Author Archive
Thursday
Aug
15
10:00 am
Good News Gus
Singer, emcee, puppeteer, and magician — Harry and his monster friends are always the life of the party. Harry and Good News Gus has received accolades from both party-goers and professional groups alike. With young and old, Harry's high-energy interactive...
Wednesday
Aug
14
10:00 am
Ben Rudnick & Friends
Ben is a musician, singer-songwriter and composer who has performed and recorded family music with his band, Ben Rudnick and Friends, since 2000! Some of their hit songs include A Frog Named Sam, Sally Salamander, Chicken Soup Ballad and tons...
Thursday
Aug
8
10:00 am
Trend N Motion
Through hip hop dance, children learn about nature with fun animal facts and follow along to get their own bodies moving in dances that emulate animal movements in this energetic video program for the whole family.
Saturday
May
18
11:00 am
Bruce Rosenbaum of ModVic: “Steampunk Lecture and Demonstration”
Steampunk is more than an aesthetic; it’s a framework for creating, thinking, and living that draws from the past to envision an alternative future. In this presentation, join artist and Modvic cofounder Bruce Rosenbaum for a deep exploration of understanding...
Thursday
May
16
6:00 pm
Andrew Krivak: “Like the Appearance of Horses”
Andrew Krivak is the author of four novels: The Bear (2020), a fable about the last two people on Earth, and the novels of the Dardan Trilogy: The Sojourn (2011) a National Book Award Finalist and winner of the Dayton...
Sunday
Apr
7
2:00 pm
Charlie Gargiulo: “Legends of Little Canada”
On the cusp of being a teenager, Charlie Gargiulo lived through the destruction of his Little Canada community of Lowell in the 1960”s. His memoir tells that experience through his eyes as he lived it. A legendary community organizer, he...
Thursday
Apr
4
6:00 pm
John Kozik: “The History of the Ouija board”
John Kozik’s obsession with collecting and researching Ouija began when he inherited his grandmother’s board in the late 1990’s. He was surprised to discover that Ouija was simply one specific brand of Talking Board, and that they date much further...
Sunday
Dec
3
2:00 pm
Steven Collins & Poornima Kirby: “A Christmas Carol”
Join actors Stephen Collins and Poornima Kirby for a funny, heartfelt journey through Charles’ Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol. This 1-hour adaptation shows Ebenezer Scrooge’s transformation from a grumpy, selfish misanthrope to a generous, wise and kindly man, full of the...
Sunday
Nov
12
2:00 pm
Meg Muckenhoupt: “The Truth about Baked Beans: how New England was created”
What is included in "New England's Top Ten Foods" lists, and who made the list? Join Meg Muckenhoupt, author of “The Truth about Baked Beans” for a talk about the history of New England's food, immigration, tourism, and how ideas about identity...
Sunday
Nov
5
1:00 pm
David Abel: “Entangled”
“ENTANGLED” is an award winning, feature-length film about how climate change has accelerated a collision between one of the world’s most endangered species, North America’s most valuable fishery, and a federal agency mandated to protect both. The film, by the...
Thursday
Nov
2
6:00 pm
Tom Toohey: “Saving the Stories”
Tom Toohey is a modern day Irish storyteller who has traveled to Ireland 20 times and collected hundreds of stories. Every week more facts become available on the internet about our ancestors. These facts are like the skeletons of our...
Sunday
Oct
22
2:00 pm
Fran Coughlin: “On The Corner of Liberty and South Loring”
Discover the heartwarming tale of the Coughlin family as they navigate three decades of life in a former mill city on the brink of rebirth. Fran will take you on a journey through his family’s experiences, sharing personal and poignant...
Saturday
Oct
7
2:00 pm
Paul Marion: “Jack Kerouac’s Evolving Position in Lowell 1950-2023”
In the Keynote Address for the “Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!” Literary Festival, Paul Marion will discuss the evolving public perception of 20th-century author Jack Kerouac in his hometown, examining the dynamic relationship between an innovative, news-making writer and the city that...
Thursday
Oct
5
6:00 pm
Tom Burke: “Evil must not have the Last Word: The Life of Mary Wygodski”
The life of Mary Wygodski is a first person account of a woman who lost her entire immediate family in the Holocaust. She survived three concentration camps, made her way to Israel where she took part in the War of...
Thursday
Sep
28
6:00 pm
Catherine Marenghi: “Our Good Name”
Our Good Name is the story of Stefano and his young bride Celestina, both Italian immigrants who leave behind the back-breaking field labor in their beloved Northern Italy to find their place in a strange new country. Inspired by true...
