Twenty Summers & East End Books Ptown

invite you to celebrate

Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
An Evening with Brad Gooch
benefiting Twenty Summers

The fascinating and fast burning life and times of Keith Haring and his Pop Art contemporaries have been studied, written about, transformed into musicals, plays and monographs for decades. Multiple award-winning poet, novelist and biographer Brad Gooch has created the most extensive portrait to date, having interviewed or consulted more than 200 people for his multi-colored, masterful book. Meet and hear personal stories from Brad, a former model and denizen of the halcyon days of 1980s New York City, in this intimate gathering at our new space at 494 Commercial. 

This intimate dinner follows a public event upstairs at WOMR where Brad will be in conversation with Ken Fulk. Each dinner guest will receive a signed copy of Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring.

7:00 - 8:00 pm -- Drinks and passed hors d'oeuvres, mingle and chat across 20S and Schoolhouse Gallery spaces. Featuring live postcard art by local artists Naya Bricher, David Chick, Thom Markee, and Paul Rizzo.

8:00 - 9:30 pm -- Private, sit down dinner with Brad Gooch for limited guests in the 20S space

Tickets are limited. Please make your minimum $500 donation per guest soon. 

Even if you are not able to attend, please consider making a donation to Twenty Summers.

Contact development@20Summers.org to RSVP via check or for any questions.

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Donations to Twenty Summers are tax deductible, to the extent permitted by law; the non-deductible portion of each dinner ticket is $25. Twenty Summers is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization; EIN/federal tax ID number is 27-1255685

Twenty Summers & East End Books Ptown presents: “Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring” Brad Gooch and Ken Fulk in Conversation at in the Davis Space on the second floor of WOMR at 494 Commercial Street.

"It's all here: the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for Post-it notes and flying saucers; the long tails of Dubuffet and Burroughs; the encounters with Madonna, Warhol, and one game-changer of a subway Johnny Walker Red poster. Brad Gooch takes us deep into Keith Haring's imagination while somehow managing to fix the aura and energy of the 1980s New York art scene to the page. A keen-eyed, beautifully written biography, atmospheric, exuberant, and as radiant as they come."--Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Revolutionary: Sam Adams

A stunning life of the iconic American artist, Keith Haring, by the acclaimed biographer Brad Gooch.

In the 1980s, the subways of New York City were covered with art. In the stations, black matte sheets were pasted over outdated ads, and unsigned chalk drawings often popped up on these blank spaces. These temporary chalk drawings numbered in the thousands and became synonymous with a city as diverse as it was at war with itself, beset with poverty and crime but alive with art and creative energy. And every single one of these drawings was done by Keith Haring.

Keith Haring was one of the most emblematic artists of the 1980s, a figure described by his contemporaries as "a prophet in his life, his person, and his work." Part of an iconic cultural crowd that included Andy Warhol, Madonna, and Basquiat, Haring broke down the barriers between high art and popular culture, creating work that was accessible for all and using it as a means to provoke and inspire radical social change. Haring died of AIDS in 1990. To this day, his influence on our culture remains incontrovertible, and his glamorous, tragically short life has a unique aura of mystery and power.

Brad Gooch, is a poet, novelist, and biographer whose previous ten books include Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a New York Times bestseller; City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara; Godtalk: Travels in Spiritual America; and the memoir Smash Cut. He is the recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim fellowships, and lives in New York City.

Ken Fulk is a designer of experiences large and small. He is renowned for his layered interiors, high-concept hospitality brands and unforgettable parties. The Virginia-born designer has spent the last 25 years developing a business by elevating the daily lives of his clients, not only designing their homes, jets, restaurants and hotels but also creative directing birthdays, weddings, dinners, anniversaries and family getaways.

$35 — All proceeds benefit the Local Journalism Project

Featuring Tessera C. Knowles, Ed Miller, Adam Moss, Daniel Okrent, and Andrew Sullivan in conversation.

Journalism informs. It investigates. It holds the powerful accountable. But can it also be art? Adam Moss makes that case in his new book, The Work of Art, featuring visual artists, novelists, poets, musicians, and journalists like Gay Talese, Ira Glass, and the front-page editors of the New York Times. Join Moss and Provincetown Independent editor Ed Miller, along with journalist and historian Dan Okrent, journalist and podcaster Andrew Sullivan, and journalist and artist Tessera C. Knowles, to discuss the creative side of journalism — as it is practiced now, as it has flourished historically, and as it takes ever-new forms on the way to an indefinite future.

This event benefits the Local Journalism Project — the nonprofit organization that supports next-generation journalists at the Provincetown Independent.

