Fowler Afoot: A bookclub that walks

Fowler Library 1322 Main Street, Concord, MA, United States

Our September meeting occurs during the library's annual Climate Prep Week, organized annually since 2018 by CREW (Communities Responding to Extreme Weather) as a week of learning, service, and action. This year's theme is “Reimagining our Relationship with the Land." We will discuss Margaret Renkl's 2023 book, The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year. Copies […]

LWVCC Concord Town Government Roundtable

Concord Main Library Concord, MA, United States

Join the League of Women Voters of Concord-Carlisle for its Fall Membership Meeting and hear from Town Leaders of the Select Board, FinCom, School Committees, 2229 Main Street, and Warner’s Pond about their priorities for the 2024-25 town fiscal year. Learn more and register for Zoom at lwvcc.org Wednesday, September 25, 2024, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. […]

Make-It! Club: Recycled Book Birds!

concord library Concord, MA, United States

Join us every Wednesday afternoon in The Workshop for an awesome craft, art project, or engineering puzzle! This week, we're celebrating Climate Prep Week and shorebirds with a special recycled book bird project! Recommended for kids ages 5-10 and their caregivers. If your child is ages 5-9, please be prepared to stay with your child […]

Craft Lab at Fowler-Recycled Bird Mobiles

Fowler Library 1322 Main Street, Concord, MA, United States

Drop by Craft Lab at Fowler, for kids 12 and under and enjoy hands-on artistic exploration. This week, as part of Climate Prep Week and to prepare for the upcoming Nature Walk and screening of Flyways, we will craft birds!

Registration now open for Quilts 250: Stitching in the Spirit of Democracy 

The Show Quilts 250: Stitching in the Spirit of Democracy is a free, public quilt show organized in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolutionary events of April 19, 1775 along Battle Road in Lincoln, Concord, Lexington, and Arlington, Massachusetts. Showcasing the creative energy of quilters near and far, Quilts 250 hopes to display as many […]

Garden Club grants program soliciting garden project proposals

The Garden Club of Concord is seeking proposals from local organizations and residents seeking funding for gardening-related community projects. Each year the GCC sponsors a range of projects intended to support the preservation, restoration, and development of gardens and the natural environment of the Concord community. Organizations recently benefiting from a GCC grant include Concord […]

Kicks for Cancer Week 2024

One Community - One Goal ​Every September, the Lois Wells Memorial Kicks for Cancer event brings together local high school soccer teams to compete at Concord-Carlisle High School. On September 28, thirty-two soccer teams will take the field with jerseys bearing a loved one’s name on the back. The day now widely known as “Kicks” anchors what has […]

The Bugs of Minute Man National Park (at Fowler)

Fowler Library 1322 Main Street, Concord, MA, United States

Join Christina Martin, a Pollinator Inventory Research Scientist at the Minute Man National Historical Park, to learn about her work doing a Pollinator Inventory. She will explain why it is being done, how she conducts her surveys, and why they are tagging monarchs. She will also provide an overview of the diversity of bees they're […]

Woodworking Skills Workshops: Lathes

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

The Umbrella Arts Center’s newly constructed woodworking workshop is open for adult classes with experienced instructors covering a wide array of wood skills and project making, from learning fundamentals to developing fine woodcraft gifts. First up are two lathe wood-turning workshops with artist Palo Coleman: Lathe Bottle Stopper Workshop September 19, 6-9PM or December 19, […]

Portrait Mode

Concord Museum

Explore a new special exhibition offering an intimate look at portraits from the Museum collection, highlighting poignant stories of representation and absence and inviting us to consider whose faces become a part of history. Join Concord Museum Curators for special guided tours at 11:00am and 2:00pm on opening day. Open until February 24, 2025