A Premiere in the Barn, a Whale on 6A, and Two Towns Vote Monday

Last week the season said goodbye: the last tea dance, the last lobster roll, the names read on Veterans Day. This week the year-rounders take over the calendar. The fairs are run by churches and hospital volunteers. The films come with the filmmaker standing up front. Monday's biggest events happen in two school gyms.

The sun is down by about 4:20, so plan around the nights, not the number of things on the list. Below: one pick a day, your town at a glance, everything free, everything for kids, and then the whole week. Every event name is a link to its own page, so tap it for tickets, times, and directions.

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The Week in Seven Lines

Thursday: The Hundred Aker Wood opens at Cape Rep, Brewster, 7:30 p.m.

Friday: In the Whale with the director at the natural history museum, Brewster, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday: Cornmeal at the Stony Brook gristmill, then a holiday fair, then Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish at the Squire, 6 p.m.

Sunday: The Cape League Hall of Fame at Wequassett, Harwich, 10 a.m.

Monday: Special town meetings in Brewster (5 p.m.) and Orleans (6 p.m.).

Tuesday: Bob Heppe on the old camps of Chatham, Atwood Museum, 5 p.m.

Wednesday: Alla Zbinovsky's free artist talk at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 5 p.m.

Screenshot this one. It's the whole week.

Your Town This Week

Tap your town, then copy the link to share just your slice.

Brewster

The new musical The Hundred Aker Wood opens at Cape Rep (Thu.–Sun.). In the Whale is at the natural history museum (Fri.). Saturday brings the cornmeal grind and the Brewster Baptist Holiday Fair. The Special Town Meeting is Monday at 5. A Josef Albers color workshop closes out Wednesday.

Chatham

The Golden Scallop screens with the filmmaker at the Orpheum, and Town Talk is at Eldredge (both Thu.). The Labyrinth Walk of Giving Thanks is Sunday. Monday has Janis Robinson Daly's author talk. On Tuesday, Bob Heppe covers the old camps of Chatham. Johnny Hoy plays the Squire Saturday.

Harwich

Songwriters in the Round is at Harwich Junior Theatre (Fri.). Saturday is 60-plus makers at Monomoy High. Sunday is the Cape League Hall of Fame at Wequassett. Ranger Dave Lewis tells the Cape Cod Canal story at Brooks Free Library (Fri.).

Orleans

There's the Holly Berry Bazaar, the Paul Schulenburg preview at Addison, and the final weekend of Mortal Thoughts. The Special Town Meeting is Monday at 6. Then come Matisse two days running (Tue.–Wed.) and the Free Shop (Mon. and Wed.).

Eastham

Saturday is the big day. Paul Rishell & Annie Raines play First Encounter. The Wild Care Latin dance is at the Elks. The State of Wellfleet Harbor Conference is at Nauset High, and ornament making is at Ponderosa. On Friday, the library has a free jazz trio.

Wellfleet

Making Movies plays free (Fri.), and The Narrow Land screens with a Q&A (Fri.). Saturday has Jessi Rosinski's flute recital and Drum and Dance. The town's ADU housing workshop is Monday. Wednesday is the Zbinovsky artist talk.

Truro

Jennifer Stratton's reception is at the library (Sat.), along with author talks Friday and Tuesday. Payomet circus classes are for kids 3 to 12. The Tremendous Trash Tally open house is Sunday (confirm first).

Provincetown

Three openings at The Commons are Friday. Saturday has the UUMH Chili Cookoff, a free Making Movies show, and Carlös at the Post Office. On Tuesday, the Commons hosts Making Light, a conversation with local artists.

🆓 Free This Week

The part to forward to the friend who says there's nothing to do in November.

• Holiday Cornmeal Grind: Sat., 10 a.m.–2 p.m., Stony Brook Grist Mill, Brewster. Entry is free; cornmeal is $5, cash or check.

• Three holiday fairs, all free to walk in, all Sat.:

  • Brewster Baptist, 9 a.m.–2 p.m.

  • Holly Berry Bazaar, 9 a.m.–3 p.m., Orleans

  • A Different Drummer, 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Harwich

• Making Movies: Fri., 7 p.m., Wellfleet, and Sat., 6 p.m., Provincetown. Free with registration.

