Lifetime Learning offers rare opportunities to stargaze on Cape Cod

A live interview with Broadway musical stars and a course on the Cape’s night sky top the list of new offerings from the Friends of Snow Library as their fall Lifetime Learning session continues.

On Tuesday, Oct. 11 from 10:30 a.m. to noon, Jung-Ho Pak, artistic director and conductor of the Cape Symphony,  talks with three Broadway performers who will be featured in the Symphony’s “Bravo Broadway” show later next week. Dee Roscioli is best known for starring as the witch Elphaba in Wicked and as Cher in The Cher Show. Hugh Panaro starred as the Phantom in over 2,000 performances of The Phantom of the Opera. Scarlett Strallen starred as Gwendolyn on Broadway in Travesties and as Mary in Mary Poppins on Broadway and in London.

Later on Tuesday Harvard astronomy professor Dimitar D. Sasselov presents “Cape Cod’s Night Sky.” In an afternoon lecture in the library’s Craine Room from 1:30 to 3 p.m., Sasselov will discuss how to spot planets, stars, constellations and more in various seasons over the Cape, which boasts one of the darkest skies on the Eastern Seaboard. In the early evening, he’ll set up a telescope and lead a star-gazing session on Orleans’ Skaket Beach from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

On Thursday, Oct. 13, local panelists address the “Cape’s Housing Crisis: What’s Your Stake in It,” a three-part series. Learn from housing advocates, builders, business owners, workers and law enforcement officials who will define the problem, share personal housing journeys and offer real-life solutions. The first session spells out “The Problem” and is followed on Oct. 20 with “The Experience of Clients.” It concludes on Nov. 4 with a discussion of the solutions.

For a full list of programs and information on how to register, visit www.friendsofsnowlibrary.org/lifetime-learning-program.