Yule for Fuel

Yule for Fuel returns this December with your favorite Cape Cod performers, writers, and musicians in an evening of music, merriment, and mirth, all in support of Lower Cape Outreach Council’s Fuel Assistance Program.  Hosted by Stephen Russell.

December 13 and 20, 2025 at 7:00 pm

Tickets

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Sundays: Zumba with Alissa - 9:00 am

Tuesdays: Yoga with Jen Shannon - 9:00 am

Wednesdays: Zumba with Erin - 8:00 am

Fridays - Yoga with Jen Shannon - 9:00 am

To confirm class schedule, more details, pricing, and contact info, visit HERE

Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Visit HERE for the most up-to-date weekly class schedule.

Free for residents/taxpayers, $5 for non-residents. A hold harmless form must be on file.

More information and full schedule: www.wellfleetcoa.org • 508-349-2800

Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay

There’s a lot happening at Mass Audubon this month! Please visit HERE for the complete schedule of the many events and programs offered at Wellfleet Bay this week.

December Highlights:

Sea Turtle Patrol • Early Bird Walk • In Search of Winter Waterfowl • Owl Prowl • Fish Feeding Fun • Nature Play Group • Children's Storytime • Full Moon Exploration • Still Life Studio • Exploring Coastal Cape Cod - Great Island

www.massaudubon.org

Wellfleet Public Library

Step into the holiday spirit with a festive afternoon of soap-making at the library!

Space is limited in this workshop, and pre-registration is required - please call (508) 349-0310 or stop by the circulation desk to sign up!

Wellfleet Public Library

Come join us and let's talk about our hopes, fears, dreams, frustrations, aging... and all that's on our minds and matters to us as women.

Because women wanna talk (and keep it real)! An inclusive group for Wellfleet residents co-led by Linda Schwarz and Beryl Meyer. Light refreshment and laughter included.

Space is limited. Email racine.oxtoby@wellfleet-ma.gov to check availability.

Wellfleet Public Library

CRIBBAGE NIGHTS 6:30 PM-8:00 PM

MONDAY DECEMBER 15

MONDAY DECEMBER 29

MONDAY JANUARY 12

MONDAY JANUARY 26

WELLFLEET PUBLIC LIBRARY, 55 WEST MAIN STREET, (508) 349-0310

Wellfleet Public Library

Women's Grief Group

A Space for Women to Connect Through Loss Sharing Kindness is offering a clinician-led peer grief support group where women of any age can meet, share their feelings and connect through the experience of loss.

Tuesdays 6:00 PM-7:30 PM

October 21, November 4, 18, December 2, 16, January 6, 2026

If you are interested in joining our Women's Grief Group, please submit the registration form and demographic survey at www.sharingkindness.org/womens-grief-group/

Irish, Folk & Old Time Music with Denya Lavine, Tim Dicky & Friends

Tuesdays, December 16, & 30 : 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Mean Burgers - 842 RTE 6, Wellfleet

Questions: www.denya.us

Wellfleet Public Library

Plays are meant to be heard out loud, but unless you have tickets to the theater, how often do you have a chance to hear one? Join our play-reading group, where we will read classic to contemporary plays out loud to better appreciate the language and cadence of the written dialogue! This will be a great opportunity to discover plays you may not be familiar with, or rediscover old favorites seen (or heard) in a new light. Everyone is welcome to participate. Acting experience not required.

Hosted by Candace Perry and Racine Oxtoby.

PLAY: ALMOST, MAINE BY JOHN CARIANI

ACT ONE: WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3 @ 4:00 PM

ACT TWO: WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 17

4:00 PM

Wellfleet Public Library

FIRST PLACE PRIZE! SNACKS AND BEVERAGES PROVIDED BY THE

FRIENDS OF THE WELLFLEET PUBLIC LIBRARY!

FREE TO ENTER!

Wellfleet Public Library

Issues of race exist on Cape Cod as they do in the rest of the country. Ne gather in a collegial, supportive environment with Panchetc Peterson and others as tacilitators to read and discuss seminal books (Waking Up White, Under the Skin, Just Mercy, The Color of Law, The Warmth of Other Suns, among others and articles (Letter from a Birmingham Jail), to discuss current events, and to offer personal experiences in a wide-ranging discussion that goes where it will.

All are welcome!

Wellfleet Public Library

Join us in the Children's Room for the Holiday Free Book Table!

A new book for every child and teen!

Wrapping paper provided!

Wicked Oyster

Ella Mae Dixon will be performing at The Wicked Oyster this December!

