Center for Arts & Ideas

Lowell Creates!



The UMass Lowell Center for Arts & Ideas in collaboration with community partners will launch the first annual Lowell Creates! multi-arts festival in April. 

Following is a current list of events which will be updated as new events are added to the festival, please check back often. 

Most events are free, but certain events require tickets. Please check with the venue.

Lowell Creates! Event Listing for 2011

March 31

BeatleJuice, Middlesex Community College, Lowell Memorial Auditorium (for tickets)

March 31
April 1,2,3
April 8,9,10

"Rent", Off-Broadway Players, Comley-Lane Theatre
870 Broadway St., UMass Lowell South Campus
7:30 p.m.  $5 students and seniors, $10 adults.

April 3

Poetry Readings by Tom Sexton, 
Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center
246 Market St., 2 p.m.

April 4
Poetry Readings by Tom Sexton, Coburn Hall, 205, 3 p.m.
April 4
Leymah Roberta Gbowee, Peace Activist, UMass Lowell Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies, "Days without Violence" O'Leary Library Room 222, UMass Lowell South Campus, 12:30 p.m.
April 4-28

"Across Sections: A Cross Section", Art Department Faculty, University & Dugan Galleries UMass Lowell South Campus - Reception & Artist Talk: April 6, 3-5 p.m.

April 7
Author Mary Catherine Bateson, 13th Annual Gathering at the Well Forum, Alumni Hall, UMass Lowell North Campus, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
April 7
"An Evening of Opera Scenes and Art Songs", Durgin Concert Hall, UMass Lowell South Campus, 7:30 p.m.
April 7
Music Department's Thursday Recital Hour, Durgin Concert Hall, UMass Lowell South Campus, 1 p.m.
April 12
Leymah Roberta Gbowee, Peace Activist, UMass Lowell Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies, "Days without Violence" O'Leary Library Room 222, UMass Lowell South Campus, 12:30 p.m.
April 13

Poetry Reading by Marilyn Chin, O'Leary Library Auditorium, Room 222, UMass Lowell South Campus, 3 p.m.

April 14
Czech Traditional Dance & Music, Durgin Concert Hall UMass Lowell South Campus, 7:30 p.m.
April 20
University Orchestra, "Popular & Rarely Played Classics", Durgin Hall, UMass Lowell South Campus, 7:30 p.m.
April 21
Thursday Recital Hour, Durgin Concert Hall, UMass Lowell South Campus, 1 p.m.
April 21
Jazz Rock Big Band, Durgin Concert Hall, UMass Lowell South Campus, 7:30 p.m.
April 21 -
May 15
"A Picasso", Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 50 E. Merrimack St., Lowell, For more information, visit
Merrimack Repertory Theatre 
April 25
Mixed Chamber Concert, Fisher Recital Hall, UMass Lowell South Campus, 7:30 p.m.
April 26
Bailando!, Choral Concert, Durgin Concert Hall, UMass Lowell South Campus, 7:30 p.m.
April 26
Poetry Reading by Kay Ryan, U.S. Poet Laureate, O'Leary Library Auditorium, Room 222, UMass Lowell South Campus, 7 p.m
April 26

Artbotics Exhibit, 119 Gallery, 119 Chelmsford St., Lowell, 6 p.m.  For more information, visit 119 Gallery

April 27
Concert Band in Concert, Durgin Concert Hall, UMass Lowell South Campus, 7:30 p.m.
April 28-30
Fourth Annual Lowell Film Festival, Downtown Lowell
April 28
Poetry Reading by Michael Casey '68 and Nicholas Samaras, O'Leary Library Auditorium, Room 222, UMass Lowell South Campus, 7 p.m
April 28
Author Linda Greenlaw, Pollard Memorial Library,
401 Merrimack St., Lowell, 6 p.m
April 30
Dancing in Concert: East Meets West, Eliot Church  273 Summer Street Lowell, 7 p.m.  Free and open to the general public.


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