https://youtu.be/pgAmjOawzLg In his new book, Six Walks, award-winning author and artist, Ben Shattuck depicts six journeys from Cape Cod to Mount Katahdin that were once taken by Thoreau.  According to one reviewer: “echoing Thoreau’s brilliant reflections with his own, Shattuck distills the healing power of nature into a narrative that’s a pure pleasure to wander […]

https://youtu.be/VAbdmY_0gFU Joan Walsh, Gerard Bertrand Chair of Field Ornithology & Natural History at Mass Audubon, and Harvard Lecturer and Curator, Reed Abigail Gochberg will speak on the role women played in the founding of the conservation movement and at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. Moderated by Renata Pomponi, Senior Regional Director, East Region at Mass […]

This program is full. Please consider joining us for other programs this spring. Walk with the warblers as they migrate through Concord. Join David O’Neill, President of Mass Audubon and Jeff Collins, Director of Conservation Science, as they explore birding hotspots in Brewster’s Woods Wildlife Sanctuary. We’ll walk in the footsteps of William Brewster, sharing […]

This program is full. Please consider joining us for other programs this spring. Celebrate Emerson’s birthday and follow the footsteps of writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau! Enjoy the spring weather and learn about the friendship of two notable observers of nature from a museum interpreter. 1-mile walk, mostly flat terrain, rain or […]

A two-part mindfulness program in partnership with Be Well Be Here starts with a guided mindfulness session in the special exhibition Alive with Birds: William Brewster in Concord.  Be Well Be Here Founder and Executive Director, Lara Wilson, will lead a guided conversations in the special exhibit Alive with Birds.  Participants will come away with […]

Just as William Brewster put down his gun to study living birds, in this workshop, students will trade-in photographs for living songbirds to inspire their art.  After touring the exhibit Alive with Birds with teaching artist and Conservation Biologist, Becky Harris, students will try their hand at capturing the essence of birds as they sketch […]

This program is full.  Please consider participating in another program this summer. In partnership with Be Well Be Here, join us for a walk and activity at Mass Audubon Brewster’s Woods Wildlife Sanctuary in Concord.  Be Well Be Here Founder and Executive Director, Lara Wilson, will lead participants on a woodland walk based on the […]

Hitchcock’s terrifying and memorable masterpiece The Birds exemplifies how birds have made their way into all aspects of the human experience, including art and culture.  While the special exhibition Alive with Birds celebrates the species and conservation of their habitat, our avian subjects are cast in a more treacherous light in the 1963 classic film […]

Sold Out!  Thank you for your interest in our programs.  We hope you can join us for programs this fall. Join us for a linocut workshop with Sherrie York, a celebrated printmaker and instructor, whose work explores the natural world, particularly birds.  Sherrie’s reduction linocut Trunk Show  is in Mass Audubon’s collection and currently exhibited in […]