ZACH WILLIAMS – A HUNDRED HIGHWAYS TOUR
2024-01-16 17:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Lowell Memorial Auditorium, Lowell Memorial Auditorium, 50 E Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Get ready for a night of unforgettable music and soul-stirring performances as Zach Williams and Riley Clemmons take the stage on the “A Hundred Highways” tour! Zach Williams will blow you away with his powerful vocals, raw talent, and chart-topping hits. From “Chain Breaker” to “Rescue Story,” his music speaks to the heart of what it means to be human, and his electrifying live shows are unlike anything you’ve ever experienced in Christian music. But the excitement doesn’t stop there. Riley Clemmons, a rising star in the industry, will set the stage ablaze with her angelic voice and captivating stage presence. With hits like “Keep on Hoping” and “Fighting for Me,” she is sure to inspire and uplift you with her soulful lyrics and infectious melodies.
VIP Exclusive Eat & Greet Experience:
Napa Valley, CA based chef Paul Fields will be crafting a gourmet dinner that you will never forget! This exclusive VIP Eat and Greet experience includes:
– Meet Zach Williams and get your picture taken with him*
-Premium concert seating
-Early access to merch shoppinh
-Commemorative VIP tour laminate
–Gift bag
* If health and safety guidelines change, a Question & Answer session may be substituted.
This is a very limited offer. Join us for this exclusive VIP experience! Must arrive by 5:00pm.

UML WBB vs. Albany
2024-01-18 11:00 - 13:00 | Tsongas Center, Tsongas Center, 300 Arcand Dr, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Check out the UML Women’s Basketball team take on University of Albany on January 18th at 11am for our annual field trip day!

2024 Golden Gloves
2024-01-18 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-01-25 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-02-01 19:30 - 21:00 | Lowell Memorial Auditorium, Lowell Memorial Auditorium, 50 E Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Lowell Sun Charities is proud to present the 77th Annual Golden Gloves at Lowell Memorial Auditorium, Thursdays from January 11 – March 7. 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!

RUBEN & CLAY: TWENTY YEARS | ONE NIGHT
2024-01-18 20:00 | Lexington’s Cary Memorial Hall, 1605 Mass Ave, Lexington, MA, 02420, United States
Ruben & Clay are thrilled to reunite twenty years after captivating audiences during their historic run on the second season of Fox’s American Idol in 2003. Both plucked from the relative obscurity of their hometowns in the South, the unlikely pair quickly became audience favorites instrumental in helping propel Idol to the top of the Nielsen ratings, nearly tripling the viewership of the previous season, and securing its place as one of the most consequential TV series in American history. Over 38 million viewers tuned in to hear the results of more than 124 million votes cast during their finale making it the most watched Idol episode in history and the highest rated regularly scheduled, live, non-sporting television episode of the 21st century. Combined they have recorded twelve albums, sold more than eight million albums worldwide, toured the country 14 times, starred together on Broadway, won four Billboard Music Awards, an American Music Award, and have been nominated for two Grammys.
Twenty | The Tour will highlight the music that made Ruben & Clay American Idol favorites and household names. From Clay’s iconic rendition of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” to Ruben’s soulful single ”Sorry”, join America’s favorite odd couple for an unforgettable evening of music and memories, spanning two decades, delivered as only these true superstars can.

New England Performance Series with Jenna Moynihan
2024-01-19 19:00 - 20:30 | deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, 51 Sandy Pond Road, Lincoln, MA, 01773, United States
deCordova is pleased to present an evening of music with fiddler, Jenna Moynihan!
Jenna Moynihan is regarded as one of the best of the new generation of freestyle fiddlers. Versatile and inventive, her fiddling style draws strongly from the Scottish tradition, but is also influenced by American, Irish, and Scandinavian styles. Jenna has performed and taught around the world, including performances at Celtic Connections, Celtic Colours, Scots Fiddle Festival, and Festival Interceltique. She has performed as a soloist with The Boston Pops and appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and CBS Sunday Morning. Jenna is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, where she received the Fletcher Bright Award & The American Roots Music Scholarship, both given annually to one outstanding string-player. In addition to her solo work, she performs with Seamus Egan Project, Hanneke Cassel Band, and in a duo with harpist Màiri Chaimbeul. Jenna is also a dedicated teacher and teaches at various camps and courses throughout the year and is also an Assistant Professor in the Strings Department at Berklee College of Music, in Boston, MA.
www.jennamoynihan.com
Concert begins at 7PM, Doors Open 6:30PM
This concert will take place in the Dewey Family Hall located on the third floor of the deCordova Museum. Enter through the main museum entrance and staff will greet you and direct you.
Cancellation Policy: In the event The Trustees cancels a program due to severe weather, low enrollment, or other circumstances, we will notify registrants by email and issue a full refund or transfer to another scheduled program within two weeks of cancellation. To cancel a reservation, please contact decordovagroups@thetrustees.org or 781.259.3626 seven days prior to the start of the program to receive a full refund. Refunds will not be granted for cancellations placed fewer than 7 days before the start of the program.