Daniel Okrent is the author most recently of The Guarded Gate; he also invented Rotisserie League Baseball and was the first public editor of the New York Times. Andrew Sullivan, who writes The Weekly Dish, is the author of The Conservative Soul and was the editor of The New Republic. Ed Miller has worked as a writer, editor, and book publisher; he is co-author of How to Produce a Small Newspaper. Tess Knowles, an artist and garden designer, was a reporter at the Provincetown Independent. Adam Moss was the editor of New York, the New York Times Magazine, and 7 Days.

From Howard Karren’s review of The Work of Art in the Independent:
“In 2019, when Adam Moss left his powerful perch as top editor of New York magazine after 15 years, he decided to devote himself to painting. It didn’t go well. He was obsessed and tormented with his progress as an artist, and the harder he worked, the more frustrated and unsatisfied he became. To lift himself out of that quagmire, he embarked on a project that would employ his skills as a journalist: he would talk to artists of all stripes and genres and explore how they did what they did so well. The result is a book, The Work of Art: How something comes from nothing, which was published by Penguin Press in April. It is, in itself, a splendiferous piece of work, filled with thoughtful analysis, joyful and humorous stories, and hundreds of images and doodles and footnotes. The collection of artists’ voices is impressive, even dazzling.”

$35

Kioea (pronounced kēōˈāə) is a music group featuring Carand Burnet (she/her) as lead guitarist and songwriter. Their music blends sounds of surf rock, psychedelia, and global influences. J. Swartwood (Aquarium Drunkard) described Burnet’s music as “simultaneously modern and vintage.”

Bandcamp recognized Kioea for their EP and album, Stand Tall, which they selected as New & Notable releases. Bandcamp’s Editorial Director writes, “The debut LP from Kioea is dreamy psychedelic surf music that calls back to the ’60s while feeling remarkably contemporary.” Jason M. Rubin (The Arts Fuse) comments, “Burnet’s surf guitar takes the listener on journeys of their own, all of which feeds a desire to hear more.”

Doyle Dean, host of The Dean’s List on NCPR, notes that “Burnet’s guitar playing owes a little bit to the sound of The Ventures, Dick Dale, and the 90’s Canadian daredevils of the form, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet. But her singular voice owes just as much to that of Sonny Rollins – lost in the madness of a late 1950s session for Riverside. It’s that departure Kioea offers.”

Kioea has played at 3S Artspace, The Music Hall, The Thing in the Spring Festival, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, SPACE Gallery, WMUR Summer Concert Series, and elsewhere. Burnet received a Maine ARP Grant through SPACE Gallery and the National Endowment for the Arts, which supported the making of Kioea’s album Stand Tall.

$35 | 6pm doors, 7pm show — SOLD OUT

Presented by Twenty Summers & Cape Symphony Presents

Join Mike Sullivan and friends in a concert featuring masked performances of Stephen Sondheim repertoire with other choral and musical theater works. With performers wearing masks and custom clothing designs, Faces of Celebration meets at the intersection of music, fashion, and art, and will explore the variety of ways in which we engage with storytelling and creative expression. The concert will be a two act performance, consisting of local and visiting singers and instrumentalists.

Supported by a Program Grant from the Fund for Visual Arts of The Cape Cod Foundation.

Mike Sullivan is an artist and musician. His work includes sculptural headwear made with materials ranging from natural objects to jewelry and broken mirrors.  Mike immersed himself in the queer communities in Provincetown and New York City, where he found a passion for portrait and documentary photography. With roots in the theater, Mike has produced several concerts and collaborations with other singers and musicians as fundraisers for different causes.

Free

Open House 2-7pm | Artist Talk at 6pm

Faces of Celebration: Embracing individuality within Community

Through the mediums of sculptural mask work and photography, Provincetown artist Mike Sullivan displays an immersive exploration of individual expression and collective identity. With handcrafted masks created with materials ranging from wasp nests to stained glass, the Faces of Celebration art installation and artist talk will offer a glimpse into how masks of various types can symbolize contemporary and traditional methods of communication, for individual and collective purposes. In addition to the sculptural display, photographs and interactive pieces will be exhibited to highlight the transformative and reflective qualities that mask work instills, offering a multi dimensional experience. Through participation as a viewer, or engaging in the interactive elements, visitors can contribute their individuality to the tapestry of our vibrant community. 

Mike Sullivan is an artist and musician. His work includes sculptural headwear made with materials ranging from natural objects to jewelry and broken mirrors.  Mike immersed himself in the queer communities in Provincetown and New York City, where he found a passion for portrait and documentary photography. With roots in the theater, Mike has produced several concerts and collaborations with other singers and musicians as fundraisers for different cause.

