Revolutionary Valley Regional Tourism Council

Wool to Woven
2025-02-19 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Lowell National Historical Park – Boott Cotton Mills Museum, 2nd Floor, 115 John Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Join rangers from Lowell National Historical Park to learn about each step in the process of weaving. Try your hand at spinning on a drop spindle and learn about spinning wheels. Use the material you spin while you weave your own creation! You will also be able to continue learning about how this process changed over time by checking out the “Manufacturing for the Masses” program with rangers from Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park. Visit our website for more information:
https://go.nps.gov/qp165j

Manufacturing for the Masses
2025-02-19 13:00 - 15:00 | Lowell National Historical Park – Boott Cotton Mills Museum, 2nd Floor, 115 John Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
This program bridges the farm to factory story with a focus on early industry. Join a ranger from Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park (Pawtucket, RI) for a discussion on the birth of the American Industrial Revolution. Learners will discover how work changed in the late 1700s and early 1800s and get a chance to feel some of the tools of the textiles trade. This session will also include the chance to earn a Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park Junior Ranger Badge and a
Junior Pollinator Badge. Visit our website for more information: https://go.nps.gov/qp165j

Weaving Workshop
2025-02-19 15:00 - 15:45, 2025-02-20 13:00 - 13:45 | Lowell National Historical Park – Boott Cotton Mills Museum, 3rd Floor, 115 John Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
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! Visit our website for more information: https://go.nps.gov/qp165j
Please register by calling 978 970-5000.

Late Night at the Museum
2025-02-19 17:00 - 19:00 | Lowell National Historical Park – Boott Cotton Mills Museum, 115 John Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
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 to explore the museum and try out a new craft! Visit our website for more information: https://go.nps.gov/qp165j

Science and Medicine: An Apprentice Historian Program for Grades 6-7
2025-02-20 10:00 - 12:00 | Munroe Tavern, 1332 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA, 02420, United States
People of the past used science just like we do every day, even on an 18th century farm! Learn how simple chores like writing a letter, working in the barn, or caring for a sick person utilize chemistry and physics. As we explore a historic tavern, we’ll become household scientists: making medicine by grinding herbs from the garden, using simple tools, and observing chemical reactions in making ink and butter.
This program is recommended for 6th – 7th graders.
$15 members, $20 nonmembers.
Advanced tickets required. Since children will be dropped off for this program, a LHS Children’s Program Participation Form is required.

Dream City at Discovery Museum
2025-02-20 10:00 - 14:00 | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Join us as we celebrate National Engineers Week and this year’s theme “Welcome to the Future”! Engage in some everyday engineering as we design a city where we can all thrive together while celebrating our uniqueness and supporting the planet we share. Help us collaboratively illustrate our future Dream City by adding your vision to our mural-sized paper illustration and prototype designs with simple building materials.
Thursday, February 20 through Sunday, February 23 | 10:00am to 2:00pm

Exploring the Seas
2025-02-20 11:00 - 14:00 | Lowell National Historical Park – Boott Cotton Mills Museum, 4th Floor, 115 John Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Join rangers from four different 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. Make art based on whale models and explore some objects you might find on a Massachusetts beach. Create your own nature journal to fill with art or things you notice about the world like a sailor long ago might have done. Visit our website for more information: https://go.nps.gov/qp165j

Engineer It! Workshop
2025-02-20 11:45 - 12:45 | Lowell National Historical Park – Boott Cotton Mills Museum, 3rd Floor, 115 John Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
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! Visit our website for more information: https://go.nps.gov/qp165j

Weaving Workshop
2025-02-20 13:00 - 13:45 | Lowell National Historical Park – Boott Cotton Mills Museum, 3rd Floor, 115 John Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
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! Visit our website for more information https://go.nps.gov/qp165j
Please register by calling 978 970-5000.

Water Workshop Fun!
2025-02-20 14:15 - 15:15 | Lowell National Historical Park – Boott Cotton Mills Museum, 3rd Floor, 115 John Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
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. Visit our website for more information: https://go.nps.gov/qp165