At just 19 years old, Ella Mae made her New York City headlining debut to a sold-out crowd at Birdland Jazz Club. Since then, she has sold out concert Venus, has been a guest artist with the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra, and has headlined some of the most prestigious nightclubs in America and abroad! Limited tickets are available in the dining room, so guests are encouraged to book ahead by calling 508-349-3455. A $20 ticket price will be added to each seat reservation.

When: Friday, December 19th at 7:00PM

No ticketing website - just call for reservations and the ticket price will be added. 

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Actor Neil McGarry will be touring his award-winning, solo performance of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol for the twelfth year, touring across the U.S. in December 2025. Directed by Ross MacDonald, McGarry’s performance was named “Best Of Boston” by critic Jules Becker and won "Best Solo Performance” from the Independent Reviewers of New England in 2014.

Armed only with a bare stage, a few props, and Dickens’ glorious words, McGarry delivers the perennial holiday classic in a tour de force that has left audiences riveted from Boston to Prague. Joyous, captivating, and witty, A Christmas Carol is a fully staged, full-throated leap into Dickens’ most famous story, delivered with a simplicity that disarms and touches the heart.

Wellfleet Public Library

Join us in the Children's Room for the Holiday Free Book Table!

A new book for every child and teen!

Wrapping paper provided!

Wellfleet Public Library

WELLFLEET COMMUNITY FIBER ARTS SHOW

OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2025 - 5:00 PM-7:00 PM

ON DISPLAY: DECEMBER 7, 2025 - JANUARY 10, 2026

First Congregational Church of Wellfleet

Come share a song or a poem or come listen to your friends & neighbors.

Sign-up starts 1/2 an hour prior to event

Light refreshments provided

First Congregational Church of Wellfleet

Come share a song or a poem or come listen to your friends & neighbors.

Sign-up starts 1/2 an hour prior to event

Light refreshments provided

Wicked Oyster

Ella Mae Dixon will be performing at The Wicked Oyster this December!

At just 19 years old, Ella Mae made her New York City headlining debut to a sold-out crowd at Birdland Jazz Club. Since then, she has sold out concert Venus, has been a guest artist with the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra, and has headlined some of the most prestigious nightclubs in America and abroad! Limited tickets are available in the dining room, so guests are encouraged to book ahead by calling 508-349-3455. A $20 ticket price will be added to each seat reservation.

When: Friday, December 19th at 7:00PM

No ticketing website - just call for reservations and the ticket price will be added. 

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

The best of British theatre, captured live and shown on screen at WHAT

Hamlet

TICKETS

Wellfleet Public Library

Join us in the Children's Room for the Holiday Free Book Table!

A new book for every child and teen!

Wrapping paper provided!

Wellfleet Public Library

Conversational French Club With Cecile Serrano

Looking for a fun way to improve or strengthen your conversational French? Maybe you want to learn a bit more about French culture? Or maybe you are looking for opportunities to socialize with other francophiles? Whatever your reason, our Conversational French Club is the perfect place for you! Led by Cecile Serrano, our Conversational French Club will meet twice a month. With your library card, you can gain access to free French-language movies on Kanopy, which we will use to inspire conversation.

We hope you will join us!

Cecile is a native from Toulouse in south France. She lived in Toulouse, Paris and Montpellier and has been in the US for 28 years. She lives year-round with her husband and two sons in Wellfleet, a town she loves very much!

Recommended for Intermediate-to-Expert French speakers.

1st and 3rd Saturday of the month

2:30 PM-4:00

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Join Eleanor Dubinsky and Dario Acosta Teich as they perform festive international favorites alongside music from their new album "Just the Three of Us".

When charismatic NYC-based duo Eleanor Dubinsky and Dario Acosta Teich perform together, they connect — to each other, to audiences, to diverse traditions that become surprisingly familiar, and to the deeper reaches of human emotion. Their joyful concerts of jazz, Latin, French and original songs invite audiences to travel the world while discovering underground tributaries that connect us in our shared human experience.

This holiday season Preservation Hall concert will include festive international favorites and highligh the release of Eleanor and Dario’s new album, Just The Three of Us.

More about Eleanor and Dario:

Eleanor is a St. Louis, MO-born vocalist and multi-instrumentalist with musical roots in classical cello. Dario is a virtuoso guitarist from Tucumán, Argentina, a South American center of folk music and indigenous culture. Their shared, ever-evolving creative paths have taken them to respected stages across five continents, including The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, Lincoln Center’s La Casita, Bebop Jazz in Buenos Aires, the Guggenheim Museum, City Winery NYC, Joe’s Pub and International Jazz Day in Luanda, Angola. Eleanor and Dario also serve as cultural ambassadors for the U.S. State Department, performing and leading educational programs for U.S. Embassies in Latin America and on the African continent.

