The Nature Connection Annual Meeting & Celebration
TriCon Church 54 Walden Street, Concord, MA, United StatesNeighbors by Nature Date/Time March 19, 2024 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm Location Tri-Con Church All are invited to a community celebration of the Spring Equinox and to learn more about The Nature Connection during our Annual Meeting! Experience for yourself how our mindful nature programs connect youth at-risk, adults & children with disabilities, and […]
Author Talks with the Concord Women Writers: Short Stories
concord library 1322 Main Street, Concord, MA, United StatesGoodwin Forum Main Library Each week of Women’s History Month, the library is showcasing authors from Concord Women Writers to share their work and experience as women creators. Join us for week three of this delightful series with essayist and short story writer Emily Rubin, and short story and creative nonfiction writer Tracy Winn. Concord […]
A Virtual Lyceum: The Pursuit of Beauty
Virtual Concord, MA, United States“The perception of beauty is a moral test.” – Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 21 June 1852 Over two hundred years ago, John Keats famously declared that “Beauty is Truth, and Truth Beauty.” When contemporary scientists and mathematicians refer to a theory as beautiful, they associate beauty with concision and streamlined elegance. Yet for as long […]
The Minutes
The Umbrella Community Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United StatesAn evening in Big Cherry – a small town in anywhere, USA – and the city council meeting unfolds in real time, unmasking undercurrents that threaten to undo life as they know it … and driving the question, “How far would you go?” Award-winning playwright Tracy Letts’s (August: Osage County) new play was called one […]
Rotary Club of Concord hosts personal care donation drive for Open Table
SHOW the LOVE Donate Personal Care Items to Open Table Food Pantry in Maynard The Rotary Club of Concord is spearheading a donation drive for personal care items for Open Table. Personal care items are not covered by SNAP/food support programs. Donations will help reduce the cost of Open Table purchasing these items for the […]
March Madness Mug Event!
Artisans Way 18 Walden St, Concord, MA, United StatesArtisans Way, located at 18 Walden St., Concord, is sponsoring a mug drive to benefit Household Goods, a local organization in Acton that provides a full range of donated furniture and household items, free of charge, to people in need. (www.householdgoods.org) The mug collection starts on Sunday, March 17 and lasts through Saturday, March 30. […]
Eight Weeks in Ukraine 2023; Life During War – by Tania Vitvitsy
Harvey Wheeler Community Center 1276 Main St, Concord, MA, United StatesTania Vitvitsy, President of Ukrainian Charitable Platform, returns to the COA to talk about her most recent two-month stay in Ukraine. In September 2023, Tania traveled to five cities in Ukraine: Lviv, Izky, Kyiv, Ternopil, and Chortkiv. The purpose of the 2023 trip was to continue engaging with the Lviv-based Ukrainian Education Platform and other […]
Fowler After Hours: The Opening of Art in Bloom
Fowler Library 1322 Main Street, Concord, MA, United StatesWe are celebrating spring with a profusion of flowers! Join Fowler and ArtScape for the opening of our community art show, Art in Bloom. The show will run 3/11-5/25.
Author Talk: James Marcus – Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
THURSDAY, MARCH 21 6:30—8:00 PM Goodwin Forum Main Library This talk features the author and editor James Marcus, whose new book, Glad to the Brink of Fear, A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson, will be released by Princeton University Press on March 5, 2024. William Munroe Special Collections events are made possible by the […]