Hands-On History: Beeswax Candles
2024-01-20 10:00 - 15:30 | 97 University Ave, Lowell, 01854, United States
January was dark in the days before electricity! Learn about lighting in the 18th century and roll your own candle. Drop in any time between 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM and 1:30 – 3:30 PM to learn! This activity is suitable for ages 6 and up, including adults!
Included with museum admission.

Medieval merriment
2024-01-20 12:00 - 16:00 | Mill No. 5, 5th floor Events hall, Jackson street, Liwell, United States
Miss the renaissance faire during the chilly winter? Enjoy the afternoon of food, fun, faire, music and vendors (free to attend). Win prizes for best medieval attire.

PWHL vs. New York
2024-01-20 12:30 - 14:30 | Tsongas Center, Tsongas Center, 300 Arcand Dr, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
The Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) has announced that its Boston franchise will play home games at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell.
The PWHL officially launched in August with the introduction of six original teams and the foundation to assemble rosters featuring the best women’s hockey players in the world. Among the stars suiting up for New York are Hilary Knight, Megan Keller, Aerin Frankel and the team’s third overall draft pick Alina Muller.

Live Greek & Middle Eastern Music and Bellydancing
2024-01-20 20:00 - 23:00, 2024-01-27 20:00 - 23:00 | Athenian Corner Restaurant, 207 Market Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Live music and dancing featuring the Athenian Corner Ensemble

Shibori Dyeing Workshop at deCordova
2024-01-21 13:00 - 16:00 | deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, 51 Sandy Pond Road, Lincoln, MA, 01773, United States
Shibori, the elegant forbearer to psychedelic tie-dye, is a Japanese resist dyeing technique that is simple enough to do in your backyard but vast with possibility. The term “shibori” comes from the Japanese “shiboru,” meaning “twisted and pressed”. Designs are created by folding, binding, and compressing fabric before submerging it in dye; the manipulation of the fabric from the 2-D plane into a 3-D form prevents the dye from penetrating the internal parts of this fabric clump, yielding distinctive organic, often geometric patterns. While much of the art of Shibori is in the preparation and planning, accident and chance must also be embraced.
Students will learn about the indigo dyeing process and will use a mix of traditional and modern shibori methods to create samples to take home and are welcome to bring their own natural fiber garments/fabric to dye as well.
Materials Fee of $30 is included in the tuition fee. It covers dyes, equipment, and fabric. Registered students will receive an email with details and logistics at least one day prior to the workshop.
Special Notes & Supplies:
Please bring your own pair of long rubber dish gloves.
Plastic bags for wet fabric will be available but please consider bringing your own recycled/reusable ones.
Indigo dye likes to drip and will stain, so wear appropriate shoes and clothing.
If you bring your own fabric/garments to dye, please wash them on the hottest setting to prepare them for taking on dye.

CAAL Lunar New Year Celebration
2024-01-21 17:00 - 21:00 | Lexington Historical Society, Lexington Historical Society, 13 Depot Square, Lexington, MA, 02420, United States
Dragon, an emblem of strength, vitality, wealth, and auspiciousness in Chinese culture, symbolizes the start of a vibrant and prosperous 2024, the Year of the Dragon! The Lunar New Year Spring Festival, joyously celebrated by Chinese, Korean among other Asian communities worldwide, has become a part of Lexington’s rich cultural heritage. Lexington Historical Society is honored to participate this year to demonstrate historic dances and the importance of Chinese culture and art in colonial America!
5 – 7 pm Culture Fair, Food for Purchase and More
7 – 9 pm LNY Celebration Performance Gala

Threading Things
2024-01-23 10:00 - 12:00 | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Join us as we tinker about with beads, yarn, buttons, and other items that can be threaded, strung, looped, and laced. Try your hand at some simple stitching or practice with some over sized beads.

