2025 Classes
In 2025, the program consisted of seven (7) weeks of classes.
(January 21st - March 10th).
Classes operated in both a virtual format using Zoom and in-person throughout Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet & Eastham.
2025 CLASS LOCATIONS
PROVINCETOWN SCHOOLS 12 Winslow Street, Provincetown, MA 02657
PROVINCETOWN LIBRARY 356 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA 02657
TRURO CENTRAL SCHOOLS Rt 6, North Truro, MA 02652
TRURO LIBRARY 7 Standish Way, North Truro, MA 02652
WELLFLEET LIBRARY 55 W Main Street, Wellfleet, MA 02667
EASTHAM LIBRARY 190 Samoset Road #3145, Eastham, MA 02642
HELPING OUR WOMEN - EASTHAM 3 Main Street, Unit 6, Eastham, MA
AND VIRTUALLY VIA ZOOM
EASTHAM
DRAWING & PAINTING PORTRAITS
Robin Huibregtse
EASTHAM LIBRARY- Monday 1pm
In this course you will develop your skills in drawing and painting portraits. We will explore a variety of mediums and techniques to capture the likeness of your subjects - color mixing, sketching, standard facial layouts, and more. After many practice exercises, you will complete at least one drawing and painting of your chosen person.
QIGONG MOVEMENT MEDITATION
Betsy Simmons
EASTHAM LIBRARY - Friday 11am
We stand together on the earth, feel your feet root down, grounded, feel supported by the earth. We belong here & now in this body, this breath. Gently lift crown of head, soften your eyes, touch tongue to roof of mouth, relax shoulders, hips, knees. Allow your imagination to bring elements of nature inside, (earth, sky, air, water, fire, light) We will move slowly and with gentility. Listen in to your body.
MOVEMENT AS LANGUAGE: IMPROVISATIONAL DANCE
Rebecca Burrill
EASTHAM LIBRARY - Friday 1pm
Fleet Movement Explorations is a structured improvisational dance class in which we play spontaneously with forces, shapes, feelings, images, and ideas rather than with specific dance technique. Warm-ups are based in both evolutionary and developmental movement patterns that structure and support all body movement. With these experiences we make mini dances in which each dancer becomes artistic director for and participant in their own piece. The class is basically informal, challenging, and fun, and a good movement workout. All are welcome.
ESOL BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE
Sandra Hemeon-McMahon
EASTHAM Helping Our Women - Tuesday 6pm
English for Speakers of Other Languages is offered to those wanting to learn English. Based on Side by Side - the Textbook used for Latinx In Action classes. Participants will focus on vocabulary, grammar, functional communication, listening & pronunciation, and writing.
PROVINCETOWN
READING TAROT FOR YOURSELF
Susan Mitchell
PROVINCETOWN LIBRARY - Thursday 2pm
Each class will guide you to set up readings for yourself and talk about their meaning within a group. You’ll be provided a a safe and fun space which allows you to explore how to use the tarot cards to get personal insights into your daily life. Each student receives their own Voyager tarot deck, and the companion paperback book which explains the deck in detail. Playing with tarot cards in a group gives each person more understanding of the process. This process requires focused mental concentration to be clear about how each card relates to your situation.
HANDBUILDING FORMS WITH CLAY
Rik Kapler AKA - Wave
PROVINCETOWN SCHOOLS - Wednesday 6pm
An open-level ceramics class designed to be accessible to people of all skill levels, where participants can gather in a shared studio space to learn and create clay pieces using techniques like hand-building, building with slabs or coils and glazing, often with a focus on fostering a social environment where individuals can share ideas, support each other, and enjoy the creative process together, regardless of their prior experience with clay; includes all materials needed like clay, tools, glazes, and kiln firing access.
PICKLEBALL 101
Donna Cooper & Brett Parson
PROVINCETOWN SCHOOLS - Wednesday 6pm
A fun activity open to people of all skill levels, designed to introduce or improve pickleball skills in a social setting, focusing on basic rules, court positioning, fundamental strokes like forehands and backhands, serving techniques, and basic strategies, all while promoting a fun and inclusive environment for players to learn and practice together.
UNLEARNING POLITICAL ESTRANGEMENT: A CO-LEARNING SUPPORT GROUP
Jeanine O’Rourke
PROVINCETOWN SCHOOLS - Wednesday 6pm
Have you lost relationships with loved ones over politics? What if we didn’t feel so alone in this struggle? What if we had a safe space to vent? What if we had a community of people around us willing to talk about their own similar experiences? In this 7-week series, we’ll work collaboratively to define this ubiquitous problem that causes so much alienation in our lives and in our communities. Together, we will generate ideas and practice strategies for coping with and connecting through political divides. To do this safely, we will need to agree to maintain confidentiality. It will also be a much richer experience if folks can commit to attending the whole series.