"Ornate and decadent, yet composed of elements from the natural world like peacock feathers, flowers, and branches as much as jewels, shards of broken mirror, and found objects, Mike Sullivan's masks, crowns, and headpieces evoke dichotomies, clashes of materials, ideas, and ideals. And yet the dramas within them ultimately feel balanced." –Rebecca Alvin, Provincetown Magazine

$20 Suggested Donation

Presented by Twenty Summers, Cape Cod Modern House Trust and Forum 24

On August 18th, 1949, Forum 49 hosted a panel discussion called ‘Directions in 20th Century Architecture’ featuring architect Marcel Breuer, the artist and filmmaker György Kepes, and architect and journalist, Peter Blake, who was then curator for Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art.

All three speakers were engaged in the then-raging debate about whether modern houses should use the materials and methods of vernacular, regional architecture, or employ universal, standardized, machine-made components.

Breuer had just finished building his own experimental house in Wellfleet and one for the Kepes family not far away. Both houses were modest-sized, environmentally sensitive, outposts for art-making and creative congregation. 

By coincidence this 75th anniversary of Forum 49 is also the year the Cape Cod Modern House Trust is seeking to purchase, restore and re-open Breuer’s house as a platform for scholarship and new creative work.

By looking back at the Forum 49 discussions, this talk will explore the relevance of Breuer’s work today, as well as the process of preserving his summer house and the archiving of its contents.

Peter McMahon (left) is the Founding Director, Cape Cod Modern House Trust. Author (with Christine Cipriani) of Cape Cod Modern.

Timothy Rohan (right) is Department Chair and Associate Professor of American and European  Architecture. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Author of The Architecture of Paul Rudolph (Yale 2014) and numerous articles in academic journals, including ones about Marcel Breuer.

$50 — SOLD OUT

Presented by Twenty Summers, Cape Cod Modern House Trust and Forum 24

Since it’s founding in 2007 the Cape Cod Modern House Trust (CCMHT) has leased and restored four NPS-owned, modern houses that had been slated for demolition. These low-budget, high concept structures have now been re-launched as platforms for new creative and scholarly work. 

CCMHT Founding Director, Peter McMahon, will lead this tour of two re-built and refurnished houses, plus the soon-to-be restored Marcel Breuer House, which has suffered from decades of neglect, but is entirely original. 

The tour includes:

The Kugel/Gips House  designed by Charlie Zehnder. 1970

The Weidlinger House  designed by Paul Weidlinger. 1953

The Breuer House  designed by Marcel Breuer.  1949 /61 /67.

We will meet at Newcomb Hollow Beach parking lot in Wellfleet at 12.30pm

Parking is free.

$20 Suggested Donation

Join us for a preview of Signs from the Mainland, a documentary short that explores the extraordinary history of the Martha’s Vineyard deaf community, followed by a conversation with 2021 Twenty Summers Fellow Jeffrey Mansfield and director Michael Cestaro.

Starting as far back as the early 1700s, genetic deafness took a foothold on Martha's Vineyard where as many as one in four residents were deaf and a majority of hearing residents also were able to communicate in what is considered one of the precursors to modern American Sign Language. The film explores the deeper meaning and lessons to be learned from this unique enclave where deaf and hearing individuals coexisted seamlessly. 

Through interviews with historians and community members, the documentary asks, “why did this happen?”, “what was it like?”, and also “where did it go?” The story of the MV deaf community’s eventual conclusion shows us the first steps of the ASL movement, the establishment of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford CT, and bigger lessons about connection over time. 

Signs from the Mainland reflects on the legacy of the MV Deaf community, the implications for the broader society, and its relevance to contemporary conversations about inclusivity and diversity. 

Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield is a design director at MASS Design Group and a Ford-Mellon Disability Futures fellow, whose work explores the relationships between architecture, landscape, and power. Jeffrey is a recipient of a Graham Foundation grant and a John W. Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress for his work on Architecture of Deafness, which explores how Deaf schools and other Deaf Spaces emerged as sites of cultural resistance. Jeffrey holds a Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and an AB in Architecture from Princeton University. Deaf since birth, Jeffrey is a Yonsei, or fourth-generation, Japanese American, and attended a deaf school in Massachusetts, where his earliest intuitions about the relationship between aesthetics, geography, and power emerged.

Support for this project provided by Expanding Massachusetts Stories, an initiative of Mass Humanities.

$20 Suggested Donation — SOLD OUT

Join Rebecca Orchant & Bill Hough for a conversation celebrating Rebecca’s new book Simmering, A Kitchen Memoir .

“There are somethings that you just can’t do in front of other people. You can’t look at magazines with boobs in them; you can’t eat condoms on your mom’s nightstand; and you most certainly can’t stick your finger into the Duncan-Hines vanilla frosting tub. And so I waited.”