Yule for Fuel

Yule for Fuel returns this December with your favorite Cape Cod performers, writers, and musicians in an evening of music, merriment, and mirth, all in support of Lower Cape Outreach Council’s Fuel Assistance Program.  Hosted by Stephen Russell.

December 13 and 20, 2025 at 7:00 pm

Tickets

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Sundays: Zumba with Alissa - 9:00 am

Tuesdays: Yoga with Jen Shannon - 9:00 am

Wednesdays: Zumba with Erin - 8:00 am

Fridays - Yoga with Jen Shannon - 9:00 am

To confirm class schedule, more details, pricing, and contact info, visit HERE

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

A Drop-in Donation Based Dance Class

Fleet Movement Explorations is a structured improvisational dance class in which we play spontaneously with forces, shapes, feelings, images, and ideas rather than with specific dance technique. Drop in donation basis.

The class is basically informal, challenging, and fun, and a good movement workout. All are welcome.

Required: contact Becky Burrill ( Rebecca.burrill@aol.com) to be added to the class email listserv for notifications about class.

First Congregational Church of Wellfleet

Blue Christmas

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21 - 5 PM

Are the holidays a difficult time?

Do you find yourself missing someone?

Grieving a loss? Not where you would hope to be?

If the jolly tunes of the season don't land easily on your ear, we invite you to join us for our Longest Night (Blue Christmas) service.

On the night of the Winter solstice - the longest night of the year-we gather for a time of prayer and reflection, as we move from darkness into light.

First Congregational Church, 200 MAIN STREET, WELLFLEET

wellfleetchurch.org

Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Visit HERE for the most up-to-date weekly class schedule.

Free for residents/taxpayers, $5 for non-residents. A hold harmless form must be on file.

More information and full schedule: www.wellfleetcoa.org • 508-349-2800

Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay

There’s a lot happening at Mass Audubon this month! Please visit HERE for the complete schedule of the many events and programs offered at Wellfleet Bay this week.

December Highlights:

Sea Turtle Patrol • Early Bird Walk • In Search of Winter Waterfowl • Owl Prowl • Fish Feeding Fun • Nature Play Group • Children's Storytime • Full Moon Exploration • Still Life Studio • Exploring Coastal Cape Cod - Great Island

www.massaudubon.org

Wellfleet Public Library

Kripalu Gentle Yoga

Tuesdays 4:00 PM-5:00 PM

12/23/25, 12/30/25, 1/6/26, 1/13/26

Guided by Patty Pipernos

Wellfleet Library, Multi-media room

55 W Main St., Wellfleet, MA 02667

If you can, bring a mat, blocks, & yoga strap • Limited mats/ props available

All classes "pay as you wish" ($0-15 suggested) • All proceeds to be donated to the Wellfleet Food Pantry.

Wellfleet Public Library

LOVE TO SING?

The DOWN-TO-THE-WIRE CHOIR invites singers of all ages and abilities to join in singing out for the pure fun of it!

We will share songs we know by heart, including: Folk Songs, Kids' Songs, Freedom Songs, Love Songs, Silly Songs, Protest Songs, Shanties, Beatles, Standards, Rounds, Union Songs, Gospel, and more!

Music is good medicine - especially when YOU help create the vibes!

FOURTH FRIDAY OF THE MONTH

4:00 PM-5:00 PM

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Sundays: Zumba with Alissa - 9:00 am

Tuesdays: Yoga with Jen Shannon - 9:00 am

Wednesdays: Zumba with Erin - 8:00 am

Fridays - Yoga with Jen Shannon - 9:00 am

To confirm class schedule, more details, pricing, and contact info, visit HERE

Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Visit HERE for the most up-to-date weekly class schedule.

Free for residents/taxpayers, $5 for non-residents. A hold harmless form must be on file.

More information and full schedule: www.wellfleetcoa.org • 508-349-2800

Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay

There’s a lot happening at Mass Audubon this month! Please visit HERE for the complete schedule of the many events and programs offered at Wellfleet Bay this week.

December Highlights:

Sea Turtle Patrol • Early Bird Walk • In Search of Winter Waterfowl • Owl Prowl • Fish Feeding Fun • Nature Play Group • Children's Storytime • Full Moon Exploration • Still Life Studio • Exploring Coastal Cape Cod - Great Island

www.massaudubon.org

Wellfleet Public Library

Holiday Movie Matinee

The Muppet Christmas Carol

There is nothing that brings people together more during the holidays than the Muppets! The classic Dickens holiday tale is retold with Kermit the Frog playing Bob Cratchit, the put-upon clerk of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine in the role of a lifetime). Other Muppets - Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie Bear, and Sam the Eagle - weave in and out of the story, while Scrooge receives visits from spirits of three Christmases - past, present and future. They show him the error of his self- serving ways, but the miserable old man seems to be past any hope of redemption and happiness.

