Worcester Public Library

Buildwave | A hands-on family building game!

Want to foster your child's interest in STEM, while igniting their creative spark at the same time? Buildwave is a creative building program that feels like a video game! Over the course of the workshop families create with over a dozen different building materials, including Lego®, PlusPlus®, and custom-made Buildwave […]

City Hall

Working for Worcester Year 11 Build Day

Working for Worcester is a dynamic student-run nonprofit organization that has been making a positive impact on the city of Worcester for over a decade. Our mission is to create safe and accessible recreational infrastructure for the kids of Worcester.  Each year, we host our highly anticipated Build Day event, […]

Mechanics Hall

Worcester Chamber Music Society: Swept Away – Mechanics Hall

Swept Away Sunday, April 23 | Mechanics Hall, Worcester @4 PM in-person and virtual options Evoking wind, mystery, and movement, with liquid lines by both harp and piano, works by Takemitsu, Caplet, and Fauré, will sweep you away at our last Main Stage concert of the season. Program Toru Takemitsu And […]

The Hanover Theatre & Conservatory for the Performing Arts

Neil Berg’s The 60’s Peace, Love, and Rock N’ Roll

GROUNDBREAKING MUSIC AND TRIBUTES Neil Berg’s latest celebration of the greatest moments of rock and roll history combines behind-the-scenes stories of what actually took place at Woodstock, while presenting the legendary iconic music with the finest Broadway/Rock stars and musicians in the country! Including the music of Jimi Hendrix, Janis […]

Worcester Public Library

Earth Day Flower Arranging

Learn about flower arranging with Sally Jablonski, Herbert E. Berg Florist and award winning designer. For ages 18 & older. 

JMAC PopUp

“A Walk in the Woo” – Worcester’s 2022 Rain Poets Read

The Worcester County Poetry Association is pleased to organize this reading of Worcester's 2022 Rain Poets. For two years now, the WCPA has selected the poems of thirteen different Worcester-area poets to paint around the city using hydrophobic paint - that's right, these poems only show up when the concrete […]

Worcester Public Library

Poetry in Action: with Special Guest Worcester Youth Poet Laureate Adael Mejia

Join us to celebrate and experience the joy of poetry featuring Worcester’s Youth Poet Adael Mejia. In honor of National Poetry Month and National Library Week. Free Mini Notebooks for participants while supplies last. Recommended for ages 7-11.

Worcester Public Library

Great American Read Book Club (April)

Join us to discuss some of the most popular novels in the United States! 3/22: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 4/26: The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks 5/24: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte   First Floor Reading Room

Worcester Public Library

Endometriosis and PMDD Awareness with Clark University’s Menstrual Equity Alliance

April is PMDD awareness month and to raise awareness for this disease, join Clark University's student run and led club: Menstrual Equity Alliance for a night of conversation and education! We will be discussing endometriosis, PMDD or premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and PCOS or polycystic ovary syndrome and other chronic pain […]

Worcester Public Library - Friends Bookstore

Friends Spring Book Sale

The Ann Spitaels Friends Book Sale Friday, April 28 & Saturday, April 29 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Prices from $0.50 to $2.00 on a huge selection of books and more for kids and adults. $2.00 bagful of books from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 29th. Fiction, […]

First Unitarian Church

Halalisa Singers Perform Concert for the Earth

 Boston-based world music vocal ensemble Halalisa Singers presents “Concert for the Earth,” a performance honoring Earth Day, featuring the “Missa Gaia (Earth Mass),” on Saturday, April 29, 8 pm, at First Unitarian Church, 90 Main Street, Worcester, and Sunday, April 30, 4 pm, at First Parish of Arlington, 630 Massachusetts […]

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