Revolutionary Valley Regional Tourism Council

Lowell Kids Week: Choose Your Artist
2024-02-21 14:00 - 14:45, 2024-02-21 15:00 - 15:45 (America/New_York) | Brush Art Gallery & Studios, Brush Art Gallery & Studios, 256 Market St, Lowell, MA, United States
Ages 10-12, registration required
Visit throughout the afternoon and choose one of four artist classes to learn a new kind of art! Claire Gagnon will teach the process of neurographic art that combines abstract lines with a realistic object. Tom Whiting will teach digital drawing on so bring your own digital device (iPad or Android tablet) but a device is not required. Lolita Demers will teach sculpting with self-hardening clay. Amber Hurley will teach making pipe cleaner creations. Take your different art pieces home! Please register for a session at www.chezclaireartschool.com.

Lowell Kids Week: Stuffie Sleepover
2024-02-21 14:00 - 16:00 | Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St, Lowell, MA, United States
All ages
Bring a stuffed animal friend and drop them off with a park ranger so your stuffed animal can spend a night at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum for a fun sleepover. The next day, collect your stuffed animal at the Visitor Center after their sleepover with other stuffed animal friends. Visit our website for more information www.nps.gov/lowe/planyourvisit/kids-week.htm.
Drop off your stuffie at Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St., Lowell OR Boott Cotton Mill Museum, 115 John St., Lowell.

Lowell Kids Week: Paper Airplane Workshop
2024-02-21 15:00 - 16:00 | Lowell National Historical Park Boott Cotton Mills Museum Counting House, 115 John Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Grades 1-5
Do you know how a paper plane works? Join us for this hands-on STEM activity as we create and design our own paper planes. Together we’ll learn about how the structure of a paper plane determines how it will fly. Also discover a new book with the Pollard Memorial Library Bookmobile Team that you can check out that day
and even sign up for your own free library card! Visit our website for more information www.nps.gov/lowe/planyourvisit/kids-week.htm.

Lowell Kids Week: Crafty Kids: Cross-Stitch Charms
2024-02-22 10:00 - 11:30 | Pollard Memorial Library, Pollard Memorial Library, 401 Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Grades 3-6, Registration required
Learn how to make your own cross-stitch backpack charm! Each child or tween that registers will be provided a cross-stitch kit and accessories. Beginners are welcome and no sewing experience is needed. Please register at https://lowelllibrary.org/events/, or by calling 978-674-1529.

Lowell Kids Week: English Classes for Kids
2024-02-22 10:00 - 12:00 | International Institute of New England, 101 Jackosn Street, Suite 2, Lowell, 01852, United States
Ages Toddler-5; Registration required
Clients of IINE can bring their toddler to five year old to learn English as a family including Music, Crafts, Healthy Snacks, and learn about Learning Apps. Please register by calling 978-459-903.

Lowell Kids Week: Lowell Public School Cozy Open House
2024-02-22 10:00 - 12:00 | lowell public schools family resource center, 155 Merrimack St, Lowell, 01852, United States
Grades Pre-K – 12, Registration required
Come on down to the Lowell Public Schools Family Resource Center! The Resource Center will be giving away books for kids Pre-K through 12th grade. Get cozy with a book, a cupcake and a cup of hot cocoa. You can also have your face painted by one our amazing LPS staff. Let’s continue to ring in the new year with reading goals. See you then! Please RSVP at www.shorturl.at/aijQ8.

Lowell Kids Week: Video Gaming and Digital Literacy
2024-02-22 10:00 - 14:00 | YWCA Lowell, 41 Rock St, Lowell, 01852, United States
Grades 9-12, registration required
Join YWCA of Lowell as they explore options for Resume writing, job applications, college essays and video gaming. Spend the morning learning how to complete and formulate responses to many asked questions for job applications and college essays, break for lunch and spend the afternoon exploring the many avenues of video gaming! Fun and informative. Attend all three sessions and receive a Gift Card!! Please register by calling 978-458-9983 or emailing cnapolitano@ywcaoflowell.org

Lowell Kids Week: Bookmobile Visits
2024-02-22 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-02-24 13:00 - 14:00 | Mogan Cultural Center, 40 French Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Visit the librarians of the Pollard Memorial Library bookmobile as they join the “Building Community,” “Poetry in Parks,” and “Games Around the World” events at Lowell National Historical Park. Discover a new book that you can check out that day and even sign up for your own free library card! The Bookmobile event on the 22nd will happen at the Lowell National Park Visitor Center. Find out more at https://lowelllibrary.org/services/bookmobile/.

