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Nature Explorers

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

Join our outdoor educator for a series of outdoor explorations. Each week we will venture onto the conservation land next to the Museum and practice our science and naturalism skills together. Identify trees, search for bugs and slugs, and slow down to notice the rhythm of forest life. Our learning and exploration will build across […]

$3 – $30

Sewn Circuits

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

Join us for an exciting new program for kids and their caregivers to explore hand sewing and simple circuitry to engineer unique wearable creations with working lights! In this 90-minute session we’ll investigate how circuits work using wires, small LED lights, and batteries. Then, we’ll experiment with ways to make fabric creations – like felt […]

$10

A Family Revealed: From Slavery to Hope

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

Discovery Museum Speaker Series Speaker: Wallis Wickham Raemer, educator, and Reggie Harris, folk singer and social activist Location: This event will be live and in-person at Nashoba Brooks School 200 Strawberry Hill Road, Concord, MA Cost: Free with pre-registration; $5 suggested donation appreciated In an evening of engaging music and conversation with the audience, two […]

$5

An Evening with Robert Pinsky, Former US Poet Laureate

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

Robert, Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997 to 2000 joins us for a reading and conversation on writing, teaching, and poetry’s place in the world. It was said of Robert Pinsky in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, “No other living American poet—no other living American, probably—has done so much to […]

Fun Family Outdoor Yoga

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

Join us with your family to move your body in healthy ways and connect with nature while doing outdoor yoga! Yoga improves physical and mental strength and can also improve self-awareness and mental focus. Kelly Western, professional yoga instructor, will lead this caregiver & child yoga class that incorporates balance, strength, stretching, and mindfulness in […]

Free with admission

Watercolor Landscape Workshop

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

Unleash your inner artist in a watercolor paint night at the Museum! This special evening begins with a visit to the exhibition A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library, where the instructor will introduce a selection of paintings that exemplify artistic inspiration from the New England landscape. In the […]

Emerson-Thoreau Amble Walking Tour

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

Celebrate Emerson’s birthday (May 25) and follow the footsteps of writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau! Enjoy the spring weather and learn about the friendship of two notable observers of nature from a museum interpreter. 1-mile walk, mostly flat terrain, rain or shine. Meet at the Concord Museum. Includes same-day admission to the […]

The Marcia Ball Band

Belleville Congregational Church 300 High Street, Newburyport, MA, United States

Rollicking, playful, good-time blues and intimate, reflective balladry…her songs ring with emotional depth." — Rolling Stone "Marcia Ball plays two-fisted New Orleans barrelhouse piano and sings in a husky, knowing voice about all the trouble men and women can get into on the way to a good time." — The New York Times "Fifty years […]

$10 – $45
Concord River Whitewater Rafting

Concord River Whitewater Rafting

UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center 50 Warren St, Lowell, MA, United States

“Squeeze into a wet suit, hop into a raft, and hang on! Whitewater rafting on the Concord River in Lowell happens only on weekends in April and May, when rain and snowmelt swell the river, producing Class III and IV rapids. This urban river run, a mere 1.7 miles long, is a high-octane ride over […]

$99.00