Wellfleet Preservation Hall

UNSCRIPTED is a six-week workshop series for people who are interested in exploring their own moving body as an aesthetic experience and as art.

Participants will be guided through individual and collective processes of body and movement attention and creative exploration, into the structuring of personal and innovative dance art.

Individual levels of experience will provide the base for each participant’s exploration, offering paths ahead for interested beginner to advanced artists. The atmosphere will be one of
positivity, creativity, diversity & celebration of each participant’s body, movement and artistic potential.

Contemporary dance is an inclusive & celebratory medium, focusing the choreographic eye to movement of all types of bodies, in new spaces, with new thematic goals, soundtracks, etc.

The workshop series will be facilitated by Leda Muhana & Dave Iannitelli, who bring more than 50 years combined experience in coaching, motivating and fine-tuning contemporary dance-making.

These Movimento Project workshops are supported by grants from the Wellfleet, Orleans and
Harwich Cultural Councils.

This workshop happens weekly from March 5th through April 16th. No class on March 12th

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Wellfleet Historical Society at the Wellfleet ACC

Wellfleet has been the proud home of immigrants since people from Finland, Cape Verde, and the Azores landed to pursue their rich farming and fishing heritage. The "Bridges" program, now in its second year, is a student-led program in which 6th to 12th grade students conducted interviews with Wellfleet immigrants who shared their journey to Wellfleet. The local community and visitors will have the opportunity to meet with the interviewers and interviewees at an evening event at Wellfleet's Adult Community Center. An edited version of the interviews will be shown and food from the interviewees native homes will be shared.

Thank you to the Wellfleet Cultural Council which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council for their continued support of the "Bridges" program

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Dance to the fiddle tunes of Ireland, Scotland, England, France and Appalachia!

Doors open at 6:15
Contra Basics Workshop at 6:30
Dancing starts at 7:00

$15 regular admission, $10 for ages 30 and younger, $5 with a student ID

Pay at the door!

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

UNSCRIPTED is a six-week workshop series for people who are interested in exploring their own moving body as an aesthetic experience and as art.

Participants will be guided through individual and collective processes of body and movement attention and creative exploration, into the structuring of personal and innovative dance art.

Individual levels of experience will provide the base for each participant’s exploration, offering paths ahead for interested beginner to advanced artists. The atmosphere will be one of
positivity, creativity, diversity & celebration of each participant’s body, movement and artistic potential.

Contemporary dance is an inclusive; celebratory medium, focusing the choreographic eye to movement of all types of bodies, in new spaces, with new thematic goals, soundtracks, etc.

The workshop series will be facilitated by Leda Muhana & Dave Iannitelli, who bring more than 50 years combined experience in coaching, motivating and fine-tuning contemporary dance-making.

These Movimento Project workshops are supported by grants from the Wellfleet, Orleans and
Harwich Cultural Councils.

This workshop happens weekly from March 5th through April 16th. No class on March 12th

SIGN UP

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

UNSCRIPTED is a six-week workshop series for people who are interested in exploring their own moving body as an aesthetic experience and as art.

Participants will be guided through individual and collective processes of body and movement attention and creative exploration, into the structuring of personal and innovative dance art.

Individual levels of experience will provide the base for each participant’s exploration, offering paths ahead for interested beginner to advanced artists. The atmosphere will be one of
positivity, creativity, diversity & celebration of each participant’s body, movement and artistic potential.

Contemporary dance is an inclusive & celebratory medium, focusing the choreographic eye to movement of all types of bodies, in new spaces, with new thematic goals, soundtracks, etc.

The workshop series will be facilitated by Leda Muhana & Dave Iannitelli, who bring more than 50 years combined experience in coaching, motivating and fine-tuning contemporary dance-making.

These Movimento Project workshops are supported by grants from the Wellfleet, Orleans and
Harwich Cultural Councils.

This workshop happens weekly from March 5th through April 16th. No class on March 12th

SIGN UP

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Dance to the fiddle tunes of Ireland, Scotland, England, France and Appalachia!

Doors open at 6:15
Contra Basics Workshop at 6:30
Dancing starts at 7:00

$15 regular admission, $10 for ages 30 and younger, $5 with a student ID

Pay at the door!

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Dance to the fiddle tunes of Ireland, Scotland, England, France and Appalachia!

Doors open at 6:15
Contra Basics Workshop at 6:30
Dancing starts at 7:00

$15 regular admission, $10 for ages 30 and younger, $5 with a student ID

Pay at the door!