Saturday
Sep
23
1:00 pm
Susan Gaylord “Art Meets Nature: The Spirit Books”
Artist Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord made her first Spirit Book in 1992 and coined the name for the series which now numbers 101. The Spirit Books merge her response to the mystery and miracle of nature with the long-standing tradition of...
Thursday
Sep
14
6:00 pm
Erika Nichols-Frazer: “Destigmatizing Mental Health”
In her memoir, Feed Me: A Story of Food, Love and Mental Illness, author Erika Nichols-Frazer writes about learning to cope with bipolar disorder, an eating disorder, and alcohol addiction in her family through the healing power of food and community. She...
Wednesday
Aug
16
11:00 am
Stevie Kidding Magic Comedy
The Ridiculous Magician! Stevie delights audiences with hilarious, interactive, and quirky magic shows for children of all ages. Stevie engages and excites audiences with off-the-charts energy, laugh-out-loud comedy, and tons of audience participation.
Thursday
Aug
10
11:00 am
Ben Rudnick & Friends
“Ben Rudnick & Friends” play the hippest family music around. With countless awards to their credit, including seven Parent’s Choice awards, their high-energy blend of happy, upbeat acoustic music is guaranteed to entertain the entire family. Bending musical styles from...
Wednesday
Aug
9
11:00 am
Koliba Afropop
Koliba brings together musicians from places like Senegal, Mozambique, and Guinea. Dancing and singing along to their African songs and dances, Koliba will surely bring the audiences to their feet with their electrifying and rhythmic performance.
Saturday
Apr
29
12:00 pm
Paul Marion – “Lockdown Letters & Union River”
Paul Marion has been a writer and community activist since the 1970s. He is the author of several collections of poetry as well as the editor of the early writings of Jack Kerouac, Atop an Underwood, and other titles. His...
Thursday
Apr
13
6:00 pm
James H. Barron – “The Greek Connection: The Life of Elias Demetracopoulos and the Untold Story of Watergate”
“The Greek Connection: The Life of Elias Demetracopoulos and the Untold Story of Watergate” is the internationally acclaimed biography of a controversial journalist and freedom fighter who relentlessly battled for democracy, honor and survival against abusive Greek and American governments...
Saturday
Apr
8
12:00 pm
Dennis DiZoglio – “The Value of Political Capital”
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a mayor? Well after serving three terms as a mayor and being a local and regional government official for over thirty-five years I think I know. So I wrote...
Sunday
Mar
19
2:00 pm
Michelle Marchetti Coughlin – “The Complex Worlds of Colonial Women”
What was life really like for women in early New England? The answer may surprise you. Historian/author Michelle Marchetti Coughlin (One Colonial Woman's World: The Life and Writings of Mehetabel Chandler Coit, Penelope Winslow: Plymouth Colony First Lady: Re-Imagining a Life) will...
Saturday
Nov
12
11:00 am
Linda Hoffman – “The Artist and the Orchard: A Memoir”
Artist Linda Hoffman saved an orchard and reshaped her life at Old Frog Pond in Harvard, Mass. When she moved to the farm, she didn’t know anything about apple-growing. More than 20 years later, the farm is one of the...
Thursday
Nov
10
5:00 pm
Lowell City of Learning’s Annual Awards Ceremony
Please join us on November 10, 2022, at 5pm at the Richard & Nancy Donahue Academic Arts Centre at MCC, 240 Central Street in Lowell, for the presentation of the first Patrick J. Mogan Learning City award to William Samaras,...
Sunday
Oct
16
2:00 pm
Phil Primack – “Put it down on Paper: Mary Folsom Blair”
"Put It Down on Paper is the charming, poignant tale of Phil Primack’s unflagging search for the woman who would otherwise have been lost to history—and of that woman’s fortitude and passion. Mary Folsom Blair comes to us directly, in...
Saturday
Oct
8
2:00 pm
Dr. Jean Christophe Cloutier – “The Man the other Side-Jack Kerouac, Bilingualism, and Self-Translation.”
Part of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Festival. J.C. Cloutier is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor of La vie est d’hommage (2016, 2022), which gathers the original French writings of Jack...
Wednesday
Sep
28
7:00 pm
William C. Cross – “Winslow Homer: American Passage”
Like his contemporaries Twain and Whitman, Homer captured the landscape of a rapidly changing country with an artist’s probing insight. His tale is one of America in all its complexity and contradiction, as he evolved and adapted to the restless...
Thursday
Sep
22
7:00 pm
Janet Parnes – “Myths and Miracles of Victorian Medicine”
Medicine in the Victorian Age has a lot to tell us about today’s world: how we handle a pandemic, and how far medicine has come. Prepare to gasp, cringe and chuckle, as you discover the horrifying practices and milestones discoveries...