Umbrella Arts Earth Month Exhibition: “Reflections: Listening to Nature”
Umbrella Arts 40 Stow Street, ConcordWeek of Events
Patriots’ Day!
Patriots’ Day!
The Patriots' Day Parade goes forward rain, snow or muck and covers a route of approximately 2.5 miles. At the North Bridge a wreath-laying ceremony is held to commemorate the engagement between the Minuteman companies and British troops on April 19, 1775. The parade continues across the North Bridge and returns to Concord Center, with Dignitaries […]
Please provide input on the NMI/Starmet Report
Please provide input on the NMI/Starmet Report
The NMI / Starmet Reuse Planning Committee has created a draft report and is asking for the community to read the report and provide input by visiting Click here
Umbrella Arts Earth Month Exhibition: “Reflections: Listening to Nature”
Umbrella Arts Earth Month Exhibition: “Reflections: Listening to Nature”
2023 Earth Month Exhibition April 5 – 23, 2023 The Umbrella Arts Center Main Gallery Reflections: Listening to Nature Nature is full of reflections produced by light, water, and rocks. It is often the quality of light on a surface, of saturated color, or the whispers of a breeze that invite moments of personal reflection. […]
Three Stones Gallery: “Living Alloy” Exhibit
Three Stones Gallery: “Living Alloy” Exhibit
Living Alloy is an amalgam of two artists coming together in different mediums. Experienced metal worker Ray Ciemny repurposes found metal into inventive and edgy forms. Renowned Scottish artist John Mackechnie transforms scenes of American vintage cars in urban landscapes by combining his photography with painting and printmaking. Together they capture the essence of metal as utilitarian, yet beautiful. The […]
Please provide input on the NMI/Starmet Report
Please provide input on the NMI/Starmet Report
The NMI / Starmet Reuse Planning Committee has created a draft report and is asking for the community to read the report and provide input by visiting Click here
Talk By the Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies at First Parish in Concord
Talk By the Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies at First Parish in Concord
The Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies Award honors a distingquished advocate for peace, noted humanitarian or faith leader. The 2023 Scholar, Ms. Dayani Barla, will speak at First Parish in Concord about her work. Her activism is located at the intersection s of environmental justice, gender justice and indigenous people's right to self-determination. Her struggle […]
Middleton Heights
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 […]
Patriots Day Free Family Activities at the Concord Museum
Patriots Day Free Family Activities at the Concord Museum
Celebrate the start of the American Revolution by exploring artifacts in the Museum and then visiting our drop-in activities to learn about life and craft in the colonies. Visit a craftsperson in the Museum demonstrating various objects that were made of horn during the colonial period, including powder horns and everyday items like cups and […]
Patriots’ Day Minuteman Encampment
Patriots’ Day Minuteman Encampment
Visit the brave Acton Minutemen company in an encampment outside the Concord Museum on Patriots’ Day and see them drilling with muskets to prepare for battle, cooking over a firepit, and demonstrating colonial spinning and sewing. This program is free and open to the public thanks to the generosity of the Massachusetts Society of Cincinnati […]
Open Mic Night @ Main Street Cafe
Open Mic Night @ Main Street Cafe
Live Music while you Dine & Drinkwith Friends & Family, Locals & Tourists Reservations available for Dinner Customers. PLEASE only book tables if your party is ordering dinner entrees. We are a restaurant offering music entertainment while you dine & drink. Main Streets accepts Dinner Reservations for customers ordering dinner entrees (please respect that as we […]
Chai Spices Exploration
Chai Spices Exploration
Explore the smells and tastes of the spices that make chai! Connect with these exotic spices and make your own chai blend to take home. Need a nature moment? Join us in experiencing the tranquility and spirit of nature. Get creative and curious while engaging the senses as we connect to & through nature. Enjoy […]
Live Music @ Main Street Cafe
Live Music @ Main Street Cafe
Live Music while you Dine & Drinkwith Friends & Family, Locals & Tourists Reservations available for Dinner Customers. PLEASE only book tables if your party is ordering dinner entrees. We are a restaurant offering music entertainment while you dine & drink. Main Streets accepts Dinner Reservations for customers ordering dinner entrees (please respect that as we […]
Virtual Nature Book Club – April 2023
Virtual Nature Book Club – April 2023
