The Bedford Town Calendar

A Holiday Pops Concert

The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United States

The Umbrella Stage Company in partnership with Firebird Pops Orchestra is thrilled to announce its first-ever holiday pops concert! Together with the Firebird Vox choir, the orchestra will sweep you away with magical scores from favorite seasonal blockbusters Home Alone and The Polar Express, classic favorites including Sleigh Ride, The Nutcracker, and more! Fun for the whole family--enjoy seasonal favorites at concessions, fun activities for the kids during intermission, and the chance to sing along together in celebration. Don't delay -- grab your first choice for seating today for what is sure to be a magical event! About Firebird Pops The online musical sensation Firebird Pops was born "out of the ashes" of the

$10

Earth, Sea, Sky

Town of Bedford, MA 10 Mudge Way, Bedford, MA, United States

Jan 8 - Feb 12, 2023 Opening Reception - January 12, 5-7PM Landscape and seascape have been an inspiration for artists since the first artists tried to represent the world around them. In Earth, Sea, Sky, Suzanne Hill, Liz Newell and Barbara Willis present unique visions of landscapes in clay and fiber arts.

Free

Concord Film Project presents ‘Tampopo’

The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United States

Enjoy the best of classic, independent, and foreign films curated by The Concord Film Project. The film series returns on Wednesday, February 8 at 7:30pm with the first film showing since 2020! First up is 'Tampopo' - the tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle-shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this rapturous “ramen western” by Japanese director Juzo Itami is an entertaining, genre-bending adventure underpinned by a deft satire of the way social conventions distort the most natural of human urges—our appetites. Interspersing the efforts of Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto)

Points of Return

The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United States

The Umbrella Visual Arts program, in collaboration with A La Luz, presents the revolutionary, multimedia exhibition, Points of Return. Featuring the work of 27 international artists, Points of Return is the first physical exhibition of the acclaimed online exhibition of the same name. This environmental art exhibition sees The Umbrella divided into themed spaces. A journey has been mapped out to allow visitors fresh and engaging insights into wide-ranging aspects of the climate crisis, its end destination that of resolute optimism. For, while it may seem that we are racing toward a closing act, as our planet’s average temperature rises

Film Event: Into the Oceanic

The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United States

In association with the international gallery exhibition, POINTS OF RETURN, on Saturday, June 10, 7:30-9pm, join us for "Into the Oceanic" -- a double screening event by artist-filmmakers Elizabeth Ogilvie and Robert Page, focusing on underwater habitats and the importance of educational entry points in environmental artwork. Documentary screening and pre-recorded talk by Dr Gary Husband from 7:30pm in the Main Theater, preceded by a creative oceanic video projection in the Black Box Theater and exhibition viewing. Refreshments available for purchase. FREE, but RSVP Required. ALSO ON JUNE 10 The Umbrella offers a free family drop-in art activity on an Underwater Habitats theme from Noon-2PM,

Free

Glory for George film screening

The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United States

Free film screening of Glory for George!

Free

Colors of Concord: The Grassy Plain

The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United States

Colors of Concord: The Grassy Plain features artworks created by Umbrella 2022-2023 Artist-in-Residence, Ponnapa Prakkamakul.  Following a year of intensive outreach to underrepresented members of the Concord community, Prakkamakul has created a series of site-specific new artworks inspired by the people and places she discovered there. The work is on view in The Umbrella’s Main Gallery from August 21-September 15, 2023, with an Opening Reception and Artist Talk on Sunday, Aug 27, 3-5PM. Prakkamakul, who is also currently working on collaborative public art projects in Boston in association with the incubator project Now & There, says her work explores the relationship between humans and

Free

Zero Toys and Death of Print

The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United States

With humor and poignancy, Jordan Kessler’s new exhibition of large-scale archival pigment photographs captures vivid detail of tactile experience that our society has come to devalue in the age of digital existence. Co-owner of Pitch Black Editions in Concord, MA since 2015, Jordan Kessler trained early in his career as a fine art photographic printer with Palm Press Photographic Atelier. He earned a BFA with Honors in Filmmaking and MFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Kessler was born in Framingham and grew up in Hudson where he received a D- in high school photography from a

Free

Event Series Banned

Banned

The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United States

Narrative Paintings by Maryam Safajoo October 5 – November 19, 2023 Saturday, October 7, 5-7pm: Opening reception with Artist Talk at 6pm On display at The Umbrella’s second floor Outside-the-Box Gallery, “Banned” features paintings by Maryam Safajoo narrating the stories of the contemporary situation of the systematically persecuted Iranian Baha’i community – Iran’s largest religious minority – after the 1979 Iranian revolution. Artist’s Statement “My paintings narrate the stories of the contemporary situation of the systematically persecuted Iranian Baha’i community – Iran’s largest religious minority – after the 1979 Iranian revolution. Many of the incidents I depict only exist in the memory of those who experienced

Free
Event Series Banned

Banned

The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United States

Narrative Paintings by Maryam Safajoo October 5 – November 19, 2023 Saturday, October 7, 5-7pm: Opening reception with Artist Talk at 6pm On display at The Umbrella’s second floor Outside-the-Box Gallery, “Banned” features paintings by Maryam Safajoo narrating the stories of the contemporary situation of the systematically persecuted Iranian Baha’i community – Iran’s largest religious minority – after the 1979 Iranian revolution. Artist’s Statement “My paintings narrate the stories of the contemporary situation of the systematically persecuted Iranian Baha’i community – Iran’s largest religious minority – after the 1979 Iranian revolution. Many of the incidents I depict only exist in the memory of those who experienced

Free
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