Harwich Cultural Center

Join the Harwich Cranberry Arts & Music Festival for Season 3 outdoors in the Courtyard of the Harwich Cultural Center for a series of eight Thursday evening acoustic concerts beginning July 8, 2021. Individual shows will have a $25 admission with a season ticket available for $160 for all eight shows. Concerts RAIN OR SHINE will move into the auditorium in case of wet weather. More information online here or to purchase tickets here.

We have an exciting group of vendors this summer offering a wide variety of goods including local photography, Cape Cod décor, hand-made jewelry, family apparel, fine art, and more. Seaside Marketplace is open daily through September 7, 2021, from 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., weather permitting. With new vendors each week, plan to visit more than once!

Meet This Season's Vendors
Harwich Channel 18's Dinah Lane has been interviewing this season's marketplace vendors. Find the playlist here to learn more.

We look forward to seeing you at the Seaside Marketplace this summer. Find our schedule online here.

More information online here. Various Harwich Cultural Center studios will also be open from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

The issue features work from locals Sharon Dunn, Joe Spece and Marge Piercy, along with some off-shore verse from Chen Chen, Erica Charis-Molling, Mervyn Seivwright, Steven Cordova, and David Swerdlow. The photo above features David Cravenho, the Arts Editor, and John Bonanni, Editor, with the cover artist for this issue, Esteban del Valle, who is at work on a mural near Marine Specialties in Provincetown. 
 
Learn more about Cape Cod Poetry Review at www.capecodpoetryreview.com.

Despite pandemic challenges, as FY-21 Q4 finished, the Harwich Cultural Center brought in an estimated total revenue of $38,250.00 (April/$12,850, May/$12,650, and June/$12,750). Revenue trends, even with the exclusion of public event revenue, remain the strongest the center has experienced since the repurposing launch in December 2017. Current revenue totals do not include revenue contributions from Harwich Recreation lead programs including the five days a week after-school care and three days a week adult pickle-ball.

While the kitchen opening efforts remain on hold, public interest remains steady in the availability of rentable commercial kitchen space. Our Senior Tax Work-Off Program worker resumed her pre-pandemic administrative role at the cultural center, one to two days a week, focusing on researching other commercial kitchen sites in Massachusetts.

The center is accepting applications for one open studio space vacated by a long participating nonprofit group. Efforts are underway promoting the space to eligible nonprofits via a free radio interview with Leo Cakounes/Newsradio 95 WXTK, a free classified ad on the Mass Cultural Council website, and our digital media and social media channels. Staff-produced video footage provides a virtual overview of the space to limit the public in the building.

Monthly “Coffee and Conversation” was brought back with some changes to meet current COVID protocols. We look forward to welcoming the public to this free event when the building resumes post-pandemic operations.

The first 10-days of May, the Harwich Cultural Center focused on a “virtual” celebration of ArtWeek. Efforts were noted by the Boch Center regarding our virtual ArtWeek this year.

Find this report and more online harwich-ma.gov/harwich-cultural-center/pages/reports.

Harwich Cultural Center artist/renter Bernadette Waystack's solo show, Landscape As Memory, will run September 1 through September 15, 2021, in the vault at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, 307 Main Street, South Yarmouth. An opening reception will be held Friday, September 3rd from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Make Polaroid-like emulsion lifts using a Canon® Selphy CP 1300 Compact Photo Printer with Barbara Ford Doyle. The workshop is an introduction to the emulsion lift process and how these “skins” can be used in mixed media art. It’s not necessary to have one’s own printer.

Class fee: $225 per person, contact Barbara Ford Doyle bfdoyle@comcast.net to register.

The Harwich Cultural Center is seeking volunteers! Interested persons should fill out our online application or call (774) 212-3482.