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The Original Harlem Globetrotters are coming back to Lowell for the Pushing the Limits World Tour! Don't miss this night of high-flying dunks, hilarious pranks, and laughs for the whole family! Tickets go on sale October 16th at 10:00 AM!
Engage in some everyday engineering as you construct and create with repurposed and recycled materials. What can you do with clothespins, sheets, and cardboard boxes? Just about anything! Jump in and help build an ever-changing, room-sized blanket fort. National Engineers Week is sponsored by Raytheon.
Engage in some everyday engineering as you construct and create with repurposed and recycled materials. Investigate floating by building tinfoil boats and loading them with pennies until they sink. How many pennies can your boat hold? National Engineers Week is sponsored by Raytheon.
The Addison Gallery opened its doors in 1931 with a core collection of 423 objects purchased for or given to the museum by Phillips Academy alumnus, Thomas Cochran and his close friends. Since then, the museum has annually added to the collection via generous donation and judicious purchase to make it what it is today--over 21,000 […]
Spring is on the horizon. Join us for March Open Studios, as we celebrate Jack Kerouac's birthday and Women's History Month at The Creative Soul of Lowell. We have live readings featuring members of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac ! Featuring music by Dave Greenwood and a release party for Stephen O'Connor's new novel This Is No […]
A hilarious stand-up comedy show featuring Boston's best comedians LIVE in the Talon Club located inside the Tsongas Center with your headliner: Lamont Price! Price is a Boston-based comedian who has appeared in every major festival including: Montreal Just for Laughs, Rooftop Comedy Aspen Festival, Boston Comedy Festival, New York Comedy Festival, Women in Comedy […]
The 19th century witnessed the development of a notion of masculinity that tied the worth of a white man to his performance in the workplace—from which women and other minorities were excluded—and to his capacity to accumulate capital and advance socially. By the turn of the 20th century, pervasive anxiety posed by the threat of […]
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 […]
Join us with free admission and explore the museum at night on the first Friday of every month! We will gratefully accept non-perishable food donations for the Acton Food Pantry and Open Table of Concord and Maynard. Please note: Discovery Woods closes at dusk. Sponsored by Middlesex Savings Bank.
“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 […]
Join us for the six-episode Virtual Garden Tour series, released June 25-27. Sign up to receive exclusive access to the Garden Tour website, and watch the series anytime during or after the event weekend! Each episode is rich with both breathtaking vistas as far as the eye can see, and moments spent lingering on the intimate […]
Register for the annual gathering of the Thoreau Society to participate in virtual events including the keynote interview with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi and The Robbins House co-president Maria Madison.
