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Twenty Summers
by Twenty Summers
Twenty Summers is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, founded in 2009 to promote the private creation of art, to foster public engagement with art and artists, and to honor the legacy of art in Provincetown. Its annual series of concerts and conversations takes place in the historic Hawthorne barn.
Episodes
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Song So Wild and Blue | Paul Lisicky & John Kelly in Conversation
The celebrated novelist and memoirist Paul Lisicky joins performing artist John Kelly at the Hawthorne Barn, the pair dives into Lisicky’s work, Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell. With a beautiful reading from Lisicky, and intimate performance by Kelly, this Season 12...
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Mason Jennings in Concert
Watch an incredible evening with Mason Jennings, filmed live at the Hawthorne Barn. This performance captures the heart and soul of the night—honest, immersive, and filled with moments you won’t want to miss.
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Lonely Parrots in Concert
Lonely Parrots perform live at the Hawthorne Barn in this full-length concert captured during Season Twelve. With infectious energy and playful musicality, the band’s set moves between upbeat grooves and intimate moments, inviting the audience into a world of joy, curiosity, and spirited connection.
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Queer Ancestor Workshop: Storytelling Practice with Thomas Allen Harris
In this workshop led by Thomas Allen Harris, participants gather to share stories about the queer ancestors—mentors, friends, family members, and lovers—who have shaped their lives. Drawing inspiration from Harris’ work with archives and memory, the session explores how photographs and…
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War Reporting In a Time of Chaos
In a panel discussion moderated by National Book Award–winning author and Marine veteran Phil Klay, distinguished conflict journalists and photographers Victor J. Blue, Ashley Gilbertson, and Danielle Paquette discussed their work in conflict zones on several continents over the past couple of...
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Sabrina Song in Concert
Sabrina Song performs live at the Hawthorne Barn in this full-length concert captured during Season 12. With plain-spoken lyricism and warm melodic clarity, Song’s set moves between quiet introspection and emotional resonance, inviting the audience into moments of vulnerability, humor, and...
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Ari Shapiro & Joshua Prager in Conversation
Experience an intimate and engaging event with Ari Shapiro and Joshua Prager at the Hawthorne Barn, closing out our 2025 Season. Take a closer look at Ari’s voice, perspective, and storytelling, filled with insight, nuance, and memorable moments.
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Glitterfox in Concert
Get ready for an unforgettable moment as powerhouse band Glitterfox light up the Hawthorne Barn in a show-stopping takeover you won’t want to miss. Captured live during Twenty Summers’ Season Twelve, this newly released video brings all the energy, magic, and raw electricity straight to your...
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Geraldine Brooks & Patrick Nolan in Conversation
Australian-born Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who grew up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, attending Bethlehem College Ashfield and the University of Sydney. She worked as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald for three years as a feature writer with a special interest in...
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Michael Mayo Trio in Concert
Enjoy dynamite talent Michael Mayo's concert at the Hawthorn Barn from June 2025 as part of our Season 12 programming. Michael Mayo leans on his intuition as a vocalist, composer, songwriter, and arranger. Much like molding and shaping a sculpture out of clay, he stretches his voice through…
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Fragments in Time with Ashley Gilbertson
Ashley Gilbertson joins filmmaker Michael Cestaro at Stanley to discuss his recent exhibition alongside photographer Franco Pagetti, as well as his life, travels, and career as a photographer and writer.
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Chase Strangio & Celeste Lecesne in Conversation
Sit down with lawyer Chase Strangio and artist Celeste Lecesne to revisit some of Chase's most impactful moments, and how these two amazing individuals will look to the future with hope, determination, and love.
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Kioea in Concert
Kioea (pronounced kēōˈāə) is a music group featuring Carand Burnet (she/her) as lead guitarist and songwriter. Their music blends sounds of surf rock, psychedelia, and global influences. J. Swartwood (Aquarium Drunkard) described Burnet’s music as “simultaneously modern and vintage.” Kioea has...
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20S x Atmos | Embodied Activism
There is no separating equality from ecology, which knows that no member of any natural system has more value than another. In a world of polycrises, what does it mean for activism to be a daily necessity? How can we more deeply integrate it into our lives, allowing our values to shape a more...
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You + 20S + JU-EH = ?
‘Milk Tea Opera House’ is an initiative to create opportunities to influence more voices, to awaken them, and to guide them. It is vital to be able to experience more voices and together we ask this question: Where does voice come from, and how does it represent you? JU-EH creates a live Milk Tea...
