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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays.  Here novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the Maddaddam trilogy.  Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize.  In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry in a decade, followed in 2022 with Burning Questions, a selection of essays from 2004 - 2021.  Her next collection of short stories, Old Babes in the Wood was published in March 2023.  Atwood has won numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.  In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature.  She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright, and puppeteer.  She lives in Toronto, Canada.

Vivian Gornick is one of the world’s most distinguished and respected women writers and feminists, very much in the first person. She has written several books, including two memoirs, Fierce Attachments and The Odd Woman and the City (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987 and 2015), the biography of feminist revolutionary Emma Goldman (Emma Goldman. Revolution as a way of life, Yale University Press, 2013) and three collections of essays, two of which, The Men in My Life (Mit Press, 2008) and The End of the Novel of Love(Beacon Press, 1998), were finalists in the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches creative writing at the New School, writes for various media, and still lives in New York. In 2017 Vivian Gornick won the prize for the Best Work of Fiction awarded by the Gremio de Libreros de Madrid for the Spanish-language version of Fierce Attachments (Apegos feroces, Sexto Piso, 2017).

Katha Pollitt is a poet, essayist and a longstanding columnist for The Nation, where she writes about feminism, politics, and culture. She has won many prizes and awards for her writing, including two National Magazine Awards, a Guggenheim fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.  Her most recent book of poetry is The Mind-Body Problem; her most recent book of prose is Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights.  She lives in New York City with her husband and cat.

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**$30 | 6pm doors, 7pm show

Kat Wright, whose voice is both sultry and dynamic, delicate yet powerful; gritty but highly emotive and nuanced, has been described as “a young Bonnie Raitt meets Amy Winehouse”. Add to that voice enough stage presence to tame lions, and the combination of feline femininity proves immediately enchanting. There’s soul flowing in and out of her rock ‘n’ roll with a serpentine seduction. Some of soul music’s sweet, grand dames belt, shout, seethe, and succumb, while Wright sings gently like a heartache’s apology. It’s funky in spots and beautiful all over. And it hurts a little … like it should.

**eligible for Card to Culture discount

$175

Twenty Summers + PAAM present

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.

$175

Twenty Summers + PAAM present

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.

SOLD OUT

$175

Twenty Summers + PAAM present

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.

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For the past twenty years, the unique queer and artistic enclave of Provincetown has been threatened by the forces of climate change, gentrification, a lack of affordable housing and the homogenization of culture. Join Marc Norman, Dr. Mika Tosca & Jay Coburn in imaging a more equitable and sustainable future for Provincetown, and beyond, that preserves the people and this place for generations to come.

Marc Norman is an internationally recognized expert on policy and finance for affordable housing and community development. Since July, 2022, Marc has been the Larry & Klara Silverstein Chair of Real Estate Development & Investment, and Associate Dean of the Schack Institute of Real Estate at NYU. Trained as an urban planner, he has worked in the field of community development and finance for over 20 years. With degrees in political economics (University of California Berkeley, Bachelors of Art, 1989) and urban planning (University of California Los Angeles, Master of Art, 1992) and experience with for-profit and non-profit organizations, consulting firms and investment banks, Norman has worked collaboratively to develop or finance over 2,000 units totaling more than $400 million in total development costs.

Dr. Mika Tosca is a climate scientist and Associate Professor, having completed her Ph.D in “Earth System Science” in 2012 at the University of California, Irvine, and her postdoctoral work at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. In 2017 she took a faculty position at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and in addition to her ongoing work investigating the link between climate and wildfire, she imagines ways that artists and designers can collaborate with climate scientists in an effort to better communicate and conduct climate science research. She has written about the emerging synthesis of art and science and has been invited to speak on the ways art-science collaborations can help us build post-climate change worlds, including a role as Plenary speaker at the 2022 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. In 2021, Mika was named to the Grist 50 Fixers list and in 2023 she was interviewed by both the BBC’s Science in Action and HEATED’s Arielle Samuelson about her work and activism. Mika works with young artists to push the boundaries of collaboration, including a new project that explores the potential of Solarpunk. She continues to be vocal about the urgency of addressing the climate crisis.

