Paul Revere Capture Ceremony
2023-04-08 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Minute Man National Historical Park, 174 Liberty St, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
The Lincoln Minute Men, joined by other reenactment units, observe the capture of Paul Revere with historic music and a musket fire salute.

The Greater Merrimack Valley Restaurant Week
2023-04-10 - 2023-04-14
The Greater Merrimack Valley Restaurant Week is back by popular demand and again is extended to ALL of our 21 communities! Monday, April 10 Through Friday, April 14, 2023 Restaurant Week has something for everyone: Foodies, mark your calendars and plan to support your local dining establishments. Celebrate special menus and special prices!

Learn more on https://revolutionaryvalley.org/restaurant-week/

Battle Road
2023-04-15 | Minute Man National Historical Park, 174 Liberty St, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
This is the signature living history event at Minute Man National Historical Park, featuring hundreds of volunteer reenactors. Learn about the events of April 19, 1775 through living history programs and demonstrations. For full event schedule visit https://www.nps.gov/mima/planyourvisit/special-event.htm

Lexington Patriot's Day Events
2023-04-15 - 2023-04-17 | Various Lexington Locations, 1666 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, MA, 02420, United States
Find out about all of our great Patriot’s Day events in Lexington, MA.
Lexington Patriots Day Events 2023

Concord Patriot's Day Events
2023-04-15 - 2023-04-17 | Concord Visitor Center, Concord Visitor Center, 58 Main St, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
Find out about all of our great Patriot’s Day events in Concord, MA.

Patriots’ Day Free Family Activities
2023-04-17 10:30 - 16:00 | Concord Museum, Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
Celebrate the start of the American Revolution by exploring artifacts in the Museum and then visiting our drop-in activities to learn about life and craft in the colonies. Visit a craftsperson in the Museum demonstrating various objects that were made of horn during the colonial period, including powder horns and everyday items like cups and combs. Beware of a Redcoat from the British Army roaming the galleries looking for Provincial rebels! Talk with him about the experiences of the Redcoats on April 19, 1775.
Museum admission is free on Patriots’ Day thanks to the generosity of the Highland Street Foundation.

Patriots’ Day Minuteman Encampment
2023-04-17 10:30 - 16:00 | Concord Museum, Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
Visit the brave Acton Minutemen company in an encampment outside the Concord Museum on Patriots’ Day and see them drilling with muskets to prepare for battle, cooking over a firepit, and demonstrating colonial spinning and sewing.
This program is free and open to the public thanks to the generosity of the Massachusetts Society of Cincinnati and the Highland Street Foundation.

2023 Eco-film Series
2023-04-25 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-05-23 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-06-27 18:30 - 20:30 | Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St, Lowell, MA, United States
Mark your calendars for the last Tuesday of the month, January – June!
Over 60 films have been selected to be screened through our Eco-Film Series. This FREE series is offered annually in partnership with the Lowell Film Collaborative. A special thank you to our venue partner, the Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, for the February-June screenings.
Please make sure to RSVP. We plan on making a couple of the films hybrid (in-person and online).
Our 2023 line-up ranges from expeditions to the Arctic, the psychological effects of climate change, and fights for environmental justice, to the true cost of the best-selling piece of furniture of all time and the meaning of joy. These exciting films touch on how forces of change affect ourselves and our environment.
Our 2023 film screening dates and film selections are as follows:
January 31, 2023 – Mission: Joy (VIRTUAL)
February 28, 2023 – Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust (VIRTUAL)
March 28, 2023 – Exposure
April 25, 2023 – The Magnitude of All Things
May 30, 2023 – Dam Removal Double Feature (in-person and virtual)
June 27, 2023 – Monobloc

