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Coastal Landforms that make up the outer Cape are a constant work-in-progress (in glacial time and anthropogenic time). What do scientists know about sand movement and erosion? What are the mechanisms of barrier beaches, tidal estuaries, coastal cliffs and plains?

How do we face worries about plastics, ghost gear, ocean acidification and warming waters?

What are the big ideas for storm response and long term adaptation? How can we imagine the future fabric of town coastal landscapes?

This event is part of Ecosystems & Imagination presented by Mark Adams and in partnership with the Center for Coastal Studies.

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Field Trip will meet at Center for Coastal Studies Kiosk at MacMillan Pier.

Exploring Provincetown Harbor on a falling tide, we’ll look at storm tide pathways, the historic shoreline / public trust boundary (Chapter 91) and compare the adapting townscape to historic photos. Can we trace the limits of our storm tides and sea level predictions? What would resiliency look like?

This event is part of Ecosystems & Imagination presented by Mark Adams and in partnership with the Center for Coastal Studies.

$20 Suggested Donation

A multimedia experience of ocean readings from science, poetry, theater and survival manuals, video projections and audio, performed by actors and musicians within an ocean art installation.

This event is part of Ecosystems & Imagination presented by Mark Adams and in partnership with the Center for Coastal Studies.

$10

The story of two women born on opposite sides of the tracks in Dallas, Texas. Growing up in the 1960s Jeannie is gay and poor and looking for love. Alison is middle-class, married, and has ambitious, revolutionary visions, wanting to change the lives of all women across this country. Their two lives meet at the crossroads of the Roe v. Wade case, when both women are only 27 years old, and Alison is the lead attorney, fighting for women’s rights to abortion. Jeannie, through coincidences of the cross-class, criminalized condition of lesbian life at that time, ends up as the plaintiff, Jane Roe. 

Though the two meet only once, their names are linked forever in history. While Alison struggles with the disappointment of revolution unfulfilled, Jeannie struggles to exist. As they grow older, both women face bumpy rides, and surprising shifts, until they become emblematic Americans, representing the divide in this nation that has continued to this day. 

Acclaimed author and playwright Sarah Schulman blows open the American myth of the Roe v. Wade case, and reveals its true and entirely unpredictable history, through the lives of the two very different women who lived it.

Sarah Schulman (Playwright) is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and nonfiction author whose work spans literature, theater, and film. She is the author of numerous acclaimed books, including Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, NY 1987–1993 and Conflict Is Not Abuse. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, and Interview, and her films and plays have been presented internationally. A Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of multiple literary awards, she is a Distinguished Professor at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, and lives in New York.

Lisa Peterson (Director) is a two-time OBIE Award-winning writer and director. She wrote and directed An Iliad (Seattle Rep, McCarter Theatre, NYTW) with Denis O’Hare and The Good Book, commissioned and produced by Court Theatre. Her directing work includes the world premiere productions of new plays by Tony Kushner, Beth Henley, Donald Margulies, Naomi Wallace, Marlane Meyer, Jose Rivera, Luis Alfaro, Chay Yew and many more. She has also directed classic plays at theaters across the country, including the Guthrie, Arena Stage, Yale Rep, Hartford Stage, OSF, Baltimore Center Stage, South Coast Rep and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Lisa has directed regularly at Berkeley Rep, where she was Associate Director for three seasons, at the Mark Taper Forum, where she was Resident Director for 10 years, and at La Jolla Playhouse, where she was Associate Director for 3 years. Other recent projects include The Waves, adapted from the novel by Virginia Woolf The Song of Rome, written with Denis O’Hare; and The Idea of Order, inspired by the poetry of Wallace Stevens and written with Todd Almond.

We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers’ Unions:

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION

AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS

AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS

SAG-AFTRA 

through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear in this program.

