Inn, 48 Monument Square, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
Looking for some fun!? Play our 6 fabulous rounds of original, brain-teasing trivia with no cover fee.
Enjoy The Colonial Inn’s full bar/apps/ dinner menu. So get your friends, neighbors, or co-workers together, make an unstoppable team (up to 6), and test your collective grasp on humanity!
Follow @tom_rutledge_presents for trivia dates, clues, and general important nonsense
Now every first Thursday of the Month!
• 7pm (pre-game)
• 7:30-9pm (game on)
• Concord’s Colonial Inn @concordscolonialinn

Fourth Of July Community Day
2026-07-04 10:00 - 16:00 | Concord Museum
Visitors can enjoy free admission to the Museum on the Fourth of July and enjoy special family activities and food trucks. Hear a gallery talk on with Museum staff on the Revolution and its legacy at 12pm.
Visitors will:
-Enjoy free admission to see the original Paul Revere lantern and dozens of objects that witnessed the founding of our nation,
-Explore the new special exhibition, Revolutionary Legacies,
-Listen in on a gallery talk with museum staff,
-Join fun family activities and enjoy food trucks.

Goodwin Band: Then Rain, Then Wind
2026-07-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Concord Museum
Goodwin will be performing their third studio release: “Then Rain, Then Wind.” Collaborating with poets across time and space, this album brings aged yet ever salient words to a new generation. Setting the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Rabindranath Tagore, Charles Baudelaire, Langston Hughes, and Li Qinghzhao to music, Goodwin has reached across the globe and through time to create a work that highlights the essential humanity that ties us all together. Join Michael, vocalist Emily Campagna, percussionist Yahuba Garcia, violinist Anne Preis, and cellist Celia Sieckert at the Concord Museum as they perform the album and discuss the unique process of bringing these songs to life
$15 Members | $25 Non-Members

Thoreau Gallery Talk
2026-07-10 12:00 - 12:30 | Concord Museum
Tour the heart of the Concord Museum’s collection of objects used and made by Henry David Thoreau in the galleries, which displays more Thoreau objects than have previously been on permanent display and learn about his life in Concord and two years at Walden Pond.
Free with Museum admission. Members visit free.

A Walk in Thoreau’s Concord
2026-07-11 11:00 - 12:30 | Concord Museum
Henry David Thoreau is known for the two years he spent living at Walden Pond. Did you know that he lived in other homes in Concord throughout his life? Take a tour of the domestic side of Thoreau’s wholly human life visiting the homes where he lived and hearing the stories told of him by family and friends.
$15 Members | $25 Non-Members. Includes same-day admission to the Concord Museum.

Revolutionary Legacies | History Happy Hour
2026-07-16 18:30 - 20:00 | Concord Museum
Celebrate the Museum’s special exhibition, Revolutionary Legacies, with a special guided tour following a festive happy hour of wine, beer, and light refreshments in the Museum’s courtyard. Reflect on the nation’s founding principles, their continuous reinterpretation over the past 250 years, and consider what they mean today through textiles, ceramics, and relics from the 19th century.
Your ticket includes drinks outside in the courtyard before the tour, which begins at 7:15 pm.
$15 Members | $25 Non-Members

Walt Whitman’s American Dream
2026-07-23 18:30 - 20:00 | Concord Museum
As the country celebrates its 250th Anniversary, enjoy a staged reading and discussion of the new play Walt Whitman’s American Dream by Sarah Vander Schaaff, directed by Brendon Fox, Artistic Director of the renowned Peterborough Players. A juicy biopic, the play stirs the bigger questions still at the heart of our experience; the ensemble of characters includes Concord’s own, Ralph Waldo Emerson. This is a rare chance to see this play as it makes its way across the country. In Partnership with Whitman Crossing and Peterborough Players.
Join us starting at 6:30pm for a reception outside in the courtyard before the performance. Drinks at the reception are included in the tickets.
$15 Members | $25 Non-Members

Summer Sidewalk Sale - Concord Center
2026-08-01 10:00 - 15:00 | Concord Center, Walden Street, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
Come down to Concord Center on August 1st, 10am-3pm. There will be live music on Main St (by the Visitor Center) and also down on Walden St.
There will be sales, shopping, food, and fun!

Concord’s Literary Lineage | History Happy Hour
2026-08-06 18:30 - 20:00 | Concord Museum
Join us for an evening of society to celebrate the illustrious literary and transcendentalist history of Concord. with wine, beer, and other beverages in the courtyard, followed by a tour of our singular Thoreau and Emerson collections.
Your ticket includes drinks outside in the courtyard before the tour, which begins at 7:15 pm.
Co-sponsored by The Thoreau Alliance.
$15 Members | $25 Non-Members

We Were Friends: To Bed/Eggs
2026-08-13 18:30 - 20:00 | Concord Museum
Award-winning Firelight Theatre Workshop presents We Were Friends: To Bed/Eggs, an episodic project of Firelight’s playful reimagining of Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s profound friendship set in today’s world. A late-night phone conversation between Ralph and Margaret takes the form of a radio play in which music, film, voice, and the hypnotic hum of a sleep apnea machine lead the two friends into territory both more intimate and less certain than any they’ve experienced in each other’s presence. This episode will be followed by a talkback with Firelight’s actors and writers.
$15 Members | $25 Non-Members

Staff Picks from the Collection | History Happy Hour
2026-08-20 18:30 - 20:00 | Concord Museum
Beat the heat with wine, ice-cold beer, and other beverages in our courtyard, followed by a specially curated tour of staff favorites from the Concord Museum’s collection. From beloved hidden gems to iconic highlights, discover what makes these pieces stand out through the eyes of those who know them best.
Your ticket includes drinks outside in the courtyard before the tour, which begins at 7:15 pm.
$15 Members | $25 Non-Members
