September 2020
Summer Quest Offers Free Activities for Adventurous, Creative Kids
Five Concord-area Organizations Offer 36 Activities to Connect Families with Arts and Nature this Summer Concord, MA – July 30, 2020 - Concord and Metrowest organizations have collaborated to launch Summer Quest, a new, free summer program of outdoor and socially-safe activities to complete for fun rewards. The Umbrella Arts Center's Arts & Environment Program, Drumlin Farm, OARS, Concord Land Conservation Trust, Minute Man National Historical Park, and others have created site-specific and at-home environmental learning projects for kids ages…
Find out more »October 2020
“Go Out Doors” Art Exhibit on the West Concord Bike Path
Explore the new art work on the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail! A project of The Umbrella Arts Center program, "Go Out Doors" features fourteen doors painted by seven regional artists that "explore a world you might find if you open your front door and adventure outside," says Nancy Lippe, director of The Umbrella Arts & Environment program. A variety of door images celebrate nature, our senses and outdoor activity. The majority of doors are sited between the Commonwealth Avenue entrance…
Find out more »2020 Art Ramble
On display from September 1-November 8 in the Hapgood Wright Town Forest, the 5th annual Art Ramble Exhibition explores the social justice issues of climate change and water. Water Change: Where Spirit, Nature, and Civilization Meet is presented by The Umbrella Arts & Environment Program and curated by Susan Israel, who asked artists to explore three themes in connecting their work to place and climate: Spirit: Water, the essence of all life, symbolizes life, spirit, purity, restoration, birth, passage and…
Find out more »April 2021
Detroit ’67
April 2 - 25, 2021 By Dominique Morisseau Directed by Michelle Aguillon It's 1967 in Detroit. Motown music is getting the party started, and Chelle and her brother Lank are making ends meet by turning their basement into an after-hours joint. But when a mysterious woman finds her way into their lives, the siblings clash over more much more than the family business. As their pent-up feelings erupt, so does their city, and they find themselves caught in the middle…
Find out more »May 2021
Head Over Heels
May 14 - June 6, 2021 Music & Lyrics by The Go-Go's Original Book by Jeff Whitty Adapted by James Magruder Directed by Brian Boruta Head Over Heels is the bold new musical comedy from the visionaries that rocked Broadway with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Avenue Q and Spring Awakening. This laugh-out-loud love story is set to the music of the iconic 1980’s all-female rock band The Go-Go’s, including the hit songs, “We Got the Beat,” “Our Lips Are…
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