85 minutes. Rated G

Wellfleet Public Library

Come join us and let's talk about our hopes, fears, dreams, frustrations, aging... and all that's on our minds and matters to us as women.

Because women wanna talk (and keep it real)! An inclusive group for Wellfleet residents co-led by Linda Schwarz and Beryl Meyer. Light refreshment and laughter included.

Space is limited. Email racine.oxtoby@wellfleet-ma.gov to check availability.

Wellfleet Public Library

CRIBBAGE NIGHTS 6:30 PM-8:00 PM

MONDAY DECEMBER 29

MONDAY JANUARY 12

MONDAY JANUARY 26

WELLFLEET PUBLIC LIBRARY, 55 WEST MAIN STREET, (508) 349-0310

Wellfleet Public Library

Kripalu Gentle Yoga

Tuesdays 4:00 PM-5:00 PM

12/23/25, 12/30/25, 1/6/26, 1/13/26

Guided by Patty Pipernos

Wellfleet Library, Multi-media room

55 W Main St., Wellfleet, MA 02667

If you can, bring a mat, blocks, & yoga strap • Limited mats/ props available

All classes "pay as you wish" ($0-15 suggested) • All proceeds to be donated to the Wellfleet Food Pantry.

Irish, Folk & Old Time Music with Denya Lavine, Tim Dicky & Friends

Tuesdays, December 16, & 30 : 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Mean Burgers - 842 RTE 6, Wellfleet

Questions: www.denya.us

Wellfleet Public Library

Do you have a song to sing? A poem to recite?

Come to our Open Mic Night at the library!

Teens and adults welcome! Sign-up starts a half hour prior to the event. Snacks and beverages provided by the Friends of the Wellfleet Library.

Email Racine at racine.oxtoby@wellfleet-ma.gov with any questions!

Wellfleet Public Library

Conversational French Club With Cecile Serrano

Looking for a fun way to improve or strengthen your conversational French? Maybe you want to learn a bit more about French culture? Or maybe you are looking for opportunities to socialize with other francophiles? Whatever your reason, our Conversational French Club is the perfect place for you! Led by Cecile Serrano, our Conversational French Club will meet twice a month. With your library card, you can gain access to free French-language movies on Kanopy, which we will use to inspire conversation.

We hope you will join us!

Cecile is a native from Toulouse in south France. She lived in Toulouse, Paris and Montpellier and has been in the US for 28 years. She lives year-round with her husband and two sons in Wellfleet, a town she loves very much!

Recommended for Intermediate-to-Expert French speakers.

1st and 3rd Saturday of the month

2:30 PM-4:00

Wellfleet Public Library

Bring your fiber arts project, whether it's knitting or embroidery or crocheting - all are welcome!

Free and open to all! No sign-up required!

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Sundays in January:

1/4, 1/18, 1/25

Wellfleet Public Library

MLK COMMUNITY ART BUILD WITH ARTPEACEMAKERS

ArtPeaceMakers present a Community Art Build for all ages at the Wellfleet Public Library. Come one, come all to make a sign to carry or wear in the Wellfleet MLK Walk on MLK Day (January 19). Art supplies provided. Please bring cardboard and/or poster-board.

SUNDAY JANUARY 4 ~ 2:00 PM-4:00 PM

First Congregational Church of Wellfleet

Monday, January 5th - Noon to 1:00pm (or until soup runs out)

Soup, bread, salad and dessert. Everyone is welcome!

First Congregational Church of Wellfleet, 200 Main Street, Wellfleet

508-349-6877

www.wellfleetchurch.org

Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay

There’s a lot happening at Mass Audubon this month! Please visit HERE for the complete schedule of the many events and programs offered at Wellfleet Bay this week.

January Highlights:

Nature Play Group and Storytime • Owl Prowl • Winter Birding at Wellfleet Bay In Search of Winter Waterfowl • Owl Prowl • Fish Feeding Fun and Storytime • Full Moon Exploration • Sea Turtle Strandings: Drop In Learning • Winter Waterfowl • Exploring Coastal Cape Cod

www.massaudubon.org

Open University of Wellfleet at Preservation Hall

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Text and Context

$60.00

January Tuesdays 6th-27th 2-4pm (ZOOM)

Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls is an epic romance set in the Spanish Civil War over a few days in 1937. Hemingway wrote the novel soon after witnessing the war first hand. An immediate bestseller when published in 1940, the book centers around an American volunteer's attempt to blow up a strategic bridge on behalf of anti-fascist Republican forces. The novel has stirred controversies with political factions on both the right and the left and with literary critics. This class will read the novel and explore the historical, political, and literary contexts which make it controversial--and timely--in today's political climate. We will read the Scribner’s paperback edition.

