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Hyannis, Cape Cod, MA Spring 2001—Cape
Cod. Those words evoke myriad images. To the architect, it is
a style of house. To the child, it means seemingly endless strands
of beach and equally endless curls of ocean surf. But, to the
artist, it conjures the ethereal light which envelops its 559.6
miles of beach, endless crescents of powdery sand and fog-swarthed Visitors will also find a host
of cultural events, including the Liberty Commons Music and New
England Jazz Festivals, band concerts, Chatham Chorale performances,
Pops by the Sea, College Light Opera, Cape Cod Chamber Music
Festival, Provincetown International Film Festival, In 2000, AmericanStyle magazine
readers chose Cape Cod as #1 Arts Destination in the United States,
an appropriate appellation. Editor Hope Daniels wrote: “Who
doesn’t occasionally need a place to go where the pace is
slow, the surroundings beautiful and the artworks abundant?”
One competition respondent claimed “Art is a way of life
on the Cape.” Spend a day exploring the Cape’s wondrous
and arty byways, and you’ll soon agree. Each of the Cape’s fifteen
towns overflows with art and culture. The Provincetown International
Film Festival is an outstanding week-long event which showcases
budding independent cinematographers’—and showcases
works of well-known film makers. Weekly town band concerts showcase
local talent and Cape Symphony Orchestra—the state’s
third largest symphonic group—features a wonderful season
of varied works. The Cape & Islands Art shows, craft fairs, exhibits, quilt, basket and antique glass shows and countless events feature stimulating activities for art lovers and casual visitors. There is an art form for everyone—music, dance, opera, theater, the fine arts—regardless of special interests. Visitors immersing themselves in the Cape cultural scene will soon sense the special connection this peninsula shares with the arts and the art world. Cape Cod—it embraces artists and, then, will simply not let them go. Cape Cod—#1 Arts Destination in the United States—one visit will explain why. For additional information about
Cape Cod, contact the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce at 508-862-0700
or 800-33 CAPECOD, by e-mail at |
Wampanoag
Pow Wow and antique shows galore. Hyannis’ Cape Cod Melody
Tent features name entertainment and Boch Center for the Performing
Arts’s cultural programs are outstanding. Plan to visit
the renowned Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, the 76-acre Americana
museum (its antique car collection alone is worth the trip!)
How about our 82 other fabulous and diverse museums, theater,
galleries, symphony, opera, chamber music?
luminaries
as Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and Mark
Rothko. Eugene O’Neill’s first plays were written and
produced here (his work, Bound for East Cardiff, was staged in
the tumble-down Wharf Theater in 1916, and actually launched
his career) and the Fine Arts Work Center continues to have among
its ranks some of the most important contemporary literati. Even
screen stars are no strangers here, and Marlon Brando, Richard
Gere and Al Pacino, among others, have all performed here.
