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SUMMARY:Twice the Speed of Bliss
DESCRIPTION:Twice the Speed of Bliss \nPaintings and Drawings by Kat O’Connor \nJanuary 13 – March 23\, 2025 \nOpening Reception February 13\, 6PM \nOn view in The Umbrella Arts Center Allie Kussin Gallery are recent paintings and drawings by Kat O’Connor\, a full-time artist and art instructor living outside of Boston\, Massachusetts.  \n  \nHer work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States. She is a Copley Master with the Copley Society of Artists and was honored with a Co/So Fellowship and Residency at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Massachusetts in 2023\, and was a 2021 Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts Resident. She was awarded a Mass Cultural Council Fellowship for her drawings and two ArtsWorcester Material Needs Grants. She has lead painting classes in Texas\, New Mexico\, Italy\, Greece\, and throughout New England. O’Connor works in watercolor\, acrylic\, oil\, and drawing media.  \nHer work can be viewed at katopaints.com and @katopaints.
URL:https://visitconcord.org/event/twice-the-speed-of-bliss/
LOCATION:The Umbrella Arts Center\, 40 Stow Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare In Love
DESCRIPTION:The Concord Players presents Shakespeare In Love February 14 – March 1\, 2025 \nIt’s 1593 in London\, and sometime player / playwright William Shakespeare is struggling to finish his latest work ‘Romeo and Ethel\, the Pirate’s Daughter’. Disguised as a man (since women are forbidden on the stage) young Viola de Lesseps auditions and wins a leading role in this new play … and in Will’s heart. \nBased on the Academy Award-winning film\, Shakespeare in Love is an enchanting\, hilarious\, and romantic telling of the inspiration for Shakespeare’s immortal Juliet\, as well as for the story of undying love he created for her. \nPerformances: February 14\, 15\, 21\, 22\, 28 & March 1 at 8:00 pm and February 16 & 23 at 2:00 pm at The Performing Arts Center\, 51 Walden Street\, Concord\, MA. \nFor tickets and more information: concord players.org or call 978-369-2990
URL:https://visitconcord.org/event/shakespeare-in-love/2025-02-14/
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare In Love
DESCRIPTION:The Concord Players presents Shakespeare In Love February 14 – March 1\, 2025 \nIt’s 1593 in London\, and sometime player / playwright William Shakespeare is struggling to finish his latest work ‘Romeo and Ethel\, the Pirate’s Daughter’. Disguised as a man (since women are forbidden on the stage) young Viola de Lesseps auditions and wins a leading role in this new play … and in Will’s heart. \nBased on the Academy Award-winning film\, Shakespeare in Love is an enchanting\, hilarious\, and romantic telling of the inspiration for Shakespeare’s immortal Juliet\, as well as for the story of undying love he created for her. \nPerformances: February 14\, 15\, 21\, 22\, 28 & March 1 at 8:00 pm and February 16 & 23 at 2:00 pm at The Performing Arts Center\, 51 Walden Street\, Concord\, MA. \nFor tickets and more information: concord players.org or call 978-369-2990
URL:https://visitconcord.org/event/shakespeare-in-love/2025-02-15/
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SUMMARY:Be a Data Scientist at Discovery Museum
DESCRIPTION:How tall are Discovery Museum visitors?  What kind of pets do they have?  Learn the answers to these questions and more as we play with data. We’ll use a variety of ways of collecting and displaying data while exploring some fun and silly science.
URL:https://visitconcord.org/event/be-a-data-scientist-at-discovery-museum/2025-02-16/
LOCATION:Discovery Museum\, 177 Main St.\, Acton\, 01720
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SUMMARY:Be a Data Scientist at Discovery Museum
DESCRIPTION:How tall are Discovery Museum visitors?  What kind of pets do they have?  Learn the answers to these questions and more as we play with data. We’ll use a variety of ways of collecting and displaying data while exploring some fun and silly science.