• Town Talk: Inside Chatham's Local Government: Thu., 5:30 p.m., Eldredge Library.

• The Camps of Chatham with Bob Heppe: Tue., 5 p.m., Atwood Museum.

• Cape Cod Canal Story: Fri., 1 p.m., Brooks Free Library, Harwich.

• Free jazz: Bart Weisman, Bill Pernice, and Ron Ormsby: Fri., 2 p.m., Eastham Public Library.

• Grant King & Peter Donnelly: Sat., 2 p.m., Provincetown Public Library.

• Stephen Russell & Some Esteemed Friends: Sat., 3 p.m., Wellfleet Public Library.

• Wellfleet Drum and Dance: Sat., 7–10 p.m., Wellfleet Adult Community Center.

• The Power of Stories to Change the World: Sun., 3:30 p.m., Arts Empowering Life, Brewster.

• Labyrinth Walk of Giving Thanks: Sun., 2 p.m., Chase Park, Chatham. Bring a can if you can.

• Janis Robinson Daly: Under Two Flags: Mon., 3 p.m., Eldredge Library. Registration required.

• Hand Therapy with Spaulding Rehab: Tue., 10 a.m., Brewster COA.

• Alla Zbinovsky artist talk: Wed., 5 p.m., Wellfleet Preservation Hall.

• Holiday Wreath Making: Wed., 2 p.m., Cape Cod Post Acute Care, Orleans Road. Register through Brewster Ladies' Library.

• Free Spanish lessons: Tue., 5:30 p.m., Wellfleet Public Library.

• Orleans Farmers Market: Sat., 9 a.m.–noon, 19 Old Colony Way.

• Both town meetings: Brewster Mon., 5 p.m.; Orleans Mon., 6 p.m. Anyone may watch.

👧 Bring the Kids

For the parents, grandparents, and aunts who have a kid on Saturday.

• The Hundred Aker Wood Saturday matinee: 2 p.m., Cape Rep, Brewster. $25 for 18 and under.

• In the Whale: Fri., 5:30 p.m., Brewster, $50. Best for teenagers. You walk inside a life-size humpback.

• Science Rocks!: 10:15 a.m. most days at the natural history museum.

• Tween/Teen Needle Felting: Sat., 3 p.m., Eldredge Library, grades 5–12. Free; register.

• Ponderosa ornament workshop: Sat., 11 a.m.–1 p.m., Eastham. $25 for three; preregister.

• Payomet circus classes: Fri. and Tue. afternoons, Truro Central School, ages 3–12.

• Pajama Story Time: Wed., 5:30 p.m., Brooks Free Library, Harwich.

• Wellfleet Drum and Dance: Sat. night. All ages, free.

• Little ones outdoors:

  • Babies in Backpacks (Orleans, Mon.)

  • Preschool Exploration (Orleans, Mon.)

  • Preschool Explorers (Harwich, Wed.)

  • All three require registration.

Reading the Week

Saturday is the heavy day, and it's best done along Route 6A.

• Start at the gristmill at 10.

• Walk the Brewster Baptist fair.

• Then pick Orleans (Holly Berry) or Harwich (Monomoy High).

• Catch the 2 p.m. matinee of The Hundred Aker Wood, or the Schulenburg preview at Addison from 4.

• Finish with Johnny Hoy at the Squire at 6.

On the Outer Cape, Saturday is just as full:

• A flute recital in Wellfleet at 3

• Chili in Provincetown at 5

• Latin dance in Eastham at 6

• The blues at First Encounter at 7

Pick one coast.

Friday is the big night out: In the Whale (5:30), Songwriters in the Round (7), jazz with dinner at Wequassett (5:30), and Making Movies, free, in Wellfleet (7).

Thursday is opening night. Cape Rep premieres its musical, the Orpheum screens The Golden Scallop with the filmmaker, and Chatham's Town Talk covers how the town runs.

Monday is civic night. Tuesday and Wednesday are for learning: Bob Heppe, Matisse two days running, Janis Robinson Daly, and the Albers workshop.

