The Natick Center Cultural District

Boston Ballet School's Professional Division at Walnut Hill Presents: Next Generation
2025-05-31 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-05-31 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-05-30 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Keiter Center, 146 Bacon St, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Next Generation is the annual performance that empowers talented young dancers to reach for the stars. Featuring students of Boston Ballet School’s Professional Division at Walnut Hill School for the Arts, this is a performance of exceptional dance, showcasing rising talent in the dance world. These young dancers represent the next generation of talent, as they aspire to careers in professional dance companies.
Tickets will go on sale later this spring, and will be available at walnuthillschool.ludus.com.

Natick Farmers Market
2025-05-31 09:00 - 13:00, 2025-05-24 09:00 - 13:00, 2025-05-17 09:00 - 13:00 | 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

Walnut Hill WFMA Presents Script to Screen
2025-05-29 19:00 - 20:00 | Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Delbridge Center
Join us in the Delbridge Center for a screening of new short films written, shot, and edited by Writing, Film & Media Arts students! Admission is free and no ticket is required, but space is limited.
Writing, Film & Media Arts at Walnut Hill provides a solid artistic foundation that prepares students for film school, art school, or a liberal arts college. The program builds confidence and supports the growth of teens as collaborators and critical thinkers. The skills gained here serves students in any number of future endeavors, and as a result, readies them to be poised for success.

Walnut Hill Visual Art Show
2025-05-29 08:00 - 17:00 | Walnut Hill School for the Arts, 12 Highland St., Natick, MA
Stroll through the Dartley Visual Art Center, inside Highland Hall, and enjoy art by our talented Visual Art majors. No tickets required—just drop in between 5pm and 7pm! There will be a fashion show at 6pm, but the rest of the exhibit can be explored on your own time.

VIRTUAL: Q&A with Romance Author Nalini Singh on “Archangel’s Ascension”
2025-05-28 19:00 - 20:00
Join us for a lively conversation with blockbuster romance author, Nalini Singh. We’ll definitely chat about her most recent Guild Hunter Series book Archangel’s Ascension, and there will be spoilers — you have been warned!! Be prepared for a rapid fire Q&A about all things SparkleBell — we’ll have our own questions but we know that Nalini fans are endlessly curious and enthusiastic so we expect this will be a wonderfully raucous discussion.
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.

Register directly on Zoom HERE. This program is at 7pm ET (Boston Time). If you know you cannot make it live please do not register with zoom (so we have plenty of space for those who can attend) but fill out THIS FORM to receive the video link.
For more information about Nalini and this program, click here.

Go West (1925)
2025-05-25 16:00 - 17:30 | The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN), 14 Summer Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
Silent film with live musical accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis.
Go West is a 1925 American silent Western comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton. Buster’s ranch comedy about the stone-faced comedian and his enduring romance with—a cow! Rustle up some belly laughs as Buster proves himself worthy once again.
Keaton portrays Friendless, who travels west to try to make his fortune. Once there, he tries his hand at bronco-busting, cattle wrangling and dairy farming, eventually forming a bond with a cow named “Brown Eyes.” Eventually he finds himself leading a herd of cattle through Los Angeles.
Director: Buster Keaton
Cast: Buster Keaton, Lex Neal, Raymond Cannon
Rating: N/R
Runtime: 1 hour 9 mins
Released: 1925
Format: DVD
Audio: Mono
Accessibility: Assisted Listening (headphones)

Instrument Petting Zoo
2025-05-24 11:00 - 12:00 | Bacon Free Library – 58 Eliot Street Natick, MA 01760 United States
The Bacon Free Library is partnering with Bach to Rock in Wellesley to bring you this instrument petting zoo. B2R will bring a variety of musical instruments to the Bacon for 60 minutes of instrument exploration to give people of all ages a chance to learn about instruments and experience playing them. This event will be held outdoors at our picnic table.
Please stop by to try out an instrument, or two, that you’re curious about. No registration required.

Black Bag (2025)
2025-05-20 19:30 - 2025-05-22 19:30 | The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN), 14 Summer Street, Natick, MA, 01760, United States
A gripping espionage thriller by Stephen Soderbergh.
From Director Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich, Ocean’s Eleven), Black Bag is a gripping espionage thriller film about legendary intelligence agents George Woodhouse and his beloved wife Kathryn. When she is suspected of betraying the nation, George faces the ultimate test – loyalty to his marriage or his country.
Featuring Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs, Prometheus) and Academy-award winner Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine, Lord of the Rings, Tár).
Audiences who loved thrillers like Bridge of Spies (2015), The Conversation (1974), and Casino Royale (2006) will appreciate Soderbergh’s style in this stylish, sexy, and smart spy thriller.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Marisa Abela, Gustaf Skarsgård, Michael Fassbender
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour 35 mins
Released: April 14 2025
Format: DCP
Audio: 7.1 Surround
Accessibility: Z-Screen subtitles, Audio Description (headphones), Assisted Listening (headphones)
SCREENINGS
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 | 7:30pm
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 | 7:30pm
Thursday, May 22, 2025 | 7:30pm

How to Create a Homegrown National Park
2025-05-20 17:30 - 18:30 | Bacon Free Library – 58 Eliot Street Natick, MA 01760 United States
Join us for a fun and informative stroll around the lovely grounds of the Bacon Free Library. Our gardening guru Monica Foley will point out and discuss the native plants in our gardens. She will offer many practical ideas to help you encourage birds and other pollinators to your yard and to increase the biodiversity in your property. You will learn how the BFL became a Certified Wildlife Habitat, as well as the requirements to acquire a Homegrown National Park sign for your yard. There will be time for questions.
No registration necessary.
In case of rain, this event will be rescheduled to Tuesday, May 27th at 5:30pm.

VIRTUAL: Q&A with Romance and Mystery Writer Olivia Waite
2025-05-19 19:00 - 20:00
Listen in — or bring questions and join in — to this fun conversation with romance author, Olivia Waite. Olivia has brought her blend of heart and humor to historical romance, fantasy, science fiction, and essays, so who knows where the conversation might lead! You can be sure we’ll delve into her newest book, Murder by Memory, the first in the Dorothy Gentleman sci-fi mystery series. Bring your questions as this is going to be a rapid fire, AMA (ask me anything) Q&A!
This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Ashland Public Library and is held in collaboration with the Bacon Free Library and the Ashland Public Library.
Please register here for the Zoom link.
For more information on Olivia and this program, click here.

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.

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 Spring Musical: Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
2025-05-18 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-05-17 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-05-17 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-05-16 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-05-11 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-05-10 20:00 - 22:00 | 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.

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.

Friends of the Morse Institute Library May 2025 Book Sale
2025-05-18 12:00 - 15:00, 2025-05-17 08:30 - 16:30 | 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.

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

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!

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.

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

VIRTUAL: Author Heather Wolf Discusses How to Experience Spring Bird Migration to the Fullest
2025-05-12 19:00 - 20:00
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.