URL:https://visitconcord.org/event/be-a-data-scientist-at-discovery-museum/2025-02-17/
LOCATION:Discovery Museum\, 177 Main St.\, Acton\, 01720
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SUMMARY:Be a Data Scientist at Discovery Museum
DESCRIPTION:How tall are Discovery Museum visitors?  What kind of pets do they have?  Learn the answers to these questions and more as we play with data. We’ll use a variety of ways of collecting and displaying data while exploring some fun and silly science.
URL:https://visitconcord.org/event/be-a-data-scientist-at-discovery-museum/2025-02-18/
LOCATION:Discovery Museum\, 177 Main St.\, Acton\, 01720
CATEGORIES:Children
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SUMMARY:Be a Data Scientist at Discovery Museum
DESCRIPTION:How tall are Discovery Museum visitors?  What kind of pets do they have?  Learn the answers to these questions and more as we play with data. We’ll use a variety of ways of collecting and displaying data while exploring some fun and silly science.
URL:https://visitconcord.org/event/be-a-data-scientist-at-discovery-museum/2025-02-19/
LOCATION:Discovery Museum\, 177 Main St.\, Acton\, 01720
CATEGORIES:Children
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare In Love
DESCRIPTION:The Concord Players presents Shakespeare In Love February 14 – March 1\, 2025 \nIt’s 1593 in London\, and sometime player / playwright William Shakespeare is struggling to finish his latest work ‘Romeo and Ethel\, the Pirate’s Daughter’. Disguised as a man (since women are forbidden on the stage) young Viola de Lesseps auditions and wins a leading role in this new play … and in Will’s heart. \nBased on the Academy Award-winning film\, Shakespeare in Love is an enchanting\, hilarious\, and romantic telling of the inspiration for Shakespeare’s immortal Juliet\, as well as for the story of undying love he created for her. \nPerformances: February 14\, 15\, 21\, 22\, 28 & March 1 at 8:00 pm and February 16 & 23 at 2:00 pm at The Performing Arts Center\, 51 Walden Street\, Concord\, MA. \nFor tickets and more information: concord players.org or call 978-369-2990
URL:https://visitconcord.org/event/shakespeare-in-love/2025-02-21/
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CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare In Love
DESCRIPTION:The Concord Players presents Shakespeare In Love February 14 – March 1\, 2025 \nIt’s 1593 in London\, and sometime player / playwright William Shakespeare is struggling to finish his latest work ‘Romeo and Ethel\, the Pirate’s Daughter’. Disguised as a man (since women are forbidden on the stage) young Viola de Lesseps auditions and wins a leading role in this new play … and in Will’s heart. \nBased on the Academy Award-winning film\, Shakespeare in Love is an enchanting\, hilarious\, and romantic telling of the inspiration for Shakespeare’s immortal Juliet\, as well as for the story of undying love he created for her. \nPerformances: February 14\, 15\, 21\, 22\, 28 & March 1 at 8:00 pm and February 16 & 23 at 2:00 pm at The Performing Arts Center\, 51 Walden Street\, Concord\, MA. \nFor tickets and more information: concord players.org or call 978-369-2990
URL:https://visitconcord.org/event/shakespeare-in-love/2025-02-22/
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SUMMARY:Discover What’s Next at Discovery Museum! Reception with our CEO
DESCRIPTION:What’s next for the Discovery Museum? You’re invited to find out! \nJoin us at the Museum for an exclusive opportunity to find out what we learned from our community during a 6-month data collection period\, and hear our vision for the future as we launch our 2025-2027 Strategic Plan. \n  \nMeet our CEO\, Marie Beam \n\nSee the results from out community research\nDive into our 2025-2027 Strategic Plan\nMingle with other Museum enthusiasts\nEnjoy light refreshments\n\nChoose the date and time that work best for you: \n\nThursday\, February 6\, 6:00pm to 7:00pm\nWednesday\, February 26\, 11:30am to 12:30pm\nSunday\, March 2\, 3:00pm to 4:00pm\n\n  \nPlease RSVP to events@discoveryacton.org
URL:https://visitconcord.org/event/discover-whats-next-at-discovery-museum-reception-with-our-ceo/2025-02-26/
LOCATION:Discovery Museum\, 177 Main St.\, Acton\, 01720
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Members Juried 2: Collage\, Crafts\, Drawing\, Graphics\, Mixed Media\, Photography\, Printmaking 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thursday February 27th at 5:30pm for the opening reception of our upcoming exhibition\, “Members Juried 2: Collage\, Crafts\, Drawing\, Graphics\, Mixed Media\, Photography\, Printmaking 2025\,” juried by Crista Dix. The exhibition is on view February 27 – March 27\, 2025.
