Community Corner
Alternative Gifts, Chamber Concerts, Gifts for Kids, Poetry Readings
Weekend agenda: Five things to do in the Falmouth area.
- Alternative Gift Market: The Seventh Annual Upper Cape Alternative Gift Market is where you can purchase meaningful, non-traditional gifts to support humanitarian and environmental projects on Cape Cod and around the globe; fair trade items from Equal Exchange, The Sharing Foundation and A Thread of Hope will be for sale at as well. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., St. Barnabas Church, Main St. and the Village Green, Falmouth.
- At 11 a.m., there's a free Free VA Aid and Attendance Workshop on Financial Help for Assisted Living at Atria Woodbriar, 339 Gifford Street, Falmouth.
- The Falmouth Chamber Players Orchestra, under the direction of John Yankee, performs its fall concerts “Celebrating Three Centuries of Music,” on Saturday at 7 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m. at Falmouth Academy. The program includes “Concerto in C for Two Trumpets and Strings” (RV 537), by Vivaldi; “Concerto in the Old Style for Three Violins and String Orchestra” (first movement), by Douglas Townsend; “St. Paul’s Suite,” by Holst, and Symphony No. 104, by Haydn. Suggested donation is $20 for adults, $5 for children. For information, visit FalmouthChamberPlayers.org, or call Fritz Sonnichsen at 508-274-2632.
- Help bring needy kids worldwide a brighter Yule with Operation Christmas Child at the Packing Event, Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. at Falmouth Baptist Church, 60 Central Park Court, Falmouth.
- The Calliope Poetry Reading at West Falmouth Library happens Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. featuring Shelby Allen, Susan Nissenbaum-Becker and Gary Whited. There is a $5 suggested donation to fund the poets’ stipend, and refreshments will be served. Open mic sign-up begins at 2:45pm.
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