$45 | 6pm doors, 7pm show

With their dusky vocal harmonies and love of twangy ’50s rock, England’s Ruen Brothers have a sound that harks back to a rock & roll past, but with a modern urgency. Showcasing the talents of lead singer/rhythm guitarist Henry Stansall and singer/lead guitarist Rupert Stansall, the Ruen Brothers (an amalgam of their first names) grew up playing Johnny Cash and Everly Brothers covers in local pubs. Over time, they developed their distinctive sound, balancing mid-century rock traditions with noir-ish lyrics and a style rife with a David Lynch-ian theatricality. Emerging in London in 2013 with their rockabilly-tinged single “Aces,” the brothers caught the attention of Republic Records. From there, they moved to the States, where they recorded their debut album with legendary producer Rick Rubin.

Hailing from the steel town of Scunthorpe, England, the Stansall siblings were introduced to music at a young age. Growing up, they listened heavily to their father’s vintage vinyl collection, imbibing the rootsy sounds of classic artists like Johnny Cash, Van Morrison, and the Everly Brothers. By their teens, they were playing as a duo, harmonizing on cover songs at local pubs and writing their own material. After a move to London around 2013, they rented a flat and split their time between recording and traveling back to Scunthorpe for pub gigs. It was during this period that they uploaded several tracks online, including posting tracks to the BBC Music Introducing app. Soon, their song “Aces” was getting played on the radio, and both fans and the industry began to take notice.

The Ruen Brothers signed with Republic Records and traveled to the States, appearing at Austin’s South by Southwest festival and opening for George Ezra on tour. After relocating to Los Angeles, they recorded their debut album, 2018’s Rick Rubin-produced All My Shades of Blue. In 2020, the duo contributed the song “Break the Rules” to the soundtrack to the Netflix coming-of-age drama The Half of It.

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Thomas Jackson will lead a field trip to Ballston Beach in Truro, where he will construct and photograph a live installation at the water’s edge. Participants are welcome to take an active role in the process or to simply observe. Whether just stopping by or engrossing yourself in Jackson’s work, join us from 4pm to sunset at Ballston Beach. 

Thomas Jackson was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Providence, Rhode Island. After earning a B.A. in History from the College of Wooster, he spent his early career in New York working first in book publishing, then as a magazine editor. An interest in photography books eventually led him to pick up a camera, shooting Garry Winogrand-inspired street scenes, then landscapes, and finally the installation work he does today. Jackson’s work has been exhibited widely, including at The Brooks Museum in Memphis, Tennessee and the Bolinas Museum in Bolinas, CA, and has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Wired and elsewhere.  

$45 | 6pm doors, 7pm show

Niina Soleil channels the sun-drenched allure of the classic California sound, drawing inspiration from Laurel Canyon, the Summer of Love, and everything in between.

Blending soul, folk, and Americana, Niina inhabits a world of her own– equal parts witchy siren and old Hollywood glamour.

An LA native, Niina kicks off The California Dreamin' Tour this spring, celebrating the rollout of her album CALIFORNIALAND with a powerhouse band.

$20 Suggested Donation

Season 13 Resident Kathy Ryan was the renowned director of photography of The New York Times Magazine. After 39 years at The NYTMAG, she left to focus on her own photography, curate photo exhibitions, work on book projects and teach. Adam Moss is the legendary editor who began his career creating 7 Days magazine and then went on to oversee The New York Times Magazine and New York Magazine. These magazines have had an enormous impact on our culture. After stepping away from the magazine world, Adam wrote The New York Times bestseller The Work of Art:  How Something Comes From Nothing. He is also a painter.

Kathy and Adam will talk about what makes a photograph exceptional. They will show some images published in the NYTMAG when they were working there together and give the backstories for how those memorable pictures came into being. 

Kathy Ryan is the longtime former director of photography at The New York Times Magazine, where she shaped a groundbreaking blend of fine art and photojournalism over nearly four decades. Now focused on her own photography, curating, and teaching, she is the author of Office Romance and editor of The New York Times Magazine Photographs. Her work has been widely exhibited internationally, and she has received numerous honors, including the Dr. Erich Salomon Prize and multiple lifetime achievement awards.

