Revolutionary Valley Regional Tourism Council

Make a Bracelet
2024-04-18 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | 97 University Ave, Lowell, MA, 01854, United States
Ages 8 – 13 • Registration Required • Hosted by Middlesex Community College – College for Kids
Location: Boott Cotton Mill Museum, Counting House, 115 John St, Lowell
Love to accessorize? Join Middlesex Community College’s College for Kids staff to design and make a stretchy one-of-a-kind colorful bracelet with beads of different patterns colors and sizes that compliment your style. Please register at https://www.middlesex.mass.edu/collegeforkids/summer.aspx

Engineer It Workshop
2024-04-18 14:00 - 15:00 | 97 University Ave, Lowell, MA, 01854, United States
All Ages • Registration Required • Hosted by Tsongas Industrial History Center and Lowell National
Historical Park
Location: Boott Cotton Mill Museum, 3rd Floor, 115 John St, Lowell
Can you design a vehicle to go down a ramp without losing its cargo? Join National Park Rangers to see if you can complete the mission, while being creative and having fun! Please register by calling 978 970-5000.

DIY Flowerpots
2024-04-18 15:00 - 16:00 | Pollard Memorial Library, Pollard Memorial Library, 401 Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Grades 5-12 • Registration Required • Hosted by Pollard Memorial Library
Location: Pollard Memorial Library – Meeting Room, 401 Merrimack St, Lowell
Paint your own small flowerpot with the design of your choosing, then pick from an array of seeds to plant. All materials will be provided, but registration is REQUIRED as supplies are limited. Please register at https://pollardml.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/flower-pots/

Bugs and Flowers
2024-04-19 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-04-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Boarding House Park, Boarding House Park, 40 French St, Lowell, MA, United States
All Ages • No Registration Required • Hosted by Lowell National Historical Park
Location: Boarding House Park, 40 French St, Lowell
Come learn about the bugs that live in your backyard! Create your own beaded critter to take home with you or try your hand at crafting tissue paper flowers. You can even search Boarding House Park for it’s littlest residents. Visit our website for more information: go.nps.gov/qp165j.

Creating Communal Gifts with Chanel Thervil
2024-04-19 10:00 - 12:00, 2024-04-19 13:00 - 15:00 | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Monday, April 15 through Friday, April 19, 10:00am – 12:00pm and 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Whether it be a school, library, place of worship, or even a museum, spaces where communities gather make life more vibrant. Join us for a special program series with inaugural Artist in Residence, Chanel Thervil as she invites you to create a gift for a community space you cherish. Chanel will bring these individual creations together in a one-of-a-kind art installation titled Communal Gifts that will remain on display in the museum.
To learn more about artist and educator Chanel Thervil and her work, visit her website www.chanelthervil.com

Lowell PLAYcation: Bookmobile Visit
2024-04-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Boarding House Park, Boarding House Park, 40 French St, Lowell, MA, United States
Visit the librarians of the Pollard Memorial Library bookmobile at several of the PLAYcation events! Discover a new book that you can check out that day and even sign up for your own free library card! Find out more at https://lowelllibrary.org/services/bookmobile/.

Chalk it Up!
2024-04-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Boarding House Park, Boarding House Park, 40 French St, Lowell, MA, United States
All Ages, No Registration Required
Butterflies and Bugs, Creepy Crawlies and Caterpillars… draw on our giant or small chalkboards and take a selfie with wings to stretch and soar!

Build Your Own Birdfeeder
2024-04-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Boarding House Park, Boarding House Park, 40 French St, Lowell, MA, United States
Grades K – 6 • No Registration Required • Hosted by Pollard Memorial Library
Location: Boarding House Park , 40 French St, Lowell
Come build your very own bird feeder! Join the Pollard Memorial Library Bookmobile Team for this hands-on activity as we repurpose plastic bottles into bird feeders that you can take home for the birds in your neighborhood!

Interactive Storytime
2024-04-19 13:00 - 14:00 | Pollard Memorial Library, Pollard Memorial Library, 401 Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Grades K – 6 • Registration Required • Hosted by Pollard Memorial Library Bookmobile Team and Lowell Humane Society
Location: Pollard Memorial Library, 401 Merrimack St, Lowell
Join us during PLAYcation for an Interactive Storytime with Lowell Humane Society and the Pollard Memorial Library Bookmobile team! The Bookmobile team will read a story, all participants will have a chance to pet the animals brought by the Humane Society, and there will be a bookmark coloring project at the end. Please register at https://lowelllibrary.org/events/.

