Earth Day All Around

EcoNatick is partnering with community groups, organizations, families, individuals, businesses, and houses of worship to host Earth-friendly (mostly outdoor) activities all over town (think First Night or Artists Open Studios).  We will feature these events on EcoNatick.org (soon to be launched), along with an interactive map and schedule. https://www.econatick.org/ 

Drop-in Craft and StoryWalk

Bacon Free Library - 58 Eliot Street Natick, MA 01760 United States

Join us at the Bacon Free Library for an eco-friendly craft (repurposed book garlands), then stroll through the beautiful library grounds and enjoy our new StoryWalk®. All ages welcome! This program is part of EcoNatick’s Earth Day All Around Natick. The StoryWalk® Project was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, VT and developed in collaboration with […]

Tanglewood Marionettes @ TCAN

The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN) 14 Summer Street, Natick, MA, United States

Featuring over twenty beautifully hand-crafted marionettes, The Fairy Circus is a showcase for turn-of-the-century-style trick puppetry. The puppets will dance, play instruments, juggle, contort, transform, and fly through the air with the greatest of ease, all to the best-loved music of favorite composers. This title is perfect for younger children and family audiences. The Fairy Circus is performed […]

$10 – $12

Walnut Hill Walking Tour

All are welcome to join local tour guide Vincent Vittoria for a walking tour of Natick's historic Walnut Hill neighborhood. Come learn about the people, historic mansions, and other stories that give Walnut Hill such a fascinating history. The tour will meet downtown on the pedestrian bridge over the train tracks and begin at 2:00 […]

Repair Cafe

As part of EcoNatick’s Earth Day All Around Natick, and sponsored by Natick Rotary, we will be staging Natick’s first-ever Repair Café on Saturday April 29th from 2:00-5:00 at, and in conjunction with, the Natick Community Senior Center’s Council on Aging & Human Services. If you’re unfamiliar with Repair Cafés, it’s an opportunity for people […]

Natick in King Philip’s War

58 Eliot Street (in the lower level of the Bacon Free Library)

Are you curious about what life was like for Natick residents during King Philip's War? Join us for a talk with Gail Coughlin, Research Manager at the Natick Historical Society. Gail will center the experiences of Natick residents in an overview of King Philip's War (1675-76). Discussion and Q&A to follow the talk. Please meet […]

“Oldtown” Walking Tour of South Natick

58 Eliot Street (in the lower level of the Bacon Free Library)

Please meet at the entrance to the Bacon Free Library/Natick History Museum, 58 Eliot Street. Join local historian Terri Evans for a stroll through the heart of South Natick. The tour includes a discussion of the 17th-century “Praying Indian” settlement and of the 19th-century local residents who inspired the characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, […]

Natick History Museum Reopening

58 Eliot Street (in the lower level of the Bacon Free Library)

Exhibits, Crafts, History, and Fun! Connect with Natick High School memorabilia. Explore vintage maps of the area. Read 18th-century land documents. Listen to the sounds (and silence) of the Natick Theatre in the 1920s. See artifacts made in Natick across the centuries. Kids: try your hand with a quill pen! Meet and watch local artisan […]

Free Screening of To The End @ TCAN

The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN) 14 Summer Street, Natick, MA, United States

This is a free screening as part of Earth Day All Around Natick with requested registration. Filmed over four years of hope and crisis, To the End captures the emergence of a new generation of leaders and the movement behind the most sweeping climate change legislation in U.S. history. The award-winning team behind Knock Down the House follows four […]