$20 Suggested Donation

Join Mark Adams and Traven Pelletier in our new space, Twenty Summers Annex at 494 Commercial, for part 1 of 3 of Ecosystems & Imagination, an artist’s interactive approach to future/present visions of the sea coast in the face of sea level rise, and the vulnerability of public space. 

Come explore coastal lands, ecology, history and activities through maps, photos, paintings and drawings. After a brief visual tour, participants will each make a personal page on their own coastal experiences and transfer them to a temporary mural.

What are the ecosystems near the water, both human and nature based? What is public space at the coast for? How will we live here in the future? What will allow this way of life to continue equitably? Markets and festivals, promenades, concerts, waterfront recreation (beachcombing, fishing, launching boats, relaxing, walking dogs, weather watching, science) The cycle of days: sunrises, sunsets, views, markers, identity.

Presented by Mark Adams and Traven Pelletier, in partnership with the Center for Coastal Studies.

Free

Kick off Season Eleven and come celebrate our new space, Twenty Summers Annex at 494 Commercial! Come by to learn more about the upcoming festival and enjoy *complimentary* appetizers, and drinks.

While the Hawthorne Barn will remain our spiritual home and the main location for our residencies and events, we are thrilled to announce that we are taking on some new space, on Commercial Street in the heart of the East End. This new space will be an Annex to the Barn during our May and June season, and allow us to program the other ten months of the year. We are still conceptualizing what the space can be for us but you can expect to see events, readings and exhibitions there, and so much more.

Free

Season Eleven Fellow JU-EH would like to invite 10 participants to be a part of Milk Tea Opera House Sessions — four workshops exploring the question “Where does voice come from, and how does it represent you? “.

“I would like to experience our voice in the widest possible spectrum together. We will be exploring the non-prerequisites space on the voice and we will meet where we are exactly at without efforts and necessary preparation. So join me on these sessions on redefining our own sonic 'opera house'.” –JU-EH

Please RSVP to Milk Tea Opera House Sessions only if you can participate in all four sessions: one virtual + two in person workshops, and a final public presentation.

Session I Thursday, May 16 | 4:00-5:00 pm — virtual meeting
Session II Wednesday, May 29 | 4:00-5:00 pm — in person at 20S Annex at 494 Commercial
Session III Friday, May 31 | 4:00-5:00 pm — in person at 20S Annex at 494 Commercial
Session IV Sunday, June 2 | 3-4:30 pm — in person at the Hawthorne Barn

If you are unable to commit to all four, you can join us for just Session IV on Sunday, June 2.

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

In this live storytelling session, Thomas Allen Harris shares his recently unearthed 1980s film and photography archive. Skillfully traversing through the intersections of film, photography, and storytelling, Thomas recounts his personal and artistic journey amidst New York City’s queer creative renaissance. Central to his narrative is the guidance of Ellis Haizlip—a close friend and mentor to Harris; the creator, producer, and host of SOUL!; and the subject of Melissa Haizlip’s 2018 NAACP Award-winning documentary, Mr. Soul—for the city’s Black and queer avant-garde communities. Each photograph and film clip serves as a thread that weaves together the enduring impact of our queer ancestors, the role of art in our constructions of identity, and the development of Harris’ artistic methodology, which buttresses his project Digital Diaspora Family Reunion (DDFR) and his PBS show Family Pictures USA. As he shares his archival gems, Harris tracks the relationship between the personal, political, and artistic and explores the circularity of the past and present. 

This session is an introduction to Thomas’ subsequent workshop Queer Mentors: Storytelling Practice with Thomas Harris, Sunday, May 19 at 4pm at the Hawthorne Barn.

$20 Suggested Donation

Join Mark Adams for a walk around Provincetown’s waterfront with personal sketchbooks in part 2 of 3 of Ecosystems & Imagination, an artist’s interactive approach to future/present visions of the sea coast in the face of sea level rise, and the vulnerability of public space. 

Meet at the Center for Coastal Studies Kiosk at MacMillan Pier for a field tour of public spaces and former wharves of Provincetown Harbor. Mark will provide brief instructions on drawing methods. Please bring your own materials, limited supply will be available. 

What are the ecosystems near the water, both human and nature based? What is public space at the coast for? How will we live here in the future? What will allow this way of life to continue equitably? Markets and festivals, promenades, concerts, waterfront recreation (beachcombing, fishing, launching boats, relaxing, walking dogs, weather watching, science) The cycle of days: sunrises, sunsets, views, markers, identity.

Presented by Mark Adams and Traven Pelletier, in partnership with the Center for Coastal Studies.

$35 | 6pm doors, 7pm show

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.

