Join us as we kick off the 2024 Concord Festival of Authors with award-winning author Rajani LaRocca for a talk entitled “Connections: Four Books, Four Connections, and the Stories They Inspired”! Rajani LaRocca was born in India, raised in Kentucky, and now lives in the Boston area, where she practices medicine and writes award-winning books […]
Queer Whispers in Fairyland - Examining Daniel Chester French Watch one minute video of Lucas Griswold, inviting you October 10. Join Lucas Griswold, Senior Manager for Interpretation and Education at Chesterwood, as we explore the power of self-construction and the complex interplay between public and private identities. Renowned as a meticulous molder of monumental images […]
Celebrate the 250th birthday of the battles of Concord and Lexington by helping us recreate Daniel Chester French’s iconic statue The Minute Man through collaborative 3D printing! The Workshop is collaborating with local artist and author Dr. Linda Booth Sweeney to reimagine and reproduce a scale model of Daniel Chester French's iconic statue The Minute […]
Join us for a special event at the Concord Free Public Library. Netflix's hit horror/fantasy series Stranger Things owes a lot to the creators that came before it. From 80’s horror films to classic horror fiction, this presentation examines what inspired the chills in Stranger Things and influenced our favorite, frightening demogorgons and xenomorphs. Fans […]
Friday, October 4, 2024, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Evan Horowitz, Executive Director of the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University, will speak about the Voters’ Guide to the 2024 Massachusetts Ballot Questions, a non-partisan research report that he and his team have published. Join the League of Women Voters of Concord-Carlisle to learn […]
Join us for a screening of three independent short films about Arabic culture from local filmmaker Raouf Zaki! The event will take place on Saturday, September 28 at 2pm at the Concord Free Public Library, 129 Main Street. Santa Claus in Bagdad Amal is a sixteen-year old girl who has fallen a year behind in […]
Join us for a talk with local author Henriette Lazaridis who will discuss her new novel Last Days in Plaka! An immersive and multifaceted novel—The Talented Mr. Ripley by way of Elena Ferrante—that explores the lies at the heart of an old woman’s identity and the desperation of a young woman’s struggle to belong. Today's […]
Presenting our summer Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Performances: July 20 – 28, 2024) Directed by Jim Porter The Merry Wives of Windsor is a fun frolic, a comedy that lampoons the idea that the men are the cleverer of the sexes, and that reinforces the concept of true love. With themes of love and […]
Presenting our summer Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Performances: July 20 – 28, 2024) Directed by Jim Porter The Merry Wives of Windsor is a fun frolic, a comedy that lampoons the idea that the men are the cleverer of the sexes, and that reinforces the concept of true love. With themes of love and […]
Presenting our summer Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Performances: July 20 – 28, 2024) Directed by Jim Porter The Merry Wives of Windsor is a fun frolic, a comedy that lampoons the idea that the men are the cleverer of the sexes, and that reinforces the concept of true love. With themes of love and […]
