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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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Perfect Game Gift Card
Win a $25 gift card to the Perfect Game Sports Grill & Lounge - one of the newest entertainment and dining destinations in Worcester's Canal District, with a mix of historical photos of great sports achievements.
Take a Hike 
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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Win a $25 gift card to Worcester Airport Limousine, offering both business and leisure travelers shuttle, private and chartered service throughout the Northeast.
WOO Cards now available for sale at the Box Offices of both The Hanover Theatre and DCU Center, at LeLimo of Shrewsbury,
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 JOMP gala
The Joy of Music Program celebrates its 25th anniversary with a Spring Gala at Mechanics Hall, 321 Main Street, Worcester, on Wednesday, May 16th from 7- 9 p.m. Enjoy performances by the JOMP Youth Orchestra, the JOMP String Ensemble and Jazz Trane, an advanced student ensemble. Refreshments, jazz and a cash bar will follow the concert. Admission is FREE. WOO Card holders can swipe for Double WOO points.  |
 Third Thursday
Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury Street, Worcester, welcomes Taiko Drumming by Odaiko New England at its Third Thursday After Hours @ WAM on Thursday, May 17th from 5:30 - 8 p.m. Featuring Japanese refreshments, event will coincide with opening of Pilgrimage to Hokusai's Waterfalls exhibit. Admission $14. WOO Card holders can swipe for WOO points. |
Voices from the Bluegrass
Carol Barnett's The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass features chorus and soloists in an energetic, eclectic work with a bluegrass band. Don't miss the Master Singers of Worcester celebrating this beauty and spirituality of nature on Sunday, May 20th from 4-6 p.m. at the Salem Covenant Church, 214 East Mountain Street, Worcester. Performance will include Gwyneth Walker's The Great Trees, featuring clarinetist Chester Brezniak and pianist Olga Rogach in an evocative settings of texts by Kentucky poet Wendell Barry. Tickets are $25 general admission. |
 Meet Abby Kelley
Go back to the mid 1800s' to meet Worcester's radical abolitionist and woman's rights activist Abby Kelley Foster, her husband Stephen Foster and their daughter Alla, along with the Worcester Women's History Project on Saturday, May 19th from 2 - 5 p.m. at Liberty Farm, 116 Mower Street, Worcester. Tour their family home - a National Historic Landmark - while celebrating Alla's 165th birthday. National Park Service Ranger Chuck Arning will give a talk about the Underground Railroad and Liberty Farm's role with Tammy Denease Richardson portraying slave Mum Bett. Also enjoy light refreshments and children's activities. Suggested admission donation $5, children FREE. Raindate: Sunday, May 20th. |
 Dance Me to the Moon
Join ARTSWorcester, 660 Main Street, Worcester, as it transforms its Aurora Gallery to its former glory as a 1930s ballroom for Dance Me to the Moon: A Space-Age Benefit on Saturday, May 19th from 8 - 11 p.m. Be there for take off, flying through the musical eras from classic big band and swing to R&B and funk. Orbiting the evening will be artwork from the gallery show, T-Minus, an exhibit inspired by Worcester's role in the race to the moon. Admission just $20, proceeds to benefit AW exhibitions which are always free and open to the public. Free parking available at the Freemason's Building, one block away at 1 Ionic Avenue. WOO Card holders can swipe for Double WOO points. |
Patrick names Worcester arts leaders to MCC Board
Governor Deval Patrick recently announced the appointment of Joyce Kressler and Troy Siebels, two highly accomplished leaders of the Worcester arts community, to the Board of the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
"Joyce Kressler and Troy Siebels have each played a central role in fostering the creative economy in Worcester, said Governor Patrick. "I'm delighted they will now have the opportunity to put their experience and talent to work for the Commonwealth and its cultural community."
