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    Provincetown Arts Holds Gala Fund-raiser Online

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    The annual arts journal Provincetown Arts, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year and memorializing its founder, Christopher Busa, who recently died, will hold a virtual gala and auction via Zoom on Tuesday, November 19th, at 7 p.m. Local artist Jay Critchley will host, and there will be a poetry reading by Nick Flynn, raffles, and special appearances by artist Sasha Chavchavadze and others. Tickets ($50-$150) are available at provincetownarts.org.

    The silent auction will include the original painting The Arrival, by Mimi Gross, which was the 2020 cover image of Provincetown Arts, as well as works by Peter Busa, Marian Roth, Joel Meyerowitz, Carmen Cicero, Kahn & Selesnick, Vicky Tomayko, Sarah Lutz, and Mark Adams. Bidding will commence on Sunday, November 1st, and continue until the gala on November 19th.

     

    Create Sketchbooks With Mark Adams and Nick Flynn

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    Artist and cartographer Mark Adams, a regular contributor to the Independent, and poet Nick Flynn, his frequent partner in creative endeavors,have reunited for a non-campus course, “The Sketchbook Journal: Writing and Drawing in the Field,” at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill at 10 Meetinghouse Road in Truro. The course will take place in four sessions, from Monday, September 14th, through Thursday, September 17th, from 9 a.m. to noon. The class, limited during the pandemic to seven students, will meet on Zoom first, then outdoors, “foraging for words and images.” The cost is $455. Sign up at castlehill.org.

    Nick Flynn Poetry Workshop

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    The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown is hosting a virtual one-hour poetry workshop led by Nick Flynn that is designed to inspire unexpected and surprising new poems on Thursday, July 30, at 6 p.m. Registration is $10 at fawc.org.

    “Bird in a Cage” Virtual Reading

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    TheFine Arts Works Center in Provincetown is rounding up a gaggle of poets — Marie Howe, Nick Flynn, Robert Pinsky, and Kelle Groom — who will participate in a virtual reading of works inspired by Patty Larkin’s latest CD, Bird in a Cage, on Tuesday, July 14, at 6 p.m. Tickets are $25 and available here.

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