$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.

$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

Join us at the Hawthorne Barn for a social practice workshop about the future of our natural world. This event is part 3 of 3 of Ecosystems & Imagination, an artist’s interactive approach to future/present visions of the sea coast in the face of sea level rise, and the vulnerability of public space. 

What are the ecosystems near the water, both human and nature based? What is public space at the coast for? How will we live here in the future? What will allow this way of life to continue equitably? Markets and festivals, promenades, concerts, waterfront recreation (beachcombing, fishing, launching boats, relaxing, walking dogs, weather watching, science) The cycle of days: sunrises, sunsets, views, markers, identity.

Presented by Mark Adams and Traven Pelletier, in partnership with the Center for Coastal Studies.

$20 Suggested Donation

Led by Thomas Allen Harris, this workshop provides a unique space for attendees to share stories about the queer ancestors—mentors, friends, family members, or lovers—who have shaped their lives. Drawing inspiration from Harris’ own queer ancestor and mentor, Ellis Haizlip, this workshop aims to cultivate a space where a group of strangers can form community. Through the power of storytelling and intimate reflections, attendees will surface Provincetown’s queer presence and create a queer ecology that spans space, time, and difference while gaining valuable insight into the role storytelling has in producing collective understandings of our shared experiences. 

This is an informal, inclusive, and supportive workshop that does not expect participants to have fully polished stories or storytelling skills. Participants are welcome to bring personal photographs to augment their stories. 

$60

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

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.

$35 | 6pm doors, 7pm show

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 Suggest Donation

The queer experience is rooted in expression and acceptance—a celebration of all the unique and individual natures that make up the whole of nature, a rich tapestry woven by biodiversity. In this panel discussion, expert voices from the field of queer ecology will explore wonders from around the planet that challenge our human notions of gender and sexuality, who gets to determine the narrative frameworks of biology, and the expansive nature of identity.

Camila Falquez (she/her) is a New York-based photographer of Colombian heritage. She was born in Mexico City and grew up in Spain. Falquez’s photographs harness the traditions of fashion and portrait photography and honor the contemporary spectrum of social and gender diversity. Channeling the conventions of surrealism and a strong color palette, Falquez elevates and empowers her subjects. Her images have been published in The New York Times, TIME Magazine, El País, WSJ, and Vogue, among others. She has collaborated with brands such as Clinique, Hermes and Nike. In 2022, Falquez had her first solo exhibition in New York at Hannah Traore Gallery called Gods That Walk Among Us. In 2023, Falquez was named the Fashion Photographer of the Year at the Latin American Fashion Awards. Her work was also acquired for the permanent collection of the Perez Art Museum in Miami, Florida.

Pınar Sinopoulos-Lloyd (they/it)Pınar Sinopoulos-Lloyd: Indigenous multi-species futurist, wildlife tracker, anti-disciplinary researcher/artist, and co-founder of Queer Nature.

Banner photograph by Louisiana Mei Gelpi

$20 Suggest Donation

To rewrite our future, we must right the wrongs of the past and present—including the harm that colonization has authored upon the Earth’s original caretakers and listen to their words of wisdom. In this talk, Indigenous advocates, leaders, and visionaries will invite the audience into a discussion about Native sovereignty, stewardship, reparations, and the landback movement.

Ruth H. Burns (she/her), or Cankudutawin (Red Road Woman), is an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota who was born on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and currently resides in her ancestral homelands. She is a Tribal judge and a columnist for Atmos magazine.

Banner photograph by Philip-Daniel Ducasse for Atmos Volume 06: Beyond

$20 Suggest Donation

There is no separating equality from ecology, which knows that no member of any natural system has more value than another. In a world of polycrises, what does it mean for activism to be a daily necessity? How can we more deeply integrate it into our lives, allowing our values to shape a more fulfilling and joyful existence? This discussion will bring together advocates who are reframing how we talk about social and environmental justice—and what it means to be an embodied activist.

Mikaela Loach (she/they) is the best-selling author of It's Not That Radical: Climate Action To Transform Our World, a climate justice activist, co-host of The YIKES Podcast, writer and former medical student based in Brighton. In 2020, Forbes, Global Citizen and BBC Woman's Hour named Mikaela as one of the most influential women in the UK climate movement. In 2021, she was one of three claimants on the "Paid To Pollute" case who took the UK government to court over the huge public payments they give to fossil fuel companies every year. Her work focuses on the intersections of the climate crisis with oppressive systems and making the climate movement a more accessible space.

