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Get your WOO Card to receive discounts and special offers at nearly sixty area arts and culture destinations, along with restaurants, hotels, retailers and more throughout Worcester County! Earn WOO points every time you use your WOO Card and be entered to win fantastic prizes!
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Win a guided tour for you and three friends at Mass Audubon Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary with Executive Director Deb Cary! Learn the history of land conservation in the City, while enjoying an exploration of the beautiful sanctuary in the City!
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 Nigel Nose-it-all returns
The EcoTarium, 222 Harrington Way, Worcester, invites you to explore the good, the bad and the downright ugly about how your body works with the opening of the exhibit, Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body. The exhibition uses sophisticated animatronics and imaginative exhibits to explore runny noses, body odor and other icky things that everyone experiences. Get to know Nigel Nose-it-All and learn all about how your nose functions, including allergies, sinuses, snot trivia, runny noses and more! Meet Burp Man - a larger than life cartoon character who drinks from a three-foot soda can to see how and why you burp from in inside perspective. Climb a wall of human 'skin' and get up close to pimples, warts, wounds. In conjunction with the exhibit, the EcoTarium will host Too Gross Tuesdays June 26th - August 28th at 12:30 p.m. offering you a chance to learn gross but fascinating stuff about humans and animals; and on Saturday, June 23rd will host an Arm Fart Contest - compete in three categories: loudest, fastest and most creative! Grossology - snot to be missed! All ages welcome, free with museum admission. WOO Card holders enjoy $2 off adult admission and $1 off planetarium show.  |
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Weaving our stories
The Worcester Public Library, 3 Salem Square, Worcester, will host a story telling performance by fourth, fifth and sixth grade students of the Goddard School of Science & Technology - Weaving Our Stories - using as their only 'texts' their own original, hand woven tapestries on Wednesday, May 30th from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Admission is FREE and open to the public. Sponsored in conjunction with the SAORI Worcester Freestyle Weaving Studio and the Worcester Public Schools via a 21st Century Community Learning Centers Grant. |
 Spring has sprouted
Mark your calendars for one of the best plant sales in all of New England! Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston, will host its annual Plant Sale - Sprouts! - on Saturday, June 2nd from 8:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Browse a great selection of perennials, herbs & everlastings, shrubs and trees, annuals and vegetables. Also for sale will be Tower Hill souvenir plants-divisions from beautiful garden plants growing right at Tower Hill. Preview party opens at 8:30 a.m. with $35 admission; 10 a.m. members admission for free; and general public admission begins at 12 noon for $5 per car. WOO Card holders can swipe for Double WOO points. |
 Antique Car & Carriage Rally
When Old Sturbridge Village, 1 Old Sturbridge Village Road, Sturbridge, first opened in 1946, visitors toured the museum in their cars. To commemorate those early days, OSV will be showcasing pre-1946 automobiles during an Antique Car Rally on Saturday, June 2nd. Entrants include rare vehicles like a 1908 Locomobile, a 1912 Oakland Roadster, a 1921 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost a 1922 Hupmobile, among others. See how early 20th century transporation compares to the early 19th century. The antique cars will be followed by OSV's first ever Antique Horse Drawn Carriage Rally on Sunday, June 3rd. Horses participating include a Morgan, an Arabian, two Norwegian Fjords and a Welsh Pony pulling several classic carriages from the 1890s including an original delivery wagon from the 1880s. Each rally set for 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., included with regular admission. Highlight will be a grand procession of the antique vehicles (cars at 3:30 on Saturday, carriages at 2 p.m. on Sunday) WOO Card holders save $5 off adult daytime admission. |
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Taking it to the Street!
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WOOphoria:
A Night of Discovery
Wednesday, June 6th
5-7 p.m.