Rebecca Orchant is the Co-Owner of Pop+Dutch, a sandwich shop and curiosities market in Provincetown, MA, where she has lived year-round with her husband Sean since 2014. Formerly a Food Editor at The Huffington Post, Orchant also performs burlesque as The Duchess of Sandwich, is currently the Vice Chair of the Board of the Provincetown Commons, and contributes to The Provincetown Independent. She was born and raised in Albuquerque, NM, and received a BFA in Dramatic Writing from The University of New Mexico, where she received a regional award, and was a national finalist for the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play from The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. She is probably thinking about cheese right now.

Billy Hough, born in Bakersfield, CA, is an actor, writer, and musician. He is best known for his show "Scream Along with Billy" which he performs with his partner, bassist Susan Goldberg. Hilton Als in "The New Yorker" (Aug 8, 2008) called the show "poignant and beautiful" and Hough "mesmerizing." The show was hatched at Enzo in Provincetown, MA, in 2006, and has since become as staple of the New York City underground music scene.

$35 | 6pm doors, 7pm show

This sonically-innovative harpist is revolutionizing her instrument for the digital era. Over the past 15 years, she has worked relentlessly to stretch boundaries and limitations for harpists. In 2022, she made history by becoming the first black woman to be nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition. That same year, she was also nominated for an NAACP Image Award.

“No harpist thus far has been more capable of combining all of the modern harp traditions—from Salzedo, through Dorothy Ashby, through Alice Coltrane—with such strength, grace and commitment.”—saxophonist Ravi Coltrane

$20 Suggested Donation

McElroy’s debut novel, “The Atmospherians,” told the clever but slightly insiderly and overfreighted tale of a wellness cult designed to cleanse men of their toxicity. “People Collide” is a more agile, universal book, with its title alluding to the randomness of human connection. It’s a variety of rom-com, really, that somewhat lost art. “Circumstances pinball people together,” the narrator declares. “This is called fate because chance is too scary a word.”

Perhaps no situation is more pinballish than that of in-laws, and McElroy’s unexpected digression into the psyche of Elizabeth’s mother, a frustrated writer herself who unknowingly condemns Eli for abandoning her daughter, is one of the novel’s great gifts.

McElroy, who lives in Brooklyn, seems to aspire as much to flight as to eavesdropping. “People Collide” has some bumpy, odd spots — what body doesn’t? — but its naturalness and ease with the most fundamental questions of existence make it a big project knocking around in a small package, portending even bigger projects ahead.

-”Want to spice up a marriage? Switch bodies.” by Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times, 2023

Isle McElroy is a writer based in Brooklyn. Their debut novel, The Atmospherians, was named a New York Times Editors' Choice. Their second novel, People Collide, was New York Times Critics' Pick. Other writing appears in The New York Times, New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Cut, Vulture, GQ, Vogue, The Atlantic, Tin House, and elsewhere.  

​Isle was named one of The Strand's 30 Writers to Watch. They have received fellowships from The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, The Tin House Summer Workshop, The Sewanee Writers Conference, The Inprint Foundation, The Elizabeth George Foundation, and The National Parks Service. 

Patrick Nolan is Vice President, Publisher of Penguin Books and imprint of Penguin Random House. He joined the company in 2000 as sales director and is now the book-publishing right hand to Viking, overseeing their paperback reprints and a select list of Penguin trade paperback originals as well as the backlist. The list of authors he works with includes Amor Towles, Tana French, Rebecca Makkai, Ruth Ozeki, Bessel van der Kolk, and Robert Greene and the estates of Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, and John Steinbeck. 

As an editor he is interested in a wide variety of literary and commercial nonfiction and fiction. He has published numerous titles by the #1 New York Times best selling author Matt Haig, including The Midnight Library and Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle, National Book Award long listed poet Rio Cortez, and nonfiction from Keyu Jin, Benjamin Taylor,  Farah Karim-Cooper, and Richard Deming. Before Penguin he worked at Houghton Mifflin Company, The Walt Disney Company, and Waterstone’s Booksellers. He is board chair for the Animal Care Center of New York City and serves on the Programming Committee for the Provincetown Book Festival.

Pat Kearns is a writer living in Provincetown, MA. He is the keeper of the people’s parlor and writes for the Arts & Minds section for The Provincetown Independent. 

6pm doors | 7pm show

Free — SOLD OUT

Cody Plays is an experiment in creating a play in a matter of a few days with a rotating group of special guests and collaborators created by writer/performer Cody Sullivan. Where is the show taking place this week? What is happening in the world that day? Who can we beg to take a role? The answers to these questions are the frantic, immediate, ephemeral ingredients that Cody uses to facilitate the group creation of each Cody Plays. Cody started the show in Provincetown at The Gifford House, in June 2023. He continues to play in Provincetown and Boston.

