| Date | Time (ET) | Event Title | Host(s) | Format |
| Saturday, October 8 | 9:00 AM—12:00 PM | Indigenous Peoples Day Merrimack River Cleanup | Lowell Litter Krewe, Canalwaters Cleaners & Lowell National Historical Park | In person |
| Sunday, October 9 | 9:45 AM | Dragonfly Mercury Monitoring | The Lowell National Historical Park | In person |
| Monday, October 10 | 10:00—11:30 AM | Indigenous Peoples History | UMass Lowell professor Christoph Strobel | In person walk |
| Tuesday, October 11 | 1:00—2:00 PM | Death Café, a discussion about death and dying | Lowell City of Learning and Richard Davis | Virtual |
| 4:00—5:00 PM | National Coming Out Day Conversation | Lowell City of Learning, Pollard Memorial Library | In person & virtual hybrid | |
| 7:00—8:00 PM | Climate Change in the Merrimack Valley | John Mancone, Merrimack River Watershed Council | Virtual | |
| Wednesday, October 12 | 11:00 AM –12:00 PM | Creating Opportunities for Refugees and Immigrants in Lowell | Learning in Retirement Association (LIRA) | In person & virtual hybrid |
| 11:00 AM—12:00 PM | Inspection and Sensing of Civil Infrastructures Through Collaborations between the City of Lowell and UMass Lowell | Dr. Tzuyang Yu, UMass Lowell Professor & Ting Chang, PE, City Engineer for Lowell | Virtual | |
| 12:00—1:00 PM | Spare the Child Part Three: From Spanking to Positive Parenting | The Mahoney Family Fund | Virtual | |
| 5:00—7:00 PM | Open Group Bike Ride | Bike UMass Lowell | In person | |
| 7:00—9:00 PM | October Fiber and Mixed Media Meetup | Lowell Makes | In person | |
| Thursday, October 13 | 5:00—7:00 PM | “Making Americans”—A Visit with Jessica Lander | Mill City Grows, Lala Books | In person |
| 7:00—8:15 PM | Native Americans of the Merrimack Valley Region: Colonization and Persistence. | UMass Lowell Professor Christoph Strobel and Pollard Memorial Library | In person & virtual hybrid | |
| Friday, October 14 | 3:30 PM | HOT SAUCE with F-Word Farm | F-Word Farm and Warp and Weft | In person |
| Saturday, October 15 | 10:00—11:30 AM | Hawk Valley Farm Tour & Scavenger Hunt | Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust | In person |
| 10:00 AM—1:30 PM | The 5th Annual Lowell Sustainability Council Annual Summit | Lowell Sustainability Council | In person | |
| 10:00—11:00 AM | Lowell Fall Cemetery Tours | Lowell Walks, Dick Howe | In person | |
| 2:00—3:00 PM | Chef Avery Makes Homemade Vanilla Apple Pie with a Sugar and Spice Roux | Lowell City of Learning | Virtual | |
| On Demand | Book reading with Gordon Donkoh-Halm: Parsley’s Big Adventure | Video on Demand |
Festival #3: October 2021
| Date | Time (ET) | Event Title | Host(s) | Format |
| Sunday, October 10 | 10:00 AM—2:00 PM | Re-Learning to Love Reading and Writing | Cambodian American Literary Arts Association | In person |
| Monday, October 11 | 2:00—3:00 PM | Avery Cooks Lasagna | Lowell City of Learning | Virtual |
| 2:00 PM | Indigenous Peoples’ Day walk | Lowell Historical National Historical Park, Lowell Walks | In person | |
| 3:00 PM ET | We CAN Have Nice Things! Lowell Litter Krewe | Lowell Litter Krewe | In person | |
| Tuesday, October 12 | 10:00—11:30 AM | Breaking the Barriers for Success in Education for Latinos in Lowell | Fortaleza, Inc. | Virtual |
| 12:00—1:00 PM | Lockdown Letters: Poetry Reading and Discussion | Loom Press | Virtual | |
| 5:00—6:00 PM | The Pandemic Story Project: Oral Histories from Lowell and Lawrence, MA | UMass Lowell Department of Sociology, Lawrence History Center | Virtual | |
| Wednesday, October 13 | 12:00—1:00 PM | Acting Out: Voices from the Theater in Palestine | Lowell City of Learning | Virtual |
| Thursday, October 14 | 9:30—10:30 AM | Climate Change Initiative seminar: Climate & Community | UMass Lowell Climate Change Initiative | In person & virtual hybrid |
| 11:00 AM—12:00 PM | Mosaic Lowell Listening Session | Mosaic Lowell | Virtual | |
| 12:00—1:00 PM | The Power of Empathy: Reduce Stress and Build Better Adult/Child Relationships | The Mahoney Family Fund | Virtual | |
| 7:00—8:00 PM | From Ice Age to Industrial Age: Merrimack River Evolution | Merrimack River Watershed Council | Virtual | |
| Friday, October 15 | Friday at the Farm with Mill City Grows | Mill City Grows | In person | |
| Saturday, October 16 | 10:00 and 11:00 AM | Instrument Petting Zoo at Hawk Valley Farm | Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust and Lowell Learns | In person |
| On Demand | Contradictory Place: Cotton Mills Alongside Anti-Slavery Efforts in Lowell, Massachusetts | Lowell Historical National Park and Lowell Telemedia Center (LTC) | Video on demand | |
| On Demand | Cooking with Sitto Yvette | Lowell City of Learning | Video on demand | |
| On Demand | Landscapes of Memory: Celebrating the Merrimack River and the River Lee | Lowell City of Learning | Video on demand |
Festival #2: September 2020
| Date | Time (ET) | Event Title | Host(s) | Format |
| Monday, September 28 | 7:00 PM | Introduction to the Learning Festival | Lowell City of Learning | Virtual |
| Tuesday, September 29 | 1:00—2:00 PM | The Future of Further & Higher Education | Lowell City of Learning | Virtual |
| Wednesday, September 30 | 4:00—5:00 PM | Mill Girls–Life and Work in an Industrial City | Lowell Historical National Park | Virtual |
| Thursday, October 1 | 2:30—3:30 PM | Looking Back and Growing Forward | Mill City Grows | Virtual |
| 4:00—5:00 PM | Open Forum on Climate Change | UMass Lowell Climate Change Initiative | Virtual | |
| 4:00—5:00 PM | Observational Drawing for Kids | Arnold Arboretum, Lowell Historical National Park, Tsongas Industrial History Center | Virtual | |
| Friday, October 2 | 11:00—11:45 AM | Dance MOVES for PD | Donna Micelli Dance Studio | Virtual |
| 11:00 AM—12:00 PM | Atlantic Currents: Connecting Cork & Lowell | Cork Learning Festival and Lowell City of Learning | Virtual | |
| 6:00—7:00 PM | Building a Business in Lowell AND Surviving in a Pandemic | EforALL, Brew’d Awakening, Purple Carrot Bread, Social Pup | Virtual | |
| 7:00 PM | Movie: Merrimack River at Risk | Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust | Virtual | |
| On Demand | -Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race -Thank You Heroes-Virtual Art Gallery -Lowell Talks: A Movement and a Pandemic -Virtual Lowell Walks -Industrialization, Deforestation and a New England Mill Town -What to the Slave is the Fourth of July–Community Reading -Cheryl West on the Playwriting Process | Video on Demand |