Outer Cape Calendar The Pearl Can’t Help It Music at the Wellfleet Pearl is back! The Aaron Norcross Trio performs Sunday, July 26, at 3 p.m. at 250 Commercial St. […]
Arts Briefs and Listings
Arts Briefs for July 23 through July 29
Supremely Nostalgic Group Show at Albert Merola The Albert Merola Gallery will present a new group show, “Reflections of…,” opening Friday, July 24, and on view through Aug.12. Featured are […]
our picks for the week of July 16 through July 22
Indie’s Choice
Outer Cape Calendar Streaming Readings The Wellfleet Public Library is hosting a virtual poetry reading on Zoom with Heather Corbally Bryant, Tzynya Pinchback, and Lynne Viti, on Thursday, July 16, […]
MOVIES
The Provincetown Film Festival Returns
It’s “reimagined” — shorter, virtual, and at the Wellfleet Drive-in
According to Lisa Viola, artistic director of the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF), she and her staff and the Provincetown Film Society’s new CEO, Rachael Brister, were halfway through preparations […]
our picks for the week of July 9 through July 15
Indie’s Choice
Outer Cape Calendar Mixed Media Maleness Catch the “Modern Male II” show at Steve Bowersock Gallery at 373 Commercial St. in Provincetown, featuring artworks of all media submitted from across […]
our picks for the week of July 2 through July 8
Indie’s Choice
Outer Cape Calendar Party to Go-Go The Crown & Anchor in Provincetown, in collaboration with Live From Provincetown, will be celebrating Independence Day online with its Freedom Virtual Beach Party […]
OBITUARY
Chris Busa of Provincetown Arts Dies at 73
He was a tireless chronicler of the town’s cultural bounty
PROVINCETOWN — As the 35th-anniversary issue of Provincetown Arts, the glossy and scholarly annual journal of Outer Cape art and literature, was preparing to go to press on June 20, […]
QUEER HISTORY
The Heroic Struggle to Be Out in Central Pennsylvania
William Burton traces the building of an LGBTQ community
The history of the gay liberation movement is usually told from the point of view of those at the center of the action, from the Mattachine Society and Daughters of […]
QUEER ‘I’
Reflections on Gay Pride
The first march commemorating Stonewall was 50 years ago
Pride, being one of the seven deadly sins, has good and bad sides to it. It’s like patriotism. To the extent that it means self-love and self-respect, it’s essential and […]
our picks for the week of June 25 through July 1
Indie’s Choice
Outer Cape Calendar Super Bollen East End Books Ptown is hosting a virtual book event with Christopher Bollen, writer of A Beautiful Crime, a twisty, Ripley-esque grifter novel, on Friday, […]
GALLERIES
Deb Mell Paints With Objects
Exuberant and iconoclastic, her art is a symphony of expression
“I love processes,” Truro artist Deb Mell says. “I keep thinking of more complicated and time-consuming ones. That makes me happy.” Which is not to say that Mell’s work appears […]
our picks for the week of June 18 through June 24
Indie’s Choice
Outer Cape Calendar Island Treasure The Friends of Herring River invite you to take a free virtual tour of Wellfleet’s Bound Brook Island on their website, herringriver.org/Videos. Originally created for […]
our picks for the week of June 11 through June 17
Indie’s Choice
Outer Cape Calendar Art of Social Distancing Artists Megan Hinton and Paula Erickson found a rusty metal office desk at the Wellfleet Dept. of Public Works yard off Pole Dike […]
QUEER ‘I’
The Artist as Whistleblower
Larry Kramer left a towering LGBT legacy
To understand why Larry Kramer was a great artist and a singularly influential activist, you have to examine how much the world has changed from plague to plague, HIV to […]
our picks for the week of June 4 through June 10
Indie’s Choice
Outer Cape Calendar Pier Pressure The Addison Art Gallery in Orleans will make a donation to the Eastham, Wellfleet, and Truro public libraries for every Paul Schulenburg painting sold through […]