Jay Coburn has had an unusual career as an advocate, community activist, and chef/small business owner. Since 2012, Jay has served as President and CEO of the Community Development Partnership – the non-profit community development corporation serving the eight towns of lower Cape Cod. He oversees the CDP’s affordable housing and economic development programs designed to build a diverse year-round community of people who can afford to live, work and thrive here. Jay lives in Provincetown and on winter weekends he can be found on the Alpine and Nordic ski trails of northern Vermont.

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For musicians with or without previous experience who are willing to sing and/or play the instrument they bring to the workshop. Pascuala Ilabaca y Fauna creates music with the rhythms of Carnival and the popular celebrations of Chile. In the workshop we will assemble and collectively perform music in the huayno, saya and cumbia rhythms; three rhythms that unite South America through its celebrations from across the Andes Mountains. The band will accompany the participants in this practice. You can bring a harmonic, melodic or rhythmic instrument or simply your desire to sing and share.

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

Hailing from Valparaiso, Chile, singer-songwriter Pascuala Ilabaca is a unique and treasured voice in both the Latin American and World Music scenes. Her music is rooted in traditional Chilean sounds while effortlessly integrating jazz, pop and rock, and wider global influences. Accompanied by her formidable band Fauna, her unique stage presence conjures up sweetness and empowerment at the same time, setting her songs alive with both fragility and verve. In little over a decade, she has released six albums and performed on multiple world tours.

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“The world makes you something that you’re not, but you know inside what you are.” Thus begins Geena Rocero’s earth-shifting TED Talk in March of 2014, a speech she wrote when the impulse to hide her truest self from the world—once deemed necessary—became unbearable. Born in 1983 in Manila, Geena began competing in local beauty pageants at the age of 15, winning local, then national adulation as she claimed trophy after trophy. With mounting fame came pressure and harsh criticism, and thus the necessity to harness the grit and strength of spirit that would ensure her continued ascent. From Filipina pageant queen to American model; from effeminate child dodging hateful taunts on the street, to transgender advocate imparting wisdom at the United Nations—this spring, Geena Rocero shares her singular journey in HORSE BARBIE: A Memoir (The Dial Press, 5/30/23).

Born and raised in the Philippines, Geena Rocero is an award-winning producer, director, model, public speaker, trans rights advocate, and television host. She was named by Time magazine as one of the “Top 25 Transgender People Who Influenced American Culture,” and her TED Talk “Why I Must Come Out” has been viewed more than five million times and translated into thirty-two languages. Geena made history in 2020 as the first trans woman Playboy Playmate of the Year, and again as the first trans woman ambassador for Miss Universe Nepal. In 2020, she was honored on Gold House’s A100 List of the most impactful Asians and Pacific Islanders. Geena’s directorial debut, her limited series film Caretakers, was nominated four times at the 65th Annual New York Emmy Awards held in October 2022.

Bob Keary is a Provincetown-based writer and talkshow host who has been living and working in town since 2005. His morning show “Wake Up! In Provincetown” airs every Friday at 9am on YouTube, and his late-night stage show “Good Night, Provincetown” is fast becoming a summer staple. When he’s not interviewing someone, you can still find him running his mouth and shaking cocktails behind the bar at THE red INN.

**$30 | 6pm doors, 7pm show

FARMED x PTOWN a live concert by multi-disciplinary performer Truth Future Bachman with special guests Jay Critchley and Kristen Becker, is part of a concert and interview series inspired by George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Through a suite of songs and deep community partnerships, FARMED conducts interviews with leaders of grassroots movements. Highlighting revolutions happening all around us, the interviews are set to music by Truth Future Bachman and their company of singer/musicians.

