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SUMMARY:Twice the Speed of Bliss
DESCRIPTION:Paintings 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. \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://revolutionaryvalley.org/event/twice-the-speed-of-bliss/
LOCATION:The Umbrella Arts Center\, 40 Stow Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250201T150000
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SUMMARY:EARTH TONES | January 29 – February 23\, 2025| Loading Dock Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Loading Dock Gallery announces its latest member exhibit\, Earth Tones\, opening January 29th. This vibrant showcase features diverse works by local artists\, exploring themes of nature\, urban landscapes\, and abstract interpretations. From serene still life compositions to bold contemporary abstractions\, Earth Tones captures the essence of our connection to the environment and urban life. \nThe Loading Dock Gallery show\, Earth Tones\, will be on display January 29 through February 23\, 2025\, at the Loading Dock Gallery\, 122 Western Avenue\, Lowell\, MA\, Noon-5:30 pm\, Wednesday-Saturday\, until 4pm Sunday. Admission is free. The opening reception is on February 1 from 3-5 pm. More at www.theloadingdockgallery.com. \nLoading Dock Gallery is part of Loading Dock Arts\, Inc.\, a 501c3.
URL:https://revolutionaryvalley.org/event/earth-tones-january-29-february-23-2025-loading-dock-gallery/
LOCATION:The Loading Dock Gallery\, The Loading Dock Gallery\, 122 Western Ave\, Lowell\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Live Greek & Middle Eastern Music and Bellydancing
DESCRIPTION:Live music and dancing featuring the Athenian Corner Ensemble
URL:https://revolutionaryvalley.org/event/live-greek-middle-eastern-music-and-bellydancing/2025-02-01/
LOCATION:Athenian Corner Restaurant\, 207 Market Street\, Lowell\, 01852\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Culinary Tourism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250205T190000
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SUMMARY:Fashioning Identity: The Garrisons and African American Fashion in Photography
DESCRIPTION:Fashion historian Jonathan Michael Square explores the historical significance of the Garrisons’ portraits in the context of African American fashion\, and how these images fit into the larger narrative of how African Americans have expressed themselves through fashion.
URL:https://revolutionaryvalley.org/event/fashioning-identity-the-garrisons-and-african-american-fashion-in-photography/
LOCATION:Concord Museum\, Concord Museum\, 53 Cambridge Tpke\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250206T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250206T190000
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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. \nMeet our CEO\, Marie Beam\n• See the results from out community research\n• Dive into our 2025-2027 Strategic Plan\n• Mingle with other Museum enthusiasts\n• Enjoy light refreshments\nChoose the date and time that work best for you:\n• Thursday\, February 6\, 6:00pm to 7:00pm\n• Wednesday\, February 26\, 11:30am to 12:30pm\n• Sunday\, March 2\, 3:00pm to 4:00pm \nPlease RSVP to events@discoveryacton.org
URL:https://revolutionaryvalley.org/event/discover-whats-next-at-discovery-museum-reception-with-our-ceo/2025-02-06/
LOCATION:Discovery Museum\, Discovery Museum\, 177 Main St\, Acton\, MA\, 01720\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250208T200000
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SUMMARY:Live Greek & Middle Eastern Music and Bellydancing
DESCRIPTION:Live music and dancing featuring the Athenian Corner Ensemble
URL:https://revolutionaryvalley.org/event/live-greek-middle-eastern-music-and-bellydancing/2025-02-08/
LOCATION:Athenian Corner Restaurant\, 207 Market Street\, Lowell\, 01852\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Culinary Tourism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250215T140000
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SUMMARY:Author Stephen O'Connor
DESCRIPTION:Author Stephen O’Connor has added another title in his collections of books based in Lowell.\nThe Pride of the Acre is a coming-of-age story. Charlie Tumulty passes out of a difficult childhood to find love\, success in the boxing ring\, and with the help of two valuable mentors\, self-awareness and a love of reading. The road to Charlie’s Olympic boxing goal\, and to the love he yearns for\, is fraught with difficulty. A hard decision has life-altering consequences and forces him to the threshold of an even tougher decision. What is the price that vengeance owes to a love cut short? And who will pay it?\nO’Connor is the author of several other books\, including two short story collections\, Northwest of Boston and Smokestack Lightning and the novels The Spy in the City of Books and The Witch at Rivermouth.\nGather this afternoon to hear Steve read from the book. Stick around to chat and have your book signed.
