Pride Hike
Enjoy a Pride Hike at the Mass Audubon Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary. Signup for this event is required.
Natick Nights Pride
Enjoy a fantastic evening of food, shopping, and family-friendly entertainment in the vibrant Natick Center Cultural District.
OUT ART OPENING NIGHT
Join in the kick off of OUT ART, featuring 10 queer artists. On view throughout June and July at The Frame Shop in Natick.
Spark Fest June 6
MOVED TO SATURDAY, JUNE 6
Celebrate kindness and connect with family, neighbors and friends with free activities, crafts, music, and refreshments this June in Natick! All are welcome!
Rainbow Hand Kite
June is Pride Month! Children's Pride Craft Event
Make your own rainbow hand kite. This is a craft event recommended for children Grades K-5. Drop-In, no registration needed.
Children's Library, Lower Level
Hosted by Morse Institute Library
Notes of hope
Music Trivia Across the Decades
Light Bites and Refreshments
All proceeds benefit Metrowest Worker Center - Casa to provide direct aid to our immigrant neighbors.
Tickets $50/person; $375/table for 8 & Donate
Co-sponsored by:
Needham Area Immigration Justice Task Force;
Congregational Church of Needham, UCC;
First Parish Needham, UU;
Casa Allies
Family Promise Metrowest Walk to End Homelessness
Join us for a wonderful community event to raise awareness and funds for the work we do to support families facing housing insecurity. Register for the event, start your fundraising pages and we will see you there!
Active Bystander training
Active Bystander Training: How to Speak Up With Courage, Care, and Respect
Natick Interfaith Harmony Month
Please join us for Natick’s 2nd Annual Interfaith Harmony Month. This is a time get to know your neighbors, and participate in a variety of faith traditions. You can pick up a Harmony Passport at the Morse Institute Library beginning February 26. All are welome!
Hosted by The Natick Interfaith Leaders Association
What We Have in Common: A Multicultual Storytelling Event
Five immigrants from five different countries will share their journeys to the United States—why they came, how they adjusted to new customs, and which traditions from their homelands they still cherish.
Though our origins, accents, and holidays may differ, we are united by what we share: kindness, love, resilience, and community. Come listen, learn, and celebrate what we have in common.
Hosted by Common Street Spiritual Center
Natick Days
A Natick tradition that highlights the work of the service organizations and volunteers that make the Town of Natick such a great place to live, work, and play.
QMMUNITY: Connecting with LGBTQIA+ Neighbors
Join us as we connect the community of LGBTQIA+ neighbors in Natick, and beyond. We will gather and create belonging in these times of uncertainty and uneasiness. During the evening, we will offer refreshments (coffee, cookies, and more!), conversation, open activity table, and a special Drumming with Pride circle. RSVP HERE for July 10th.
Hosted By Qmmunity & Common Street Spiritual Center
John Lewis: Good Trouble
Please join us for a screening of a documentary on the life of John Lewis. There will be snacks and a brief discussion following the movie. All are welcome!
Trivia Night with OUT Metrowest
Come Nerd OUT with OUT MetroWest, friends, family, and community members!
Cochituate Rail Trail Clean-up
Join Spark Kindness, Keep Natick Beautiful, Natick AMVETS Post 79, and the Natick Rotary Club at our community clean-up to improve the 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. RSVPs aren't required but are encouraged to help us plan!
Walk to End Homelessness
Join Family Promise Metrowest, Sunday, May 4th for a walk to end homelessness.
Hosted by Family Promise Metrowest
Earth Friendly Fair Saturday
ARE YOU READY to get outside, interact, learn, and do something good for the Earth and its living things? Enjoy EARTH DAY ALL AROUND NATICK, May 3-4, featuring: An Earth-Friendly Fair on Natick Common and events all around town!
Hosted by EcoNatick
QMMUNITY
Join us as we connect the community of LGBTQIA+ neighbors in Natick, and beyond. We will gather to get to know each other, learn what's on our minds, discuss the possibility of future activities and meet-ups, and create belonging in these times of uncertainty and uneasiness.
Hosted By Common Street Spiritual Center
Drag Brunch Birthday Party
Celebrate OUT Metrowest’s 14th Birthday! LGBTQ+ youth and their families are invited to join us in Framingham for a drag performance, brunch, and Birthday Party festivities. Registration required!
SKY!
Sky is OUT MetroWest's newest program, running the first Thursday of the month starting in March. This will be a virtual program, that youth can access from anywhere they have Wi-Fi! Sky was developed to help meet the needs of youth who otherwise cannot get to our Framingham or Satellite locations. Additionally, we hope Sky will help us reach youth who may not be out to their communities and are looking to explore their identity.
Natick's World Interfaith Harmony Week
On behalf of Natick Interfaith Clergy, we are excited to invite you to Natick's inaugural Interfaith Harmony Week. Established by the UN in 2010, World Interfaith Harmony Week is an annual, week-long series of local, interfaith programming, observed during the month of February. Through local, in-person house of worship visits, discussions, and celebrations of our community's diverse faith traditions, participants will gain deeper appreciation and understanding of our community's range of religious traditions and build bonds with our neighbors.
Hosted By Natick Interfaith Leaders
Addressing Black Youth Mental Health
Join us on Zoom! Learn how to recognize when Black teens may need mental health support, understand the barriers they face, and discover ways to help them access the care they deserve.
Hosted by Natick 180, Natick Public Schools, and Families for Depression Awareness.
QMMUNITY
Join us as we connect the community of LGBTQIA+ neighbors in Natick, and beyond. We will gather to get to know each other, learn what's on our minds, discuss the possibility of future activities and meet-ups, and create belonging in these times of uncertainty and uneasiness.
Hosted By Common Street Spiritual Center
SPARKing Gratitude and Interconnection
Join Spark Kindness for an inspiring evening and opportunity to informally connect around the unifying power of gratitude!
Children's Storytime and Meet and Greet with the Author of Rainbow Allies
Come join us for a free fun-filled storytime and a special meet-and-greet with author Nancy Churnin, who wrote the picture book Rainbow Allies. Kids and adults will have an opportunity to listen to a read-aloud, do crafts and coloring activities, enjoy refreshments, purchase PEACE flags, purchase books, and get their books signed by the author!
Hosted by Morse Institute Library and Spark Kindness
Come OUT and Celebrate Gay-la
Come OUT and Celebrate with OUT Metrowest on November 7th at 6:30pm at Jack's Abby in Framingham🌈
Lives Worth Living: The Great Fight for Disability Rights
How can we make our communities more welcoming and accessible for people with disabilities? Join us for a special screening of "Lives Worth Living," a documentary film that highlights the story of activists fighting for equal access and opportunity for people with disabilities, which culminated in the 1990 passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Hosted by SPARK Kindness
Reading Frederick Douglass
A community Reading of Frederick Douglass’ “What to the slave is the Fourth of July.
Special Guest, Brenna Greer, Professor of History at Wellesley College
Annual Kindness Week: Nov 4-11!
Kindness has never been more important and Kindness Week is a time to shine a spotlight on the good that happens every day in our communities, and to inspire people to SPARK Kindness through simple but powerful actions. SPARK Kindness invites community members, organizations, and businesses to all come together to help celebrate our 6th annual Kindness Week.