Truth Future Bachman is a "rising-star nonbinary composer" (Playbill), vocalist, and writer of socially focused musicals. NYTimes: "musically and vocally rich", Truth is praised for "golden-voiced", "soulful vocals" (Vulture). They were recently featured in Teen Vogue and Runnersworld. Select original musicals: Luna & the Starbodies (Lincoln Center, Powerhouse Theatre), Horsemanship (Princeton Arts Fellowship), Shapeshifters (Musical Theatre Factory, The Delacorte), FARMED: A Live Podcast Album (WNYC, Fresh Ground Pepper, Joe's Pub). Truth has authored 10 full length musicals, and musically directed, supervised, or performed in nearly 100 off Broadway musicals and plays. Their short film Who Holds Us debuted at NewFest 2021. Truth is an artist in residence at La Mama E.T.C. and an alum of New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, and Joe's Pub Working Group. 2022 Richard Rogers Award Finalist, 2022 Jonathan Larson Award Finalist, and 2021 Jerome Hill Finalist in music. Truth is a Visiting Artist at Princeton University, Williams College, and NYU Tisch.

Onstage and off, performer/producer/activist Kristen Becker’s role is that of instigator. She isn’t afraid of figuring things out on the fly, nor does she shy from developing projects for equally capable hands. As Becker puts it, “I’m pretty good at putting things together, getting them going, and then getting the fuck out of the way.”

Raised in conservative Shreveport, Louisiana, the Dykes of Hazard creator has opened for Ani DiFranco, contributed to The Advocate, and – between founding Nietzsche’s legendary Doin’ Time Comedy open mic and serving as first general manager of Helium Comedy Club – been featured on the cover of Buffalo News’ entertainment section as “Buffalo’s Queen of Comedy.”  

2016 saw her founding the Summer of Sass, a nonprofit collective freeing young LGBTQ adults from damaging religious climates to live, work, and personally thrive in the liberal haven of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Vice called the experiment “the kind of formative experience that can change—or save—lives.” The Boston Globe agreed, lauding the environment as one where “gender is not an issue, where the specter of being bullied is not a daily fear.”

The middle ground is where Becker feels most at home… and most useful. Her background, life experiences, and insight into seemingly disparate societies allow her to act as an open-minded translator. If she can identify as a bleeding-heart liberal as readily as she concedes a Right-leaning stance on firearms, then the Women’s Studies majors and rednecks of the world can also find common ground, for the good of the world. If she can help them share a few laughs in the process, even better.    

“If I didn’t do it, no one else was going to,” Becker laughs. “Turns out I’m the lesbian for that job, too!”

Jay Critchley’s visual, conceptual and performance work and environmental activism have traversed the globe, showing and/or performing in Argentina, Japan, England, Holland, Germany, Columbia and the United States.  He was featured in the LOGO channel’s “Ptown Diaries”, and interviewed by BBC/UK. His solo exhibition at Freight + Volume Gallery in Chelsea, New York City received exciting reviews from the New York Times, The New Yorker and the Village Voice.

A longtime Provincetown, Cape Cod, MA resident, he utilizes the town, landscape, harbor, beaches and dunes as his medium. He founded the patriotic Old Glory Condom Corporation, which won a controversial three-year legal battle for its US Trademark. He produced, wrote and directed several movies and documentaries, including: Toilet Treatments, HBO Audience Award at the Provincetown International Film Festival; The Beige Motel project involved encrusting a 1955 iconic, roadside motel in sand – “an A-frame with wings” before it was demolished.

**eligible for Card to Culture discount

$20 Suggested Donation

Fire has emerged as one of the most visible and devastating impacts of climate change. Fire intensity and area burned are increasing around the globe, in many cases earlier and faster than previously expected. Human activities are to blame -- deforestation, land management, and not least, fossil fuel burning -- which points to potential solutions. Explore how fire is changing and what we can do about it with a diverse panel of perspectives spanning the Arctic to the Amazon.

Featuring Woodwell Climate Research Scientists from the Arctic and Amazon Programs.

Dr. Marcia Macedo takes a unique view of Amazon forests—seeing the forests for the streams. Her work explores how agricultural expansion and climate change is altering the flow of water through tropical landscapes, focusing on hotspots of connection between upland forests and aquatic systems, like streams and rivers. She links detailed, on-the-ground ecological understanding with large-scale, remote sensing data and statistical models to inform decisions about land use. For over fifteen years, Dr. Macedo has worked with agricultural producers in a research role, developing strong and productive relationships.

