• Bessie’s Closet at Discovery Museum

    Discovery Museum 177 Main St., Acton

    Bessie’s Closet is a free pop-up clothing store open to all. Supported by donations from the community, Bessie’s Closet offers new or gently-used clothing and shoes for both children and adults. Anyone who may benefit is welcome to visit Bessie’s Closet. Museum admission is not required, but also not included. All items are available free of charge, take what you ...

    free
  • First Friday Nights Free at Discovery Museum!

    Discovery Museum 177 Main St., Acton

    Join us with free admission and explore the Museum and Discovery Woods on the first Friday night of every month during the school year, October through June! Discovery Woods will close at dusk. We will gratefully accept non-perishable food donations for Open Table and the Acton Food Pantry. First Friday Nights Free are generously sponsored by MathWorks.

    free
  • Evening of Fife & Drum Music (Military Tattoo)

    Lexington Battle Green 1625 Massachusetts Ave., Lexington

    Attend the 23rd Annual Lexington Tattoo and Muster Free outdoor evening performance of fife and drum music at the scene of the first skirmish in the Revolutionary War. Hosted by the William Diamond Junior Fife & Drum Corps of Lexington and featuring four other corps.

    Free
  • Concord Players present “Urinetown”

    Concord Players – 51 Waden Street 51 Walden Street, Concord, MA, United States

    A slightly different kind of revolution will take place in historic Concord with The Concord Players’ production of Urinetown the Musical! It’s a dark time in a dark city, where a 20-year drought has led to severe water restrictions – including a ban on private toilets. Public pay toilets are controlled by the evil ‘Urine Good Company’, which is gleefully ...

    $28
  • Urinetown the Musical May 2-17

    51 walden

    The Concord Players presents Urinetown the Musical…a slightly different type of Revolution! It’s a dark time in a dark city, where a 20-year drought has led to severe water restrictions — including a ban on private toilets. Fee-based public toilets are controlled by the evil Urine Good Company, which is gleefully gouging huge profits off a very basic human need. ...

    $28.
  • Concord Recreation Concord250th Fun Run

    Willard School Powder Mill Road, Concord, Ma

    Event Details: Saturday, May 3rd 9-11am Starting location: Willard School Ending location: White Pond 2.5 mile course and 1 mile course options Colonial dress encouraged!

  • Concord250: Discord on the Concord: River Ice Breakup and the Revolution of the Seasons (Then and Now)

    Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA

    The Sudbury-Assabet-Concord (SuAsCo) Wild and Scenic River Stewardship Council hosts University of Connecticut Professor Robert Thorson and a special presentation on the history of our rivers as part of Concord250. A frequent and engaging speaker in Concord, Dr. Thorson is a Midwestern native, turned Northwestern geologist, turned Northeastern academic. He is a life member of the Thoreau Society, serves on ...

  • Bessie’s Closet at Discovery Museum

    Discovery Museum 177 Main St., Acton

    Bessie’s Closet is a free pop-up clothing store open to all. Supported by donations from the community, Bessie’s Closet offers new or gently-used clothing and shoes for both children and adults. Anyone who may benefit is welcome to visit Bessie’s Closet. Museum admission is not required, but also not included. All items are available free of charge, take what you ...

    free
  • Fife & Drum Music Festival (Muster)

    Hastings Park, Lexington Corner of Massachusetts Ave. and Worthen Rd., Lexington

    Free outdoor afternoon of music, history and entertainment by two dozen fife and drum corps representing different eras including the Revolution, hosted by the William Diamond Junior Fife & Drum Corps of Lexington. Begins with a 250th anniversary ceremony on the Lexington Battle Green (1624 Massachusetts Ave.) honoring the 7 Lexington patriots who fell on the Green at the Battle ...

    Free
  • The Umbrella Open Studios 2025

    The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA, United States

    Annual Open Studios and Ceramics Studio Sale at the newly renovated Umbrella Arts Center in the heart of historic Concord Center.   Saturday, May 3 – 12:00pm – 5:00pm Sunday, May 4 – 12:00pm – 5:00pm   For 2025, we’re delighted to welcome you to our studios and galleries!   The Umbrella Arts Center is home to more than 60 ...

    Free
  • Patriots of Color Walking Tour

    North Bridge Lower Parking Lot Monument Street, Concord, MA, United States

    Saturdays, 1:30pm Tours March 22, 2025 – June 30, 2025 Between twenty and forty colonists who fought along the Battle Road on April 19, 1775, were of African descent or Indigenous people. Although excluded from required militia service prior to the war, these individuals of color were the first of many to take up arms between 1775 and 1783. By ...

  • Concord250 Event: Concord Women’s Chorus Concert: Still Heard Round the World: A Celebration of Music Written by and for Women

    Trinity Episcopal Church Elm Street 81, Concord, MA, United States

    The concert will feature two works commissioned by Concord Women’s Chorus: Concord Fragments, a 2010 piece by renowned composer Libby Larsen, three movements set to texts by three Concord women: Lidian Emerson, from an 1843 letter to her husband, Ralph Waldo Emerson; Martha Lawrence Prescott, from an 1834 diary entry on her 18th birthday; and poet, former CWC member and ...