Adam Moss was the editor-in-chief of New York Magazine from 2004–2019. During his 15-year tenure he oversaw an ambitious digital expansion of parent company New York Media, which included five digital publications in addition to New York: Vulture, The Cut, Intelligencer, The Strategist, and Grub Street, each of which were created from scratch and collectively reach an audience of 50 million visitors each month. Under Moss’s leadership New York and nymag.com won 41 National Magazine Awards. Before joining New York Magazine, Moss was the editor of the New York Times Magazine, as well as assistant managing editor of the paper, overseeing the magazine, Book Review, culture and style. Moss was founding editor of 7 Days, a New York weekly magazine, and before that, he worked at Esquire magazine in a variety of positions. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Oberlin College, his alma mater, and is a member of the Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame. 

$20 Suggested Donation

This offering is designed as both a workshop and a communal gathering, one that invites participants into reflection, storytelling, and connection through creativity, led by Season 13 Resident Najee Brown.

Beginning with a guided prompt, we ask participants to write, speak, or reflect on what currently breaks their heart. This may be personal, societal, or deeply internal. From there, we transition into the question of joy, not as an escape, but as a necessary counterpart. What sustains us? What keeps us here? What reminds us of possibility?

Following this reflection, Brown will facilitate a creative writing and expression workshop, where participants can transform their thoughts into something tangible—whether that be short monologues, poetic fragments, movement, or visual ideas. The emphasis is not on perfection, but on honesty and presence.

In a time marked by disconnection, isolation, and what many are calling a loneliness epidemic, this residency offering seeks to use creativity as a tool for connection, healing, and dialogue. By creating space for vulnerability and shared experience, participants are invited to see themselves in others, and to remember that they are not alone.

Ultimately, this is not just a workshop. It is a space to feel, to be witnessed, and to reconnect, with self, with others, and with the possibility of joy.

Najee A. Brown is a Brooklyn-born playwright, director, producer, and multidisciplinary artist whose work centers on social justice, cultural identity, and community-building through storytelling. He serves as Artistic Director of the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is the founder of Theater For The People, a New England initiative dedicated to amplifying marginalized voices and creating accessible performance opportunities. His plays—including Stokely & Martin, The Bus Stop, and Nevaeh’s Brother—blend lyrical dialogue, music, and history to explore themes of equity and human connection. A versatile creative, Brown has also worked as a dancer, director, and curator, presenting work nationally and internationally while fostering spaces that inspire dialogue, healing, and social change through the arts.

$20 Suggested Donation

Join S13 Resident Damien Hoar de Galvan at the Hawthorne Barn for an intimate, hands-on workshop exploring material, form, and process. Gain insight into the artist’s approach while experimenting with sculptural ideas of your own — no prior experience needed.

Damien Hoar de Galvan was born in 1979 in Northampton, Massachusetts, and spent his early childhood between western Massachusetts and Argentina, where his father is from, before moving at age two to Beverly, Massachusetts, his mother’s hometown, where he grew up through high school. After graduating from Beverly High School, he attended Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont, playing on the soccer team and earning a degree in Behavioral Science in 2001. He then briefly lived in Portland, Oregon, where he began painting and considering a career as an artist. In 2002, he moved to Boston and focused on painting and collage for five years before enrolling in the Post-Baccalaureate program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, which he completed in 2008; during this time, he began working in sculpture, particularly in the wood shop. Since 2008, he has worked across a range of materials, with wooden sculpture emerging as his primary medium. In 2025, he received the James and Audrey Foster Prize from the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, and his work has since been exhibited throughout the United States. He lives and works in Milton, Massachusetts.

Open Studio 1-6pm — Free, no registration needed
Artist Talk 6pm — $20 Suggested Donation

Season 13 Resident Liz Collins creates a site-responsive installation of suspended lengths of her vividly patterned textiles that activate the Barn’s soaring volume and weathered architecture. Cascading from the rafters in rhythmic intervals, the fabrics will form a porous field of color and movement, shifting with light and air. The work draws on Collins’ long-standing exploration of pattern, repetition, and embodied making, transforming the rustic structure into a spectacular environment activated by the fabrics. Visitors will move among the hanging forms, experiencing the Barn as a dynamic spatial composition full of a particular type of element from Collins archive of art textiles.

