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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221114
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SUMMARY:Art Ramble: "In the Balance"
DESCRIPTION:September 1 – November 13\nHapgood Wright Town Forest\, Concord\, MA\nHours: 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset \nArtist Reception & Walkabout\nSaturday\, September 17\, 4:30-5:30PM\nRain Date: Sunday\, September 18\, 4:30-5:30PM\nFree and open to the public \n“In the Balance” is an outdoor exhibition of dynamic artworks that express a striving to regain balance with their surroundings\, and to bridge the growing chasm between the loss of habitat and life’s persistence. The acceleration of climate change has reached the point of overpowering and upsetting the carefully balanced ecosystems of our surviving forests. The ground beneath our feet is literally slipping away. This artwork responds accordingly. Sound pieces\, installation\, sculpture\, and poetry suggest recombinations\, contortions\, and orientations toward a new hybrid\, symbiotic and sympathetic relationship with nature. Taking inspiration from the forest’s ability to regenerate itself over time\, and the ability of the natural world to adapt under challenging conditions\, how can we synchronize our existence with these restorative processes as we follow the path that lies before us? How do we live life in the balance? \nArt Ramble is an annual\, temporary exhibition in the Hapgood Wright Town Forest in Concord\, MA\, a collaboration of The Umbrella Art Center and Concord’s Division of Natural Resources (CDNR). Following Leave No Trace principles\, regional artists create site-specific artworks promoting appreciation of nature\, installed along Fairyland Pond and parts of the historic Emerson-Thoreau Amble connecting Concord Center to Walden Pond. \nParticipating Artists \n\nPaul Angiolillo\nDave Ardito\nBARD\nLaurie Bogdan\nBill Cohn\nRobert Greene\nCarolyn Enz Hack\nBelen Millan\nWanda Strukus\nJ.D. Trejo-Maya\nRebecca McGee Tuck\n\nFor detailed artwork descriptions\, artists’ bios and soundscape QR code\, visit: https://TheUmbrellaArts.org/Ramble
URL:https://freedomsway.org/staging/6553/event/art-ramble-in-the-balance/
LOCATION:Hapgood Wright Town Forest\, Walden St\, Concord\, 01742\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits,Walks & Hikes
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Umbrella Arts Center":MAILTO:stewart@theumbrellaarts.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221101T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221101T180000
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SUMMARY:Destination: Nature Juried Art Show
DESCRIPTION:To commemorate 50 years of preserving the town of Harvard’s unique character and natural resources\, the Harvard Conservation Trust is partnering with Fivesparks to celebrate art and nature with a juried art show.  This partnership will highlight the beauty of the Harvard lands and trails through the eyes of regional artists\, while bringing awareness of both organizations’ efforts in the Town of Harvard. \nSarah Montross\, Senior Curator at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum will jury the exhibit\, and winners will be announced at a November 5 reception where prizes will be awarded. \nNovember 1st—December 17th\, 2022\nExhibit Hours\nTuesdays-Thursdays: 12:00-6:00pm\nFridays: 12:00-3:00pm\nSaturdays & Sundays: 11:00am-3:00pm\n* Saturday\, November 12 – open only for public reception 3-6pm
URL:https://freedomsway.org/staging/6553/event/destination-nature-juried-art-show/2022-11-01/
LOCATION:Fivesparks\, 7 Fairbank Street\, Harvard\, MA\, 01451\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221102T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221102T193000
DTSTAMP:20260517T142509
CREATED:20221027T141301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T141301Z
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SUMMARY:Umbrella Arts & Environment Listening Session
DESCRIPTION:As part of a comprehensive strategic planning process\, The Umbrella Arts & Environment program will invite the community to participate in an open\, interactive public listening session to provide input on and ideas for future expanded programming initiatives at the intersection of the arts and environmental issues. Discussion will range from outdoors public art to performance environmental education and activism\, and more. \nHeld on November 2\, 2022 from 6-7:30PM at The Umbrella Arts Center\, 40 Stow Street\, the session builds on a months-long series of smaller listening and learning sessions the program has held with a variety of stakeholders including the Musketaquid Steering Committee\, Umbrella Studio Artists\, Umbrella Staff and Board members\, Concord Town officials\, and representatives of diverse environmental and cultural institutions in the region. \nCome share your interests in Arts & Environment by RSVP-ing for this free community discussion on The Umbrella website. \nOR\, if you can’t make it\, you can still help shape the discussion and strategic planning by filling out a pre-session Arts & Environment Survey .
