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Don’t Close Your Eyes: Ukrainian Artists Respond to the War

The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA, United States

Curated by Hanna Melnyczuk, a Ukrainian-American artist, and Halyna Andrusenko, an artist from Kyiv, The Umbrella Arts Center’s iteration of the traveling exhibition Don’t Close Your Eyes features the work of 27 artists from various regions of Ukraine responding to the invasion of their country, which began February 24, 2022. Expressions of grief, loss, survival, […]

Free

Nashua Nature Quest for Youth & Families

Greeley Park 100 Concord Street, Nashua, NH, United States

Monthly Outdoor Adventures in Nashua Parks 2nd Saturdays, January thru May, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm The Nashua River Watershed Association would like to invite you to participate in our FREE Nashua Quest series running on the 2nd Saturday of each month, January thru May, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm.  Sign up for program(s) of your […]

Free

Sing Hanson Selected Works

The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA, United States

On display in The Umbrella’s Second Floor Gallery from January 18 – February 24, 2024 are selected works by the late photographer and long-time Umbrella Studio Artist Sing Hanson. The exhibition includes an array of subjects and styles from natural attractions and rural landscapes to detailed still life and abstracted object details and more. Sing […]

Free

Open House

Barnaby House & Barn 17 Meetinghouse Hill Road, Brookline, NH, United States

Did we really have a Town Moderator who was jailed by the Patriots (not the football team)? Is it true that a local scuba diver would cut a hole in the ice at Lake Potanipo, go down to the bottom and dig through the mud with his hands for artifacts? What’s this I hear about […]

Free

Full Moon Tours at deCordova

deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum 51 Sandy Pond Road, Lincoln, MA, United States

Bring your family and friends to see sculptures transformed by the moonlight in this special after-hours tour. Small group tours with deCordova’s experienced Museum Guides last 60-75 minutes. Please dress for the weather with sturdy footwear. Bring a flashlight or lantern. Visitors should park in the main lot and meet their Museum Guide in front […]

$20

Westford 250—The Minutemen and Their World, An Evening with Robert Gross

Westford Historical Society & Museum 2 Boston Road, Westford, MA, United States

On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The “shot heard round the world” catapulted this sleepy New England town into the midst of revolutionary fervor, and Concord went on to become the intellectual capital of the new republic. The town–future home to Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne–soon […]

$10

Countdown to April 19, 1775: “A Revolution in the News” with Historian Joseph Adelman

Acton Town Hall 472 Main Street, Acton, MA, United States

Professor Adelman will tell the story of the Revolutionary War’s forgotten instigators: newspaper printers and editors. Shrewdly gauging the political climate and interests of their communities and balancing them with their own commercial interests, eighteenth-century printers were instrumental in creating propaganda and rallying the public to the revolutionary cause. Please register at https://actonmemoriallibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/countdown-to-april-19-1775-a-revolutionin-the-news-with-historian-joseph-adelman/ so that […]

Free

John Quincy Adams: Reluctant Abolitionist

The Depot 13 Depot Square, Lexington, MA, United States

As a Harvard alumnus, diplomat, U.S. President, member of Congress and attorney before the Supreme Court, John Quincy Adams had a unique relationship with slavery. Prickly and curmudgeonly, he danced with abolitionists, but never became one himself. However, Adams did harbor an intense hatred for the arguments of Southern slaveholders, and eventually found himself in […]

$10 – $15

The Power of Truth: Early Diversity in a Medford Neighborhood

Charlotte and William Bloomberg Medford Public Library 111 High Street, Medford, MA, United States

Learn about the Revalyon family, free Black Bostonians, who moved their family to Medford in 1828. Speaker and Local Historian Dee Morris will tell us about Thomas (b. 1777) and Margaret (b. 1781) Revalyon, free Black Bostonians, who moved their family in 1828 to a new house on Cross Street in Medford. Thomas owned a […]

Free

August: Osage County – The Umbrella Film Series

The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA, United States

August: Osage County Friday, February 2, 2024 - 7:30PM Directed by John Wells | Rated R Runtime 2h 1m The Umbrella Film Series presents August: Osage County. A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house […]

$10

Hands-On History: Toys and Games

Buckman Tavern 1 Bedford Street, Lexington

18th century kids - and adults too - worked hard, but still had time for fun, with homemade toys and games! Stop by Buckman Tavern between 10:00 AM - 12:30PM and 1:30 - 3:30 PM to see how colonial kids had fun, and try a toy for yourself! Included with museum admission.

Free w/ Museum Admission

FernGully: The Last Rainforest – The Umbrella Film Series

The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA, United States

FernGully: The Last Rainforest Saturday, February 3, 2024 - 10:30AM Directed by Bill Kroyer | Rated G Runtime 1h 16m The Umbrella Film Series presents FernGully: The Last Rainforest. The magical inhabitants of a rainforest fight to save their home, which is threatened by logging and a polluting force of destruction called Hexxus, in this […]

$8 – $10