Dr. Brendan Rogers studies the vast expanses of boreal forests and Arctic tundra across Earth’s northern high-latitudes. His work focuses on understanding how these systems impact—and are impacted by—global climate change. Dr. Rogers is widely recognized for his expertise, acting as a member and leader of various working groups, steering committees, science teams, and editorial groups focused on Earth’s rapidly changing high-latitude ecosystems. He is deputy lead for Permafrost Pathways, an initiative funded through the Audacious Project that addresses the local to global impacts of permafrost thaw. Dr. Rogers engages a range of stakeholders and rights-holders, from local community members and fire managers to international policy makers, in exploring the societal ramifications of his work.

Dr. Michael Coe has studied forests and savannas from North America to Sub-Saharan Africa, but has focused his attention on the Amazon for more than twenty years. Combining field data, satellite observations, and computer models, he strives to provide a clearer understanding of how deforestation alters regional and global climate and affects the environment. His work explores how expanding agriculture changes evaporation, soil moisture, river discharge, soil and river biogeochemistry, and climate. Dr. Coe and his colleagues work with a range of stakeholders, from Indigenous communities to large agricultural landholders, to develop and support science-based strategies for ending deforestation.

Artist talk & reception celebrating "Commodity", art installation of life-size animals created by the local artist Gin Stone.

An allegorical art installation employing life-size animals created by the artist Gin Stone in a ‘diorama’ that explores the environmental consequences of patriarchal-driven capitalism through human evolution. The unfolding artwork advances its timeline with each consecutive install location it occupies, the results of which are an evolving narrative. In three acts, the installation creates an apt metaphor for the exploitation of living beings, the environment, and ultimately, the planet. The Hawthorne Barn is the setting for the initial installation or 'act'.

Gin Stone was born in 1971 in Binghamton, NY. She now lives and works in studio based on coastal Massachusetts. She is a transdisciplinary artist using sculpture, installation and science to convey themes regarding nature and myth. She attended the Hartford Art School.

With work that conveys environmental activism while incorporating material based sub-text, animals become allegorical characters used to highlight - and reject- women and nature as commodities exploited by a largely patriarchal capitalist society (ecofeminism).

Stone’s creatures are created with materials including commercially fished line, ghost gear, recycled and antique textiles as well as found objects. Her work has explored the myth of ancient religion and goddess worship, channeling her immense interest in myth and mysticism. The resulting effect is a cocktail of politics, culture, history and ritual, inhabiting the space of its viewers with intrigue while inspiring thoughtful dialogue of how texture can be both physical as well as abstract. The beauty inherent in nature is brought to life to craft a portrait of meaning and movement, while building chapters on evolution and ecology.

Come experience” Commodity”, an immersive installation by local artist Gin Stone at the Hawthorne Barn.

An allegorical art installation employing life-size animals created by the artist Gin Stone in a ‘diorama’ that explores the environmental consequences of patriarchal-driven capitalism through human evolution. The unfolding artwork advances its timeline with each consecutive install location it occupies, the results of which are an evolving narrative. In three acts, the installation creates an apt metaphor for the exploitation of living beings, the environment, and ultimately, the planet. The Hawthorne Barn is the setting for the initial installation or 'act'.

Gin Stone was born in 1971 in Binghamton, NY. She now lives and works in studio based on coastal Massachusetts. She is a transdisciplinary artist using sculpture, installation and science to convey themes regarding nature and myth. She attended the Hartford Art School.

With work that conveys environmental activism while incorporating material based sub-text, animals become allegorical characters used to highlight - and reject- women and nature as commodities exploited by a largely patriarchal capitalist society (ecofeminism).

Stone’s creatures are created with materials including commercially fished line, ghost gear, recycled and antique textiles as well as found objects. Her work has explored the myth of ancient religion and goddess worship, channeling her immense interest in myth and mysticism. The resulting effect is a cocktail of politics, culture, history and ritual, inhabiting the space of its viewers with intrigue while inspiring thoughtful dialogue of how texture can be both physical as well as abstract. The beauty inherent in nature is brought to life to craft a portrait of meaning and movement, while building chapters on evolution and ecology.