URL:https://visitconcord.org/event/members-juried-2-collage-crafts-drawing-graphics-mixed-media-photography-printmaking-2025/
LOCATION:Concord Art\, 37 Lexington Rd\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
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SUMMARY:Concord250 Event: Where We Belong\, New England Premiere!
DESCRIPTION:Indigenous Theater-Maker’s Journey Grapples with Geographic Borders and\nCultural Legacies in a Universal Search for Belonging \nFebruary 28- March 23\, 2025 \nUmbrella Arts\, Black Box Theater \nBy Madeline Sayet\, Directed by Tara Moses \nThe Umbrella Stage Company is thrilled to mount the New England Premiere of Mohegan theatre-maker Madeline Sayet’s ground-breaking one-woman show\, Where We Belong.\nPerformed for the first time by an artist other than Sayet herself\, it is helmed by fellow\nIndigenous director and playwright Tara Moses and stars GiGi Buddie. This brand new staging in\nConcord\, MA during the Semiquincentennial of the beginning of the American Revolution raises\ntimely questions of whose histories are told\, how\, by whom\, and in what language. \nWith great humor\, insight\, and imaginative storytelling\, the autobiographical play weaves\ntogether Indigenous history\, Shakespeare\, cultural legacy\, the power of language\, and legend. It\nrecounts Sayet’s 2015 journey to England to pursue a PhD in Shakespeare in the shadow of the\nBrexit vote. Moving between nations that have failed to reckon with their ongoing roles in\ncolonialism\, she grapples with what it means to remain or leave her own home as a Mohegan\,\nbut discovers comfort in mirroring the footsteps of her ancestors who traveled to England in the\n1700s. \n“Madeline’s story is uniquely personal\, but universally relatable. Following the completion of\nthe original tour with Madeline at the center\,” says Brian Boruta\, Umbrella Stage Producing\nArtistic Director\, “we wanted to explore how the play could evolve\, be adapted for other\nperformers\, and reveal a continuing relevance for future productions and new audiences. Sayet\noriginally developed the play in partnership with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in\nassociation with The Folger Shakespeare Library\, and is engaged with the Umbrella team on this\nnext evolution. \nThe show runs Feb. 28-Mar. 23 (press opening Sunday Mar. 2\, 3:00PM)\, including a special\nStudent Group Matinee Wed. Mar. 12 at 4PM\, and select performances will feature engagement\nopportunities.\n● Dinner & A Show packages are available for all Thursday night performances\n● Talk Backs scheduled following performances on March 12\, 16 and 20\n● Childcare with art activities for youth ages 5-12 is available through The Umbrella’s Kid\nCare program for parents interested in attending the March 16 matinee\nPlanned community engagement activities will also highlight art and experiences of Concord’s\nnative Nipmuc and Massachusett tribes\, including a concurrent gallery exhibition of work by\nNipmuc photographer Scott Strong Hawk Foster.\nThe Umbrella is ADA accessible\, a proud partner in the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s EBT\nCard-to-Culture program\, and provides free parking and free admission to its visual arts\ngalleries. See https://TheUmbrellaArts.org/WWB for more information. \nSpecial Note to Press: We ask our friends in the press to please respect the request to avoid\nreproducing Mohegan language words in their coverage\, including those in the script\, as this is a\nlanguage under active reconstruction and reclamation. \n  \nABOUT MADELINE SAYET\nMadeline Sayet is a member of the Mohegan Tribe in Connecticut\, where she was raised on a\ncombination of traditional Mohegan stories and Shakespeare. Both of which have influenced\nher work as a playwright and director.\nShe has been named a Forbes 30 Under 30 in Hollywood & Entertainment\, a NCAIED Native\nAmerican 40 Under 40\, a TED Fellow\, MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow\, and a recipient of the\nWhite House Champion of Change Award from President Obama. She is the Executive Director\nof the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP). Her directorial work has been\ndescribed by critics as effervescent\, enchanting\, magical\, insightful\, and fearless. As a performer\nshe was nominated for a Jeff Award for best Solo Performance for her run of Where We Belong\nat The Goodman Theatre.