Catch Cirque Eloize With Your WOO Card

Thursday, March 06, 2014

GoLocalWorcester Features Team

The weekend is fast approaching, and GoLocalWorcester brings you the best places to use your WOO Card around town for discounts and WOO Points.

Help your friends and family get in on the act as well. WOO Cards make great gifts! Share discounts and special offers at more than sixty area cultural destinations, restaurants, hotels, retailers, transportation providers and more! Best of all–WOO Cards NEVER expire!

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Wednesday, March 5th & Thursday, March 6th

Cirque Eloize: Cirkopolis at The Hanover Theatre
2 Southbridge Street, Worcester
10% off tickets with WOO Card
Performing within an inventive stage design and accompanied by an original musical score and video projections, twelve acrobats and multidisciplinary artists rebel against monotony, reinvent themselves, and challenge the limits of the factory-city

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Weekends thru March 23rd

Maple Days at Old Sturbridge Village
1 Old Sturbridge Village Road, Sturbridge
$5 off adult daytime admission with WOO Card
The crisp air of late winter and early spring is broken by the warm scents of wood smoke and maple syrup wafting through OSV’s Maple Days celebration. Learn about how maple sugaring was done in 19th century New England by visiting the sugar camp, see how the maple sugar process has changed over the years and visit the Freeman Farm to see costumed interpreters use maple products in their cooking.

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Friday, March 7th

Worcester Chorus performs Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle
Mechanics Hall, 321 Main Street , Worcester
10% off tickets and double points with WOO Card
Music Worcester is thrilled to host an exciting performance that will offer the chance to hear The Worcester Chorus in this mass that sounds like an opera! This is vintage Rossini, full of wonderful melodies, and will feature the performance on the newly restored Hook organ of Mechanics Hall.

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Saturday, March 8th

Ten Tenors: Broadways Greatest Hits at The Hanover Theatre
2 Southbridge Street, Worcester
10% off tickets with WOO Card
The Ten Tenors’ unique approach to opera has powered their rise to the top; bringing rock and classical music together, they have created a sound that is uniquely theirs. Expect them to bring the same contrast of raw power and soothing beauty to this special evening of the best of Broadway. Features concert on the Mighty Wurlitzer organ before the show!

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Sunday, March 9th

Sunday Sermon at Worcester Art Museum
55 Salisbury Street, Worcester
BOGO adult admission with WOO Card
Antonella Doucette, WAM, discusses "The Tender Trap: Jacob Duck's Card Players and Merry Makers" as part of WAM’s ongoing Sunday Sermons series, with a special focus on Women's History Month in March, by preeminent scholars and community leaders and musical performances. Enjoy music and lend your voice to these important conversations.

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Weekends in Worcester…www.WorcesterMass.org/Culture

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Worcester Art Museum

55 Salisbury Street, Worcester

The Worcester Art Museum, often referred to by its acronym WAM, is the most acclaimed cultural attraction in the city of Worcester. The world famous "classic American museum" contains over 35,000 pieces of artwork spanning over 5,000 years. Currently on display is [remastered]: A reinstallation of the Worcester Art Museum's paintings from the 16th-18th centuries provides a new look at Old Masters.

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Worcester Center for Crafts

25 Sagamore Road, Worcester

The Worcester Center for Crafts’ Krikorian Gallery, in conjunction with Worcester State University, is committed to "sustaining craft as a vital part our community" through education, advocacy, and entrepreneurship. They are currently holding its Holiday Festival of Crafts 2013 this weekend.

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Fitchburg Art Museum

25 Merriam Parkway, Fitchburg

The Fitchburg Art Museum is one of the cultural treasures of North Central Massachusetts. Though not quite as famous as its cousin to the south, the Worcester Art Museum, the Fitchburg museum still houses an impressive permanent collection of art spanning 5,000 years. Check out their current exhibition: Still Life Lives! - A celebration of the vitality of the still life tradition and its themes of beauty, bounty, darkness, fragility, and fleeting moments, which runs through January 14.

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The Sprinkler Factory

38 Harlow Street, Worcester

The Sprinkler Factory is a unique gem in Downtown Worcester and a true center for all the arts. Once a manufacturing plant, the Sprinkler Factory now provides space for individual artists to form their own studios and contains areas for music, dance, and other fun activities. The massive atrium on the second floor in the middle of the complex is available for local artists to show their work. The public is welcome to browse the artists' studios and galleries. An upcoming exhibition entitled Indoor Games , runs from December 7 through January 25, captures the spirit of creativity during the winter months.

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Boulder Art Gallery

960 Main Street, Fitchburg

Since its opening in 2008 by founders by Ann and Peter Capodagli, the Boulder Art Gallery has been committed to showing original and vintage paintings, photographs, prints and sculptures from the region's most talented artists. A true variety of work from both new and established artists is on display in a multitude of mediums and styles; check out oils, acrylics, watercolors and pastels. Many pieces are also available for purchase.

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Aurora Gallery and GArtH Gallery (ArtsWorcester)

660 Main Street; 657 Main Street, Worcester

The Aurora Gallery and the “GArtH” Gallery of Art at the Hadley are run by the organization ArtsWorcester, and both show the work of local artists, many of whom are members of the group. For a list of current and upcoming exhibits, click here and here.

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Davis Art Gallery

44 Portland Street, Worcester

Since its founding in 2006, the Davis Art Gallery has made it its mission to promote the Worcester art community and create awareness of the local creative culture. One of the ways the gallery does this is by showing the work of local artists in a great variety of different mediums. Currently, you can see an exhibit by Emily and Robb Sandagata; Unearthed, which runs through February 7th.