REGISTER

Wellfleet Public Library

Kripalu Gentle Yoga

Tuesdays 4:00 PM-5:00 PM

12/23/25, 12/30/25, 1/6/26, 1/13/26

Guided by Patty Pipernos

Wellfleet Library, Multi-media room

55 W Main St., Wellfleet, MA 02667

If you can, bring a mat, blocks, & yoga strap • Limited mats/ props available

All classes "pay as you wish" ($0-15 suggested) • All proceeds to be donated to the Wellfleet Food Pantry.

Wellfleet Public Library

Women's Grief Group

A Space for Women to Connect Through Loss Sharing Kindness is offering a clinician-led peer grief support group where women of any age can meet, share their feelings and connect through the experience of loss.

Tuesdays 6:00 PM-7:30 PM

October 21, November 4, 18, December 2, 16, January 6, 2026

If you are interested in joining our Women's Grief Group, please submit the registration form and demographic survey at www.sharingkindness.org/womens-grief-group/

Wellfleet Public Library

Issues of race exist on Cape Cod as they do in the rest of the country. Ne gather in a collegial, supportive environment with Panchetc Peterson and others as tacilitators to read and discuss seminal books (Waking Up White, Under the Skin, Just Mercy, The Color of Law, The Warmth of Other Suns, among others and articles (Letter from a Birmingham Jail), to discuss current events, and to offer personal experiences in a wide-ranging discussion that goes where it will.

All are welcome!

Wellfleet Public Library

Ukulele Storytime with Julie Murray

January 8 at 10:30 am

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

I Puritani

For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, IPuritani has few equals. On January 10, the first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece in nearly 50 years—a striking staging by Charles Edwards, who makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer—arrives in cinemas worldwide. The Met has assembled a world-beating quartet of stars, conducted by Marco Armiliato, for the demanding principal roles. Soprano Lisette Oropesa and tenor Lawrence Brownlee are Elvira and Arturo, brought together by love and torn apart by the political rifts of the English Civil War, with baritone Artur Ruciński as Riccardo, betrothed to Elvira against her will, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Elvira’s sympathetic uncle, Giorgio. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

TICKETS

Wellfleet Public Library

Friends of the Wellfleet Library Winter Music Series presents Kareem Sanjaghi & Bad Apple

Free

Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay

There’s a lot happening at Mass Audubon this month! Please visit HERE for the complete schedule of the many events and programs offered at Wellfleet Bay this week.

January Highlights:

Nature Play Group and Storytime • Owl Prowl • Winter Birding at Wellfleet Bay In Search of Winter Waterfowl • Owl Prowl • Fish Feeding Fun and Storytime • Full Moon Exploration • Sea Turtle Strandings: Drop In Learning • Winter Waterfowl • Exploring Coastal Cape Cod

www.massaudubon.org

Wellfleet Public Library

CRIBBAGE NIGHTS 6:30 PM-8:00 PM

MONDAY DECEMBER 29

MONDAY JANUARY 12

MONDAY JANUARY 26

WELLFLEET PUBLIC LIBRARY, 55 WEST MAIN STREET, (508) 349-0310

Wellfleet Public Library

Kripalu Gentle Yoga

Tuesdays 4:00 PM-5:00 PM

12/23/25, 12/30/25, 1/6/26, 1/13/26

Guided by Patty Pipernos

Wellfleet Library, Multi-media room

55 W Main St., Wellfleet, MA 02667

If you can, bring a mat, blocks, & yoga strap • Limited mats/ props available

All classes "pay as you wish" ($0-15 suggested) • All proceeds to be donated to the Wellfleet Food Pantry.

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

The best of British theatre, captured live and shown on screen at WHAT

Mrs. Warren’s Profession

TICKETS

Wellfleet Public Library

Conversational French Club With Cecile Serrano

Looking for a fun way to improve or strengthen your conversational French? Maybe you want to learn a bit more about French culture? Or maybe you are looking for opportunities to socialize with other francophiles? Whatever your reason, our Conversational French Club is the perfect place for you! Led by Cecile Serrano, our Conversational French Club will meet twice a month. With your library card, you can gain access to free French-language movies on Kanopy, which we will use to inspire conversation.

We hope you will join us!

