North Central Mass Events

Cybersecurity, Fake News and You at the Gardner Museum

Gardner Museum 28 Pearl St, Gardner, MA

Cybersecurity, Fake News, and You: How to Navigate a World of Scammers, Fraudsters, Tricksters, and Fakers at the Gardner Museum on Thursday, September 5 from 7:00 - 8:00pm. Whether it's our cellphones or our computers, these devices help us to find information quickly and easily. But unfortunately, not all of that information is reliable: there […]

Author Talk at the Gardner Museum

Gardner Museum 28 Pearl St, Gardner, MA

Author talk at the Gardner Museum With Author Harry Bartlett on His Book Ponzi’d on Thursday, September 12 at 6:30 - 8:00pm. Writer Bob Ainsworth, author of the Harry Bartlett mystery series, will be back at the museum for another engaging talk, this time about Charles Ponzi who, in 1920 Boston, became a millionaire by […]

Survival and Knife Safety at The Gardner Museum

Gardner Museum 28 Pearl St, Gardner, MA

Survival and Knife Safety at The Gardner Museum on Thursday, September 19 from 6:30 - 8:00pm with Tim Swanson . Tim Swanson, founder of Owl Eyes Wilderness Survival, seeks to empower, inspire, and connect people of all backgrounds to nature. He will talk about safety and teach a fire-starting project; attendants will make their own […]

Railroad in Song at the Gardner Museum

Gardner Museum 28 Pearl St, Gardner, MA

Railroad in Song at the Gardner Museum on Thursday, September 26 from 6:30 - 8:00pm with Jon Waterman.  Tonight’s program celebrates and explores the railroad in America with songs - and the stories of songs - about trains, railroad workers, the building of the railroad, train wrecks, heroes and hobos, and songs where the train […]

Annual Veterans Roundtable at the Gardner Museum

Gardner Museum 28 Pearl St, Gardner, MA

Annual Veterans Roundtable at the Gardner Museum Thursday, October 3 from 6:30 - 8:00pm. This year’s panel discussion with veterans, and providers of veteran services will focus on the Cathedral of the Pines in Rindge, NH (a non-denominational sanctuary founded at the end of WWII in memory of Sanderson Sloane and to honor veterans), and […]

Challenges to the International Order at the Gardner Museum

Gardner Museum 28 Pearl St, Gardner, MA

Challenges to the International Order at the Gardner Museum on Thursday, October 10 from 6:30 - 8:00pm. Join in for a discussion with Ryan McNutt, a U.S. Army veteran (served in Iraq from 2003-2004) who holds a master's degree in history from Fitchburg State University, about the rules-based system of order put in place largely […]

Chair Caning at the Gardner Museum

Gardner Museum 28 Pearl St, Gardner, MA

Chair Caning at the Gardner Museum Thursday, October 17 from 6:30 - 8:00pm. Elaine Blake, who learned to cane from a lady at her church, in Chelmsford, while she was still in High School, will talk about the ancient craft of seat weaving, and demonstrate caning examples in her own chairs and in chairs of […]

Opening Day of the 19th Annual Festival of Trees at The Gardner Museum

Gardner Museum 28 Pearl St, Gardner, MA

Opening Day of the 19th Annual Festival of Trees opens at the Gardner Museum on Wednesday, November 13 during regular museum hours. This annual event sponsored by local businesses, a Gardner tradition, featuring long lines of decorated artificial Christmas trees is both an exhibit and a raffle. Prizes include the decorated trees of various sizes […]

Challenger Soaring at the Gardner Museum

Gardner Museum 28 Pearl St, Gardner, MA

Challenger: Soaring with Christa McAuliffe at the Gardner Museum on Friday, April 11 from 6:00 - 7:00pm. This program will pay homage to the President Reagan’s administration’s Teacher in Space Program and the crew of the NASA space shuttle. In an exciting multi-media immersive living history performance, Living Historian, Playwright, Producer, and Actress Judith Kalaora […]