• IGNITION

    Tescobar Performance Center Tescobar Performance Center, 72 Middlesex St, Lowell, MA, United States

    IGNITION Buckle up for liftoff!!! A high-voltage night of sonic propulsion launching Friday, September 5th, 2025, at the Tescobar Performance Center, 72 Middlesex St., Lowell, MA. From 8 PM to 2 AM, the dance floor becomes a launchpad, and you're the payload. Headlining this orbital ascent is DJ AGENT ORANGE, delivering a no-holds-barred techno set...

    $24 – $30
  • Western Avenue Open Studios & Outdoor Market

    Western Avenue | Studios & Lofts Western Avenue | Studios & Lofts, 122 Western Ave, Lowell, MA, United States

    Immerse yourself in the magic of Western Avenue's creative community during Open Studios. This is not just an event; it’s an experience you don’t want to miss. Summer is wrapping up, but weather permitting, Western Avenue’s last outdoor is this month! Outdoor tents and live performances join our usual five floors of art studios, two...

    Free
  • ORANGE AND BLUE | September 3-28, 2025| Reception on Saturday September 6, 3 – 5 pm | Loading Dock Gallery

    Loading Dock Gallery 122 Western Avenue, Lowell, MA, United States

    This September, the Loading Dock Gallery presents Blue and Orange. This is a dynamic member-driven exhibition celebrating the bold interplay of color and contrast. Artists interpret the theme through a wide range of mediums—painting, sculpture, photography, fiber arts, and more, all exploring the emotional and symbolic power of two of art's most evocative hues. Whether...

    Free
  • October 20th Anniversary Open Studios

    Western Avenue | Studios & Lofts Western Avenue | Studios & Lofts, 122 Western Ave, Lowell, MA, United States

    Join us for a very special Open Studios on Saturday, October 4th, as we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Western Avenue Studios & Lofts. Immerse yourself in the magic of our creative community during Open Studios. This is not just an event; it's an experience you don't want to miss. Celebrate two decades of art,...

    Free
  • The Counter at The Umbrella Arts Center

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

    The Umbrella Arts Center proudly presents the Boston-area premiere of The Counter, a riveting new play by acclaimed playwright Meghan Kennedy. This production will run Sep 26 – Nov 9, 2025, transforming the intimate Black Box space into a prism for a surprising, funny and moving reflection on the everyday connections that can change our...

    $20 – $52
  • Merrimack Valley All-Ages Chamber Orchestra (MVACO)

    Music Elements, Chelmsford 160 Turnpike Road, Chelmsford, United States

    Merrimack Valley All-Ages Chamber Orchestra Fall 2025 Registration MVACO is a non-profit string orchestra, running under the Allies in Music Education 501.3c organization based in Lowell. The Orchestra is open to all ages and all abilities, we are based in Chelmsford but open to all communities. The string orchestra will run for 6 week session...

    $100
  • Virtual Tour: Making Their Way: The Florida Highwaymen Painters

    Zoom

    Join curator Gordon Wilkins on Zoom to explore the work of the Florida Highwaymen, a loosely affiliated group of 26 African American landscape painters who sold their vivid and expressive tropical scenes door-to-door and out of the trunks of their cars along the coastal roads of Eastern Florida from the 1950s through the 1980s. This...

    Free
  • Family Portraits Collage Workshop

    Addison Gallery of American Art Chapel Avenue, Andover, Massachusetts, United States

    Join us at the Addison for ARTful Andover Community Art Making Day and create a collage of the people and things that feel like family to you. Participants are invited to bring their own printed pictures of who you consider family to include in their collage, or send up to 3 pictures to be printed...

    Free
  • Brennen Leigh in concert

    Crossroads Music Series Crossroads Music Series, 190 Academy Rd, North Andover, MA, United States

    Brennen Leigh is an American songwriter, guitar player, mandolin player and singer whose to-the-point storytelling style has elevated her to international cult icon. Her songs have been recorded by Lee Ann Womack, Rodney Crowell, Sunny Sweeney, Charley Crockett, and many others. As renowned for her musicianship as for her writing, it’s easy to see how...

    $30
  • Tour: Playing to Our Strengths: Highlights from the Permanent Collection

    Addison Gallery of American Art Chapel Avenue, Andover, Massachusetts, United States

    Join curatorial fellow Ricardo Mercado to explore highlights from the Addison’s permanent collection in two sections: the “ideal” and the “real.” The “ideal,” bringing together American Impressionist paintings with Pictorialist photography, and the “real,” featuring works by the Ashcan School and social realist photographs. Together, these works reveal how American artists of the era grappled...

    Free
  • Tour: Tommy Kha, Other Things Uttered and Family Portrait

    Addison Gallery of American Art Chapel Avenue, Andover, Massachusetts, United States

    Join curator Rachel Vogel to explore two exhibitions: In Tommy Kha, Other Things Uttered, the photographer examines how we construct belonging and otherness through photography, inventing new models for self-portraiture with a critical eye toward the medium’s long history of absences and erasure; in conjunction, the exhibition Family Portrait brings together photographs from the Addison’s...

    Free
  • AANHPI Affinity Workshop: Story Mapping through Collage: Ways of Belonging

    Addison Gallery of American Art Chapel Avenue, Andover, Massachusetts, United States

    Members of the AANHPI (Asian American and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islander) community are invited to gather at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover to reflect on and be inspired by our own lives in relation to places, real or imagined. Our time together will include an introduction to the exhibition Tommy Kha: Other Things...

    Free