Indie's Choice: featured picks from the upcoming calendar
Take a Lichen
Live Online ProvincetownLearn about lichens in an online class with Mass Audubon on Thursday, November 12th, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Registration is $24 at massaudubon.org. Mass Audubon’s annual State of Wellfleet Harbor Conference continues on Saturday, November 14th, 10 a.m., with “Wellfleet Harbor Wildlife,” the second of three sessions. Registration is free at massaudubon.org.
Clued Up
Live Online ProvincetownWake Up! In Provincetown, a weekly morning show filmed in the Provincetown Brewing Company Taproom, airs on Fridays at 9 a.m. Watch it on YouTube or Facebook Live. The Provincetown Brewing Company also hosts Brews Clues Trivia on Mondays at 7 p.m. Play in person at 141 Bradford St. or tune in on Facebook Live.
Virtual Fund-Raiser for the Lily House
Live Online ProvincetownThe Lily House, a proposed free community hospice on the Outer Cape, is hosting a one-day virtual presentation, “Mortality: Life and Death During a Pandemic,” via Zoom on Saturday, November 14th, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The event is a fund-raiser for the Lily House, and features seven end-of-life experts exploring how we live […]
Morbid Curiosity
Live Online ProvincetownThe Lily House is hosting a virtual event and fundraiser, “Mortality: Life and Death During a Pandemic,” with presentations by seven end-of-life experts, on Saturday, November 14th, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Registration is on a sliding scale from $50 to $100 at thelilyhouse.org.
Take a Lichen
Live Online ProvincetownLearn about lichens in an online class with Mass Audubon on Thursday, November 12th, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Registration is $24 at massaudubon.org. Mass Audubon’s annual State of Wellfleet Harbor Conference continues on Saturday, November 14th, 10 a.m., with “Wellfleet Harbor Wildlife,” the second of three sessions. Registration is free at massaudubon.org.
James Frederick Tells ‘A Winter’s Tale’
Live Online ProvincetownA show of work by Provincetown artist James Frederick, “A Winter’s Tale,” opens on Saturday, November 14th at Frederick Studio Provincetown at 237 Commercial St. (Whaler’s Wharf) and runs through November 22nd. The show’s opening is virtual, streaming live on the gallery’s Facebook page, on Saturday, November 14th, at 7 p.m. In the gallery announcement, […]
Changing the Narrative
Live Online ProvincetownJoin the Provincetown Public Library for a virtual presentation by Linda Coombs, a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe, on the history of the National Day of Mourning and the Myth of Thanksgiving. It will take place, via Zoom, on Saturday, November 14th, from 6 to 8 p.m. Register for this free event by emailing […]
All Bands on Deck
Live Online ProvincetownSandwich PorchFest is going virtual this year, with prerecorded performances by Nils Soderberg, Tony DiSavino, Kathleen Healy, Dawna Hammers, Bill Black, and others. Tune in via Facebook on Saturday, November 14th and Sunday, November 15th, from 6 to 8 p.m. This event is free, but donations are appreciated. Visit sandwichartsalliance.org for the details.
‘Sea Change’ Short Film Festival Is Transformative
Live Online ProvincetownThe Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown presents its first short film festival, “Sea Change Film Shorts 2020,” which will be available for free streaming Sunday, November 15th through November 23rd, with registration at coastalstudies.org. It will be hosted by Barbara Moran, WBUR’s chief science editor, who will also moderate a Q&A session with Coastal […]
Speaking Out
Live Online ProvincetownJoin Miranda Alves, co-founder of Cape Cod Voices, in partnership with Nauset Fellowship, for “Cape Cod Voices Addresses Racial Bias,” a discussion, via Zoom, about the challenges facing marginalized and underserved communities on the Cape. It will take place Sunday, November 15th, at 10 a.m. Email [email protected] for the link.
Yvette Dubinsky & Sue Post at Farm Projects
Farm Projects 355 Main St., WellfleetA show of new work by Yvette Drury Dubinsky, “Minor Things,” and Sue Post, “Keeping House,” has opened at Farm Projects at 355 Main St. in Wellfleet. The exhibit will be on view through November 15th. The gallery is open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., or by appointment (617-650-9800). Dubinsky’s prints were […]
Conservation Piece
Live Online ProvincetownDoug Tallamy will discuss his book Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard in a virtual author talk presented by the Eastham Public Library on Sunday, November 15th, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Register for free by emailing [email protected]
All Bands on Deck
Live Online ProvincetownSandwich PorchFest is going virtual this year, with prerecorded performances by Nils Soderberg, Tony DiSavino, Kathleen Healy, Dawna Hammers, Bill Black, and others. Tune in via Facebook on Saturday, November 14th and Sunday, November 15th, from 6 to 8 p.m. This event is free, but donations are appreciated. Visit sandwichartsalliance.org for the details.
Seth Rudetsky Chats With Lillias White
Live Online ProvincetownBroadway star Lillias White will appear in a live-streamed concert and conversation with host and accompanist Seth Rudetsky on Sunday, November 15th, at 8 p.m., with an encore presentation on Monday, November 16th, at 3 p.m. Tickets are $25 at thesethconcertseries.com. White has appeared in Cats, Carrie, Dreamgirls, Fela!, for which she earned a Tony […]
Making Waves
Live Online ProvincetownThe Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown is presenting “Sea Change Film Shorts 2020,” a short film program available for free streaming through Monday, November 23rd. It includes three shorts: “Spinnaker,” a film about the life and death of a humpback whale, and two films about microplastics. Register at coastalstudies.org.
