Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Come out for our 2026 Season Launch Party ft. The Fred Clayton Band

In addition to enjoying an evening of blues with the Fred Clayton Band, Payomet's gathering a small group of folks whom we refer to as Payomet Music Mavens, including our friends at WOMR who support music in our community, for an open, informal chat about music programming on the Outer Cape—what’s working, what you’re excited about, what might be missing, and in what ways we can better serve our audiences.

Both the conversation and concert are open to the public. The goal is simply to create a relaxed, welcoming space to connect and share ideas before heading into the evening’s performance.

Ticket Price: FREE • Please register here to let us know you're coming!

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

Great Pond Gallery at Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Janis Ekman - “My Wellfleet”

Curated by Robert Rindler

On Exhibit: January 4 - 30

Reception for the Artist: January 4, 3:00 - 5:00 PM

“Unable to paint what I saw, the camera taught me to see what I could not see.”

Janis began taking photographs at the age of eight. Her first camera was a Kodak Brownie Instamatic. Her first subjects were her sister hanging upside down on a fence and the family dog Dixie. When the roll was spent her father drove her to the photo shop in town. A week later she received a fat envelope with 2x2 black and white photos. She was sold, It was magic. She still keeps the envelope with the name “Ekman” on it and a life long devotion and love of the camera began.

Her dad gave her a Pentax 35 mm when she left for college. Later she would develop black and white photos in her bathroom. And then came color. She would spend many vacations on the Cape and she noticed something. The photos were better there. There was something about the light, the colors. She spent many hours exploring the galleries and the artists there and how they used color. She walked the beaches with her two Border Collies. One evening she had a small point and shoot in her pocket. As she turned to leave after the sun had set, she noticed something. The light on the water was absolutely stunning. She took dozens of photos as the waves broke quietly on the shore. This was it. This would be one of the subjects of her photos for years to come. She chased the sunset over and over. When that didn’t work she looked to the clouds, then patterns in the sand. She didn’t need to take them to the photo shop in town. She could “develop” them on the computer at home. She learned to work with the new digital world.

In 2006 she opened the GARAGE GALLERY in a converted garage space on her property in Wellfleet. Since then she has been exhibiting and selling her work to guests who come year after year to see what is new.

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

Join local educator Violeta Villamil for free Spanish classes for anyone who wants to learn basic Spanish or improve upon their existing conversational Spanish skills!

Tuesdays 5:30 PM-8:00 PM

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/

WDA Democracy Theater Project at WHAT

JANUARY 6: A DAY FOREVER

A New Play Drawn from the Congressional Record of

THE SECOND IMPEACHMENT TRIAL OF DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
by James Carroll and Rachel DeWoskin

January 6: A Day Forever dramatizes the actual history of Donald Trump’s 2021 insurrection. Against his attempted rewriting of that history, Writers for Democratic Action (WDA) offers a forthright reckoning with the truth – a script excerpted from The Congressional Record’s starkly factual account of the day that shook America – and shakes it still.

FREE

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 Adult Community Center

Tired of the endless hype and conflicting advice flooding social media about living longer and healthier? Join Wellfleet’s renowned integrative health practitioner and functional nutrition expert Susan Baumgarten for the thrilling launch of her brand-new, twice-monthly live series! We'll cut straight through the noise—debunking influencer myths and misconceptions about longevity—while diving into practical, affordable lifestyle medicine strategies that actually work. In upcoming sessions, discover evidence-based gems like:

• Optimizing nutrition and supplements

• Harnessing the power of herbs, yoga, meditation, and mindful movement

• Simple, everyday habits to boost vitality and resilience

Bring your burning questions! Your input will shape the series and ensure we tackle the topics that matter most to YOU. Don't miss this empowering start to a journey toward real, sustainable healthspan. Register by calling 774-801-8119 and let's unlock the secrets to thriving longer—together!

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

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.

Wellfleet Public Library

The shape of Cape Cod and Wellfleet Harbor, along with sandbars and tidal extremes over shallow mud flats, makes Wellfleet a global hotspot for marine mammal strandings. The creatures find themselves at the wrong place at the wrong time, and they get stuck!