Liz Collins is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist whose sustained experimentation with textile installation, sculpture, drawing, and performance has played a pivotal role in expanding the possibilities of contemporary fiber-based art. Her boundary-crossing practice, which challenges hierarchical distinctions between art and craft, is informed by her background as an eponymous knitwear fashion designer and an educator at institutions like RISD. Collins has presented solo exhibitions at major institutions including the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery and Touchstones Rochdale (UK), with a mid-career survey, Liz Collins: Motherlode, premiering at the RISD Museum in 2025–26. Her work has been widely exhibited in significant group exhibitions, notably the 60th Venice Biennale (2024) and Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction which traveled to MoMA, LACMA, and the National Gallery of Art. Recognized with awards such as an Anonymous Was a Woman Award and a United States Artists Fellowship, her pieces are held in major public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Museum of Arts and Design, and Museu de Arte de São Paulo in Brazil.

$45 | 5:30pm doors, 6pm doors

***Please note this event is at the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum. There will be free parking available onsite.***

Musicians, painters, and poets often move in the same circles and, regardless of their medium, spur each other on to experiment. In this concert, we'll explore those creative bonds in an evening of music and poetry that describe art. Given the richness of Provincetown's artistic heritage, we'll pay particular attention to the various painters who worked here and the music that inspired them. Violinist Katherine Winterstein and pianist Inessa Zaretsky will perform works by composers including J.S. Bach, Aaron Copland, John Cage, and William Grant Still, while award-winning novelists M. T. Anderson and Julia Glass will read selections from writers such as Kiran Desai, Frank O'Hara, Langston Hughes, and local painter Charles Hawthorne. Come join us and celebrate the ecstatic and the ekphrastic! 

(An ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art.)

Aimee Tsuchiya has appeared as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia, including several concerto engagements at Mechanics Hall, and live broadcasts on WGBH, Chicago Public Radio, and CBC radio. Her broad repertoire has showcased works as various as John Cage’s The Perilous Night for prepared piano; the world premiere of Abby Richardson’s Downstream for piano and orchestra with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra; and a recital of early 20th-century violin repertoire with Karl Stobbe, concertmaster of the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Tsuchiya has worked with members of the Boston Symphony, the Guarneri Quartet, the Peabody Trio, and the Cleveland Quartet, as well as pianists Emanuel Ax, Awadagin Pratt, Lydia Artymiw, Irma Vallecilla, Margot Garret, and Andre Watts. An active and versatile teacher in the Boston area for many years, Ms. Tsuchiya works with students of all levels, abilities, and ages. Areas of instruction include solo piano, duo and chamber music, class instruction and vocal coaching. She holds many chair and coordinator positions at her schools, in addition to teaching, and was Director of the Summer Chamber Music Festival at the Winchester Community Music School.

Katherine Winterstein is the concertmaster of the Vermont Symphony, the associate concertmaster of the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and she is co-concertmaster of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. In recent seasons she has performed as concertmaster of the Palm Beach Opera, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Toledo Symphony, and also performs regularly with the Handel and Haydn Society, the Boston Ballet Orchestra, and A Far Cry. She was a member of the Hartt String Quartet, the Providence-based Aurea Ensemble, and the summer of 2026 is her 25th with the Craftsbury Chamber Players of Vermont. She has also performed with Boston-based Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Radius Ensemble, and Dinosaur Annex, as well as with members of the Lydian and Ciompi String Quartets, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Chamber Music Society of the Carolinas, and as faculty at Point Counterpoint. She has appeared as soloist with several orchestras including the Vermont Symphony, the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra, the Charlottesville Symphony, the Champlain Philharmonic, and the Boston Virtuosi. She served on the performance faculty of Middlebury College in Vermont from 2002-2015, joined the faculty of the Hartt School of Music in September of 2011, and began teaching at Brown University in September of 2015.