$20 Suggested Donation

A unique film event that shatters the boundaries of conventional cinema, curated by Shaina Feinberg. We’re showcasing four short docs that break the fourth wall, inviting you to become an active participant in the cinematic experience. These films challenge the very concept of storytelling, pushing the limits of what’s possible in film.

Prepare to be transported into the worlds of these films, where characters speak directly to the audience, break out of the narrative, and even acknowledge the fact that they're in a movie. Come join us for an unforgettable evening of film, and see for yourself what happens when the fourth wall comes crashing down.

“As a filmmaker inspired by French New Wave cinema and feminist film theory, I am always looking for ways to bring together films that push movie making  in new and exciting ways. And because Provincetown is such a magical, diverse community — one that is constantly challenging the concept of normal — it feels like a perfect location for an event that celebrates unconventional storytelling and boundary-pushing cinema.” - Shaina Feinberg

Alex Stergiou is a visionary filmmaker who blurs the line between reality and fiction, bringing a special queer lens to her work. Her films have been praised by industry leaders such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Filmmaker Magazine, and recommended by platforms like MUBI and Vimeo.

In The Act of Coming Out, a group of queer and trans actors in Los Angeles audition for the lead role in a film about the quintessential coming out experience. Drawing from their own personal journeys, they challenge the coming out trope and offer a poignant and truthful portrayal of a community often defined by this singular act.

Jonathan Isaac Jackson is a New Orleanian filmmaker and Managing Partner at The Colored Section. His first feature documentary, Big Chief, Black Hawk, was nominated for Best Documentary by American Black Film Festival (2021) and the Black Reel Awards (2022), and was named the top Hollywood South film of 2021 by nola.com. Big Chief, Black hawk was acquired by American Documentary and broadcast on WORLD Channel. A current MFA candidate at Vermont College of Fine Arts in Film, Jonathan continues to work on creating a cinematic language that can continue to bring the African Diaspora together by highlighting the celebrations of black communities as a connection to their ancestors, as he continues his studies as a student of cinema.

In Too Great To Be Good: An Argument That 3rd Cinema Still Exists, an MFA student speaks with some of his cohort about authorship of images and identity in filmmaking to explore whether “3rd Cinema”* still exists.

*Third Cinema is meant to be non-commercialized, a rejection of Neo-colonialism and challenges Hollywood's model of “First Cinema.”

James P. Gannon is the 6th of 7 kids hailing from Levittown, PA. He's made more short films than he ever wanted to and those films have shown at festivals like Sundance, SXSW, Slamdance, etc. He commonly shoots on Super 8mm and turns the camera on his parents.

50 years ago Jack and Betty were hit by a train and survived. Deerwoods Deathtrap is their story.

Shaina Feinberg is a New York City born-and-raised author and filmmaker whose character-driven films explore themes of gender and sexism with heart and humor. Her most recent film is a short doc that was commissioned by The New York Times. She has written for The New Yorker, The Washington Post and has a regular column in The New York Times. Her second book comes out in September 2023. Every film Shaina has ever made is in direct response to her experience as child in the 80s witnessing two infamous movies filmed in her childhood apartment in Manhattan: 9½ Weeks and Fatal Attraction. These eye-opening encounters began her lifelong obsession making (humorous) films that center and empower female characters, and intentionally subvert the male gaze.

Is That How I Look? is an often comedic short autobiographical documentary that explores filmmaker Shaina Feinberg’s life-long battle with body dysmorphic disorder. This heart-touching and humorous film weaves together archival footage, old photographs, new interviews with Shaina’s mother, her brother-in-law (who just so happens to be a BDD specialist) and a stunning French-Algerian woman, Nafé, who Shaina is shocked to hear also suffers from BDD.

