Daylily show, WWE, Otter breakfast: 5 fun things this weekend

It’s a heat wave, but the events are hot, too. The Worcester Guardian highlights some events you may want to consider attending over the weekend. Five, to be exact.

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Charlene Arsenault

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Here are five picks of things to do in Worcester this weekend:

  1. Connecting at the Village: Haven’t been to a Village Marketplace event yet? Try it out. The next one takes place on Saturday, July 13, from noon to 5 p.m. at 4 King St., Worcester. This market includes vendors, artists, creators and more. And, “the vibe is always right.” Village Worcester is an Afrocentric cultural, learning and healing center that builds grassroots power by connecting BIPOC groups, healers, and individuals whose work is rooted in racial justice, learning, creativity, community and healing.
  2. WWE SmackDown returns: Who would have thought it? Decades later and WWE is just as popular as ever. The big SmackDown event is coming back to Worcester on Friday, July 12, at the DCU Center. Superstars in the ring this time include undisputed WWE champion ‘The American Nightmare’ Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton, WWE women’s champion Bayley, LA Knight, WWE women’s tag team champions Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill and Solo Sikoa.
  3. Salsa is social, and this is a salsa social: Join Laura Leones of Fiesta Dance Company of Westborough on Friday, July 12, for a salsa social at Mechanics Hall. Leones gives instruction in salsa and bachata from 7-8 p.m. and then the dance floor of the gorgeous Great Hall opens for the dance from 8-11 p.m. Cash bar!
  4. You otter start the day with a good breakfast: Tired of having breakfast with … other people? The EcoTarium’s hosting a breakfast with its resident otters on Saturday, July 13, from 9-10 a.m. Tickets are $60, and that includes breakfast, a zookeeper chat, up-close otter feeding, and admission to the museum for the entire day.
  5. New England DayLily Society show and sale: These flower shows at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston are always stunning, and a wonderful way to spend an afternoon. This one’s no exception. Daylilies are known for explosive, short-lived displays. While they add pops of color to New England gardens around mid-July, each individual bloom only lasts for about 24 hours. That’s one thing that makes the New England Daylily Society Show & Sale so exciting. Garden visitors can count on finding an extraordinary array of daylilies that highlight a wide variety of size, forms, colors, and patterns on Saturday, July 13, from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m..

Have an event, news tip, information, joke, favorite recipe or anything else you’d like to tell us about? You should. Contact carsenault@theworcesterguardian.org

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