Events

What is the cost of our choices? Can love sustain across time, war and distance? Can you ever really find your way home? Join actors Stephen Collins and Poornima Kirby as they take on this 3,000-year epic about the adventures of a wily and complicated traveler. Poornima’s adaptation draws from multiple translations, punctuated with poetry and sea-chanties to connect this age-old epic to our modern time. Told as a marital squabble between Odysseus and his wife Penelope, the story weaves through Odysseus' travels and to his arrival in Ithaca to face the fall-out of his absence and find out if

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Current or former Conant School staff members, alumni, and family members are invited to celebrate the Conant School community before it closes its doors for the last time this June. Please join us as we gather at Conant School for fellowship, reminiscing, and a photo opportunity with Luther Bear and his cubs. Light refreshments will be served. We hope you will join us in honoring our very special school community. Please go to tinyurl.com/celebrateconant to RSVP and to submit photos to our celebration!

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Do you have an incoming AB kindergartner? Meet up at Goward Playground (next to Acton Memorial Library). Meet new classmates, check out a school bus, and play! Optional: Dress for your school: Blue: Blanchard Green: Boardwalk Red: Parker Damon Free and open to all rising kindergarten students! Register here

The Sudbury Commission on Disability invites residents of Acton and surrounding communities to experience the joy of cycling along the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail at a free adaptive cycling event. Hosted in partnership with the Sudbury Rail Trails Advisory Committee and All Out Adventures, one-hour riding sessions will be offered between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. at Broadacres Farm in Sudbury. Participants of all ages and abilities can choose from a variety of adaptive cycles, including recumbent trikes, handcycles, and tandem bikes, with trained staff on-site to provide support in a safe, welcoming, and inclusive environment. Helmets are provided. Advance

The West Acton Baptist Church is offering another chance to Ring their Historic Bell! On Saturday, June 6th 12-3pm the doors will be open for a $5/Bag Pop-Up Thrift & Bell Ringing as a fundraiser for the Historic Steeple Project set to begin this month. This 1854 Bronze Bell was cast by Henry Hooper in a forge once owned by Paul Revere. For a $20 donation one or two people may ring this extraordinary bell; for $30 up to 4 children or adults in a family may ring the bell. Donors will be given a sticker that proclaims, “I Rang

The Iron Work Farm opens the old tavern taproom for a celebratory history lesson in Whiskey Production in Colonial Times. Guests will sample authentic tavern drinks that were somewhat different from what’s available today and learn about early tavern culture before and after the Revolution. GATHER YE at THE JONES TAVERN in ACTON, MA. PARTAKE in a tasting of FINE WHISKEYS & SPIRITS. Featuring a flight of traditional and regional drams. Hors d'oeuvres of the period will be served. PERIOD ATTIRE is ENCOURAGED. Space is limited and registration is required. Tickets $50 | RSVP https://ironworkfarm.org/

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