Lantern Making at the West Concord Union Church
West Concord Union Church 1317 Main St, Concord- No events scheduled for September 23, 2024.
Fall Wednesday Toddler/Preschool Arts at The Umbrella Begins!
The Umbrella Community Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord“Network” at the Umbrella! – Enjoy special 10% discount offered to Living Concord Readers!
The Umbrella Community Arts Center 40 Stow St., ConcordScreening of Three Independent Films about Arabic Culture at Concord Library
Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord“Network” at the Umbrella! LivingConcord Readers – special 10% off this next week!
The Umbrella Community Arts Center 40 Stow St., ConcordWeek of Events
Kicks for Cancer Week 2024
Kicks for Cancer Week 2024
One Community - One Goal Every September, the Lois Wells Memorial Kicks for Cancer event brings together local high school soccer teams to compete at Concord-Carlisle High School. On September 28, thirty-two soccer teams will take the field with jerseys bearing a loved one’s name on the back. The day now widely known as “Kicks” anchors what has […]
Registration now open for Quilts 250: Stitching in the Spirit of Democracy
Registration now open for Quilts 250: Stitching in the Spirit of Democracy
The Show Quilts 250: Stitching in the Spirit of Democracy is a free, public quilt show organized in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolutionary events of April 19, 1775 along Battle Road in Lincoln, Concord, Lexington, and Arlington, Massachusetts. Showcasing the creative energy of quilters near and far, Quilts 250 hopes to display as many […]
Kicks for Cancer Week 2024
Kicks for Cancer Week 2024
One Community - One Goal Every September, the Lois Wells Memorial Kicks for Cancer event brings together local high school soccer teams to compete at Concord-Carlisle High School. On September 28, thirty-two soccer teams will take the field with jerseys bearing a loved one’s name on the back. The day now widely known as “Kicks” anchors what has […]
Garden Club grants program soliciting garden project proposals
Garden Club grants program soliciting garden project proposals
The Garden Club of Concord is seeking proposals from local organizations and residents seeking funding for gardening-related community projects. Each year the GCC sponsors a range of projects intended to support the preservation, restoration, and development of gardens and the natural environment of the Concord community. Organizations recently benefiting from a GCC grant include Concord […]
Kicks for Cancer Week 2024
Kicks for Cancer Week 2024
One Community - One Goal Every September, the Lois Wells Memorial Kicks for Cancer event brings together local high school soccer teams to compete at Concord-Carlisle High School. On September 28, thirty-two soccer teams will take the field with jerseys bearing a loved one’s name on the back. The day now widely known as “Kicks” anchors what has […]
Portrait Mode
Portrait Mode
Explore a new special exhibition offering an intimate look at portraits from the Museum collection, highlighting poignant stories of representation and absence and inviting us to consider whose faces become a part of history. Join Concord Museum Curators for special guided tours at 11:00am and 2:00pm on opening day. Open until February 24, 2025
KICKS FOR CANCER
“Network” at the Umbrella!
“Network” at the Umbrella!
Nearly a half-century after Paddy Chayefsky’s chillingly prescient, Oscar-winning black comedy Network became a cinematic classic, Lee Hall’s potent and provocative new stage adaptation remains as relevant as ever as we grapple with truth, authenticity, and the search for meaning in a digital age. Veteran news anchor Howard Beale isn't pulling in the viewers. But […]
Concord Chamber Music Society
Concord Chamber Music Society
Concord Chamber Music Society Presents Jupiter String Quartet Sunday September 22, 2024 3:00 pm Concord Academy Performing Arts Center Program: Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor, Op.95 Kati Agócs: Imprimatur (2018) Schubert: String Quartet in G major, D.887 Visit Artist Website Tickets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36543/production/1206016?performanceId=11493566 Concord Chamber Music Society Presents Lucia Lin and Wendy Putnam, violins; Kim […]
Lantern Making at the West Concord Union Church
Lantern Making at the West Concord Union Church
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities, along with families and friends, are welcome to join ART for ALL at the West Concord Union Church during Sunday Fellowship on September 22nd at 4:00. Sunday Fellowship is a ministry of worship and friendship for people of all abilities. We will be making lanterns out of repurposed soda […]
Stone Soup Dinner
Stone Soup Dinner
Join us for the 13th Stone Soup Dinner. An evening dedicated to supporting Concord agriculture! GET YOUR TICKETS Date: Sunday, September 22nd, 2024 Time: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Location: Verrill Farm, 11 Wheeler Road, Concord, MA 01742 Join us for a beautiful evening on the farm, supporting Concord Agriculture and enjoying Concord-grown produce prepared […]
Flyways: A Film Screening and Bird Talk with Peter Alden
Flyways: A Film Screening and Bird Talk with Peter Alden
Join us in the Goodwin Forum at the Main Library for a screening of Flyways, from PBS Nature during Climate Prep Week. This film follows a conservation movement of bird-loving experts and citizen scientists as they mobilize to the challenge of understanding and saving shorebirds. After the film, local naturalist Peter Alden will lead a […]
Concord Museum: How to Become Famous with Cass Sunstein
Concord Museum: How to Become Famous with Cass Sunstein
How to Become Famous with Cass Sunstein Tuesday, September 24 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Free for Members | $10 Non-Members | Free Virtual What makes someone who becomes famous, famous? Harvard law professor, public intellectual, and bestselling author Cass Sunstein offers clear and surprising answers in his new book How To Become Famous: Lost Einsteins, […]
How to Become Famous with Cass Sunstein
How to Become Famous with Cass Sunstein
What makes someone who becomes famous, famous? Harvard law professor, public intellectual, and bestselling author Cass Sunstein offers clear and surprising answers in his new book How To Become Famous: Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be. Using modern data analysis techniques to show the role of accident and serendipity in […]
Fall Wednesday Toddler/Preschool Arts at The Umbrella Begins!
