The Natick Center Cultural District

Natick Farmers Market
2025-05-03 09:00 - 13:00, 2025-05-10 09:00 - 13:00, 2025-05-17 09:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Natick Common
The Natick Farmers Market is a year-round program of the Natick Center Cultural District and is open every Saturday from 9 am to 1 pm.

Visit natickfarmersmarket.org for current location and vendors.
Spring and Summer
Natick Town Common
The intersection of Routes 27 and 135
Natick

Fall and Winter
Common Street Spiritual Center
13 Common Street
Natick

Huge Yard Sale
2025-05-03 09:00 - 14:00 | First Congregational Church
The First Congregational Church, Natick is having a Huge Yard Sale on Saturday May 3rd, 9am – 2pm. Rain or Shine!
Home Goods, Jewelry & Framed Art, Toys, Games & Puzzles, Sports Equipment, Electronics, Books, DVD’s, small furniture, and more!

The A Cappella Singers Present Of Thee We Sing Celebrating American Composers
2025-05-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Fisk Memorial United Church, 106 Walnut Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Spring Concert 2025
Please welcome our new director, Dr. Brett Abigaña.
Tickets available at the door. $15 Seniors & Students. $20 General Admission.
Visit our website www.theacapellasingers.org. Follow us on Facebook @acappellasingersnatick.

Connect & Serve: Cochituate Rail Trail Clean-Up
2025-05-04 13:00 - 15:00 | Natick AMVETS Post 79, 79 Superior Drive, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
All ages are welcome! Join Spark Kindness, Keep Natick Beautiful, Natick AMVETS Post 79, and the Natick Rotary Club at our community clean-up to improve the natural environment along the Cochituate Rail Trail in the area of AMVETS, from Rt. 9 to Rt. 30. Connect with neighbors, enjoy nature, and help us take care of this special place for recreation, right in our own backyard. RSVPs aren’t required but are encouraged to help us plan!
RSVP here.

Repair Cafe
2025-05-04 14:00 - 17:00 | Natick Community – Senior Center
Sponsored by Natick Rotary, we will be conducting our 6th Repair Café Sunday May 4th 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 to bring a whole host of different items in need of repair that volunteers, with skills in different disciplines, will do their best to fix for free!
We invite you to bring in the following items in need of repair: Lamps,* electronics & small appliances, laptop computers for IT work; jewelry, bike, mechanical, and small furniture repairs, plus sharpening of non-serrated knives, scissors, and garden tools. Also, we’ll do our best to do machine & hand-sewing repairs of clothing & household textiles.
For those unfamiliar with Natick, the Natick Community Senior Center is located at 117 E. Central St. (Rt. 135), on the right-hand side about a half mile before the Wellesley Town line. For more info, or if you or someone you know might be able to help in some capacity, please email Carey at: NatickRepairCafe@gmail.com

Walnut Hill Chamber Music Concert
2025-05-05 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-07 19:00 - 20:00 | Walnut Hill School For The Arts – Boswell Hall
Join us in Boswell Hall, inside Eliot Hall, on May 5 and May 7 for our delightful Spring Chamber Concerts. Enjoy beautiful music performed by students in the Walnut Hill Music Department. Admission is free and no tickets are required, but space is extremely limited.

VIRTUAL: Author Shannon Reed Discusses “Why We Read”
2025-05-05 19:00 - 20:00 | MA
**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Webinar via email.**
This program is for readers everywhere! Join us as we chat with author Shannon Reed about her latest book, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out. Why DO we read? What compels us to? What holds our attention? How many of us remember reading by a flashlight after hours? Shannon will have the scoop and will be answering lots of our questions.
This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Ashland Public Library and is held in partnership with the Bacon Free Library and a multitude of MA Libraries.
Please register here for the Zoom link.
For more information on Shannon and this program, click here.

MetroWest Anti-Bullying Coalition Forum on Identity Based Bullying
2025-05-07 08:30 - 11:00 | MA
2nd Annual MetroWest Anti-Bullying Coalition
Bullying, hate speech, and online hate are on the rise. Spark Kindness is convening the 2nd annual MetroWest Anti-Bullying Coalition Forum on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 to explore solutions and interventions for identity-based bullying**.
Featured Speakers:

MA Attorney General’s Office – Children’s Justice Unit (Legal Response)
Jamele Adams – Freedom Teams (Community Response to Bias)
Bryce Bjork – Lenny Learning (Curriculum for Educators & Community)
Chief Hicks – Natick Police Department (Law Enforcement)

