Wellfleet Public Library

Celebrate the arrival of spring with a relaxing, hands-on soapmaking workshop! 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

Free Spanish Lessons

Tuesdays, March 3 - June 30

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!

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

March 10 & 24, April 7 & 21, May 5 & 19

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

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: THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE BY WILLIAM SAROYAN

Аст ONE: WEDNESDAY APRIL 22 @ 4:00 PM

AcT TWo: WEDNESDAY MAY 13 @ 4:00 PM

ACT THREE: WEDNESDAY MAY 27 @ 4:00 PM

Wellfleet Public Library

This copper bookmark making workshop will teach you how to create your own drawings in metal with special tools and hammers. Come learn to stamp your favorite images, words and textures to create a truly unique bookmark that will stand the test of time.

For children ages 10+ and adults. Space is limited, please call (508) 349-0310 or stop by the circulation desk to register.

University of Wellfleet/ Preservation Hall

Instructed by Martha Rothman via Zoom with a field trip on the last day, April 23rd, April 30th and May 7 via Zoom & May 14th 10am-12pm

The Bauhaus was a revolutionary and influential art, design and architecture school founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany. The school relocated to Dessau from 1925 to 1932, and finally to Berlin until the forced closure in 1933. This course will examine the Bauhaus principles, people and politics and their dispersal in the 1930s to the United States—Chicago “New Bauhaus,” Black Mountain College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) where Walter Gropius was appointed a professor of architecture in 1937. GSD faculty based in Cambridge, MA, and their friends and colleagues were subsequently attracted to the Outer Cape and left a legacy of summer houses designed and built in this unique landscape. The last two classes will focus on the local Wellfleet history, geography and design, built upon Bauhaus principles; examine the work of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust (CCMHT) in preserving the architectural legacy; and conclude with an in-person tour, guided by Peter McMahon, of the Breuer House, recently acquired and restored by the CCMHT.

REGISTER

Wellfleet Public Library

Join Cathy Lichtman of Ahimsa Peaceful Yoga at the Wellfleet Public Library for six yoga sessionsin April and May

Thursdays 10:30 - 11:30

optional 10 minute Meditation prior to start of class

Welcome in the spring with a little calm and peace.

All levels are welcome!

Please bring your mat and props if you have, or a large towel for extra padding may be helpful.

Open to the public - Gratuity welcomed, $20.00 is suggested.

April 16, 23, 30

May 7, 14, 21

Wellfleet Public Library

Enjoy the spring breeze with these design-your-own pinwheels!

Join us in the Children's Reading Room as we decorate our pinwheels, easily put them together, and then watch as they catch the wind!

Wellfleet Public Library

Ukulele Storytime with Julie Murray

Wellfleet Public Library

Join Youth Services Librarian Anna Nielsen for toys, jungle gyms, creative movement, and general play!

For children ages 0-4 with a supervising adult

FRIDAY MORNINGS IN APRIL

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

AMZehnder Gallery

The renowned gallery that taps into and collaborates with Wellfleet's visionary art community will open for the 2026 summer season the last week in April.

Featured Artists: Nancy Jennner and Nancy Pilchard

Reception; 5:00 - 7:00 PM

25 Bank St., Wellfleet • amzehnder.com

AMZehender Gallery

On Exhibit: April 25 - May 18

Opening Reception: April 25 - 5 - 7 PM

25 Bank St, Wellfleet, MA

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

April 12 & 26

First Congregational Church of Wellfleet

Our communities here on the Cape, both Indigenous and Colonial, were shaped by the Spring herring run. This seasonal abundance provided much needed food after the deprivation of winter, as well as animal feed, fertilizers, and many other uses. Join us on Sunday, April 26th at Pilgrim Lake in Orleans, to observe the herring as they move through the run. We will be joined by Abby Archer from the Barnstable County Cooperative Extension. Participants can either meet at the First Congregational parking lot (200 Main St. Wellfleet) at 1:30 to carpool, or can head directly to the Spring Lake parking area (80 Herring Brook Way, Orleans)

All are welcome

Wellfleet Public Library

For those who have experienced the beauty and wonder of Welfleet ponds over the seasons, they are indeed special places - sharing commonalities in their origins, historical use, and pristine natural surroundings, but each unique and valued for their individual qualities, nuances, and charms. Over the past few years, news and information from various sources have spoken to the need to address water quality issues in the ponds across Cape Cod. Learn more about the unique features of Wellfleet's kettle ponds, what the issues are for our ponds, how our ponds are being monitored, what the data from monitoring can tell us, and what we can do to help keep them healthy for years to come.