This Week's Headlines

Two special town meetings, one night. Brewster meets Monday at 5 p.m. at Stony Brook Elementary, 384 Underpass Road (check-in from 4). Orleans meets at 6 p.m. in the Nauset Regional Middle School gym, with town officials there from 4 to take questions. Free Orleans childcare requires preregistration at orleansrecreation.com. Read your town's warrant first. Only registered voters vote, but anyone may watch.

Thanksgiving starts at the gristmill. Brewster's cornmeal grind is Saturday, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Cornmeal is $5 for 1.5 pounds, cash or check, and no dogs. Two quieter Thanksgiving beats:

• The Labyrinth Walk of Giving Thanks in Chatham, Sunday at 2, where a can of food is welcome (canceled if it rains)

• The Free Shop at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Orleans, open Monday 10 a.m.–1 p.m. and Wednesday 10 a.m.–2 p.m.

One correction for your fridge. Some calendars still list the Nickerson Family Association's Thanksgiving Centerpiece Workshop for this Saturday. The organizer's current page says Saturday, Nov. 21, at 1 p.m., with preregistration by Nov. 18.

Read the venue before you drive. Cape Symphony's West Side Story weekend and the Jazz Kissa listening lounge show up on Lower Cape chamber calendars, but both are in Barnstable. Most of the Hundred Aker Wood listings under Chatham are for the Brewster show.

Brewster Ladies' Library: call first. The library's website has been unreliable this month, so its pottery sale, book sale, and drop-in times below come from chamber and mirror listings.

Don't Sleep On This

🎵 Between the Notes with Jessi Rosinski · Wellfleet

Saturday, Nov. 14 · 3 p.m. · Outermost Performing Arts Center (the old WHAT), 2357 Route 6

A conversational flute recital, with talk between the pieces, at the theater Wellfleet nearly lost this year. A recital like this lives or dies on the turnout, and at 3 on a November Saturday the turnout is your neighbors. Go so there's a reason to book the next one. $30; $15 students, per the Provincetown Independent. Tickets through the venue.

🎤 Songwriters in the Round · Harwich

Friday, Nov. 13 · 7 p.m. · Harwich Junior Theatre, 105 Division Street West

A few songwriters on one stage take turns and tell where each song came from. HJT is a children's theater most of the year, and seeing it with the house lights low for grown-ups is half the fun. The lineup isn't posted, so you'll meet them when they sit down. $20 advance; $25 door. Box office 508-432-2002.

🖼️ Matisse, Two Days Running · Orleans

Tuesday, Nov. 17 · 1:30–3 p.m., "Matisse at War: Art and Resistance in Nazi-Occupied France" · Wednesday, Nov. 18 · 1:30–3:30 p.m., "Henri Matisse"

Friends of Snow Library's Lifetime Learning runs two single-session Matisse classes back to back. One covers the war years and the other the whole career. Take both and you'll have the old man's scissors and his courage in the same week. Register through Friends of Snow Library; a $10 suggested donation is listed for Tuesday. Don't assume drop-in seats.

🎨 Arts & Culture

Editorial pick: Paul Schulenburg Preview Reception · Sat., Nov. 14 · 4–6 p.m. · Addison Art Gallery, 43 South Orleans Road, Orleans · check the gallery.

For years Schulenburg has painted Chatham's fish pier: the boats, the men, and the light on the water. This preview is new work headed to a Boston show. Saturday at Addison you see it first, before it leaves for the city. Go stand in front of a painting of a place you drive past every week.

🎞️ The Golden Scallop: a Cape Cod fried-seafood mockumentary, with a filmmaker talkback. Thu., Nov. 12 · 7 p.m. · Chatham Orpheum · tickets through the Orpheum.

🎨 Color Is Never Alone: Josef Albers and the Art of Seeing: two hours on how one color changes the one beside it. Wed., Nov. 18 · 5:30–7:30 p.m. · The Barn, First Parish Brewster · $35; register via Eventbrite.

🖌️ Galley West Artist Talk: hear from a Galley West artist. Wed., Nov. 18 · 4–5:30 p.m. · 204 Monument Road, Orleans.

🏛️ The Commons openings, Making Light, and PAAM's Bill Evaul lecture are under Provincetown below.

