Getting It Done (Thursday-Friday, Oct. 17-18)
Project LPAC presents free screenings of Mike Syers’s 2023 documentary There Are Things to Do, a tribute to activist Urvashi Vaid’s contributions to the fight for LGBTQ equality, women’s rights, and social justice, at Waters Edge Cinema (237 Commercial St., Provincetown) on Thursday, Oct. 17 and Friday, Oct. 18 at 2:30 p.m. See therearethingstodo.com and projectlpac.org for information.
Love Stories (Thursday-Friday, Oct. 17-18)
IHeartSapphFic celebrates Women’s Week with “Sapphic Indie Authors: Breakups, Makeups, and Happily Ever Afters!,” a three-event series on contemporary lesbian fiction, at East End Books (389 Commercial St., Provincetown) and Provincetown Brewing Co. (141 Bradford St.) on Thursday, Oct. 17 and Friday, Oct. 18. Free. See iheartsapphfic.com for a complete schedule and more information.
Right This Way (Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 17-19)
Susan Jeremy plays 15 characters in Robert Will Show You the Door, “a laugh-out-loud memoir about how being fired from every job you’ve had can save your life,” at the Red Room (258 Commercial St., Provincetown) from Thursday, Oct. 17 to Saturday, Oct. 19. See redroom.club for show times and ticket information.
Gorey Stories (Thursday, Oct. 17)
Provincetown Bookshop (229 Commercial St.) hosts a book reading and Halloween party for Carol Verberg’s new art book, The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey, on Thursday, Oct. 17, 4 p.m. Free. See provincetownbookshop.com for information.
Still Right Here (Friday, Oct. 18)
Singer-songwriter Melissa Ferrick returns to the Post Office Café and Cabaret (303 Commercial St., Provincetown) on Friday, Oct. 18, 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $30 ($40 for V.I.P. seating) at postofficecafe.net.
Above and Below (Friday, Oct. 18)
“Postholes and Wings,” an exhibition of new paintings by Alex Thompson Cole, opens at Gallery 444 (444 Commercial St., Provincetown) with a reception on Friday, Oct. 18, 5 p.m. The show is on view until Oct. 22. See gallery444ptown.com for information.
Fiddle Me This (Friday, Oct. 18)
Outermost Contra Dance comes to Eastham United Methodist Church (3200 Route 6) on Friday, Oct. 18. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for a contra dancing basics workshop; dancing begins at 7 p.m. $15 general admission ($10 for 30 and under, $5 for students with I.D.). See outermostcontra.org for information.
What’s Going On (Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 19-20) Cape Symphony presents “Dancing in the Street: The Music of Motown” at the Barnstable Performing Arts Center (744 West Main St., Hyannis) on Saturday, Oct. 19 and Sunday, Oct. 20. Tickets are $32-$75, plus fees, with 50-percent discount for students ages 6 to 22. See capesymphony.org for performance times and ticket information.
Ladies and Gentlemen (Saturday, Oct. 19)
The Crown & Anchor (247 Commercial St., Provincetown) hosts the annual Women’s Week Dyke Drag Brunch on Saturday, Oct. 19, 1 p.m. Tickets are $25, plus cost of brunch. Reserve tables at resy.com.
War and Peace (Saturday, Oct. 19)
The Met: Live in HD season continues at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (2357 Route 6) with a live simulcast of the Metropolitan Opera premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded, starring mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo as a fighter pilot wrestling with the “ethical quandaries and psychological toll of 21st-century warfare,” on Saturday, Oct. 19, 1 p.m. Tickets are $15-$27, plus fees, at what.org.
Turtle Time (Sunday, Oct. 20)
Sue Baur, founder of Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage (ULAUG), discusses her passion for the ponds of Cape Cod and the turtles that live in them at Chapel in the Pines (220 Samoset Road, Eastham) on Sunday, Oct. 20. 10 a.m. Free. See nfuu.org for information.
American Troubadour (Sunday, Oct. 20)
Singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones returns for a matinee concert at the Tilden Arts Center (2240 Iyannough Rd., West Barnstable) as part of the Payomet Road Show Series on Sunday, Oct. 20, 5 p.m. Tickets are $35-$55, plus fees, at payomet.org.
Golden Jubilee (Sunday-Sunday, Oct. 20-27)
The 50th annual TransWeek takes place at multiple venues throughout Provincetown from Sunday, Oct. 20 to Sunday, Oct. 27. See transweek.org for a complete schedule and more information.
The Art of Sacrifice (Tuesday, Oct. 22)
Church of St. Mary of the Harbor (517 Commercial St., Provincetown) holds a presentation on Trina Paulus’s sculpture Abraham and Isaac on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 7 p.m. Free. See stmaryoftheharbor.org for information.
Call It a Hunch (Wednesday, Oct. 23)
Provincetown Public Library (356 Commercial St.) will screen Mel Brooks’s 1974 comedy Young Frankenstein, starring Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, and Marty Feldman, on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 5:30 p.m. Free. See provincetownlibrary.org for information.
Our Arts & Minds team curates a selection of Outer Cape events each week. Please email event information to [email protected] at least two weeks in advance for consideration.