URL:https://freedomsway.org/staging/6553/event/umbrella-arts-environment-listening-session/
LOCATION:The Umbrella Arts Center\, 40 Stow Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Umbrella Arts Center":MAILTO:stewart@theumbrellaarts.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221103T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221103T200000
DTSTAMP:20260517T142509
CREATED:20221003T221223Z
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SUMMARY:Ceremonial Stone Landscape Movement – A Local Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Many of the “mysterious” stone structures of New England\, once thought to be by-products of colonial farming\, are now understood as originating in pre-colonial ceremonial practices of Native Americans. Peter Waksman’s talk focuses on contributions to the new understanding made by people and locations in Acton and nearby towns. \nThere has been a growing awareness and interest in the “mysterious” stone structures of New England. Thought to be inconsequential byproducts of colonial farming\, many sites are now understood as originating in pre-colonial ceremonial practices of Native Americans. This talk will focus on the contributions to the new understanding\, made by people and locations in Acton and nearby towns. \nThrough his Rock Piles blog\, rockpiles.blogspot.com\, Peter Waksman has informed and influenced the study of Indigenous rock structures in the Northeast for more than 15 years. \nIn-person and streamed—All programs are free but require registration here. \n—\nThe Friends of Pine Hawk 2022 Fall Programs are presented with support from the Acton Memorial Library and Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area\, in collaboration with the Sargent Memorial Library of Boxborough and the Littleton Historical Society. \nAll programs are free but require registration here \nLink to 2022 Fall Programs flyer (pdf)
URL:https://freedomsway.org/staging/6553/event/ceremonial-stone-landscape-movement-a-local-perspective/
LOCATION:Acton Memorial Library\, 486 Main Street\, Acton\, MA\, 01720\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Friends of Pine Hawk":MAILTO:friends.of.pinehawk@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221103T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221103T210000
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SUMMARY:Concord Rev250 Celebration Community Discussion
DESCRIPTION:250th Celebration Community Discussion \nThursday\, November 3\, 7:00 p.m. \nGoodwin Forum\, Main Library & On Zoom \nPlease join in a vigorous community discussion to help plan Concord’s 250th Celebration of the founding of our country. Citizens will have a chance to discuss the goals\, theme\, and hopeful outcomes of our celebration. \nThe Select Board has established the Concord 2025 Executive Committee that envisions a wide range of exciting events and activities to commemorate our observances. The success of the year-long celebration\, however\, will depend upon the thoughtful engagement of the collective voices of our community. Please do not miss this opportunity to inform and influence these events.
URL:https://freedomsway.org/staging/6553/event/concord-rev250-celebration-community-discussion/
LOCATION:Concord Free Public Library\, 129 Main St\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
CATEGORIES:Living History,Talks,Volunteer Opportunities
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ORGANIZER;CN="Town of Concord 250th Committee":MAILTO:250celebration@concordma.gov
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221105T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221105T200000
DTSTAMP:20260517T142509
CREATED:20220401T141722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220428T134007Z
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SUMMARY:Shirley Historical Society Annual Meeting & Pot Luck Supper
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Shirley Historical Society!
URL:https://freedomsway.org/staging/6553/event/shirley-historical-society-annual-meeting-pot-luck-supper/
LOCATION:Shirley Senior Center\, 9 Parker Road\, Shirley\, 01454
CATEGORIES:Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shirley Historical Society":MAILTO:mail@shirleyhistory.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221106T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221106T150000
DTSTAMP:20260517T142509
CREATED:20221027T141836Z
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SUMMARY:Bizen Panel
DESCRIPTION:The 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. \nThe panel discussion will be moderated by Judith Schwartz\, writer\, curator and Professor Emeritus of Art History at NYU.  This discussion will culminate with a visit to Lucy Lacoste Gallery for the concurrent Bizen Revisited show (on view November 5 – December 3\, 2022). \nThis event is part of The Umbrella’s new expanded series of Fall Ceramics Studio workshops and Artist Talks also featuring Director of the Harvard Ceramics Program\, Kathy King; 2022-2023 Umbrella Artist in Residence Ponnapa Prakkamakul; and Jessica Straus\, juror for the upcoming gallery exhibition\, “Lost and Found”.
