$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

$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? “.

You + 20S + JU-EH = ?
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.

$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

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.

$60 — SOLD OUT

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 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.

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 the Hawthorne Barn
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

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.