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Museum of Work & Culture Preservation Foundation to How Virtual Halloween Fundraising Bash

 

WOONSOCKET, R.I. – The Museum of Work & Culture Preservation Foundation will host an All Hallows’s Revel: A Halloween Virtual Fundraising Bash on Saturday, October 24 at 6pm on Zoom.

 

The event promises to be an evening of strange spectacles, featuring a Revel from 6-8pm, as well as an afterparty from 8-10pm. Entertainment will include a presentation and Q&A with paranormal investigator Paul Eno, a complete tour of this year's Roger William's Park's Jack-o-Lantern Spectacular, musical performances by Beardogz, a costume contest with a surprise celebrity judge, and much much more! The Afterparty will also feature tarot reader David Erwin and other surprise entertainment.

 

Trickster tickets are $20 and include a Zoom invitation to the revel and a pre-emailed party packet with recipes, games, printout props and more. Treaters tickets are $40 and include the Trickster package plus the afterparty and a cauldron of bites and brews, featuring a cocktail, charcuterie and cheese for two to be picked curbside at the Museum.

 

All guests may also request private Zoom breakout rooms for themselves and their friends so they can enjoy the evening's program together while socially distancing.

 

Tickets are available now at mowcfoundation.org and any questions about the event can be emailed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

 

This event is generously sponsored by Paul & Denise Bourget, Navigant Credit Union, Brickle Group/Heat Smart, Lepine Financial Advisors, and Kay's Restaurant; as well as Fournier & Fournier Funeral Home, Woonsocket City Council President Dan, Ann Marie & Victoria Gendron, David & Anne-Marie Fontaine, Woonsocket Councilman David Soucy, Peter & Anne Conway, dpArchitect and an anonymous donor.

 

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