Cecile is a native from Toulouse in south France. She lived in Toulouse, Paris and Montpellier and has been in the US for 28 years. She lives year-round with her husband and two sons in Wellfleet, a town she loves very much!

Recommended for Intermediate-to-Expert French speakers.

1st and 3rd Saturday of the month

2:30 PM-4:00

Wellfleet Public Library

Friends of the Wellfleet Library Winter Music Series presents Toast & Jam

Free

Wellfleet Public Library

Bring your fiber arts project, whether it's knitting or embroidery or crocheting - all are welcome!

Free and open to all! No sign-up required!

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Sundays in January:

1/4, 1/18, 1/25

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

This documentary film screening is a benefit for Latinx in Action presented by Night Owl and Art for the Border. Tickets $5.

A derelict American city finds grace & success hosting a flood of refugees - from Burma, Sudan, Bosnia, Ukraine, Gaza, Vietnam, Cambodia, Somalia, Laos and Nepal.

"This is a town that loves refugees, that was made and remade by refugees.""Everything in this film, the slices of everyday life, the intimacy - details a people and a community who found each other... and together gained salvation."

Utica, New York was once a hub of the U.S. textile industry but had become a city of abandoned factories and condemned housing, where for many the best hope was represented by a lottery ticket. Then, the refugees began to arrive. From Bosnia, Burma, Sudan, people with only the clothes on their backs, people who’d never seen snow. The influx of outsiders was frightening to many, but Utica opened its arms and discovered that those who have “only the clothes on their backs” also have skills and talents, a resilience honed through years of struggle, an enviable work ethic, and values many of us can learn from. • Utica : The Last Refuge follows a family through their first year in Utica, which has returned to life, attracted new business, and become “a showcase for how a town turns itself around economically,” a showcase for values of family and community that can seem lost in this grievous era, a model for a kind of economic development that promises much more than wealth.

LATINX IN ACTION is an immigrant-led nonprofit that helps Cape Cod immigrants with language skills, food aid, resource and legal referrals, and support groups. As government immigration policy has turned to persecution, LIA has begun developing advocacy and legal resources as well. People who donate $50 or more to the Latinx in Action GoFundMe may choose a gift at the event of original art contributed by local artists.

Wellfleet Public Library

Every year, on the first warm, rainy nights of spring, thousands of salamanders and frogs migrate to vernal pools and other wetlands to breed in a phenomenon known as "Big Night." Sadly, many are killed when they must cross roads. Join longtime Salamander Crossing Brigade coordinator Brett Amy Thelen to discover the magic of Big Night - and to learn how community scientists in New Hampshire and beyond are coming together to help migrating amphibians survive the most dangerous journey of their lives.

Brett Amy Thelen is the Science Director for the Harris Center for Conservation Education, where she bands saw-whet owls, counts butterflies, and coordinates their celebrated Salamander Crossing Brigade program. Before moving to New Hampshire, she conducted salt marsh restoration and kettle pond research at Cape Cod National Seashore, and served in AmeriCorps Cape Cod (Year Two!), based out of the Wellfleet house.

OuterCape Voices

Building Community thru Story and Song

Theme: AND THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING

Sunday, January 18th 4:30

First Congregational Church of Wellfleet, 200 Main Street

Hosted by Deb Felix and Char Priolo

Featuring: Dawn Walsh, Kevin Rice, John Shuman, Denya Levine, Dennis Cunningham, along with audience members!

FREE! Donations of Cash, Check or Venmo at the door Proceeds go to the Lily House and our hosts the First Congregational Church of Wellfleet

Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay

There’s a lot happening at Mass Audubon this month! Please visit HERE for the complete schedule of the many events and programs offered at Wellfleet Bay this week.

January Highlights:

Nature Play Group and Storytime • Owl Prowl • Winter Birding at Wellfleet Bay In Search of Winter Waterfowl • Owl Prowl • Fish Feeding Fun and Storytime • Full Moon Exploration • Sea Turtle Strandings: Drop In Learning • Winter Waterfowl • Exploring Coastal Cape Cod

www.massaudubon.org

Wellfleet Public Library

Viburnums have been cultivated tor centuries and are a popular plant in many commercial and residential American gardens. Vincent will describe a wide selection of viburnums, both popular and underutilized, and introduce us to new variates of this genus including deciduous, evergreen, tree, and shrub forms. He will discuss their ecological and landscape value, cultural adaptability, and use in both natural and cultivated landscape settings. Soil and light preferences and pest management will be covered.

Wednesday, January 21 ~ 10:00 AM-11:30 AM

Presented by the Wellfleet Gardeners

Wellfleet Public Library

Join us in the Children's Reading Room for some vegetable pickling!

