2025

Queer Ancestor Workshop: Storytelling Practice with Thomas Allen Harris

In this workshop led by Thomas Allen Harris, participants gather to share stories about the queer ancestors—mentors, friends, family members, and lovers—who have shaped their lives. Drawing inspiration from Harris’ work with archives and memory, the session explores how photographs and storytelling can help excavate, activate, and safeguard queer histories that are often overlooked or under threat.

Using Harris’ community photo-sharing methodology—developed through the Family Pictures Institute for Inclusive Storytelling and the PBS series Family Pictures USA—participants reflect on personal photographs and the stories they hold. Through these shared images and memories, the conversation surfaces Provincetown’s deep queer presence and imagines a queer ecology that spans space, time, and difference.

War Reporting In a Time of Chaos

In a panel discussion moderated by National Book Award–winning author and Marine veteran Phil Klay, distinguished conflict journalists and photographers Victor J. Blue, Ashley Gilbertson, and Danielle Paquette discussed their work in conflict zones on several continents over the past couple of decades. They reflected on how their work had changed, how it had changed them, and, as we move into a chaotic time both in the news industry and in foreign relations—when old assumptions about the international order were quickly being upended—they examined the unique challenges of covering wars today.

Sabrina Song in Concert

Sabrina Song performs live at the Hawthorne Barn in this full-length concert captured during Season 12. With plain-spoken lyricism and warm melodic clarity, Song’s set moves between quiet introspection and emotional resonance, inviting the audience into moments of vulnerability, humor, and heartfelt connection.

Sabrina Song’s music captures the weary heart of young adulthood—with all its heartbreak and bursts of hope in between. The Brooklyn-based singer, songwriter, and producer emerged as a rising star with her early trilogy of EPs—2019’s Undone, 2020’s How’s It Going to End?, and 2022’s When It All Comes Crashing Down—which saw her unpacking growing pains with plainspoken vulnerability. In 2023, she broke out with her 2022 single “Strawberry,” which captivated a newfound online audience with its delicate, emotionally stirring sound. Now, the 24-year-old artist is poised to become a new force in introspective indie rock with her debut album, You Could Stay In One Spot, and I'd Love You The Same, out now. 

Ari Shapiro & Joshua Prager in Conversation

Experience an intimate and engaging event with Ari Shapiro and Joshua Prager at the Hawthorne Barn, closing out our 2025 Season. Take a closer look at Ari’s voice, perspective, and storytelling, filled with insight, nuance, and memorable moments.

Ari Shapiro is an award-winning anchor of NPR’s flagship evening news program All Things Considered and a host of the podcast Consider This. He has reported from above the Arctic Circle and aboard Air Force One. He has been a question on Jeopardy and an answer in the New York Times crossword puzzle. His debut memoir, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories From a Life Spent Listening, was an instant New York Times bestseller. He also hosts the reality competition show, The Mole, on Netflix. As a journalist, he has won three Edward R. Murrow awards - most recently for a 2023 journey through Senegal, Morocco, and Spain connecting the dots between climate change, global migration, and the rise of the political far right. He has won the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award for coverage of the US legal system, and in 2023 he was named “Journalist of the Year” by NLGJA, the association of LGBTQ+ journalists. His 12-part course for Wondrium, “The Power of Storytelling,” received a 2024 Gold Telly award. As a performer, he has sung at Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and many of the world’s other leading venues with the band Pink Martini. He also tours the country with the actor Alan Cumming in their original two man show, Och & Oy: A Considered Cabaret as well as with his own original solo show, Thank You For Listening: An Evening of Songs and Stories. He was born in Fargo, North Dakota and grew up in Portland, Oregon. He lives in Washington, DC with his husband and two dogs.

Glitterfox in Concert

Get ready for an unforgettable moment as powerhouse band Glitterfox light up the Hawthorne Barn in a show-stopping takeover you won’t want to miss. Captured live during Twenty Summers’ Season Twelve, this newly released video brings all the energy, magic, and raw electricity straight to your screen—press play and experience it for yourself.

The Portland, OR based band Glitterfox has released five singles in just six months under their new record label Kill Rock Stars, with two more arriving this Spring. The band’s been growing steadily since “Drive” came out in August 2023, with their indie rock recipe that deftly balances Southern songwriting shine and nostalgia-fueled anthems. The four-piece band’s songwriters and front persons, married couple Solange Igoa and Andrea Walker, have always channeled their personal struggles as well as experiences as queer, neurodiverse individuals into their songwriting. Bassist Eric Stalker and drummer Blaine Heinonen bring a love of Americana, grunge, and dance music into the mix. All of these influences can be heard on the band’s latest singles, produced by Chris Funk of The Decemberists, and in their spirited live shows as they prepare for their full-length album debut in 2025.

Geraldine Brooks & Patrick Nolan in Conversation

Australian-born Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who grew up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, attending Bethlehem College Ashfield and the University of Sydney. She worked as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald for three years as a feature writer with a special interest in environmental issues.

Later she worked for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. In 1990, with her husband Tony Horwitz, she won the Overseas Press Club Award for best coverage of the Gulf War.

She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March. Her novels People of the Book, Caleb’s Crossing, The Secret Chord and Horse all were New York Times Bestsellers. Her first novel, Year of Wonders is an international bestseller, translated into more than 25 languages.

She is also the author of the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire, Foreign Correspondence and The Idea of Home. Her latest book, Memorial Days was released in 2024.

Michael Mayo in Concert

Enjoy dynamite talent Michael Mayo's concert at the Hawthorn Barn from June 2025 as part of our Season 12 programming.

Michael Mayo leans on his intuition as a vocalist, composer, songwriter, and arranger. Much like molding and shaping a sculpture out of clay, he stretches his voice through layers of heavenly harmonizing, hard-hitting beatboxing, and heartfelt crooning.

The Los Angeles-based phenomenon creates from the heart without filter or pretense, allowing his voice to transmit raw emotion above an ever-evolving backdrop of jazz, neo-soul, and R&B on his second full-length LP, Fly [Mack Avenue Records/Artistry Music], and more to come.

Chase Strangio & Celeste Lecesne in Conversation

Sit down with lawyer Chase Strangio and artist Celeste Lecesne to revisit some of Chase's most impactful moments, and how these two amazing individuals will look to the future with hope, determination, and love.

Chase Strangio is Co-Director of the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project as well as a nationally recognized expert on transgender rights. Chase’s work includes impact litigation, as well as legislative and administrative advocacy, on behalf of LGBTQ people and people living with HIV across the United States.

Celeste Lecesne (they/he) wrote the short film Trevor, which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short and they are co-founder of The Trevor Project, the largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention Lifeline for LGBT and Questioning youth. The NYTimes has ranked them “among the most talented solo performers of his (or any) generation.”  They are also the co-founder of The Future Perfect Project, a national arts initiative for LGBTQIA+ youth, and the recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship Award. 

About Twenty Summers

Twenty Summers is a nonprofit arts organization (EIN 27-1255685) that produces distinctive programs in the spirit of Provincetown's Hawthorne Barn, engaging with leading and emerging artists and cultural figures, while fostering the creation of new work.