Brief Program Updates:

We have no classes on July 4.

We now offer a wide range of art classes for adults, children and youth, morning, afternoon and evening, many of which are one-shot, come as you, are classes that need no preregistration. For details and a brochure, call 884-7525 and leave a message or scroll down to earlier blog notices below.

For example, Saturday, July 1, Plein Air Oil Painting Classes are at Cape May Point State Park at 9:30 am, 1:30 pm and 5:30 pm. Meet in the outer parking area just outside the gate, on your left. Come as you are, all supplies are provided for only $20.

Plein Air Soft Pastels meet Wednesdays at 7pm at the same place.

Monday and Wednesday morning workshops for ages 16 to 96 meet 9 am at Cape May City Elementary School, 921 Lafayette Street. On Mondays there is also a stand-alone workshop for kids ages 6-9 in the adjacent room.

We still have room in each of week of our YAP Youth Arts Program summer camps in Cape May, Lower Township and Wildwood, and in the Kids Camp for ages 6-9 in Cape May, as well as each night of Camp Congress Hall. Cape May and Lower Township programs meet next week Monday July 3, skip the 4th and resume on the 5th. In Wildwood there is no program on the 3rd or the 4th. To receive detailed brochures, please leave your contact information and which program interests you.

Art at the Library, for ages 6-10, at the Cape May City Public Library will resume Thursday afternoons from 1-2 pm beginning June 29.

Our intergenerational dance and stretch class meets Mondays, 7 pm at the Franklin St. School Civic Center (gym).

Our African American Heritage Walking Tour is offered now through September at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Our Community History Program’s new exhibit, A Feeling of Community: Segregation and Education on Cape Island, 1860-1954 is at West Cape May Borough Hall and will remain on view through Labor Day.

If you have photos or memories to share about the Franklin Street Church or any other aspect of Cape May’s African American heritage, leave a message and we will contact you about participating in our archive and oral history projects.

Our intergenerational poetry workshop is taking a break until September.