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20S x Atmos | Future of Fashion
At its heart, fashion is a tool of creativity and transformation—we slip into shapes and silhouettes, ever discovering new shades of self. So why is an industry that is so driven by “the new” seemingly incapable of reinventing itself when it comes to the health of people and the planet? This…
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Isle McElroy, Pat Kearns & Patrick Nolan in Conversation
McElroy’s debut novel, “The Atmospherians,” told the clever but slightly insiderly and overfreighted tale of a wellness cult designed to cleanse men of their toxicity. “People Collide” is a more agile, universal book, with its title alluding to the randomness of human connection. It’s a variety…
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"Signs from the Mainland" Preview + Q&A with Jeffrey Mansfield and Michael Cestaro
Join 2021 Twenty Summers Fellow Jeffrey Mansfield and director Michael Cestaro for a conversation following the preview of Signs from the Mainland, a documentary short that explores the extraordinary history of the Martha’s Vineyard deaf community. Starting as far back as the early 1700s, genetic...
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Synchronous: Creative Process + Presentation
Take a look at Synchronous Creative in an evening of site-specific movement and exploration surrounding the idea of “safe spaces” at the Hawthorne Barn. The evening is an inside look at their creative process, where they led audience members through a few prompts and exercises utilized through...
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"Simmering: A Kitchen Memoir" Rebeecca Orchant & Bill Hough in Conversation
Join Rebecca Orchant & Bill Hough for a conversation celebrating Rebecca’s new book Simmering, A Kitchen Memoir . “There are somethings that you just can’t do in front of other people. You can’t look at magazines with boobs in them; you can’t eat condoms on your mom’s nightstand; and you most...
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Jake Blount in Concert
A powerfully gifted musician and a scholar of Black American music, Jake Blount speaks ardently about the African roots of the banjo and the subtle, yet profound ways African Americans have shaped and defined the amorphous categories of roots music and Americana. His 2020 album Spider Tales…
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The Art of Journalism
Journalism informs. It investigates. It holds the powerful accountable. But can it also be art? Adam Moss makes that case in his new book, The Work of Art, featuring visual artists, novelists, poets, musicians, and journalists like Gay Talese, Ira Glass, and the front-page editors of the New York...
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Brandee Younger Trio in Concert
This sonically-innovative harpist is revolutionizing her instrument for the digital era. Over the past 15 years, she has worked relentlessly to stretch boundaries and limitations for harpists. In 2022, she made history by becoming the first black woman to be nominated for a Grammy Award for Best...
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Impermanence: Sian Robertson Artist Talk
Over the past six or seven years I have focused on cutting away certain areas of maps, creating lace-like pages of roads, rivers, and other geographical features. These are then protected between sheets of acrylic, in boxes, or safely mounted on panels. For my site-specific installation at Twenty...
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20S x Atmos | Oceans Between Us
All life once rose from the ocean, and all life still depends on it today. From melting glaciers and rising sea levels to plastic pollution and overfishing, our common origin is in danger. This group of marine biologists, ocean advocates, and researchers of the local coastal ecosystem venture…
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Fabiola Méndez Session
Fabiola Méndez is a Puerto Rican cuatrista, singer, Emmy-nominated composer, and educator that has taken part in a musical and cultural movement, crossing over the lines of genres such as folk, jazz & Afro-Caribbean and taking the listener on a journey through identities, cultures, and roots.
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Lost & Found: Michael Joseph Artist Talk
A chance meeting with a stranger on the side of the road led artist, Michael Joseph down a decade-long journey photographing and documenting an American subculture, called Travelers. Travelers are the most contemporary of non-conformists, having evolved from the 1930s Dustbowl Hobo, '50s Kerouac...
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Nettle Fest: an Ode to Urtica dioica
Introduce yourself to the nettle plant through an immersion of flavor, texture, sensations and experiences. Nicole Cormier RD, LDN offers connections to Urtica dioica with a tasting of various preparations of the plant to eat, sip and feel. “I am passionate about helping people...improving whole...
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20S X Atmos | The Weather Station in Concert
The Weather Station is the project of Toronto based songwriter Tamara Lindeman. The last few years have seen The Weather Station release two albums: the career defining Ignorance (2021) and its ethereal, mostly live recording companion piece, How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars (2022). In...
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20S x CCMHT | Revisiting 'Directions of 20th Century Architecture'
On August 18th, 1949, Forum 49 hosted a panel discussion called ‘Directions in 20th Century Architecture’ featuring architect Marcel Breuer, the artist and filmmaker György Kepes, and architect and journalist, Peter Blake, who was then curator for Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern...
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20S X Atmos | Keynote: Bayo Akomolafe
The ecological crisis is only a symptom of a deeper spiritual disconnect, one that must be mended to heal the whole. What can we learn from nature about the processes of decay and renewal? What must be decomposed in order for our species to mend its relationship with the Earth? In this keynote...
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Cody Plays
Cody Plays is an experiment in creating a play in a matter of a few days with a rotating group of special guests and collaborators created by writer/performer Cody Sullivan. Where is the show taking place this week? What is happening in the world that day? Who can we beg to take a role? The…
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20S x Atmos | Queering Nature
As part of our 20S x Atmos weekend Pinar Sinopoulos-Lloyd, Sabrina Imbler, Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, and Willow Defebaugh come together to discuss "Queering Nature". The queer experience is rooted in expression and acceptance—a celebration of all the unique and individual natures that make up…
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Faces of Celebration: Mike Sullivan & Friends in Concert
Mike Sullivan and friends in a concert featuring masked performances of Stephen Sondheim repertoire with other choral and musical theater works. With performers wearing masks and custom clothing designs, Faces of Celebration meets at the intersection of music, fashion, and art, and explores the...
