Sunday, April 28, 2024 10:00 AM

Join us as Marlo Garnsworthy shares her incredible journey to Antarctica as a United States Antarctic Program Grantee. Marlo’s seven-week expedition was a life-changing experience, with one particular moment standing out: her encounter with an iceberg in the Ross Sea early one morning. Marlo’s perspective on Antarctica has transformed her, and she now dedicates her work to enlightening people, both young and old, about the extraordinary wonders of this continent. She emphasizes the interconnectedness between all of us, particularly those residing in coastal communities, and the importance of preserving and cherishing Antarctica’s remarkable nature.

Marlo Garnsworthy, an acclaimed author and illustrator, has an extensive background in both the arts and scientific research expeditions at sea. She excels as a science communicator and ardently supports the field of polar science. Currently, Marlo holds the position of Education and Outreach Coordinator, as well as the US Media Contact, for the international Antarctic project SWAIS2C (Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2 Celsius).

Learn more at 10am on Sunday, April 28, 2024 at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham.  Doors open at 9:30. Also on Zoom via this Zoom program link.

Sunday, April 21, 2024 10:00 AM

Join us as Andrew Gottlieb, Executive Director of the Association to Preserve Cape Cod (APCC), outlines the various environmental challenges facing us and how they relate to the vision of the APCC.  The APCC vision statement is: “A carbon-neutral Cape Cod where waters are restored and protected, and wildlife habitat are reserved, and where growth respects the character of town centers and rural lands.” All are welcome.

Andrew Gottlieb is executive director of the Association to Preserve Cape Cod. He has more than 30 years of environmental protection experience in government and elected terms in municipal office. He has extensive experience working at all levels of government, having served as a local, state and county official as well as a legislative staff person.

Learn more at 10am on Sunday, April 21, 2024 at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham.  Doors open at 9:30. Also on Zoom via this Zoom program link.

Sunday, April 14, 2024 10:00 AM

For over 40 years, Independence House, Inc. has been sharing knowledge and skills with survivors of domestic and sexual violence. But can these phenomenon be prevented? This Sunday, Chris Morin, Director of Prevention and Outreach, will talk about what she’s learned from her years of experience and about the organization’s mission to build an engaged community that actively prevents sexual and domestic violence. All are welcome.

Chris Morin has worked in the field of domestic and sexual violence for 20 years.  Her initial training in domestic and sexual violence was with the statewide coalition, the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance. In Virginia, she served on the statewide hotline. She is presently the Director of Prevention, Education and Outreach and has been with Independence House for 13 years.

Learn more at 10am on Sunday, April 14, 2024 at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham.  Doors open at 9:30. Also on Zoom. Register here.

Sunday, March 31, 2024 10:00 AM

Join Nauset Fellowship in-person at Chapel in the Pines in Eastham or online via Zoom on Sunday, March 31 at 10am as Julie Charland and Denya LeVine perform sea shantys, folk songs, and lively fiddle tunes, all on the theme of the sea. You’ll hear guitar, fiddle, flute, ukuleles, and vocal harmonies that sparkle with joyous energy. All are welcome.

Julie Charland is a Nashville recording artist, award-winning songwriter, and local folk and bluegrass musician with Toast And Jam. Denya LeVines is a full time musician who’s performed on Cape Cod with folk and ethnic bands for 30 years. This duo has a zest for life that is contagious!

Learn more at 10am on Sunday, March 31, 2024 at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham.  Doors open at 9:30. Also on Zoom. Register here.

Sunday, March 24, 2024 10:00 AM

Join Nauset Fellowship in-person at Chapel in the Pines in Eastham or online via Zoom on Sunday, March 24 at 10am as John Dennis Anderson performs American poet Robert Frost. Robert Frost’s poetry spoke to the complexities of twentieth-century life and, for that, he won four Pulitzer prizes. This Chautauqua style performance explores Frost’s theory of “the sound of sense” through readings and discussion of some of his best-known poems, including “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “The Road Not Taken,” “Birches,” “Mending Wall,” and “Fire and Ice.”

John Dennis Anderson, a native of Waco, Texas, now living on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, is a performance studies scholar and Professor Emeritus in Communication Studies at Emerson College in Boston. Anderson has received grants to develop Chautauqua performances. Anderson was a faculty member for the Chautauqua Training Institute of Humanities North Dakota in 2022-2023. He teaches for the Open University of Wellfleet in Massachusetts, and he serves on their Board and is a trustee of the Helltown Players. His website is jdanderson.org.

