Events from multiple categories
- Art Exhibition- Addison Event
- Capturing Wellfleet
- Sat, Jul 19th, 2014 | 10:00 am | In the Meeting Room
- Featuring paintings by Rick Fleury, Paul Schulenburg and award-winning plein air artists. For more information, please call the Addison Art Gallery at 508.255.6200.
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- Acrylic painting demonstration with Susan Overstreet
- Thu, Jul 24th, 2014 | 3:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
- Susan will paint a plein air still life in acrylic starting with abstract blocks of color working to a finished piece capturing the afternoon Cape light. For more information, please call the Addison Art Gallery at
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- Stuart Ewan
- Century of the Selfie: A Brief History of Optics and Individualism
- Thu, Jul 24th, 2014 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
- A performance by Stuart Ewen. STUART EWEN is generally considered one of the originators of the field of Media Studies, and his writings continue to shape debates in the field. His books include PR! A Social History ...
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- Addison Event
- Composing a successful painting with Maryalice Eizenberg
- Fri, Jul 25th, 2014 | 3:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
- Avid plein air painter Maryalice Eizenberg will demonstrate how to edit the landscape to create an effective composition in oils. There will be a focus on strong patterns of light and shadow. For more information, please call the Addison Art ...
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- Oil painting demonstration with John Clayton
- Sat, Jul 26th, 2014 | 10:00 am | In the Meeting Room
- John Clayton studied at The Art Student's League of New York and at the Cape Cod School of Art. His demonstration will include an explanation of the "Art of Seeing Color" as taught by Henry Hensche and Charles W. Hawthorne, founder of the Provincetown ...
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- Oil painting demonstration with Steve Kennedy
- Mon, Jul 28th, 2014 | 2:00 pm | In the Library grounds
- Artist Steve Kennedy will demonstrate composing a painting of local scenery including trees a yard and a Cape Cod house.
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- Tidal Theatre
- The Mosquito Storyslam
- Mon, Jul 28th, 2014 | 7:30 pm | In the Meeting Room
- The Mosquito Storyslam is inspired by the popular Moth StorySLAM, where audiences are encouraged to attend ready to tell a 5-minute true story about themselves related to the night's theme. If you choose not to tell a story – just show-up and be ...
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- Author event
- Fields Publishing presents an Evening with Kathy Shorr and Charles Fields
- Tue, Jul 29th, 2014 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
- Celebrating the publication of two new books: Author talk & book signing Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet - The Lower Cape. Photographs by Charles Fields; Text by Kathy Shorr. A ...
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- Peter I. Rose: Postmonitions of a Peripatetic Professor
- Wed, Jul 30th, 2014 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
- Reading & Book signing Sociologist, ethnographer, writer, teacher and world traveler Peter I. Rose will share stories from the pages of his colorful memoir Postmonitions of a Peripatetic Professor, published by Levellers ...
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- Art Exhibition
- Peter Watts
- Sat, Aug 2nd, 2014 | 2:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
- The show runs from August 2 through August 15.Stay tuned for more information!
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- Book Sale
- Giant August Book Sale
- Sun, Aug 3rd, 2014 | 9:00 am | In the Outside Town Hall
- Books and more books. Many new titles come in between the July sale and the August sale. All sales benefit the Library. In case of the rain, the sale will be held on Sunday, August 10, 9-1. The rain date will be posted on the library website ...
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- Fair Trade
- Phyllis Robinson : The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the Authentic Fair Trade Movement
- Mon, Aug 4th, 2014 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
- Phyllis Robinson is Education, Campaigns & Special Projects manager at Equal Exchange, and works to educate the public about challenges facing small farmers and the Fair Trade system.
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- Dream Birth
- Catherine Shainberg on DreamBirth: Transforming the Journey of Childbirth through Imagery
- Tue, Aug 5th, 2014 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
- Dr. Catherine Shainberg is an internationally known expert in the uses of Imagery for transformation on all levels. She will discuss her new book DreamBirth. Bringing a new life into the world is more than a biological process-it is ...
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- Poetry & Prose: Readings by Laura Manuelidis and Naomi Feigelson Chase
- Wed, Aug 6th, 2014 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
- Laura Manuelidis will read from her new book of poems One/divided by Zero. She is a physician and neuropathologist at Yale University. She earned her B.A. degree from Sarah Lawrence ...
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- Lisa Genova
- Distinguished Speaker: Bestselling Author Lisa Genova
- Thu, Aug 7th, 2014 | 7:30 pm | In the Wellfleet Congregational Church
- The Friends of the Wellfleet Libraries Distinguished Speaker this year is Lisa Genova, author of the New York Times bestselling novels Still Alice, Left Neglected, and Love Anthony. Still Alice, which won the 2008 ...
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- Foreign affairs talk
- Report from the Field: Trudy Rubin Foreign Affairs Correspondent
- Sun, Aug 10th, 2014 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
- Trudy Rubin is the foreign affairs columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer and travels abroad frequently to South Asia and the Middle East. Her "Worldview" column appears twice weekly in the Inquirer and runs regularly in many other U.S. ...
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- Helena Kennedy
- Helena Kennedy will speak on What Happened to the Rule of Law
- Mon, Aug 11th, 2014 | 8:00 pm | In the Meeting Room
- Helena Kennedy is one of Britain's most distinguished lawyers. She has spent her professional life giving voice to those who have least power within the system, championing civil liberties and promoting human rights. She has used many public ...
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- Summer Children's Program- Registration Required!
- Museum of Science: Engineering Windmills
- Wed, Aug 13th, 2014 | 2:30 pm | In the Meeting Room
- Arts and Sciences in the Afternoon is a series of Summer Children's Programs including workshops with locals artists and science experiments & activities with research and practicing scientists. These programs are for children ages 8 and ...
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- Historical Society
- Peter McMahon: Cape Cod Modern House Trust
- Wed, Aug 13th, 2014 | 7:30 pm | In the Meeting Room
- Wellfleet was blessed with an influx of many architects in the late 1930's and 1940's who began building experimental structures based on the early Modern buildings they had seen in Europe. The Cape Cod Modern House Trust has plans to restore all ...
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