Wellfleet Public Library

The Harbor Stage Company presents a free staged reading of Ivan Vyrypaev’s Illusions

Illusions - A Love Story by Ivan Vyrypaev

Event is POSTPONED due to inclement weather

Wellfleet Public Library 55 W Main Street, Wellfleet

A Wellfleet Cultural Council-supported event

Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Dance to the fiddle tunes of Ireland, Scotland, England, France and Appalachia!

Doors open at 6:15
Contra Basics Workshop at 6:30
Dancing starts at 7:00

$15 regular admission, $10 for ages 30 and younger, $5 with a student ID

Pay at the door!

Arts Peace Makers

Join us for an interactive and engaging workshop that will provide tools for de-escalation of conflicts and nonviolence resources for taking direct action. Learn more about community building and raise your awareness about the history and power of nonviolence for transformational social change. Participants will come away with a basic understanding of the process involved and reasons for/against civil disobedience. The essence of the afternoon is how to become the people who can build a world that welcomes all. Workshop facilitator Catherine Hoffman is a long-time human rights organizer and advocate for peace and justice. Don't miss this opportunity to learn and grow together. See you there! This offering is one of several ArtPeaceMakers MLK events in January 2025.

First Congregational Church of Wellfleet January 11, 2025: 10:00 am - 2:30 pm (lunch included)

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https://tinyurl.com/wxfrafbd

Outer Cape Chorale

Choral Treasures - From Bach to Bernstein and Beyond

Allison Beavan - Artistic Director

Concerts are free - no ticket needed. Contributions welcome.

More info: outercapechorale.org

A Wellfleet Cultural Council-supported event

Vinegrass

OPEN MIC

FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ACROSS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS

SATURDAYS: ОСТ 26, NOV 9, NOV 30, DEC 14

6:30 - 8:30 PM

WASHASHORE MUSIC, 12 COVE ROAD, ORLEANS, MA 02653

A Wellfleet Cultural Council-supported event

Outer Cape Chorale

Choral Treasures - From Bach to Bernstein and Beyond

Allison Beavan - Artistic Director

Concerts are free - no ticket needed. Contributions welcome.

More info: outercapechorale.org

A Wellfleet Cultural Council-supported event

Outer Cape Chorale

Choral Treasures - From Bach to Bernstein and Beyond

Allison Beavan - Artistic Director

Concerts are free - no ticket needed. Contributions welcome.

More info: outercapechorale.org

A Wellfleet Cultural Council-supported event

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Donald Beal - Paintings

Part of a monthly changing exhibit showcasing local artists.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT              

My paintings are made from either direct observation or are studio inventions. Both ways of working are informed by years of looking at the art from the distant past to the work done by my contemporaries. The landscape is most of what I do when working from life. Painting from life forces me to be truly awake, and to look deeply at what I’m confronted with. It can be an overwhelming experience, and I find the only way forward is to trust my impulses and instincts to find some way to articulate a deeper understanding of what it means to be there. If all goes well the painting finds a form that expresses something that goes beyond expected and easy answers, and exposes deeper and more difficult truths. Working from life is both exhilarating and exhausting and is the most demanding work I’ve ever done. It’s the foundation everything else I do stands on.

The invented paintings made in my studio begin as open mark making and smears of color that attempt nothing more than to establish a spatial relationship with one another. As these relationships build, suggestions of imagery inevitably emerge. If these images feel vital I try to foster them, if not, they get knocked down until something new takes shape. Working this way I can build paintings that are found through an abstract language from which the unbeckoned and mythologized memories of figures, animals, landscapes, florals are created unforced, and unmannered. 

Working this way I’m able to find something unexpected, and avoid the self conscious and literal responses that working from a fixed idea can lead to.  

ARTIST’S BIO

Donald Beal was born in Syracuse, New York and grew up in Westford, Massachusetts. He studied painting at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and received an MFA from Parsons School of Designin 1983. He moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1985 and continues to live and work there with his wife Khristine. Beal taught as a Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts in North Dartmouth from 1999 until 2019. He was a 2013 recipient of the Lillian Orlowsky William Freed (LOWF) grant, and has received grants from the National Academy of Arts, the Gottlieb Foundation, and the Artists Fellowship. He has shown his work nationally in both group and solo exhibitions, and is included in numerous public and private collections.

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center, 715 Old Kings Highway

Month of December, M-F: 8 am - 4 pm, closed Christmas Day

Robert Rindler: Curator, James Connors: Co-Curator & Installation 

Vinegrass

OPEN MIC

FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ACROSS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS

SATURDAYS: ОСТ 26, NOV 9, NOV 30, DEC 14

6:30 - 8:30 PM

WASHASHORE MUSIC, 12 COVE ROAD, ORLEANS, MA 02653

A Wellfleet Cultural Council-supported event

Outermost Contra at Wellfleet Preservation Hall

A Wellfleet Cultural Council-supported event

Every 3rd Friday of the month!