43.7623°N, 69.3203°W | Nan Hockenbury, Heidi Jackson, Bethany Peck, and Noel Soucy | May 3-28 at Loading Dock Gallery
2023-05-03 12:00 - 2023-05-28 16:00 | Loading Dock Gallery, 122 Western Avenue, Lowell, MA, United States
Loading Dock Gallery presents 43.7623°N, 69.3203°W, a show of contemporary New England landscape painting. In August 2022, Nan Hockenbury, Heidi Jackson, Bethany Peck, and Noel Soucy traveled to Monhegan Island, ME. For six days they wandered the island and painted plein air. 43.7623°N, 69.3203°W knits together their diverse interpretations of those shared days, each artist using her own point of view to speak of the island’s rugged landscape and dramatic views.
Hockenbury paints with interlocking lozenges of color, translating boats, houses, and stones in jewel-like hues. Jackson evokes nature’s fleeting beauty with textured, expressionist strokes and gentle colors. Peck responds to her island wanderings with intuitive abstractions, focusing on the convergence of sky and sea. Soucy offers atmospheric images, layered in texture, an exploration of process as well as of the landscape observed.
43.7623°N, 69.3203°W runs May 3-28, 2023 at Loading Dock Gallery, 122 Western Avenue, Lowell, MA: open noon-5:30 pm, Wednesday-Saturday, noon-4 pm Sundays. Reception 3-5 pm, Saturday, May 6, 3-5 pm. More at www.theloadingdockgallery.com.
Loading Dock Gallery is part of Loading Dock Arts, Inc., a 501c3.

Tours of Thoreau Farm, the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau
2023-05-13 11:00 - 16:00, 2023-05-20 11:00 - 16:00, 2023-05-27 11:00 - 16:00, 2023-06-03 11:00 - 16:00, 2023-06-10 11:00 - 16:00, 2023-06-17 11:00 - 16:00, 2023-06-24 11:00 - 16:00, 2023-07-01 11:00 - 16:00 and 1 more date | 97 University Ave, Lowell, 01854, United States
Take an inside look at the restored 1730s house listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse/Henry David Thoreau Birth House. Locally, it is also known as “Thoreau Farm.” Tour includes the lovingly restored second-floor room where Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817. Visits to the house are by guided tour only. Come learn about the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau and consider lessons about living deliberately that we can learn from his legacy.

Art Workshops by Lowell National Historical Park
2023-05-14 - 2023-10-22 | Lowell National Historical Park – Boott Cotton Mills Gallery, 115 John Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
See here for updated events.
https://www.nps.gov/lowe/planyourvisit/calendar.htm
Art In the Park 2023

Art in the Park with Mary Hart: Wise Owls
2023-05-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Lowell National Historical Park Boott Cotton Mills Museum Counting House, 115 John Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month join us and create majestic owls based on a kite design from Thailand. Participants will trace, cut out, color and decorate this owl using heavy paper, markers and oil pastels, colorful streamers will be attached with help from the instructor.

Valley native returns to Andover Bookstore with Ivy League book May 21 at 2
2023-05-21 14:00 - 16:00 | Andover Bookstore, 74 Main Street, Andover, MA, 01810
On Sunday, May 21 at 2 PM, join Ivy League author (and Andover native) Matt Robinson at Andover Book Store (http://andoverbookstore.com) as he discusses his book on the Ivy League (www.lionstigersbulldogs.com) and the lessons he learned from writing and publishing it.
In addition to the talk, Matt will also offer Tr-IVY-a© questions and the chance to WIN a copy of the book. There will also be delicious snacks from the likes of Red Chocolate (https://www.red-chocolate.com).
For those who enjoy discussing books, history, sports, and those who have (or want to have) ties to the Ivy League, the event is sure to be fun and informative, so please join us!

Art in the Park with Raksha Soni: Sunflower in Watercolors
2023-05-28 11:00 - 13:00 | Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St, Lowell, MA, United States
Participants will work to create a sunflower in watercolor with tips and help from the instructor.
Suggested Audience
Ages 10 and Up
About the Artist
After 20 years of diligent work as a software Engineer, Raksha Soni began an epic second act: to follow her true calling for Art. She founded Brush & Paisley in 2017, to bring her art to new audiences. As an artist she is prolific and has had over a dozen exhibitions where she has showcased her signature style; from intricate Mahbubani/Mandala drawings to lush, opulent landscapes that capture the nostalgia and emotion of different places. Along with furthering her own journey as an artist, she teaches young kids and helps them express and harness their creativity and find their artistic voice.
Please call 978-970-5000 to reserve a spot.