New York Times Bestselling author M. T. Anderson writes books for children, teens, and adults, including The Pox Party, which won the National Book Award; Elf Dog & Owl Head, which won a Newbery Honor Award, and the science fiction satire Feed, which was a Finalist for the National Book Award and which won the L.A. Times Book Prize. Another science fiction satire, Landscape with Invisible Hand, was made into a movie starring Tiffany Haddish and Asante Blackk. His nonfiction book Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad was one of the Wall Street Journal’s Best Books of the Year. His most recent book, Nicked, a finalist for the Vermont Book Award, is a historical heist and monastic rom-com set in the eleventh century. He divides his time between Boston and Vermont.

Julia Glass is the author of the novels Vigil Harbor, A House Among the Trees, And the Dark Sacred Night, The Widower’s Tale, The Whole World Over, and the National Book Award–winning Three Junes, as well as the Kindle Single “Chairs in the Rafters.” Her third book, I See You Everywhere, a collection of linked stories, won the 2009 SUNY John Gardner Fiction Award. She has also won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She taught for more than ten years at the Fine Arts Work Center’s Summer Program and is now a Senior Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emerson College. Julia lives with her family in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

This event was made possible with generous support by Gregory Maguire.

Free

Join us at Waters Edge Cinema for a work-in-progress preview of Stephen Winter's documentary centered on author Marlon James and the queer Jamaican community.

Jamaica shaped acclaimed gay novelist Marlon James but its violent homophobia also silenced him. Now, Marlon is returning to his homeland to reckon with its history and the memories he tried to leave behind.

As Marlon seeks reconciliation with a family, a church and a nation that would not accept him, his triumphant return home offers a universal story of action and introspection for evolving into a meaningful future.

Run Time: 23 Minutes

$20 Suggested Donation

Following a screening at Waters Edge of his work-in-progress documentary A Brief History of Silence about author Marlon James and the queer Jamaican community, we will convene at the Barn with filmmaker Stephen Winter to discuss his work, inspirations, and motivations.

Stephen Winter is an award-winning filmmaker, director, producer, and writer. His debut feature film Chocolate Babies (1996) was restored in 2021 by UCLA/Outfest and twice featured on the Criterion Channel. Stephen produced Jonathan Caouette’s Tarnation (2004) which premiered at Sundance; and directed season 1 and 2 of the series The Space Within (2023-26), starring and co-produced by Jessica Chastain for Audible. His second feature film Jason and Shirley (2015) starring and co-written by Sarah Schulman and Jack Waters, premiered at BAMCinemaFest and the Museum of Modern Art. The new edition Jason and Shirley Revisited premiered at NewFest in 2025 for a 2026 roadshow. Stephen has worked on films with Lee Daniels, Allan Hughes, Gus Van Sant, Xan Cassavetes, Jim Lyons, John Cameron Mitchell and Soledad O’Brien. Playwright Jeremy O. Harris has called Stephen “the father of modern Black Queer cinema.”

$20 Suggested Donation

Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet, scholar, and librarian who was born in Gaza and has spent his life there. In 2025, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his essays on Gaza, featured in The New Yorker. He is the founder of the Edward Said Library, Gaza’s first English-language library. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear is his debut book of poems. The collection won an American Book Award, a 2022 Palestine Book Award and was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, as well as the 2022 Walcott Poetry Prize.

In 2019-2020, Abu Toha was a Visiting Poet in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Abu Toha is a columnist for Arrowsmith Press, and his writings from Gaza have also appeared in The Nation and Literary Hub. His poems have been published in Poetry, The Nation, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Poetry Daily, and the New York Review of Books, among others.

Illustration by Matt Rota, featured in The New Yorker’s “My Family’s Daily Struggle to Find Food in Gaza” by Mosab Abu Toha, published February 24, 2024.

$45 | 6pm doors, 7pm show

Hamilton de Holanda is one of Brazil’s most celebrated musicians—a global ambassador, virtuoso performer, and innovative improviser who began playing mandolin at age five and went on to redefine its 10-string form as a dynamic instrument bridging jazz, choro, and global styles. Shaped by family support, formal training in composition, and the vibrant choro street culture of Brasília, he has built a remarkable career marked by four Latin Grammy wins, 17 nominations, and international recognition, including a Grammy nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album.

