Juneteenth Concord
A Celebration of Freedom! Food, music, family fun, walking tours and celebration! Free event and family friendly
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Juneteenth Family Performance
Join us for a celebratory Juneteenth performance with the Boston-based Benkadi Drum and Dance Company. With vivid costumes and uplifting energy, the multicultural company performs traditional West African rhythm and movements with singing, drumming, and dancing. Participate in the dancing and learn West African traditions. Co-sponsored by The Robbins House. Free. Advanced Registration Required.
Antislavery Walking Tour
Concord MuseumCoinciding with the celebration of Juneteenth, join us for a walking tour introducing participants to the Concord women and men who played a crucial role in the abolitionist movement in the years leading up to the Civil War. This tour includes a significant amount (over 1.5 miles) of walking on hilly, unpaved terrain. $10 Members […]
Patriots of Color Walking Tour
Concord Visitor Center 58 Main St, Concord, MA, United StatesBetween twenty and forty colonists who fought along the Battle Road on April 19, 1775, were of African descent or Indigenous people. Although excluded from required militia service prior to the war, these individuals of color were the first of many to take up arms between 1775 and 1783. By the end of the conflict, […]
Indigenous People of Concord Walking Tour
Concord Visitor Center 58 Main St, Concord, MA, United StatesFor over 10,000 years the indigenous people of the land knew this area as Musketaquid. The land between the grassy rivers. This tour explores the history of the first people and how they lived in a land of abundance seeking to keep and foster balance with the natural world, their mother, who sustained them always. […]
https://visitconcord.org/visit/walking-tours/indigenous-people-of-concord-tour/
CFPL: Pride Make-It Labs Rainbow Edition
Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United States
Orchid Wall Hangers
The Nature Connection 80 Beharrell Street, Suite D, Concord, United StatesEnjoy a craft night and take home an orchid! We'll teach you how to make a wall hanging to decorate your home, then you'll choose an orchid to complete your craft. All supplies will be provided.
$15 – $20
Now Accepting Submissions: Photography on the Farm
Gaining Ground 341 Virginia Rd, Concord, United StatesSubmissions are now open for Photography on the Farm at Gaining Ground! This special outdoor gallery opens September 7 at our Concord-based farm to showcase the creative talents of our community while providing visitors with the latest information on food security. In the meantime, we seek original, digital images of farming, gardening, cultural foodways, environmental […]
Vert: Poet Catherine Staples in Conversation with Richard Higgins
Thoreau Farm 341 Virginia Road, Concord, MA, United StatesCatherine Staples in conversation with Richard Higgins about the importance of Thoreau in the writing of her newest book of poetry, VERT, which is part elegy, part quest, part paean to the natural world. Staples grew up in Massachusetts and it’s there, in New England woods, meadows, and Cape Cod coasts, that the loss of […]
$5
Summer Solstice Nature Journaling Workshop
Bruce Freeman Rail Trail Chelmsford, MA, United StatesJoin The Nature Connection in welcoming the summer solstice with a mindful nature journaling workshop! Nature journaling is a way to record your observations, questions, and experiences of nature and to mindfully connect with the natural world. Our goal is to help you experience the sense of wellbeing that can come through deepening your relationship […]
Free