Community Corner
GET OUT: Ghoulish Tours, Mini-Memoirs, Cookie Sales
Whether feeling intellectual, adventurous or hungry, Seekonk Patch has your weekend agenda covered.
Starting tonight, you can share your writerly wit, walk to beat cancer and support local music programs.
Micro-Memoir Workshop at the Aethenaeum
Where/When: The Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit St., Providence, R.I. - from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 31.
Why Go: You can finally read aloud the poetry you write alone at night. Facilitators will give a prompt, writers will craft short (and I mean short) 200 to 500-word memoirs - and then recite their mini-masterpieces to fellow participants.
Pricing: Free, excluding the guts required to read aloud.
Ghost Tours of Newport's Belcourt Castle
Where/When: on Friday, Apr. 1 and Saturday, Apr. 2 at 5:30 p.m.
Why Go: Need a good scare? Ms. Tinney, owner of Belcourt Castle offers tours of mansion. She claims to see a man walking around in her dining room and ghouls flying around the attic.
Pricing: $25 adults; $15 seniors/children; Advanced reservations suggested.
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Girl Scout Cookie Sale
Where/When: The Seekonk Public Library - Saturday, April 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Why Go: Bathing suit season is still months away. This is the chance to stock up on all the boxes of Samoas you've been dreaming about.
Pricing: Free, excluding prices of cookies.
Where/When: Lucky's Bar and Grille, 1175 Warren Ave. in East Providence - Saturday, April 2, from 2 to 6 p.m.
Why Go: The Avon Walk for Breast Cancer gives you a chance to shed some calories and fight a disease that affects one out of every eight American women.
Pricing: $25 per ticket which which live music, silent auction, raffles and door prizes.
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Where/When: Bell Street Chapel on Broadway in Providence, R.I. - Sunday, April 3, at 3 p.m.
Why Go: Craving some classical? Featured musicians will be Jesse Holstein on violin, Heath Marlow on cello, and Jeff Louie on piano, performing works by Franz Schubert. Donations will help provide opportunities for Community MusicWorks students to attend summer music camps.
Pricing: $25 per ticket which which live music, silent auction, raffles and door prizes.
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