Church of the Wild: A Conversation with Victoria Loorz
2023-06-03 13:00 - 14:00 | 97 University Ave, Lowell, 01854, United States
Church of the Wild places Thoreau’s intimacy with nature into a community of spiritual practice. With a fresh look at a beloved community larger than our own species, this book uncovers the wild roots of faith to undergird our commitment to a groaning and glorious earth. Simple practices of sacred reconnection with the land, waters and creatures of our home places invites us to care for the world by falling in love with it. It is an invitation to trust the knowing deep within us that we are an important part of an interconnected relationship with All That Is.
Victoria is joined in conversation by Richard Higgins.
Victoria Loorz, MDiv, an eco-spiritual director and wild church pastor, is focused on spiritual practices that help to restore sacred relationships with the Earth. She co-founded the ecumenical Wild Church Network, a growing group of spiritual leaders on the edges of the Christ tradition who gather outside of buildings, encountering God directly in intimate relationship with the natural world. Victoria founded and leads The Center for Wild Spirituality, (formerly called Seminary of the Wild), a movement hub for fellow edge-walkers who feel called into a new kind of spiritual leadership within a beloved community larger than our species. She delivers workshops and is the author of the award-winning book, Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred.

Art in the Park with Claire Gagnon: Drawing Lowell Architecture
2023-06-11 08:00 - 17:00 | 97 University Ave, Lowell, 01854, United States
In this class, students will learn how to get inspired by the beautiful Lowell architecture. Concepts such as vanishing point and horizon line. Using the buildings on Middle Street and on Shattuck Street, the teacher will start with a simple demonstration, then the students will draw. Some of the students may have time to do a few drawings, and others will only do one drawing during the allotted time.
Materials used:
sketchbook, pencils, eraser. Also recommended: light chair, hat, sunscreen, water to drink
Location
Mary J. Bacigalupo Victorian Garden (21-25 Shattuck St, Lowell, MA 01852).
Suggested Audience
Adult Students of all levels. No prior experience required.
About the Artist
Claire Gagnon has been teaching for 5 years. She created Chez Claire Art School in 2018 and teaches adult painting and drawing classes at the Brush Art Gallery and Studios in her studio. Claire’s approach to teaching is very gentle and inspiring for students. Teaching is personalized. Claire started painting in 1995 and is very passionate about creation and outdoor drawing and painting.
Call 978-970-5000 to reserve your space

2023 Annual Tourism Conference
2023-06-13 08:00 - 12:00
Mark your calendar and plan to join us at the UMASS Inn & Conference Center, Lowell, MA on Tuesday, June 13th, 2023.
The Greater Merrimack Valley Convention & Visitors Bureau is the official destination marketing organization for the Greater Merrimack Valley. Designated by the Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism (MOTT) to market the region as a premier travel destination for domestic and international travelers; group tours and bus tours; meetings, conferences, and conventions; and sporting events. The event will attract top industry professionals representing a wide spectrum of the state and region’s tourism-oriented businesses as well as state and municipal leaders.
Tuesday, June 13th, 2023
UMASS Inn & Conference Center, Lowell, MA

Juneteenth Family Program
2023-06-19 10:00 - 11:00 | Concord Museum, Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
Visit the Concord Museum for a celebratory Juneteenth performance with Illstyle & Peace Productions. The group creates work rooted in West African Dance, contemporary and old school hip hop blended with an eclectic mix of dance and performance disciplines including tap, ballet, DJing, and beatboxing. Illstyle & Peace Productions is dedicated to delivering a positive message that showcases the many creative ways that hip hop can be explored, deconstructed, and built back up again.
This program is free and open to the public. Space is limited; advanced registration is required.
Co-sponsored by The Robbins House.
Please register in advance at https://concordmuseum.org/events/juneteenth-family-program/

Lowell Philharmonic Orchestra Summer Pops at Shedd Park!
2023-06-25 14:00 - 16:30 | Shedd Park Pavilion, 433 Rogers Street (Rt. 38), Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Join us for a fun and FREE afternoon of music at the Lowell Philharmonic Orchestra’s annual Summer Pops at Shedd Park on Sunday, June 25, 2023, at 2 pm. Located at Shedd Park in Lowell, under the pavilion. Seating is limited, but don’t worry, bring your blanket or lawn chairs and find a cozy spot on the lawn.
Classical and popular favorites include Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus Overture,” John Williams” “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” Gershwin’s “An American in Paris Suite”. Also Copland and Sousa! Every year we salute our armed services with patriotic music led by The Star-Spangled Banner. The LPO pays tribute to Lowell born composer George Whitefield Chadwick and perform “Euterpe”.
The LPO will be joined by the talented student dancers from the Hellenic American Academy, performing traditional Greek dances specially arranged for orchestra for this concert.
A great beginning to a great summer of music in Lowell! We hope to see you there!