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**$30 | 6pm doors, 7pm show

Maine-based indie duo Oshima Brothers have been creating music together since childhood. The brothers blend songs from the heart with blood harmonies to produce a "roots-based pop sound that is infectious." (NPR) On stage, Sean and Jamie offer lush vocals, live looping, foot percussion, electric and acoustic guitars, vintage keyboard and bass - often all at once. They want every show to feel like a deep breath, a dance party and a sonic embrace. When not recording or touring they find time to film and produce their own music videos, tie their own shoes and cook elaborate feasts.

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Local newspapers have been dying in America’s towns and cities for a decade or more. The losses are not confined to tens of thousands of jobs: an essential foundation of democracy — independent, reliable sources of news — is crumbling. But small-town journalism based on hard-hitting reporting is hardly dead. Join Provincetown Independent founders Ed Miller and Teresa Parker, Vineyard Gazette publisher Jane Seagrave, and former New York magazine editor Adam Moss to find out why.

Jane Seagrave has been the publisher of the Vineyard Gazette for the past 12 years. The Gazette covers the six towns on Martha’s Vineyard and is one of the most distinguished small newspapers in the U.S. and the winner of numerous awards. It was founded in 1846. Jane is president of the Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association. Before going to the Gazette, she was Senior Vice President and then Chief Revenue Officer of the Associated Press.

Adam Moss was editor-in-chief of New York Magazine from 2004 until he stepped down in March. The vast digital expansion he oversaw for parent company New York Media led to the creation of five other publications—Vulture, The Cut, Intelligencer, The Strategist, and Grub Street—and grew to reach 50 million visitors each month. During Moss's tenure, New York and nymag.com won 40 National Magazine Awards. Moss first rose to prominence in the early 1990s as founding editor of the legendary weekly 7 Days, after which he took on a succession of leading editorial roles at the New York Times. Advertising Age named him Editor of the Year in 2001, 2007, and 2017; Adweek gave him the same honor in 2018. In 2012 he won the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism.

The Provincetown Independent is Outer Cape Cod’s only locally owned newspaper — and the most widely read paper here, too. They believe high quality homegrown news can bring you closer to your neighbors and to this outermost community.

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What does it mean to slow down to connect, with ourselves and each other? What does it mean to allow vulnerability to breathe as our superpower and not our weakness?

What does it mean to belong within the body, soul, community, and the valleys of Earth? This quest has been a process of slowing down and space to fully acknowledge the importance of healing the body, mind, and soul, meanwhile, it is a process and things take time. In collaboration and conversation with Leda Muhana and David Iannitelli from Moviemento Group, we will be sharing our ways of navigating the world, which continue to encourage and empower our healing journeys as we seek to live an inspired life. 

We will begin by connecting and exchanging deep dialogue to build a space of collective trust and respect. Then we will move to create intimate objects/amulets with earth’s minerals. For me, it’s all in the feeling when my hands grasp the clay. My mind goes blank, and my fingers get their own brain translating thoughts into things that be heard and felt. 

To further connect with our body, mind, and soul, we will transition to Em(bodied) led by Leda and David. In which we will be exploring diverse sources, types, and forms of movement. Through movement, we can amplify and enrich our self-awareness and create new dimensions of embodiment. This can have implications for well-being and art making.

When life is moving so fast, I hope this project can be a place of reflection and connection. A space where we can just show up and be our authentic and unapologetic selves. A space where we can get to know others and find that we have things that connect the beating hearts. We will be connecting while letting our inner child be free and cared for. Throughout the event, I will be sharing works that reflect how I use art-making to process the world and find ways of healing. So please enjoy this time that you allowed yourself to show up for.

Alejandra Cuadra embraces clay, wood, mixed media, and her proud Latina sensibility as she weaves, braids, and knots together her history—what was, what is, and what is to come. Feeling neither from here nor there, Cuadra seeks to reconnect to her roots in Peru. She threads together meditations on identity, displacement, traditions, belonging, and a desire for freedom. Her installations reflect her quest—what it means to belong within the body, soul, community, and the rooted valleys on earth. Through her works, she seeks to create a space where we can hear and feel aspects of the human heart that connect us all.

