PROVINCETOWN — The Outer Cape economy is built on hospitality, yet few of its jobs are as intensely and relentlessly customer-focused as the restaurant host. For hours on end, these keepers of the front of the house perform a kind of magic, squeezing out seats for a party with two extra guests or calming a “hangry” patron with a cocktail or a seat at the bar.
Bubala’s by the Bay
Film Fest to Honor Riz Ahmed
The Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) announced last week that its 2021 Excellence in Acting Award will go to Riz Ahmed, recently Oscar-nominated for his role in Sound of Metal. Ahmed will appear in a virtual conversation during the “hybrid” festival, which will be screening live at the Waters Edge Cinema and virtually from June 16th to 25th. Passes are available at provincetownfilm.org.
The British-Pakistani actor will also be represented at the festival by the film Mogul Mowgli, which he co-wrote, produced, and stars in. It’s the semi-autobiographical story of a British-Pakistani rapper who, when brought down by a serious illness, is forced to reckon with his past and his family.
Also announced: a virtual talk with TV show-runner Joey Soloway (Transparent) and filmmaker Doane Tulugaq Avery, as well as a live event at the Truro Vineyards with producer Christine Vachon and writer-director Daniel Minahan, collaborators on the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol and on the new Netflix series Halston. Novelist Wally Lamb will be the speaker at this year’s Evan Lawson Brunch, live at Bubala’s by the Bay.
Visit the Whiteness House and Shred Evidence
Jay Critchley has installed a project he created in 2017 at the Santa Fe Art Institute in reaction to Trump’s presidency, The Whiteness House — tarred and feathered, on the patio of Bubala’s by the Bay at 183 Commercial St. in Provincetown.
The artwork, which is meant to be interactive, will be open to the public from noon to 3 p.m. daily through Sunday, October 25th. Participants — masked and socially distanced in 15-minute time slots — will be asked to write down their thoughts and reactions on paper, then shred it.
Each day will begin with a “Ringing of the Bells.” Scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 24: Ken Field on saxophone and readings by Isaac “Jaguar” Lopez (“The Language of the Land”), Ann Wood (“Purgatory Problems”), and Brent Thomas (“Ann Hutchinson, American Jezebel”). Sunday, Oct. 25, noon: Brent Thomas; 1 p.m.: Stuard Derrick (“Descants and Deformities,” a duologue) and Jamie de Souza; 2 p.m.: singer-songwriter Tianna Esperanza.
Critchley’s Whiteness House Coming to Bubala’s
Jay Critchley’s conceptual art installation The Whiteness House — tarred and feathered will be set up under the patio awning at Bubala’s by the Bay restaurant at 183 Commercial St. in Provincetown from Friday, October 16th, through October 25th. Writers, performers, poets, and others are invited to submit ideas for daily planned activities. Volunteers to staff the installation are also being recruited. Contact Jay Critchley at [email protected]. The Whiteness House is a walk-in scale model of the White House created by Critchley at the Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico in 2017 in response to the presidential election.