The Moody Blues’ John Lodge Performs Days of Future Passed at Cary Hall
2025-02-20 19:30 - 21:30 | Lexington’s Cary Memorial Hall, 1605 Mass Ave, Lexington, MA, 02420, United States
John Lodge, legendary bass player, songwriter and vocalist of The Moody Blues, and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, is bringing his new show, ‘Performs Days of Future Passed’ to the USA. John, together with his 10,000 Light Years Band, will perform this iconic album in its entirety, including a special recording by Graeme Edge and performances by Jon Davison of YES. The show will also feature a set of ‘can’t miss’ classic hits. ‘Ride my See-Saw’, ‘I’m Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band)’, ‘Isn’t Life Strange’, ‘Legend of a Mind’, ‘Nights in White Satin’, are just a few of the songs you’ll hear, all making this a truly spectacular evening!
A limited number of VIP Merch and Video Message Packages are available for this performance and include:
Premium Concert Ticket
Personal Video Message from John Lodge to YOU
Poster Autographed by John Lodge
Exclusive VIP Merch Pack
Merchandise items will be collected at the venue on the night of the show. Merchandise items are subject to change without notice. For questions related to your VIP Package, please email: VIP@onelive.com
All sales are final. No request for cancellations, exchanges, changes or refunds shall be honored.

Golden Gloves - All New England Open and Novice Quarter Finals
2025-02-20 19:30 - 22:00 | Lowell Memorial Auditorium, Lowell Memorial Auditorium, 50 E Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Lowell Sun Charities is proud to present the 78th Annual Golden Gloves at Lowell Memorial Auditorium, Thursdays from January 9 – March 6. Don’t miss a moment of one of the longest-standing New England sports traditions, as the best amateur boxers from the area battle it out across the weeks to see who will be crowned champion. Thursday Night is Fight Night at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium!
Every year in the Golden Gloves they’re a new flock of boxers trying to work their way up from the bottom in hopes of advancing their way to top of the competition. The Gloves has been a tradition in New England since 1947 and sells out the Lowell Memorial Auditorium every year. “It’s only there to give kids a way out of a lifestyle and to promote the sport of boxing along with good health, good training, exercise and confidence.”
When you win the Golden Gloves, you don’t get paid, you get the respect of your community; that’s very important to a young kid, as it gives them confidence to build their life upon.
Lowell, Massachusetts has a great tradition of boxing dating back 74 years ago. When you go to a Golden Gloves show in Lowell, you know that it is unlike other boxing shows or any other sporting event in general. There is electricity in the air, fans get a certain charge when they watch these fighters give every ounce of themselves for something that can’t be seen or touched.
This yearly event to the combatants is that, it’s not about prizes; it’s about pride. Many of the fighters who range in age from 18-40, are not even on a path to the pros or even the Olympics — they are simply there to say they fought in the Golden Gloves.

Stuffie Sleepover Drop-Off
2025-02-21 13:30 - 15:00 | Mogan Cultural Center, 40 French Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Bring a stuffed animal friend and drop them off with a park ranger so your stuffed animal can spend a night at Lowell National Historical Park for a fun sleepover. The next day, come back to the Mogan Cultural Center to collect your fluffy friend after their adventure. Visit our website for more information: https://go.nps.gov/qp165j

Interactive Storytime
2025-02-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Pollard Memorial Library, Pollard Memorial Library, 401 Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Join us at the Pollard Library for an Interactive Storytime! Library staff will read a story. Lowell Humane Society will bring furry friends which children can gently pet. Bring a stuffed animal along and a Lowell National Historical Park Ranger will swear them in as a B.A.R.K. Ranger. Please register at: https://pollardml.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/interactive-storytime/.

Lowell Winterfest 2025
2025-02-21 18:45 - 2025-02-22 21:15 | City of Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
One of Lowell’s most beloved annual traditions, Lowell Winterfest is a can’t-miss weekend festival that showcases some of the best the city has to offer. You can shake off those winter blues and experience a memorable and epic festival right in downtown Lowell. From local food to live entertainment to shopping, there’s no shortage of exciting things to do at Lowell Winterfest 2025! Events Schedule will be available soon.

Museum Story Time
2025-02-22 10:00 - 11:00 | Mogan Cultural Center, 40 French Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Join a ranger in our newest exhibit, One City, Many Cultures to enjoy a story time. A ranger will read books and families will play an eye spy game to find connections with the books throughout the exhibit. Visit our website for more information: https://go.nps.gov/qp165j

Weaving Bookmarks and Visiting the Bookmobile
2025-02-22 11:00 - 13:00 | Mogan Cultural Center, 40 French Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Join rangers to learn how to weave and create your own unique bookmark to take home with you. Visit the librarians of the Pollard Memorial Library bookmobile to discover a new book that you can check out that day and test your bookmark in. You can even sign up for your own free library card! Visit our website for more information: https://go.nps.gov/qp165j

