October 9, 2025. the ptownie dispatch!

Seaside Shenanigans

Provincetown brims with women, yard-sale treasures, curtain calls, belly laughs, music in the air, and art on every corner—a whimsical tide where joy and creativity wash ashore daily.

The ptownie Calendar ensures you don’t miss a thing.

Women’s Week

October 10, 2025 thru October 19, 2025 Throughout Provincetown

Provincetown is one of the most prominent gatherings for LGBTQ+ women in the United States, drawing thousands of women from all over the world to this charming town at the tip of Cape Cod. Whether it’s getting to see the best performers and comics in LGBTQ+ culture today, or just walking down Commercial Street holding hands with the woman in your life, basking in the sunlight and taking in the natural beauty of Provincetown, there is no festival on the planet that celebrates women like Women’s Week.

Monumental Yard Sale

October 11, 2025 thru October 13, 2025 Throughout Provincetown

After the hustle-bustle of summer, fall offers us all a chance to put on some color and shed all that we’re ready to drop. Provincetown businesses and residents are encouraged to market their offerings curbside as part of the Monumental Yard Sale!

Portraiture

October 15, 2025 thru October 19, 2025 at The Art House

Helltown Players is proud to present the Art House of Portraiture, a sharp, witty, and thought-provoking new play by Margaret Van Sant and is a perfect addition to Women’s Week in Provincetown. The lesbian power couple, Gertrude Stein and Alice B, Toklas, in a questionable threesome with Mabel Dodge Luhan, take the stage in this witty and comic revision of artistic history.

Sister Funk

October 18, 2025 at The Red Room

Sister Funk: The Hottest Party in Provincetown. Let’s celebrate women’s week with a high energy dance party with New England’s premiere all female band! 25 years and going strong!

Shattered Friendships: “Paul and Émile” at WHAT

We begin in Paris, a street at night, mysterious. Alone on the street is novelist and essayist Émile Zola (Abe Goldfarb), musing about Pascal’s “bet” on the existence of the afterlife. But there is no time to dwell, as Zola himself is somehow transported… More Review..

T-Shirts, Tradition, and Telegraphs: Shalom’s in Provincetown

On bustling Commercial Street, Provincetown’s main artery of commerce and culture, Shalom’s Gift Shop has stood for more than half a century as both a family business and a community landmark. To understand the shop’s place in town life, it helps to begin with the building itself. More Story…

Finding Hope: The Jack of Hearts Club at the Provincetown Theater

It’s 11:30pm on August 31st, 1963. The last minutes of the last day of the season in a gay bar in Provincetown. And at first, it doesn’t seem all that different from any bar in Provincetown at any time; it’s only as the evening unfolds that we’re reminded of the differences between that time and ours—and can perhaps find some hope in remembering that, sometimes, things change for the good. Read Review…

Spooky Bear Weekend
October 31 – November 2, 2025

5th Annual Provincetown Food and Wine Festival
November 6 – November 9, 2025

Annual Lighting of the Pilgrim Monument
November 26, 2025

World AIDS Day
December 1, 2025

Holly Folly
December 5 – December 7, 2025

10th Annual Polar Bear Plunge
January 1, 2026