URL:https://freedomsway.org/staging/6553/event/bizen-panel/
LOCATION:The Umbrella Arts Center\, 40 Stow Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Classes
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Umbrella Arts Center":MAILTO:stewart@theumbrellaarts.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221111T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221111T223000
DTSTAMP:20260517T142509
CREATED:20221027T135157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T135157Z
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SUMMARY:Rent
DESCRIPTION:The Umbrella Stage Company presents RENT! Book\, music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson \nThe 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 years RENT has inspired generations of audiences to choose love over fear and to live without regret. This is theater at its best – exuberant\, passionate and joyous. La Vie Boheme! \nRunning Nov. 11-Dec. 4\, 2022\, Rent is directed for The Umbrella Stage Company by Julia Deter\, with Scenic Design by Dan Daly\,  Costumes by Becky Butler\, and Lighting Design by Ben Rush. It features Temma Beaudreau\, Brian Demar Jones*\, Maria Norris\, Dominic Pecikonis\, Isa Sanchez\, Errol Service Jr.\, Jake Smerechniak\, and Jared Troilo*\, with John Breen\, Vanessa Calantropo\, Shani Farrell\, Eleni Kontzamanys\, Emily Lambert\, H.C. (Len) Lee\, Alex Massarotti\, Kara Chu Nelson and David Rodrigues. \nThe Umbrella is ADA accessible\, a proud partner in the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s EBT Card-to-Culture program\, and provides free parking and free admission to its visual arts galleries. \nSee https://TheUmbrellaArts.org/Rent
URL:https://freedomsway.org/staging/6553/event/rent/2022-11-11/
LOCATION:The Umbrella Arts Center\, 40 Stow Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performances
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Umbrella Arts Center":MAILTO:stewart@theumbrellaarts.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221112T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221112T160000
DTSTAMP:20260517T142509
CREATED:20221027T142057Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Sgraffito and the Narrative Surface
DESCRIPTION:The 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. \nDirector of the Harvard Ceramics Program\, Kathy King\, has used this technique in her work for more than 20 years to express personal narrative and identity and to tell stories. In a special one-day-only\, hands-on workshop at The Umbrella Arts Center\, Kathy will be demonstrating how she uses this technique on a variety of forms\, as well as discussing the themes and visual imagery she uses and how that relates to her experience as a female ceramic artist and director of the Harvard Ceramics Program. Kathy will share an array of tips and tricks on how to transfer images\, what tools to use\, and will discuss how to finish the work to preserve freshness of the lines. Participants will be provided a small test tile to explore these techniques on as the final component of the workshop. \nThis class is suitable for all students.
URL:https://freedomsway.org/staging/6553/event/workshop-sgraffito-and-the-narrative-surface/
LOCATION:The Umbrella Arts Center\, 40 Stow Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Classes
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Umbrella Arts Center":MAILTO:stewart@theumbrellaarts.org
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221114
DTSTAMP:20260517T142509
CREATED:20221003T221749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T221749Z
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SUMMARY:Trail Through Time Community Service Day
DESCRIPTION: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. \nCloser to November 13\, the meeting place and other details will be sent to registrants by email. \nLimited to 25\, ages 13 and up—All programs are free but require registration here. \n—\nThe Friends of Pine Hawk 2022 Fall Programs are presented with support from the Acton Memorial Library and Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area\, in collaboration with the Sargent Memorial Library of Boxborough and the Littleton Historical Society. \nAll programs are free but require registration here \nLink to 2022 Fall Programs flyer (pdf)
URL:https://freedomsway.org/staging/6553/event/trail-through-time-community-service-day/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Volunteer Opportunities
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ORGANIZER;CN="Friends of Pine Hawk":MAILTO:friends.of.pinehawk@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221113T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221113T150000
DTSTAMP:20260517T142509
CREATED:20230929T181511Z
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SUMMARY:Trail Through Time Community Service Day
DESCRIPTION: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. \nDetails will be emailed to registrants a few days in advance. \nLimited to 25\, ages 13 and up—All programs are free but require registration here. \n—\nThe Friends of Pine Hawk 2023 Fall Programs are presented with support from the Acton Memorial Library and Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area\, in collaboration with the Littleton Historical Society. \nAll programs are free but require registration here \nLink to 2023 Fall Programs flyer (pdf)
URL:https://freedomsway.org/staging/6553/event/trail-through-time-community-service-day-2/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Volunteer Opportunities
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ORGANIZER;CN="Friends of Pine Hawk":MAILTO:friends.of.pinehawk@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221115T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221115T200000
DTSTAMP:20260517T142509
CREATED:20221024T175316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230601T154845Z
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Philip Deloria
DESCRIPTION:Join 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). \nThis program will be held in person at the Concord Museum\, in addition to being live-streamed. \nClick here to register. \nVirtual tickets: Complimentary\nMember in-person tickets: Individual members receive one complimentary member-level ticket. Dual and above members receive two complimentary member-level tickets.\nNon-member in-person tickets: $10 each
URL:https://freedomsway.org/staging/6553/event/a-conversation-with-philip-deloria/
LOCATION:Concord Museum\, 53 Cambridge Turnpike\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks
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