ESOL BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE
Marca Daley
PROVINCETOWN SCHOOLS - Wednesday 6pm
English for Speakers of Other Languages is offered to those wanting to learn English. Based on Side by Side - the Textbook used for Latinx In Action classes. Participants will focus on vocabulary, grammar, functional communication, listening & pronunciation, and writing.
LANGUAGE EXCHANGE
Jaime de Sousa
PROVINCETOWN SCHOOLS - Wednesday 6pm
Best for English speakers wanting to learn/practice Spanish and Spanish speakers wanting to learn/practice English. The class is designed to place participants into small groups, based on language level. Groups would contain some native English speakers and some native Spanish speakers.
This is open to everyone regardless of native language.
CROSS STITCH FOR BEGINNERS
Gerardo Sandoval
PROVINCETOWN SCHOOLS - Wednesday 6pm
Individuals of all skill levels can learn or practice the craft of cross stitching together. This workshop provides a supportive environment to learn basic techniques, read patterns, learn modern ways of cross stitch, discover apps and websites providing more ideas and complete a small cross stitch project while fostering a sense of community through shared crafting experiences.
PUPPETRY WORKSHOP
Patricia Bruno
PROVINCETOWN SCHOOLS - Wednesday 6pm
This workshop will be a hands-on creation of several styles of puppets, including - paper bag, papier-mâché, shadow, sock, hand and finger puppets, and simple marionettes, with an integration of the significance of puppetry of various cultures through the ages up until the present.
We will also discuss several ways that puppet theaters have been utilized and we will create a puppet theatre of our own.
LANGUAGES OF CAPE COD
Andrew Joseph
PROVINCETOWN SCHOOLS - Wednesday 6pm
Ever wonder what linguistics is all about? This is the course for you! After a short introduction to the field of linguistics, we’ll take a tour of four languages that are prominent in our local language environment: Wampanoag, Portuguese, Jamaican Creole, Bulgarian.
We will survey some highlights of each grammar—phenomena that have attracted linguists’ attention—considering how they may or may not be like English (or other languages participants might be familiar with), and look at examples of creative use such as literature, song lyrics, language games, and so on.
TELLING YOUR STORY YOUR WAY: CREATIVE NONFICTION
Acie Clark
PROVINCETOWN SCHOOLS - Wednesday 6pm
This class serves as an introduction to the art and craft of creative nonction— a shape-shifter of a genre whose goal is to weave truth (nonction) and craft (creative). Throughout this course, we will develop an understanding of a variety of CNF techniques; engage with CNF through a wide range of its sub-genres, movements, and forms; and develop strategies for telling our own stories. It is my hope that we can challenge our preconceived notions of what CNF is, what it can be, who can be a writer, and what our work can do.
ASTROLOGICAL AXES: ART THERAPY WORKSHOP
Camila Catucci
PROVINCETOWN SCHOOLS - Wednesday 6pm
This class provides a safe and nurturing space to unwind from the stresses of daily life. This supportive environment encourages personal growth and emotional release, fostering a deeper connection to the creative process. By using the astrological axes as a guide, art therapy can provide a unique framework for self-exploration, integrating aspects of the natal chart.
EXPLORATIONS IN BREVITY
Sara Martin
PROVINCETOWN SCHOOLS - Wednesday 6pm
Explorations in Brevity is an adventure through a series of minimalist forms that highlight the potency of precise language. This class will trace and celebrate the evolution of short literary forms such as lists, aphorisms, haiku, vignettes, fragments, travel logs and postcards. As a group, we will question and observe how these forms create impressions on the page, tell stories, develop characters, impart essence and uniquely capture a reader’s imagination. We will contemplate the compelling nature of language that floats, is unfinished or exists alongside whitespace in a deliberate manner.
REVENGE: WRITING & READING STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE WHO GET WHAT THEY DESERVE
Ephen Glenn Colter
PROVINCETOWN SCHOOLS - Wednesday 6pm
What makes revenge stories so good? We will explore this question in a 7-week adult education class on creative writing. Our writing group will write, read, discuss, and edit stories about revenge, a powerful emotion many of us feel in face of recent national events.
MACHINE SEWING FOR BEGINNERS
Scott Coffey & Rod Vaughan
PROVINCETOWN SCHOOLS - Wednesday 6pm
Individuals of all skill levels can come together to learn or practice sewing techniques, focusing on a specific project, in a casual and supportive environment, with the goal of building a community around the craft and sharing knowledge with one another; classes may range from beginner basics like threading a machine and basic stitches to more advanced techniques like pattern alterations and garment construction, with the option to choose projects based on personal interests and skill level. Participants are encouraged to bring the machine they want to learn on, but some machines will be available for those needing one.
GOOD ALL THE WAY THROUGH: GUT MICROBIOME, FOOD, FERMENTATION & HEALTH
Stephanie Vevers
PROVINCETOWN SCHOOLS - Wednesday 6pm
Each week will present knowledge about how our gut works according to current research, in a conversational exchange, and can include strategizing for how to use choices on a daily basis for gut health. (Habits & Hacks) Each of us can nourish our gut microbes ––> to benefit gut health, and for well-being. Together, we will do hands-on fermenting of vegetables, and learn to make Kefir and Kombucha and Kimchi.
