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Highfield Hall and Gardens News - July 18, 2024
Arts and Entertainment
July 18, 2024
From: Highfield Hall and GardensHighfield Celebrates!
Upcoming Children's Programs
Mark you calendars for upcoming children's activities beginning in July!
- July 23rd - Coalition for Children, Free Activities each Tuesday
- July 23rd - Shark Week with the Atlantic Shark Conservancy
- July 25th - Felting Wands Workshop
- July 27th - Sing and Dance with Miss Liz and her silly friends
- July 29th - Animal Exploration with the Animal Ambassadors
- July 30th - Coalition for Children, Free Activities each Tuesday
- July 31st - Insect Safari with Professor Bugman
Explore additional children's programs this season!
Book Signing With Kathleen Brunelle
She's Gone
A novel by Kathleen Brunelle
July 18, 2024
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
$10 - $15 Non Member
Local author Kathleen Brunelle returns to Highfield for the launch of her most recent book, She’s Gone. She’s Gone collects the true stories of five different women living in different decades who all have one thing in common: one moment they were busy living their lives and the next moment … they were gone.
Don’t miss this special event and unique opportunity to interact with the author. Kathleen will weave together an intriguing talk as she reads aloud favorite excerpts, shares insights into her experience researching and writing She’s Gone, invites questions and engages in conversation. Books will be available for sale and signing.
Register online today by clicking the button below or call us at 508-495-1878, ext. 2
Members-Only-Artist Reception
Member Reception
July 23, 2024
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Members only
We invite you to a very special Artist Reception for the 2024 Summer Art Exhibitions!
Attending Artist will include: Paul Arsenault, Kat O'Connor, Terry Gips, and many more! Come to the event, ask questions, meet artists, and enjoy Highfield Hall & Gardens!
- Plein Air Artist Paul Arsenault's exotic and domestic ports and rivers of the world while acknowledging local and indigenous heritage.
- In her solo show, Swimming the Jewel, Kat O'Connor brings her poetic and sublime paintings of water and human connection to water.
- Terry Gips creates an outdoor art installation that explores stories related to members of the Highfield's original owners, the Beebe family, and their affinity for the natural world.
- Fired Up: A Juried Show of the Cape Cod Potters, Inc. details thirty-four artists' juried work, highlighting and celebrating the diversity of ceramic work on this small, sandy spit of land.
- Our 2024 Fairies Gardens are back. This bi-annual exhibit features works by ten artists, makers, and groups that designed and built unique abodes for their fairies using 100% all-natural materials to establish fairies as "the first environmentalists."
The member preview is a benefit for current members. If you have friends who are not members but are interested in joining or rejoining, please bring them to the event. They can join during the reception and get a sneak peek of the exhibit.
Walter Massey Supper Club
Join Us For A Special Evening With Dr. Walter Massey
August 1, 2024
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
$135/ $145 Non Member
Highfield welcomes Dr. Walter Massey–physicist, author, barrier breaker, and insatiably curious man–for an evening of Dinner and Discussion!
When Walter Massey was last at Highfield, his book, In the Eye of the Storm: My Time as Chairman of Bank of America During the Country’s Worst Financial Crisis, was the focus of the evening. We only just began to get to know Dr. Massey through his stories, leaving those who attended deeply impressed by this diversely accomplished yet humble man, and wanting MORE!
A recent New York Times article featuring Dr. Massey provided a tantalizing peek into what makes him tick. We know Walter has stories to tell based on his broad experiences and passions, incomparable insights, and depth of knowledge across topics. Join us!
Register online today or call 508-495-1878 ext. 2.
Rooted in Nature - The Beebes at Highfield
Multi-media artist Terry Gips has created a site-specific installation on the grounds of Highfield Hall & Gardens which opens July 23rd.
Gips has constructed several panels layered with text, imagery, and audio she produced from information she gleaned through archival research containing journals, correspondences, and photography. Gips wrote scripts for four Beebe characters including, Pierson, Charles, Franklin, and their sister Frances as a young girl, and as a mature woman, and for George Moses, author of Ring Around the Punch Bowl. Terry is inspired by the alchemic power of nature and its facilitation of memory, she explores stories related to members of the Beebe family and their affinity for the natural world.
Visitors will find the installation set along a meandering path behind the house between the Dell and the West and the new Secret Gardens.
Introducing Paul Arsenault
From Nantucket to Lahaina: A Fifty-Year Journey of a Plein Air Painter July 23 – October 31
Introducing Artist, Paul Arsenault
For fifty years Paul Arsenault, a prolific and well-traveled painter, embedded himself into his subject matter-some say as deep as paint will seep into his canvas and even deeper. This retrospective brings the artist back to Woods Hole after 50 years when he first signed on to the RV Gosnold as a deckhand. Paul’s subsequent travels allowed him to inhabit and document many soulful waterfront destinations, rendering international and domestic maritime scenes while acknowledging local and indigenous heritage.
