Richard Duckett

2 weeks ago | worcestermag.com | Meg Trogolo |Richard Duckett

Fit for an empress at Tower Hill"Chinese Empresses" by artist Xiang Li is a collection of artwork depicting more than 200 empresses intricately hand-painted on silk using traditional Chinese gemstone watercolor techniques. The full collection will be on display for the first time from June 14 to Aug. 24 at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill in Boylston.

2 weeks ago | telegram.com | Richard Duckett

WORCESTER — "Poems in and out of Places" will be shared at 6 p.m. June 17 at the Museum of Worcester, 30 Elm St. in a program that is part of the museum's current "The Poem Next Door" exhibition. In 2023 a "Poems in and out of Places" contest sponsored by Mapping Worcester in Poetry drew about 100 entries from poets in Worcester County. The contest invited people to write about the city's public spaces and was judged by Worcester Poet Laureate Oliver de la Paz.

2 weeks ago | worcestermag.com | Richard Duckett

Holdin' Back: The '60s is back with shows at local bandstands and festival this summer. The veteran band focuses on British and American song classics from the 1960s. Holdin' Back's schedule includes Aug. 21 at the Francis R. Carroll Plaza outside The Hanover Theatre. There was little holding back the band Holdin' Back: The '60s from local outdoor bandstands and festivals last summer, except for the weather. "Although the region was in a drought last summer, we had seven rainouts.

3 weeks ago | telegram.com | Richard Duckett

Kathleen M. Gagne is retiring as executive director of Mechanics Hall on June 30. Gagne has worked at Mechanics Hall since 1994, beginning as publicist. A concert in her honor to benefit the hall and its youth singers, "Encore," will be on June 13. WORCESTER — When Kathleen M. Gagne walked into Mechanics Hall in 1994, she was something of an outsider. "I was not from Worcester and I did not know really about Mechanics Hall," Gagne said.

3 weeks ago | telegram.com | Richard Duckett |Meg Trogolo

Lots of joy in Worcester"Casey at the Bat," the world's most famous baseball poem and a Worcester original, has a melodic twist on June 7 at the Museum of Worcester. Get there by 1 p.m. to see a performance of local composer and playwright Stephen Murray's mini opera adaptation, which expands the story to include the umpire, our unlucky hero's wife and the crowd of Mudville baseball fans. Admission to both the performance and the museum will be free.