Events

Activities From 11AM - 5 PM Rain or Shine

11:00-12:30 Solstice Story Time and Crafts

Snow Library with Kim Auclair, Youth Services Director

11:00 - 5:00 Midwinter Wonderful Ornament Craft

Sandbar Denim, 39 main St across from Main Street Wine and Gourmet. A Simple Upcycled BookPage Ornament, Snowflake Flurry & Antique Angel

12:00-1:30 Snowflake Ice Sculpture Town Green Labyrinth

Watch Chip Koser, carve a 300 lb block of ice into a shimmering snowflake! Chip is the owner of South Cape Ice Sculptures and a National Ice Sculpting Association multi award winner.

11-3 Kids Workshop

The Community Center 44 Main St. Make Snowflake Lanterns and Snowflake Ornaments. Get your face painted.

1:30 - 3:30 Solstice Sparkle Surprise PopUp Musical Guest

Enjoy our Wandering Minstrel, Frank Toppa with his accordian around town 1:30 — 2:30.

Festive Sing Along with Frank in the Marion Craine Gallery at Snow Library 3:00 - 3:00

3:00 - 5:00 Solstice Sparkle Reception

The Addison Art Gallery, 43 South Orleans Road, Orleans will hold a Solstice Sparkle reception including oil painting demonstrations by respected instructors Maryalice Eizenberg and Andrea Petitto and a pastel demonstration by master artist Amy Sanders, plus music by American Idol finalist Natalia Bonfini. Wine, nibbles and a chance to chat with artists, friends and neighbors will add to the festivities.

For more information or to reserve work, please email helen@addisonart.com.

The Labyrinth

A temporary labyrinth will be constructed on Dec 19 and taken down on Dec 23 on Orleans Town Green next to Snow Library. You are welcome to walk it anytime except when the ice sculture is being carved.

There’s a Place for Your Face! Take a Selfie in the Solstice Labyrinth with The Snowflake! Share it and tag us…@orleans_cultural_district_

Walk the Labyrinth on Solstice

At sunset the Solstice Labyrinth is lit with dancing light orbs. Take a deep breath and a moment to be in stillness and silence.

Luminary Light Up: Starting at sunset, softly, glowing.

Luminaries will bring the light through Town for Solstice night.

Stay tuned for more information to come!

Community Events

10 - 4 PM Frying Pan Gallery 128 Route 6A

You will find marine-inspired steel sculpture by Steve Swain as well as original work by 20+ local artists - paintings, encaustics, etchings, jewelry, driftwood furniture, photographs, ceramics, and a friendly knowledgeable staff.

Original Steve Swain steel fish ornament Free with purchase

2 - 4 PM Return of the Light with Petra L van Aarmen

Orleans Yoga Winter Solstice Yoga Ceremony 85 Rt 6A Come together in community to invite the light and stoke your inner fire with a warming and grounding slow flow followed by deeply restorative postures and meditation to clear, quiet, and embody the stillness of the solstice in mind and body. Join Petra for her 15th annual Winter Solstice Ceremony by candlelight and experience the magical luminescence of this event. All levels welcome! Register at orleansyoga.com

10 AM -6 PM Earth House An Orleans Cultural, Iconic, Shop! Find your perfect Solstice keepsake!

Instant Karma Records, poster art, vintage clothing, inspiration candles, stargazing charts, jewelry, incense, crystals and so much more! Don’t miss your Earth House Experience!

Mixed Media Journaling

with Lenore Lyons

Where: 44 Main St., Orleans

When: 3 Thursdays mornings - January 23, 30 February 6, 2025 9:30-12:30

Fee: $70 which includes a bound watercolor journal and 3 water brushes.

Why Journal? Simply, because it feels good.

Keeping an Art Journal is a way to explore both ideas and feelings in a visual way, to be creative and take care of yourself at the same time. A journal is a place to write down things that you want to remember and a place to leave things that you are ready to forget. It’s a book that includes writing, lettering, lines, colors and little notes or cards. You can add to the journal every day or once a month…there are no rules.

Everyone will receive a blank journal. Then you’ll create backgrounds with color and texture by experimenting with lots of supplies that you’ve looked at in the art stores. We’ll explore adding images and collage.

We will talk about content…ideas about what to write and creative ways to write it. You will learn some easy lettering styles and ways to take it to the next level. You’ll learn secret writing- sometimes you need that kind of thing to let things go. Then there is this. You will find out about a quick and easy way to add photos to your journals -even on the go. A small photo can be an easy way to start a page.

Great for people of all ages, who are thinkers, doodlers, nature lovers, travelers, grandparents and YOU.

Don’t worry if you can’t draw a straight line. No art experience or drawing ability is necessary at all, really!

It’s fun to talk with others while being creative. Do this for yourself, you can relax and let your imagination take over. In this class, all kinds of fun materials are included. Everyone will go home with lots of ideas, a journal that’s no longer blank and water brushes. You in?

Please contact me with any questions. lyonslenore@gmail.com

LENORE LYONS

Lenore Lyons believes that her superpower is making art accessible to everyone. People of all ages say they feel comfortable and have fun exploring creativity in her classes. This passion led to The Key Idea®, a large-scale community art project which uses keys to inspire big ideas. Over 7000 people ages 1-100+ have created KeyStories from across the United States which have been exhibited on Cape Cod, Boston, Chicago and Washington DC, at the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum.

A retired teacher, Lyons has developed award-winning arts education programs; in 2018 she was recognized with a VISI Award from the Cape Cod and Islands Art Educators for art education and advocacy. The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, honor Lyons the Social Collaboration in the Arts Award along with Harwich Junior Theater.

Lenore Lyons teaches locally at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. She is busy writing and illustrating her first graphic novel. Follow her on Instagram, FB and YouTube.

www.lenorelyons.com
www.thekeyidea.org