Sierra Quitiquit (she/her) is a professional skier, climate activist, model, and filmmaker. As an outdoor enthusiast, Sierra naturally evolved into a vocal climate activist and co-founded Plastic Free Fridays, a non-profit with the mission to help significantly reduce single-use plastics consumption among individuals. Sierra is also an ambassador for Protect Our Winters (POW), an organization helping turn passionate outdoor people into effective climate advocates who can affect systemic solutions to climate change.

Banner photograph by Annie Lai for The Overview by Atmos

$20 Suggest Donation

The ecological crisis is only a symptom of a deeper spiritual disconnect, one that must be mended to heal the whole. What can we learn from nature about the processes of decay and renewal? What must be decomposed in order for our species to mend its relationship with the Earth? In this keynote conversation bridging the spiritual and ecological, we will hear from Atmos editor-in-chief Willow Defebaugh and philosopher, writer, and founder of The Emergence Network Bayo Akomolafe, as they invite us into a deeper understanding about the transmutations and murmurations our world is faced with today.

Bayo Akomolafe (he/him), rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden Abayomi, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak. He is the Founder of The Emergence Network, a planet-wide initiative that seeks to convene communities in new ways in response to the critical, civilizational challenges we face as a species. He is host of the postactivist course/festival/event, ‘We Will Dance with Mountains’. He currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California. He sits on the Board of many organizations including Science and Non-Duality (US) and Ancient Futures (Australia).

Willow Defebaugh (she/her) is the Cofounder and Editor-in-Chief of Atmos. She writes a weekly newsletter called The Overview which offers a holistic look at life on Earth through the lens of deep ecology. Her work has been featured in V Magazine, CR Fashion Book, L’Officiel USA, Vogue US, Vogue China, i-D, The Guardian, Them, New York Magazine, BBC, and more.

Banner photograph by Jacques Brun for The Overview by Atmos

$35 | 8:00pm doors, 8:30pm show

The Weather Station is the project of Toronto based songwriter Tamara Lindeman.  The last few years have seen The Weather Station release two albums: the career defining Ignorance (2021) and its ethereal, mostly live recording companion piece, How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars (2022). In that time, The Weather Station have gone on to headline tours across North America and Europe, play major festivals, and perform on the televised Austin City Limits as well as Jimmy Kimmel Live. Ignorance was named Best New Music (Pitchfork), and landed in year-end Top 10 lists from The New Yorker (#1), Spin, New York Times, Uncut, Pitchfork, The Guardian, and many others.  Called "a heartbroken masterpiece" in The Guardian, the record was a complex evocation of climate grief that struck a chord worldwide.  

As a writer, Lindeman is known for her detail. “Her writing can feel … like the collected epiphanies from a lifetime of observing” (Pitchfork).  Over the course of six albums, her music has moved from home recorded, mostly acoustic folk to the “ornate act of world building” (New Yorker) that was Ignorance.  The throughline, though, is a focus on ideas; her lyrics walk the line between the personal and the conceptual, forever tying small moments to larger metaphysical quandaries.  Nominated for three Juno Awards, a Socan Songwriting Award, and the Polaris Prize, her albums have made a mark both critically and conceptually.

$20 Suggested Donation

All life once rose from the ocean, and all life still depends on it today. From melting glaciers and rising sea levels to plastic pollution and overfishing, our common origin is in danger. This group of marine biologists, ocean advocates, and researchers of the local coastal ecosystem will venture into a discussion about how the ocean connects us—and what we can do to protect it.

Daniel M. Palacios, Ph.D., (he/him) is a prominent marine biologist and oceanographer recognized for his research into the impact of environmental conditions on whale distribution and behavior. As the incoming Director of the Right Whale Ecology Program at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, MA, Dr. Palacios is poised to lead cutting-edge research and conservation initiatives for the critically endangered right whale. His work combines scientific rigor with innovative approaches to tackle pressing marine conservation issues. Additionally, Dr. Palacios is a long-term practitioner of the contemporary Japanese martial art, Aikido, known as 'the Art of Peace,' whose principles he incorporates into his daily life to foster more authentic connections.

Bodhi Patil (he/him) is a UN-recognized, award-winning GenZ ocean-climate “Solutionist” and student-leader dedicated to planetary stewardship. He has been featured by the United Nations, Wildlife Conservation Society, Oceanic Global, Aspen Institute, and FutureSwell. He is the Founder & CEO of Inner Light, empowering a generation to build climate resilience from the inside out. As an ocean champion, he works to increase ocean justice, policy, investment, and action with a global community of young ocean leaders he co-created - Ocean Uprise.