“The results are outrageous and boisterous and harken back to Provincetown’s devil-may-care days.” – Chris Muller, The Boston Globe.

Cody Sullivan is a writer and performer based in Provincetown, MA. He began his studies in performance art in Boston at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and his practice of improvisation at Improv Boston. In 2014 Cody moved to Chicago to study at the iO Theater, where he became a house performer from 2015-2019. Cody currently performs solo theater and improvisation, as well as writing/directing his show Cody Plays, in which he selects a different collaborator to co-write, direct, and perform in a play over the span of a few days.

$175

We are hosting three days of art-making in the Hawthorne Barn with our friends from PAAM. Following a brief lecture on the legacy of Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown, teacher John Clayton will give a painting demonstration and supervise a full day of painting in the Barn. Coffee and lunch will be provided.

The class is open to all levels of experience, but please bring your own supplies. We will provide easels and stools. If the event sells out, we will maintain a waitlist on a first-come, first-served basis.

Materials List

$175

We are hosting three days of art-making in the Hawthorne Barn with our friends from PAAM. Following a brief lecture on the legacy of Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown, teacher John Clayton will give a painting demonstration and supervise a full day of painting in the Barn. Coffee and lunch will be provided.

The class is open to all levels of experience, but please bring your own supplies. We will provide easels and stools. If the event sells out, we will maintain a waitlist on a first-come, first-served basis.

Materials List

$175

We are hosting three days of art-making in the Hawthorne Barn with our friends from PAAM. Following a brief lecture on the legacy of Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown, teacher John Clayton will give a painting demonstration and supervise a full day of painting in the Barn. Coffee and lunch will be provided.

The class is open to all levels of experience, but please bring your own supplies. We will provide easels and stools. If the event sells out, we will maintain a waitlist on a first-come, first-served basis.

Materials List

$20 Suggested Donation

Join Synchronous Creative for an evening of site-specific movement and exploration surrounding the idea of “safe spaces” at the Hawthorne Barn. The evening will be an inside look at their creative process, where they will lead audience members through a few prompts and exercises utilized  through their process at 20 Summers. The members will have an “open rehearsal”, where they show their creative process in practice, as well as a final presentation as a culmination of their residency. A brief talk back/discussion may follow.

Synchronous is a creative lab and performance group driven by transparency, inclusivity, and individual voice. The members of the company combine their diverse skill sets to form a knowledge base which they utilize to fully realize their collective ideas. They create a network of support providing skills including but not limited to - administrative needs, grant research and application assistance, press release writing and development, and artistic mentorship throughout the creative process. At its core, Synchronous is a space in which the collaborators create the contemporary dance works that they want to see in New York City.

Stephanie Shin founded Synchronous in 2023. While freelancing in New York, Shin encountered multiple instances in which her jobs lacked transparency and communication from those in positions of power. Shin decided to collaborate with four other artists in order to create an environment that filled the gaps in the industry. In her words, Shin founded Synchronous because, “I craved a certain type of work that didn’t exist yet in NYC. I wanted to make the work that was missing, but also wanted to make a company reflective of the NYC dance community. These dancers are diverse, collaborative, and interdisciplinary individuals that mirror the larger freelance community.”  

$20 Suggested Donation

Join Season Eleven Fellow JU-EH for a workshop and performance exploring the question “Where does voice come from, and how does it represent you? “.

You + 20S + JU-EH = ?
A Site Specific Milk Tea Opera House Session

‘Milk Tea Opera House’ is an initiative to create opportunities to influence more voices, to awaken them, and to guide them. It is vital to be able to experience more voices and together we ask this question: Where does voice come from, and how does it represent you?

JU-EH would like to create a live Milk Tea Opera House Session, along with Twenty Summers, to co-create new kinds of interactive spaces from where the voice is born, redefining the term ‘opera house’ for the next 100 years.

The main practice of an MTOH Session will focus on the human voice, and exercise how we use the voice internally in different dimensions. Not the finished flawless performances of an opera singer, but the internal handling of the voice in a much wider spectrum.

With this knowledge that JU-EH has lived, studied, and embodied for decades, it is time to collaborate to reveal the depth of our sonic environments, and the image of voice in various daily activities to a wider creative community.

JU-EH is a visionary interdisciplinary creator with a unique perspective shaped by their diverse cultural background. As a male soprano, JU-EH specializes in developing nonhuman roles and using opera as a meta-emotional vehicle, bringing a fresh and innovative approach to this timeless art form. As a conceptual curator, JU-EH has initiated projects that defy genre, period, or easy categorization. JU-EH has collaborated with numerous nonprofit organizations to raise awareness of safe and caring environments for people of color artists and employees.

