THIS WEEK’S MUSE
Dear Friends,
Over the years, you have been an integral part of the Cultural Center, and we want to thank you for your continued support. Your commitment helps us fulfill our mission to serve the entire Cape community and visitors to the area by offering instruction, entertainment, and exhibition in the visual, literary, and performing arts.
The Center has been making its mark on our community since 2007. Now, 15 years later, we’ve survived the most trying times our industry has ever experienced, completed a leadership transition, started an endowment for the future, and are poised for exponential growth.
We have seen our Center’s remarkable impact on the lives of people like you. From the vital work of bringing the arts to children, adults, and seniors in our region, to the positive economic impact on our local businesses, the Center plays an essential role in our community and the Cape as a whole.
2022 has been a busy year, with 3,273 students participating in 514 hands-on classes guided by over 55 creativity activators–enabling them to explore all art forms. In addition, we brought 353 artists into our galleries, exhibiting work that made our guests stop, think, be curious, and act.
From content around essential topics such as empowerment and climate change, to the fun, upside-down approach of the summer, where we introduced hundreds of families to art in our galleries for the first time.
As we prepare for mark-making in 2023, your Cultural Center team has worked hard to bring you the infinite variety you love and have asked for, and some that will surprise and delight you.
Join us; together we will make our mark!
Through memory and story, you can make your mark by participating in an exhibition, a memoir class by Kwame Alexander, or even through an Art Trek Adventure across Scotland.
Or possibly via kinetic art, the rhythm and beats of Kotoko Brass, or the grace and strength of our bodies in movement and dance.
And, powerfully through supporting the Cultural Center as we cultivate curiosity, creativity, and cultural exploration.
Your Cultural Center relies on donations from the community to keep us alive and vibrant. If you have donated in the past, thank you from the bottom of our hearts! Please know that your donations, no matter the size, make a difference at the Center.
Make your mark!
The simplest way is to support our annual appeal.
to donate online or call the Center and donate today.
Visit our website to read our 2022 annual report!
From the entire Cultural Center Board of Trustees and Team, thank you for your generosity!
Sincerely,
Molly Demeulenaere, Executive Director
Beatrice Gremlich, President of the Board
HAPPENING
A Christmas Carol Dinner, with Chef Joe Cizynski
Thursday, December 15, 2022, at 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Member Price: $65 Price: $75
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“Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, luscious pears, immense twelfth cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam. In easy state upon this couch, there sat a jolly Giant, glorious to see: who bore a glowing torch, in shape not unlike Plenty’s horn, and held it up, high up, to shed its light on Scrooge, as he came peeping round the door!” So wrote Charles Dickens.
A little less than a fortnight till Christmas and we will do our annual holiday dinner.
We will start with oyster stew with root vegetables, goose salad with cranberries and oranges, roast suckling pig with apple and pear chutney, and finish with plum pudding.
Complimentary Holiday bubbles will be served.
This will be a BYOB event.
Break out your good red and whites!!
Chef Joseph Cizynski
Born in New York, Joseph Cizynski almost immediately started gaining kitchen experience thanks to his mother and Aunt Dorothy who shared their passion and knowledge of food with him.
Joseph attended Fairfield University where he played baseball and for two summers played in the Cape League, thus beginning his love for Cape Cod. Upon graduation from college, and a ball related injury, Joseph took to the Culinary Institute of America where at the age of 26, became Chef/Owner of Café du Bec Fin located in Old Greenwich, CT.
Joseph immediately transformed it into a French Seafood restaurant and received three-3 Star reviews from the New York Times and was the first Connecticut restaurateur to receive the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for ten consecutive years.
Café du Bec Fin was the venue for numerous wine tasting dinners including the members of the Mondavi, Krug and Dujac families. Several years ago, Joseph, opened a boutique wine shop located in Westchester County and has shared his knowledge of wine and food pairings hosting numerous wine tastings, dinners, and various other events.
He looks forward to sharing his experiences, food, and wines with you!