Concord250 Event: Where We Belong, New England Premiere!
2025-02-28 - 2025-03-23 | umbrella arts center, Stow Street, Concord, Massachusetts, 01742, United States
For MA250 The Umbrella has programmed two events – a stage company production and an exhibit – to celebrate and amplify voices that have not historically been a part of the revolution story…which is in line with the celebration goals of the 250 plans.
An indigenous theatre-maker journeys across geographic borders, personal history, and Cultural legacies in search of a place to belong.
In 2015, Mohegan theatre-maker Madeline Sayet traveled to England to pursue a PhD in Shakespeare, echoing the path her ancestors took in the 1700’s and leading to a remarkable journey of self-discovery. This ground-breaking, one-woman event weaves together humor, searing insight, and the timeless power of story-telling, to explore the importance of honoring our roots and the universal quest for belonging/where we belong.
Following its acclaimed tour, developed in partnership with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in association with The Folger Shakespeare Library, with performances at Seattle Rep, Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, New York’s Public Theater, and more, The Umbrella is proud to present the play’s New England Premiere in a new production.
Umbrella Arts, Black Box Theater
By Madeline Sayet, Directed by Tara Moses
Runs February 28- March 23, 2025

Concord250 Exhibit: Ways of My Ancestors – Imagery: Lighting the Path to Awareness
2025-02-28 - 2025-03-23 | umbrella arts center, Stow Street, Concord, Massachusetts, 01742, United States
“Ways of My Ancestors – Imagery: Lighting the Path to Awareness” features photographic work by Scott Strong Hawk Foster that celebrates the rich, diverse, and resilient cultures of the Native Peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of North America.
FEBRUARY 28- MARCH 23
Foster is a Native American photographer and an enrolled member of Hassanamisco Nipmuc Band with proud Mohegan and Cherokee lineage. His work has been exhibited at the Danforth Museum, Worcester Art Museum, Boston City Hall, and other venues.
On view through March 23 in The Umbrella’s Wedge Gallery, this exhibition reflects Foster’s travels within his home state of Massachusetts and throughout the ancestral homelands of the Native American Peoples of New England. While attending powwows, cultural events, workshops, and Indigenous practices that span millennia, his passion has become highlighting cultures and history of the Indigenous peoples that are still here and living amongst us.
Both the opening reception March 5, 6PM and Artist Talk, March 9, 1-2PM are free and open to the public.
The exhibition runs concurrently with The Umbrella Stage Company’s Where We Belong by Mohegan playwright Madeline Sayet in The Umbrella’s Black Box theater. Both are presented as part of The Umbrella’s programs recognizing the American semiquincentennial.
The Umbrella is ADA accessible, a proud partner in the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s EBT Card-to-Culture program, and provides free parking and free admission to its visual arts galleries.
See https://TheUmbrellaArts.org/Foster

Concord250 Lantern Lighting Ceremony
2025-03-04 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
Join us for a ceremonial lighting of the Concord250 Lantern, a 10-foot-tall commemorative lantern inspired by the historic signal light of April 19, 1775 housed today in the Concord Museum. The community lighting will take place on the grounds of the Museum where together we will light the way toward liberty and justice for all.
The Concord 250 Lantern is presented by Art for All in partnership with the Concord Museum.
Free and Open to the Public. No advanced registration needed.

Concord-Carlisle High School & Lexington High School Bands Present 250th Celebration Concert
2025-03-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Concord-Carlisle High School, Walden Street 500, Concord, Mass, 01742, United States
Concord-Carlisle High School & Lexington High School Bands present
250th Celebration Concert; working title: Sound Revolutions
Including world premieres of new works commissioned to commemorate this historic occasion
CCHS Auditorium, March 4th, 7pm
Details coming soon
