Provincetown News

Napi Van Dereck – The Way It Used To Was

June 25, 2022

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Thoughts by James Bakker and Christine McCarthy EARLY YEARS Like his collection of Provincetown art, Anton Napi Van Dereck was a “uniquer.” Although born in Chicago, Napi was conceived in Provincetown on Captain Jack’s Wharf and even bumped into Bette...

50 Years of Castle Hill

June 25, 2022

Castle Hill Celebrates 50 years with a New Outdoor Stage and Two Weekends of Dance. The Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill celebrates its 50th anniversary this summer with a stellar lineup of over 150 workshops and events, including a GalaBash on July...

A Thin Place in Beech Forest

June 25, 2022

With gratitude to Mary Oliver for While I am writing a poem to celebrate summer Follow in the wake of a fox’s faint twitches, her pauses and rolling pink shadow. Her sunstretching length, like the roses, flows along bog-edge and berm that have never been...

Buried Child at Harbor Stage is Buried Treasure

June 24, 2022

It’s telling that as the audience files in to see Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer-prizewinning play, Buried Child, at the Harbor Stage Company, they must put on masks and have their vaccination credentials examined: our time is not so very different from the world...

June 23, 2022. the ptownie dispatch!

June 23, 2022

Provincetown Portuguese Festival June 23, 2022 through June 26, 2022 throughout Provincetown Provincetown welcomes people from around the world who come to celebrate Portuguese culture and our proud seafaring heritage at the annual Provincetown Portuguese...

Art We Love – All the Colors of the Rainbow

June 19, 2022

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There’s a palpable burst of energy coursing through town this week as the season gets underway. And I’ve seen a corresponding explosion of color in the galleries. I guess we’re all longing to live life in full color after the past couple of years,...

June 16, 2022. the ptownie dispatch!

June 16, 2022

John Waters Book Signing Thursday June 16, 2022 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm at MAP Pop culture icon, New York Times best-selling author, and renowned filmmaker John Waters will be signing copies of his first novel LIARMOUTH: A FEEL-BAD ROMANCE. Marsha Sprinkle:...

The Provincetown Theater

June 12, 2022

By Byron Crawford The artists washed up on the shores of Provincetown in waves. First came the painters following their prophet Charles Hawthorn. Close on their heels came actors, writers, and colorful personalities that would form the foundations of a...

Fine Arts Work Center

June 10, 2022

For more than 50 years, the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) has provided vital support to the next generation of emerging visual artists and writers through its renowned fellowship program. If you haven’t visited FAWC’s campus on Pearl Street lately, now is...

June 9, 2022. the ptownie dispatch!

June 9, 2022

“Ides of Gender” : Zach Oren Starting June 10, 2022 at The Gallery at Crown & Anchor The Gallery at Crown and Anchor is honored to showcase Oren’s dynamic work which has documented the trans experience in all 49 continental US states—along with...