Indie's Choice: featured picks from the upcoming calendar
Tazzeka Streams via Wellfleet Preservation Hall
Live Online ProvincetownTazzeka, a 2018 film by Jean-Philippe Gaud, is part of the “Fine Features Film Series” at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, available for streaming Friday, December 25th through January 22nd. It tells the story of Elias, from the Moroccan town of Tazzeka, who learns to cook from his grandmother. He is inspired by a Parisian pastry chef, […]
‘A Baroque Holiday Celebration’ Streams
Live Online ProvincetownMembers of the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra gave a holiday concert at the Cotuit Center for the Arts on December 13th, but with restrictions tightening around Massachusetts, no one could see it. That is, until now: it is available for free streaming at artsonthecape.org. It consists of selections from Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio,” several Bach chorales, […]
‘Ocean Creatures’ Note Cards From Eastham Painters Guild
Eastham Painter's Guild 25 School House Road, PhillipstonThe Eastham Painters Guild creates sets of note cards each year, featuring art by guild members, to fund scholarships for seniors at Nauset Regional High School and Cape Cod Regional Technical High School. This year’s theme is “ocean creatures.” It includes paintings of horseshoe crabs, Kemp’s ridley turtles, whales, sharks, seals, and piping plovers. Past […]
The Reason I Jump Streams
Live Online ProvincetownWellfleet Preservation Hall’s Doc Days Film Series continues this week with The Reason I Jump, a documentary directed by Jerry Rothwell. Based on a best-selling book by Naoki Higashida, written when he was only 13, it tells the story of five nonverbal autistic young people, trying to understand what it is like to be inside […]
Community Art Exhibit Ages Gracefully
Live Online Provincetown“Age Is a Work of Art,” a virtual community art exhibit organized by the Eastham Art Committee, can be browsed at easthamlibrary.org. Highlights include a tapestry of Vincent van Gogh by Roz Diamond, who writes in her artist statement, “Who knew that I would create, in retirement, hand-woven tapestries that I like well enough to […]
Truro COA Presents Jeff Blum, Virtually
Live Online ProvincetownA virtual exhibit of acrylics and watercolors by Jeff Blum, sponsored by the Truro Council on Aging, is viewable at jeffblumart.com. “My family has been coming to Truro since the early 1960s — we’re part of a Baltimore Jewish community that included the artist Herman Maril,” writes Blum in an artist statement. “In 2013, I […]
Broto Launches Working Groups
Live Online ProvincetownBroto is hosting three working groups to have monthly discussions, via Zoom, on topics related to the intersection of art and science. The first, “Collaboration Blueprint,” began on January 13th, at 3 p.m. But there is still “Pro-Nature Culture,” starting Tuesday, January 19th, at 3 p.m., which aims to answer the question, “If behavior change […]
Schoolhouse Gallery Group Show
Schoolhouse Gallery 494 Commercial St., ProvincetownThe Schoolhouse Gallery, at 494 Commercial St. in Provincetown, is showing “The Season and the Time/ Part One” through January 18th. This end-of-season group show of gallery artists, including Bailey Bob Bailey, Mark Adams, Jeannie Motherwell, and William Hamlin, features a special installation, “Pending Memories,” of black-and-white photographs by Havana-based multimedia artist Adrian Fernandez. The […]
Winter Wednesdays — Whenever, Wherever
Live Online ProvincetownRegistration for Winter Wednesdays, called “Winter Whenevers” this year, opens Monday, January 4th, at winterwednesdays.org. These free classes will allow “residents of Provincetown, Truro and Wellfleet to interact online with each other over the off-season and learn something new at the same time,” according to a press release. Here’s the course lineup for Session I, […]
Helmar and Wastrom at Gaa Gallery, Provincetown
Gaa Gallery 494 Commercial St., ProvincetownTwo new shows are opening at the Gaa Gallery at 494 Commercial St. in Provincetown on Friday, November 27th: “This Nettle, Danger,” featuring photography by Patrice Aphrodite Helmar, and “Just Us Here,” offering works on paper by Ericka Wastrom. Both are on view through February 27th. The Gaa Gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday, 11 […]
Compact Dune Shack Residencies Available
ProvincetownThe Provincetown Community Compact has begun the application process for five-day community residencies (to allow for 48-hour decontamination), April through November in 2021, for its C-Scape and Fowler dune shacks in the Province Lands of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Weeks for the C-Scape run Saturday through Thursday; for the Fowler, Sunday through Friday. Due […]