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.

March Highlights:

Full Moon Exploration • Flight of the Woodcock • Flock Party! • Fish Feeding Fun • Feeder Focus • Exploring Coastal Cape Cod • Cheap Eats • Bird Banding • Birding by Ear

www.massaudubon.org

Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Monday, April 27 ~ THE INTERN

A 70-year-old intern at an online fashion site and develops a special bond with his young boss. Starring Robert DeNero and Anne Hathaway. Comedy ~ Rated PG

Free popcorn. Please RSVP.

Wellfleet Public Library

CRIBBAGE NIGHTS

MONDAYS 6:30 PM~8:00 PM

MARCH 9 & 16, APRIL 6, 13 & 27

Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Discover breathing techniques to soothe your nervous system

Gently alleviate physical and emotional tension

Reestablish a connection with your body and inner tranquility

Foster a sense of grounding, clarity, and balance

Depart feeling lighter, more centered, and rejuvenated

Please Call 774-801-8119 to RSVP

Wellfleet Public Library

Explore where poems come from (the art) and how they get made (the craft, as well as trying out your own poems-in-progress. This seminar is a welcoming place for beginners as well as practicing poets, and those who are simply curious about poetry and want to learn more.

Rosalind Pace is a 30-year veteran of the Poets-in-the-School program, has taught literature and writing in a variety of places, given readings in colleges, libraries, art centers, and festivals, including the Dodge Poetry Festival. Her poems have appeared in The Atlanta Review, American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Three Rivers Poetry Review, and others. She mentors the Truro Memoirs Group.

Tuesdays 5:00 PM-7:00 PM

April 28, May 12, May 26, June 2

Wellfleet Public Library

Free Spanish Lessons

Tuesdays, March 3 - June 30

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!

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 Cathy Lichtman of Ahimsa Peaceful Yoga at the Wellfleet Public Library for six yoga sessionsin April and May

Thursdays 10:30 - 11:30

optional 10 minute Meditation prior to start of class

Welcome in the spring with a little calm and peace.

All levels are welcome!

Please bring your mat and props if you have, or a large towel for extra padding may be helpful.

Open to the public - Gratuity welcomed, $20.00 is suggested.

April 16, 23, 30

May 7, 14, 21

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Washington Post-praised guitarist David Rogers explores the musical landscape of 16th-century Spain through the lens of Valencian court musician Luis Milán.

This program blends Arab and European influences with an organic, improvisational spirit that is both historically rich and deeply moving. Also featured will be Sephardic and North African music that originates in the Andalusian traditions. The second part of the program will feature 20th and 21st century Spanish music which blends these traditions to make the Spanish and Flamenco music of today.

Termed, 'a prominent guitarist,' by the New York Times, David Rogers maintains an active solo and ensemble career as a classical guitarist and performer on early plucked strings. The Washington Post has praised his ‘astonishingly florid’ solo improvisational passage work. He has been called a 'modern master’ of the classical guitar' by 20th Century Guitar. Classics today.com has praised his ‘first rate instrumental artistry,’ and the Lute Society of America Quarterly has called his technique ‘formidable.’ He is an endorsing artist for Aquila Strings, (Italy) and his compositions has been featured in major guitar magazines such as Fingerstyle Guitar in the United States and Akustic Gitarre in Germany.

David has recorded for Dorian, Callisto and Focus Recordings. He has taught master classes throughout North America, including the San Francisco Conservatory, The University of Southern California and The Interlochen National Arts Camp.

Tickets

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

WOMR presents the Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest reading on April 30th at 7pm. This is a free event and all are welcome!