Earth Day Family Fun!
2024-04-19 13:00 - 15:00 | Mercier Center, 21 Salem Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Ages 5-11 (Elementary Age) • No Registration Required • Hosted by Lowell Housing Authority and
Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust
Location: Armand P. Mercier Community Center, 21 Salem St, Lowell
Join the Lowell Housing Authority and Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust as the Eco-Mobile brings a third year of Earth Day festivities! Participate in an outdoor scavenger hunt and other hands-on activities! There will also be a limited supply of gift bags for attendees, first come, first served. For more information please visit https://fb.me/e/9PWOaPBMR.

Water Room Workshop
2024-04-19 14:00 - 15:00 | 97 University Ave, Lowell, MA, 01854, United States
All Ages • Registration Required • Hosted by Tsongas Industrial History Center and Lowell National Historical Park
Location: Boott Cotton Mill Museum, 3rd Floor, 115 John St, Lowell
Design, 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.

Khmer New Year Parade
2024-04-20 08:00 - 17:00 | Lowell Senior Center, Lowell Senior Center, 276 Broadway St, Lowell, MA, 01854, United States
All Ages • No Registration Required • Hosted by the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
Location: Lowell Highlands
Come out and celebrate Khmer New Year by enjoying the parade from Lowell Senior Center to Clemente Park. The parade can also be livestreamed on the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association’s website.

Khmer New Year at the Lowell Senior Center
2024-04-20 09:00 - 13:00 | Lowell Senior Center, Lowell Senior Center, 276 Broadway St, Lowell, MA, 01854, United States
All Ages • No Registration Required • Hosted by the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
Location: Lowell Senior Center, 276 Broadway St, Lowell
Join the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association for another year of celebrating Khmer New Year. The event will feature delicious Khmer food, beautiful traditional outfits, and live performances of Cambodian folk dance.

Lowell Khmer New Year at Clemente Park
2024-04-20 12:00 - 17:00 | Roberto Clemente Park, Roberto Clemente Park, Washington Park, 747 Middlesex St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Lowell Khmer New Year at Clemente Park
12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
All Ages • No Registration Required • Hosted by the Clemente Park Committee
Location: Roberto Clemente Park, 803 Middlesex St, Lowell
Welcome the year of the dragon and mark Khmer New Year in Clemente Park. Play traditional and modern Cambodian games, enjoy food from many vendors, and enjoy the celebration.

Nature and Art
2024-04-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Boarding House Park, Boarding House Park, 40 French St, Lowell, MA, United States
All Ages • No Registration Required • Hosted by Lowell National Historical Park
Location: Boarding House Park, 40 French St, Lowell
Enjoy the spring weather and experiment with art outside. Try your hand with some watercolors and nature rubbings. Make a small nature journal to help you note the changes in the seasons.

Chemists Celebrate Earth Week: Batteries!
2024-04-21 10:00 - 13:00 | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Discover the science behind “Get a charge out of chemistry – Batteries” as we celebrate Chemists Celebrate Earth Week. Join us and our guest educators from the North Eastern Section of American Chemical Society and have fun exploring chemistry through hands-on activities related to this year’s theme, Batteries!

Angkor Dance Troupe Tour and Workshop
2024-04-21 12:00 - 14:00 | Mogan Cultural Center, 40 French Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Ages 9 – 15, No Registration Required
Learn about the dance and history of the Angkor Dance Troupe. Tour the studio space and then get a chance to practice movements with dancers and instructors, accompanied by music.

Doodle Bots
2024-04-28 13:00 - 14:30 | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Make a unique piece of art with a motorized contraption! In this 90-minute session we’ll create and decorate a simple DIY robotic friend to take home made of spinning and wiggling motors, markers, tape, and a variety of recycled and repurposed materials. Then we’ll set the machines in motion and watch them leave behind trails of unexpected, scribbled patterns. Advance registration is required at https://bit.ly/DoodleApril2024 This program is designed for children and their caregivers to enjoy together.
Where: Discovery Museum PlayLab
Cost: $10 per person (does not include Museum admission)
Who: This program is recommended for children aged 7 and up with an accompanying adult. Due to the nature of the materials we’ll be using, we cannot accommodate children under 5 to be present.

Bessie’s Closet
2024-05-03 15:30 - 19:30, 2024-05-04 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-05-05 10:00 - 15:00 | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Friday, May 3 thru Sunday, May 5
Fri. 3:30 – 7:30pm; Sat. & Sun. 10:00am – 3:00pm
Museum Admission not Required
Bessie’s Closet is a free pop-up clothing store open to everyone in our community. Organized in partnership with the Acton-Boxborough United Way and supported by donations from the community, Bessie’s Closet offers new or gently-used clothing and shoes for both children and adults. Anyone who may benefit is welcome to visit Bessie’s Closet. Museum admission is not required, but also not included. All items are available free of charge, take what you need! Items available in Bessie’s Closet are dependent upon donations received.

