Tuesday
Ah, to be a kid again. Remember when your biggest concern in life was which color Play-doh to play with?
Well, you can take a trip down memory lane and re-live those good ol’ days at The Children’s Place and Parent Education Center’s open house.
From 4 to 6 p.m., have fun with Play-doh, blocks, painting, dress-up, a sand table, jumping area, kitchen, library and puppet theatre, along with refreshments and a raffle for a free birthday party.
The Children’s Place provides educational support services for families with children under the age of 6 (sorry, single 30-somethings).
Oh yeah, and it’s all free.
For more info, call 224-9920 or go to thechildrensplacenh.org.
Wednesday
Have you ever made a spoon? Oh really, so have we. We do it all the time.
But our guess is that most people know nothing about this art form.
Luckily, there’s a golden (or should we say silver) opportunity to learn all about it.
This month’s Wednesday’s Wisdom Pot Luck at the Kimball-Jenkins Estate is “The Zen of Spoonmaking with Dan Dustin.”
The goal of Wednesday’s Wisdom is to bring fascinating speakers to a diverse group of greater Concord residents. Can’t get much more fascinating than learning about spoonmaking.
This is a pot luck and BYO (wine, beer or other drinks). It starts at 6 p.m.
All of those details add up to a pretty good evening, if you ask us.
For more info, call 225-3932.
Everyone loves a good laugh, right? (Hopefully you didn’t just passionately yell “No!”)
Good, because here’s your chance to CATCH a great night of comedy right here in Concord.
It’s called CATCH Comedy Night, and it goes down at the Capitol Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m.
Put on by CATCH Neighborhood Housing, this will be an evening of electoral mockery, scandal skewering and buffoon lampooning with the Capitol Steps.
We don’t really get into politics much here at the Insider, but if it involves buffoon lampooning – one of our favorite pastimes – we’re in.
For more info about this night of hilarity, call 225-1111 or go to ccanh.com/event/capitol-steps-0.
Thursday
We’re already three days into this column, and there still hasn’t been a single mention of any live music. But don’t worry, that doesn’t mean there’s nothing going on.
The Bach’s Lunch series at the Concord Community Music School continues with “Side By Side: Broadway Duos,” a concert featuring Sophie Shaw, soprano, Ellen Nordstrom, mezzo-soprano, and Kathryn Southworth, piano.
The concert begins at 12:10 p.m. and is free and open to the public. You can bring your lunch, and don’t worry, you’ll have plenty of time to make it back to work.
For more information, call 228-1196 or visit ccmusicschool.org.
In other music-on-Thursday news, Concord Community Music School will put on a student recital at 7 p.m. It’s a free show open to the public, so that’s not too bad.
Also, you can catch The Tenors: Under One Sky at the Cap Center at 7:30.
If you budget your time just right, you may just get to see all three shows. Talk about bragging rights around the water cooler.
Friday
How about an art exhibit all about enamel?
No, we’re not talking about the stuff on your teeth – although there’s an idea.
We’re talking about “Alchemy III: Transformations in Enamel” at McGowan Fine Art.
The show kicked off in February and will run until March 18, and it’s split between the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen’s main headquarters and McGowan Fine Art.
Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and there’s not many days left to catch the show.
For more info, call 225-2515 or go to mcgowanfineart.com.
Pianist Gregg Pauley will present the eighth of nine concerts in his Beethoven Project, “The Late Sonatas,” at the Concord Community Music School Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
The program will be followed by a reception featuring chocolate. Need we say more.
Tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for students and seniors.