Bird Feeders and Bird Mania
2025-02-23 10:00 - 12:00 | Lowell National Historical Park – Boott Cotton Mills Museum, 3rd Floor, 115 John Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Join rangers to learn about birds you can see in your community and how to protect them. Make a homemade birdfeeder that you can take home and use to attract birds. *note this craft uses peanut butter.* If weather allows, we may go for a short walk to do some birding. Visit our website for more information: https://go.nps.gov/qp165j

The Man, the Myth and the Legacy: Will the Real Paul Revere Please Stand Up?
2025-02-25 19:00 - 20:00 | Concord Museum, Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
Paul Revere’s legacy has been both elevated and obscured by his now famous ride, 250 years ago on April 18, 1775. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s dramatic poem replaced what actually happened with a much beloved romantic version. Nina Zannieri, Executive Director of the Paul Revere Memorial Association, and Robert Martello, Professor of the History of Science and Technology at Olin College of Engineering, shed light on the legendary ride, the poem, and the man behind it, revealing the fascinating life of a fabled national hero who witnessed and helped to shape the birth of a nation.
Co-sponsored by the Paul Revere Memorial Association.

A Snapshot of Acton's Early Black Residents
2025-02-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Acton Town Hall, 472 Main Street, Acton, 472 Main Street, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Acton Town Hall, Room 204 from 7-8:30 PM.
A Snapshot of Acton’s Early Black Residents (1730-1830)Please join local historians Bob Pion, Bill Klauer, and Anne Forbes discussing recent learnings of Acton’s Black residents. Black citizens were among the residents here when Acton first became a town in 1735 and several fought in the Revolution at the Concord Bridge and other New England battles.

A Snapshot of Acton’s Early Black Residents (1730-1830)
2025-02-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Acton Town Hall, 472 Main Street, Acton, 472 Main Street, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
The Acton 250 Committee presents Acton’s celebrated historians Anne Forbes, Bill Klauer and Bob Pion who will discuss recent learnings of Acton’s Black residents in honor African American History Month. Black citizens were among the residents here when Acton first became a Town in 1735, and several fought in the Revolution at the Concord Bridge and other New England battles.
Remote Participation: You can watch live at Acton TV http://tinyurl.com/Acton-TV. Recordings will be available at Acton TV https://actontv.org/ and on our website https://www.actonma.gov/250 where you’ll find all programming information and a link to our commemorative store.
Sponsored by the Acton Lions Club

Rain -- A Tribute to the Beetles
2025-02-26 19:30 - 22:00 | Lowell Memorial Auditorium, Lowell Memorial Auditorium, 50 E Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Doors open at 6:30 pm

RAIN: A Tribute To The Beatles At Lowell Memorial Auditorium
2025-02-26 19:30 - 22:30 | Lowell Memorial Auditorium, Lowell Memorial Auditorium, 50 E Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
RAIN: A Tribute to the Beatles is an electrifying concert experience celebrating the timeless music of the legendary fab four. With note-for-note precision, this mind-blowing performance transports you back to the iconic eras of Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour, along with all your favorite hits. From energetic classics to reflective favorites, the band delivers an unforgettable performance that appeals to fans old and new. With vibrant costumes and psychedelic visuals, RAIN creates a stunning concert full of nostalgia and good vibes. RAIN: A Tribute to the Beatles promises an extraordinary journey through the eras that captivates hearts and inspires all generations.

Make a Mess: Explore Kinetic Sand at Discovery Museum
2025-02-27 10:00 - 12:00 | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Squish it, sculpt it, drip it, and more! Discover the unique properties of this special material as you play, create, and experiment using your hands and some simple tools.