This year the Wellfleet Historical Society and Museum created an exhibit exploring Wellfleet's relationship to our marine mammal neighbors. Initially focused on slaughtering these creatures for oil, food, corset stays, toys, etc., the relationship has evolved to one of respect, admiring, caring and rescue. This history is told on five large banners of photos, stories, linked readings, and even a song! Join exhibit creators David Aronow and Gary Kreamer for a presentation welcoming the exhibit to the library for a pop-up display.

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 Public Library

Join local educator Violeta Villamil for free Spanish classes for anyone who wants to learn basic Spanish or improve upon their existing conversational Spanish skills!

Tuesdays 5:30 PM-8:00 PM

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

The Winter Table

All welcome for our winter community dinner! Free Soups, Salads & Desserts. Dine in or Take out.

JANUARY 14, 5:30-7 PM

Community Resource Night!

Booths & info from Lower Cape Outreach Council, Indivisible Cape Cod & the Wellfleet Library, plus kids arts & crafts!

Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Tired of the endless hype and conflicting advice flooding social media about living longer and healthier? Join Wellfleet’s renowned integrative health practitioner and functional nutrition expert Susan Baumgarten for the thrilling launch of her brand-new, twice-monthly live series! We'll cut straight through the noise—debunking influencer myths and misconceptions about longevity—while diving into practical, affordable lifestyle medicine strategies that actually work. In upcoming sessions, discover evidence-based gems like:

• Optimizing nutrition and supplements

• Harnessing the power of herbs, yoga, meditation, and mindful movement

• Simple, everyday habits to boost vitality and resilience

Bring your burning questions! Your input will shape the series and ensure we tackle the topics that matter most to YOU. Don't miss this empowering start to a journey toward real, sustainable healthspan. Register by calling 774-801-8119 and let's unlock the secrets to thriving longer—together!

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

African American Quilt Collection from artist Robin Joyce Miller will be up January 6th through the end of the month. The collection is presented by Art Peace Makers.

Miller will give an artist talk, “A Sankofa Journey: The African in America” from 4-5 pm at Prez Hall, which will be followed by the art reception.

ROBIN JOYCE MILLER history quilts are framed mixed media collages that have the composition of a quilt. There 16 quilts, 14 History Quilts in the collection. The History Quilts are part of her book, "The Faithful Journey - From Slavery to Presidency". The book is a collection of narrative quilts and poetry that carries the reader on a journey through African American history from slavery to presidency. Her quilts include: Journey to Hell Quilt, Slave Castle Quilt, Middle Passage Quilt, Plantation Quilt, Underground Railroad Legend Quilt, Great Migration Quilt, Harlem Renaissance Quilt, Jazz History Quilt, New Orleans Quilt, Civil Rights Movement Quilt, Gee’s Bend Quilt, Million Man March Quilt, Inauguration Day Quilt, Journey Quilt, Harriet Powers Quilt, and Negro Quilt.

Robin Joyce Miller is a retired award-winning NYC teacher, artist, author, poet, public speaker and activist. She taught special education for 15 years. After taking a yearlong study sabbatical, she returned as the art teacher for the next 14 years. During her years as a teacher of visual arts, Miller became a facilitator for NYC’s Blueprint for the Arts and earned the honors of both NYC and NY State Region 8 Art Educator of the Year Awards. She has conducted staff development art workshops for teachers across the city in many venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MOMA – the Museum of Modern Art. In 1992 Miller created a print ad for Pepsi honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. under the pseudonym, r.j. Scribbles. Since moving to Cape Cod, Miller became a resident artist at Zion Union Heritage Museum as well as a Bd of Director member at Cotuit Center of the Arts. Along with her husband, Jim, she created 10 BLM YouTube presentations that focus on African American history. Miller and her husband earned individual Commonwealth awards from State Representative, Steven Xiarhos for their community service. Miller exhibited her artwork and poetry at the Kennedy Museum in Hyannis from Feb 5 to the end of June this year.

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Enjoy live music and dancing with caller Paul Wilde, fiddler Clayton March and pianist
Christopher Marchio.

