Come learn about the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau and consider lessons about living deliberately that we can learn from his legacy. Take an inside look at the restored 1730s house listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse/Henry David Thoreau Birth House. Locally, it is also known as “Thoreau Farm.” […]
The Robbins House, Concord’s African American History Museum, presents author Ray Anthony Shepard. Shepard discusses A Long Time Coming, his new biography-in-verse of six impactful Black Americans from different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama, chronicling their diverse ways of fighting racism. Shepard […]
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Join us for an afternoon of lively classical & family friendly music! Free to attend, although donations gratefully accepted to support WCUC's earth friendly, energy efficient future.
The Nature of Details: A Mindful Writing Workshop for Adults and Teens: Express yourself through writing! This creative writing workshop examines how and why we choose particular details, and provides encouragement to deepen your work through description. Led by Lara Wilson, CFA curator, writer, and founder of Be Well Be Here, Concord's mindful wellness educational […]
Come join us for an evening of South African tastes, sights, and sounds, hosted by Ubuntu Global Connections. Learn about Ubuntu's partner non-profit, Axium Education, and its rural education programs that are bringing transformative change to the historically neglected Zithulele community, in the remote Eastern Cape area. Barefoot Books 23 Bradford Street 2nd Floor Concord, […]
Miller Memorial address and award presentation to Robert A. Gross A specialist in the social and cultural history of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War, Robert A. Gross focuses particularly on New England. His first book, The Minutemen and Their World received the Bancroft Prize in American History. His latest book, […]
No rehearsal. No director. One actor. A script in a sealed envelope. Theater stripped to its essential elements in a no-net night of unexpected comedy and shared discovery. Forbidden to leave his native Iran, Soleimanpour wrote a play to travel the world in his place. Since its award-winning premiere at the Edinburgh Festival it has […]
The Concord Band's Fall Concert, 8pm on October 21, will inaugurate the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, upcoming in 2025, featuring Chester: Overture for Band by William Schuman, based on Boston composer William Billings’ best known song that became a Revolutionary War patriotic anthem. Composed in 1956, Schuman […]
