Street Painting Festival

Music! Dance! Street performers! Hands-on fun! Great food!
Amazing artwork created before your eyes!
Street Painting workshops at the Worcester Art Museum. Sign up now
You can Sponsor an emerging Picasso or festival masterpiece
Watch master street painter Tracy Lee Stum

Dog critter painting with palette and brush

Come Play With Us

Not your average New Year's Eve...everyone can get into the act!
Watch art created beneath your feet at the Street Painting Festival
Try new video games created by local cyber-savvy college students
Think you can sing? Grab the mic and be a Karaoke star
Great performances, too! Rock to Bach, Comedy, Extreme Trampolines!

Support Counts

First Night is a private non-profit organization that raises 100% of the funds for the event, to pay artists and provide educational programming
Be a sponsor....Fund a youth program....Give a donation
Buy a First Night button....Become a volunteer!

Idol Competition

All Central Mass High Schools invited - Get your high school involved
Register for the Central Mass Idol Competition
Guidelines and questions at info@centralmassidol@gmail.com
Public welcome to vote for the next Central Mass Idol
Competition at Mechanics Hall on December 9, 2010

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First Night Worcester 2011

Always inventive, definitely the most fun you could have on New Year's Eve, First Night Worcester invites audiences of every age and interest to Come Play With Us. From early in the day to the strike of midnight, get ready to experience the best of it all.

Watch art evolve before your eyes at the Street Painting Festival, try out a new video or virtual game compliments of those brainy WPI students, catch the amazing stunts by Olympic trampoline wannabes, laugh your way through Improv comedy mayhem, or sit back and take in the best music and entertainment.