Cuadra holds a BFA in sculpture with a minor in public engagement from Maine College of Art & Design, where she was a Warren Public Engagement Fellow and received a Pillars Student Award. She also holds an associate degree from Cape Cod Community College. Transplanted from her homeland of Peru, she can never forget where she came from and she works to reclaim her sense of belonging in the U.S. Cuadra has attended residencies at Yale Norfolk School of Art, Monson Arts, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, and Ellis Beauregard Foundation. She is continuing her creative path honoring her apprenticeship with Steve Kemp and Matthew Kemp while being a part of Mudflat’s Technical Education Program. She currently lives and is finding roots in the Greater Boston community.

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A writing workshop, poetry discussion, and contemplative practice.

“I write the body, yet once someone attempted to correct my English to say that I must have meant that I write about the body. No. I give the body voice. Or rather, I honor that the body innately has voice and create the conditions that allow me to connect to that voice.

This embodied journey can then expand until I touch the ancestral edges of myself to find the stories embedded in my DNA. And if I am willing to continue the journey, I can gently brush against the voice of collective bodies that often feel like wind, or the storms. There were stories buried in the tumor that the doctors cut out of me. There are generations worth of stories that have yet to be told, that do not know how to be told, and even when told, have no witness for the telling. The body has infinite stories to tell, and as one who moves through the world in a Black female body, writing her is an act of reclamation. As one who occupies a world built on the exploitation of our Black bodies, writing us is an act of reparation. As one who has disembodied often in order to survive, writing the body is an act of love. Black notions of resistance and fugitivity include the retention of memory.”

Antoinette Cooper is a writer, rainmaker and TEDx speaker committed to the liberation of Black bodies through the arts, ancestral healing, social justice, and medical humanities. She was born on the island of Jamaica, and raised on the island of New York in the New York City Housing Projects. She holds a B.A. from Cornell University, a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University, and sits on the board of Narrative Medicine at CUNY School of Medicine. She understands that there is no separation between all the realms of the body, the earth, and the arts so her work explores the intersections of these multiple dimensions. She is currently at work publishing a multi-genre collection that documents the historical and present day violences on the Black female body.

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Join Kate Rich in exploring new imaginaries and conversations around Feral Trade, an art endeavor and long-range economic experiment, using the spare carrying capacity of the art world to transport and transact other vital goods, outside commercial systems.

Kate Rich is a trade artist and feral economist, born in Australia and living in Bristol, England. In the 1990s she co-founded the Bureau of Inverse Technology (BIT), an international agency producing an array of critical information products including economic and ecological indices, event-triggered webcam networks and animal operated emergency broadcast devices. The Bureau's work has been exhibited internationally in museum, educational and corporate contexts. Since 2003 she has run Feral Trade, an art endeavor and long-range economic experiment, using the spare carrying capacity of the art world to transport and transact coffee, olive oil and other vital goods, outside commercial systems.

Kate is part of the finance team at Bristol's volunteer-run Cube Microplex, system administrator for the Irational.org art server collective, and a member of the FoAM network of transdisciplinary labs. At FoAM, she is setting up the Institute for Experiments with Business (Ibex), an emergent research entity whose remit is to think about business as a medium for generative experiments.

In other collective affiliations she is a member of the Community Economies Institute (CEI), a group of scholars, artists, activists and practitioners from around the world who foster thought and practice to help communities survive well together. She is economist in residence with the Sail Cargo Alliance, an assembly of traders, brokers and ship owners who are reinventing the ancient art of running cargo on wind-propelled ships. And she was recently engaged as feral business advisor for the lumbung kios working group, organised by Indonesian art collective ruangrupa for the documenta fifteen international art event. Kate's ongoing preoccupation is to move her art practice deeper into the infrastructure of trade, administration, organisation and economy. To this end, she is currently working on establishing the curriculum for the Feral MBA, a radically different kind of training course in business for artists and others.

