Catch Wool Days at Old Sturbridge Village With Your WOO Card

Thursday, May 23, 2013

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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Saturday, May 25th – Monday, May 27th

Wool Days at Old Sturbridge Village
1 Old Sturbridge Village Road, Sturbridge
$5 off adult daytime admission with WOO Card
Celebrate Wool Days at the Village! Witness the annual haircuts for the village seep, live demonstrations on everything from shearing to carding, dyeing and more!

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Through September 1st

Alice’s Wonderland at the EcoTarium
222 Harrington Way , Worcester
$2 off adult admission, $1 off planetarium show with WOO Card
Enjoy a most curious adventure as you journey down the rabbit hole to explore Alice's Wonderland. This award-winning traveling exhibition is based on Lewis Carroll's classic, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The exhibition inspires curiosity, encourages exploration, and helps make the unknown more familiar, maybe even logical, and certainly fun.

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Thursday, May 23rd

Opening reception for Artist in Residence at Worcester Center for Crafts
25 Sagamore Road , Worcester
Swipe your WOO Card for Double WOO points
The Worcester Center for Crafts, 25 Sagamore Road, Worcester, invites you to enjoy some good food and good fun when they host an Opening Reception for its Artists in Residence Collection: Opposing Directions featuring artists David Choi, Eric Cruze, Jennifer Koch, Dan Rae, Tomoko Sakai, Emery Wenger and Lauren Young. Admission is FREE and open to the public. WOO Card holders can swipe for Double WOO points

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Thursday, May 23rd

Hidden Histories at the American Antiquarian Society
185 Salisbury Street , Worcester
Free admission and swipe for Double WOO points
Men and women 150 years ago grappled with information overload by making scrapbooks --- the ancestors of Google and blogging. From Mark Twain to Abraham Lincoln to Susan B. Anthony, African American janitors to farmwomen, abolitionists to Confederates, people cut out and pasted down their reading. Their scrapbooks -- some of them at AAS -- left us a rarely examined record of what they read and how they read it. This talk, based on Ellen Gruber Garvey's new book, Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance, opens a new window into the feelings and thoughts of ordinary and extraordinary Americans.

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Through July 20th

The Russian Nesting Doll at Museum of Russian Icons
203 Union Street, Clinton
Swipe your WOO Card for WOO points
The Museum of Russian Icons is pleased to host a new exhibition Matryoshka: The Russian Nesting Doll, featuring 83 Matryoshka sets of lavishly painted wooden nesting dolls of decreasing size placed one inside the other. Whether depicting ancient legends, religious themes, or political caricatures, Matryoshkas can reveal a subtle narrative, as one bell-shaped doll opens to reveal the next one inside, about the history of Russia.

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