EcoTarium,
222 Harrington Way, Worcester
A night of discovery and fun to kick off the summer seaon! Meet & mingle with a variety of WOO venues, explore new museum exhibits, enjoy a complimentary planetarium show, and more! FREE admission for WOO Card holders*
RSVP requested by June 1st
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*WOO Cards will be available for purchase at the door
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Call to Artists
- Worcester Windows Community Gallery Program soliciting works from visual artists for next installtion under the theme,
The Medium is the Message. Application deadline July 15th. Submittal requirements available online at www.WorcesterMass.org/Windows
- First Night Worcester hosting Call to Artists for First Night 2013 - The Arts, Can You Dig it? Application deadline June 10th. Additional details available online at www.FirstNightWorcester.org
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Coming Up in Culture
June 1st - Funk trio Wall of Terror with special guests The Purps rock Lucky Dog Music Hall June 2nd - Morning Bird Walk for adults at Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary June 6th - Opening reception at Italian American Cultural Center for exhibition featuring works by Worcester resident Kathy Coffey June 8th - sensational saxophonist Grace Kelly performs at Tower Hill Botanic Garden June 9th - Library Book Sale at Worcester Art Museum June 10th - Worcester Youth Orchestra Gala Year End Concert at Mechanics Hall June 14th - Street Beat Poetry Thursday Official Pre-Bloomsday program featuring the poetry of James Joyce at Worcester County Poetry Association's Vasa Hall June 15th - Live at Sunset summer concert series kicks off at the EcoTarium featuring Dan Gabel and the Abletones June 16th - Veterans Inc. presents Freedom Song Festival at Independence Hall in Shrewsbury June 16-17th - Music & Art Weekend at Old Sturbridge Village June 21st - Worcester Film Works presents Raiders of the Lost Ark on Worcester Common, first in series of three free summer flicks June 21st - Worcester Art Museum Third Thursday After Hours featuring tour of Ron Rosenstock's Hymn to the Earth with music by Jubilee Gardens June 22nd - 30th Anniversary of Rolling Stones surprise show featuring The Blushing Brides at Lucky Dog Music Hall June 23rd - Willis Center's Annual African American & Juneteenth Festival at Institute Park June 23rd - Hands-On Community Art Experience at Fruitlands Museum in conjunction with 2012 Artist-In-Residence exhibition by Andy Moerlein Visit the Worcester Cultural Coalition's online calendar often for more information about these and many, many other cultural happenings! |
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 Great stART to spring!
stART on the Street's annual spring festival returns with one big change: a move to Worcester's Canal District! Don't miss as over 150 local artists and crafters take over Green Street, between Temple and Madison Streets, on Sunday, June 3rd from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., showing and selling their handmade wares. Also featured will be music groups from area schools, a car show, local non-profits, kids' activities, and a food court complete with vegan options. This is sure to be stART's most "urban" festival yet, with something to see in each alley and parking lot along the street. Many area businesses will also open their doors to join in the festivities. As always, stART is family friendly and admission is FREE to the public. Area street parking is available. WOO Card holders can swipe for Double WOO points.
Note - Rain date will be Sunday, June 10. |
 Opa time!
For three days, be transported to Greece without ever leaving Worcester! Don't miss the 2012 Grecian Festival on Friday, June 1st - Sunday, June 3rd, a highlight of Worcester and Central Massachusetts for the last 36 years. It has grown to become among the finest and the largest festivals of New England, with attendance exceeding 25,000 people. During each of the festivals the Greek Community recognizes and celebrates our forefathers, Greek immigrants who came to Worcester to work and create a new life, and in doing so made lasting contributions to the political, economic and cultural development of Worcester. Enjoy great food, live music and dancing, children's activities, and more food! Festival runs Friday, June 1st 5 p.m. to midnight, Saturday, June 2nd 12 noon to midnight and Sunday, June 3rd 12 noon to 10 p.m. Admission just $1. |
 Dramatic Cantata
Music Worcester invites you to experience the Worcester Chorus and Worcester Children's Chorus performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burrana at Mechanics Hall, 321 Main Street, Worcester, on Sunday, June 3rd at 4 p.m. Sometimes called a dramatic cantata, the Carmina Burana is based upon a group of 13th century poems that were discovered in the Benedictine monastery of Beuren in Bavaria. The collection of music is full of humor and intensity, both ribald and romantic, celebrating, win, women, song, spring and the fickleness of fate. The chorus will perform the work with special guest soloists, the Worcester Children's Chorus, tow pianos and a large battery of percussion. tickets available online, by calling the box office at 508 745-3231, or through a special Wow WOO Package. WOO Card holders can save 10% off tickets and swipe for WOO points.