\nABOUT TARA MOSES\nTara Moses is a director\, multi award-winning playwright\, co-Founder of Groundwater Arts\, and\na citizen of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.\nAs a director\, her work has been seen in Santa Fe\, NM; Kansas City\, MO; Boston\, MA; San\nFrancisco\, CA; Kyle\, SD; Vermillion\, SD; Providence\, RI; Seattle\, WA; New York\, NY; Tulsa\, OK;\nWashington\, D.C.; Bethesda\, MD; Oklahoma City\, OK; Palmetto\, GA; Edmond\, OK; and Hartford\,\nCT. Also a prolific playwright\, her plays have been produced and/or developed with Company\nOne Theatre (Boston\, MA); Alter Theatre Ensemble (San Rafael\, CA); Kitchen Dog Theater\n(Dallas\, TX); Geva Theatre Center (Rochester\, RI); Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland\, OR);\nAmerican Indian Community House (New York\, NY); Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective (New\nYork\, NY); among many others nationwide.\nShe is an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society; and Dramatists\nGuild member. She holds an MFA in Directing from Brown/Trinity Rep and a BA in Theatre from\nthe University of Tulsa.\nABOUT GIGI BUDDIE\nAs an artivist\, GiGi Buddie’s (she/her) (Tongva and Mescalero Apache) professional and personal\npursuits converge at the intersection of art and climate justice. In 2021\, she helped to bring\nfrontline climate stories to Glasgow at the United Nations Climate Summit. Her debut single\n“Ursa Major\,” a love letter to the Iroquois story of the Celestial Bear\, is available on all platforms.\nAs an actor\, singer\, songwriter\, and activist\, she creates and contributes to stories of creation\,\nresilience\, and beauty from frontline communities. GiGi received a B.A. from Pomona College in\nTheatre Performance and Environmental Analysis. Previous credits include: Auntie 2 (Antíkoni\,\nWorld Premiere)\, Anna (if Nobody Does Remarkable Things)\, Feste (Twelfth Night)\, Ruby\n(Daphne’s Dive)\, and Marty (Circle Mirror Transformation)
URL:https://visitconcord.org/event/concord250-event-where-we-belong-new-england-premiere/
LOCATION:The Umbrella Arts Center\, 40 Stow Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ways of My Ancestors – Imagery: Lighting the Path to Awareness
DESCRIPTION:“Ways of My Ancestors – Imagery: Lighting the Path to Awareness” features photographic work by Scott Strong Hawk Foster that celebrates the rich\, diverse\, and resilient cultures of the Native Peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of North America. \nFoster is a Native American photographer and an enrolled member of Hassanamisco Nipmuc Band with proud Mohegan and Cherokee lineage. His work has been exhibited at the Danforth Museum\, Worcester Art Museum\, Boston City Hall\, and other venues. \nOn view through March 23 in The Umbrella’s Wedge Gallery\, this exhibition reflects Foster’s travels within his home state of Massachusetts and throughout the ancestral homelands of the Native American Peoples of New England.  While attending powwows\, cultural events\, workshops\, and Indigenous practices that span millennia\, his passion has become highlighting cultures and history of the Indigenous peoples that are still here and living amongst us. \nBoth the opening reception March 5\, 6PM and Artist Talk\, March 9\, 1-2PM are free and open to the public. \nThe exhibition runs concurrently with The Umbrella Stage Company’s Where We Belong by Mohegan playwright Madeline Sayet in The Umbrella’s Black Box theater. Both are presented as part of The Umbrella’s programs recognizing the American semiquincentennial. \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. See https://TheUmbrellaArts.org/Foster \n 
URL:https://visitconcord.org/event/ways-of-my-ancestors-imagery-lighting-the-path-to-awareness/
LOCATION:The Umbrella Arts Center\, 40 Stow Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
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SUMMARY:Concord250 Event: Umbrella Arts: "Where We Belong"
