Summer is heating up! Join us across the state for programming you won’t want to miss. 

Concerts are back! This weekend, head to deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln for two concerts – on Friday, Vance Gilbert, and on Sunday, the ever-popular Arias Aloft: Chromatic. Gilbert has helped shape the contemporary folk and Americana scene, opening doors for many BIPOC artists along the way. Arias Aloft combines opera, musical theater, cabaret, and circus in the sculpture park! 

Take a unique tour this weekend. Discover the artistic mastery of Moraine Farm in Beverly, a Gilded Age country estate with a unique place in American landscape history. At The Ashley House in Sheffield, learn how the ideals of liberty and justice played out in complex ways within this 18th-century homestead on a thought-provoking guided tour. You can find additional tours here. 

Searching for family fun? Look no further! At Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, head to the first ever Chalk-a-Palooza! Families can purchase a square of pavement to design their own seasonally inspired masterpiece. Each registration includes one box of sidewalk chalk to use during the event (and take home after). Additional boxes of chalk will be available for purchase at $5 each. At Stevens-Coolidge House and Gardens in North Andover, and Long Hill in Beverly, head out on a Pollinator StoryWalk, celebrating pollinator week! Stroll through the gardens and trails as each page of a nature-themed story, A Pathway for Pollinators by Michelle Schaub, unfolds along the path, highlighting the incredible role bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other pollinators play in our ecosystems.