Perspectives on East & Southeast Asian Folktales...
2024-01-24 18:30 - 20:00
Book launch for Perspectives on East & Southeast Asian Folktales, edited by UMass Lowell Professors Allyssa McCabe and Prof. Minjeong Kim

Make a Mess: Sensory Snow
2024-01-25 10:00 - 12:00 | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Let it snow! Even if it’s not snowing outside, we’ll still be able to make some mini snowballs and snowmen with our baking soda and shaving cream “snow”. Use your hands to mix together the two ingredients and see how it compares to the real thing!

Full Moon Tour at deCordova
2024-01-25 19:00 - 20:00 | deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, 51 Sandy Pond Road, Lincoln, MA, 01773, United States
Bring your family and firneds to see sculptures transformed by the moonlight in this special after-hours tour.
Small group tours with deCordova’s experienced Museum Guides last 60-75 minutes. Please dress for the wather with sturdy footwear. Bring a flashlight or lantern.
Visitors should park in the main lot and meet their Museum Guide in front of the Museum. Questions about accessibility? Please contact Cindy at cclark@thetrustees.org
More details:
Well behaved, leashed dogs are welcome
Can’t make this date? Full moon tours are offered monthly

Open Mic Night
2024-01-26 18:30 - 20:00 | Mill No. 5, Mill No. 5, 250 Jackson St, Lowell, MA, United States
Open Mic night is back! Every first and third Friday, come share your music! Express yourself! Grab a drink, enjoy some food & support your local arts community!!

UML Hockey vs. Providence
2024-01-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Tsongas Center, Tsongas Center, 300 Arcand Dr, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
The UMass Lowell River Hawks take on Providence on January 26th, 2024!

Love & Loss | An Original Cabaret Presented by Dramatically Incorrect
2024-01-26 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-01-27 19:30 - 22:00 | 97 University Ave, Lowell, 01854, United States
Directed By Bailey Gleason and Katie Fitzpatrick
Choreographed by Paul Gymziak

Hands-On History: Quill Pen Writing
2024-01-27 10:00 - 15:30 | 97 University Ave, Lowell, 01854, United States
Goose feathers were the perfect writing utensil of the past – about writing in the 18th century and try writing with a real quill pen! Drop in any time between 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM and 1:30 – 3:30 PM to learn. This activity is suitable for all ages, including adults!
Included with museum admission.