Doors open at 6:15pm Contra Basic Workshop at 6:30pm. Contra Dance begins at 7pm. Beginners are encouraged to attend. No experience necessary!

We are a friendly bunch, happy to welcome new dancers at any level. Never danced before? No worries, we have, we'll show you how!

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

Toast and Jam formed in 2008 to compose and perform original Bluegrass, Americana, and modern Folk. The founders, both singer/ songwriters and multi-instrumentalists, are Julie Charland and Tim Dickey, who have been friends and musical collaborators since the 1980's. They will be joined by Orleans-based fiddle player Alice Malone and Cambridge-based bassist Blake Newman.

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

ArtsPeaceMakers

MLK Celebration - Town Hall

11:00 Drum/Song Circle

11:30 Silent Meditation

12:oo Preservation Hall - Awards given to four leading creative educators for racial justice on Cape Cod. Followed by refreshments and live music.

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 Adult Community Center

Join Dr. Michael Pregot for an enlightening author talk on his book Slavery and Abolitionism on Cape Cod: A Massachusetts Incongruity. Explore the surprising role of Cape Cod sea captains in the slave trade, the divided maritime community after Massachusetts banned slavery in 1780, and the religious, political, and economic forces that shaped abolitionism. Hear inspiring profiles of notable Black individuals who contributed immensely to our region's growth despite enormous challenges. Register by calling 774-801-8119.

Wellfleet Public Library

Join local educator Violeta Villamil for free Spanish classes for anyone who wants to learn basic Spanish or improve upon their existing conversational Spanish skills!

Tuesdays 5:30 PM-8:00 PM

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.

REGISTER

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Seeing the Music is a collaborative presentation hosted by Gabriella Simpkins, a local singer-songwriter and composer, and Susan Overstreet, a local artist and educator. Over the course of one hour, Susan will be creating a new work in reaction to Gabriella's music, engaging in a dynamic creative exchange and showcasing the magic that emerges from interdisciplinary collaboration. The final painting will be available for purchase via a silent auction that will conclude at the end of the performance. These artists look forward to collaborating not just with each other, but with the audience as well in this presentation of the creative process in real time.

Gabriella Simpkins is an award-winning singer-songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist hailing from Cape Cod, MA. Informed by her vast experiences across genres and performance settings, her music exists at the intersections of folk, classical, jazz, and indie rock. Her work explores the nuances of interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships, as well as how those interactions can shape the world around us. She values music as a tool for community connection, conversation, and activation. She performs her singer-songwriter material regularly in the Boston area, leads workshops and classes, teaches private lessons, and hopes to establish herself further as a freelance composer in the coming years.

Susan Overstreet’s creative process of weaving vibrant colors with a technique of palette knife and brushwork captures a visual tapestry between abstract imagery and representation. Overstreet’s bold expressive style is driven by unique natural elements found in nature that offer an evolving kaleidoscope of color. She paints en plein air and in the studio, inspired by both landscape and the human figure.

Susan completed studio work at George Washington University, and continued studying fine arts at the Corcoran School of Art and the Art League School of Alexandria. Her work was accepted in many juried competitions in Virginia and now New England. Susan has taught at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Milford Arts Council, the Cultural Center of Cape Cod (where she served as artist in residence and learning coordinator), the Creative Arts Center of Chatham, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and the Plymouth Center for the Arts. She has led sketching tours to Scotland, France and New Mexico. She is represented by Tracy Lindholm Nee, 780 Main Street in Dennis, MA. SusanOverstreet.com

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.

TICKETS

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

Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Join us for a captivating educational experience exploring Blanche Lazzell and the rich history of the white-line block print. Enjoy a screening of The Provincetown Print, a new documentary from PAAM that celebrates the origins, artistry, and enduring legacy of Provincetown’s distinctive white-line woodcut tradition, followed by a live white-line block print demonstration by artist Lynn Stanley. This program is free to all thanks to the sponsorship of the Friends of the Wellfleet Council on Aging. Please call 774-801-8119 to register.

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

Join local educator Violeta Villamil for free Spanish classes for anyone who wants to learn basic Spanish or improve upon their existing conversational Spanish skills!

