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Among the many benefits of being a WOO Card subscriber, is access to unique Wow WOO Packages that not only offer you a fantastic cultural experience, but save you money as well... where will you WOO?
Music and the Food of Life
Save 10% of tickets to upcoming Music Worcester concerts AND save 11% off your food bill at WOO's newest eatery - Caffe Espresso Trattoria, 395 Chandler Street, Worcester! Serving original Italian ingredients, to make you feel part of Italy's beautiful rich culture, paired nicely with Worcester Chorus's upcoming performance of Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle on Saturday, March 7th at Mechanics Hall... buon appetito! Additional details available online.
 Spaces Unveiled: Behind the Scenes
Join us for a rare, behind the scenes tour of the Museum of Russian Icons, 203 Union Street, Clinton, available exclusively to WOO Card holders! Simply choose a Wednesday in 2014 and call to arrange a private tour for up to six people! The tour will last about an hour and a half, giving you a sneak peek into the Research Library, Conservation, Roof Terrace and three levels of galleries. Additional details available online. Call Jocelyn Willis at 978 598-5000 x17 to purchase this package today for just $50! Limit 6 people per tour. Expires 12/31/14.
2/$99 Dinner Theatre Two great tastes that go great together? The Hanover Theatre and Ceres Bistro at the Beechwood Hotel! Choose from a half-dozen upcoming shows and enjoy lunch or dinner for just $99! Package includes two show tickets and a $50 Ceres gift card. Upcoming performances include:
- Mamma Mia, on stage March 11th-13th
- Geoffrey Canada, Thursday, March 20th
- Hair, Sunday, May 11th
- Ghost the Musical, on stage June 5th-8th
Treat your friend, treat your family, treat yourself - call 508 754-5789 to reserve your package today!
More Packages...
Date Night Package - Two tickets to a Music Worcester concert and lunch/dinner at Flying Rhino Cafe and Watering Hole for just $100. Get additional details here
Fulfill Your Palate Package - Eat and drink at the Flying Rhino ($25 value) and enjoy admission for two to the Worcester Art Museum for just $29! Get additional details here
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Celtic Celebrations | |
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 Saint Paddy's Day Coaster workshop at Worcester Center for CraftsCreate your own fused glass coaster for Saint Paddy's Day at the Worcester Center for Crafts New Street Glass Studio, 35B New Street, Worcester, on Friday, March 14th 6:30-9:30 p.m. Learn about the basics of cutting and shaping glass for fusing, making a pair of coasters - makes a great gift! No experience necessary, all materials included. Register online. Use your WOO Card to swipe for Double WOO points.Celtic Sojourn at The Hanover Theatre Celebrate St. Patrick's Day in true Irish style at a St. Patrick's Day Celtic Sojourn with Brian O'Donovan at The Hanover Theatre, 2 Southbridge Street, Worcester, on Friday, March 14th at 7:30 p.m. Performance will feature The Alan Kelly Gang, Carlos Nunez, Caitlin nic Gabhann and Ciaran O Maonaigh. Tickets available online or by calling box office at 877 571-SHOW. Use your WOO Card to save 10% off tickets.
Celtic Days at OSV
Too much fun to fit into one day, enjoy a two day Celtic Celebration at Old Sturbridge Village, 1 Old Sturbridge Village Road, Sturbridge, on Saturday & Sunday, March 15th & 16th. Featuring Irish music, food, step dancing and stories, learn what caused the wave of Irish immigration in the 19th century and what life was like for Irish families after they arrived in America. Activities included with general museum admission. Use your WOO Card to save $5 off adult daytime admission. |
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Bonanza in the Boroughs | |
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 Sweet treats at CocoBeni ConfectionsLooking for gourmet cupcakes with a homemade touch? Look no further than CocoBeni Confections located at 247A West Main Street in Northborough! Cupcakes make any occasion extra sweet - whether it's a cupcake tower or cupcake cake, traditional favors, custom design or even minis, in an amazing assortment of tempting flavors. CocoBeni's cake pops were even selected for inclusion in the Emmy Awards Gift Bags! Learn more here. Use your WOO Card to save 10% off 6 or more standard cupcakes (custom decorated and mini's excluded). Free delivery for orders over $40.Craftworks connection Right around the corner, you can get your craft on at Craftworks, located at 243 West Main Street, Northborough! This unique Artisan coop features the work of over 85 artisans, including stained glass workers, jewelers, fabric artists, a calligrapher, potters, wood-workers, knitters, and much more. And choose from classes and workshops in sewing, knitting and an assortment of other crafts. Learn more here. Use you WOO Card to save 15% on purchases in gift shop, yarn shop and lessons
Yowza!
