Catch Jersey Boys With Your WOO Card

Thursday, January 23, 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, January 22nd-Sunday, February 2nd

Jersey Boys on stage at The Hanover Theatre
2 Southbridge Street, Worcester
20% discount on select seats/performances with WOO Card
Don’t miss the 2006 Tony Award®-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history!

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Thursday, January 23rd

Flora in Winter Opening Celebration at Worcester Art Museum
55 Salisbury Street, Worcester
Swipe your WOO Card for WOO points
In anticipation of its upcoming Knights exhibition in March, Flora Euphoria: Courtly Pleasure! will transport you to the time of King Arthur while you feast on inspired interpretations, hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. Enjoy wandering minstrels and period costumed performers. Flora in Winter continues through Sunday, January 26th with amazing floral interpretations, special demonstrations, tours and more.

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Saturday, January 25th

JOMPATHON at Joy of Music Program
1 Gorham Street, Worcester
Swipe your WOO Card for WOO points
Drop by anytime to enjoy this celebration of music as students of all ages perform throughout the day to support JOMP's Financial Aid Program. Admission is free, donations gladly accepted. All instruments and styles will be represented with solo performances as well as an occasional jazz or classical ensemble or World Drumming group.

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Saturday, January 25th & Sunday, January 26th

Fire & Ice Days at Old Sturbridge Village
1 Old Sturbridge Village Road, Sturbridge
$5 off adult daytime admission with WOO Card
Historians will demonstrate how ice was collected the old-fashioned way at the Mill Pond, and visitors can give ice-cutting a try with a vintage ice saw. Also enjoy presentations about the history of ice skating as well as sledding and horse-drawn sleigh rides.

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Opening Saturday, January 25th

Animals Without Passports exhibit opens at the EcoTarium
222 Harrington Way, Worcester
$2 off adult museum admission & $1 off planetarium show with WOO Card
Exciting new traveling exhibit - Animals Without Passports - follows the humpback whale's migration between North Atlantic feeding grounds in NOAA's Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (SBNMS) off Massachusetts and the Caribbean breeding grounds. A unique look into the issues impacting marine ecosystems and are encouraged to examine the personal role they have in the protection of one of our nation’s underwater treasures

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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.