$20 Suggested Donation

Over 10 years ago Matika Wilbur began to develop a monumental aspiration that has led to her work today: to help develop a body of imagery and cultural representations of Native Peoples to counteract the relentlessly insipid, one-dimensional stereotypes circulating in mainstream media, historical textbooks and the culture industry. To create positive indigenous role models to do justice to the richness and diversity and lived experiences of Indian Country. 

In 2012 Matika Wilbur sold everything in her Seattle apartment and created Project 562 which reflects her commitment to visit, engage and photograph all 562 plus Native American sovereign territories in the United States. 

This project has driven her to travel hundreds of thousands of miles, many in her RV the “Big Girl” but also by horseback through the Grand Canyon, by train, plane, and boat and on foot across all 50 states. 

She reflects a remarkable way of being an artist in the contemporary world. The photographs that Matika takes reflect her consummate craftsmanship. Beautiful black and white images that selectively incorporate color and showcase their subjects in vital mutualism with the lands on which they live and which they steward. 

But her virtuoso technique is only one aspect of the social and cultural meaning of the works. They are one product of her dynamic engagement with Native communities in which she takes the time to understand the stories and histories of particular tribes. Each particular tribe and each individual and experience which shapes entirely the way the portrait comes to be. From this lecture, the audience has the opportunity to “journey”.

Matika Wilbur was raised in the Swinomish tribal community, and she is enrolled in the Tulalip Tribe, where she currently lives with her husband and baby. She integrates fine art and social justice as a long-form photo documentarian, writer, filmmaker, podcaster, and public speaker. She is the founder and photographer of Project 562, a documentary project dedicated to changing the way we see Native America.

After earning her BFA from Brooks Institute of Photography, Wilbur began her career in fashion and commercial photography in Los Angeles. But she quickly decided to instead use photography as a tool for social justice. Project 562 is Wilbur’s fourth major creative project elevating Native American identity and culture. Her first project captured portraits of Coast Salish elders for We Are One People (2004, Seattle Art Museum), then We Emerge (2008, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture), which featured Native people in contemporary urban and traditional settings, followed by Save the Indian and Kill the Man (2012, Tacoma Art Museum), which addressed the forced cultural assimilation of Native Peoples.

Through her lens, we are able to see the diversity, vibrancy and realness of Indian Country, and in seeing, challenge and surpass stereotypical representations and refresh the national conversation about contemporary Native America.

$35 | doors at 6pm, show at 7pm — SOLD OUT

Since their inception in early 2018, Bermuda Search Party (formerly known as The Q-Tip Bandits) have emerged into the Boston music scene as an energetic and vibrant act that continues to touch audience’s hearts while getting them up on their feet. Their smooth yet powerful sound is backed by the raw energy of rock and the coolness and colors of R&B and funk — with palpable grooves coated with savory, soul-inspired riffs, anthemic horns and meaningful lyrics.

After a pandemic of writing and recording, the band released their self-produced debut LP, Melancholy Flowers, in 2022. Melancholy Flowers features the vocal stylings and songwriting of both guitarist Leo Son and bassist Claire Davis, and smooth and soaring trumpet and trombone from Maclin Tucker and Hoyt Parquet. The band toured in support of the record throughout the year, culminating in four Boston Music Awards nominations, for Live and Pop Act of the Year, Song of the Year for “Daisy,” and Album of the Year.

In 2023, the band played stages across the country, touring the South and the Midwest and hitting festivals along the way including SXSW, Levitate Music Festival, and Boston Calling. In September, the band returned to the studio to record their sophomore LP with Eric Palmquist, known for his work with half•alive, Tate McRae, and Bad Suns. With singles coming in 2024, the record is a departure from the band’s previous work, putting a pop spin on their signature horn-driven indie rock sound.

$20 Suggested Donation

Join us at Waters Edge Cinema for a screening of “The African Desperate”, a film by Martine Syms.

Chaos reigns in the riotously funny debut feature from visual artist Martine Syms. With a breakthrough performance from Diamond Stingily, this hallucinatory day-in-the-life of a Black artist is a rollicking satire of art-world pretensions and a rowdy portrayal of sex and drugs in the Internet age.

Martine Syms has shown extensively including solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and ICA London. She has also done commissioned work for brands such as Prada, Nike, and Celine, among others. She is a recipient of the Creative Capital Award, a United States Artists fellowship, the Tiffany Foundation award, and the Future Fields Art Prize. She is in a band called Aunt Sister and hosts Doubler Penetration, a monthly radio show on NTS. She also runs Dominica Publishing. 