Kressler recently retired as Executive Director of First Night Worcester, a post she had held since 1998. She is a founding member and former Vice Chair of the Worcester Cultural Coalition, as well as a 2009 Commonwealth Award winner for its success in building a vibrant cultural sector in Massachusetts' second largest City. Siebels is the Executive Director of The Hanover Theatre, a 2,300 seat performing arts center which opened in downtown Worcester in 2008 following a $32 million historic restoration. He presently serves as the Chair of both the Worcester Cultural Coalition and the Massachusetts Performing Arts Center Coalition.
We at the Worcester Cultural Coalition extend hearty kudos to both Joyce and Troy on their prestigous appointments! |
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Taking it to the Street
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Please join us...
Wednesday, June 6th
5-7 p.m.
EcoTarium
222 Harrington Way, Worcester
A night of discovery to kick off the summer season! Meet & mingle with a variety of WOO venues, explore new EcoTarium exhibits, enjoy a complimentary planetarium show, and more!
FREE admission for WOO Card holders. Additional details available here. |
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Call to Participate
- First Night Worcester is now accepting applications for performers for First Night Worcester 2013 - The Arts, Can You Dig It?
Applications and additional info available online. Deadline to submit is June 10, 2012
- Discovery Days:
Worcester in the 1960s, Saturday, May 26th
10 a.m. - noon -
the Worcester Historical Museum invites you to bring memories, photographs, artifacts & other treasures to be scanned and/or photographed for inclusion in upcoming exhibit. Additional details available online.
- Students 14+ invited to submit original work based on the question 'Can genocide be prevented? The two sides of human nature' for an upcoming exhibition at the Dzian Art Gallery to benefit Clark University's Strassler Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, to be curated by Project eXodus. Additional info available by calling 508 641-7738 |
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Coming Up in Culture
May 16th - Crafternoons at Worcester Historical Museum, featured craft: flowered hats May 19th - Photographic Harmony exhibition opens at Worcester Academy of Music May 25th - Fear Nuttin Band with The Band Droids from NYC at The Lucky Dog Music Hall Ongoing thru May 26th - Maps: Pathways to Russia at the Museum of Russian Icons Ongoing thru May 30th - Summer registration at Pakachoag Music School of Greater Worcester June 1st - Take it to the Curator at the Museum of Russian Icons June 2nd - Worcester Historical Museum Yard Sale at Salisbury Mansion June 2nd - Antique Car Rally at Old Sturbridge Village June 5th - Mansion of Happiness: Finding the Meaning of Life in an Archive at the American Antiquarian Society June 8 - 10th - Blue Man Group on stage at The Hanover Theatre June 7th - Worcester Chamber Music Society's Senior Outreach Concert at Willows at Worcester June 15th - Dan Gabel & the Abeltones kick off EcoTarium's Live at Sunset Summer Concert series Ongoing - Vases of Spring: Annual Show & Sale at the Worcester Center for Crafts Ongoing Thursday thru September - Jazz Nights at Ceres Bistro Visit the Worcester Cultural Coalition's online calendar often for more information about these and many, many other cultural happenings! |
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 Five Star Concert in the Garden
See why Dale LePage was voted Male Entertainer of the Year when he and friends perform as part of the Five Star Concert Series at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston on Saturday, May 19th from 6:30-9 p.m. Let LePage, along with Bobby Gadoury and Thomas Spears, entertain you with their sultry tones for a cabaret style concert featuring a wide repertoire of classics from such legends as Michael Buble, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and more. General admission tickets now available online or by calling 508-869-6111 ext. 135. WOO Card holders can swipe for WOO points. |
