North Central Mass Events

Arts and Crafts Fair in Sterling

First Church of Christ 725 Main St., Lancaster, MA, United States

Saturday November 19, 9 am–2 pm. Arts and Crafts Fair at the First Church in Sterling, 6 Meetinghouse Rd., Sterling. Visit three rooms of crafter booths, sponsored by friends of the Conant Public Library. Visit sterlinglibrary.org for details.

Mushroom Tinctures Workshop

Museum of Russian Icons 203 Union St, Clinton, MA, United States

Saturday November 19th, 10 am—12:30 pm. Workshop: Mushroom Tinctures with Rachel Goclawski at the Museum of Russian Icons, 203 Union St., Clinton. Explore native wild medicinal mushrooms and how you can forage them during this info-packed workshop and lecture! Learn these mushrooms and identification, preparation, and therapeutic qualities with an interactive lecture and presentation while […]

Annual Miniature War Games Day

Fort Devens Museum 94 Jackson Road, Devens, MA, United States

Saturday November 19, 10 am to 3 pm. Annual Miniature War Games Day at Fort Devens Museum, 94 Jackson Road, Devens. A day of miniature war games is back! No experience necessary to join in. Visit fortdevensmuseum.org.

The Cocoanut Grove Fire

Fort Devens Museum 94 Jackson Road, Devens, MA, United States

Saturday November 19, 1 pm. “The Cocoanut Grove Fire” at Fort Devens Museum, 94 Jackson Road, Devens, Historian Bob Begin returns to the Fort Devens Museum with an illustrated program of the devastating November 1942 fire at the Cocoanut Grove, a popular nightspot in Boston. Several soldiers from Fort Devens perished in the fire as […]

Historical Society Christmas Open House

Westminster Historical Society 110 Main St, Westminster, Mass, United States

Saturday, Dec. 3, 9 am–2 pm. Historical Society Christmas Open House at the Westminster Historical Society, 110 Main St., Westminster.

Event Series Art Exhibit: Patterns in Global Textiles

Art Exhibit: Patterns in Global Textiles

Fitchburg Art Museum 185 Elm St, Fitchburg, MA, United States

Across time and across continents, people of different cultures have transformed woven textiles, whether created by hand or machine, by adding pattern in various ways—from dyeing yarns multiple colors, weaving complex patterns (jacquard), or using fabric as the ground to which pattern could be added through embroidery or resist techniques (tie-dye or batik). Such transformations […]

Exhibit: Gabriel Sosa’s “No Vehicles in the Park”

Fitchburg Art Museum 185 Elm St, Fitchburg, MA, United States

Gabriel Sosa works primarily with language and its inherent shortcomings, ambiguities, and implications. In No Vehicles in the Park, Sosa’s first solo museum exhibition, he uses drawing to examine how meaning is derived from—and can be manipulated in—an array of legal documents and court decisions. The exhibition title stems from a legal exercise in which participants debate the definition […]