This forum offers a chance to connect with fellow leaders/community members, share stories of impact, and access valuable resources on identity-based bullying prevention.
We’ll also gather feedback on:

Tip Sheets & Resource Guides on identity-based bullying
A comprehensive website with tools, programs, and professional development opportunities

If you are interested in joining this year’s forum, please reach out to Alyndra (Lynn) Canty, Coordinator of Diversity Equity & Inclusion and Co-Leader of the Anti-Bullying Coalition for Spark Kindness at lcanty@sparkkindness.org. View more information about the MetroWest Anti-Bullying Coalition here.
This work is made possible through a generous Community Health Innovation Grant from the MetroWest Health Foundation with additional support from caring partners, Becca Schmill Foundation, Patrick’s Promise Foundation, Call2Talk, the MetroWest Regional Coalition for Suicide Prevention, and Eastern Bank.

Walnut Hill Spring Musical: Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
2025-05-09 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-05-10 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-05-10 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-05-11 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-05-16 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-05-17 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-05-17 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-05-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Keiter Center, 146 Bacon St, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Join us in the Keiter Center for our Spring Musical: Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, presented by the Walnut Hill Theater Department. Tickets go on sale in April at walnuthillschool.ludus.com.
From the celebrated and award-winning composer Dave Malloy comes Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on a scandalous slice of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Young and impulsive, Natasha Rostova arrives in Moscow to await the return of her fiancé from the front lines. When she falls under the spell of the roguish Anatole, it is up to Pierre, a family friend in the middle of an existential crisis, to pick up the pieces of her shattered reputation. Following a critically exalted premiere at Ars Nova in New York City, a subsequent off-Broadway transfer and an acclaimed run on Broadway, this award-winning musical expands the possibilities for the genre with its daring score and bold storytelling.

Art Across the Globe
2025-05-10 10:00 - 11:00 | MA
Tikuli Art Workshop
Watch & learn from Artist Santosh Kumar
What to expect:
1. To get the best out of the demo, we recommend that you listen and observe the instructions during the workshop and paint the artwork later.
2. Meet the artist.
3. Q&A session with the artists.
4. Access the workshop video for 3-weeks and complete your artwork.
5. Share your artwork with fellow participants and the organizers.
REGISTER HERE
Sponsored by Natick Center Cultural District and facilitated by Artsy Way of Life

VIRTUAL: Author Heather Wolf Discusses How to Experience Spring Bird Migration to the Fullest
2025-05-12 19:00 - 20:00 | MA
Join Heather Wolf, author of Find More Birds: 111 Surprising Ways to Spot Birds Wherever You Are and Birding at the Bridge: In Search of Every Bird on the Brooklyn Waterfront, as she shares tips for jumping into the nature documentary happening around you, also known as spring bird migration! Learn how to find more migrating birds and witness their fascinating behaviors, as well as cue into birds that will be breeding and raising young in your area.
This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Ashland Public Library and is held in collaboration with the Bacon Free Library, and the Chelmsford, Groton, and Tewksbury Libraries and is in partnership with a multitude of MA & NH libraries.
Please register here for the Zoom link.
For more information on Heather and this program, click here.

Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
2025-05-14 19:30 - 21:00 | The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN), 14 Summer Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Pink Floyd The Wall is a 1982 British musical drama film directed by Alan Parker, based on Pink Floyd’s 1979 album The Wall. The screenplay was written by Pink Floyd vocalist and bassist Roger Waters. The Boomtown Rats vocalist Bob Geldof made his film debut as rock star Pink, who, driven to neurosis by the pressures of stardom and traumatic events in his life, constructs an emotional and mental wall to protect himself. However, this coping mechanism eventually backfires, and Pink demands to be set free.
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, and Eleanor David
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour 35mins
Released: 1982
Format: Blu-Ray
Audio: 5.1 Surround
Accessibility: Z-Screen subtitles
Visit: pinkfloydthewall.com

Bettye LaVette
2025-05-15 20:00 - 22:00 | The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN), 14 Summer Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Bettye LaVette was hailed by the New York Times as “one of the great soul interpreters of her generation”. George Jones said “Bettye is truly a singer’s singer”. Her career began in 1962, at 16 years old, in Detroit, Michigan. Her first single, My Man-He’s A Lovin’ Man, was on Atlantic Records. Throughout the 60s and 70s, she recorded for several major labels. She also appeared in the Broadway Musical Bubbling Brown Sugar alongside Honi Coles and Cab Calloway.
The 2000’s started what she calls her “Fifth Career”. She received the R&B Foundation’s Pioneer Award, won several Blues Music Awards, was inducted into The Blues Hall Of Fame, received the Legacy Award from the Americana Music Association, and has received 7 Grammy Nominations.

