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Celebrate the holidays in Orleans!

Ice Cream Cafe Pop-Up Truck Now Open!

Don't scream, you can still get ice cream! Ice Cream Cafe's pop-up truck will be serving vegan and regular soft serve as well as homemade hard serve ice cream through the holidays. They also have a small retail shop for pints, quarts t-shirts and sweatshirts.

Open Friday thru Sunday till New Years' Day. Runners, stop by after the Santa Stampede! 5 South Orleans Rd.

Warming hearts and homes this holiday season! Yule for Fuel features your favorite Cape Cod performers and musicians in an evening of music, merriment, and mirth, in support of Lower Cape Outreach Council’s fuel assistance program.

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Adopt A Family

Are you, or is someone you know, in need of holiday assistance this year? Contact the HPC office to learn more about how to sign up for Holiday Season 2022.

The holidays are fast approaching, which means it is time for HPC's 2022 Adopt A Family program. Volunteers help HPC provide children - from newborns to teens - with new clothing and special gifts matched to each child's interests and holiday wishes. Now in its 27th year, Adopt A Family is a signature HPC program that makes sure children and families in need have an opportunity to celebrate the holidays with joy. Click here for more info or donate today!

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In this hilarious Christmas classic, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids—probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won’t believe the mayhem – and the fun – when the Herdmans collide with the Christmas story head on!

Now showing at the Academy Playhouse in East Orleans, this delightful comedy is adapted from the best-selling young adult book, and has become a holiday staple across the United States!

Thu Dec 8, 2022 - Sun Dec 18, 2022

Ticket Prices: Adults $20; Students $15; Under 5 $10

Get Tickets Here

Book Signings at Addison Art Gallery on Dec. 10 to Benefit Cape Cod Foster Closet

Join authors and artists at the Addison Art Gallery on Sat., Dec. 10 from 2-4pm in a celebration of Cape creators and the abundant gifts they offer. 

Authors and illustrators will be signing more than 20 books ranging from Cape Cod children’s books, poetry and trivia to Native American art and lore. The Addison Art Gallery will donate partial proceeds, and authors will donate children’s books, for Cape Cod Foster Closet, which assists foster, pre-adoptive, and kinship families by providing clothing, shoes, toys, books, baby equipment (including formula and car seats) and furniture for all ages.

Among the Cape Cod authors appearing will be:

• Rick Cochran, whose Wellfleet Tales books are collections of stories and photos of the '50s and '60s.
• Jeannette de Beauvoir, a bestselling novelist whose characters uncover truths and occasional dark secrets.
• Darby Hobbs who wrote, and her sister Karen Kishibay illustrated, Hockey Island and the Tail of Grace & Kristoff.
• Jeff Norgeot, presenting poems inspired by his life in the Lower Cape in Through My Eyes.
• Irene Paine, who wrote Eva and Henry about a long-ago marriage between an intrepid sea captain his self-sufficient wife.
• Robert Peters, a Mashpee Wampanoag artist, poet and author, a "fire keeper and keeper of oral tradition."
• Henry Quinlan, author of So, You Think You Know Cape Cod?
• Lee Roscoe, a journalist, environmental educator, activist and author of Wampanoag Art for the Ages.
• Author Jim Wolf and illustrator Anne Rosen will be signing copies of The Magic of the Clam Flats.  

For more information contact Helen Addison or call 508-255-6200.