December 2019
Winter Market at the Umbrella Arts
Join us for our 2019 Winter Market! Friday December 6, 1:00PM-7:00PM Saturday December 7, 11:00AM-5:00PM Sunday December 8, 11:00AM-5:00PM Celebrate the holidays with The Umbrella! For one weekend a year, The Umbrella transforms into a bustling marketplace with: 30+ Umbrella artists opening studios and selling their wares 28 guest fine art and craft vendors from the region Our annual small works gallery exhibition, Off the Wall Our Ceramics Program holiday sale featuring a wide variety of work from our students,…
Find out more »The Umbrella Stage Company Presents Tuck Everlasting
Based on the book by the same name which also inspired a 2002 Disney movie, this magical, musical adventure is fun for the whole family and a dazzling spectacle for our award-winning design teams. 11 year old Winnie Foster years for a life of adventure beyond her white picket fence when she stumbles upon the Tuck family and their secret to everlasting youth and faces the extraordinary choice of returning to her ordinary life or continue with the Tucks on…
Find out more »Free Family Drop-In Art Activity Day
Free Drop-In Family Days at The Umbrella Community Arts Center are a great opportunity for families to be creative together and to explore a variety of atr media in a fun and affordable way. In this program, families will engage in art making activities designed and taught by our talented art instructors. The projects will use a variety of art materials, professional artist tools, and mediums, and may incorporate seasonal considerations such as holidays and events throughout the year. By…
Find out more »Concord Film Project presents “The Mustang”
Concord Film Project Doors and Dinner/Drinks Reception open at 6:30 Films and Presentation begin at 7:30 Film tickets are $10 and include a bag of popcorn. To Our Viewers: At CFP we present films that are acclaimed in the community of professional cinema, and represent a broad range of themes and cinematic art forms. Please bear in mind that the opinions or actions expressed in any film do not necessarily reflect the views of CFP. We trust you will use your own…
Find out more »Nature Connection: Volunteer Training
The Nature Connection is a local non-profit, delivering educational and therapeutic nature programs to individuals with limited access to the outdoors – to nature. Though the use of fresh plants, live animals, and natural materials, The Nature Connection delivers monthly programs with themes based on the seasons, cycles, and connection to nature to: at-risk youth, individuals with disabilities, and elders, including those with dementia/Alzheimer’s. Volunteers join us for 2 hour a month (or more!) at our partner sites throughout Metro-west…
Find out more »January 2020
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Limited Return Engagement)
Limited return engagement of The Umbrella Stage Company’s audience favorite, re-staged with the original cast in its brand-new black box theater The Umbrella Stage Company has announced an addition to the lineup of shows in its expanded 2019-2020 theater season. For one weekend only, Greater Boston’s newest professional theater will present a special limited return engagement of the rollicking rock musical, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, directed by Julia Deter, produced by Brian Boruta, and starring Kirk Vanda. This groundbreaking…
Find out more »Concord Film Project
Doors and Dinner/Drinks Reception open at 6:30 Films and Presentation begin at 7:30 Film tickets are $10 and include a bag of popcorn. Organizers Dinah Buechner-Vischer, Kim Burns, and Kristin Canty are thrilled to be presenting a wide variety of film masterpieces to highlight different aspects of the cinematic art form with selections from recent film festivals, old favorites, and the hard to find or rarely seen. “We are excited to provide Concord with access to independent, fascinating…
Find out more »The Umbrella Stage Company Presents Hundred Days
HUNDRED DAYS is an uncensored, exhilarating and heartrending true story about embracing uncertainty, taking a leap and loving as if you only had 100 days to live. A luminous musical memoir scored to anthemic folk music, HUNDRED DAYS shines a light in the darkness and is “ablaze with the ephemeral nature of life and love.” Staged in our Black Box, this intimate and engaging concert-musical is the perfect vehicle to highlight the versatility of our new home.
Find out more »February 2020
Concord Film Project
Doors and Dinner/Drinks Reception open at 6:30 Films and Presentation begin at 7:30 Film tickets are $10 and include a bag of popcorn. Organizers Dinah Buechner-Vischer, Kim Burns, and Kristin Canty are thrilled to be presenting a wide variety of film masterpieces to highlight different aspects of the cinematic art form with selections from recent film festivals, old favorites, and the hard to find or rarely seen. “We are excited to provide Concord with access to independent, fascinating…
Find out more »March 2020
The Umbrella Stage Company Presents Bent
Profound and provocative, BENT is the story of courage and survival in the face of extreme hate and circumstance. Set in 1930’s Berlin where homosexuality is viewed as worse than being Jewish, Max and Rudy attempt to flee before being caught by Nazi soldiers. Strikingly relevant, global, and moving, BENT will keep audiences thinking and talking about the experience of it long after the lights come down.
Find out more »Concord Film Project
Doors and Dinner/Drinks Reception open at 6:30 Films and Presentation begin at 7:30 Film tickets are $10 and include a bag of popcorn. Organizers Dinah Buechner-Vischer, Kim Burns, and Kristin Canty are thrilled to be presenting a wide variety of film masterpieces to highlight different aspects of the cinematic art form with selections from recent film festivals, old favorites, and the hard to find or rarely seen. “We are excited to provide Concord with access to independent, fascinating…
Find out more »April 2020
Concord Film Project
Doors and Dinner/Drinks Reception open at 6:30 Films and Presentation begin at 7:30 Film tickets are $10 and include a bag of popcorn. Organizers Dinah Buechner-Vischer, Kim Burns, and Kristin Canty are thrilled to be presenting a wide variety of film masterpieces to highlight different aspects of the cinematic art form with selections from recent film festivals, old favorites, and the hard to find or rarely seen. “We are excited to provide Concord with access to independent, fascinating…
Find out more »The Umbrella Stage Company Presents War Paint
Hailed as “thoroughly compelling and masterfully entertaining” WAR PAINT is the true-to-life story of Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubenstein, masters of self-invention and titans of the cosmetics industry who became the country’s first major female entrepreneurs in a time when only men were thought to be capable of building international empires. This fascinating, female-forward bio-musical spans their 50 year rivalry, is a master-class for two stars and will feature Boston’s own leading ladies, Leigh Barrett and Shana Dirik in one…
Find out more »May 2020
Concord Film Projects
Doors and Dinner/Drinks Reception open at 6:30 Films and Presentation begin at 7:30 Film tickets are $10 and include a bag of popcorn. Dinner option is an additional $20 and there is a Cash Bar. Organizers Dinah Buechner-Vischer, Kim Burns, and Kristin Canty are thrilled to be presenting a wide variety of film masterpieces to highlight different aspects of the cinematic art form with selections from recent film festivals, old favorites, and the hard to find or rarely seen. “We…
Find out more »June 2020
Concord Film Project
Doors and Dinner/Drinks Reception open at 6:30 Films and Presentation begin at 7:30 Film tickets are $10 and include a bag of popcorn. Dinner option is an additional $20 and there is a Cash Bar. Organizers Dinah Buechner-Vischer, Kim Burns, and Kristin Canty are thrilled to be presenting a wide variety of film masterpieces to highlight different aspects of the cinematic art form with selections from recent film festivals, old favorites, and the hard to find or rarely seen. “We…
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