Lowell Kids Week: Animals and Art
2024-02-22 13:00 - 15:00 | lowell humane society, Lowell Humane Society, 951 Broadway St, Lowell, MA, 01854, United States
Ages 6-12, Registration required
Interact with animals waiting for their forever homes and learn about their care, followed by an opportunity to create self portraits with animals or other art with artist Margarita Krylova. Please Register at https://lowelllearns.com.

Lowell Kids Week: Creating Poetry in Parks
2024-02-22 13:00 - 16:00 | Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St, Lowell, MA, United States
All Ages
Join rangers from three national park to explore the creation of poetry and the variety that can be found in poems through history. Follow a story walk and learn how to write a poem and then make your own little book to write your poems down in. Read and explore the poems that tell stories and were written at these national parks. Visit our website for more information www.nps.gov/lowe/planyourvisit/kids-week.htm.

Kids Week: Weaving Workshop
2024-02-22 14:30 - 15:15, 2024-02-22 15:30 - 16:15 | 115 Merrimack Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
All Ages, Reservations Required
Learn how cloth is designed, patterned, and made in this unique hands-on workshop. Weave your own piece of cloth using hand looms. Learn the difference between warp and weft, and have fun in the process! Please register by calling 978 970-5000.

Lowell Kids Week: Break the Ice
2024-02-22 15:00 - 18:00 | Lowell Community Health Center, Lowell Community Health Center, 161 Jackson St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Ages 4-12 and 12-18, no registration required
Teen BLOCK will be running series of icebreaker/team builder games. Participants will engage in varies team-oriented games that will cultivate laughter, togetherness, leadership skills, and community bonding. Two sessions will run at the same time, one geared towards kids, the other towards teens.

Lowell Kids Week: Night at the Museum—Beginnings of Two Revolutions
2024-02-22 17:00 - 19:30 | 115 Merrimack Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
All ages
Come experience the Boott Cotton Mills Museum after hours. The looms have quieted but there’s still so much to experience in the museum. Join rangers from Minute Man NHP and Lowell NHP who will be dressed in historical clothing and comparing the beginning of the American Revolution to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Come learn about the differences between farm oriented life versus factory life in the city. Visit our website for more information www.nps.gov/lowe/planyourvisit/kids-week.htm.

Lowell Kids Week: Try Fabric Printing
2024-02-23 10:00 - 11:00 | Lowell National Historical Park Boott Cotton Mills Museum Counting House, 115 John Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
All Ages
Join rangers from two national parks to design and print your own patterns on fabric. Use inspiration from 19th Century fabric swatch books and fabric made here in Lowell. Visit our website for more information www.nps.gov/lowe/planyourvisit/kids-week.htm.

Lowell Kids Week: English Classes for Kids
2024-02-23 10:00 - 12:00 | International Institute of New England, 101 Jackosn Street, Suite 2, Lowell, 01852, United States
Ages Toddler-5; Registration required
Clients of IINE can bring their toddler to five year old to learn English as a family including Music, Crafts, Healthy Snacks, and learn about Learning Apps. Please register by calling 978-459-9031.

Lowell Kids Week: Owls of Lowell in the Winter
2024-02-23 11:00 - 12:00 | 115 Merrimack Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Grades Pre-K-12; Registration required
Come to the Lowell National Historic Park Events Center to meet some owls that you might see in Lowell this winter. Learn how to spot different owls, recognize their calls and find out where to spot them. You might have an owl in your backyard or nearby park and not know it! Hear an owl story and ask questions about these wonderful, mysterious birds! Please register by calling 978-970-5000.

Lowell kids Week: Maritime Connections
2024-02-23 12:30 - 14:30 | Lowell National Historical Park Boott Cotton Mills Museum Counting House, 115 John Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
All ages
Join rangers from three national parks to experiment with crafts that relate to our maritime neighbors. Learn to twist rope and how it would be made in centuries past. Create your own house flag so you can help others identify your home or ship as yours and try different methods to fold your own paper boats. Visit our website
for more information www.nps.gov/lowe/planyourvisit/kids-week.htm.

Lowell Kids Week: Water Room Workshop
2024-02-23 14:00 - 14:45, 2024-02-23 15:00 - 15:45 | 115 Merrimack Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
All ages, registration required
Desing, build, and operate a canal system just as the Proprietors of Locks and Canals did in Lowell in the early 1800s. All participants will get hands-on canal building experience (no experience required.) Be ready to have a great time and maybe, get a little wet! Please register by calling 978 970-5000.

