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BWBH @ the CFA: Mindful Writing & Movement for Kids at The Umbrella Arts Center

Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United States

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 […]

You’re invited: Stories, Spices & Song, A South African Experience and Fundraiser for Axium Education

Barefoot Books 23 Bradford Street 2nd Floor, Concord, MA, United States

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, […]

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Concord Festival of Authors: Ruth Ratner Miller Memorial Award for Excellence in American History

Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United States

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, […]

$5 – $16

White Rabbit Red Rabbit

The Umbrella Community Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United States

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 […]

Concord Band Concert: New England Portraits

51 Walden

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 […]

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Banned

The Umbrella Community Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United States

Narrative Paintings by Maryam Safajoo October 5 – November 19, 2023 Saturday, October 7, 5-7pm: Opening reception with Artist Talk at 6pm On display at The Umbrella’s second floor Outside-the-Box Gallery, “Banned” features paintings by Maryam Safajoo narrating the stories of the contemporary situation of the systematically persecuted Iranian Baha’i community – Iran’s largest religious […]

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Henry David Thoreau Walking Tour

Concord, MA, United States

Henry David Thoreau Walking Tour Did you know that Henry David Thoreau was baptized David Henry Thoreau? Did you know that he willingly spent a night in jail in July of 1846 but had to be kicked out the next morning? Join us for a 90-minute, two-mile walk where we will visit some of the […]

Tours of Thoreau Farm, the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Farm 341 Virginia Road, Concord, MA, United States

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.” […]

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Lizzie: The Musical

The Umbrella Community Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United States

The subject of centuries-old, sing-song villainy, Lizzie Borden turns searing rock anthem anti-hero and has audiences raging in their seats. Lizzie was famously acquitted and yet the question lingers… did she do it? Now, as the story is retold by four women defying musical theater stereotypes, fronting a six-piece rock band, and delivering a score […]

Concord Festival of Authors : The Leslie Riedel Memorial Lecture for Young People

Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United States

Author/Illustrator Chris Van Dusen will be honored with the 11th Leslie Riedel Memorial Award for his impressive body of literary work for young people. The in person program will take place in the Forum of the Concord Free Public Library, 129 Main Street, Concord MA on Sunday, October 22 at 4 pm. The Riedel Lecture […]

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