🧵 Hands & Habits

Editorial pick: Brewster Baptist Church Holiday Fair · Sat., Nov. 14 · 9 a.m.–2 p.m. · 1848 Main Street, Brewster · free admission.

It's a village of little shops under one roof:

• Attic Treasures, a Book Nook, and a Knitwear Shoppe

• A Bake Shoppe, and a Bistro for soup and sandwiches

• A Woodworks table of handmade toys and nativity sets

• Wreaths, fudge, and Sved's fish spreads

All proceeds go to A Baby Center, Champ Homes, and the Lower Cape Outreach Council, and a donor is matching cash gifts up to $3,000. Get there early for the pies. This is where Christmas shopping on 6A starts.

🎄 Holly Berry Bazaar: the Cape Cod Hospital Auxiliary's annual fundraiser. Sat. · 9 a.m.–3 p.m. · Nauset Regional Middle School, Orleans · free admission.

🛍️ A Different Drummer's 4th Annual Holiday Craft Fair: 60-plus local makers. Sat. · 10 a.m.–4 p.m. · Monomoy Regional High School, 75 Oak Street, Harwich · free admission.

🌽 Holiday Cornmeal Grind: the old mill on the herring run turns once more before winter. Sat. · 10 a.m.–2 p.m. · Stony Brook Grist Mill, 830 Stony Brook Road, Brewster · cornmeal $5 for 1.5 lb, cash or check.

🏺 Holiday Pottery Sale, opening reception: Sat. · noon–4 p.m., per chamber and mirror listings · Brewster Ladies' Library · call ahead about later days.

📚 Winter Book Sale: Sun. · 1–3:30 p.m., per an indexed listing · Brewster Ladies' Library basement · call ahead.

💐 Holiday Floral Arranging with Pam Vasques: Thu. · 4–5:30 p.m. · Chatham Bars Inn · $90 plus 20% service; book ahead.

🎀 Holiday Wreath Making: Wed. · 2–3:30 p.m. · Cape Cod Post Acute Care, 383 South Orleans Road (not at the COA or the library) · free; register by calling Brewster Ladies' Library.

🧶 Tween/Teen Needle-Felting Afternoon: grades 5–12. Sat. · 3–4:30 p.m. · Eldredge Public Library · free; register.

🤝 Community

Editorial pick: Town Talk: Inside Chatham's Local Government · Thu., Nov. 12 · 5:30 p.m. · Eldredge Public Library, Forgeron Hall, Chatham · free.

An hour with town officials, including Treasurer Sharon Drown, on how Chatham actually runs: who decides what, where the money goes, and how to get a question answered. People mean to go every year and never do. Go this year, then go to town meeting knowing what you're looking at. Registration requested; walk-ins as space allows.

🗳️ Brewster Special Town Meeting (5 p.m.) and Orleans Special Town Meeting (6 p.m.): Mon., Nov. 16. Details in Headlines.

🙏 Labyrinth Walk of Giving Thanks: bring a nonperishable if you can. Sun. · 2 p.m. · Chase Park labyrinth, Chatham · free; canceled if rain.

🧺 Free Shop at the Church of the Holy Spirit: Mon. · 10 a.m.–1 p.m. and Wed. · 10 a.m.–2 p.m. · Gathering Room, 204 Monument Road, Orleans · free.

💻 Tech Drop-In: bring the phone, tablet, or e-reader that's been fighting you. Thu. · 3–4 p.m. · Brewster Ladies' Library Reference Department · free.

📖 Shark Scholars: homework help on the early-release afternoon. Wed. · 3–4:45 p.m. · Eldredge Public Library · free.

🍽️ Food & Drink

Editorial pick: Caymus Vineyards Wine Dinner · Thu., Nov. 12 · reception 5:30 p.m., dinner 6:30 p.m. · Cuvée Bistro at the Chatham Inn, 359 Main Street · reservations; price not posted.

A Napa house famous for its Cabernet, poured course by course in a Main Street dining room after the summer rush is gone. The off-season is when Chatham's kitchens cook for people who'll come back next week. Call ahead. Seats at these dinners don't last.