Lowell Kids Week: Buildwave: A Hands-On Building Game!
2024-02-23 14:30 - 15:30 | Pollard Memorial Library, Pollard Memorial Library, 401 Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Grades K-6; Registration required
Buildwave is a creative building program that feels like a video game! During the workshop children create with over a dozen building materials including Lego®, PlusPlus®, and custom-made Buildwave materials. The workshop is structured like a video game, with an audiovisual setup featuring animations and music that guide
students through the different building waves. Space is limited and sign up is required. Please register at https://lowelllibrary.org/events/, or by calling 978-674-1529

Lowell Kids Week: Family Movie & Game Night!
2024-02-23 16:00 - 20:00 | Mercier Center, 21 Salem Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
All ages; Reservations required
The Lowell Housing Authority, Lowell Police Dept., and Lowell Fire Dept. welcome families to a fun movie & game night! Games will be from 4-6pm & the movie will begin at 6pm. Giveaways and snacks will be provided. Please RSVP at https://fb.me/e/2UXr0rh3N

Lowell Kids Week: Birding Walk
2024-02-24 11:00 - 12:00 | 115 Merrimack Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
All ages
Join a ranger for a birding walk through Lowell’s urban landscape! Over the course of an hour we will work together to spot and identify common birds, and learn some of the basics of birding. We will have some birding supplies on hand (such as binoculars and field guides) to lend out for the duration of the walk. Please feel free to bring your own tools if you have them! Let’s find some birds. Visit our website for more information www.nps.gov/lowe/planyourvisit/kids-week.htm.

Lowell Kids Week: Games Around the World
2024-02-24 13:00 - 16:00 | Mogan Cultural Center, 40 French Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
All ages
Traditional schoolyard games are an important part of childhood—no matter the culture! Join rangers to learn a game from around the world or teach us your favorite game! Visit our website for more information www.nps.gov/lowe/planyourvisit/kids-week.htm.

‘Contradictory Place’: Cotton Mills Alongside Anti-Slavery Efforts in Lowell Massachusetts a Film Screening and Discussion
2024-02-24 14:00 - 15:30 | Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St, Lowell, MA, United States
Join us for a screening of the documentary film ‘Contradictory Place’: Cotton Mills Alongside Anti-Slavery Efforts in Lowell Massachusetts featuring Prof. Robert Forrant of the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Public Historian Maritza Grooms. The film describes the extraordinary anti-slavery efforts taking place in the mid-19th century in Lowell. Forrant and Grooms visit the sites that still exist in downtown Lowell where abolitionist activity occurred and where freedom seekers operated businesses.
The forty-minute film was written by Robert Forrant and Maritza Grooms, produced by former Lowell Telecommunications Executive Director Wendy Blom, and edited by former Lowell Telecommunications News Director Caroline Gallagher.
The film screening at the Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center 246 Market Street is free and open to the public. It will take place on Saturday, February 24 at 2pm, with a Q&A discussion with the film creators following the screening.
Free parking is available at the Hamilton Canal Innovation District parking garage at 350 Dutton St., Lowell. Parking in this garage (only) is available to National Park visitors at no cost provided they obtain a valid parking voucher at the LNHP Visitor Center.

Lowell Kids Week: Swa Pol (Monkey Dance) Workshop
2024-02-25 11:00 - 12:30 | Mogan Cultural Center, 40 French Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Ages 9-15; Registration required
Learn about the dance and history of the Angkor Dance Troupe. Enjoy watching a Swa Pol (Monkey Dance) performance and then practice the movements with our dancers and instructors, accompanied by music.

Lowell Kids Week: Making Musical Instruments
2024-02-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Lowell National Historical Park Boott Cotton Mills Museum Counting House, 115 John Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
All ages
Come learn about musical instruments from around the world and try your hand at creating one of your own to take home. Visit our website for more information www.nps.gov/lowe/planyourvisit/kids-week.htm.

Lowell Kids Week: Instrument Petting Zoo
2024-02-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Lowell National Historical Park Boott Cotton Mills Museum Counting House, 115 John Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
All ages; Registration required
Many instruments large and small will be waiting to be played! Come by to try a drum or a ukulele, an “otto” or a thumb harp…or go on an instrument scavenger hunt! A time to explore and engage, with musicians available for instruction or just plain fun. Please Register at https://lowelllearns.com.
