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ambitious indoor/outdoor art installation featuring site-specific work based on lives of former Black inhabitants of Walden Woods. Curated by artist Marla McLeod, a host of prominent Black artists including Ifé Franklin, Ekua Holmes, Stephen Hamilton, and others will install work in both The Umbrella’s Allie Kussin Gallery and outdoors on historic Brister’s Hill, named for formerly enslaved Revolutionary War veteran Brister Freeman. Dive deeper into Concord’s storied past and vibrant present Also with at The Umbrella, Concord250 and Concord DEI will present an arts-oriented Discover Concord magazine! Stay informed, whether you’re planning event Honoring Patriots of Color on March 15 with the Town of Concord, Minute Man your first visit or have called Concord home for years. Subscribe today at Park, and MA250, and National Historical premiere the documentary film, Concord’s Secret special. History, with talkbacks on April 12 and DiscoverConcordMA.com, or give the gift of Concord to someone April 14. And on May 17, The Umbrella will screen a trilogy of films by the Tufts University Half the History Film Project focused on local historical women. These include Margaret Lothrop and A Turning Point at the Wayside (premiere screening with new Wright’s Tavern score), a return engagement of Ellen Garrison: Prophets of Truth BY STEWART IKEDA & Enchantment Scenes from an Activist’s Life, and the world Patriots’ of the American experiences of Loyalists, as well Lafayette as enslaved The semiquincentennial premiere of Women of the Old Manse. Day 2024 Comes to people and Indigenous communities, to Revolution is an exciting opportunityThe for These and other programs attempt Concord The Sons of Liberty Mystery examine questions of liberty, sovereignty, the nation to reflect on and commemorate to of The Old The Unhung Witch artistically recognize and honor the Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Manse An Unfinished Loveduring Story the period – “revealing and protest key historical milestones and figures of contributions In the Forefront of all the individuals who Local of Revolution: THINGS THINGS THINGS how the idea of declaring independence from our founding – perhaps nowhere more built this country, and imagine, as U.S. Patriots The Massachusetts TO SEE & TO SEE & TO SEE & PLUS! PLUS! PLUS! Provincial Congress DO THIS of Color DO THIS DO THIS A Midnight Stop on the FALL SPRINGand along the Battle SPRING England was far from inevitable.” so than in Concord Semiquincentennial Commission Chair Rosie Underground Railroad Several projects by The Umbrella Road. Fifty years ago, Concord marked the Rios urges, “what the next 250 years might Arts Center also seek to reexamine and bicentennial with grand parades, balls, battle look like for our children and the generations broaden our understanding of colonial and reenactments and dignitary visits celebrating to come.” revolutionary life through art. The New revolutionary leaders, legendary midnight ————————————————————————————— One of ofWhere sixty-two National Areas in the Marketing & England premiere We Belong (2/28- Heritage rides, and “the shot heard round the world.” Stewart Ikeda heads 3/23) by Indigenous theater-maker Madeline In 2025, the lively Concord250 Arts, Strategic Communications team at The Way works in Sayet followsthe herUnited journey toStates, pursue aFreedom’s PhD in Literature, and Music Subcommittee is looking Umbrella Arts Center. Shakespeare in England, in the to the arts to bring fresh and expanded partnership with the National Park Service to footsteps of Mohegan ancestors perspectives to local history, elevate lesserRecreated life-sized slave cabin from who traveled as ambassadors told stories, and look ahead to the “next artist a Iféunique Franklin’sregional Indigo Project preserve and promote identity in the 1700s to help her 250.” From Liz Helfer’s Freedom’s Silhouette people. Planned community interactive sculpture recently installed in revealed in the natural, cultural, and historical engagement activities will also Monument Square to newly commissioned highlight artsites and experiences of of forty-five communities in musical compositions and more, local artists and stories Concord’s native Nipmuc and and cultural organizations are creatively reMassachusett tribes, including and New Hampshire. Discover examining history and bringing it into the now. Massachusetts a concurrent exhibition of work The Concord Museum will mark the by Nipmuc photographer Scott semiquincentennial with a comprehensive all the Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area Strong Hawk Foster. series of 250th special exhibitions beginning has to offer at FreedomsWay.org. Another collaboration of The with Whose Revolution, highlighting the Umbrella with Walden Woods competing and contradictory meanings of Project and The Robbins House revolution during the period leading up to is Weaving an Address, an the war. It will examine the underrepresented
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