⚾ Cape Cod Baseball League Hall of Fame brunch and induction: brunch at Twenty-Eight Atlantic, then the ceremony. Chatham's Seth Etherton and Grant Green and Brewster's Matt Goyen go in. Sun., Nov. 15 · 10 a.m. · Wequassett, Harwich · $95 plus fees.

🎷 A Taste of Jazz: Joe Mongelli Trio: Cape Symphony's dinner-and-music series. Fri. and Sat. · 5:30–8 p.m. · Twenty-Eight Atlantic, Wequassett · food and drink charged; reservations encouraged.

🥕 Orleans Farmers Market: still outside in November. Sat. · 9 a.m.–noon · 19 Old Colony Way · free.

🌶️ The UUMH Chili Cookoff is under Provincetown below.

🧘 Health & Wellness

Editorial pick: Hand Therapy with Spaulding Rehab · Tue., Nov. 17 · 10–11 a.m. · Brewster Council on Aging, 1673 Main Street · free, drop-in.

It's small and practical: an educational session with a quick grip check from Spaulding's therapists. November is when hands start to complain about jar lids, the cold wheel, and the shovel waiting in the shed. One free hour on a Tuesday morning is worth it.

🔔 Sound Healing & Salt Therapy Experience: a guided crystal-bowl hour. Thu. · 5:30–6:30 p.m. · Oceanair Himalayan Salt Cave, 34 Main Street, Orleans · $45; book ahead.

🌀 Qi Gong on the Labyrinth: Mon. · 10 a.m. · Center for the Spiritual Journey, 880 Main Street, Chatham · per the center's calendar.

🌿 Acupuncture and Meditation for Women: Wed. · 10 a.m. · Helping Our Women, 3 Main Street, Eastham · free.

🎶 Music & Live Entertainment

Editorial pick: Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish · Sat., Nov. 14 · 6 p.m. · The Chatham Squire, 487 Main Street · check the Squire for cover.

Martha's Vineyard's harmonica-and-roadhouse blues band has played Cape and Islands rooms for years, and an early Saturday set at the Squire in November is what they're made for. Expect a full room, wet boots by the door, and a band that knows half the crowd. It's done early enough to get home before the late crowd comes in.

The Live-Music Grid

🌲 Nature & History

Editorial pick: In the Whale · Fri., Nov. 13 · 5:30–9:30 p.m. · Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, 869 Main Street, Brewster · $50, non-refundable.

In June 2021, a humpback swallowed Provincetown lobster diver Michael Packard and spat him back out. Friday the museum tells it properly:

• You walk into a full-size humpback reconstruction.

• You get a private tour of the aquarium.

• You watch the award-winning documentary, introduced in person by director David Abel, who stays for questions.

The story belongs to the Outer Cape, and Friday it's told twenty minutes from your house.

🏕️ The Camps of Chatham with Bob Heppe: the small fishing and hunting camps that once lined Chatham's shore, many now gone. Tue., Nov. 17 · 5 p.m. · Atwood Museum, Mural Barn, 347 Stage Harbor Road · free; reservations offered.

🚢 Cape Cod Canal Story: Army Corps ranger Dave Lewis on the ditch that made us an island. Fri. · 1 p.m. · Brooks Free Library, Harwich · free; registration requested.

🏡 Cape Cod Modern: Mid-Century Houses of the Outer Cape: part two of the Learning Series. Tue. · 1:30–3 p.m. · Eldredge Public Library · course registration.

🌊 The State of Wellfleet Harbor Conference is under Eastham below. It's held in Eastham, not Wellfleet.

📚 Talks, Books & Big Ideas

Editorial pick: Janis Robinson Daly: Under Two Flags · Mon., Nov. 16 · 3 p.m. · Eldredge Public Library, 564 Main Street, Chatham · free; registration required, adults 18+.

Daly, a Cape Cod historical novelist, built her new book from the memoir of Josephine Therese Marzynski. She was an 18-year-old Boston opera student stranded in Berlin when World War I began, and music carried her through. Daly talks about the research, then signs books. It's a good Monday afternoon before town meeting, and a reminder that ordinary people live through history whether they planned to or not.

✍️ Author Talk: Amanda Murphy, The Gift Is for You: Sat. · 12:30–1:30 p.m. · Center for the Spiritual Journey, Chatham · suggested donation.