And rounding out our WOO Card Borough Trifecta, get your fill of chill at Yowza Yogurt Paradise, located at 269 W. Main Street, Northborough. With many cool flavor choices in fat-free, low fat and no-sugar added varieties, along with big screen entertainment, an outdoor patio and free wifi. Learn more here. Use your WOO Card to save $2 off any yogurt purchase. |
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New on View | |
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 Knights at WAM
You're in for an exciting night, or rather entire weekend, when the
Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury Street, Worcester, opens its new exhibit, Knights on Friday, March 28th from 7 -11 p.m. The gala opening will featured performances, music theatrics and a truly star-studded extravaganza! Tickets available online. Swipe your WOO Card for WOO points. The gala opening event will be followed by a weekend long
Renaissance Faire, Saturday & Sunday, March 29th & 30th, featuring music, jugglers, costumed performers, sword demonstrations, story telling, hands-on shield making workshops and much, much more! Additional details online. Use your WOO Card to get Buy-One-Get-One-Free adult admission.
Two Hundred Years at MoRI
The Museum of Russian Icons, 203 Union Street, Clinton, is hosting a new exhibit, The Tsars Cabinet, highlighting two hundred years of Russian decorative arts under the Romanovs, from the time of Peter the Great in the early 18th century to that of Nicholas II in the early 20th century. Many of the 230 objects in the exhibition were designed for public or private use, including porcelain, glass, enamel, silver gilt and other alluring materials. There will be a special children's area in the West Gallery to teach them about the exhibit. Exhibit opens on March 27th, on view through May 24th. Use your WOO Card to save $1 off museum admission.
Student Art Show
Worcester State University Visual & Performing Arts Department, 486 Chandler Street, Worcester, will host a Student Art Show, showcasing unique pieces of artwork from the last two years in the Dolphin Gallery. Admission is FREE. On view through Thursday, March 13th. Use your WOO Card to swipe for Double WOO points.
More on View...
10th Annual College Show exhibition at ArtsWorcester Aurora Gallery Thursdays - Saturdays through March 15th. Free admission. Get details here.
Dynamic Carnavale! exhibition at Worcester Center for Crafts daily through March 16th. Free admission. Get details here.
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Talking the Talk | |
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 Unsung Hero of AbolitionJoin the Worcester Historical Museum, 30 Elm Street, Worcester, on Thursday, March 27th at 7 p.m. for a dynamic lecture and discussion, Abby Kelley Foster: The Unsung Hero of Abolition. A proponent of women's rights and radical social reformer, Abby Kelley Foster, was also a staunch abolitionist and heavily active in the movement between the 1830s through the 1870s. She was fundraiser, lecturer and committee organizer for the influential American Anti-Slavery Society, where she worked closely with William Lloyd Garrison and other radicals. This lecture is part of a larger series called Abby Goes Digital to announce newly digitized letters of Foster in the collections of the American Antiquarian Society and Worcester Historical Museum. Use your WOO Card to enjoy Buy-One-Get-One-Free adult admission.Of Canvas and Camera As part of its ongoing WAM Talk series, the Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury Street, Worcester, will host WSU Professor Donald Bullens for a discussion of Canvas and Camera: Common Ground in Painting and Photography on Wednesday, March 12th at 12 noon. Talk will be held in the Art since the mid 20th Century Gallery. Free with museum admission. Use your WOO Card to enjoy BOGO adult admission.
