Lowell Women's Week 2000
Various locations, Lowell. 978-970-5000. All events free unless otherwise noted; donations of personal care items for Alternative House, a shelter for battered women, accepted throughout the week. 3/5-3/11: array of exhibits and programs celebrating Women in the New Millennium: Looking Back, Moving Forward. Working People Exhibit, 40 French St. Ongoing: Can Mother Come Out to Play? Housework, Technology and Leisure 1900-1960. National Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St. 3/5: 2 p.m., Rosie the Riveter, discussion by Penny Colman. American Textile History Museum, 491 Dutton St. 3/6: 7:30-9:30 a.m., Women's Week Breakfast and tour of Dressed for the Part: Hollywood Costumes from the Silver Screen, $15. OTHER

Georgia Mass Choir
Zeiterion Theatre, 684 Purchase St., New Bedford. 508-994-2900. 2/27: 3 p.m. $11, $17, and $22.

At Bedford Town Center
Mudge Way, Bedford. 781-275-3207. 2/27: 2 p.m. Free. Guest speaker: Walter L. Sanders, former WBZ-TV reporter and Massachusetts AARP, state president; gospel selections by The God Squad. Refreshments. Sponsored by The Concerned Black Citizens of Bedford (CBCB) Inc.

Matapat
Grace Episcopal Church, Rodman Hall, New Bedford. 508-997-0046, ext. 34. 3/3: 8 p.m., $12. Trio from French Canada. Presented by the New Bedford Whaling Museum Music Through Time Series.

Georgia Mass Choir
Zeiterion Theatre, 684 Purchase St., New Bedford. 508-994-2900. 2/27: 3 p.m., $11-$22. Gospel choir featured in the movie The Preacher's Wife.

Holiday Antique Train Exhibit
Shriner's Auditorium, Fordham Road, Wilmington. 207-563-1013. 2/26-2/27: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $7. More than 100 dealers from throughout New England. holdy 3/2

Cornelius Ayer Wood Gallery
The Middlesex School, Lowell Road, Concord. 978-369-2550. Mon.-Sat 10 a.m-8 p.m., Sun. 1-8 p.m. Through 3/8: Peripheral Visions, landscape photographs by Jerry Howard.

Gallery X
169 William St., New Bedford. 508-992-2675. Wed.-Sun. 11 a.m-3 p.m. Through 3/4: Love ... Be Still My Beating Heart, entire membership show.

Brush Art Gallery
256 Market St., Lowell. 978-459-7819. Tues.-Sat. 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun. 1-4 p.m. Through 4/2: Perspectiva Latina, Latin American artists from New England.

Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum
396 County St., New Bedford. 508-997-1401. Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-4. $4, seniors $3, children $2. Greek revival mansion built in 1834 for whaling merchant William Rotch Jr.

Robert Hull Fleming Art Museum
Colchester Avenue, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt. 802-656-0750. Tues.-Fri. 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Sat.-Sun. 1-5 p.m. Suggested donation $2. Through 6/4: A Writer's Vision: Prints, Drawings and Watercolors by Gunter Grass, by the Nobel Prize-winning German author.

Sports Museum of New England
25 Shattuck St., Lowell. 978-452-6775. Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun. noon-5 p.m. $3, ages 6-17 and seniors $2, under 6 free. Ongoing: Harry Agganis: Athlete and Scholar; A Salute to the 50th Anniversary of the Boston Braves; Women in Sports; Baseball Photographs by Bill Chapman; The Baseball Cartoons of Gene Mack; climbing wall, wooden sculptures of sports celebrities. Updated

New England Quilt Museum
18 Shattuck St., Lowell. 978-452-4207. Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $4, students and seniors $3. Through 2/25: Last Quarter, Twentieth Century, exhibit of 35 quilts celebrating the current quilt revival. dated

American Textile History Museum
491 Dutton St., Lowell. 978-441-0400. Tues.-Fri. 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Thurs. till 8 p.m., Sat.-Sun. and Mon. holidays 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $10, seniors and students $7, under 6 free. Renovated factory housing 100 exhibits, historical scenes, working looms. Through 3/12: Dressed for the Part: Hollywood Costumes from the Silver Screen, from silent films through 1960s.

Tom Jones Calvin Theater and Performing Arts Center,
19 King St., Northampton. 413-586-8686, 800-THE-TICK. 3/17: 8 p.m., $25-$45. Providence Performing Arts Center, 220 Weybosset St., Providence. 401-421-ARTS, 401-421-2997. 3/31: 8 p.m., $30-$40. Lowell Memorial Auditorium, 50 E. Merrimack St., Lowell. 978-454-2299, 617-931-2000. 4/1: 8 p.m., $29.50-$32.50.

Big Band 2000 - Hoagy Carmichael Centennial Celebration
Zeiterion Theatre, 684 Purchase St., New Bedford. 508-994-2900. 3/8: 7 p.m., $12-$24. Stardust Orchestra, Becky Lillie, Dwayne Grayman, Tony Waag, The Small Frys.

New Bedford Whaling Museum
18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford. 508-997-0046. Daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $4.50, seniors $3.50, children $3; through 3/31 free to all 1-5 p.m. Ongoing: The Blue Whale Project, exhibit with 65-foot skeleton of a juvenile blue whale; Joshua Slocum: Alone Around the World; Paintings by Clifford W. Ashley. Faces of Whaling: Oral History Project, 3/2, 8 p.m. at First Unitarian Church, Union and Eigth Street, New Bedford, free. updated 2.24

New Bedford Art Museum
608 Pleasant St., New Bedford. 508-961-3072. Wed.-Sun.-noon-5 p.m. Thurs. until 7 p.m. $3; seniors and students $2, children under age 16 free. Through 4/2: Fine Arts Downtown 2000, art by UMass-Dartmouth faculty; From There to Here: The Voice of Lebanese Americans, artifacts and everyday items. 2/27: 3 p.m., A Personal Perspective on Lebanon, lecture by Sheik Talal Eid. dated

Magic of Lynxx
Zeiterion Theatre, 684 Purchase St., New Bedford. 508-994-2900. 2/24: 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. $5. Lyn Dillies performs dazzling acts of illusion.

Avenue X
Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 50 East Merrimack St., Lowell. 978-454-3926. A cappella doo-wop musical looks at racial struggles of the early '60s. $18.50-$32.50, rush seats available for half price one hour prior to curtain. Through 3/19: Wed.-Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 2 and 7 p.m. 3/1 and 3/16, 2 p.m., 2/26, 3 p.m.