💬 The Power of Stories to Change the World: a talk on how stories shape a community. The organizer's pages disagree on the speaker, so we're not naming one. Sun. · 3:30–4:30 p.m. · Arts Empowering Life, 95 Southern Eagle Cartway, Brewster · free; livestream available.

🎼 The Ages of Classical Music: Wed. · 10:30 a.m.–noon · Chatham Congregational Church, Fellowship Hall · suggested $10; registration required.

🎸 Clark Daggert on Folk Music and the '60s: Thu. · 10:30 a.m. · Eldredge Public Library · check the library.

🎭 Theater & Classical

Editorial pick: The Hundred Aker Wood, world premiere · Opens Thu., Nov. 12 · Cape Rep Theatre, 3299 Main Street (Route 6A), Brewster · $45; $30 for 35 and under; $25 for 18 and under.

It's a brand-new musical by Macklin, Paddo, and Seamus Devine with Maura Hanlon, who directs. It takes off from A.A. Milne's two Pooh books and follows Billy Moon (the family nickname of the real Christopher Robin), a man with too many appointments and a new aide, Virgil. Scott Storr is the musical director.

The run is about two hours with intermission, through Dec. 13. This week's performances:

• Thu. 7:30 p.m., with the Cape Cod Chronicle's Night in the Barn at 6:30

• Fri. 7:30 p.m.

• Sat. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

• Sun. 2 p.m.

Nobody has seen it before. Go in its first week, while the people who made it are still in the lobby.

🎭 Mortal Thoughts, final weekend: the world-premiere stage version closes. Fri. and Sat. · 7 p.m.; Sun. · 2 p.m. · Academy Playhouse, 120 Main Street, Orleans · $20; mature audiences.

🎵 Jessi Rosinski's flute recital is under Don't Sleep On This above.

Out Toward the Tip

Provincetown

🌶️ UUMH Sixth Annual Chili Cookoff: neighbors bring six quarts each, and everyone who paid votes for the "Townie Favorite." Sat., Nov. 14 · 5–7 p.m. · Unitarian Universalist Meeting House, 236 Commercial Street · $10; $20 household, "families of choice" included.

🎸 Making Movies: the Latin Grammy-nominated band led by Enrique Chi, with Steve Berlin of Los Lobos as producer and mentor. Sat. · 6 p.m. · Fishermen Hall · free with registration.

🖼️ Three openings at The Commons: Figure and Ground, Queer Love, and Crafting Memories, with one shared reception. Fri., Nov. 13 · 5–7 p.m. · Provincetown Commons, 46 Bradford Street.

💡 Making Light: Jay Critchley, Heidi Jon Schmidt, and Candace Perry on how artists keep going out here. Tue., Nov. 17 · 6–7 p.m. · Provincetown Commons. It's the best hour of the week for anyone wondering how a year-round arts town survives.

🎨 Bill Evaul: Drawn Together: trailblazing American women artists in Belle Époque Paris. Sat. · 1 p.m. · PAAM, 460 Commercial Street · $15 museum admission; members free.

👑 A Woman Named Carlös: The New Classic: cabaret at the Post Office. Sat. · 7 p.m. · 303 Commercial Street · $35–$45 per the Independent; check ThunderTix. The Post Office's Drag Brunch is the same day at 11 a.m.

📜 Julia Perry: Provincetown & the Mayflower: Tue. · 5:30 p.m. · Provincetown Public Library.

📖 Stanley Readings with Pat Kearns: Fri. · 7 p.m. · Stanley, 494 Commercial Street.

🎬 Movie Night: Double Indemnity: Wed. · 5:30 p.m. · Provincetown Public Library.

Truro

🏛️ Artist Reception: Jennifer Stratton: Sat. · 2:30–4:30 p.m. · Truro Public Library.

📕 Author talks at Truro Public Library: Susan Blood on Hermit with Molly Anders, Fri. · 4 p.m.; Christopher Mirabile on The Holdfast with Laurie Witt, Tue. · 4 p.m. Both come from the town's syndicated library calendar, so check the library first.