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20S x Atmos | Going Back to the Land
Enjoy a session from our Twenty Summers x Atmos weekend of conversations at the Hawthorne Barn. To rewrite our future, we must right the wrongs of the past and present—including the harm that colonization has authored upon the Earth’s original caretakers and listen to their words of wisdom. In…
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Bermuda Search Party in Concert
Experience an evening in the Barn with Bermuda Search Party! Since their inception in early 2018, Bermuda Search Party (formerly known as The Q-Tip Bandits) have emerged into the Boston music scene as an energetic and vibrant act that continues to touch audience’s hearts while getting them up on...
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Ecosystems & Imagination Pt. 3
Part 3 of 3 of our Ecosystems & Imagination Series, an artist’s interactive approach to future/present visions of the sea coast in the face of sea level rise, and the vulnerability of public space. What are the ecosystems near the water, both human and nature based/ What is public space at the...
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Ecosystems & Imagination Pt. 2
Part 2 of 3 of our Ecosystems & Imagination Series, an artist’s interactive approach to future/present visions of the sea coast in the face of sea level rise, and the vulnerability of public space. What are the ecosystems near the water, both human and nature based/ What is public space at the...
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Ecosystems & Imagination Pt. 1
Part 1 of 3 of our Ecosystems & Imagination Series, an artist’s interactive approach to future/present visions of the sea coast in the face of sea level rise, and the vulnerability of public space. What are the ecosystems near the water, both human and nature based/ What is public space at the...
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Jeremy O'Harris & Ronan Farrow in Conversation
Join Ronan and Jeremy in conversation at the Hawthorne Barn celebrating the end of Season 11 with Twenty Summers on June 14, 2024. Ronan Farrow is a contributing writer for The New Yorker whose investigative reporting has won the Pulitzer Prize for public service among other honors. Before his...
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FARMED X PTOWN: A Live Podcast Concert II
An evening of original music and interviews inspired by George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Provincetown edition with special guest Jay Critchley.
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FARMED X PTOWN: A Live Podcast Concert I
An evening of original music and interviews inspired by George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Provincetown edition with special guest Jay Critchley.
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Commodity: Gin Stone Installation
Artist talk & reception celebrating "Commodity", art installation of life-size animals created by the local artist Gin Stone. An allegorical art installation employing life-size animals created by the artist Gin Stone in a ‘diorama’ that explores the environmental consequences of…
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Margaret Atwood, Vivian Gornick & Katha Pollitt in Conversation
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Here novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the Maddaddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments…
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Kat Wright in Concert
Kat Wright, whose voice is both sultry and dynamic, delicate yet powerful; gritty but highly emotive and nuanced, has been described as “a young Bonnie Raitt meets Amy Winehouse”. Add to that voice enough stage presence to tame lions, and the combination of feline femininity proves immediately...
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Journaling and the Writing Process with Ruth Ozeki
“Ever since 1996, when I started working on my first novel, I’ve kept a detailed process journal, where I analyze and develop ideas, and write informally about writing. I think of my journal as a friend, one who never tires of listening to me whine, boast, complain and vent, who is a little bit...
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Twenty Summers from Today, Climate, Community & Queer Futures
For the past twenty years, the unique queer and artistic enclave of Provincetown has been threatened by the forces of climate change, gentrification, a lack of affordable housing and the homogenization of culture. Marc Norman, Dr. Mika Tosca & Jay Coburn imagine a more equitable and sustainable...
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World on Fire: Woodwell Climate Research Panel
Fire has emerged as one of the most visible and devastating impacts of climate change. Fire intensity and area burned are increasing around the globe, in many cases earlier and faster than previously expected. Human activities are to blame -- deforestation, land management, and not least, fossil...
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Oshima Brothers in Concert
Sean and Jamie Oshima perform on an evening in the Barn in concert for Twenty Summers Season 10. Maine-based indie duo Oshima Brothers have been creating music together since childhood. The brothers blend songs from the heart with blood harmonies to produce a "roots-based pop sound that is...
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Writing the Body with Antoinette Cooper
A writing workshop, poetry discussion, and contemplative practice. “I write the body, yet once someone attempted to correct my English to say that I must have meant that I write about the body. No. I give the body voice. Or rather, I honor that the body innately has voice and create the…
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Twenty Summers is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, founded in 2009 to promote the private creation of art, to foster public engagement with art and artists, and to honor the legacy of art in Provincetown. Its annual series of concerts and conversations takes place in the historic Hawthorne barn.
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