Liz Awalt Open Studio with proceeds benefiting Gaining Ground

Former Gaining Ground board member, Liz Awalt, is opening her Concord studio for only the second time in twenty years. A variety of work on paper, oil paintings, and cyanotypes will be available for sale, with half of the proceeds benefiting Gaining Ground. We hope you attend and find a piece of art to take […]

The Umbrella Stage Company Presents 42nd St- Final Performance

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

he grand opening production in our new space is a moment to celebrate, and 42nd STREET is nothing short of the greatest celebration of musical theatre and the people who make it happen. Aspiring chorus girl Peggy Sawyer comes to the big city from Allentown PA, and soon lands her first big job in the […]

Event Series 42nd Street @ The Umbrella

42nd Street @ The Umbrella

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

The Umbrella Stage Company — Greater Boston’s newest professional theater — looks forward to sharing an expanded, six-show season of bold, daring and innovative theater with you! From high-kicking spectacle to punk rock musical to socially urgent drama, this season will be the first to be staged in The Umbrella’s brand-new, state-of-the-art, multitheater performing arts […]

$19 – $49

Concord Festival of Authors: Keynote Speaker: Sigrid Nunez

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

Join Festival Keynote Speaker Sigrid Nunez for a discussion of her book The Friend, winner of the National Book Award. Sigrid Nunez has published seven novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, Salvation City, and, most recently, The Friend. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A […]

Free

The Concord Players Birthday Bash

Performing Arts Center 51 Walden St, Concord, MA, United States

The Concord Players Birthday Bash: To kick off its 100th anniversary season, the Players are throwing a birthday party featuring writer and entertainer Trav SD, who will present a program about the early days of stage entertainment. The cast of the fall show Funny Girl will perform, and birthday cake and champagne will be served […]

Bilingual (Spanish/English) Storytime (Main Library)

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

Join us at the Main Library for a new storytime! A 5 week bilingual (Spanish/English) Storytime and song will be held Mondays at 10 am in the Main Library. This is a great way for kids to be exposed to Spanish and English. The 5 week session will be repeated. 1st session: 10/7, 10/21,10/28, 11/4, […]

Concord Festival of Authors: Patricia Walsh Chadick, author of Little Sister: a Memoir

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

Imagine an eighteen-year-old American girl who has never read a newspaper, watched television, or made a phone call. An eighteen-year-old-girl who has never danced—and this in the 1960s. It is in Cambridge, Massachusetts where Leonard Feeney, a controversial (soon to be excommunicated) Catholic priest, founded a religious community called the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart […]

Free

Armchair Travel: Cruising the Balkan Peninsula from Bottom to Top

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Mark Hopkins documents a two-week trip that begins in Athens, Greece, and proceeds by small ship through the Gulf of Corinth and up the spectacular east coast of the Adriatic Sea, with stopovers in Greece, Albania, Montenegro, and Croatia. After 8 days at sea, the tour continues overland to the Croatian capital of Zagreb. A […]

Free

Earth Press Project: Witness Panel Discussion

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

Join us in the Umbrella Main Stage Theater for a panel discussing Nancy Milliken’s art installation, Earth Press Project: Witness, which aims to address the question, “What change would you like to witness on this earth?” Over the course of several months, Milliken collected thousands of one-word responses to the prompt and, with the help […]

Free

Concord Festival of Authors: Mindful Haiku Workshop

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

Join Pam Ressler of Stress Resources for a Mindful Haiku Workshop at the Concord Free Public Library. Explore techniques that allow you to enter the flow state as you craft haiku, a traditional form of Japanese poetry comprised of seventeen syllables that evoke nature or the seasons. This generative workshop will include mindful practices that […]

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