🎪 Payomet circus classes: Little Lions (3–4), Fri. 3:30 p.m.; Tiny Tent (5–6), Fri. 4:30 p.m.; Open Skills (7–12), Tue. 4:15 p.m. · Truro Central School · drop-ins welcome for Tiny Tent.

♻️ Tremendous Trash Tally open house: the Center for Coastal Studies counts what washed up. Sun. · 2 p.m. · North Truro, per the Independent. We couldn't find a dated CCS page, so confirm with the Center first.

Wellfleet

🎸 Making Movies: Fri., Nov. 13 · 7 p.m. · WHAT · free with registration. You won't usually catch a touring band this good on a November Friday in Wellfleet.

🎵 Between the Notes with Jessi Rosinski: Sat. · 3 p.m. · Outermost PAC · $30; $15 students.

🎞️ The Narrow Land: Film and Q&A: a film about Cape Cod's culture, tourism, and housing squeeze, followed by questions. Fri. · 7 p.m. · Wellfleet Preservation Hall · tickets from about $15.

📘 Book Talk: Andrea Chalupa: Sat. · 4 p.m. · Wellfleet Preservation Hall · tickets from about $18. Listings disagree on who's interviewing her, so check the Hall.

🥁 Wellfleet Drum and Dance: all ages and experience levels. Sat. · 7–10 p.m. · Wellfleet Adult Community Center · free.

🏠 ADU Housing Workshop: the town on how to add an accessory apartment. Mon. · 6 p.m. · Wellfleet Adult Community Center. It's the most practical housing hour on the Outer Cape this month.

🎨 Alla Zbinovsky: Tide, Terrain & Tableau: artist talk. Wed. · 5 p.m. · Wellfleet Preservation Hall · free.

🏺 Artisan Ceramic Trinket Dishes with Alla Pontbriand: Sun. · 3 p.m. · Wellfleet Public Library.

Eastham

🎶 Paul Rishell & Annie Raines: guitar and harmonica from a long-running New England acoustic blues duo, in the volunteer-run coffeehouse that has been the Outer Cape's folk room for decades. Sat., Nov. 14 · 7 p.m. · First Encounter Coffee House, 220 Samoset Road · $25, per the Independent.

💃 Wild Care Latin Dance Night: Alex Torres & His Latin Orchestra: dance for Eastham's wildlife rehabilitation center. Sat. · 6–9 p.m. · Elks Lodge, 10 McKoy Road · $35 advance; $40 door.

🌊 State of Wellfleet Harbor Conference: the annual science morning on the harbor, held in Eastham at Nauset Regional High School. Sat. · listings say 9 or 9:15 a.m., so arrive by 9 · registration required.

🪶 Who Tells the Story: A Cape Cod Reburial, with Jim Wolf: Sat. · 1 p.m. · Eastham Public Library, Greg Turner Room.

🎄 Ponderosa Ornament Workshop: shell and pinecone ornaments. Sat. · 11 a.m.–1 p.m. · Ponderosa Garden Center, 4850 State Highway · $25 for three; preregister at 508-255-9090.

☕ Veterans Rendezvous Café: Thu. · 9:30–11 a.m. · Eastham Senior Center, 1405 Nauset Road.

🚨 Emergency Preparedness Presentation: Mon. · 5 p.m. · Eastham Public Library. It's a good one to sit through before the first nor'easter.

🗓️ Recurring Weeknights & Ongoing

Editor's Note

Every year somebody asks whether there's anything to do down here after Columbus Day. This week the answer is:

• A world premiere

• A Hall of Fame

• A few hundred people making soup, chili, pies, and wreaths for somebody else

None of it is for tourists. It's what the Lower Cape does for itself when nobody's watching. You don't need a ticket for most of it, just a reason to go.

Next week: the run-up to Thanksgiving week. The Nickerson centerpiece workshop lands on its real date (Saturday the 21st), The Hundred Aker Wood plays its second weekend, and the turkey trot and pie-order deadlines start to bite. We'll sort them by town.

Pass it on. Copy your town's link from Your Town This Week and drop it in your neighborhood group, or forward this to the person who says November is dead. If someone sent you here, get it free every Thursday →

This is a curated guide, not a census of every event. Shows sell out and plans change, so follow the links for current tickets and times. All times are Eastern.