Season Six | May 10—June 15, 2019
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Local resident artist Megan Hinton is an abstract painter and visual artist based on Cape Cod.
Sponsored by Boichick
Join us for a 90-minute walking tour exploring the close connections between the history of Provincetown and the lives of the artists who have made it their home. Guide David Dunlap, a longtime journalist for the New York Times, is the author of the encyclopedic book Building Provincetown.
Americana singer-songwriters Jeffrey Foucault and Kris Delhmorst may be husband and wife, but each has a distinctive sound and an extensive arsenal of songs to share.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, we will host a conversation featuring Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown, creators of Instagram’s @lgbt_history, and acclaimed author Garrard Conley (Boy Erased).
Acclaimed journalist Alex Kotlowitz will discuss his most recent book, An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago, and the issues it tackles with Adam Moss, whose fifteen years of innovative work as editor-in-chief of New York Magazine made it the must-read that it is today.
Blues singer-songwriter and performer Adia Victoria will drop into Provincetown for a stripped-down performance as she tours the world to promote her new, critically acclaimed album, Silences.
Open Studio event for Twenty Summers Resident Artist Jenna Wortham, an award-winning journalist for the New York Times and host of the podcast "Still Processing."
Authors Rebecca Makkai and Christopher Castellani will discuss their latest novels, both capturing pivotal historical moments in gay history.
Sponsored by Cape Cod Five Foundation
To celebrate the gift of her poetry, Twenty Summers and The Grolier Poetry Foundation and Forums Trust have invited four distinguished poets to read from their favorite works by Mary Oliver and discuss her powerful legacy. Featuring Ifeanyi Menkiti, Martha Collins, Kate Wallace Rogers, and Rosalind Pace.
One of the brightest rising stars in music today is singer-songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews, a powerful vocalist whom critics have compared with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris.
Resident artist Rachel Rossin, a New York–based visual artist working in the media of virtual reality, sculpture, and painting, will host a Recursive Life Drawing Class in the Hawthorne Barn as our 2019 Hans Hofmann Resident.
We are delighted to present the intimate harmonies of Mountain Man, following an opening set by Nashville guitarist-composer William Tyler.
For the third year in a row, we’re hosting two days of art-making in the Hawthorne Barn with our friends from PAAM.
Cultural critic Emily Bobrow will interview playwright and actor Jeremy O. Harris, recently named by Out magazine as "the queer black savior the theater world needs."
Resident Artist Lyle Ashton Harris has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photography and collage to installation and performance art.
The Provincetown Film Society (PFS) and Twenty Summers are pleased to collaborate on the first film screening in the Hawthorne Barn, presenting Different From the Others, the first known pro-gay film in the world.
J Mascis, the guitar legend behind the influential indie rock trio Dinosaur Jr., will treat us to an intimate solo acoustic performance, sharing tunes from his widely acclaimed 2018 solo album Elastic Days, after an opening set by duo Luluc.
Join us at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum later this summer for an afternoon conversation that brings together Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel with Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor of 20th Century European and American Art at Hunter College.
Veteran independent singer-songwriter Mirah will join us for a duo set in which she and a fellow musician share work from her vast collection of songs, with an opening set by Boston’s own Sidney Gish.
For the third year in a row, we’re hosting two days of art-making in the Hawthorne Barn with our friends from PAAM.
Boston-based indie folk quartet Darlingside will bring their signature superpower harmonies to Provincetown after an opening performance by Canadian singer-songwriter Taylor Ashton.
Resident artists Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick are a collaborative team of artists who work primarily in the fields of photography and installation art, specializing in fictitious histories set in the past or future.
Social activist, public figure, and author Monica Lewinsky will join us for an intimate conversation in the Hawthorne Barn with Emmy Award–winning journalist and NBC host Ari Melber.
Sponsored by the Mass Cultural Council
The opening night of Season Six brings together two esteemed newswomen, photojournalist Susan Meiselas and writer Elizabeth Rubin.
Sponsored by The Betty E. and Chester C. Thompson Foundation
Kick off Season Six of Twenty Summers at our Opening Weekend Happy Hour at Strangers and Saints!
Embrace the cold nights of mid-winter with Twenty Summers and the Captain's Daughters at our Pop-Up in Boston! We're bringing Provincetown's winter light to the city for one evening, presenting a concert and art show in the historic Boston Button Factory, featuring performances by Samia, Tuft, DJ Emerson (White Animal Sound), a curated selection of visual artists by The Captain's Daughters, and free drinks straight from Cape Cod.
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.
Singer-songwriter Kevin Morby makes his Provincetown debut with a solo performance in the Hawthorne Barn, with opener Syrian-born songstress, Bedouine.
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
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.
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. This event will be broadcast by our local media partner WCAI.
Once again, due to popular demand, we’re holding two days of art-making at the Hawthorne Barn with our friends from PAAM.
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.
This event will be broadcast by our local media partner WCAI
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
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
Once again, due to popular demand, we’re holding two days of art-making at the Hawthorne Barn with our friends from PAAM.
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.
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.
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.
This event will be broadcast by our local media partner WCAI
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.
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.
Grab a tin cup and your cowboy boots, and join us for a night of bluegrass, dancing, and down-home eats in the Hawthorne Barn!
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
With her distinctive voice and arsenal of powerful songs, Martha Wainwright is a beguiling performer and a refreshingly unconventional force in music.
Award-winning performer and author Alan Cumming will interview the outrageously versatile Isaac Mizrahi, fashion legend turned actor–director–TV host.
Iconic singer-songwriter John Gorka will raise the rafters with his spirited acoustic guitar playing, insightful lyrics, and wry, witty storytelling.
Swing by Miller Hill Road on our opening night to welcome five years of Twenty Summers in the Hawthorne Barn!
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.