DESCRIPTION:Indigenous Theater-Maker’s Journey Grapples with Geographic Borders and\nCultural Legacies in a Universal Search for Belonging \nFebruary 28- March 23\, 2025 TICKETS \nUmbrella Arts\, Black Box Theater \nBy Madeline Sayet\, Directed by Tara Moses \nThe Umbrella Stage Company is thrilled to mount the New England Premiere of Mohegan theatre-maker Madeline Sayet’s ground-breaking one-woman show\, Where We Belong.\nPerformed for the first time by an artist other than Sayet herself\, it is helmed by fellow\nIndigenous director and playwright Tara Moses and stars GiGi Buddie. This brand new staging in\nConcord\, MA during the Semiquincentennial of the beginning of the American Revolution raises\ntimely questions of whose histories are told\, how\, by whom\, and in what language. \nWith great humor\, insight\, and imaginative storytelling\, the autobiographical play weaves\ntogether Indigenous history\, Shakespeare\, cultural legacy\, the power of language\, and legend. It\nrecounts Sayet’s 2015 journey to England to pursue a PhD in Shakespeare in the shadow of the\nBrexit vote. Moving between nations that have failed to reckon with their ongoing roles in\ncolonialism\, she grapples with what it means to remain or leave her own home as a Mohegan\,\nbut discovers comfort in mirroring the footsteps of her ancestors who traveled to England in the\n1700s. \n“Madeline’s story is uniquely personal\, but universally relatable. Following the completion of\nthe original tour with Madeline at the center\,” says Brian Boruta\, Umbrella Stage Producing\nArtistic Director\, “we wanted to explore how the play could evolve\, be adapted for other\nperformers\, and reveal a continuing relevance for future productions and new audiences. Sayet\noriginally developed the play in partnership with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in\nassociation with The Folger Shakespeare Library\, and is engaged with the Umbrella team on this\nnext evolution. \nThe show runs Feb. 28-Mar. 23 (press opening Sunday Mar. 2\, 3:00PM)\, including a special\nStudent Group Matinee Wed. Mar. 12 at 4PM\, and select performances will feature engagement\nopportunities.\n● Dinner & A Show packages are available for all Thursday night performances\n● Talk Backs scheduled following performances on March 12\, 16 and 20\n● Childcare with art activities for youth ages 5-12 is available through The Umbrella’s Kid\nCare program for parents interested in attending the March 16 matinee\nPlanned community engagement activities will also highlight art and experiences of Concord’s\nnative Nipmuc and Massachusett tribes\, including a concurrent gallery exhibition of work by\nNipmuc photographer Scott Strong Hawk Foster.\nThe Umbrella is ADA accessible\, a proud partner in the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s EBT\nCard-to-Culture program\, and provides free parking and free admission to its visual arts\ngalleries. See https://TheUmbrellaArts.org/WWB for more information. \nSpecial Note to Press: We ask our friends in the press to please respect the request to avoid\nreproducing Mohegan language words in their coverage\, including those in the script\, as this is a\nlanguage under active reconstruction and reclamation. \n  \nABOUT MADELINE SAYET\nMadeline Sayet is a member of the Mohegan Tribe in Connecticut\, where she was raised on a\ncombination of traditional Mohegan stories and Shakespeare. Both of which have influenced\nher work as a playwright and director.\nShe has been named a Forbes 30 Under 30 in Hollywood & Entertainment\, a NCAIED Native\nAmerican 40 Under 40\, a TED Fellow\, MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow\, and a recipient of the\nWhite House Champion of Change Award from President Obama. She is the Executive Director\nof the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP). Her directorial work has been\ndescribed by critics as effervescent\, enchanting\, magical\, insightful\, and fearless. As a performer\nshe was nominated for a Jeff Award for best Solo Performance for her run of Where We Belong\nat The Goodman Theatre.\nABOUT TARA MOSES\nTara Moses is a director\, multi award-winning playwright\, co-Founder of Groundwater Arts\, and\na citizen of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.