Learn more at 10am on Sunday, March 24, 2024 at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham.  Doors open at 9:30. Also on Zoom. Register here.

Sunday, March 17, 2024 10:00 AM

Join Nauset Fellowship in-person at Chapel in the Pines in Eastham or online via Zoom on Sunday, March 17 at 10am for a talk by Rich Delaney, president of Center for Coastal Studies.This discussion will focus on global, nation

al and local impacts from rapidly warming climate and what actions are happening and need to happen in order to mitigate the worst scenarios. All are welcome.

Richard Delaney is the President of the Center for Coastal Studies. Previously, he served as founding Director of the Urban Harbors Institute at University of Massachusetts Boston;  Assistant Secretary of Environmental Affairs and Director of the Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management Program.  He is an officer in the Global Ocean Forum and has organized international “Ocean Days” at many climate conferences including the Paris Climate Conference in 2015.   He is also founding President of the Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative.

Learn more at 10am on Sunday, March 17, 2024 at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham.  Doors open at 9:30. Also on Zoom. Register here.

Sunday, March 10, 2024 10:00 AM

Join Nauset Fellowship in-person at Chapel in the Pines in Eastham on March 10 for a talk by Janet Biondi of Eastham regarding her experience raising monarch butterflies from egg to release.

Janet will discuss the stages of the monarch butterfly from the egg, to the larvae (caterpillar), the pupa (chrysalis), and the adult butterfly.  The process is nothing short of miraculous, and raising monarchs allows for a close up view of this wonder of nature.

A childhood passion for nature and drawing animals led to a career of painting marine mammals, working with renown whale scientists on illustration and data collecting expeditions in the field.  She has illustrated many children’s books as well as whale and sea shell guides for the Cape Cod National Seashore. All are welcome.

Janet Biondi is a wildlife and landscape artist and a naturalist at heart.  Working in many mediums over the course of several decades, she now paints the Cape Cod landscape in oil. Biondi illustrated the children’s book D is for Dolphin, Seashells of the National Seashore and the National Seashore Whale Guide in the 1980’s. Her work can be found at www.BiondiArts.com.

Learn more at 10am on Sunday, March 10, 2024 at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham.  Doors open at 9:30. Also on Zoom. Register here.

Sunday, February 25, 2024 10:00 AM

Join Nauset Fellowship in-person at Chapel in the Pines in Eastham on Sunday, February 25 at 10am as Candace Perry presents “NO SURRENDER” a short play which imagines what happens when a famous confederate statue is removed and General Lee pays a visit to a 2017 homeless encampment in New Orleans. All are welcome.

Candace Perry is a writer, teacher, and social justice activist who strives to change the world, one play at a time.  Over 40 of her short plays have been produced in the US and Ireland; her four full length plays have had readings, workshops and productions in New York and at Cape theaters; and a dozen of her short plays have been produced online.  She lives in Wellfleet with her husband, Charles Thibodeau.

Learn more at 10am on Sunday, February 25, 2024 at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham.  Doors open at 9:30. Also on Zoom. Register here.

Sunday, February 18, 2024 10:00 AM

Join us to hear advocacy insights from the Faith Communities Environmental Network as Susan Starkey engages us in exploring three ongoing climate-related challenges: a proposed Machine Gun Range at Joint Base Cape Cod, the Offshore Wind industry’s growth off our shores, and a national effort to stop Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) from being developed and exported.  At the end of this discussion, you will have the opportunity to send handwritten letters to legislators.

Susan Starkey is a semi-retired Leadership coach who moved from Denver, CO in 2015, just in time to help mobilize faith communities to embrace the Paris Climate Accord. She is co-founder of the Faith Communities Environmental Network which has grownfrom two to forty-two members. FCEN is affiliated with the Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative.

Learn more at 10am on Sunday, February 18, 2024 at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham.  Doors open at 9:30. Also on Zoom. Register here.

Sunday, January 28, 2024 10 AM

Join us as Truro-based troubadour Michael Holt plays a variety of mostly original music ranging from jazz and classical on the keyboard to folk and pop on the guitar.

“Michael Holt writes an all-too-rare kind of music, in which sophistication is in the service of emotion. His personal, powerful songs are really smart, but you realize that only after you first experience them as intimate, direct, and deeply meaningful.”
— David Garland, WNYC, America’s most-listened-to public radio station

Michael Holt has toured North America and Europe twenty times and released ten albums of his music. Since 2022, he’s also been entertaining Cape audiences with the dance band Woof Woof Meow.

Learn more at 10am on January 28, 2024 at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham.  Doors open at 9:30.