Catch Festival of Lights With Your WOO Card
Thursday, December 05, 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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Friday, December 6th
Festival of Lights at Worcester Common
455 Main Street, Worcester
Swipe your WOO Card at the Skate Shack for WOO points
Worcester's Annual Festival of Lights! Festivities will include live choral performances by the Seven Hills Public Charter School Chorus, Worcester Arts Magnet Chorus and Burncoat High School Quadrivium, leading up to the arrival everybody's favorite elf himself, Santa Claus for the lighting of the holiday tree! Following the lighting the Worcester Common Oval will open for public ice skating and horse drawn wagon rides around the Common will be available. (In the event of rain, skating and wagon rides will be cancelled but the choral performances and visits with Santa will move indoors to City Hall.)
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Saturday, December 7th
Northborough Holiday Trolley at Coco Beni Confections
247A West Main Street, Northborough
Buy 5 cupcakes get 6th free with your WOO Card! Make any purchase get a WOO Card for just $10 more!
All aboard! Hope aborad the Northborough Holiday Trolly following the town tree lighting! Festive fun include great decorations, caroling, crafts, music, food and more!
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Friday, December 6th – Sunday, December 8th
Open Studio at Fireworks Gallery
38 Harlow Street, Worcester
Swipe your WOO Card for Double WOO points
11th Annual Holiday Open House! Happens only once a year so don’t miss out on your chance to talk with the artists and bring home some unique handmade-in-Worcester gifts for the holidays!
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Fridays, December 6th – 27th
Candlelit Tours of Salisbury Mansion
40 Highland Street, Worcester
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Worcester Historical Museum invites you Home for the Holidays with special evening tours of Salisbury Mansion by candlelight. Lavishly decorated for the holiday season, guests will be inspired and awed by Salisbury Mansion's unique period rooms decorated by area florists and garden club members. Bring the family for an evening you won't forget as you learn about the history of the Salisbury Family and life in Victorian New England.
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Sunday, December 8th
stART at the Station at Union Station
2 Washington Square, Worcester
Swipe your WOO Card at the WOO table for WOO points
Annual holiday- and gifting-themed event featuring 100+ local artists and crafters at beautiful Union Station. Join us 9:30a - 11a for a special preview - $10 gets you shopping with lighter crowds and a complimentary cup of coffee. After 11a, admission is free to the public.
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Weekends in Worcester…www.WorcesterMass.org/Culture
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Bright Nights
Head out to Springfield this week to visit Bright Lights! This is one of the Northeast’s premiere lights displays, and is perfect for a chilly December evening. This is a drive-along route of over three miles of beautiful holiday lighting displays. There is even musical accompaniment via a radio simulcast on 98.5 FM to enhance your holiday experience!
302 Sumner Avenue, Springfield, MA.
Photo: Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism/Flickr
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Newport Mansion Christmas
Enjoy a Rhode Island holiday tradition at the Newport Mansions! Visitors to the event will tour three beautiful mansions—The Breakers, The Elms and Marble House, decked out to the nines in holiday lights and spirit. There are a total of 28 lighted Christmas trees; beautifully crafted gingerbread models of the mansions and so much more to be seen!
Click here or call 401-847-1000 for more info.
Photo: Robyn2175/Flickr
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La Salette Shrine
La Salette Shrine in Attleborough, MA is a close to home favorite for MA and RI families alike. The grounds glisten with sparkle of over 300,000 gorgeous lights. As this is the 60-year anniversary of the shrine, they are going all out for this Christmas season. Make sure to visit the illuminated walkway on the pond—it is striking. This event is free to all.
947 Park Street, Attleborough, MA.
Photo: Šarūnas Burdulis/Flickr
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Marblehead Christmas Walk
From December 5-8, visit the quaint New England town of Marblehead, MA for a great Christmas stroll. Although celebrations will be happening all weekend, the big event is Friday night tree lighting at 7pm. On Saturday, there will be a Christmas walk parade featuring all the sights and sounds of Christmastime in this seaside village. Santa will be arriving by lobster boat Saturday morning at 9:30am!
Click here for more!
Photo: sunchild123/Flickr
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Zoolights
Head to the zoo for some holiday magic! Stone Zoo in Stoneham, MA is hosting Zoolights, a great holiday excursion for people of all ages! This huge holiday lights display incorporates dazzling lights into every part of the zoo. If you have little ones, make sure they get a visit with Santa and the Zoo’s resident reindeer!
149 Pond Street, Stoneham, MA. (781) 438-5100.
Photo: Mark Dumont/Flickr
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Festival of Lights
Edaville USA is a family favorite year-round, but this amusement park brings something extra special to the table during the holidays. Join Edaville for their annual Festival of Lights, all viewed from coach trains! This year’s festivities feature thousands of lights displays, holiday themed treats, vintage amusement rides, Santa and more!
5 Pine Street, Carver, MA. (508) 866-8190.
Photo: Eric Kilby/Flickr
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Gardens Aglow
Known in the summertime for its sprawling botanical gardens and horticulture displays, Heritage Museums & Gardens in Sandwich, MA is also a do-not-miss this holiday season. The grounds will be embellished with 117,400 beautiful lights that will brighten the holiday season! Aside from viewing the lights, visitors are also invited to attend mini-workshops that will teach them to fashion great holiday decorations, like handmade topiary wreaths!
67 Grove Street, Sandwich, MA. (508) 888-3300.
Photo: KWDesigns/Flickr
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Holly Days
Take the family on a close to home trip to Holly Days at the Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, MA! This year, the theme of this huge lights display is “Woodland Magic.” There will be thousands of twinkling lights adorning the grounds, as well as whimsical, woodland-themed decorations with a natural touch. If you head over on a Wednesday or Thursday evening, make sure to come hungry. There will be “Food & Fire,” featuring comfort foods that will warm you up after a chilly walk!
11 French Drive, Boylston, MA. (508) 869-6111.
Photo: Tori Siegel/Flickr
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Holiday Light Fantasia
Take a trip to nearby Connecticut to enjoy Holiday Light Fantasia. This is a two-mile light show featuring over 1,000,000—yes, one MILLION—sparkling lights dedicated to celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, New Years, and Three Kings Day . There are animated scenes, tributes to favorite family characters, and so much more.
1130 Maple Avenue, Hartford, CT. Click here for more.
Photo: Ben Pollard/Flickr
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Winterfest
The Connecticut Trolley Museum will come to life this holiday season for their annual WinterFest and the Tunnel of Lights. This great event has become a family tradition throughout southern New England and beyond. Visitors will enjoy a trolley ride on a closed car or electric sleigh through the Tunnel of Lights, while singing traditional carols. The Visitor’s Center will have plenty of hot cocoa and entertainment!
58 North Road, East Windsor, CT. Click here for more.
Photo: mrhayata/Flickr