\nAs a director\, her work has been seen in Santa Fe\, NM; Kansas City\, MO; Boston\, MA; San\nFrancisco\, CA; Kyle\, SD; Vermillion\, SD; Providence\, RI; Seattle\, WA; New York\, NY; Tulsa\, OK;\nWashington\, D.C.; Bethesda\, MD; Oklahoma City\, OK; Palmetto\, GA; Edmond\, OK; and Hartford\,\nCT. Also a prolific playwright\, her plays have been produced and/or developed with Company\nOne Theatre (Boston\, MA); Alter Theatre Ensemble (San Rafael\, CA); Kitchen Dog Theater\n(Dallas\, TX); Geva Theatre Center (Rochester\, RI); Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland\, OR);\nAmerican Indian Community House (New York\, NY); Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective (New\nYork\, NY); among many others nationwide.\nShe is an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society; and Dramatists\nGuild member. She holds an MFA in Directing from Brown/Trinity Rep and a BA in Theatre from\nthe University of Tulsa.\nABOUT GIGI BUDDIE\nAs an artivist\, GiGi Buddie’s (she/her) (Tongva and Mescalero Apache) professional and personal\npursuits converge at the intersection of art and climate justice. In 2021\, she helped to bring\nfrontline climate stories to Glasgow at the United Nations Climate Summit. Her debut single\n“Ursa Major\,” a love letter to the Iroquois story of the Celestial Bear\, is available on all platforms.\nAs an actor\, singer\, songwriter\, and activist\, she creates and contributes to stories of creation\,\nresilience\, and beauty from frontline communities. GiGi received a B.A. from Pomona College in\nTheatre Performance and Environmental Analysis. Previous credits include: Auntie 2 (Antíkoni\,\nWorld Premiere)\, Anna (if Nobody Does Remarkable Things)\, Feste (Twelfth Night)\, Ruby\n(Daphne’s Dive)\, and Marty (Circle Mirror Transformation)
URL:https://visitconcord.org/event/where-we-belong/
LOCATION:The Umbrella Arts Center\, 40 Stow Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Concord250,Friends & Family of Residents,Indigenous
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare In Love
DESCRIPTION:The Concord Players presents Shakespeare In Love February 14 – March 1\, 2025 \nIt’s 1593 in London\, and sometime player / playwright William Shakespeare is struggling to finish his latest work ‘Romeo and Ethel\, the Pirate’s Daughter’. Disguised as a man (since women are forbidden on the stage) young Viola de Lesseps auditions and wins a leading role in this new play … and in Will’s heart. \nBased on the Academy Award-winning film\, Shakespeare in Love is an enchanting\, hilarious\, and romantic telling of the inspiration for Shakespeare’s immortal Juliet\, as well as for the story of undying love he created for her. \nPerformances: February 14\, 15\, 21\, 22\, 28 & March 1 at 8:00 pm and February 16 & 23 at 2:00 pm at The Performing Arts Center\, 51 Walden Street\, Concord\, MA. \nFor tickets and more information: concord players.org or call 978-369-2990
URL:https://visitconcord.org/event/shakespeare-in-love/2025-02-28/
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SUMMARY:Telling a Better Story - Expand What You Know About Concord's History
DESCRIPTION:Are you hosting family and friends for the 250th? Would you like to impress them with what you know about Concord’s history? If you want to update the stories you know and learn new ones\, you will want to attend this talk.\n\nPublic historian Beth van Duzer has updated and expanded some well-known stories using primary sources\, such as John Jack’s\, enslaved to a Concord shoemaker Benjamin Barron\, able to purchase his freedom\, and buried in Concord’s Old Hill Burial Ground. Additionally\, new stories have emerged that enrich Concord’s history\, including the tale of an Indigenous boy who lived in Concord in the late 1700s\, women who were compensated by the Town of Concord whose husbands served as soldiers during the Revolutionary War\, and the expanded story of an enslaved woman who later lived as a free person in Concord. \nBeth van Duzer is an independent historian in Concord\, MA. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Montclair State University and a master’s degree in History\, focused on Public History\, from Southern New Hampshire University. Beth is the co-chair and clerk of the Concord250 History & Education Subcommittee and is the owner of Concord Walking Tours\, a history research and tour company.