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“Ever since 1996, when I started working on my first novel, I’ve kept a detailed process journal, where I analyze and develop ideas, and write informally about writing. I think of my journal as a friend, one who never tires of listening to me whine, boast, complain and vent, who is a little bit wiser than me, and often finds solutions to the problems of plot or character that  I’m struggling with. 

I will do a reading from my novels and share some of the corresponding excerpts from the journal. This is not material I usually share with the public, but I think the focus on process might interest the writers and other creative artists in the Twenty Summers community. It’s always fun to see the gears and cogs malfunctioning and to expose the ridiculous amount of effort it takes to make the work seem effortless!”

Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest, whose books have garnered international acclaim for their ability to integrate issues of science, technology, religion, environmental politics, and global pop culture into unique, hybrid, narrative forms.

My Year of Meats (1998), All Over Creation (2003), A Tale for the Time Being (2013) and The Book of Form and Emptiness (2022) have been translated and published in over thirty countries. Her third novel, A Tale for the Time Being, won the LA Times Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Book of Form and Emptiness is the winner of the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction as well as the 22nd Annual Massachusetts Book Award, the BC Yukon Book Prize, and the Julia Ward Howe Prize for Fiction. Her work of personal non-fiction, The Face: A Time Code (2016), was published by Restless Books as part of their groundbreaking series called The Face.

A longtime Buddhist practitioner, Ruth was ordained in 2010 and is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foundation. She splits her time between Western Massachusetts, New York City, and British Columbia, Canada. She currently teaches creative writing at Smith College, where she is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities in the Department of English Language and Literature.

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$100

Join Chef Jon Kung for an exploration of Chinese American cooking, highlighting the seasonal bounty of the Outer Cape.

Jon Kung is a content creator and chef hailing from Detroit, Michigan. A self taught Third Culture* cook, Jon combines his lifelong experiences growing up in Toronto and Hong Kong as well as his life lived in his adoptive home of Detroit to create a cuisine he truly sees as Chinese American. His current focus is on creating content and teaching people on new media platforms like Tiktok and Youtube how to express themselves in the kitchen. His cookbook is expected to be released fall 2023. 

*Third Culture refers to the mixed identity that one assumes, influenced both by their parents' culture and the culture in which they are raised.

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Join us at Waters Edge Cinema for a screening of “Actual People”, followed by Q&A with filmmaker and Twenty Summers 2023 Fellow Kit Zauhar.

Riley, an aimless young woman in her final week of college, goes to great lengths to win the affections of a boy from her hometown of Philadelphia. In the process, she ends up having to confront anxieties about her love life, family, and future.

Kit Zauhar is a Chinese-American writer, director, and actress originally from Philadelphia. She attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she majored in Film & Television Production and minored in creative writing and philosophy. Her work explores intimacy, sex, belonging, and the everyday victories and humiliations we all experience.

Kit’s first feature, Actual People, was a microbudget indie that she wrote, directed, produced, and starred in. Made for only ten thousand dollars, the film has had a remarkable festival run. After premiering in competition at Locarno’s cineasti del presente, it went on to win the Aprile Award at Milano Film Festival, Best Screenplay at Indie Memphis, and also screened at Jeonju Film Festival, Slamdance, New Hampshire Film Festival, and BAMcinemaFest, to name a few.

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**$30 | 6pm doors, 7pm show

No-No Boy is an immersive multimedia work blending original folk songs, storytelling, and projected archival images all in service of illuminating hidden American histories. Taking inspiration from his own family’s history living through the Vietnam War as well as many other stories of Asian American experience, Nashville born songwriter Julian Saporiti has transformed years of doctoral study into an innovative project which bridges a divide between art and scholarship. By turning his archival research and fieldwork into a large repertoire of folk songs and films Saporiti has been able to engage diverse audiences with difficult conversations performing with a revolving cast of collaborators everywhere from rural high schools and churches to Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall.

**eligible for Card to Culture discount

Kick off Season Ten of Twenty Summers at our Opening Party at the Crown & Anchor, Thursday, May 11 from 4-6 pm! Come by to learn about who's coming to the Hawthorne Barn this spring, and enjoy *complimentary* appetizers, and drinks. Space is limited, RSVP early!