Suffragists, Teetotalers and Abolitionists
The American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, invites you to explore the wide array of social reform movements that were so integral to 19th century society on Saturday, March 29th with a special workshop, Suffragists, Teetotalers & Abolitionists: Social Reform in the 19th Century. Workshop will focus on temperance, abolition and women's rights. Registration available online. Use your WOO Card to swipe for 3 WOO points.
Visiting Artist Lecture Series featuring Garth Evans at Worcester Art Museum, Wednesday, March 19th at 6 p.m. Get details here Secrets & Stories of the Oread Castle and the life of Eli Thayer at Worcester Historical Museum, on Sunday, March 16th at 3 p.m. Get details here
The Worcester Revolution of 1774 at Worcester Historical Museum on Thursday, March 13th at 7 p.m. Get details here |
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Masters in Music | |
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 Café Concert 3Still not sure chamber music is for you? Try experiencing it in an informal, fun, café setting when the acclaimed Worcester Chamber Music Society performs its Café Concert 3 at Nuovo Restaurant, 92 Shrewsbury Street, Worcester, on Thursday, March 13th. Relax with a glass of beer or wine, enhance your experience with a delicious buffet dinner before the show. A group with imagination, style and chops performing classic chamber music masterpieces throughout the in Worcester area, paired with 2013 Best Restaurant Award winner! Reserve tickets online or by calling 508-217-4450. Use your WOO Card to swipe for Double WOO points. Sinfonietta Don't miss the Joy of Music Program's Sinfonietta Concert on Monday, March 10th at 7:15 p.m. at Recital Hall, 1 Gorham Street, Worcester. The JOMP Youth Sinfonietta, an ensemble for strings and winds directed by Ralph Metcalf, will perform works by Haydn, Offenbach, Strauss and Bizet. Admission is FREE. Use your WOO Card to swipe for Double WOO points.
East Coast Chamber Orchestra
Music Worcester, Inc. hosts the exuberant East Coast Chamber Orchestra at Tuckerman Hall, 10 Tuckerman Street, Worcester, on Saturday, March 15th at 8 p.m. This self-conducted orchestra thrives on the pure joy and camaraderie of classical music making, The program for this, their Worcester debut, demonstrates its efforts to define the future of orchestras - performing a mix of great works by composers know and unknown, classical and non-classical. Tickets available online. Use your WOO Card to save 10% of two adult tickets and swipe for WOO points.
Award winning pianist Vladimir Odinokikh, a faculty member of Pakachoag Music School of Greater Worcester, will perform some of his favority selections by Chopin at All Saints Church, 10 Irving Street, Worcester, on Saturday, March 29th at 3:30 p.m. Selections for the program will span Chopin's career as composer and pianist, including works first played by Odinokikh as a gifted child, to the very challenging Sonata in B minor learned as a teen and last performed by him as a conservatory student in Moscow. Admission is FREE. Use your WOO Card to swipe for WOO points.
Open Mic Night at Nu Café, 335 Chandler Street, Worcester, ongoing Friday evenings, 6:30 - 9 p.m. Open to musicians, poets, comedians and more. Get details here. Spring 2014 Brown Bag Concert Series, Thursdays at Mechanics Hall, March 12th through April 2nd. Free admssion. Get details here
Constantine Finehouse in Concert at the Museum of Russian Icons, 203 Union Street, Clinton, on Saturday, March 15th at 4 p.m. Get details here.