Fife and Drum Weekend
2024-05-04 05:00 - 2024-05-05 16:00 | Lexington Battle Green, 1625 Massachusetts Ave., Lexington, 02420, United States
Attend the 22nd Annual Lexington Tattoo and Muster
Tattoo: Friday, May 3, 6:30 pm on the Lexington Battle Green (1625 Massachusetts Ave.). Free outdoor evening performance of fife and drum music at the scene of the first skirmish in the Revolutionary War. Hosted by the William Diamond Junior Fife & Drum Corps of Lexington and featuring corps including the Kentish Guards, one of the oldest fife and drum corps in the US, and the Middlesex County Volunteers Fife & Drum Corps.
Muster: Saturday, May 4, 12:00-5:00 pm at Hastings Park in Lexington (corner of Massachusetts Ave. and Worthen Rd.). Free outdoor afternoon of music, history and entertainment by two dozen fife and drum corps representing different eras, particularly the Revolution, hosted by the William Diamond Junior Fife & Drum Corps of Lexington. Free parking; walking distance from Lexington’s historic Battle Green, Visitors Center and historic houses.

Mother's Day Shopping Event
2024-05-04 10:00 - 14:00 | 97 University Ave, Lowell, MA, 01854, United States
Join us for an extraordinary shopping experience at our exclusive Mother’s Day Shopping Event on May 4th as we honor unconditional love of mothers with a range of great local Crafters & Vendors offering distinctive items.
10a-2p
Chelmsford Lowell Elks
300 Littleton Rd
Chelmsford, MA
*30+ Vendors
*Free Admission
Link to the event page
https://www.facebook.com/events/892236805933442

Bike with a Ranger
2024-05-05 10:00 - 11:15 | Duck Island Wastewater Treatment Facility, 451 First Street Boulevard, Lowell, 01852, United States
Join rangers on National Ride a Bike Day for a 3.4-mile round trip ride along the Centralville River Path. Take in views of the mills and learn about the water that powered them while enjoying some fresh air from the seat of your bike. Pack a snack, bring some water, and get ready to roll!
Trips will start and end at the Duck Island Wastewater Treatment Facility (451 First Street Boulevard) at 10:00 A.M., 1:30 P.M., and 3:00 P.M.. Each trip is approximately 75 minutes. Helmets are required for all participants, and children under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
Bicycles are not provided.
Please register by calling 978-970-5000. All ages welcome!

Nature Explorers: Trails and Maps (Registration required)
2024-05-05 10:00 - 11:30 | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
May 5, 12, 19, and 26
10:00am – 11:30am
What: Join our outdoor educator for a series of outdoor explorations. In this series we will focus on navigating trails and reading and making maps. In addition we’ll spend time finding and observing the plants and animals that live their lives on the trails. Our learning and exploration will build across all four sessions and focus on developing skills like observation, making inferences, communicating, classifying, and measuring.
Registration required at https://bit.ly/NatureExplorersSpring2024 and includes all four Nature Explorer sessions.
When: Sundays, May 5, 12, 19, and 26; 10:00am – 11:30am. If a session needs to be cancelled, we will reschedule for June 2. Attendees should plan to attend and participate in all four sessions.
For whom: This program is for kids 6-9 years of age and their caregiver(s) to do together. This is not a drop-off program.
Cost: $40/child, includes all four sessions, but does NOT include Museum admission. If you wish to visit the museum, separate reservations are required through our website.
Please note that the conservation land trails are not ADA or stroller accessible, please wear appropriate footwear and clothing.

Icy Investigations
2024-05-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Brrrr…Things are getting chilly at the Discovery Museum. Experiment with different types of salt as you explore the unique characteristics of this solid state of water. Add in some liquid watercolors and discover just how cool science can be.

Points of Light Cultural Celebration
2024-05-11 17:00 - 22:00 | Ecumenical Plaza, Ecumenical Plaza, Western Canal, Lowell, MA, 01854, United States
Points of Light is a spring celebration of unity and renewal that brings together the food, music, and traditions of Lowell’s diverse cultures. The centerpiece of the night is a special ceremony in which participants personalize water lanterns that will be released onto the Western Canal, creating hundreds of floating points of light.
Performances will include dance, music, and spoken word from local artists. xTine and the Intents will headline the festival.

Backyard and Beyond: Outdoor Yoga
2024-05-16 10:30 - 11:00 | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Join us to move your body and connect with nature while doing outdoor yoga! Yoga improves physical and mental strength, like self-awareness and focus. Kelly Western, professional yoga instructor, will lead a fun yoga class for children and adults that incorporates balance, strength, stretching, and mindfulness in the context of connecting with nature. Yoga mats available. (Optional: Bring your own yoga mat or beach towel.) Inclement weather may result in changes to the program, or cancellation.