New England Contra, Squares, Waltzes

Come Dance! Make Friends! Always Live Music!

Contra Basics Workshop: 6:30
Beginners are encouraged to attend.

Dance begins at 7:00

Music by:
Start Moore, fiddler
Amy Corrigan, guitar
Pat Nash, caller

$15 admission
Special admission: $10 under 30, $5 with student ID
Donations always gratefully accepted.

Cash Bar

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! 

Visit http://outermostcontra.org to join mailing list and confirm event.

Vinegrass

OPEN MIC

FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ACROSS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS

SATURDAYS: ОСТ 26, NOV 9, NOV 30, DEC 14

6:30 - 8:30 PM

WASHASHORE MUSIC, 12 COVE ROAD, ORLEANS, MA 02653

A Wellfleet Cultural Council-supported event

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Joann Eldridge - Photographs, A Memorial Exhibition

Part of a monthly changing exhibit showcasing local artists.

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center, 715 Old Kings Highway

Month of November, M-F: 8 am - 4 pm

Opening Reception - November 3rd, 3-5 pm

Robert Rindler: Curator, James Connors: Co-Curator & Installation 

ARTIST’S POSTHUMOUS STATEMENT 

I chose to be a photographer because I wanted to express myself in an artistic manner. Since my drawing and painting skills have not advanced beyond stick figures, it is my choice to be a photographer. Presently Street Photography and Decay - urban, suburban and rural - are my subjects of choice. But to tell you the truth, I have and shall shoot anything that is in front of me, behind me, above me, beside me and under me.

ARTIST’S BIO

Joann D. Eldridge was born on August 31, 1939, and spent her early years in the Buzzards Bay/Bourne area on Cape Cod. She often traveled with her father up and down the East Coast waterways as he was a sports fisherman. Joann loved living on Cape Cod and Blackfish Creek, being close to the ocean and beautiful beaches and enjoying spectacular sunsets.

She graduated from Worcester State College in 1970 with a B.A. in English. She had a love of literature and received her M.A. in English from Assumption College in 1972. She spent 30 years at Doherty High School in Worcester where she taught Advanced Placement English, coordinated drama shows, and was advisor to the Literary Magazine. Several of her former students remained in touch over the years and often commented on how influential she was in their lives.

Vinegrass

OPEN MIC

FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ACROSS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS

SATURDAYS: ОСТ 26, NOV 9, NOV 30, DEC 14

6:30 - 8:30 PM

WASHASHORE MUSIC, 12 COVE ROAD, ORLEANS, MA 02653

Wellfleet Cultural Council at the Wellfleet Public Library

Join us to celebrate the 2024 grantees and learn about 2025 funding.

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Diane Robertson

Part of a monthly changing exhibit showcasing local artists.

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center, 715 Old Kings Highway

Opening Reception - September 29 - 3:00 - 5:00

On Exhibit - Month of October, M-F: 8 am - 4 pm

Robert Rindler: Curator, James Connors: Co-Curator & Installation 

ARTIST STATEMENT: DIANE ROBERTSON

As a child, I bought my first camera, a Kodak “Baby Brownie” for $3.00. In my early teens I bought a Kodak flash camera with my baby sitting money.

Photography became my biggest interest, and in my sixties, I signed up for photo trips to places I had only seen in pictures. These trips were wonderful as I didn’t have to do any of the planning. I also joined a camera club and benefitted from the help of the members with greater skills than I had.

After my husband and I moved to Wellfleet on Cape Cod, I signed up for watercolor classes at the Cape Cod Art Center in Barnstable.

During the next few years, I had two wonderful watercolor teachers who were very different in style. I then began to paint from my own photographs, using a plastic grid overlay so I could map-out where my subjects went on the watercolor painting.

Things became easier as time passed and my choice of subject varied. Many happy memories filled my day.

Photography and painting have been equally satisfying hobbies over the years, as the subjects brought back very happy memories of people I met and the places we visited. May others find the joy that I found in my artistic endeavors.

Outermost Contra at Wellfleet Preservation Hall

The Traditional Old-time-Dance and Music of New England

OUTERMOST CONTRA DANCE

Come Dance! Always Live Music!

Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 335 Main Street, Wellfleet MA

Come Dance with us!

Next Dance: September 20

Doors open at 6:30

Dance begins at 7:00 pm

Contra Basics Workshop: 6:30 Beginners are encouraged to attend.

