Reckoning with Monuments in the North: A Conversation with W. Ralph Eubanks
2023-01-18 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Concord Museum, Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
Though there are no statues honoring the Confederacy to be found in Boston and Cambridge, award-winning author W. Ralph Eubanks discusses the historic memorials that obscure the achievements of Black Americans. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with the Mississippi native on his experience spending a year surrounded by the monuments of the American North and his recently published book, A Place Like Mississippi, on the landscape and literature of his homeland .
W. Ralph Eubanks is the author of A Place Like Mississippi, published in 2021 by Timber Press. A Place Like Mississippi takes readers on a complete tour of the real and imagined landscapes of Mississippi that have inspired generations of authors. This is a book that honors and explores the landscape of Mississippi and the Magnolia State’s history and reveals the many ways this landscape has informed the work of some of America’s most treasured authors.
Forums are supported in part by the Sally Lanagan Fund.
Please register online in advance at https://concordmuseum.org/events/reckoning-with-monuments/

Native Gardens By Karen Zacarías Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
2023-01-18 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 50 E Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Good fences make good neighbors . . . right?

A millennial, Latinx couple moves in next door to a white, baby boomer couple in Karen Zacarías’ topical new comedy. After some good-natured ribbing over gardening styles–traditional designs versus the eco-friendlier native plants–the couples find themselves at odds over an unexpected property line dispute. A dispute that explodes into a host of verbal jabs and blows over race, culture, privilege, and the meaning of neighborly behavior.

Letters From Home
2023-01-18 19:00 - 2023-02-05 21:00 (America/New_York) | Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 50 E Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
EAST COAST PREMIERE: With humor, passion, and a touch of Shakespeare, Kalean Ung weaves together her Cambodian family’s refugee story with her own as a bi-racial, second-generation American. Inspired by family member’s letters sent to her father from refugee camps after the Cambodian genocide, Letters from Home unearths the myths and mysteries of her family’s past as a ritual for intergenerational healing.
