Connected Youth: Loneliness in Children and Adolescents ~ Sponsored by the Auxiliary and Corporators of Emerson Hospital

Online Concord, MA, United States

Connected Youth: Loneliness in Children and Adolescents - The importance of connection and belonging for healthy bodies and minds This is a virtual event of the Connect Effect series. Registration is required. Conference details will be sent to registrants. Childhood and adolescence can be a time of creating healthy social connections. What happens when barriers […]

Free

CCACE launches Wednesday night Speaker Series!

CCHS Concord, MA, United States

With cold weather ahead and the pandemic keeping us inside, what better way to spend your time than learning something new?? Every Wednesday evening from January 13 through March 31, different community members will share their passions and knowledge, from historical to cultural, education to entertainment, and everything in between. Each week is a different […]

$10

Music & Medicine

Concord Conservatory of Music 1317 Main St, Concord, MA, United States

Explore the intersection of music and medicine and delight in a chamber music concert performed by the talented Concord Conservatory of Music faculty. Join us on Friday, November 12 at 7:30 for Music & Medicine. The evening will feature a conversation between Dr. Lisa Wong, a physician, author, and musician, and Geoff Edgers of The […]

$25

Artist-in-Residence Talk with Sally Lee at The Umbrella

Umbrella Arts 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA, United States

Sally Lee, The Umbrella 2021-2022 Artist-in-Residence, is a Boston-based installation artist from Arkansas. Lee works in many mediums such as ceramics, painting, sculpture, textiles, and many more. Her art practice has served has a mechanism to navigate her place in the world as a first-generation immigrant. These experiences inform Sally on how to create conceptual […]

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Mindfulness in Art with Concord Museum

Concord Museum

We are delighted to Be collaborating with the Concord Museum and Mass Audubon to bring you two exciting new in-person mindful wellness program in Concord, MA on June 16 and 24! This two-part mindfulness program begins with a guided mindfulness session in the special exhibition Alive with Birds: William Brewster in Concord at the Concord […]

$15

World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down — A Reading/Author Talk by Christian McEwen

Thoreau Farm 341 Virginia Road, Concord, MA, United States

Over the course of ten years training teachers to write their own poems in order to pass the craft along to students, McEwen realized that nothing comes easily when life is conducted at a high rate of speed. She draws not only on personal experience, but on readings ranging from literary anecdote and poetry to […]

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Chasing Eden: An Author Talk with Howard Mansfield

Thoreau Farm 341 Virginia Road, Concord, MA, United States

In this talk, Howard Mansfield shares his latest book, CHASING EDEN, and his writing process. Chasing Eden is about the seekers all around us, about Americans seeking their Promised Land, their utopia out on the horizon — which by definition, is ever receding before us. In Chasing Eden, Mansfield introduces us to a gathering of […]

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Earth, Sea, Sky Opening Reception

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

Jan 8 - Feb 12, 2023 Opening Reception - January 12, 5-7PM Landscape and seascape have been an inspiration for artists since the first artists tried to represent the world around them. In Earth, Sea, Sky, Suzanne Hill, Liz Newell and Barbara Willis present unique visions of landscapes in clay and fiber arts.

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Concord from Above the Trees: Copter Ecology Views with Richard T. T. Forman

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

Where does Walden Pond's water come from and flow to? How many intriguing habitats are around Egg Rock? Are spotted sandpipers scarce on the Assabet River? Does Spencer Brook migrate? Is there wild rice in the area named for John Quincy Adams? A different Concord comes alive with this presentation by Richard T. T. Forman, […]

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Blight: Author Emily Monosson in Conversation with Brent Ranalli

Thoreau Farm 341 Virginia Road, Concord, MA, United States

Emily Monosson’s book "Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic" is a prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi—and how to avert further loss across species, including our own. Fungi are everywhere. Most are harmless; some are helpful. A few are killers. Collectively, infectious fungi are the most devastating agents of disease on […]

$10