Learn how pickles are made and bring home your own jar of delicious, briny snacks!

For children ages 4+! Presented by the Friends of the Wellfleet Library

Open University of Wellfleet at Preservation Hall

Examining Food in Modern Literature

$60.00

Wednesday Evenings January 21st & 28th, February 4th & 11th 6-8pm (ZOOM)

Examine how food is used as metaphor in modern literature to convey identity, culture, and social status, think “upper crust”, and how common phrases like "tough cookie", "big cheese" or “bad egg” are used to define people. Food often describes feelings of love and admiration, as in my “honey” and the “apple of my eye”. In this class you’ll look at works like Water for Chocolate, Chocolat, Rose, The Book of Salt, and The Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine with instructor, Emerson College professor Indira Ganesan.

REGISTER

Wellfleet Public Library

Issues of race exist on Cape Cod as they do in the rest of the country. Ne gather in a collegial, supportive environment with Panchetc Peterson and others as tacilitators to read and discuss seminal books (Waking Up White, Under the Skin, Just Mercy, The Color of Law, The Warmth of Other Suns, among others and articles (Letter from a Birmingham Jail), to discuss current events, and to offer personal experiences in a wide-ranging discussion that goes where it will.

All are welcome!

Open University of Wellfleet at Preservation Hall

Tennessee Williams: Film, Theater and Provincetown

$60.00

Thursday Afternoons January 22nd & 29th, February 5th  & 12th 2-4pm (IN PERSON)

During several summers in the 1940’s, Tennessee Williams wrote all or parts of some of his most well known works on the Cape. From THE GLASS MENAGERIE, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, and others in between, Provincetown was the artistic muse and the birthplace of some of the American theater’s most astoundingly significant works of art, by one of its most prolific and important playwrights. In this course, we will examine Williams’ connection to Provincetown, plays he worked on in town, film adaptations of these plays, and explore others of his works influenced by his time on the Outer Cape. Through play scenes, film clips, texts by Williams scholars, we will immerse ourselves in 1940’s Provincetown and how it shaped WIlliams’ work, life and career. You may even be cast in a scene or two as we read from the plays! (acting experience not required). Taught by newcomer to Open University Tennessee Williams expert Alston Brown.

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Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - special presentation

Composed by Mason Bates
Libretto by Gene Scheer
Based on the Book by Michael Chabon

Due to popular demand, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, recorded live earlier this season, will be presented in select cinemas. In this exhilarating new adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, two Jewish cousins invent an anti-fascist superhero and launch their own comic-book series, hoping to recruit America into the fight against Nazism. Incorporating scintillating electronic elements and a variety of musical styles, composer Mason Bates’s eclectic score moves seamlessly among the three worlds of Gene Scheer’s libretto: Nazi-occupied Prague, the bustling streets of New York City, and the technicolor realm of comic-book fantasy. Bartlett Sher’s production provides spectacular visuals to match, with towering sets and proscenium-filling projections designed by 59 Studio. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met premiere-production, with baritone Andrzej Filończyk as the artist Joe Kavalier, who flees Czechoslovakia and arrives at the Brooklyn doorstep of writer Sam Clay, sung by tenor Miles Mykkanen.

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Wellfleet Public Library

Friends of the Wellfleet Library Winter Music Series presents Bourbon Sunset

Bourbon Sunset is a dynamic trio featuring Chris Miner, Peter Waful, and Lynda Shuster on mandolin, guitar, and banjo. Drawn together by their love of the tight three-part harmonies found in classic bluegrass and gospel, they blend their voices with effortless warmth and precision. Their sets explore both beloved standards and overlooked gems from the bluegrass and folk-rock traditions, creating a sound that feels timeless, soulful, and unmistakably their own.

Free

Wellfleet Public Library

Bring your fiber arts project, whether it's knitting or embroidery or crocheting - all are welcome!

Free and open to all! No sign-up required!

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Sundays in January:

1/4, 1/18, 1/25

Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay

There’s a lot happening at Mass Audubon this month! Please visit HERE for the complete schedule of the many events and programs offered at Wellfleet Bay this week.