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The Mansion of Happiness
Can the answers to life's questions be found in the collections of the American Antiquarian Society? What can history answer and what can it only ask? Join AAS, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, on Tuesday, June 5th from 7:30-9 p.m. for an illustrated lecture with Pulitzer Prize finalist and New Yorker staff writer David Woods Kemper, as he uncovers the history of ideas about life and death by taking a surprising look at the history of... board games. Admission is FREE and open to the public. WOO Card holders can swipe for Double WOO points. |
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Senior spectacular
The Worcester Chamber Music Society will perform a Senior Outreach Concert on Thursday, June 7th from 7:30-9 p.m. at The Willows at Worcester, 101 Barry Road, Worcester. Program will include the Dvorak String Quintet in Eb Major and Ravel Piano Quartet No. 2, featuring Krista Buckland Reisner and Rohan Gregory, violins; Peter Sulski and Mark Berger, violas; David Russell, cello; and Ian Watson, piano. Admission is free for senior citizens and children under 17, $25 general admission all others. WOO Card holders can swipe for Double WOO points. |
 Bring on the Blue
Don't miss the high-octane theatrical experience of Blue Man Group on stage for four shows at The Hanover Theatre, 2 Southbridge Street, Worcester, Saturday, June 9th - Sunday, June 10th. Escape the ordinary and surround yourself in an explosion of comedy, music and technology as BMG presents an intensely exciting and wildly outrageous experience that'll leave you in a blissful, euphoric state! With no spoken language, this show is perfect for people of all ages, languages and cultures! Get your blue on! Tickets available online or by calling the box office at 877-571-SHOW. WOO Card holders can save 10% off tickets. |
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Take it to the Curator
Icon specialist Frank Ford will be at the Museum of Russian Icons, 203 Union Street, Clinton, on Friday, June 1st, to evaluate region, date and subject matter of guests icons. An avid collector of Russian icons since the mid 1970s, Ford has trained at the MFA in Boston and under well known icon expert Fr. Panteleimon of the Abbot of Holy Transfiguration Monastery of Brookline. Objects will be viewed on a walk-in, first-come, first served basis between 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Cost $7 per object. WOO Card holders can swipe for WOO point. |
 Frat party
The Worcester Historical Museum and College of the Holy Cross are teaming up to host a frat party of sorts. On Thursday June 7th from 7:30-8:30 p.m. at the museum's Fletcher Auditorium, 30 Elm Street, Worcester, don't miss Fraternity: A Discussion with Author Diane Brady and Father John Brooks. After the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968, a Catholic priest and then theology professor at Holy Cross, Father Brooks sought out young black men to integrate into the then, all-white school. Among the 20 young men he found were a future Supreme Court justice, a Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the most successful defense attorneys in the country. Author Diane Brady chronicles the stories of five of those young men in her book Fraternity. After the discussion, Father Brooks and Ms. Brady will be available to sign copies of the book. Admission to the talk is open to the public and FREE with museum admission. WOO Card holders save BOGO adult admission and swipe for WOO points. |
 Hot blooded gypsy
Greater Worcester Opera invites you to share an evening with a hot blooded gypsy - Carmen! Don't miss GWO's upcoming production of Carmen, on Friday & Saturday, June 8th & 9th at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 10th at 2 p.m. in the Zecco Performing Arts Center on the campus of Anna Maria College, 50 Sunset Lane, Paxton. Sung in English translation, the show is sure to delight both opera aficionados and newcomers alike. Brimming with faimiliar melodies, this tale of a hot blooded gypsy and the men she chooses to love is a dynamic mixture of music and drama that will leave you spellbound. Encore performance slated for Wednesday, June 20th at the Eagle Hill Cultural Center in Hardwick. Tickets available online. |
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