Friends of the Morse Institute Library May 2025 Book Sale
2025-05-17 08:30 - 16:30, 2025-05-18 12:00 - 15:00 | Morse Institute Library
It’s time for the Friends’ spring Book, Music, and Bake Sale! Join us on Saturday, May 17 (8:30-4:30) and Sunday, May 18 (12:00-3:00) and browse a wide selection of 25,000+ gently used books, CDs, and vinyl, and choose from an assortment of tantalizing treats from our bake sale in the library lobby. Proceeds from our donation jars at the sale will go to support library programs and activities. You’ll find most books and DVDs on the lower level. Books for children and tweens and our CD and vinyl sale are in the Morse Room on the first floor. Adult books are $1, and books for children and tweens are $0.50. We’ll be restocking throughout the book sale.
Your support makes a difference. The Friends are a nonprofit membership organization and dues are an important part of our fundraising. Pick up a membership form at the book sale or join online at www.morsefriends.org.

Holi Festival in Natick Center
2025-05-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Natick Center Cultural District, 8 Court St., NATICK, MA, 01760, United States
You are invited to celebrate the vibrant multi-cultural spirit of our town during the Holi Festival! Holi (pronounced /holi/; Sanskrit: हो ली Holi) is a delightful spring festival that is joyfully celebrated in the Indian subcontinent. It is popularly known as the “festival of colors” or “festival of love.”
Join us for an exciting lineup of activities! You can revel in the festivities with eco-friendly dry powdered colors, while grooving to the lively Bollywood music that our fabulous DJ Mahesh has in store for you. The best part? This event is free to attend! However, if you desire more colors or food, you can purchase them on-site.
We cannot wait to see you at the Holi Festival, where we will create wonderful memories together!
Rain Date, May 18 from 2- 4:00 pm.
Location: Middlesex Savings Bank Parking Lot along Rt. 135 & Washington St.
RESERVE your free ticket!

Inside Out 2: Celebrating Mental Health Awareness
2025-05-17 14:00 - 16:00 | The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN), 14 Summer Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
In celebration of Mental Health Awareness Month, the Natick Health Department is hosting a free screening of Inside Out 2 at the TCAN Cinema Room. The program starts at 2 PM with mental health information and a family-friendly activity, followed by the screening.
Inside Out 2 returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as headquarters undergoes a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions!
Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she’s not alone.
Visit: insideout2.com

MetroWest Student Film Festival 2025
2025-05-18 13:00 - 15:00 | The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN), 14 Summer Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Launched by TCAN in 2018, The MetroWest Student Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing the talents and creativity of the region’s youth ages 14-19, by providing an opportunity for young filmmakers and production teams to explore and create stories through motion pictures.
This special event recognizes the work of young filmmakers recognized as finalists in MetroWest Student Film Festival 2025. The entries of these finalists will be shared with friends, families and the community at-large in TCAN’s state-of-the-art screening room. Category winners will be be awarded festival prizes in three categories: Outstanding Live Action Short Film, Outstanding Documentary Short Film, and Outstanding Animated Short Film.

Paula Cole
2025-05-18 19:30 - 21:00 | The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN), 14 Summer Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Paula Cole has been a truth-teller, a provocateur, a feminist, a rebel, and a brilliant autobiographical writer who has pushed for personal honesty and social change. An artful weaver of genre, she is difficult to categorize – she is simply Paula Cole.
After gaining attention for her performances as a vocalist on Peter Gabriel’s 1993–1994 Secret World Tour, her second album This Fire (1996) brought her worldwide acclaim, peaking at number 20 on the Billboard 200 album chart and producing two hit singles, the triple-Grammy nominated “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?”, which reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997, and “I Don’t Want to Wait”, which was used as the theme song of the television show Dawson’s Creek.
Paula Cole’s eleventh studio album, “Lo” is devastatingly personal and utterly gorgeous. Her first album of original compositions in five years, “Lo”’s eleven songs, written entirely by Cole, navigate her opening to trust again after indelible blows of life. As the first woman to ever be nominated for the Best Producer Grammy in her own right, Paula Cole returns to the helm of recording as sole producer.

Walnut Hill Jazz Concert
2025-05-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Delbridge Center
Join us in the Delbridge Center for the Music Department’s Spring Jazz Concert! Enjoy the jazz stylings of our talented students. Admission is free and no tickets are required, but space is limited.
