Five Boston galleries open weekend pop-up at Wayland Town Center
WAYLAND — A pop-up contemporary art fair featuring five Boston-based galleries is the big arrival in Wayland Town Center this weekend, while community theater and museum programming pivot toward the town's 250th-anniversary calendar. With town hall quiet and the school district between weekly bulletins, most of today's activity is on the community-arts side.
COMMUNITY & ARTS
Vokes Players is finalizing a concert staging of "1776 the Musical" to mark the country's semiquincentennial, produced in partnership with the Wayland 250 Committee and the Wayland High School theater department. Performances are set for June 12 and 13 at 7:30 p.m. at Wayland High School, outside the company's regular season. Vokes' summer mainstage, Joe DiPietro's "Over the River and Through the Woods," directed by David Berti, runs July 24 through Aug. 8 at the Vokes Theatre on Route 20.
The Wayland Museum & Historical Society's "Tracing Liberty" series continues Sunday, June 7, at 2 p.m. with an in-person talk by author Tilly Laskey on "Precious & Adored: Love Letters of Rose Cleveland & Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890–1918." Laskey appeared on Zoom and at the Wayland Free Public Library earlier in the week to launch the June discussion. The museum has also flagged a June 21 opening reception, free and open to all, and a "Walk, Wonder, and Discover!" outing at Dudley Woods Trail on June 28 at 9 a.m.
The Council on Aging's June newsletter is now posted, with details on the COA's one-year anniversary celebration at the Community Center at 8 Andrew Ave. and the 15th Annual Summer Concert Series. Residents can sign up for the COA's weekly email through the department's homepage.
SCHOOLS
Wayland Public Schools sent its weekly "All Schools News" bulletin on June 3, with district announcements including a Wayland Junior Broadway notice. Submissions for the next bulletin are due to All_SchoolsNews@WaylandPS.org by end of day Friday for distribution the following Wednesday.
ELSEWHERE IN THE NEWS
"5 Boston-Based Art Galleries Coming To Wayland Town Center" — Five contemporary galleries are sharing a temporary space at Wayland Town Center for a weekend pop-up art fair, per Wayland Patch (read it at https://patch.com/massachusetts/wayland).
"🌱 Patch AM: Five Boston art galleries are headed for Wayland Town Center" — Patch's morning roundup points readers to the gallery pop-up and to "OUT ART: Celebrating Queer Creation," a community event on the Wayland Patch calendar, according to Wayland Patch (read it at https://patch.com/massachusetts/wayland).
"🌱 Patch AM: How Wayland powered past Longmeadow to keep its title hopes alive" — Patch flagged a Wayland high school team's playoff win over Longmeadow that keeps a postseason title run on the table, per Wayland Patch (read it at https://patch.com/massachusetts/wayland).
"Major Job Cuts Hit Massachusetts In 2026" — Statewide, more than 5,000 layoffs have been reported to Massachusetts officials in the first five months of the year, according to Wayland Patch's regional desk (read it at https://patch.com/massachusetts/wayland).
COMING UP
- Sunday, June 7, 2 p.m. — Tilly Laskey author talk, "Precious & Adored," Wayland Museum & Historical Society. - Tuesday, June 9 — Community training on domestic abuse and coercive control (regional event listed on the Wayland Patch calendar). - Friday and Saturday, June 12–13, 7:30 p.m. — Vokes Players' "1776 in Concert" at Wayland High School. - Ongoing through summer — COA 15th Annual Summer Concert Series at 8 Andrew Ave.; check the June newsletter for dates.