Banner Photograph by Vivek Vadoliya for The Overview by Atmos

$20 Suggested Donation

At its heart, fashion is a tool of creativity and transformation—we slip into shapes and silhouettes, ever discovering new shades of self. So why is an industry that is so driven by “the new” seemingly incapable of reinventing itself when it comes to the health of people and the planet? This event will bring together two forces within the industry—designer Mara Hoffman and model, author, and organizer Cameron Russell—to share their reflections on creating authentic and meaningful change over the course of their careers.

Cameron Russell Cameron is a model, writer, and organizer. Her work leverages creative collaboration and collective storytelling to aid evolution.

Mara Hoffman

Additional participants to be announced.

Banner photograph by Arianna Lago for Atmos Volume 07: Prism

$20 Suggest Donation

Humans are 22 times more likely to remember a story than a fact. Stories shape cultures and grow worlds—expanding our imagination and conception of what is possible. In this sense, stories might be the greatest hope we have in rewriting our relationship with the planet. In this keynote address, filmmaker and Go Gently author Bonnie Wright will join Willow Defebaugh, Atmos Editor-in-Chief and author of The Overview, for a conversation on the narrative of sustainability and what it means to live in harmony with the Earth.

Bonnie Wright (she/her) is most known for her work as an actress playing Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter films, but has since stepped behind the camera. Directing shorts, commercials and music videos, with projects having premiered at Cannes and Tribeca Film Festival. Bonnie is a passionate advocate for climate justice as an ambassador for Greenpeace. In 2022 she published her debut book, ‘Go Gently Actionable Steps to Nurture Yourself and the Planet’ with Harper Collins and Hachette. The book explores practical and tangible ways we can take action for our environment and community. She is currently in post-production with Dash Pictures for her Go Gently TV show, a documentary following her and Pattie Gonia on a road trip along America’s West Coast exploring the magic of our planet and the restorative work that people are doing to protect it.

Banner Photograph by Vivek Vadoliya for The Overview by Atmos

$35 | 6:00pm doors, 6:30pm show

Buried Luminaries is a meditative performance by Nicole Salcedo accompanied by the sounds of Agua Dulce. Conjuring the orbits of celestial bodies through a movement exploration of cycles and spirals. This performance invites attendees to contemplate the cycles of life and death, grief and joy, the swelling and receding of tides, within and around us.

Agua Dulce (they/them) is a queer, neurodivergent, and transdisciplinary artist, community organizer, and energy worker born and based in Miami, FL. Their work is shaped by their time participating in local non-profit orgs (Fempower, Miami Workers Center, WeCount!, etc), mentorship by Guadalupe Maravilla (sound healing) and Sterling Rook (metalwork), and the indescribable need to reveal truths hidden by colonization and oppression as a means to process, grieve, and heal. They are a 2023 Ellie’s Creator Award recipient for metalwork, and were the 2022-2023 Narrative Teaching Artist for the ICA Miami.

Nicole Salcedo (she/they) is a multi-disciplinary queer latinx artist born and based in Miami, Florida. She works in sculpture, fibers, performance and film, with a foundational practice in drawing. Nicole’s drawings and performances open up pathways that offer a deeper understanding of nature-consciousness and the connections between our bodies and the environment. Employing repetitive mark-making and movement to create meditative and emotionally charged imagery. Salcedo’s influences include botany, fractals, the physics of electromagnetic energy, and her animistic spiritual practice. By delving into her personal experiences and cultural heritage, she creates art that speaks to universal themes of identity, transformation, and interconnectedness. Salcedo’s work draws us closer to the mystery of existence and invites us to embrace the beauty and complexity of the world around us.

Banner Photograph by Vivek Vadoliya for The Overview by Atmos

$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.

$20 Suggested Donation

Join us at Waters Edge Cinema for a screening of “The African Desperate”, a film by Twenty Summers 2024 Fellow 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. 

$35 | doors at 6pm, show at 7pm

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

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.

$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? “.

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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

Join Synchronous Creative for an evening of site-specific movement and exploration at the Hawthorne Barn.  

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.

$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

Free

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.

$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. 

$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 — 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.

$20 Suggested Donation

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

Signs from the Mainland is a documentary short that explores the extraordinary history of Martha’s Vineyard’s deaf community that thrived for well over a century. Starting as far back as the early 1700s, genetic deafness took a foothold on the island 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 pre-cursers to modern American Sign Language. The film will explore the deeper meaning and lessons to be learned from this unique enclave where deaf and hearing individuals coexisted seamlessly. 

Through interviews with historians, community members, and experts, the documentary will ask, “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 a bigger lesson about connection over time. 

Signs from the Mainland will prompt viewers to reflect 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.

$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

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.

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

$35 | 6pm doors, 7pm show

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.

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.

$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.