A star in Brazil and a growing global presence, Hamilton is known for his electrifying performances and distinctive improvisational voice, reaching millions of listeners worldwide and amassing significant streaming success. Beyond performance, he co-founded the world’s first Choro School in Brasília in 1997 and played a key role in establishing Brazil’s National Day of Choro, reinforcing the genre’s cultural importance. His career is distinguished by collaborations with legendary artists across genres and performances at prestigious venues and major festivals around the world, as well as historic events like the Rio 2016 Olympic opening ceremony and the G20 Summit.

With a discography of over 40 albums and partnerships with major labels, he continues to expand his artistic reach, including an upcoming live album recorded in the U.S. featuring his trio and guest artist Chris Potter. Through his music, Hamilton de Holanda connects cultures, celebrates diversity, and continually pushes the boundaries of sound, solidifying his legacy as a true innovator.

$20 Suggested Donation

In The Gardener's Mindset, Stephen Orr, garden writer and former editor-in-chief of Better Homes and Gardens, examines the restorative power of gardening through a collection of essays and photographs while revealing his own challenges in the garden and offering advice on growing plants and vegetables at home. Inspired by the great tradition of twentieth-century garden essay collections by writers such as Vita Sackville-West, Elizabeth Lawrence, and Henry Mitchell, Orr helps readers understand not just how to garden but how to think about it. Alongside gorgeous photographs and easy projects that range from cultivating a color scheme to building a wildlife habitat, Orr delves into his personal gardening journey, pulling from the various gardens he and his husband have created over the past decades.

Orr’s distinct sense of wit and wisdom on every page lends the impression of having him by your side while on a personal garden tour. Whether kept on the nightstand as inspiration for the growing season or given as a gift, The Gardener’s Mindset will delight anyone interested in the analog pleasures of being outdoors.

Stephen Orr is the author and photographer of three books: The New American Herbal (Clarkson Potter/Random House, 2014), Tomorrow’s Garden: Design and Inspiration for a New Age of Sustainable Gardening (Rodale, 2011) and an upcoming book of essays The Gardener’s Mindset: Connecting with Nature through Plants (Clarkson Potter/Random House, May 2026). He is also the editor of the monograph Nelson Byrd Woltz: Garden, Park, Community, Farm (Princeton Architectural Press, 2013).

Previously he was the editor in chief of Better Homes and Gardens. He was also executive editor at Condé Nast Traveler as well as garden editor at Martha Stewart Living, House & Garden, and Domino magazines. He writes regularly for his local newspaper the Provincetown Independent. After over three decades of living in New York City, he now lives and gardens in Cape Cod with his husband.

K. Michael Hays is the Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, as well as Interim Chair for the Department of Architecture. Hays joined the Faculty of Design in 1988, teaching courses in architectural history and theory.

Hays has played a central role in the development of the field of architectural theory and his work is internationally known. His research and scholarship have focused on the areas of European modernism and critical theory as well as on theoretical issues in contemporary architectural practice. He has published on the work of modern architects such as Hannes Meyer, Ludwig Hilberseimer, and Mies van der Rohe, as well as on contemporary figures such as Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, and the late John Hejduk. Hays was the founder of the scholarly journal Assemblage, which was a leading forum of discussion of architectural theory in North America and Europe.

Hays received the Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1976. From MIT he received the Master of Architecture degree in Advanced Studies in 1979, and the Doctor of Philosophy in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art in 1990.

$20 Suggested Donation

What drives people to crime, on the page and beyond it? In this spirited conversation, two bestselling authors explore the art of and rationale for writing about murder and mayhem. Margot Douaihy, whose Sister Holiday hardboiled series follows an unlikely nun-sleuth through the understory of New Orleans, discusses her latest novel, Divine Ruin, a mystery that confronts the fentanyl epidemic. William Mann presents his groundbreaking investigation The Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood, the definitive account of America's most famous unsolved murder. Together, Douaihy and Mann examine what it means to write crime narratives (fiction and nonfiction) with conscience and aesthetic edge.

