Revolutionary Valley Regional Tourism Council

Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950
2020-04-23 10:00 - 2020-07-17 16:00, 2020-04-24 10:00 - 2020-07-18 16:00, 2020-04-25 10:00 - 2020-07-19 16:00 (America/New_York) | MA
​​During the 1940s, American photographer Gordon Parks (1912–2006) grew from a self-taught photographer making portraits and documenting everyday life in Saint Paul and Chicago to a visionary professional shooting for Ebony, Glamour, Smart Woman, and Life. For the first time, the formative first decade of Parks’s 60-year career is the focus of an exhibition, which brings together 150 photographs and ephemera—including magazines, books, letters, and family pictures. The exhibition will illustrate Parks’s early experiences at the Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information, and Standard Oil (New Jersey), as well as his close relationships with Roy Stryker, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison and reveal how th​ese helped shape his groundbreaking style. A catalog with extensive new research and previously unpublished images accompanies the exhibition.
The exhibition is curated by Philip Brookman, Consulting Curator, Department of Photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., in collaboration with The Gordon Parks Foundation.​ Bank of America is proud to be the national sponsor of ​Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950. ​

Lowell Spinners vs Aberdeen Iron Birds
2020-07-09 11:00 - 2020-07-10 14:30, 2020-07-10 11:00 - 2020-07-11 14:30, 2020-07-11 11:00 - 2020-07-12 14:30, 2020-07-12 11:00 - 2020-07-13 14:30, 2020-07-13 11:00 - 2020-07-14 14:30, 2020-07-14 11:00 - 2020-07-15 14:30 UTC | Edward A. LeLacheur Park, Edward A. Lelacheur Park, 450 Aiken Ave, Lowell, MA, 01854, United States
The Lowell Spinners bring America’s pastime to LeLacheur Park with 3 day home stands vs Aberdeen Iron Birds.

A Wildness Distant from Ourselves: Art and Ecology in 19th-Century America
2020-07-10 10:00 - 17:00, 2020-07-11 10:00 - 17:00, 2020-07-12 13:00 - 17:00, 2020-07-14 10:00 - 17:00, 2020-07-15 10:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | 97 University Ave, Lowell, MA, 01854, United States
“It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.” – Henry David Thoreau, Journal IX, 1856
Henry David Thoreau’s midcentury clarion call offers a concise distillation of a prevailing, paradoxical, European American conception of the environment as other, a foil for the reason and civility of man, at times an adversary, at others an asset. From the Puritans’ 17th century “errand into the wilderness” to the present, the dichotomy between man and nature has defined the European American experience in the “New World.” Focusing on the 19th century, an era that witnessed both the extreme and violent exploitation of the land and its peoples and the birth of a modern conservation movement, this exhibition will unfold chronologically and move from New England to the West. Paintings, works on paper, sculptures, photographs, and decorative arts by artists both familiar and unknown from the Addison’s collection will enter into dialogue with a selection of objects from the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology and compelling natural history specimens generously lent by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University to bear witness to the complex histories and persistent impacts of the 19th-century European American relationship with the natural world.​

Native Gardens By Karen Zacarías Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
2020-07-10 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-07-11 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-07-12 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-07-13 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-07-14 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.