Wellfleet Public Library

FIRST PLACE PRIZE! SNACKS AND BEVERAGES PROVIDED BY THE

FRIENDS OF THE WELLFLEET PUBLIC LIBRARY!

FREE TO ENTER!

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.

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 Adult Community Center

Dianne Messenger - Paintings on Paper

On Exhibit: Throughout May

Artist Reception: May 3 - 3:00 - 5:00 PM

Curated by Robert Rindler

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Surprises, learning, emotional revelation, and investigation are the core of my work. I usually start with fairly representational figures but as I work I change the figure. I may wipe out an arm or leg, add an extra hand or paint out the face. Challenging myself is an important aspect of the process. I like going to unknown places.

 I use the figure to explore relationships and the scope of human emotion.   The formal approach is important in the process for me: judging shape, color and line.,constantly asking myself, how can I make this work?   

ARTIST’S BIO:

I have been vacationing in Truro, Ma at my grandmother’s house since I was born. My dream to live here came true when I met my future husband Bill Golden on Ballston Beach.  I soon moved up here in 2005 from Philadelphia. and became active in the robust art community here on the Outer Cape, showing at the Provincetown Art Museum, the Commons, What Theater and several other galleries.  

My art education was in Philadelphia. , The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Philadelphia College of Art and a bachelor’s degree from Tyler School of Art. Over the years I painted a variety, the figure, landscapes, flowers, abstract and created fabric constructions. 

My husband built me a studio. I had never painted to sell. but my aunt back in Philadelphia asked if I would paint flowers to sell in her café. I thought "Wow I can make some money at this” Well none of those paintings sold! I was so angry saying “I will never paint to sell” and pinned up large sheets of paper and began what is my mature art now, painting the figure. I was able to use the accumulated skills of many years to express what you see in the work... 

So this is my expression now.

Wellfleet Public Library

Office Hours with Olivia Hayden, Community Resource Navigator for Wellfleet and Eastham

The Outer Cape Health Services Community Navigator program helps assist residents with unmet medical, behavioral health, or human service needs through collaboration with local agencies, providers, and community groups.

Services include:

• Referring and connecting patrons to community resources such as social services, mental health services, substance abuse services, medical care, homelessness/housing assistance, and case management

• Assisting in navigating the variety of services available

• Problem-solving barriers to access

• Coordinating care

Stop by the library for office hours with Wellfleet's Community Resource Navigator Olivia Hayden, where she can answer questions and offer resources available in the Outer Cape community.

April 6, May 4, June 1

Wellfleet Public Library

Becoming Sarah

Can you call yourself a survivor if you don't know what you survived? Take Sarah Vogel. Auschwitz is her hometown, yet she has no memory of the place. Not the obscene conditions of her birth, the mother, or the changing cast of faceless women who kept her warm on winter nights. She's only three when liberated, and with no one to tell her who she is or what she might become, Sarah has no choice but to invent herself. On her journey from Europe, land of the defeated, to America, land of the self-invented, she learns that holes in a person's past are red flags and that little white lies go down easier than explanations. But eventually those lies will become the wall that hides her true self, the good and the bad, from those she loves. Becoming Sarah is the poignant, sometimes ruthless portrait of an American family-its matriarch, a tough old bird who should never have drawn breath but is bent on lasting forever-and the line of daughters and granddaughters who follow. Each generation standing on the shoulders of the last; each gaining more of the strength, will, and maybe even luck that will make them Survivors in their own right.

Diane Botnick was born and raised in the Midwest. She called New York City home for years, writing while working for various organizations in support of the arts. Becoming Sarah is her debut novel. She and her family currently live in Cold Spring, New York.

Wellfleet Public Library

Spring and Mother’s Day Card Making Workshop with Alla Pontbraind

Celebrate the season of renewal with our Card-Making Workshop. This hands-on session offers participants the opportunity to create professional-looking, handmade greeting cards perfect for spring birthdays or a heartfelt Mother's Day gift. Suitable for all skill levels, the workshop focuses on seasonal techniques such as floral brush mark-making and ethereal wet-on-wet watercolors. Attendees will leave with 3-4 finished cards, matching envelopes, and the skills to continue crafting at home!