URL:https://revolutionaryvalley.org/event/author-stephen-oconnor/
LOCATION:lala books\, lala books\, 189 Market St\, Lowell\, MA\, 01852\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250215T200000
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SUMMARY:Live Greek & Middle Eastern Music and Bellydancing
DESCRIPTION:Live music and dancing featuring the Athenian Corner Ensemble
URL:https://revolutionaryvalley.org/event/live-greek-middle-eastern-music-and-bellydancing/2025-02-15/
LOCATION:Athenian Corner Restaurant\, 207 Market Street\, Lowell\, 01852\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Culinary Tourism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T100000
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SUMMARY:Chef Kelcy at Mill City Grows: "How to Lead a Cooking Demo"
DESCRIPTION:Register TODAY at MillCityGrows.org/events! Join Chef Kelcy and Mill City Grows for a FREE interactive cooking class focused on teaching you how to lead YOUR OWN cooking class! In this 90-minute program\, Chef Kelcy will walk you through the essential steps of planning a successful cooking program\, from knowing what to prep ahead of time to keeping your audience engaged with tips and tricks. The class will also feature a live demo and kitchen walkthrough\, giving you a behind-the-scenes look at how to set up and run a class smoothly. Plus\, there will be a Q&A session\, allowing you to ask questions and gain valuable insights. This is your chance to learn how to create a welcoming and successful kitchen program of your own!
URL:https://revolutionaryvalley.org/event/chef-kelcy-at-mill-city-grows-how-to-lead-a-cooking-demo/
LOCATION:ROOT Community Space at Mill City Grows\, 19 Hall Street\, Lowell\, 01854\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Food,Free Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250222T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250222T230000
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SUMMARY:Live Greek & Middle Eastern Music and Bellydancing
DESCRIPTION:Live music and dancing featuring the Athenian Corner Ensemble
URL:https://revolutionaryvalley.org/event/live-greek-middle-eastern-music-and-bellydancing/2025-02-22/
LOCATION:Athenian Corner Restaurant\, 207 Market Street\, Lowell\, 01852\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Culinary Tourism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250226T113000
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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. \nMeet our CEO\, Marie Beam\n• See the results from out community research\n• Dive into our 2025-2027 Strategic Plan\n• Mingle with other Museum enthusiasts\n• Enjoy light refreshments\nChoose the date and time that work best for you:\n• Thursday\, February 6\, 6:00pm to 7:00pm\n• Wednesday\, February 26\, 11:30am to 12:30pm\n• Sunday\, March 2\, 3:00pm to 4:00pm \nPlease RSVP to events@discoveryacton.org
URL:https://revolutionaryvalley.org/event/discover-whats-next-at-discovery-museum-reception-with-our-ceo/2025-02-26/
LOCATION:Discovery Museum\, Discovery Museum\, 177 Main St\, Acton\, MA\, 01720\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T200000
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SUMMARY:YA Author Visit: Crystal Maldonado
DESCRIPTION:Join the Pollard Memorial Library for a special event with Mass Book Award-winner Crystal Maldonado! Crystal will share her satisfying and multidimensional YA novel\, The Fall of Whit Rivera. \nBlisteringly funny and profoundly well-observed\, The Fall of Whit Rivera is a snug and cozy romcom that tackles weightier topics like chronic illness\, sexuality\, fatphobia\, Latino/a identity\, and class. Funny\, honest\, insightful\, romantic\, and poignant\, it is classic Crystal Maldonado—and it will have her legion of fans absolutely swooning. \nFrenemies Whit and Zay have been at odds for years (ever since he broke up with her in the most embarrassing way imaginable)\, so when they’re forced to organize the fall formal together\, it’s a literal disaster. Sparks fly as Whitney—type-A\, passionate\, a perfectionist\, and a certified sweater-weather