William J. Mann is the author of numerous bestselling books including Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood, for which he won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime and which is soon to be a major documentary, and biographies of Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Humphrey Bogart, the Roosevelt family, and Katharine Hepburn, the last of which was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times. Mann is an adjunct Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University.

Margot Douaihy, PhD, is a poet, crime writer, and assistant professor at Emerson College. She is the author of the lyrical hardboiled mysteries Scorched Grace and Blessed Water, both published with Gillian Flynn Books (a Zando imprint) and both named a Best Crime Novel of the Year by The New York Times (2023 and 2024). The next mystery in her series, Divine Ruin, published in January 2026 and was an American Booksellers Association Indie Next Pick. Margot is an active member of the Radius of Arab-American Writers, the Queer Crime Writers, the Sisters in Crime, and the Mystery Writers of America.

$20 Suggested Donation — All proceeds benefit Womenscrafts Provincetown in celebration of their 50th Anniversary.

Natalie Adler's debut novel, Waiting on a Friend, and Alejandro Varela's latest, Middle Spoon, portray queer New York in two very different eras. Adler's protagonist is a young lesbian living in the East Village at the height of the AIDS epidemic, while Varela's is a gay husband and father in contemporary Brooklyn who leads a secure middle-class life yet longs for sexual liberation. Both stories depict profound heartbreak, yet they are rich in humor and fearless in their depiction of how sexual politics infuses all of our relationships--even those we have with the ghosts of people we've lost far too soon. Their conversation will be moderated by Michelle Axelson, owner of Provincetown's iconic Womencrafts (now celebrating its fiftieth anniversary).

Natalie Adler has an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Brown University. She was a Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction and is an editor at Lux magazine. She is from New Jersey and lives in New York City. Waiting on a Friend is her debut novel.

Alejandro Varela is an author and editor-at-large of Apogee Journal, holds a master’s degree in public health, and is based in New York. Varela’s debut novel, The Town of Babylon, was a finalist for the National Book Award. His short story collection, The People Who Report More Stress, was one of Publishers Weekly’s best works of fiction in 2023, a finalist for the International Latino Book Awards, and longlisted for the Aspen Literary Prize, the Story Prize, and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.

$45 | 6pm Doors, 7pm Show

Pan Tèrra is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and producer raised across the UK, Nigeria, Hong Kong and the United States. Her self-coined sound, ‘nomadic soul-pop’, weaves together psychedelic soul, funk, afro-pop and musical theatre into a fresh and distinctly global sound that could only come from a life lived across continents.

Pan Tèrra double majored in Computer Science and Music at Brown University, where she was awarded the prestigious Jean and Francis Madeira Award for Excellence in Music. She went on to build a parallel career as a software engineer at Apple while quietly becoming one of the most compelling independent voices in music. Her 2024 single ‘Eve’ accumulated over 500,000 streams on Spotify, announced her as a serious force in independent music, and set the stage for what was to come. When her music started gaining real momentum, she made the decision to go all in.

Her first single of the year, ‘Quit My Job’, comes out on May 1st 2026 (pre-save it here). It is a funky, angsty confession about the space between burnout and becoming. It captures the cost of a life that looks right on paper but feels empty in practice, and the liberating decision to choose alignment over security. The song draws on her own experience and arrives with rare emotional exactness, centering her voice as the primary instrument. It is the lead single from her upcoming debut EP, due October 2026.

Pan Tèrra opened for Lupe Fiasco in 2024, and was profiled in the Brown Alumni Magazine for a collaboration with fellow alum, DAP The Contract. She has landed on editorial playlists across Spotify, Apple Music and AudioMack, and has built a devoted audience through multiple viral moments on TikTok, Threads and Instagram. A snippet of ‘Quit My Job’ drew likes from Queen Latifah and Florence Pugh, and a follow from AURORA, before a single note has been officially released.

With a debut EP on the horizon and momentum building on every front, Pan Tèrra is an artist whose moment is arriving fast. Watch closely.