Tuesday, May 5~2:00 PM-5:00 PM

Wellfleet Public Library

Free Spanish Lessons

Tuesdays, March 3 - June 30

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!

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

March 10 & 24, April 7 & 21, May 5 & 19

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

Join Cathy Lichtman of Ahimsa Peaceful Yoga at the Wellfleet Public Library for six yoga sessionsin April and May

Thursdays 10:30 - 11:30

optional 10 minute Meditation prior to start of class

Welcome in the spring with a little calm and peace.

All levels are welcome!

Please bring your mat and props if you have, or a large towel for extra padding may be helpful.

Open to the public - Gratuity welcomed, $20.00 is suggested.

April 16, 23, 30

May 7, 14, 21

Wellfleet Public Library

Ann Schiffenhaus, Wellfleet Housing Coordinator, will hold open office hours in the conference room on select Thursdays for community members who have questions, comments, and ideas about housing in Wellfleet.

How can we help?

• Are you looking for year-round housing?

• Do you have a home you are considering as a year-round rental?

• Do you need information on rental assistance, help with home repairs, or assistance in applying for a residential tax exemption?

Stop by to discuss your housing needs and learn about available resources. No appointment necessary!

Thursdays ~ 1:00 PM-3:00 PM

January 5 ~ February 5 ~ March 5 ~ April 2 ~ May 7 ~ June

University of Wellfleet/Preservation Hall

Instructed by Mwalim Peters via Zoom on Thursdays May 7, 14, 21, 28 2026, 3-5pm

This lecture series explores the hidden history and cultural foundations of Underground Dance Music as an intersection of Black, Latino, and LGBTQ safe-space traditions. Drawing from early 20th-century urban Black social dance scenes, juke joints, and Jamaican sound system culture, the course reveals a lineage often erased by mainstream narratives that begin with the Loft and Disco. Participants will examine the shared values of Underground Dance Music culture, its role in fostering community and identity, and the evolution into Disco, House Music, Techno, and EDM. The series also addresses the persistent American pattern of Black cultural innovations being appropriated and obscured, reclaiming a more accurate and inclusive history of the dance floor.

$60

REGISTER

Wellfleet Public Library

Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot is a heartwarming novel about the unlikely friendship between 17-year-old Lenni and 83-year- old Margot, both patients living with terminal diagnoses in a Glasgow hospital. Together, they decide to create 100 paintings to tell the stories of their combined century of life. Funny, tender, and moving, this book explores themes of the power of human connection and finding joy in the face of mortality.

Led by Kim Crawford, board member of the The Lily House and Senior Minister Emerita of Arlington Street Church (UU), Boston.

May 7, 14 & 21

Mass Audubon

The new book, 'Birds Up Close: An Engineer Explores Their Hidden Wonders' by Lorna Gibson, brings an engineer's eye to the natural world. Drawing on her career as an engineering professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her lifelong passion for birding, Gibson reveals how birds function through the lens of structure, materials, and design. She investigates feathers, bones, bills, eggs, and flight—zooming in to the microscopic scale and stepping back to examine their larger structural systems.

In this illustrated presentation, Lorna shares highlights from the book and answers fun and fascinating questions like: Why, and how, are duck feathers so water repellent? And how do phalaropes draw plankton-containing water droplets up their bills when they lack lips?

Discover how engineering principles illuminate the hidden mechanics of birds. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.

FREE - Register HERE

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Join us to welcome artist Grace Hopkins for her opening reception on May 8th, from 5-7pm.

Enjoy free bites and bevs, see the art and meet the artist! All work is for sale.

Highly prolific abstract photographer Grace Hopkins has been creating dynamic photography since 1991. She builds a highly energized visual image from a tiny piece of reality. Arts writer Susan Rand Brown described Hopkins as "a photographer with the eye and soul of a painter.” Hopkins says: "My works are straight photographs taken of actual things that exist in the world and are never manipulated, but they look and feel like abstract paintings. Emotionally, they are all about painting. I search out surface, shadow, light, and color and bring them together onto a canvas."

