Where Will You WOO? Week of March 9, 2017

Thursday, March 09, 2017

GoLocalWorcester Lifestyle Team

Where will you WOO during the week of March 9?

Thursday March 9

Worcester Chamber Music Society - A Rare Smile Café concert

6:30 PM-9:00 PM

Nuovo Restaurant
92 Shrewsbury Street
Worcester, MA 01604

We know Beethoven as a composer of great seriousness, taking on difficult and deep subjects, often with majesty and as often with sudden anger. This café concert will show you Beethovens rare, and for that reason, precious smile. Both the Serenade for flute and strings, and the Serenade for String Trio are sunny and easy going. Marches, Polonaises, a Gypsy flair here or a reminiscence there, all are ebullient and carefree showing that Beethoven, too, could be full of easy graces.

Cost: Dinner and Concert $59, Concert only $29

Friday, March 10

Computer and Internet for Beginners

9:30 AM-10:30 AM

Worcester Public Library
3rd Floor Lab
3 Salem Square
Worcester, MA 01608

First 4 Fridays of the month,
This class will build your basic computer skills by working with the mouse and keyboard, and by practicing basic computer searches.
Sign up at the 2rd floor desk or call 508-799-1655 x3.

Cost: free

Saturday, March 11

Revealing Ancient Wisdom of Keeping Healthy: Understanding Traditional Chinese Medicine

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

Tower Hill Botanic Garden
11 French Drive
Boylston, MA 01505

Presenter: Jonathan (Huan-Wen) Fang

Join Jonathan Fang, a Licensed Acupuncturist and second generation Chinese medicine practitioner, as he reveals the secret of the Ancient Wisdom of maintaining a healthy lifestyle through the holistic way. Learn about traditional Chinese medicine, natural herbs, and remedies. Mr. Fang will also teach some simple exercises that will open up your meridians to improve your energy circulation for maintaining good health

Cost: Member $20, Non-member $35

Sunday, March 12

Coloring Isn’t Just for Kids

5:00 PM-7:00 PM

Mass Audubon: Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary
414 Massasoit Road
Worcester, MA 01604

Come to the sanctuary after-hours and enjoy the peaceful calm while creating your own works of art. Instruction in the use of colored pencils and color theory will be provided by the instructor. Copies and instruction in recreating works by such famous artists as John James Audubon will be available, or bring your own designs to color. Materials list provided upon registration. For more information and to register, call 508.753.6087.

Cost: $50 Members, $65 Non-members

Monday, March 13

Highest Heaven: Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art from the Roberta and Richard Huber Collection

Worcester Art Museum
55 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609

Highest Heaven explores the cultural and religious world of the Spanish Colonial possessions of the Altiplano (high plains) of South America. Through approximately 100 paintings, sculptures, ivories, objects in silver, and furniture, the exhibition traces the development and spread of the Catholic faith through the creation and usage of religious art for devotion and instruction.

The objects are drawn from the distinguished collection of Roberta and Richard Huber of New York City. Over three decades the Hubers have built one of the most significant assemblages of this material in private hands.

Rather than group works by media as an introduction to the world of Spanish Colonial art, the exhibition returns the objects' original context as, literally and symbolically, articles of faith. It focuses on the didactic aspects of the collection, especially as they relate to the life of Christ, the Christian religious orders, and the cult of the saints. It explores ways in which such religious art was used in the propagation of Catholic beliefs by use of visual art to illustrate biblical moments in the life of Christfrom the Annunciation and birth to the Crucifixion and Resurrection. Furthermore, it examines visual representations of saints, exemplar proponents of the Christian life. Finally, Highest Heaven will focus on religious orders that provided organizational and philosophical underpinnings for the propagation of the faith.

The exhibition is organized and circulated by the San Antonio Museum of Art.

Image: "Christ Descending into Hell," Peruvian, 18th century, Oil on canvas, Roberta and Richard Huber Collection, Photograph by Robert Schwarz

Related Event:
Master Series Third Thursday
March 16, 2017

Speaker: Thomas B.F. Cummins, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art, Harvard University

Cost: Free with Museum admission

Tuesday, March 14

Pickleball at the Worcester JCC

11:00 AM-12:30 PM

Worcester JCC
Gym
633 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609

An incredibly fun paddle sport created for all ages and skill levels, Pickleball combines elements of tennis, badminton, and Ping-Pong. Pickleball is offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:00AM 12:30PM to adults 18 years or older. Free to members and a $5 drop-in fee for non-members.

For more information, contact:
Bob Berman
(508) 756 -7109 x233;
[email protected]

Cost: Free to members, $5 drop-in fee for non-members

Wednesday, March 15

Side by Side by Sondheim

7:30 PM-9:30 PM

Calliope Productions Inc.
150 Main Street
Boylston, MA 01505

A musical revue

Cost: $20 regular admission, $17 students/seniors

Where Will You WOO? Week of March 9, 2017

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