 135 Years & Counting...
American culture icon Joan Rivers brings her My Life in Show Business: 135 Years & Counting show to The Hanover Theatre, 2 Southbridge Street, Worcester, on Tuesday, May 22nd at 7 p.m. This bestelling author, Emmy Award-winning talk show host, Tony-nominated actress, Celebrity Apprentice winner, writer, director and savvy businesswoman offers a frank, touching and hilarious look at her life and the challenges she has met during her almost 50 years in business. Tickets available online or by calling the box office at 877 571-SHOW. WOO Card holders can save 10% off tickets and swipe for WOO points. Tickets also available as part of a special Ladies Night Out Wow WOO Package. |
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Thrill of the Trill
To Americans in the nineteenth century, the concept of 'high culture' blended seamlessly with most of popular entertainment. Join the American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, for Thrill of the Trill: Music in the Emerging American Nation on Tuesday, May 22nd from 7:30- 9 p.m. featuring Peter H. Bloom, flute, Mary Jane Rupert, harp and D'Anna Fortunato, mezzo-soprano. The program will feature arias by Mozart and Rossini, art songs by Beethoven and classical instrumentals by various European and American composers. The program will show how classical music evolved into the melodies that resounded at political rallies, from dance halls, in city streets, on town commons and in the hearts of Americans as they hunted for gold, settled the country and created a vibrant democracy. Admission is FREE and open to the public. WOO Card holders can swipe for Double WOO points. |
 Tempest in New England The Worcester Women's History Project, League of Women Voters and Worcester Historical Museum welcome Dr. Erik J. Chaput to the Worcester Historical Museum, 30 Elm Street, Worcester on Thursday, May 24th from 7-8:30 p.m. for a talk detailing the history of the often forgotten 1842 Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island, one of the most significant political and constitutional events before the Civil War. Chaput will explain how the politics surround Thomas Wilson Dorr's attempt at extralegal reform in Rhode Island led to the active involvement of prominent New England abolitionists including Abby Kelley, Stephen Foster and Frederick Douglass. Admission is $5. |
 Take a step baaack in time
Take a step baaaack in time as Old Sturbridge Village, 1 Old Sturbridge Village Road, Sturbridge, celebrates Wool Days, Saturday, May 26th - Monday, May 28th, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily. The village sheep will get their annual 'haircuts' while historians demonstrate how wool is processed - from shearing, scouring and carding, to dyeing, spinning and weaving. Memorial Day also marks the official kick of to summer activities at the Village including period games such as 1830s baseball and French & English tug of war contests. Additional details available online. WOO Card holders save $5 off adult daytime admission. |
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It's Opa time!
Get your Greek on and don't miss the 2012 Grecian Festival, Friday, June 1st - Sunday, June 3rd, on the grounds of Saint Spyridon Greek Cathedral, 102 Russell Street, Worcester, across from historic Elm Park. The Grecian Festival has been a highlight of Worcester and Central Massachusetts for the last 36 years, having grown to become among the finest and largest festivals of its kind in New England! Enjoy great food, live music and dancing, children's activities, and more food! A celebration not to be missed. |
 Spring stART
stART on the Street's annual spring festival returns with one big change: a move to Worcester's Canal District! Don't miss over 150 local artists and crafters taking over the entire Green Street neighborhood between Temple and Madison Streets, showing and selling their handmade wares on Sunday, June 3rd from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. 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. 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 to the festival is FREE and open to the public. WOO Card holders can swipe for Double WOO points. |
 Dramatic Cantata
Don't miss the Worcester Chorus and Worcester Children's Chorus, under the director of Christopher Shepard, presenting Carl Orff's Carmina Burana at Mechanics Hall, 321 Main Street, 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. Written in medieval Latin and middle high German, yet this is one of the most recognizable of choral works because the "O Fortuna" section has been used in countless movies, television, and commercial productions over the years. The collection of music is full of humor and intensity, both ribald and romantic, celebrating wine, women, song, Spring, and the fickleness of fate! The chorus will perform the work with special guest soloists, The Worcester Children's Chorus, two pianos and a large battery of percussion. Tickets available online, by calling the Music Worcester 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. |
 Volunteer Days
Mass Audubon Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, 414 Massasoit Avenue, Worcester, invites you to enjoy a few hours of fresh air, fun and fulfillment every Wednesday from 10 am. - 12 noon as part of a growing group of sanctuary volunteers! Together with Mass Audubon staff put up signs and markers, look for wildlife tracks, pick up branches, fill bird feeders, tend the gardens, and distribute program information. Ability to work without supervision required. Volunteers welcome once or every week! Carpentry skills welcome, nature lovers appreciated! For additional info please call 508 753-6087. |
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