On Exhibit: May 2 - 28

Artist Talk: May 20 - 5:30 PM

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Cake and Champagne Celebration

Prez Hall invites you to celebrate their 15 years as your community and cultural center! There will be free cake and champagne as we reminisce about the last 15 and look forward to the next 15. Please RSVP so we can plan accordingly.

Saturday, May 9th, 4:00 PM

Free

RSVP

Wellfleet Public Library

Explore where poems come from (the art) and how they get made (the craft, as well as trying out your own poems-in-progress. This seminar is a welcoming place for beginners as well as practicing poets, and those who are simply curious about poetry and want to learn more.

Rosalind Pace is a 30-year veteran of the Poets-in-the-School program, has taught literature and writing in a variety of places, given readings in colleges, libraries, art centers, and festivals, including the Dodge Poetry Festival. Her poems have appeared in The Atlanta Review, American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Three Rivers Poetry Review, and others. She mentors the Truro Memoirs Group.

Tuesdays 5:00 PM-7:00 PM

April 28, May 12, May 26, June 2

Wellfleet Public Library

Free Spanish Lessons

Tuesdays, March 3 - June 30

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!

University of Wellfleet/Preservation Hall

Taught by Maurice Isserman in person on Wednesdays May 13th, 20th, 27th and June 3rd 2026 1-3pm

The American Civil War, 1861-1865, is the central event in the history of the United States of America, not least because its outcome guaranteed that there would be a United States of America in the 160 years that have followed. More Americans died in the Civil War than in all other wars fought by the nation combined. We will consider the war not just as a series of bloody battles, important as they were, but as a moment of political, social, and cultural transformation. The war led to the end of slavery and the establishment of birth-right citizenship, and remade the relationship between the states and the federal government. The Union was preserved through the sacrifices of hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens, as well as the inspired leadership of some of the greatest individuals in US history, including Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Ulysses S. Grant. Class sessions will combine short power-point presentations by the instructor with discussion of weekly assigned readings from James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era.

$60

REGISTER

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: THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE BY WILLIAM SAROYAN

Аст ONE: WEDNESDAY APRIL 22 @ 4:00 PM

AcT TWo: WEDNESDAY MAY 13 @ 4:00 PM

ACT THREE: WEDNESDAY MAY 27 @ 4:00 PM

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Mark your calendars! Spring is here and so is the Annual Spring Clothing Swap. Clear out those closets and see you on May 13th at 5:30pm to swap and share new pieces!

Bring $10 and ONE bag of clean, undamaged clothing and leave with your new wardrobe! (Men's, children's clothing, accessories & shoes are also welcome.)

Your ticket includes one complimentary drink of your choice. Cash bar serving beverages will be available. This will take place inside the upstairs Hall. All proceeds support year-round programming at Prez Hall.

Wellfleet Public Library

Join Cathy Lichtman of Ahimsa Peaceful Yoga at the Wellfleet Public Library for six yoga sessionsin April and May

Thursdays 10:30 - 11:30

optional 10 minute Meditation prior to start of class

Welcome in the spring with a little calm and peace.

All levels are welcome!

Please bring your mat and props if you have, or a large towel for extra padding may be helpful.

Open to the public - Gratuity welcomed, $20.00 is suggested.

April 16, 23, 30

May 7, 14, 21

Wellfleet Public Library

Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot is a heartwarming novel about the unlikely friendship between 17-year-old Lenni and 83-year- old Margot, both patients living with terminal diagnoses in a Glasgow hospital. Together, they decide to create 100 paintings to tell the stories of their combined century of life. Funny, tender, and moving, this book explores themes of the power of human connection and finding joy in the face of mortality.

Led by Kim Crawford, board member of the The Lily House and Senior Minister Emerita of Arlington Street Church (UU), Boston.

May 7, 14 & 21

AMZehnder Gallery

Artist Conversation with Featured Artists: Nancy Jennner and Nancy Pilchard

Reception; May 14, 5:00

25 Bank St., Wellfleet • amzehnder.com

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

The Let's Talk Women's Health Series brings expert voices to the Outer Cape for honest, empowering conversations on topics from menopause to mental health to aging well.

