Join Wellfleet Preservation Hall on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 7 p.m. for a screening of two short films by local filmmaker Michael Cestaro: White Space and Clay. The screening will be accompanied by live music by singer Mozelle, one of the subjects of White Space. Clay is a disarming and poetic profile of ceramicist Steve Kemp. Tickets are $20 at wellfleetpreservationhall.org.
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Dixon Line
Ella Mae Dixon is a young cabaret singer and actor performing in the back yard of Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 335 Main St., on Friday, July 23rd, at 7 p.m. Heavily involved with local community theater, Dixon is a born storyteller, performing a variety of classic Broadway show tunes and obscure musical theater cuts. Tickets are $20 at wellfleetpreservationhall.org.
Dessert First
Backyard concerts at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 335 Main St., continue with Cold Chocolate on Thursday, July 15th, 7 p.m. Led by Ethan Robbins (vocals/guitar) and Ariel Bernstein (percussion), the Boston-based band fuses folk, funk, and bluegrass. Tickets are $20 at wellfleetpreservationhall.org.
Good Jeans
Wellfleet singer-songwriter Alex Brewer will perform in the back yard at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 335 Main St., on Wednesday, July 7th, at 7 p.m. Brewer’s most recent album, released in February, is titled Denim Dharma. Tickets are $15 at wellfleetpreservationhall.org.
Richard Silberman Goes ‘Below the Surface’
Armed with a basic camera and goggles, Richard Silberman explores the eerie depths of the Outer Cape’s kettle ponds in “Below the Surface,” a show of 20 of his photographs at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, opening Saturday, June 19th and running through July 15th at 335 Main St.
Silberman often casts himself in the images — an anonymous, murky protagonist in a sometimes harmonious, sometimes fraught relationship with nature. “Where do we end? Where does nature begin?” Silberman asks in a press release. “How does this environment transform a person, and how does our presence transform the environment?”
Some photographs glow with an ethereal alien light; others are dark, ominous, and unknowable. Yet all feel remarkably alive — a rhythmic dance of water and aquatic plants generating more questions than answers.
Not Going Anywhere
Wellfleet Preservation Hall and the Wellfleet Historical Society will present a live screening of We Still Live Here, a documentary by Anne Makepeace detailing the reclamation and cultural revival of the Wampanoag in southeastern Massachusetts, on Tuesday, June 22nd, at 6 p.m. at 335 Main St. There will be a post-film discussion with historian Linda Coombs. Registration is free at wellfleetpreservationhall.org.
Mic Drop
Wellfleet Preservation Hall’s Feed Your Love Open Mic series, held every third Wednesday at 7 p.m., returns on June 16th, “live in the backyard” at long last. Registration is free at wellfleetpreservationhall.org.
Ooh La La
Wellfleet Preservation Hall presents “New French Shorts 2021,” a showcase of seven short films, including the Oscar-nominated Genius Loci and the César Award winners And Then the Bear and So What If the Goats Die?, available for online streaming Friday, May 28th through June 18th. A three-day pass is $12 at wellfleetpreservationhall.org.
Preservation Hall Is ‘In Flux’
“In Flux,” an exhibition of works by Sonya and Natalya Woodman at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 335 Main St., opens Saturday, May 15th and runs through June 17th. The hall is open Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sonya and Natalya are a mother-daughter pair of artists who live in Wellfleet. Natalya, whose art is inspired by Japanese anime, attends Nauset Regional Middle School and has participated in PAAM’s Art Reach program. Her preferred mediums are pen, marker, and paint. Sonya studied fine arts at UMass Dartmouth. She is also a surfer and shellfish harvester. Her acrylic paintings explore the relationship between sea and sky.
Break Through
Wellfleet Preservation Hall presents an outdoor staged reading of A.R. Gurney’s “The Fourth Wall,” directed by John Shuman, on Friday, May 14th, 4 p.m. The play explores the imaginary space between audience and onstage actors. Be sure to bring a blanket or lawn chair. Tickets are free at wellfleetpreservationhall.org.
Paint the Town
Join Colin McGuire for a virtual paint night, via Wellfleet Preservation Hall, on Tuesday, May 11th, from 6 to 8 p.m. You’ll complete a painting from start to finish; no prior artistic experience is necessary. Registration is $25, excluding materials, at wellfleetpreservationhall.org.
Virtual Verse
Join Wellfleet Preservation Hall and WOMR for a virtual poetry reading with the winners of the Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest: Rosemary Dunn Moeller, Michael Shapiro, Wilderness Sarchild, J. Lorraine Brown, Dianne Woods Ashley, James S. Cornell, Judith Partelow, Wayne Miller, Ginia Pati, and Rose Auslander, and contest judge Marge Piercy. It will take place Thursday, April 29th, at 7:30 p.m. Email [email protected] for the Zoom link.
A Hitch in Time
Marc Strauss hosts the final installment of “Atypical Hitchcock,” a virtual film series via Wellfleet Preservation Hall, on Wednesday, April 28th, at 7 p.m. Watch The Trouble With Harry, a dark comedy starring Shirley MacLaine and John Forsythe, and discuss. Registration is free at wellfleetpreservationhall.org.
Wellfleet Streaming
Sarah Swain & the Oh Boys present the fourth and final of their “Frying Pan Sessions,” broadcast from Wellfleet’s Frying Pan Gallery, on Saturday, April 17th, at 7 p.m. Watch at wellfleetpreservationhall.org. If performing is more your thing, Wellfleet Preservation Hall presents a virtual Feed Your Love Open Mic on Wednesday, April 21st, at 7 p.m. Email [email protected] to register.
Inspired Outsider
The “Doc Days Film Series” at Wellfleet Preservation Hall continues this week with Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts, available for streaming Friday, April 16th through May 13th for $12 at wellfleetpreservationhall.org. Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 in Alabama and worked as a sharecropper after emancipation. Homeless in his 80s, he taught himself to draw and paint, creating over 1,200 works of art.