Music Worcester hosts the Worcester Symphonic Project grand concert at Mechanics Hall, Saturday, March 22nd at 3 p.m. Get details here. |
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 Mamma Mia!A mother, a daughter, three possible dads and a trip down the aisle you'll never forget - Mama Mia, on stage at The Hanover Theatre, 2 Southbridge Street, Worcester, March 11th - 13th. Set to the story-telling magic of ABBA's timeless love songs, grab your fellow dancing queens and get ready for the time of your life! Tickets available online or by calling the box office at 877 571-SHOW. Use your WOO Card to save 10% off tickets.
The Drama of the Dram
Don't miss professional actors reading selections from the nineteenth-century melodrama The Drunkard at The Hanover Theatre, Tuesday, March 25th at 5:30 p.m. The reading will be interspersed with discussions about the play's importance in American culture and attitudes about substance abuse past and present. General admission $10 tickets. Use your WOO Card to swipe at the box office for Double WOO points.K.I.S.S.I.N.G. Set in a socioeconomically diverse city, K.I.S.S.I.N.G., a new play by Lenelle Moise and directed by Dan Balel, follows several young adults as they try to make sense of their economic inheritances, spiritual traditions and emotional baggage. On stage at Clark University's Little Center, 950 Main Street, Worcester, March 19th - 23rd. Admission just $5. Use your WOO Card to swipe for Double WOO points. |
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Can't Miss Fun! | |
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 Meet the Vendors DayEver wonder who painted that fabulous piece of shabby furniture or designed that funky jewelry or any of the other countless, unique finds at Crompton Collective, 138 Green Street, Worcester? Don't miss their Meet the Vendors Day on Sunday, March 23rd from 12 noon - 5 p.m. for a chance to meet the makers and talented vendors! Admission is free. Use your WOO Card to swipe for WOO points and get a free usable tote with any purchase.
Friday Morning Birds
Spring MUST be coming soon...
MA Audubon Broad Meadow Brook, 414 Massasoit Avenue, Worcester, is hosting its first Friday Morning Birdwalk of the year on Friday, March 7th at 7 a.m. Enjoy a leisurely birding experience and help document sanctuary birds over the season. Birders of all levels invited. Explore a different corner of the sanctuary each week. Additional info available online or by calling 508 753-6087. Use your WOO Card to swipe for WOO points.
Flamenco Wine Dinner
Join Bocado Tapas & Wine Bar, 82 Winter Street, Worcester, on Friday, March 21st, 9 p.m. - midnight for an evening of live authentic flamenco music and dance featuring Anthony 'Tiriti' Tran and Jaime 'La Damasquina' Belsito, paired with a dinner including Chef's Featured Experience, wine and sangria. $60 per person. Call 508 797-1011 to rsvsp. Use your WOO Card to swipe for WOO points.
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SAVE THE DATE!
VegFest
Sunday, April 6, 2014
11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
DCU Center, Worcester
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Win with WOO
Reach the following WOO Point thresholds this month and here's what you'll win:
10 WOO Points
A fabulous, reusable
WOO tote bag!
25 WOO Points
Voucher to shop at
CC Lowell Art Supply,
258 Park Avenue, Worcester, supplying the Worcester area with thousands of necessities for the creative as well as fun gifts, stationary, decorative paper and more!
50 WOO Points
Admission for Two to the
Worcester Historical Museum,
30 Elm Street, Worcester, dedicated to collecting, preserving and interpreting Worcester's history in all time periods and subjects.
100 WOO points
Two Tickets to an upcoming show at The Hanover Theatre, 2 Southbridge Street, Worcester, offering Broadway, music and more at one of the top theatres in the world right in downtown Worcester!
Click HERE for more info about WOO points |
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Prize-a-palooza!
Simply use your WOO Card this month to be eligible to win the following:
Win a Mass Audubon Family Membership ($65 value!) offering you complimentary admission to a spectacular statewide network of wildlife sanctuaries including Broad Meadow Brook (Worcester) and Wachusett Meadow (Princeton), with hundreds of miles of trails and beautiful landscapes to explore!