Join us for a special movie screening of the M Factor 2 followed by a thoughtful, empowering panel discussion (featuring Jaymie Adachi, NP) focused on perimenopause—a life stage that affects millions, yet is rarely talked about openly.

Registration Required - QR code on Preservation Hall website

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

Build Your Home Apothecary: A Seasonal Series with Nicole Cormier, MS, RDN, LDN, Clinical Herbalist

Spring: Awaken the Apothecary

Saturday, May 16 @ 3:00 PM

Spring is a time of movement and renewal- both in the environment and within the body. This session focuses on mineral-rich, detoxifying, and Lymph-moving herbs that support digestion, skin, and energy after winter.

Summer Vitality Abundance

Thursday, July 9 @ 4:00 PM

Summer herbs are vibrant, aromatic, and often cooling. This session centers on herbs that uplift mood, support hydration, and calm the nervous system during long, active days.

Fall: Rooted & Resilient

Saturday, September 12 @ 3:00 PM

Fall invites us to slow down and fortify. This session focuses on immune-supportive roots, berries, and mushrooms that help the body prepare for colder months.

Wellfleet Public Library

Creating the Intercultural Field features first-person autobiographical accounts from twelve internationally renowned figures within the field of intercultural studies and communication. Through richly personal narratives, the book traces how these pioneers synthesized insights from anthropology, psychology, sociology, communication, linguistics, and education to forge a new interdisciplinary field of inquiry, research, and practice. In this engaging presentation, Dr. Yalowitz will offer insights and reflections on the process and practice of creating this book. He will discuss his role as co-editor, wherein he worked intimately with twelve authors, a co-editor, and an international publishing company. Explore critical themes impacting the development of the book and key learnings from the authors as they worked collaboratively over nearly three years to produce this book.

Daniel Cantor Yalowitz, Ed.D. is an intercultural and developmental psychologist in private practice in Western Massachusetts. He has been blessed with opportunities to live, work, and travel in 94 countries to date, always looking to deepen his experience and understanding of our wild, wide, and complex world and to make meaning out of his adventures and relationships. Daniel serves as Senior Advisor for Training Active Bystanders, a national citizen/activist program. Creating the Intercultural Field: Legacies from the Pioneers is his third book.

Wellfleet Public Library

Free Spanish Lessons

Tuesdays, March 3 - June 30

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!

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

March 10 & 24, April 7 & 21, May 5 & 19

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 Preservation Hall

Highly prolific abstract photographer Grace Hopkins has been creating dynamic photography since 1991. She builds a highly energized visual image from a tiny piece of reality. Arts writer Susan Rand Brown described Hopkins as "a photographer with the eye and soul of a painter.” Hopkins says: "My works are straight photographs taken of actual things that exist in the world and are never manipulated, but they look and feel like abstract paintings. Emotionally, they are all about painting. I search out surface, shadow, light, and color and bring them together onto a canvas."

On Exhibit: May 2 - 28

Artist Talk: May 20 - 5:30 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

Join Cathy Lichtman of Ahimsa Peaceful Yoga at the Wellfleet Public Library for six yoga sessionsin April and May

Thursdays 10:30 - 11:30

optional 10 minute Meditation prior to start of class

Welcome in the spring with a little calm and peace.

All levels are welcome!

Please bring your mat and props if you have, or a large towel for extra padding may be helpful.

Open to the public - Gratuity welcomed, $20.00 is suggested.

April 16, 23, 30

May 7, 14, 21

Wellfleet Public Library

Marianne Cronin's The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot is a heartwarming novel about the unlikely friendship between 17-year-old Lenni and 83-year- old Margot, both patients living with terminal diagnoses in a Glasgow hospital. Together, they decide to create 100 paintings to tell the stories of their combined century of life. Funny, tender, and moving, this book explores themes of the power of human connection and finding joy in the face of mortality.

Led by Kim Crawford, board member of the The Lily House and Senior Minister Emerita of Arlington Street Church (UU), Boston.