Enjoy reading books with a nature/environmentalism theme? Join NC’s monthly book club! Join us for the second selection in our Spring Reading Series. This month we will be meeting on Thursday, April 20th via Zoom (registration required to receive the link). We welcome people of all backgrounds and abilities to join. Whether or not you’ve […]
Painting By Numbers: A Conversation with Diana Greenwald and Paris Amanda Spies-Gans
Painting By Numbers: A Conversation with Diana Greenwald and Paris Amanda Spies-Gans
Diana Greenwald, Assistant Curator of the Collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and author of Painting By Numbers, joins us for a conversation on 19th century art production. Using new quantitative evidence on five hundred thousand works of art, she examines the extent to which art historians have focused on a limited – and […]
Live Music @ Main Street Cafe
Live Music @ Main Street Cafe
Live Music while you Dine & Drinkwith Friends & Family, Locals & Tourists Reservations available for Dinner Customers. PLEASE only book tables if your party is ordering dinner entrees. We are a restaurant offering music entertainment while you dine & drink. Main Streets accepts Dinner Reservations for customers ordering dinner entrees (please respect that as we […]
Middleton Heights
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 […]
In Person: Watercolor Painting from Photographs
In Person: Watercolor Painting from Photographs
Overview of watercolor for all levels of artists A discussion of materials (paper, paint, brushes), composition and drawing, the three basic paint washes, the importance of values, color mixing strategies, masking, dry brush, and all sorts of tips and specialty textural techniques. While a variety of painting styles and approaches are discussed and encouraged, the […]
In Person: Print, Wax, Poke and Stitch; Stepping into Translucency
In Person: Print, Wax, Poke and Stitch; Stepping into Translucency
All Levels Welcome Prints on Japanese paper that are waxed with melted beeswax become strong, translucent, flexible surfaces that welcome techniques like stitching, piercing, and sewing. These prints can be used on their own or combined with other printed elements to invigorate surface and pattern in unique ways. The prints can also be sewn together […]
CCHS Girls LAX Varsity Game
CCHS Girls Softball Varsity Game
Friday Wine Tastings
Friday Wine Tastings
Each Friday we're tasting wine from all over the world. We'll be opening all sorts of bottles from our wine department, and special wines meant just for that particular tasting. Each week will be very unique and it will help answer and explore what makes wine just so darn good!
Live Music @ Main Street Cafe
Live Music @ Main Street Cafe
Live Music while you Dine & Drinkwith Friends & Family, Locals & Tourists Reservations available for Dinner Customers. PLEASE only book tables if your party is ordering dinner entrees. We are a restaurant offering music entertainment while you dine & drink. Main Streets accepts Dinner Reservations for customers ordering dinner entrees (please respect that as we […]
Middleton Heights
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 […]
2023 Earth Day Celebration
2023 Earth Day Celebration
Earth Day Celebration Saturday, April 22 | 10am - 12:30pm The Umbrella Arts Center | 40 Stow Street, Concord We welcome the community to join us for a creative, family-friendly celebration of Earth Day at The Umbrella! Build and launch an Earth Float, enjoy a storytelling performance, partake in arts & crafts, and complete the […]
Earth Day Book & Bake Sale @ WCUC (11 – 4 pm)
Earth Day Book & Bake Sale @ WCUC (11 – 4 pm)
Books! Homemade Treats! West Concord Union Church invites you to a special Earth Day Book and Bake Sale to help support its efforts to replace a failing fossil-fueled oil heat system with an efficient low CO2 air-source heat-pump system that will slash its greenhouse gas emissions from 65 metric tons a year to virtually zero […]
CCHS Girls LAX Varsity Game
Live Music @ Main Street Cafe
Live Music @ Main Street Cafe
Live Music while you Dine & Drinkwith Friends & Family, Locals & Tourists Reservations available for Dinner Customers. PLEASE only book tables if your party is ordering dinner entrees. We are a restaurant offering music entertainment while you dine & drink. Main Streets accepts Dinner Reservations for customers ordering dinner entrees (please respect that as we […]
“Beyond the Notes” performing at First Parish!
“Beyond the Notes” performing at First Parish!
Don't miss Beyond the Notes performance at First Parish Church on April 22! Did you know Sarah Whitney, Violinist with Beyond the Notes, was born & raised in Concord, and went to CCHS? What is Beyond the Notes? Beyond the Notes is a unique and interactive concert experience that gives the audience a chance to […]
Middleton Heights
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 […]