Shirley Historical Society Annual Meeting & Pot Luck Supper
Shirley Senior Center 9 Parker Road, ShirleyCelebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Shirley Historical Society!
Free
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Bizen Panel
The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA, United StatesThe Umbrella Arts Center is honored to host an afternoon of Panel Discussion, Slides, and Conversation with Isezaki Koichiro, Jeff Shapiro and Tim Rowan about their work and careers. We will be examining the intersections of these artists’ work and the tradition of Bizen pottery through their friendships, collaborations, and varied apprenticeships. The panel discussion will be moderated by Judith Schwartz, […]
$20
Rent
The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA, United StatesThe Umbrella Stage Company presents RENT! Book, music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson The Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning phenomenon invites us into the lives of a group of artists and friends in NYC’s East Village as they struggle through the AIDS epidemic and financial hardship to follow their dreams without selling out. For almost 30 […]
$31 – $55
Workshop: Sgraffito and the Narrative Surface
The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA, United StatesThe technique of sgraffito has a long history in ceramics and is still a lively and popular technique today. Sgraffito involves covering a clay surface with a contrasting slip or underglaze and carving through to reveal the clay color underneath. Director of the Harvard Ceramics Program, Kathy King, has used this technique in her work for more than […]
$100
Trail Through Time Community Service Day
This annual effort again takes place on the Trail Through Time, a multicultural heritage trail in the North Acton conservation lands. The focus will be on trail and site maintenance. There will be an optional brunch beforehand at Legend’s Cafe in West Acton at 11:30 AM. Closer to November 13, the meeting place and other […]
Free
Trail Through Time Community Service Day
This annual effort again takes place at the Nashoba Brook Conservation Land on the Trail Through Time, a multicultural heritage trail in North Acton. The focus will be on trail and site maintenance. There will be an optional brunch beforehand at 11:30 AM. Details will be emailed to registrants a few days in advance. Limited […]
Free
A Conversation with Philip Deloria
Concord Museum 53 Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, MA, United StatesJoin Philip J. Deloria, Professor of History at Harvard University, for a wide-ranging conversation about his distinguished career as a scholar of Native American history and current trends in the field today. Deloria is the author of Playing Indian (1998), Indians in Unexpected Places (2004), and Becoming Mary Sully (2019). This program will be held […]
$10
Winter Market 2022
The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA, United StatesThe Umbrella Winter Market, a Concord tradition, is an annual three-day show and sale of artist, artisan, and hand-crafted work festively displayed on all three floors of the beautifully renovated Umbrella Arts Center in historic Concord Center. It features dozens of Umbrella Studio Artists and regional Guest Artists, an annual "Off-the-Wall" show with small works under $300 (in-person and […]
Holiday Artisan Fair at Fruitlands
Fruitlands Museum 102 Prospect Hill Road, Harvard, MA, United StatesJoin us for the Annual Fruitlands Museum Holiday Open House and Craft Fair on Saturday and Sunday, December 3-4. At this festive holiday market, shop for your family and friends while supporting 16 juried local artisans. Find vendors spread throughout the museum shop building and the Wayside Gallery, shop high quality handmade local crafts: Jewelry, […]
Included with Museum admission
Indigenous Identity and King Philip’s War
VirtualAuthors: Ruth Herndon, Bowling Green State University; Joanne Jahnke-Wegner, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Comment: David Silverman, George Washington University This panel discusses the cultural and racial identities of Indigenous people during King Philip’s War (1675-76). Ruth Herndon’s paper studies a group of 32 Indigenous children, raised as “praying Indians”, who were eventually surrendered to […]
Free
Full Moon Lantern Celebration
The Old Manse 269 Monument Street, Concord, MA, United StatesJoin The Umbrella Arts Center and The Old Manse under the light of the full moon on December 7. Come by to partake in a lantern-making craft, enjoy hot chocolate by the bonfire while listening to moon-inspired stories, and then bring your newly crafted lanterns on a silent, meditative walk through the meadow as the moon rises over the […]
Free
Nature’s Best Hope with Doug Tallamy
VirtualJoin Lincoln Land Conservation Trust for a virtual evening with Doug Tallamy. Recent headlines about global insect declines, the impending extinction of one million species worldwide, and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that […]
Free