Join acclaimed poets Andrea Cohen and Fady Joudah reading from recent work and talking about their practice. Register for the Zoom link.

Are you looking for extra enrichment for your children while they are home from school due to the pandemic? Too many screens? Gather some of their friends and sign up for a child-friendly, engaging historic tour of Concord. The Concord Visitor Center is excited to offer children and families this exciting and fun opportunity to […]

“I haven’t a man who is afraid to go!” The Acton Minutemen mustered and marched to the North Bridge on the morning of April 19, 1775 where, under the leadership of Captain Isaac Davis, were first in line of 450 Provincials who advanced on the British Regulars. Both Provincials who died at the North Bridge […]

Led by a trained Museum educator, take the short walk from the Wright Tavern to the North Bridge. Learn about the events leading up to April 19th and the first battle of the American Revolution. Discover the stories behind the monuments at the Bridge and the center of town. 1-mile walk, mostly flat terrain, rain […]

Join Leslie Perrin Wilson, the former curator of the Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library, for a discussion of her new book This is the Life: The Diary of Jennie McLeod. This is the Life concerns daily life in Clinton by a woman who lived in the house where Wilson now lives. Wilson […]

Are you looking for extra enrichment for your children while they are home from school due to the pandemic? Too many screens? Gather some of their friends and sign up for a child-friendly, engaging historic tour of Concord. The Concord Visitor Center is excited to offer children and families this exciting and fun opportunity to […]

Anke Voss, Curator, William Munroe Special Collections, at the Concord Free Public Library, will present an overview of Special Collections. Through photos and documents, she will highlight events in Concord in 1875 to mark the centennial of the fight at the North Bridge. This was a high point in Concord's ceremonial life. Unveiled for the […]

The Concord Free Public Library will host a free Zoom presentation to help families understand how COVID-19 is changing the college admissions landscape on Tuesday, April 20 at 7:00 pm. The college admissions process is undergoing significant and lasting changes as many colleges and universities have gone test optional for this current admissions cycle and […]

In this one day virtual workshop students will learn the basics of weaving. Materials provided in a kit to be picked up at The Umbrella - small loom, yarn, plastic needle. Pick up date April 20. Materials needed from home - scissors

Join an ICA educator to learn about the ICA’s nearly 85-year history in Boston, including its ongoing commitment to a wide range of contemporary visual and performing arts, the opening of its visionary Diller Scofidio + Renfro building on Boston’s waterfront in 2006, and the introduction of a satellite location in East Boston – The […]

Join Tatiana Schlossberg, former New York Times journalist, as she discusses her book, Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have, about the unseen environmental and climate impacts of the Internet, technology, food, fashion and fuel, which recently won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award in 2020. Please join us for this virtual […]

Join an ICA educator to learn about the ICA’s nearly 85-year history in Boston, including its ongoing commitment to a wide range of contemporary visual and performing arts, the opening of its visionary Diller Scofidio + Renfro building on Boston’s waterfront in 2006, and the introduction of a satellite location in East Boston – The […]

Are you looking for extra enrichment for your children while they are home from school due to the pandemic? Too many screens? Gather some of their friends and sign up for a child-friendly, engaging historic tour of Concord. The Concord Visitor Center is excited to offer children and families this exciting and fun opportunity to […]

Participate in drop-in activities outside in the Museum’s courtyard inspired by the Revolution. Try your hand at using a feather quill and ink to write like a revolutionary; make and decorate your own tricorne hat; and play colonial games! Activities are free with Museum admission; Members visit free. Museum Hours: 10am-4pm Activity Hours: 10:30am-3pm

Asthma is a condition in which your airways narrow and swell, and you may also produce extra mucus which can make breathing difficult. There are many factors that can trigger asthma. Please join Geriatric Health Nurse Valerie Boggia on Thursday, April 22nd at 1:00 PM on Zoom for a Listen & Learn session on asthma. […]

Mindfulness is proven to have a positive impact on stress and anxiety. The purpose of the course is to develop a personal practice that will result in your staying in the present moment, and help you to be calmer and more relaxed. Ed LeClair, a Concord resident, has been a meditator and teacher for 30 […]

Join us as we welcome back some of The Umbrella Stage Company's favorite alumni for a virtual mini-concert. Performing from their own homes, these familiar faces will sing a few songs and tell a few stories, and our stage community will catch up with each other via Zoom. Featuring Billy Luce, Jr., Mike Chateauneuf, and […]

Join Be Well Be Here as we honor Earth and our place on it! This meaningful 3-part series celebrates earth’s beauty through mindful wellBEing practices that explore our connection to nature. All offerings led by BWBH founder and executive director, Lara Wilson, MA, GCMS. Earth Day Wonder - experience easy meditation for restful sleep Thursday, […]

Join Be Well Be Here as we honor Earth and our place on it! This meaningful 3-part series celebrates earth’s beauty through mindful wellBEing practices that explore our connection to nature. All offerings led by BWBH founder and executive director, Lara Wilson, MA, GCMS. Earth Day Wonder - experience easy meditation for restful sleep Thursday, […]

Listen along to a reading of the famous poem “Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride” and see the famed one if by land, two if by sea lantern that was hung to signal Revere and the other riders. Create a decorative pattern on your own lantern that shines as bright as Paul Revere’s signal. Advanced registration required […]

Complimentary Lecture Presented Online by CCM Faculty Member Greta Feeney on Friday, April 23, 7:00 - 8:00 pm This music appreciation workshop is an exploration of the music of 11th century Catholic scholar, theologian, composer, natural scientist, mystic and polyglot Hildegard of Bingen. Examples of Hildegard's sacred chant containing a variant of the word 'viriditas', […]

Join Be Well Be Here as we honor Earth and our place on it! This meaningful 3-part series celebrates earth’s beauty through mindful wellBEing practices that explore our connection to nature. All offerings led by BWBH founder and executive director, Lara Wilson, MA, GCMS. Earth Day Wonder - experience easy meditation for restful sleep Thursday, […]

Our scaled-down, 31st annual Musketaquid Earth Day Celebration continues our most valuable traditions like outdoors workshops on the lawn of The Umbrella building Earth Floats of natural materials. While crafting under the guidance of art teacher Abby Cramer, participants will be serenaded by live performers, Voices on the Air, celebrating the beauty of air and […]

Spring is a wonderful time to look and listen for birds arriving. Red-winged Blackbirds are among the first of our feathered friends to return to their nesting grounds in the spring. In this class, we will draw a male and female Red-winged Blackbird and learn a bit about their migration, nesting habits, and where to […]