January Highlights:

Nature Play Group and Storytime • Owl Prowl • Winter Birding at Wellfleet Bay In Search of Winter Waterfowl • Owl Prowl • Fish Feeding Fun and Storytime • Full Moon Exploration • Sea Turtle Strandings: Drop In Learning • Winter Waterfowl • Exploring Coastal Cape Cod

www.massaudubon.org

Wellfleet Public Library

CRIBBAGE NIGHTS 6:30 PM-8:00 PM

MONDAY JANUARY 26

WELLFLEET PUBLIC LIBRARY, 55 WEST MAIN STREET, (508) 349-0310

Wellfleet Public Library

Plays are meant to be heard out loud, but unless you have tickets to the theater, how often do you have a chance to hear one? Join our play-reading group, where we will read classic to contemporary plays out loud to better appreciate the language and cadence of the written dialogue! This will be a great opportunity to discover plays you may not be familiar with, or rediscover old favorites seen (or heard) in a new light. Everyone is welcome to participate. Acting experience not required.

Hosted by Candace Perry and Racine Oxtoby.

PLAY: WATCH ON THE RHINE BY LILLIAN HELLMAN

ACT ONE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 4:00 PM

ACT TWO: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 4:00 PM

4:00 PM

Wellfleet Public Library

FIRST PLACE PRIZE! SNACKS AND BEVERAGES PROVIDED BY THE FRIENDS OF THE WELLFLEET PUBLIC LIBRARY!

FREE TO ENTER!

Wellfleet Public Library

Join photographer and seaman Craig Dickson as he shares images of the deep submersible vehicle ALVIN, which was originally on RV Lulu up to 1983, then on the Atlantis Il from 1984-96, and has been on the Atlantis since 1997. His photos share a unique view into what it was like for scientists and seamen who worked with ALVIN every day for many years, documenting how things worked while at sea and what changes were made as development of ALVIN progressed. For this presentation, the photos he will share are entirely from his time at sea, showing the varied conditions over the years in many oceans.

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

Arabella

On November 22, Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times). Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen stars as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Radiant soprano Louise Alder is her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the dashing count who sweeps Arabella off her feet. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

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Open University of Wellfleet at Preservation Hall

Social Housing: Obstacles and Opportunities

$60.00

February Thursdays plus March 5th  10am-12pm (ZOOM)

The objective of this course is to examine social housing: its history in the US, and the political factors and mechanisms for funding that influence its creation and growth. Examples will include post-WW2 housing, selected east coast and west coast projects, and lessons from abroad. We will include the Lawrence Road housing in Wellfleet and the process of determining reuse of the Maurice Campgrounds site; guests involved with the local process will join us. With a focus on the architecture, course initiated and taught by an architect, discussions will examine civic-minded concerns. One question for discussion is how the architecture can contribute to acceptance, approval, and success of a project. The course will also look at the difference, if any, between “social housing” and “affordable housing,” and attempt to dispel the misnomer of “low-cost housing.”

This course will be instructed by Martha Rothman .

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Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

The best of British theatre, captured live and shown on screen at WHAT

The Importance of Being Earnest

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Wellfleet Public Library

Friends of the Wellfleet Library Winter Music Series presents Natalia Bonfini with Rafael Caires

Free

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

The best of British theatre, captured live and shown on screen at WHAT

Life of Pi

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Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

The best of British theatre, captured live and shown on screen at WHAT

Dr. Strangelove

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Wellfleet Public Library

Friends of the Wellfleet Library Winter Music Series presents The Kingless Trio

Free

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

Tristan und Isolde

Conductor Joana Mallwitz makes her Met debut leading an extraordinary cast in Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Bass-baritone Michael Sumuel stars as the clever valet Figaro, opposite soprano Olga Kulchynska as his betrothed, the wily maid Susanna. Baritone Joshua Hopkins is the skirt-chasing Count, with soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife and mezzo-soprano Sun-Ly Pierce as the adolescent page Cherubino. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

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Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

The best of British theatre, captured live and shown on screen at WHAT

A Streetcar Named Desire

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Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

Eugene Onegin

Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide on May 2. Baritone Igor Golovatenko is the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance” (The Telegraph). This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

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Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

On May 30, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met-premiere staging of Frank’s opera, a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times). The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

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Wellfleet Sprint Triathlon

June 6, 2026

1/4 mile Swim - 10 mile Bike - 5k Run

About the Course

The swim takes place in one of Wellfleet's many kettle ponds. Water is always calm and one of the first to warm up in the season. The bike course consists of two 5-mile loops through one of the most beautiful areas you will ride all year. The run is an out-and-back course that turns right near the famed Beachcomber Restaurant, where athletes will catch ocean views before turning at the halfway point (when we say it's all downhill from here, we mean it!).

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Race Information

Transition Opens: 7:00am, Long Pond, Wellfleet

Race Start Time: 8:00am

Start/Finish Line: Long Pond, Wellfleet

Parking: First Congregational Church

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Wellfleet Oyster Alliance

Tickets go on sale in August

Wellfleet Oyster Alliance

Tickets go on sale in August