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Items Tagged with 'the umbrella arts center'

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Everyone Deserves a Chance to Fly: Concord’s Gregory Maguire Soars High

April 25, 2025
Jennifer C. Schünemann
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On a spring evening in early April, Concord’s creative community gathered under a starscape of giant whimsical poppies decorating the ceiling of The Umbrella Arts Center for an event that celebrated the arts and honored the acclaimed author of Wicked and a long-time Concord resident, Gregory Maguire. There was much to celebrate as Maguire is actively supporting the rollout of a film adaptation of Wicked, as well as touring for his fifth book in the Wicked series, Elphie.


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The Umbrella Arts Center: A Rich and Accessible Cultural Destination in the Heart of Historic Concord

March 28, 2025
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In the heart of the historic Concord Center Cultural District, The Umbrella Arts Center at 40 Stow Street is a multidisciplinary, non-profit contemporary arts organization committed to nurturing and encouraging the arts. A cultural leader in MetroWest Boston, it provides broad and diverse access to a wide range of performing arts, visual arts, and arts education programs. Through these offerings, The Umbrella promotes creativity, learning, personal growth, and cultural exchange. 


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Cultural Spotlight

The Umbrella Arts Center: A Rich and Accessible Cultural Destination in the Heart of Historic Concord

March 28, 2025
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In the heart of the historic Concord Center Cultural District, The Umbrella Arts Center at 40 Stow Street is a multidisciplinary, non-profit contemporary arts organization committed to nurturing and encouraging the arts. A cultural leader in MetroWest Boston, it provides broad and diverse access to a wide range of performing arts, visual arts, and arts education programs. Through these offerings, The Umbrella promotes creativity, learning, personal growth, and cultural exchange. 


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Artist Spotlight: Sally Lee and Zachary Mickelson

December 15, 2021
Stewart Ikeda
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Meet local artists Sally Lee and Zachary Mickelson. Lee works in ceramics, painting, sculpture, textiles, and more. Mickelson is a ceramic artist, teacher, and Manager of the booming new Ceramics Studio at The Umbrella Arts Center.


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The Umbrella Community Arts Center Wows with New Building & Expanded Programming

September 15, 2019
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Housed in the historic Emerson School building in the heart of the Concord Center Cultural District, The Umbrella Community Arts Center has, for decades, been a buzzing creative hub for the town. This September, following a complete renovation and expansion of the center, The Umbrella reopens as a contemporary arts complex that expands capacity for artists, students, performers, and audiences throughout Greater Boston and the Metro West region.  Highlights of the new programming include:


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EVENTS

Featured Events

Weaving an Address

4/14/25 6:00 pm to 6/14/25 9:00 pm EDT
The Umbrella Arts Center Weaving an Address
40 Stow St
Concord, MA
United States
Contact: John Penney

The Umbrella Arts Center in historic Concord Center will commemorate the semiquincentennial of the American Revolution and “the shot heard round the world” with an ambitious outdoor/indoor public and gallery art exhibition, Weaving an Address, curated by artist Marla McLeod. For the first time, Weaving an Address combines The Umbrella’s popular Art Ramble public art installation, on view April 15 through October 7 at Brister’s Hill in nearby Walden Woods, with an indoor exhibition on view April 14 through June 14 in The Umbrella’s Allie Kussin Gallery.

Exhibition: April 14 - June 14, 2025 Opening Reception  April 14, 6PM

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The Spitfire Grill

4/25/25 7:30 pm to 5/18/25 3:00 pm EDT
The Umbrella Arts Center The Spitfire Grill
40 Stow St
Concord, MA
United States
Contact: John Penney

Based on the beloved film that took home the Audience Award at The Sundance Film Festival, The Umbrella Stage Company’s The Spitfire Grill follows the journey of Percy Talbott, a spirited young woman who perseveres through personal hardship, violence and incarceration to seek redemption in rural Wisconsin. But in the small town of Gilead, she finds so much more – a second chance in a new community that she in turn transforms forever.

Apr 25 – May 18, 2025

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Concord250 Event: Concord Triptych Film Screenings

5/17/25 3:00 pm EST
The Umbrella Arts Center Concord250 Event: Concord Triptych Film Screenings
40 Stow St
Concord, MA
United States
Contact: John Penney

The Umbrella Arts Center with Five Sisters Productions and the Tufts University Half the History Film Project presents a program of three locally shot short films about impactful women in Concord history.

The featured films will be:

  • Margaret Lothrop and the Wayside (Premiere screening with new score)
  • Ellen Garrison: Scenes from an Activist Life (Return engagement)
  • Women of the Old Manse (Sneak peek)
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American Fiction - The Umbrella Film Series

5/21/25 7:30 pm EST
The Umbrella Arts Center American Fiction - The Umbrella Film Series
40 Stow St
Concord, MA
United States
Contact: John Penney

Enjoy the best of classic, independent, and foreign films curated by The Concord Film Project, with pre-show dinner options.

In this acclaimed satire, Monk is a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish Black book of his own -- a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

Tickets: $10.  Optional pre-ordered dinner at 6:30. Film tickets and additional concessions available at the door. Delicious meal options are available as an add-on from Adelita!

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An Evening with Tituss Burgess

5/30/25 8:00 pm to 5/31/25 10:00 pm EDT
The Umbrella Arts Center An Evening with Tituss Burgess
40 Stow St
Concord, MA
United States
Contact: John Penney

Emmy and SAG-nominated TITUSS BURGESS has quickly emerged as one of the entertainment industry’s most versatile and dynamic performers, with his work in television, film, and theater generating both critical and commercial acclaim. Tituss most recently starred as Harold Zidler in Moulin Rouge! The Musical on Broadway. He was seen on TV in Season 2 of the hit Apple TV+ series Schmigadoon!. Tituss starred in the hit Netflix comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (nominations for four consecutive Emmy Awards, a SAG Award, and two Critics’ Choice TV Awards).

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    The Nature We All Call Home: Robert Macfarlane to Accept the Thoreau Prize for Nature Writing

    Concord’s status as a Mecca for nature writers gains an international dimension this summer. The renowned British writer Robert Macfarlane will accept the 2025 Thoreau Prize on June 7 at the Trinitarian Congregational Church in Concord. The honor is given annually by the Thoreau Society to a writer whose work embodies Henry David Thoreau’s commitment to “speak a word for Nature.” In this year of celebrating the 250th anniversary of Concord’s role in the American Revolution, Robert Macfarlane will visit Concord to spark another revolution in how we see the world around us, calling on all of us to preserve our most precious legacy – the Nature we all call home.

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