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Jane Week 2025

During the week of May 5th-9th, 2025, Jane Week, named for Jane Jacobs, an urban theorist and activist who championed a community-based approach to city building, gives Worcester residents and visitors a chance to connect to each other, explore Worcester by foot and participate in interesting discussions on how we can enhance the design and function of our city. All tours are free and open to the public. 

MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival 2025

ONE WORLD - ONE WEEK - ONE FESTIVAL

The Park View Room

Friday 9/26 at 7pm, Saturday 9/27 at 7pm, Sunday 9/28 at 4pm

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Rural Remains

Worcester’s History 6 Feet Deep

Friday, October 17 and Friday, October 24, 2025

Rural Remains Inside: October 29

Join us on this popular flashlight guided tour of Rural Cemetery where you will interact with the lively spirits of prominent Worcesterites now interred there. Groups will be led through Rural Cemetery by volunteers who will share fun facts about the cemetery, and the people that buried there.

15 minute tours between 5:45pm and 7:30pm

Registration will open in September

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ABOUT

Preservation Worcester is a historic preservation
non-profit, founded in 1969; that works towards maintaining significant sights and structures in the city of Worcester. 

“Funding from Mass Humanities has been provided through the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020.”

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61 Harvard Street
Worcester, MA 01609

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