Unraveling: Author Peggy Orenstein in Conversation with Rebecca Kneale Gould
2024-01-27 11:00 - 12:00 | 97 University Ave, Lowell, 01854, United States
In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch—shearing, spinning, dyeing wool—and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft. Orenstein spins a yarn that will appeal to everyone.
The COVID pandemic propelled many people to change their lives in ways large and small. Some adopted puppies. Others stress-baked. Peggy Orenstein, a lifelong knitter, went just a little further. To keep herself engaged and cope with a series of seismic shifts in family life, she set out to make a garment from the ground up: learning to shear sheep, spin and dye yarn, then knitting herself a sweater.
Orenstein hoped the project would help her process not just wool but her grief over the recent death of her mother and the decline of her dad, the impending departure of her college-bound daughter, and other thorny issues of aging as a woman in a culture that by turns ignores and disdains them. What she didn’t expect was a journey into some of the major issues of our time: climate anxiety, racial justice, women’s rights, the impact of technology, sustainability, and, ultimately, the meaning of home.
With her wry voice, sharp intelligence, and exuberant honesty, Orenstein shares her year-long journey as daughter, wife, mother, writer, and maker—and teaches us all something about creativity and connection.
Peggy Orenstein is also the author of the New York Times best-sellers Boys & Sex, Girls & Sex, Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy as well as Don’t Call Me Princess, Flux, and the classic SchoolGirls.
A frequent contributor to The New York Times and a contributing writer for AFAR, Peggy has also written for such publications as The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, New York, The Atlantic and The New Yorker, and has contributed commentaries to NPR’s All Things Considered and The PBS News Hour. She has been featured on, among other programs, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, The Today Show, Morning Joe, and NPR’s Fresh Air. Her TED Talk, “What Young Women Believe About Their Own Sexual Pleasure,” has been viewed over six million times.
The Columbia Journalism Review named Peggy one of its “40 women who changed the media business in the past 40 years.” She has been recognized for her “Outstanding Coverage of Family Diversity,” by the Council on Contemporary Families and received Books For A Better Life Awards for Girls & Sex and Waiting for Daisy. Her work has also been honored by the Commonwealth Club of California, the National Women’s Political Caucus of California and Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She has been awarded fellowships by the U.S.-Japan Foundation and the Asian Cultural Council and residencies by Mesa Refuge and the UCross Foundation.
Peggy will be joined in conversation by Rebecca Kneale Gould, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and co-chair of the Philosophy, Religion and Environment Focus at Middlebury College, author of At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America, member of the Thoreau Society’s board of directors, and proud a shepherd with a small flock of rescue sheep.
Praise for Unraveling:
“While Orenstein’s garment is the work of an amateur, this book is anything but.”—The Washington Post
“This witty, irreverent memoir is…an absolute delight to read.” —Minneapolis StarTribune
“By book’s end, the reader is ready to identify deep, intrinsic beauty in anything that is difficult to create.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

PWHL vs. Minnesota
2024-01-27 16:00 - 18:00 | Tsongas Center, Tsongas Center, 300 Arcand Dr, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States

Backyard and Beyond: Weather the Weather
2024-01-30 10:00 - 10:30 | Discovery Museum, Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, 01720, United States
Join us in Discovery Woods to celebrate whatever weather Mother Nature decides give us today. We’ll be doing an activity that works with the weather, whether it’s windy, sunny, or snowy.

Eco-Films Series: Dead Sea Guardians
2024-01-30 18:30 - 20:00 | Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St, Lowell, MA, United States
For this first film “Dead Sea Guardians” – Historic enemies unite to save the Dead Sea from disappearing. The film follows three swimmers who cross the Dead Sea to inspire actions to save it.
The 2024 Eco-Film Series is presented by the Lowell Parks and Conservation Trust on the last Tuesday of every month, January through June. This free series is offered annually in partnership with the Lowell Film Collaborative and are screened at the Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center.
The 2024 line-up covers topics such as: historic enemies uniting to save the Dead Sea, mushroom harvesting on public lands, a 200-mile trek on the L.A. aqueduct, and the extraordinary lives of Steward Udall and Betty Reid Soskin.

Affirmation of Life: Art from Today’s Ukraine | January 31-February 25, 2024 | Reception on Saturday Feb. 3 , 3 - 5 pm | Loading Dock Gallery
2024-01-31 12:00 - 17:30, 2024-02-01 12:00 - 17:30, 2024-02-02 12:00 - 17:30 | Loading Dock Gallery, 122 Western Avenue, Lowell, MA, United States
This February, enjoy Affirmation of Life: Art from Today’s Ukraine, presented at the Loading Dock Gallery in cooperation with the Ukraine Cultural Initiative. This colorful show celebrates life as well as Ukrainian heritage, with work ranging from traditional designs to lush abstracts. Working in war-ravaged Ukraine, the artists seek not only to make a living, but to teach and support adults and children, providing much needed healing through the universal language of art. “Art is like oxygen,” says artist Lyubov Mineko. “It makes everyone feel comfortable. Comfortable in the individual existence and comfortable in communication with others. Art unites people.”
Affirmation of Life: Art from Today’s Ukraine runs January 31-February 25, 2024 at Loading Dock Gallery, 122 Western Avenue, Lowell, MA; noon-5:30pm, Wednesday-Saturday; until 4pm Sunday.
Reception 3-5pm, Saturday, February 3, 2024. More at www.theloadingdockgallery.com.
Loading Dock Gallery is part of Loading Dock Arts, Inc., a 501c3. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Lowell Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