Win a pair of tickets to Opening Night of Worcester County Light Opera Company's production of The Rocky Horror Show, running April 25th - May 11th at the Grandview Playhouse! Let's do the time warp again!
Win tickets to an upcoming Worcester Bravehearts baseball game and a team baseball cap! The newest member of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League brings baseball back to Worcester with its season home opener on Thursday, June 5th at Hanover Insurance Park at Fitton Field!
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Where Will You WOO? | |
Museums & Libraries
American Antiquarian Society
EcoTarium
Museum of Russian Icons
Old Sturbridge Village
Tower Hill Botanic
Garden
Worcester Art Museum
Worcester Historical Museum
Worcester Public Library
Active Sports & Outdoors
Massachusetts Audubon Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary
Massachusetts Audubon Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary
Wachusett Mountain Fall Festivals
Worcester Bravehearts
Worcester Sharks
Galleries & Special Events
Artist Group of The Sprinkler Factory
ArtsWorcester
Gallery of African Art
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery
stART on the Street
Worcester Arts Council
Worcester Center for Crafts
Worcester Film Works
Music, Theater & Performances
DCU Center
Hanover Theatre
for the Performing Arts
Joy of Music Program
Master Singers of Worcester
Mechanics Hall
Music Worcester
Opera Worcester
Pakachoag Music School of Greater Worcester
Paulie's New Orleans Jazz & Blues Festival
Salisbury Singers
Seven Hills Symphony Orchestra
Traina Center/Clark Arts
Worcester Chamber Music Society
Worcester County Light Opera Company
Worcester Music Academy
Worcester State University Visual & Performing Arts
Quick Bites
CocoBeni Confections
Eric's LaPatisserie
Nu Cafe
Wooberry Frozen Yogurt
Yowza Yogurt Paradise
Restaurants
Bocado Tapas & Wine Bar
NEW!
Caffe Espresso Trattoria
Ceres Bistro
Flying Rhino Cafe & Watering Hole
Mezcal Cantina
Nancy Chang Restaurant
Nuovo Restaurant
Oliver Wight Tavern
People's Kitchen of The Citizen
Peppercorns Grille & Tavern
Theatre Cafe
Retailers
Button Tree Kids
C.C. Lowell
Craftworks
Crompton Collective
Habitat for Humanity Restore Worcester
Julio's Liquors
Knitscape
Transportation Services
All Points Limousine
Knight's Airport Limousine
Worcester Airport Limousine
Accommodations
Beechwood Hotel
Courtyard by Marriott
Worcester
Hilton Garden Inn Worcester
Holiday Inn Express Auburn
Holiday Inn Express Worcester
Residence Inn by Marriott Worcester
Click HERE to see the specific WOO discounts available when using your WOO Card at participating
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Wow WOO Packages | |
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Among the many benefits of being a WOO Card subscriber is access to unique Wow WOO packages that not only give you a fantastic cultural experience, but save you money too!
Click HERE for details on our latest WOO Packages |
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Refer a friend... and win! | |
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Love your WOO Card?
Of course you do!
Why not share your love of supporting local arts & cultural organizations, local restaurants, local retailers and more with family and friends? Refer a Friend to buy a WOO Card during the month of March. For every referral we receive, you'll be entered into a drawing to win a Gift Card from Niche Hospitality - to be used at Bocado Tapas & Wine Bar, Mezcal Cantina or The People's Kitchen of the Citizen! The more referrals you make, the more chances you have to win! How it works: Tell your friends to use coupon code FRIEND* at checkout to save themselves $5 off online purchase of a WOO Card. Then have them note your name when asked how they found our site. Individual with most referrals at end of month will win!
* Coupon code valid for online WOO Card purchases only.
Thru 3/31/13
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Visit the Worcester Cultural Coalition's online calendar often for more information about these and many, many other opportunities to use your WOO Card! Look for the  for special WOO discounts and where to swipe for valuable WOO points! |
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