fanatic—butts heads with Zay\, a dry\, relaxed skater boy who takes everything in stride. But not all of those sparks are bad. . . . Has their feud been a big misunderstanding all along? \nThis program is sponsored by the Mass Book Awards Speakers Bureau and is presented in collaboration with the Massachusetts Center for the Book. \nCrystal Maldonado is a young adult author with a lot of feelings. She is the author of romcoms for fat\, brown girls\, including The Fall of Whit Rivera\, which People Magazine called a “pumpkin-spice-latte-flavored treat” (Winner of the 2024 Mass Book Award in the Young Adult category); Fat Chance\, Charlie Vega\, which was a New England Book Award winner\, a Cosmopolitan Best New Book\, and a Kirkus Best YA Fiction of 2021; and No Filter and Other Lies\, which was named a POPSUGAR and Seventeen Best New YA. \nBy day\, Crystal works in higher ed marketing\, and by night\, she’s a writer who loves Beyoncé\, glitter\, shopping\, and spending too much time on her phone. Her work has been published in Latina\, BuzzFeed\, and the Hartford Courant. She lives in western Massachusetts with her husband\, daughter\, and dog. Follow her everywhere @crystalwrote or visit her website at crystalwrote.com. \nCrystal will speak about her experience as a writer\, and there will be time for a book signing at the end of the presentation. La La Books will be selling copies of The Fall of Whit Rivera\, so don’t fret if you don’t have a copy! \nThis program is recommended for ages 13+ \nRegistration is required\, as space is limited.
URL:https://revolutionaryvalley.org/event/ya-author-visit-crystal-maldonado/
LOCATION:Pollard Memorial Library\, Pollard Memorial Library\, 401 Merrimack St\, Lowell\, MA\, 01852\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250228
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250324
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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. \nSee https://TheUmbrellaArts.org/Foster
URL:https://revolutionaryvalley.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
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Exhibits,Free Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250228T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250323T150000
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SUMMARY:Where We Belong
DESCRIPTION:The Umbrella Stage Company presents the New England premiere of Mohegan theatre-maker Madeline Sayet’s ground-breaking one-woman show\, Where We Belong. \nWith great humor\, insight and imaginative storytelling\, the autobiographical play weaves together indigenous history\, Shakespeare\, colonialism\, cultural legacy\, the power of language and legend. It recounts Sayet’s 2015 journey to England to pursue a PhD in Shakespeare\, in the shadow of the Brexit vote. Moving between nations that have failed to reckon with their ongoing roles in colonialism\, she grapples with what it means to remain or leave her own home at Mohegan\, but finds comfort following in the footsteps of her ancestors who traveled to England in the 1700s to help her people. \nPerformed for the first time by an artist other than Sayet herself\, the show has been completely restaged by fellow director and playwright Tara Moses. Its staging in Concord during the semiquincentennial of the “shot heard round the world” raises timely questions of whose stories about history are told\, how\, by whom\, and in what language. \nThe show runs Feb. 28-Mar. 23\, including a special Student Group Matinee Wed. Mar. 12 at 4PM\, and select performances will feature engagement opportunities including optional pre-show catered dinners on Thursdays\, childcare through The Umbrella’s Kid-Care program for parents interested in attending the March 9 matinee\, and others. \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/WWB for more information. \nStudent: $20\nSenior: $45\nAdult: $48
URL:https://revolutionaryvalley.org/event/where-we-belong/
LOCATION:The Umbrella Arts Center\, 40 Stow Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Concord 250
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