1/30 Update on Summer Camp Registration

Dear Parents and Families,
Thank you for your interest in and your patience with the summer camp registration process that began this week. Our staff has now made contact with all of the families that we knew to be affected by Tuesday's 1:00 PM webpage outages based on the emails and calls we received before 12:00 PM on Wednesday, January 28. If you contacted us after that time, please stand by and we will reply as soon as we are able.

Kim Burns curates and introduces monthly films at The Umbrella through The Concord Film Project. Her selections are often foreign or lesser known but much-acclaimed films grounded in relatable emotions, urgent questions, and unique perspectives.

To our Umbrella community,

Winter Market at the Umbrella celebrates its 20th anniversary this year!

Fall 2025 Music Director Jordan Oczkowski has some interesting parallels to composer and lyricist Jonathan Larson as he tackles the musical helm of his musical: both are rockin' piano players and both were on the cusp of turning thirty when they began work on TICK, TICK...

Our expanded Artist-in-Residence program is pleased to welcome Joe Juknievich to the 2025/26 cohort in the area of Performing Arts. Most recently, Joe assistant directed and conducted dramaturgical research for The Umbrella's production of TICK, TICK... BOOM! Previously, he served as Assistant Director on The Umbrella's production of Network. As a theater director and deviser, Joe has also worked with Central Square Theater, BEDLAM, The Players' Ring, Entropy Theater, Firehouse Center for the Arts, Prescott Park, UMass Lowell, Praxis Stage, and Exiled Theatre.

Beloved Norton and IRNE award-winning director and choreographer Ilyse Robbins is back at The Umbrella this fall with TICK, TICK… BOOM!, an electrifying autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson. 

Our introduction to our 2025/26 class of artists-in-residence continues with Sayako Hiroi. Sayako is a Japanese visual artist based in Boston, working across painting and traditional kintsugi, the practice of repairing broken pottery with gold. Her practice responds to silence and erasure, and to the unseen traces of presence, drawing from feminist ethics and Japanese visual archives.

The Umbrella Arts Center's Artist-in-Residence program has expanded for 2025/26, and we're pleased to welcome a cohort of five makers and educators to make something unforgettable with our resources and for our community here in Concord. In ceramics, Katie Fee has moved into a studio and begun working and teaching with enthusiasm this month.