Utilizing his facility with painting plein air, Paul’s colorful work expresses the unique essence of place, concentrating mostly on the waterfront, and emphasizing balance, beauty, and scale. The selected works cover ports found in New England, Florida, Europe, the Caribbean, Australia, Asia, and the Pacific islands.
Arsenault was born of the sea - his family’s roots go back to the harbor towns of New Brunswick, New England, and earlier, La Rochelle, France. He grew up in a picturesque New England harbor town which gave him an appreciation for waterfront communities, and as a son of a son of a sailor, the importance of maritime heritage throughout history resonates throughout his work.
Music In July!
Stephanie Miele
July 21, 2024
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
$20/ $30 Non Member
Relax and sip a late afternoon beverage in the cool of Highfield’s Ballroom as you enjoy the delightful sound of Stephanie Miele performing classic songs compiled for a nostalgic program ‘The Sea, the Voyage, and Home’. Selections feature such lyricists and composers as Leonard Bernstein, Peter Allen, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Schwartz, and Kander and Ebb. These and other composers, authors, poets, and lyricists, have written about the joys of travel, the excitement of the sea, and appreciation for the return home after a long voyage. Enjoy an evening of enchanting tunes from stage and screen with the ever-popular Stephanie Miele! Stephanie is a familiar and followed vocalist who delights audiences Cape-wide.
Take an enchanting Broadway journey as you enjoy this special musical performance in Highfield’s Ballroom.
Register online today or call 508-495-1878 ext. 2.
The New Black Eagle Jazz Band
July 28, 2024
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
$30/ $40 Non Member
The New Black Eagle Jazz Band returns to Highfield with their infectious, soulful, and uplifting style of traditional New Orleans jazz. Last year’s sell-out concert delivered on every front! The band pays homage to the greatest musicians of the early jazz era–Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, and Duke Ellington–but with their own eclectic sound. They incorporate spirituals, 1920s and 30s popular music, and even some songs recorded by Elvis and Bob Dylan.
The Black Eagles have been featured in numerous prestigious jazz festivals, and with a Grammy nomination, over forty recordings, a vast repertoire, inspired musicians, and a highly entertaining stage manner, it’s no wonder that the New York Times has noted that the Black Eagles are “So far ahead of other traditional bands…there is scarcely any basis for comparison.”
Register online today or call 508-495-1878 ext. 2.
Upcoming Wellness Programs
Wellness Classes featuring YVES & VICTORIA Vandeplas
Summer 2024
CHAIR YOGA with Yves
Yves will once again lead the popular Chair Yoga classes. This hatha yoga practice on chairs allows anybody to go much deeper in poses and breathing exercises than they would be able to go on a yoga mat. It offers access to all the benefits of a traditional hatha yoga practice, with comfort and safety. Developing mobility and strength in a sequence of poses and movements, focusing especially on breath, balance, and flexibility, to maintain and increase vitality. Open to all levels.
SOUND BATHING with Victoria
Pause the constant motion of daily life and immerse yourself in a 60-minute outdoor Sound Bath experience in our tranquil garden (indoors in the event of rain). Using a combination of Crystal Tones Alchemy singing bowls and other ancient sound healing instruments, you will be guided on a journey of deep relaxation, rejuvenation, and healing.
Register online today or call 508-495-1878 ext. 2.
Sound Healing With JBK!
Sound Healing Enchantment With Jennifer Beth Kelly
August 4, 2024
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
$35 - $45 Non Member
Amidst the busy summer season, gift yourself this wonderful opportunity to slow down, recharge, and deeply rest, as you activate and awaken harmonic energies within you. Receive harmonizing insight and clarity upon your life and allow it to illuminate your path forward!
Please remember to bring your own yoga mat, blanket, pillow, eye pillow, bolster, and/or other accessories to make your healing space most comfortable. Mats and accessories will not be provided. Optionally, chairs will be available on site (or you may bring your own). Doors open 20 minutes prior to the event. Please arrive at least 15 minutes early to set up and settle into your space.
Register online today by clicking the button below or call us at 508-495-1878, ext. 2
Garden Tip From George Chapman
The Versatility Of Hostas
Hot, dry, summer weather can be tough on garden perennials. Flagging yellow foliage on plants such as phlox, day lily and joepye weed indicate that the garden is under stress. Hosta seem to be the exception in this situation. Rarely have I seen hosta suffer from the heat or dry conditions.
Hosta are herbaceous perennials grown from rhizomes. The smallest varieties are known as miniatures, growing only inches in size, while the largest varieties can grow to four feet tall and six feet wide. There are literally thousands of varieties in shades of gold, green and blue. Newer cultivars have variegated foliage that make them suitable for use as a garden accent, focal point, or container plant.
Known mostly as a shade plant, there are varieties that can tolerate sunny locations. Flowers are produced on upright stems (known as scapes) and are white, lavender or violet depending on variety. I always remove the flowering scapes before they begin to pass because the falling flower can dry on the foliage and be hard to remove. Hosta in the landscape, bold, beautiful and brawny.
Corporate Membership
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