May 7, 14 & 21

Jeff Soderbergh Sustainable Furnishing & Fine Art Gallery

Spring Gallery Reception

11B W Main St. Wellfleet, MA

Please join us in celebrating a show of stunning sustainable art, sculpture, lighting, and furnishings

Saturday | May 23rd | 3-7 pm

508-214-0538 | jeffsoderbergh.com/artists

Farm Project/ Cape Cod Modern House Trust

An afternoon at the Cape Cod Modern House Trust, Breuer House.

20 minute Film screening: ANYUKA, followed by a Q & A with the artist, brown bag lunch, and optional drawing game.

Reservations required.

Bike, Paddle over on floaties of any kind from Gull Pond landing or car pool from farm projects.

*to reserve a spot contact Susie at farm projects susie@farmprojectspace.org 617 650 9800 or stop by.

355 Main Street, Wellfleet

Wellfleet Public Library

Explore where poems come from (the art) and how they get made (the craft, as well as trying out your own poems-in-progress. This seminar is a welcoming place for beginners as well as practicing poets, and those who are simply curious about poetry and want to learn more.

Rosalind Pace is a 30-year veteran of the Poets-in-the-School program, has taught literature and writing in a variety of places, given readings in colleges, libraries, art centers, and festivals, including the Dodge Poetry Festival. Her poems have appeared in The Atlanta Review, American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Three Rivers Poetry Review, and others. She mentors the Truro Memoirs Group.

Tuesdays 5:00 PM-7:00 PM

April 28, May 12, May 26, June 2

Wellfleet Public Library

Free Spanish Lessons

Tuesdays, March 3 - June 30

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!

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: THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE BY WILLIAM SAROYAN

Аст ONE: WEDNESDAY APRIL 22 @ 4:00 PM

AcT TWo: WEDNESDAY MAY 13 @ 4:00 PM

ACT THREE: WEDNESDAY MAY 27 @ 4:00 PM

Wellfleet Public Library

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Director David Gelb, 2011, 81 minutes Japanese

The 85-year-old Jiro Ono is considered by many to be the world's greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of a 10-seat sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearance, it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious 3-star Michelin review, and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimages, calling months in advance and shelling out top dollar for a coveted seat at Jiro's sushi bar.

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Join us on Friday, May 29th at 7 pm for a screening of “Small Boats, Big Taste; How a Community Combatted COVID” -a remarkable documentary that reveals how the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance launched a rapid, dramatic effort to support both our independent small-boat fishing fleet and people facing food insecurity during a time of great fear and uncertainty.

From the decks of boats offshore to food banks and pantries, fishing captains to fish processors and chowder makers, this inspirational tale explores how a community responds to a deep crisis, a case study in how people can come together to support, help, and feed each other.

Co-produced and narrated by Wellfleet’s very own Seth Rolbein.

This event is free to attend. Please stay after the screening to sample the soups featured in the documentary!

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.

TICKETS

Lillie Gallery

Featuring local and national artists.

Opening Reception, May 30th 2 to 7 PM 

95 Commercial Street. (Adjacent to Mac's Shack)

Join for refreshments. This event is free and open to the public. 

Wellfleet Public Library

Office Hours with Olivia Hayden, Community Resource Navigator for Wellfleet and Eastham

The Outer Cape Health Services Community Navigator program helps assist residents with unmet medical, behavioral health, or human service needs through collaboration with local agencies, providers, and community groups.

Services include:

• Referring and connecting patrons to community resources such as social services, mental health services, substance abuse services, medical care, homelessness/housing assistance, and case management

• Assisting in navigating the variety of services available

• Problem-solving barriers to access

• Coordinating care

Stop by the library for office hours with Wellfleet's Community Resource Navigator Olivia Hayden, where she can answer questions and offer resources available in the Outer Cape community.

April 6, May 4, June 1

Wellfleet Public Library

Explore where poems come from (the art) and how they get made (the craft, as well as trying out your own poems-in-progress. This seminar is a welcoming place for beginners as well as practicing poets, and those who are simply curious about poetry and want to learn more.

Rosalind Pace is a 30-year veteran of the Poets-in-the-School program, has taught literature and writing in a variety of places, given readings in colleges, libraries, art centers, and festivals, including the Dodge Poetry Festival. Her poems have appeared in The Atlanta Review, American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Three Rivers Poetry Review, and others. She mentors the Truro Memoirs Group.