A Wellfleet Cultural Council Supported event

$15 admission
Special admission: $10 under 30, $5 with student ID
Donations always gratefully accepted.

Cash Bar

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! 

Visit http://outermostcontra.org to join mailing list and confirm event.

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Marc Kundmann - BODY LANGUAGE

Part of a monthly changing exhibit showcasing local artists.

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center, 715 Old Kings Highway

Month of September, M-F: 8 am - 4 pm

Reception for the Artist: Sunday, September 8 - 3:00 - 5:00 pm

Robert Rindler: Curator, James Connors: Co-Curator & Installation 

ARTIST STATEMENT:

This exhibition is a collection of works that explore the male figure with paintings that span my career.  In these works, I focus on body language and the physicality of the figures —whether in contemplation or movement—to suggest a narrative and dialog between the subjects and even the viewer.  I use vibrant color expressively to set a tone and incorporate scrapping, texture, and bold brushwork to bring out the fleshiness and complexity of the body while hopefully revealing a sense of inner life that goes beyond the surface. My goal is to invite viewers  to find their own connection and interpretation of the scene and the interplay between the figures.

ARTIST’S BIO:

Marc Kundmann has spent over 25 years as a painter residing and working in the captivating landscapes of Cape Cod. He has maintained his Provincetown West End studio for over a decade. More recently, part-time residency in Mérida, Mexico has further broadened his palette and subjects, including the addition of portraiture to his repertoire.

Kundmann works in encaustic, oil and acrylic media, allowing him to build and remove layers of color, transparency, and pigments, and to use texture expressively. His hope is that the resulting layers create not only intriguing and beautiful surfaces, but also give emotional life to the subjects and hint at the mystery inside.

His most recent work explores our physical interaction with the exceptional environment of the Cape: the long walks through the dunes, our movement through the water that surrounds us either swimming or boating, biking on the trails, and even the still moments in our special homes. It celebrates the unique rituals and rhythms of life here and the beautiful people of all kinds that make up the fabric of our community. 

Kundmann studied and workshopped with fine artists connected to the long tradition of creating on Cape Cod including Robert Henry, a student of Hans Hofmann, and Fine Arts Work Center Fellows Jim Peters, Bert Yarborough and Richard Baker. Through them he learned to explore materials, freeing himself from the constraints of representing the real world and allowing him to work expressively, responding to color and composition allowing the painting to evolve into its final form. 

He is represented by the Addison Art Gallery and his exhibitions include several one-man shows there. Teaching Traditions (2013) and Art of the Garden (2012) at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and the two-person show Timeless: Explorations in Wax-based Media at the Cape Cod Museum of Art.

His work is featured in Deborah Forman’s comprehensive book, Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: Images of Land and Sea (Schiffer Publishing, 2013).

Kundmann has taught several workshops through the Museum School at PAAM.

Wellfleet Cultural Council

BAKE SALE

Bake sale at PorchFest to raise funds to support the Cultural Council of Wellfleet.

Each year, the Council awards grants to projects, artists, and events (like PorchFest) that enrich the lives of Wellfleet residents and visitors.

Homemade baked goods will be for sale along with sparkling water. All proceeds benefit the Wellfleet Cultural Council.

Wellfleet PorchFest 2024

Free open-air music festival taking place on the porches in the Historic and Cultural District of Wellfleet.

Porchfest is looking forward to another day of live music on the porches and front yards of beautiful downtown Wellfleet!

PorchFest hosts artists across all genres including: classical, Celtic, bluegrass, rock, jazz, and more.

The festival runs from 1:30 to 5:00 in two sets, with a half-hour break between sets.

Wellfleet PorchFest was founded by a group of local musicians and friends following the example of the original Porchfest introduced in Ithaca, New York in 2007. From its beginnings in Ithaca, the Porchfest concept has spread to cities and towns across the country and Canada, including three others in Massachusetts: Somerville, Jamaica Plain, and Sandwich. 

Provincetown Art Association & Museum

Collective Line Drawing (CLD) is a second iteration of the LCC-funded Community Bulletin Board, a public interactive art project at PAAM. For the second iteration, we recycled and reused the same materials; pushpins and a large cork bulletin board, to start a new line drawing, made collectively by the participants pinning one pushpin at a time to connect dots (pins) into a continuous line, resulting in a large free-flowing colorful drawing. Participants can start a new line pattern that connects to another existing dot/pin to create a continuous flow of intertwining lines.   

One pushpin pinned on the bulletin board initiated the start of the project in March, and now the drawing is massive! This is a collective art project to work together and make connections literally by pinning dot to dot, and socially by interacting with one another to create stronger bonds with individuals in our community while making art.