YA Author Visit: Crystal Maldonado
2025-02-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Pollard Memorial Library, Pollard Memorial Library, 401 Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Join the Pollard Memorial Library for a special event with Mass Book Award-winner Crystal Maldonado! Crystal will share her satisfying and multidimensional YA novel, The Fall of Whit Rivera.
Blisteringly funny and profoundly well-observed, The Fall of Whit Rivera is a snug and cozy romcom that tackles weightier topics like chronic illness, sexuality, fatphobia, Latino/a identity, and class. Funny, honest, insightful, romantic, and poignant, it is classic Crystal Maldonado—and it will have her legion of fans absolutely swooning.
Frenemies Whit and Zay have been at odds for years (ever since he broke up with her in the most embarrassing way imaginable), so when they’re forced to organize the fall formal together, it’s a literal disaster. Sparks fly as Whitney—type-A, passionate, a perfectionist, and a certified sweater-weather fanatic—butts heads with Zay, a dry, relaxed skater boy who takes everything in stride. But not all of those sparks are bad. . . . Has their feud been a big misunderstanding all along?
This program is sponsored by the Mass Book Awards Speakers Bureau and is presented in collaboration with the Massachusetts Center for the Book.
Crystal Maldonado is a young adult author with a lot of feelings. She is the author of romcoms for fat, brown girls, including The Fall of Whit Rivera, which People Magazine called a “pumpkin-spice-latte-flavored treat” (Winner of the 2024 Mass Book Award in the Young Adult category); Fat Chance, Charlie Vega, which was a New England Book Award winner, a Cosmopolitan Best New Book, and a Kirkus Best YA Fiction of 2021; and No Filter and Other Lies, which was named a POPSUGAR and Seventeen Best New YA.
By day, Crystal works in higher ed marketing, and by night, she’s a writer who loves Beyoncé, glitter, shopping, and spending too much time on her phone. Her work has been published in Latina, BuzzFeed, and the Hartford Courant. She lives in western Massachusetts with her husband, daughter, and dog. Follow her everywhere @crystalwrote or visit her website at crystalwrote.com.
Crystal will speak about her experience as a writer, and there will be time for a book signing at the end of the presentation. La La Books will be selling copies of The Fall of Whit Rivera, so don’t fret if you don’t have a copy!
This program is recommended for ages 13+
Registration is required, as space is limited.

Golden Gloves - All New England Open and Novice Semi Finals
2025-02-27 19:30 - 22:00 | Lowell Memorial Auditorium, Lowell Memorial Auditorium, 50 E Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States

Ways of My Ancestors – Imagery: Lighting the Path to Awareness
2025-02-28 - 2025-03-23 | The Umbrella Arts Center, 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
“Ways of My Ancestors – Imagery: Lighting the Path to Awareness” features photographic work by Scott Strong Hawk Foster that celebrates the rich, diverse, and resilient cultures of the Native Peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of North America.
Foster is a Native American photographer and an enrolled member of Hassanamisco Nipmuc Band with proud Mohegan and Cherokee lineage. His work has been exhibited at the Danforth Museum, Worcester Art Museum, Boston City Hall, and other venues.
On view through March 23 in The Umbrella’s Wedge Gallery, this exhibition reflects Foster’s travels within his home state of Massachusetts and throughout the ancestral homelands of the Native American Peoples of New England. While attending powwows, cultural events, workshops, and Indigenous practices that span millennia, his passion has become highlighting cultures and history of the Indigenous peoples that are still here and living amongst us.
Both the opening reception March 5, 6PM and Artist Talk, March 9, 1-2PM are free and open to the public.
The exhibition runs concurrently with The Umbrella Stage Company’s Where We Belong by Mohegan playwright Madeline Sayet in The Umbrella’s Black Box theater. Both are presented as part of The Umbrella’s programs recognizing the American semiquincentennial.
The Umbrella is ADA accessible, a proud partner in the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s EBT Card-to-Culture program, and provides free parking and free admission to its visual arts galleries.
See https://TheUmbrellaArts.org/Foster

Where We Belong
2025-02-28 19:30 - 2025-03-23 15:00 | The Umbrella Arts Center, 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
The Umbrella Stage Company presents the New England premiere of Mohegan theatre-maker Madeline Sayet’s ground-breaking one-woman show, Where We Belong.
With great humor, insight and imaginative storytelling, the autobiographical play weaves together indigenous history, Shakespeare, colonialism, cultural legacy, the power of language and legend. It recounts Sayet’s 2015 journey to England to pursue a PhD in Shakespeare, in the shadow of the Brexit vote. Moving between nations that have failed to reckon with their ongoing roles in colonialism, she grapples with what it means to remain or leave her own home at Mohegan, but finds comfort following in the footsteps of her ancestors who traveled to England in the 1700s to help her people.
Performed for the first time by an artist other than Sayet herself, the show has been completely restaged by fellow director and playwright Tara Moses. Its staging in Concord during the semiquincentennial of the “shot heard round the world” raises timely questions of whose stories about history are told, how, by whom, and in what language.
The show runs Feb. 28-Mar. 23, including a special Student Group Matinee Wed. Mar. 12 at 4PM, and select performances will feature engagement opportunities including optional pre-show catered dinners on Thursdays, childcare through The Umbrella’s Kid-Care program for parents interested in attending the March 9 matinee, and others.
The Umbrella is ADA accessible, a proud partner in the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s EBT Card-to-Culture program, and provides free parking and free admission to its visual arts galleries. See https://TheUmbrellaArts.org/WWB for more information.
Student: $20
Senior: $45
Adult: $48