Fall Wednesday Toddler/Preschool Arts at The Umbrella Begins!
The Umbrella Arts Center continues to expand its creative discovery opportunities for families of preschool-aged children as young as 1 year old on Wednesdays this Fall! Your emerging little artist will love experimenting with clay, paint, collage, drawing, and other sensory rich materials alongside their caregiver and experience instructor Sarah Scoville. Enjoy the spontaneous creations […]
Fowler Afoot: A bookclub that walks
Fowler Afoot: A bookclub that walks
Our September meeting occurs during the library's annual Climate Prep Week, organized annually since 2018 by CREW (Communities Responding to Extreme Weather) as a week of learning, service, and action. This year's theme is “Reimagining our Relationship with the Land." We will discuss Margaret Renkl's 2023 book, The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year. Copies […]
LWVCC Concord Town Government Roundtable
LWVCC Concord Town Government Roundtable
Join the League of Women Voters of Concord-Carlisle for its Fall Membership Meeting and hear from Town Leaders of the Select Board, FinCom, School Committees, 2229 Main Street, and Warner’s Pond about their priorities for the 2024-25 town fiscal year. Learn more and register for Zoom at lwvcc.org Wednesday, September 25, 2024, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. […]
Make-It! Club: Recycled Book Birds!
Make-It! Club: Recycled Book Birds!
Join us every Wednesday afternoon in The Workshop for an awesome craft, art project, or engineering puzzle! This week, we're celebrating Climate Prep Week and shorebirds with a special recycled book bird project! Recommended for kids ages 5-10 and their caregivers. If your child is ages 5-9, please be prepared to stay with your child […]
Craft Lab at Fowler-Recycled Bird Mobiles
Craft Lab at Fowler-Recycled Bird Mobiles
Drop by Craft Lab at Fowler, for kids 12 and under and enjoy hands-on artistic exploration. This week, as part of Climate Prep Week and to prepare for the upcoming Nature Walk and screening of Flyways, we will craft birds!
The Bugs of Minute Man National Park (at Fowler)
The Bugs of Minute Man National Park (at Fowler)
Join Christina Martin, a Pollinator Inventory Research Scientist at the Minute Man National Historical Park, to learn about her work doing a Pollinator Inventory. She will explain why it is being done, how she conducts her surveys, and why they are tagging monarchs. She will also provide an overview of the diversity of bees they're […]
Woodworking Skills Workshops: Lathes
Woodworking Skills Workshops: Lathes
The Umbrella Arts Center’s newly constructed woodworking workshop is open for adult classes with experienced instructors covering a wide array of wood skills and project making, from learning fundamentals to developing fine woodcraft gifts. First up are two lathe wood-turning workshops with artist Palo Coleman: Lathe Bottle Stopper Workshop September 19, 6-9PM or December 19, […]
Emergency Preparedness Talk with Assistant Fire Chief Walter Latta, Jr.
Emergency Preparedness Talk with Assistant Fire Chief Walter Latta, Jr.
Join Assistant Fire Chief Latta in the Goodwin Forum at the Main Library as he shares his recent experiences as a Logistics Manager for Massachusetts Task Force One, a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Team. He will talk about his recent deployments including the Hawaii Wildfires, Vermont Flooding, and Hurricane Ian in Florida as a […]
“Network” at the Umbrella! – Enjoy special 10% discount offered to Living Concord Readers!
“Network” at the Umbrella! – Enjoy special 10% discount offered to Living Concord Readers!
Save 10% off adult tix for NETWORK (9/27-10/5 shows) with web code LIVNET01742. Expires 10/5. CLICK LINK HERE Nearly a half-century after Paddy Chayefsky’s chillingly prescient, Oscar-winning black comedy Network became a cinematic classic, Lee Hall’s potent and provocative new stage adaptation remains as relevant as ever as we grapple with truth, authenticity, and the […]
Fowler Sustainability Studio with Mothers Out Front
Fowler Sustainability Studio with Mothers Out Front
Our September Sustainability Studio: Storms, Blackouts & Shadow Puppets is part of the library's annual Climate Prep Week. This event is organized in collaboration with the Concord Chapter of Mothers Out Front, a volunteer-led organization dedicated to ensure a livable climate and better future for all children. Join us to explore stories about how communities […]
A West Concord Nature Walk with Peter Alden
A West Concord Nature Walk with Peter Alden
Join naturalist Peter Alden for a nature walk from Fowler Library to the Assabet River Bluff Sanctuary, with a focus on birds and plants. Learn about migration patterns and observe impacts of changing climate on our local land. **Please note the earlier start time (1 pm), and be sure to wear your long sleeves and […]
Screening of Three Independent Films about Arabic Culture at Concord Library
Screening of Three Independent Films about Arabic Culture at Concord Library
Join us for a screening of three independent short films about Arabic culture from local filmmaker Raouf Zaki! The event will take place on Saturday, September 28 at 2pm at the Concord Free Public Library, 129 Main Street. Santa Claus in Bagdad Amal is a sixteen-year old girl who has fallen a year behind in […]
“Network” at the Umbrella! LivingConcord Readers – special 10% off this next week!
“Network” at the Umbrella! LivingConcord Readers – special 10% off this next week!
Save 10% off adult tix for NETWORK (9/27-10/5 shows) with web code LIVNET01742. Expires 10/5. CLICK LINK HERE Nearly a half-century after Paddy Chayefsky’s chillingly prescient, Oscar-winning black comedy Network became a cinematic classic, Lee Hall’s potent and provocative new stage adaptation remains as relevant as ever as we grapple with truth, authenticity, and the […]