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Wellesley summer camp listings 2020 — find the experience of a lifetime

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LINX Camps, Wellesley

The Swellesley Report’s Summer Camps page is now updated with over 75 camps in Wellesley and beyond. It’s time to sign your child up for the summer camp experience of a lifetime. Whether they’re into coding, arts and crafts, sports, drama, or nature, the perfect camp is out there for them.

Swellesley’s camps page is sponsored by LINX Camps. Over 40 Premier Camps. Perfect for your family.

Contact Deborah for more info on inclusion of your camp located in Wellesley or elsewhere, or for advertising on Swellesley. Camp parents and guardians: Please let camps know that you found them here, if you did…thanks.

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EVENT CANCELLED: Wellesley Multicultural Festival looking for exhibitors

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Wellesley Multicultural Festival
2019 Wellesley Multicultural Festival

EVENT CANCELLED: Help make the 2020 Wellesley Multicultural Festival on April 3rd a huge success by signing up to share your cultural experience. Conduct a workshop, organize a performance, present a poster exhibit and/or contribute a cultural food item. All cultures are welcome. Exhibit set-up will start at 5pm on the day of the festival, and the festival will run 6pm – 9pm.

Guidelines for contributions:

Workshops run for 30 minutes and are delivered once with groups of 15 students per session. There are 20 sign-up slots available—first come, first serve. Workshops typically include arts and crafts.

Performances are typically between 3 and 10 minutes and may include music, dance, acting or other performance art.

Poster exhibits typically include a poster and cultural items. Poster exhibits will run 6pm – 7:30pm.

Food can either be dropped off or you can stay and distribute it in conjunction with an exhibit or separately. Please specify this in your sign up form.

Reimbursements of up to $60 per contribution are available. Please remember to save all receipts.

DATE: April 3, 2020
TIME: 6pm – 9pm
LOCATION: Wellesley High School, 50 Rice St.
QUESTIONS: Contact Rama Ramaswamy at [email protected].

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Wellesley Symphony Orchestra to perform Family Concert on March 15

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Nancy Hoffmann Gerber
Nancy Hoffmann Gerber

Join the Wellesley Symphony Orchestra on Sunday, March 15, at 3pm at MassBay Community College, for its annual Family Concert.

Hosted by Sprague Elementary School music teacher Brian Hagar-McKee, the orchestra will play excepts from Benjamin Britten’s  Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, and Suite Dreams by Lawrence Wolfe, a piece with a libretto by Stephen Gerber that introduces all of the sections of the orchestra.

Actress and soprano Nancy Hoffmann Gerber,  whose husband Stephen and son Doug are both composers, will narrate and perform in Suite Dreams.

The concert, conducted by Maestros Max Hobart and John Masko, features the winner of the annual Michael H. Welles Young Soloist Competition, violinist John Matters, playing the first movement of the fiendishly difficult Paganini Violin Concerto. Other pieces on the program include Rossini’s light-hearted overture to The Barber of Seville and the ominous Berkshire Storms by Doug Gerber.

John Matters
John Matters

Before the concert at 2:15 PM groups of string, wind, brass and percussion players will play short pieces to introduce their instruments to the children. Because of concerns about coronavirus, the annual petting zoo has been canceled.

The performance is at MassBay Community College, 50 Oakland St.: introduction to the instruments at 2:15 PM, and the concert at 3. There is plenty of free parking. Tickets for the concert are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and students, and free for children under 12 and may be purchased at Wellesley Books, Andrews Pharmacy, on-line, and at the door. Call 781-235-0515 or visit www.wellesleysymphony.org.

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Documentary film screening at Wellesley Library: Ex Libris

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There will be a two-part screening of American documentary Ex Libris: The New York Public Library at the Wellesley Free Library on March 2 and 9, 6:30pm. The 2017 American film by observational master Frederick Wiseman brings viewers the humor, compassion and soul within the walls of the NYPL. Each part is approximately 90 minutes, followed by discussion and refreshments. Generously sponsored by the Friends of the Wellesley Free Libraries.

EVENT: Film Screening of Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
DATES: Part 1 on Monday, March 2 & Part 2 on Monday March 9
TIME: 6:30pm
LOCATION: Main Library Wakelin Room

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Wellesley Rotary Club to host youth development expert, March 3

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Rotary Club of Wellesley will host Joe Roberts of Terriers Sports and Community Investors to discuss current challenges and opportunities in youth development, Tuesday, March 3rd, at The Wellesley College Club.

Roberts will share his perspective on the challenges faced by today’s youth including how the use of electronics and social media have resulted in decreased physical activity. Equally disturbing trends in youth sports prioritizing achievement, competition, and travel at the expense of play and community-based recreation have resulted in decreased teen participation and dramatic increases in teen obesity, anxiety, and depression.

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Save the date for Rotary Club’s Taste of Wellesley: May 14, 2020 at The Gardens at Elm Bank

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Acuity: Dana Hall Dances in 2020

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Dana Hall Dance presents its annual dance concert, Acuity: Dana Hall Dances in 2020, on Friday, Feb. 28, and Saturday, Feb. 29, at 7:30 p.m., in Bardwell Auditorium. The performance is free and open to the public.

This year’s show features a mix of student choreography along with works from Director of Dance Devon Fitchett and Dance Faculty Member Mikaela Bradley. Students from all levels of the Upper School dance program will be performing works in modern, contemporary, ballet, jazz, hip hop and tap

Bardwell Auditorium is located on the Dana Hall campus at 37 Cameron Street. Please note that Bardwell is not wheelchair accessible. For more information, please contact Devon Fitchett at [email protected]

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