Henry Golding in a Gay Monsoon
Live Online ProvincetownThe new film Monsoon, written and directed by Cambodian-born Chinese-British filmmaker Hong Khaou, stars Crazy Rich Asians star Henry Golding. Golding plays Kit, a Vietnamese-British young man who returns to Ho Chi Minh City 30 years after his family fled Vietnam as “boat people,” with his parents’ ashes. There he falls for an American (Parker […]
Food for Thought
Live Online ProvincetownTruro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill is offering a virtual food-writing course with Kathy Gunst and Katherine Alford, authors of Rage Baking — The Transformative Power of Flour, Fury and Women’s Voices, on four Wednesdays starting November 4th, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Registration is $285 at castlehill.org.
Mic Drop
Live Online ProvincetownWellfleet Preservation Hall and WOMR are hosting a virtual poetry reading, via Zoom, with the winners of the Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest. It will take place on Thursday, November 12th, 7 p.m. Email [email protected] for the link. Preservation Hall is also hosting a virtual Feed Your Love Open Mic on Wednesday, November 18th, 7 […]
Free Workshops for Seniors at Castle Hill
Live Online ProvincetownYear-round residents from Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet, Eastham, Orleans, Brewster, Harwich, and Chatham are eligible to apply for the Truro Center for the Arts annual “60+” program of free workshops for seniors. The courses are “Pastels,” with Rob DuToit, Mondays and Wednesdays, from 10 a.m. to noon, October 19th through November 4th; “Poetry,” with Kate Wallace […]
Open Book
Provincetown Public Library 356 Commercial Street, ProvincetownThe Provincetown Public Library has opened for limited in-person browsing on Thursdays from 2 to 8 p.m. and Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Visits are limited to 30 minutes, with access only to the first floor, and occupancy is limited to 10. Details are available at provincetownlibrary.org.
Wild Things
Live Online ProvincetownJoin the Outer/Lower Cape Libraries for a meeting of the At Home Learner’s Group on Thursday, November 19th, at 3 p.m., led this week by the Wellfleet Public Library. The topic: nature. Register for this free virtual event by emailing [email protected]
Marie Howe Zooms With Walter Mosley
Live Online ProvincetownThe Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown is launching a new virtual series, “Opening to Wonder: Craft Conversations in Writing,” offering “tools, instructions, insights into the creative process,” via Zoom on Thursdays through December 17th at 6 to 7:30 p.m. First up are poet Marie Howe (Magdalene) and novelist Walter Mosley (Devil in a Blue […]
Virtual Epic
Live Online ProvincetownJoin the Fine Arts Works Center for a reading of Ross Gay’s Be Holding on Thursday, November 19th, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Gay will be reading the entire book-length poem from start to finish. Register for this virtual event with a $25 minimum donation at fawc.org.
Provincetown Arts Holds Gala Fund-raiser Online
Live Online ProvincetownThe 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, […]
Berry Well
Live Online ProvincetownMass Audubon is hosting a virtual cranberry walk on Friday, November 20th, from 7 to 8 p.m. The event, which includes a cranberry scone recipe, costs $24 at massaudubon.org. If birding is more your thing, Mass Audubon is also holding an online course on neo-tropic birds on Tuesdays starting November 24th, 9 to 10 a.m. […]
Harbor Plans
Live Online ProvincetownMass Audubon’s annual State of Wellfleet Harbor Conference continues virtually on Saturday, November 21st, at 10 a.m., with “Mapping a Response to Climate Change,” the last of three sessions. Registration is free at massaudubon.org.
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 […]
Monique Aimee at Longstreet Gallery
Longstreet Gallery 4730B Route 6, Eastham“Harvest,” a show of work by illustrator Monique Aimee, is opening on Saturday, October 31st, at Longstreet Gallery, 4730B Route 6 in Eastham. An artist’s reception will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. The show will be on view through November 21st. Longstreet Gallery is open Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 6 p.m. […]
Virtually on Paper
Live Online ProvincetownThe Provincetown Art Association and Museum begins two online courses this week. The first, “Wet-on-Wet Watercolor,” with Lisa Goren, will take place on three Saturdays, starting on November 7th, 1 to 3 p.m. Registration is $100 at paam.org. “Screenprinting,” with Vicky Tomayko, with 10 Tuesday and Friday sessions, starts Tuesday, November 10th, from 1 to […]
Let ’em Rip
Live Online ProvincetownThe Rip It Ups are throwing a virtual dance party, live-streamed from Wellfleet Preservation Hall, on Saturday, November 21st, at 5 p.m. Registration is free, though donations are appreciated, at wellfleetpreservationhall.org.
Deborah Pressman, Online at Off Main
Live Online ProvincetownIn the gallery announcement for her virtual show, “Imagined Landscapes,” artist Deborah Pressman offers this statement: “A trip to imagined places during Covid. Take photographs of mountains, deserts, marshes, and the ocean — all in a dream. Wake up and paint.” The show opens at offmaingallery.com on Saturday, November 21st, with a Zoom reception from […]
Main Drag
The Club 193A Commercial Street, ProvincetownThe Club, at 193A Commercial St. in Provincetown, is hosting “2020 Has Been a Drag,” a dine-in drag event to benefit Helping Our Women, AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod, and the Carrie A. Seaman Animal Shelter. Come dressed up (or down) with your pod on Sunday, November 22nd, between noon and 5 p.m. Tickets, […]
Rent Boy
Live Online ProvincetownJoin host Seth Rudetsky for a virtual concert and conversation with Adam Pascal, known for creating the role of Roger in Rent, on Sunday, November 22nd, at 8 p.m.; encore on Monday, November 23rd, 3 p.m. Tickets are $25 at thesethconcertseries.com.
