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Fresh Ink: Contemporary Explorations in Printmaking

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

Opening Reception: Sunday, November 19, 4-6pm with remarks by the juror and prize winners starting at 4:45pm.  Refreshments will be served. The Umbrella Arts Center is pleased to present Fresh Ink: Contemporary Explorations in Printmaking juried by Carolyn Muskat. The exhibition includes printmakers from all across New England who use a variety of techniques in […]

Free

NaNoWriMo: Write at the Museum

Florence H. Speare Memorial Museum 5 Abbott Street, Nashua, NH, United States

Are you a writer? Are you looking for inspiration, working on a personal writing project, perhaps writing a 50,000-word novel in the month of November, or just want time to sit down and write? ​In celebration of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), the Nashua Historical Society invites writers to join us at the Speare Memorial […]

$5

Artists Sunday- LexArt Holiday Marketpalce

LexArt 130 Waltham Street, Lexington, MA, United States

LexArt will being opening its door the Sunday after Thanksgiving for Artists Sunday to kick off our annual Holiday Marketplace.

Free

Holiday Market Place

LexArt 130 Waltham Street, Lexington, MA, United States

Holiday Marketplace 2023 We've been making and crafting all year to prepare for our annual Holiday Marketplace! This arts and craft sale is the culmination of a year of work by the talented artisan members of LexArt.  Shop local for unique, one-of-a-kind handmade holiday gifts including handmade silver jewelry finely crafted wooden toys woven items […]

Free

The Umbrella Winter Market

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

Friday, December 1, 2023 - 1:00pm - 6:00pm Saturday, December 2, 2023 - 10:00am - 5:00pm Sunday, December 3, 2023 - 10:00am - 4:00pm The Umbrella’s Winter Market is an annual three-day show and sale of artist, artisan, and hand-crafted work on all three floors of our beautifully renovated space in Concord, MA. It features […]

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The Umbrella Winter Market

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

Friday, December 1, 2023 - 1:00pm - 6:00pm Saturday, December 2, 2023 - 10:00am - 5:00pm Sunday, December 3, 2023 - 10:00am - 4:00pm The Umbrella’s Winter Market is an annual three-day show and sale of artist, artisan, and hand-crafted work on all three floors of our beautifully renovated space in Concord, MA. It features […]

Recurring

The Umbrella Winter Market

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

Friday, December 1, 2023 - 1:00pm - 6:00pm Saturday, December 2, 2023 - 10:00am - 5:00pm Sunday, December 3, 2023 - 10:00am - 4:00pm The Umbrella’s Winter Market is an annual three-day show and sale of artist, artisan, and hand-crafted work on all three floors of our beautifully renovated space in Concord, MA. It features […]

Candlelight Vespers – Christmas Reflection

The Shirley Meeting House 41 Brown Road, Shirley, MA, United States

There is faint music in the night, And pale wings fanned by silver flight; A frosty hill with tender glow Of countless stars that shine on snow. – Nancy Buckley At this time of the year we often find ourselves thinking of all our lists of “presents to buy, things to be done and places […]

Inspired by Movement, Rhythm, Heritage, and Community

Robbins Memorial Town Hall 730 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, MA, United States

Please join ArtsArlington on Saturday, December 9, 11am to 2pm for a celebration of art and community at Arlington’s Robbins Memorial Town Hall featuring * a tour of the Town Hall exhibition with artists Maria Fonseca, Larry Terry, and TJ Reynolds * a special one day exhibition of 20 beautiful quilts by members of Sisters […]

Free

250th Anniversary Lexington Tea Burning Reenactment

Buckman Tavern 1 Bedford Street, Lexington

On December 13, 1773, three days before the Boston Tea Party, the Lexington Town Meeting concluded a multi-day debate with a resolution to stop purchasing or drinking imported British tea. The crowd spilled out onto the common behind the meeting house and made a bonfire, throwing the entire town's supply of tea into it. 250 […]

Free

Deck the Halls: Female Abolitionists and Christmas

Follen Church Sanctuary 755 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, MA, United States

Monday, December 11, 7 pm Follen Church Sanctuary, 755 Massachusetts Avenue Ken Turino, Historic New England Register New England’s female abolitionists in the first half of the nineteenth century played a large role in the development of modern American Christmas traditions. These abolitionists, led by Maria Chapman, hosted anti-slavery society Christmas Fairs – one of […]

$15

A Holiday Pops Concert

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

The Umbrella Stage Company in partnership with Firebird Pops Orchestra is thrilled to announce the return of our Holiday Pops concert! -- Friday, December 15 at 7:30pm -- Saturday, December 16 at 3:00pm -- Sunday, December 17 at 3:00pm Together with the Firebird Vox choir, the orchestra will sweep you away with magical scores from […]

$10 – $45