Tuesdays 5:00 PM-7:00 PM

April 28, May 12, May 26, June 2

Wellfleet Public Library

Free Spanish Lessons

Tuesdays, March 3 - June 30

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!

Wellfleet Public Library

Ann Schiffenhaus, Wellfleet Housing Coordinator, will hold open office hours in the conference room on select Thursdays for community members who have questions, comments, and ideas about housing in Wellfleet.

How can we help?

• Are you looking for year-round housing?

• Do you have a home you are considering as a year-round rental?

• Do you need information on rental assistance, help with home repairs, or assistance in applying for a residential tax exemption?

Stop by to discuss your housing needs and learn about available resources. No appointment necessary!

Thursdays ~ 1:00 PM-3:00 PM

January 5 ~ February 5 ~ March 5 ~ April 2 ~ May 7 ~ June 4

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

REGISTER

Wellfleet Public Library

Free Spanish Lessons

Tuesdays, March 3 - June 30

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!

Wellfleet Public Library

Free Spanish Lessons

Tuesdays, March 3 - June 30

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!

Wellfleet Public Library

Free Spanish Lessons

Tuesdays, March 3 - June 30

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!

Wellfleet Public Library

Free Spanish Lessons

Tuesdays, March 3 - June 30

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!

Wellfleet Public Library

Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan's mutual admiration and collaborating in the 1960s melded two styles of music that were, for the most part, stand alone entities: folk and country. Nowadays, we describe music that combines country and folk as Americana music, but that genre didn't exist back then. Dylan's 1969 album Nashville Skyline and appearance on the premiere of The Johnny Cash Show on ABC introduced him to a much twangier audience. Similarly, Cash's covering of a few Dylan songs and performing at the Newport Folk Festival opened the ears of many fans of folk music. Boston-based musician Matt York's latest concert program will use both songs and stories to illustrate the importance of these two titans of music.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Wellfleet Local Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

Wellfleet Public Library

Build Your Home Apothecary: A Seasonal Series with Nicole Cormier, MS, RDN, LDN, Clinical Herbalist

Summer Vitality Abundance

Thursday, July 9 @ 4:00 PM

Summer herbs are vibrant, aromatic, and often cooling. This session centers on herbs that uplift mood, support hydration, and calm the nervous system during long, active days.

Fall: Rooted & Resilient

Saturday, September 12 @ 3:00 PM

Fall invites us to slow down and fortify. This session focuses on immune-supportive roots, berries, and mushrooms that help the body prepare for colder months.

First Congregational Church of Wellfleet

From ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ to ‘Free Bird’ — an unforgettable night of strings and light.

An Immersive Candlelit Journey Through Iconic Rock Anthems

“Rock and roll meets classical music in a gorgeously crafted hour of music.”

Step into a world of shimmering light, where legendary rock anthems are reborn through a single violin — played with the fire and intensity of a full band.

This is not just a tribute show. This is Blue Violin — a genre-defying, conservatory-trained virtuoso who has lit up stages from Carnegie Hall to Singapore, and now brings his world tour to Australia, Europe, Asia, and across the U.S.

Often described as “Trans-Siberian Orchestra meets Lindsey Stirling,” Blue Violin delivers fiery virtuosity and cinematic flair in every performance.

Blue Violin has been earning international accolades for genre-bending performances that blur the line between classical virtuosity and rock energy.

Tickets and info

Wellfleet Historical Society

JULY 26, 2026 | 11 AM - 4 PM

More Info Coming Soon

Wellfleet Police and Fire Departments

An action-packed evening with a cookout, bouncy houses, and more

Wellfleet Public Library

Build Your Home Apothecary: A Seasonal Series with Nicole Cormier, MS, RDN, LDN, Clinical Herbalist

Fall: Rooted & Resilient

Saturday, September 12 @ 3:00 PM

Fall invites us to slow down and fortify. This session focuses on immune-supportive roots, berries, and mushrooms that help the body prepare for colder months.

Wellfleet Oyster Alliance

Tickets go on sale in August

Wellfleet Oyster Alliance

Tickets go on sale in August