TRURO
THE ART & PROCESS OF CREATING BONSAI
David Gavelek
TRURO CENTRAL SCHOOLS - Tuesday 6:15pm
This class will show how trees that can be found in the yard (or inexpensively purchased at a favorite nursery) can be transformed into bonsai. Learning bonsai with native trees will help the tree survive in our climate better than many of the Japanese varieties more traditionally associated with bonsai. They are also less expensive than imported trees that are sold at bonsai specialty nurseries. This hands-on workshop will provide you with all the necessary tools and techniques to begin creating your very own bonsai.
ECSTATIC DANCING, BREATHWORK & MEDITATION
Patricia van Dijkhuizen
TRURO CENTRAL SCHOOLS- Tuesday 6:15pm
Learn how to dance without being self-conscious. Learn different breath-work techniques to activate the parasympathetic nervous system, meditate, and share poetry that is meaningful to you.
HIBERNATION & HARMONY: A WELLBEING CIRCLE FOR MINDFULNESS AND CONVERSATION
Jessi Rosinski
TRURO LIBRARY- Thursday 2pm
This 7-week coaching circle is designed to cultivate mindfulness and deepen interpersonal connections through conversation. Each class will begin with a mindfulness practice—such as guided meditation, gentle breathwork, or self-reflective journaling—followed by a facilitated group conversation. The emphasis is on being present and exploring themes relevant to the winter season and personal growth. Participants will leave feeling seen, heard, and grounded. Plus, you’ll be equipped with tools to bolster personal wellbeing.
WELLFLEET
POETIC ATTUNEMENT
Lucas Martínez
WELLFLEET LIBRARY - Tuesday 3pm
How can a poetry writing practice teach us to tune into the world we inhabit? How do we hold life with all of its complexity and contradiction? How does what we do on a page in writing connect to what goes on off the page in the world? This class explores not attention but attunement, not attending to reality but tuning into it. Structured as a generative writing workshop, in this class we will study and write alongside a wide variety of poetry, attuning to the different material and social possibilities poetry presents.
IMPROV FOR EVERYBODY
John Shuman
WELLFLEET LIBRARY - Tuesday 5:30pm
This class is to encourage instinct to be embraced (some people will find this harder than others) and to let the class learn that there is no failure in improvisation… It is a communal workshop. We find inspiration from others which leads to inspiring oneself. It should be tremendous fun ( the exercises are called “games”) and will help to create a singular community.
VIRTUAL
ALL LEVELS YOGA FLOW
Hannah O’Rourke
VIRTUAL - Monday 4pm
Each class will include a mobility focused vinyasa flow, while incorporating all 7 patterns of functional movement, promoting functional spine movement & health and creating overall balanced strength in the body.
HEART & SOUL GENTLE YOGA
Karen Kwass
VIRTUAL - Tuesday 9am
Starting with an introduction to yoga, each week will include gentle stretching, breathing exercises and meditation. You’ll learn gentle movements while using breathing as a way of staying focused, letting go of tensions and creating balance in your life.
SKETCH YOUR TOWN
Rowan Wielblad
VIRTUAL - Thursday 1pm
Create ink sketches of picturesque Provincetown and outer Cape. Each week participants render a different section of town from photo references – participants work in pencil and ink from sketches to finals.
CORNELL WOOLRICH’S FILMS NOIR: RITA HAYWORTH IN CONVICTED TO HITCHCOCK’S REAR WINDOW
Dr. Marc Strauss
VIRTUAL - Thursday 6pm
Each week on zoom, Marc Strauss, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Southeast Missouri State University, will introduce, contextualize, and lead discussion on seven successive Cornell Woolrich film noir Hollywood adaptations from 1938 to 1954, culminating in Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Rear Window, starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly. In each class, he will provide historical background on Woolrich and each film, show the movie, and then guide student discourse.
INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Tara Conant
VIRTUAL - Thursday 6pm
Explore the exciting possibilities of digital photography. We will start by covering the all basics of photography: camera operation, the shutter and the aperture and their effects: depth of field, stopping & blurring motion, adjusting exposure (EV values)-and metering basics, white balance, ISO- what it means and how to work with the various functions on digital cameras. Then we will then discuss and view how these elements translate in to making a good photograph. The class will also cover file saving options, storage, printing, and archival considerations that are a must for digital photography.
GENTLE MOVEMENT & MEDITATION
Graciela Solano
VIRTUAL - Friday 10:30am
Each week yoga students will engage in gentle yoga postures that support movement, mobility and relaxation followed by a guided meditation - students will practice breathing techniques that support mental, physical and emotional well-being. With an end goal for each student to apply techniques beyond weekly yoga classes that assist with the mental, physical, and emotional balance.