$40

Presented by Twenty Summers and Babes & Bois

This Memorial Day join Babes & Bois for a Sapphic Sip & Draw at twilight in the Hawthorne Barn. Wine aficionado, Carmen da Silva, will be pouring a selection of female produced wines while attendees enjoy an open form life drawing session inspired by a series of short and long poses by seasoned life drawing model, Sam Sewell. Please bring your own drawing materials.

"The female form, like a really good bottle of wine, is absolutely breath-taking." 

Carmen da Silva (she/her/they/them) is a natural wine nerd and WSET-educated former wine shop manager. Her passion for wine grew from a decade of extensive dining research in New York City, in part required for her role as a Les Clefs d'Or Concierge at the Soho Grand Hotel and for the deeper outer borough research of her self-published guidebook to Brooklyn. Over the last year Carmen and her partner Sam Sewell founded Babes & Bois, a marketing and event production company helping to create more space and events for the "queer and Sapphically-inclined". 

Sam Sewell (gender playful) is a seasoned life drawing model with 4+ years experience working weekly with PAAM, Truro Center for the Arts, FAWC and several Gallerists from Provincetown to Wellfleet. Sam holds a Masters in Design & Production from the California Institute of the Arts and Bachelors in Music Industry from Northeastern University. You can often find them on stage, behind a DJ booth, and producing a variety of shows in Provincetown including Sir! A Drag King Brunch, and the Wake Up! in Provincetown morning show.

$35 | 6pm doors, 7pm show — SOLD OUT

A powerfully gifted musician and a scholar of Black American music, Jake Blount speaks ardently about the African roots of the banjo and the subtle, yet profound ways African Americans have shaped and defined the amorphous categories of roots music and Americana. His 2020 album Spider Tales (named one of the year’s best albums by NPR and The New Yorker, earned a perfect 5-star review from The Guardian) highlighted the Black and Indigenous histories of popular American folk tunes, as well as revived songs unjustly forgotten in the whitewashing of the canon.

Jake Blount’s new album, The New Faith, is a towering achievement of dystopian Afrofuturism and his first album for Smithsonian Folkways (released September 23, 2022). The New Faith is spiritual music, filled with hope for salvation and righteous anger in equal measure. The album manifests our worst fears on the shores of an island in Maine, where Blount enacts an imagined religious ceremony performed by Black refugees after the collapse of global civilization due to catastrophic climate change.

Jake Blount’s music is rooted in care and confrontation. On stage, each song he and his band play is chosen for a reason - because it highlights important elements about the stories we tell ourselves of our shared history and our endlessly complicated present moment. The more we learn about where we’ve been, the better equipped we are to face the future. 

$20

Introduce yourself to the nettle plant through an immersion of flavor, texture, sensations and experiences. Nicole Cormier RD, LDN will offer connections to Urtica dioica with a tasting of various preparations of the plant to eat, sip and feel.

“I am passionate about helping people...improving whole health ... mental and physical ...educating ... I believe in the power connecting farmers and consumers.”

Nicole Cormier is an herbalist, registered dietitian, local food enthusiast, author, and intuitive eating nutrition therapist. She indulges her passion for nutrition and local foods on beautiful Cape Cod through her nutrition therapy practice, Delicious Living Nutrition, and Dietetic Internship. Her collaborations with local chefs, non-profits, schools, farmers’ markets, restaurants, and art centers include programs, dinners, workshops, and catering. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts and the Beth Israel Deaconess Dietetic Internship in 2006 and is completing a Masters in Clinical Herbalism from the Maryland University of Integrative Health.

$60 — SOLD OUT

Tickets on sale Tuesday, April 9 at noon ET.

This 3 hour workshop will give participants an introduction to using maps in collage and mixed-media art by looking at the work of other artists and by creating work of their own. Through quick exercises focusing on both the geographical context and the design elements of maps, they will discover how to use them as source material for both abstract and representational work. No previous collage experience is necessary.

Participants should bring scissors and/or Xacto knife; cutting board (or cardboard); glue stick; tape; Bristol paper/cardstock/anything similar; pencils/pens. Participants are welcome to bring maps, atlases, etc. that they are willing to cut up, but the instructor will provide plenty

Sian Robertson grew up in South West Wales, in the UK. She received a BEd (Hons) from Rolle College in Exmouth, Devon and went on to work in the union and non-profit sectors in both Bristol and London until moving to America in 1992. After seven years in San Francisco she settled on Cape Cod running retail stores and working in an art gallery in Provincetown. Robertson has never received any formal art training but has been cutting and pasting, amongst many other creative pursuits, since she was about eight.

