Tuesday
There will be an interfaith service from 6 to 7 p.m. at Blossom Hill Cemetery. This service will focus on the approaching season of winter, its gifts and challenges as well as its comforts and constraints in Perkins Chapel.
Wednesday
Concord’s own Pedro Pimentel will be the guest speaker at this month’s Wednesdays Wisdom event at Kimball Jenkins at 6 p.m. The topic of discussion will center around the process and plight of a young filmmaker, specifically focusing on Pimentel’s creation of The Priest. It is free and open to the public, and is a pot luck and bring your own drinks event.
Thursday
If watching short plays put on by young directors is your idea of a fulfilling night out, then head over to Concord High for the Senior Directed One Acts. There will be six plays directed by eight seniors starting at 7 p.m., featuring one student written play. The performance will be held in the Christa McAuliffe Auditorium and will also be held Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m.
The Concord Public Library is holding its holiday half price book sale. It’s a special sale in the lounge, just one day only from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., where all book sale items are half price. Think of how many names you could cross off your shopping list.
The soprano trio Trillium – featuring Peggo Horstmann Hodes, Hannah Schramm Murray and Jane Berlin Pauley – will join with pianist Calvin Herst for a concert titled “Sleigh Ride!: Old & New Christmas Favorites,” as part of the Concord Community Music School’s Bach’s Lunch program.
The concert is free and open to the public, and runs from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. in the school’s Recital Hall, 23 Wall St. You can even bring your lunch.
Friday
NHTI’s Stage Lynx presents The Heidi Chronicles in Sweeney Auditorium at 7 p.m.
The plot follows Heidi Holland from high school in the 1960s to her career as a successful art historian more than 20 years later. The play deals with the changing role of women during this time period, describing both Heidi’s ardent feminism during the 1970s and her eventual sense of betrayal during the 1980s. Performances will also be Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 (free for NHTI students).
The St. Paul’s School Ballet Company wants to dazzle you with its performance of The Nutcracker: Act II. It’s a shortened version of the holiday classic (only about an hour) and it’s also free and open to the public. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall, with doors opening 30 minutes before curtain. If you’d like to make a donation, bring a new unwrapped toy (not to exceed $25). There’s also free performances on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.
It will be 12 Days of Christmas fun at the Capitol Center for the Arts when the Eastern Ballet Institute and the Concord Community Music School partner up to present one of our favorite Christmas songs. We’re talking live music and dancing. Need we say more. The evening begins at 7 p.m. and returns Saturday at 2 p.m.
Saturday
The Concord Community Music School will hold its annual holiday folk concert featuring Susie Burke and David Surette with Kent Allyn at 7:30 p.m. in the music school’s Recital Hall. The concert will feature a number of selections from their holiday CD release Wonderland – along with folk and acoustic fare from their standard repertoire. Admission is $15 for adults and $12 for students and seniors.
The Turning Pointe Center of Dance presents a matinee of their festive family-friendly production, The Nutcracker, with talented dancers, bright sets and costumes, and holiday music at 2 p.m. at the Concord City Auditorium.
The Lazy Boy Rockers will perform with some special guests at Chen Yang Li in Bow at 8:30 p.m. No word if they’ll actually be playing music from comfy, lounging chairs.
