Events

Attention all adult chamber musicians! Concord Conservatory of Music (CCM) is excited to present the CCM Adult Chamber Music Play-In on Saturday, October 26, from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm.

No story is like yours — and your telling it is powerful and necessary. Join this workshop to find your woods and tell your story.

In this two-day workshop, national memoirist & distinguished teacher Dr. Barbara Mossberg invites you “to the woods” — a place to find focus, inspiration, connection, and support for developing your memoir. Experiments, prompts and exercises in this workshop are designed to invite, inquire, and invoke your own “woods” through Thoreau’s lens of living purposefully.

Experience the emotional depth of Brahms, the rich textures of Debussy, and the bold melodies of Mussorgsky. Concord Conservatory of Music proudly presents a special evening with award-winning pianist and CCM faculty member Yelena Beriyeva on Friday, October 25, 2024, at 7:30 pm. This event, titled Piano Inspirations, marks the kickoff of the 2024-2025 CCM Concert & Lecture Series.

Join the Thoreau Society for a presentation by this year’s Thoreau Prize winner, J. Drew Lanham, followed by a book signing. Joseph Drew Lanham is an ornithologist, naturalist, writer, and poet combining conservation science with personal, historical, and cultural narratives of nature.

Join Concord Art in celebrating their beloved Concord Art faculty this Fall! As part of the programming for the triennial, on Thursday, October 24th at 4pm, they will be holding an artists panel discussion with six of our Concord Art faculty members to hear their insights on teaching and practicing visual art. Then, stay for the exhibition’s opening reception, starting at 5:30pm.

"Local-ish to Lincoln, MA? Come join us next Wednesday, October 23 for our second annual TEDx Walden Pond event. This year's theme is "Two to Tell the Truth!" The theme echoes Henry David Thoreau's beautiful quote: "It takes two to speak the truth: One to talk, and one to listen."

Beautiful Lands or “Belle Terre” focuses on three artists whose work is drawn directly from the Earth. Jonathan MacAdam captures the memory of a place and the tranquility of standing in a mesmerizing New England landscape, where the splendor of the sky is palpable. Jennifer Johnston presents her photographic series of light-infused flowing water and hardened rock, and Colleen Pearce exhibits enjoyable and fluid interpretations of geological formations and plant life using oil on yupo.

A public ceremony will deservedly and respectfully honor Concord’s 19th Century Female Anti-Slavery Society with the dedication of our gifts of a flowering tree and raised brass plaque placed in the Cemetery. The Society, unique in its composition of Black and White members, was founded on October 18th, 1837.

The orchestra, conducted by Music Director Zeke Fetrow, performs a program of Johannes Brahms'  Academic Festival Overture, Samuel Barber's Music for a Scene from Shelley,  Claude Debussy's Petite Suite, and Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 2.Oct 19 and 20, 2024

Don't miss the 9th anniversary of this cherished showcase of exceptional work from Native American artists, including animal fetishes, jewelry, and pottery.