In 2023 Robertson was the recipient of the Juror’s Award at the International Society of Experimental Artists’s annual show, Innovations, held at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod. Robertson’s Postage Portraits were featured in Uppercase Magazine in 2015, and her Map Sculptures in the same publication in 2020. Robertson teaches classes at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, and at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. 

$20 Suggested Donation

See new photographs and drawings from Quil Lemons captured during his Twenty Summers residency. Lemons will be documenting landscapes, faces and figures of Ptown, including posed portraits on Polaroid and 35mm film.

Quil Lemons is a New York-based photographer, originally hailing from Philadelphia. His visual language is distinct and interrogates ideas around masculinity, family, queerness, race, and beauty. Quil’s work dances the line between the fantastic and realistic, resulting in disruptive images that feel like pure imagination, while simultaneously grounding us in references to our current cultural climate. His images can be found in publications such as Allure, Garage, i-D, Shadowplay, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Variety, and W, among others. His clients include Burberry, Calvin Klein, Givenchy, Guess, Gucci, Moncler, Nike, Nordstrom, SSense, and Valentino, among others.

Quil has exhibited at International Center of Photography, New York, 2021, in Lincoln Center at the American Ballet Theatre’s Fall Season, New York, 2021, Aperture’s New Black Vanguard, New York, 2019, Kuumba Festival, Toronto, 2019, and Contact Festival, Toronto, 2018. He has given artist talks at Fotografiska in New York, and ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA. He launched a capsule collection with Sky High Farm Workwear titled “Farm Boys Do It Better” in February 2023 and is currently a Contributing Art Director at the brand. 

$20 Suggested Donation

A chance meeting with a stranger on the side of the road led artist, Michael Joseph down a decade-long journey photographing and documenting an American subculture, called Travelers. Travelers are the most contemporary of non-conformists, having evolved from the 1930s Dustbowl Hobo, '50s Kerouac Beatnik, and the '90s East Village Squatter.  Michael will present his work and new book, "Lost and Found: A Portrait of American Wanderlust" through visuals and audio. His current portrait project set in Provincetown, called "Wild West of the East" will be discussed. Topics common to both projects include identity formation, found family, wanderlust, the human journey and the search for equality and human authenticity.

Michael Joseph is a street portrait and documentary photographer. Raised just outside of New York City, his inspirations are drawn from interactions with strangers on city streets and aims to afford his audience the same experience through his photographs. His portraits are made on the street, often unplanned and up close to allow the viewer to explore the immediate and unseen. Themes throughout his portraiture and projects include identity formation, found family, wanderlust, the human journey, the search for equality and human authenticity. His first monograph, "Lost and Found: A Portrait of American Wanderlust", was published Fall, 2023 (Europe) and will be coming out Spring, 2024 (USA) by Kehrer Verlag.

Michael has been exhibited nationally with solo shows at Daniel Cooney Fine Art and the Soho Photo Gallery and the FP3 Gallery. He has lectured at the International Center of Photography, the Savannah College of Art and Design, in portraiture classes at the New England School of Photography and taught at the Light Factory. He is a 2023 and 2016 Photolucida Top 50 Photographer, 2020 Photolucida Finalist, and LensCulture Portrait Award Finalist. Michael was named “One of the Top 25 LGBTQ+ Film Photographers You Need to Know” by Analogue Forever magazine in 2021.  He is a recipient of the fellowship in photography from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation.

$35 | 6pm doors, 7pm show — SOLD OUT

One of the Midwest’s most prolific and passionate songwriters, May Erlewine has a gift for writing songs of substance that feel both fresh and soulfully familiar. Her ability to emotionally engage with an audience has earned her a dedicated following far beyond her Michigan roots. She shows us her heartbreak, but she also shows us her empowered and emboldened spirit. In her quest to find her most authentic self, Erlewine gifts each listener with a powerful, emotional experience that immediately connects us.

Raised in a home full of art and music, Erlewine began writing songs at a very young age. As a teenager she hitchhiked across the country, honing her skills as a performer and absorbing the kind of stories and landscapes that would inform her music. Her songs show a very real connection and concern with everyday folk.

Erlewine uses her music as a platform for positive change. She considers her job a service-oriented one and carries the torch of the folk-singer activist. Her voice on stage encourages connectedness and stresses the importance of environmental advocacy, social justice, creative empowerment and community building as necessary work for all of us. 

Erlewine’s music has touched people all over the world. Her words have held solace for weary hearts, offered a light in the darkness, and held space for the pain and joy of being alive in these times. She is a true artist, an anthem, and another example of why we need to listen to women. We need to hear these stories. When she starts to sing, there’s no way around it: The time is now.