URL:https://visitconcord.org/event/telling-a-better-story-expand-what-you-know-about-concords-history/
LOCATION:Concord Free Public Library\, 129 Main Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742
CATEGORIES:Concord250,Friends & Family of Residents
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare In Love
DESCRIPTION:The Concord Players presents Shakespeare In Love February 14 – March 1\, 2025 \nIt’s 1593 in London\, and sometime player / playwright William Shakespeare is struggling to finish his latest work ‘Romeo and Ethel\, the Pirate’s Daughter’. Disguised as a man (since women are forbidden on the stage) young Viola de Lesseps auditions and wins a leading role in this new play … and in Will’s heart. \nBased on the Academy Award-winning film\, Shakespeare in Love is an enchanting\, hilarious\, and romantic telling of the inspiration for Shakespeare’s immortal Juliet\, as well as for the story of undying love he created for her. \nPerformances: February 14\, 15\, 21\, 22\, 28 & March 1 at 8:00 pm and February 16 & 23 at 2:00 pm at The Performing Arts Center\, 51 Walden Street\, Concord\, MA. \nFor tickets and more information: concord players.org or call 978-369-2990
URL:https://visitconcord.org/event/shakespeare-in-love/2025-03-01/
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SUMMARY:Discover What’s Next at Discovery Museum! Reception with our CEO
DESCRIPTION:What’s next for the Discovery Museum? You’re invited to find out! \nJoin us at the Museum for an exclusive opportunity to find out what we learned from our community during a 6-month data collection period\, and hear our vision for the future as we launch our 2025-2027 Strategic Plan. \n  \nMeet our CEO\, Marie Beam \n\nSee the results from out community research\nDive into our 2025-2027 Strategic Plan\nMingle with other Museum enthusiasts\nEnjoy light refreshments\n\nChoose the date and time that work best for you: \n\nThursday\, February 6\, 6:00pm to 7:00pm\nWednesday\, February 26\, 11:30am to 12:30pm\nSunday\, March 2\, 3:00pm to 4:00pm\n\n  \nPlease RSVP to events@discoveryacton.org
URL:https://visitconcord.org/event/discover-whats-next-at-discovery-museum-reception-with-our-ceo/2025-03-02/
LOCATION:Discovery Museum\, 177 Main St.\, Acton\, 01720
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Choral Evensong
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, March 2\, at 5:00 pm\, Concord choirs from First Parish\, Trinitarian Congregational\, Holy Family\, and West Concord Union Church will gather with the choir from Trinity Episcopal Church at Trinity\, 81 Elm Street\, Concord\, MA for a traditional English service of sung prayer called Choral Evensong\, in honor of the 250th celebration of the historic battle.  Music included will be by several composers representing the 17th to 21st centuries.  The service is open to all and free admission.
URL:https://visitconcord.org/event/choral-evensong/
LOCATION:Trinity Episcopal Church\, Elm Street 81\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concord250
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