
Season Five Open House
Swing by Miller Hill Road on our opening night to welcome five years of Twenty Summers in the Hawthorne Barn!
Season Five:
May 16–June 16
Tickets on sale now!
Swing by Miller Hill Road on our opening night to welcome five years of Twenty Summers in the Hawthorne Barn!
Iconic singer-songwriter John Gorka will raise the rafters with his spirited acoustic guitar playing, insightful lyrics, and wry, witty storytelling.
Award-winning performer and author Alan Cumming will interview the outrageously versatile Isaac Mizrahi, fashion legend turned actor–director–TV host.
With her distinctive voice and arsenal of powerful songs, Martha Wainwright is a beguiling performer and a refreshingly unconventional force in music.
Ptown artists and longtime collaborators Hocking, Fitzmaurice, and Dressler will spend their shared residency examining the meaning of landscape in contemporary image making.
Sponsored by the Betty E. and Chester C. Thompson Foundation and East End Books Ptown
More information to come soon.
Join David Dunlap, author of Building Provincetown, for a walking tour from the Hawthorne Barn past the homes and studios of more than 60 painters, sculptors, photographers, playwrights, and authors.
Known as much for her staunch progressive ideals as her raw acoustic energy, Dar Williams has been captivating audiences with her sheer elegance and honesty in her folk-pop songwriting since the nineties.
Ptown's own Michael Cunningham and the internationally best-selling essayist, critic, and translator Daniel Mendelsohn will discuss how writers turn consciously to literature itself as a way of broadening their own horizons.
Ken Fulk is a designer of experiences big and small. His deep love of Provincetown has led him to implement a "Design in the Dunes" creative retreat for his senior design team.
Singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler has perfected her own take on the exquisitely sculpted gothic American song form and has become a staple on indie labels Sacred Bones Records and Bella Union.
Once again, due to popular demand, we’re holding two days of art-making at the Hawthorne Barn with our friends from PAAM.
Investigative reporter Jodi Kantor and political commentator Andrew Sullivan will unite for a tête-à-tête on the rapidly changing cultural landscape in the wake of Kantor’s momentous, Pulitzer Prize-winning story exposing Harvey Weinstein.
Sponsored by Sharon Fay, Maxine Schaffer, Arthur Cohen and Daryl Otte
Ryan McGinley, recently named "the most important photographer in America" by GQ magazine, travels continuously throughout the United States to create work that incorporates nude figures within the American landscape.
Sponsored by Susan Mikula
Tony Award–winning playwright J.T. Rogers (Oslo) and seasoned foreign correspondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran (National Book Award finalist for Imperial Life in the Emerald City) will discuss the intersection of politics, war, journalism, and art.
Once again, due to popular demand, we’re holding two days of art-making at the Hawthorne Barn with our friends from PAAM.
Former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky joins poet Monica Youn to share recent work and exchange ideas, along with moderator Elizabeth Bradfield, local poet and naturalist.
Sponsored by Cape Cod Five Foundation
An intimate concert featuring Overcoats, the New York–based female electronic-pop duo of Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell, in the historic Hofmann Studio, the former West End home and studio of artist Hans Hofmann.
Our 2018 Hans Hofmann Artist in Residence is Los Angeles–based abstract painter Tomory Dodge, who will spend his time in the Barn doing works on paper.
Sponsored by the Renate, Hans, and Maria Hofmann Trust
Singer-songwriter Kevin Morby makes his Provincetown debut with a solo performance in the Hawthorne Barn, with opener Syrian-born songstress, Bedouine.
Following its sold-out premiere in February at Manhattan's Abrons Art Center, we are pleased to present a theatrical reading of Pollock, featuring the original actors, Jim Fletcher and Birgit Huppuch.
About Twenty Summers
Twenty Summers is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) arts organization dedicated to returning art to the historic Hawthorne Barn and the Barn to the people of Provincetown.