Celebrate the Season with Patti LaBelle
Chevalier Theatre 30 Forest St., Medford, MAGrammy Award-winning artist Patti LaBelle returns to Chevalier Theatre, this time to perform holiday classics and the hits you know and love. LaBelle has been an incomparable force over her 60-year career, belting out classic rhythm and blues renditions, pop standards and spiritual sonnets. Known for her powerhouse vocals and electrifying live performances, LaBelle's hits …
Tufts Composers: Walking the Piece
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesNo new work for this Tufts Composers concert was written before it was walked: A program of new solo and chamber music by Tufts composers Jeannette Chechile, Joaquin de Jesus, Ronja Mokráňová, Edwin Munera, Molly Preston and Rachel Shurland. Featuring the Boston premieres of Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia’s "Three Ghanaian Airs" for viola and piano …
Pen, Paint, and Pretzels: Startling
Balch Arena Theatre, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesPen, Paint, and Pretzels, the umbrella organization for student-run performing arts groups at Tufts University, presents the second of three performances of "Startling," its fall semester Main Stage show. Written and directed by Max Bennett; stage managed by Alexa Hopwood. Open admission; no tickets required. The third and final performance will be at 3 p.m. …
Luke DeRoy Trio at The Ford Tavern
The Ford Tavern 61 Locust St., Medford, MAThe Ford Tavern kicks of another month of live music with the Luke DeRoy Trio: folk singer/guitarist DeRoy, bassist Josh Hirst, and drummer Ian Haas. DeRoy is a Berklee College of Music graduate who has performed at the Riverside Plaza Nights concert series and at the Medford Farmers Market.
Little Painters
Medford Recreation Center/Gene Mack Gym 30 Forest St., Medford, MA, United StatesThe Medford Recreation Department is offering a seven-class painting program, Little Painters, for children ages 2 to 5. Each week, kids can get creative with different painting projects including ceramics, suncatchers, birdhouses, and more. The program runs from 9 to 9:45 a.m. on Saturdays from December 3 through January 28 (no class on December 24 …
Saturday Family Story Time
Charlotte & William Bloomberg Medford Public Library 111 High Street, Medford, MAThe Medford Public Library presents a Saturday morning family story time (for ages 3 to 7) in the Charlotte & William Bloomberg Library building. The session will explore new concepts with books and songs. Parents and caregivers are welcome to join in. After story time, a short craft or activity will be held in the …
Friends of the Library Winter Holiday Book Sale
Charlotte & William Bloomberg Medford Public Library 111 High Street, Medford, MAFriends of the Medford Public Library invites you to its winter holiday book sale in the new Charlotte & William Bloomberg Medford Public Library. There will be gift books, children's books, and much more available. Friends of the Medford Public Library is a nonprofit, volunteer organization dedicated to providing funds for library projects and acquisitions; promoting …
Let’s Create
Medford Recreation Center/Gene Mack Gym 30 Forest St., Medford, MA, United StatesThe Medford Recreation Center is offering a seven-week session of its Let's Create arts and craft program for children in kindergarten through grade 3. Children will use their creativity each week to complete a new art project. Projects include ceramics, painting, sketching and jewelry making. The class will meet from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. on …
Royall House Holiday Shopping Day
Royall House & Slave Quarters 15 George St., Medford, MAThe Royall House & Slave Quarters presents its popular Holiday Shopping Day, in the museum gift shop inside the Slave Quarters building. Among the products for sale will be handcrafted items like tumbled shard brooches and 18th-century games, toys and crafts; reenactor Tammy Denease's "Hidden Women" soaps, lovely bar soaps with labels featuring Belinda Sutton; …
Black Entrepreneurs Holiday Fair
West Medford Community Center 111 Arlington St., Medford, MAThe West Medford Community Center invites you to its first Black Entrepreneurs Holiday Fair. Vendors will include AllThingsRoseMetics, Akousa’s Closet, Beard Love, Black Doll Collector, Brown-Skinned Poet, Cards by Cherry, C. Brown Creations, Cher Delights, Craft Mob, Handmade Maker, Reesie’s Marvelous Hats, and the West Medford Senior Club Knitting Group. Items offered will include jewelry, …