The Lewes Public Library presents SummerScape 2025, featuring fifteen live events in the library's new outdoor pavilion, celebrating performing arts, history, literature, and science!

Tonight Delaware Center for the Inland Bays presents Wild Wonders of the Inland Bays: Learn, Connect, Protect. 

"Get your feet wet" with Delaware's Inland Bays! Join Lisa Swanger, Director of Outreach & Education at the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays, for a fun and interactive presentation exploring the amazing habitats and wildlife that call the Bays home. Discover how this unique ecosystem supports both wildlife and our communities, some of the challenges it faces, and simple ways—even the smallest hands—can help protect this natural treasure. This presentation is perfect for curious kids, nature-loving families, and anyone ready to dive into the wonders of the Inland Bays!

The mission of the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays is to preserve, protect, and restore Delaware’s Inland Bays and their watershed. The Center achieves this through science-based: research, restoration, education, outreach, public policy, and advocacy.

To reserve a seat under the pavilion, each individual must register. Do NOT sign up two people under one reservation. Once all seats are reserved, walk-ins are welcome to sit on the grass surrounding the pavilion but must provide their own lawn chair or blanket.

In case of inclement weather, please check with the library on whether the offering will be moved to the large meeting room. Those who are registered will be guaranteed a seat in the large meeting room.

SummerScape 2025 Schedule

Wednesday, June 11 | 7:00 PM | Serafin Ensemble presents Chamber Music | String Splendor – Haydn and Dvorák
Wednesday, June 18 | 7:00 PM | Serafin Ensemble presents Chamber Music | Bach and Beyond
Wednesday, June 25 | 7:00 PM | Serafin Ensemble presents Chamber Music | String Splendor – Czech This!
Wednesday, July 9 | 7:00 PM | Delaware Shakespeare Presents a Preview of Their New Musical Adaptation of Twelfth Night
Wednesday, July 16 | 7:00 PM | Harriet Tubman Museum & Educational Center Presents The Power of Harriet Tubman
Wednesday, July 23 | 7:00 PM | The Lewes Historical Society Presents Tavern Talks
Wednesday, July 30 | 7:00 PM | Singers and Songwriters Presents the Genius of Rodgers and Hammerstein
Wednesday, August 6 | 7:00 PM | Tales from the Shark Side | Professor Aaron Carlisle, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy
Wednesday, August 13 | 7:00 PM | Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence | Dr. Michael Redmond
Wednesday, August 20 | 7:00 PM | Delaware Center for the Inland Bays Presents Wild Wonders of the Inland Bays: Learn, Connect, Protect
Wednesday, August 27 | 7:00 PM | Jack Lewis, Lewes Artist of Renown | Alan Jensen, Lewes Historical Society
Wednesday, September 10 | 7:00 PM | First State Ballet Presents an Evening of New Works
Saturday, September 13 | 7:00 PM | Suzanne Savoy Presents the World Premiere of The Book of Poissy
Sunday, September 14 | 2:00 PM | Gerald Dickens and Suzanne Savoy Present A Child’s Journey with Dickens
Sunday, September 14 | 7:00 PM | Gerald Dickens Presents Nicholas Nickleby!

SummerScape 2025 is partially funded by the generous support of
Groome Church and Browseabout Books
LPL Braithwaite Endowment Fund, Coastal Concerts, M & T Charitable Foundation, and The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
Becker Morgan Group, The Inn at Canal Square, and The Lee Ann Wilkinson Group
Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on DelawareScene.com.