Tuesdays 5:30 PM-8:00 PM

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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Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Join Bitter and Broken Men’s Chorus and Wildflower Lane for a rocking good time. Proceeds from the concert will benefit WOMR. "Love in a time of madness."

Bitter and Broken Men's Chorus are a band from a small town on Cape Cod. They play original rock and roll that pulls from 70’s punk and new wave, New York jazz, outlaw country, and outsider music. Their songs celebrate family and community, loss and resilience. They are unapologetic about their lefty, blue collar politics. Its music for when you hold your head in your hands. The soundtrack to the coming collapse, but fun! Join Tom Fettig (guitar/vocals), Andrew Fettig (bass), Benny Albro (drums/piano), Frank Poranski (guitar), Kami Lyle (trumpet) and special guest.

Their self-entitled album can be found on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music.

Local band, Wildflower Lane with Adrian Punch, Catie Flynn, John Qew, Malcom Carlyle, and Luthier will be joining the Broken Men for an amazing evening to remember.

A portion of proceeds will go to WOMR (Cape Cod's Community Radio Station).

Wellfleet Public Library

Join local educator Violeta Villamil for free Spanish classes for anyone who wants to learn basic Spanish or improve upon their existing conversational Spanish skills!

Tuesdays 5:30 PM-8:00 PM

Wellfleet Public Library

We're making a sweet, easy, and yummy snack in the Children's Reading Room! Kids will create their own pizzas, using cream cheese or Nutella instead of tomato sauce and sliced fruit instead of pizza toppings. What fruit combinations taste the best?

This fun food activity is both creative and delicious!

FREE

Presented by the Friends of the Wellfleet Library

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

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 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 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

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 Natalia Bonfini with Rafael Caires

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 Febuary: 2/8, 2/15, 2/22

Wellfleet Public Library

Join local educator Violeta Villamil for free Spanish classes for anyone who wants to learn basic Spanish or improve upon their existing conversational Spanish skills!

Tuesdays 5:30 PM-8:00 PM

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: "Purlie Victorious" by Ossie Davis

ACT ONE: WEDNESDAY, FEB 11, 4:00 PM

ACT TWO: WEDNESDAY, FEB 25, 4:00 PM

Wellfleet Public Library

Friday February 13 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Wellfleet Public Library

Free to children of all ages

Presented by the Friends of the Wellfleet Library

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

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 Febuary: 2/8, 2/15, 2/22

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.

Wellfleet Public Library

SNOWBIRDS: WINTER BIRDS OF CAPE COD WITH JOHN HANLON

If you are a birdwatcher, the winter on Cape Cod is actually the best time of year. Come learn about all the many waterfowl species and other birds that breed to the north and call Cape Cod home for only the winter. Winter on Cape Cod is Florida for them!

Naturalist John Hanlon provides programs for groups such as The Friends of Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, Barnstable Land Trust, Chatham Bars Inn, and the Alzheimer's Center of Cape Cod, among others, throughout Cape Cod. He is a former park ranger and educator at Provincetown High School and is currently working with the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and Cape Cod Community College.

Wellfleet Public Library

Join local educator Violeta Villamil for free Spanish classes for anyone who wants to learn basic Spanish or improve upon their existing conversational Spanish skills!

Tuesdays 5:30 PM-8:00 PM

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

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 The Kingless Trio

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 Febuary: 2/8, 2/15, 2/22

Wellfleet Public Library

Join local educator Violeta Villamil for free Spanish classes for anyone who wants to learn basic Spanish or improve upon their existing conversational Spanish skills!

Tuesdays 5:30 PM-8:00 PM

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: "Purlie Victorious" by Ossie Davis

ACT ONE: WEDNESDAY, FEB 11, 4:00 PM

ACT TWO: WEDNESDAY, FEB 25, 4:00 PM

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.

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

TICKETS

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.

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 Historical Society

JULY 26, 2026 | 11 AM - 4 PM

More Info Coming Soon

Wellfleet Oyster Alliance

Tickets go on sale in August

Wellfleet Oyster Alliance

Tickets go on sale in August