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.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 123
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
(Part 1 of 2) Mozelle & Mike Flanagan (featuring Cliff Lechy)
Claudia Rankine & John Lucas: Film Screening and Conversation
Vital Signs: Artist Talk with Maynard Monrow
Spaces of Reconnecting: Of Deafness, Internment, and Pandemic w/ Jeffrey Mansfield
Poetry–Speaking to and Speaking with Raymond Antrobus
Moving the Needle: Writing and Filmmaking with Shaina Feinberg
Willed by Wit and Wisdom with Chanel Thervil
Hello Neighbor: Climate Migrants & Community Journalism with Brian Vines
Jaswinder Bolina & Victoria Chang in Conversation
Poets Jaswinder Bolina and Victoria Chang virtually gathered to discuss their latest books — Jaswinder’s first essay collection Of Color (McSweeney’s, 2020) and Victoria’s 2020 National Book Award lo…
Gioncarlo Valentine & Dawit N.M. in Conversation
Twenty Summers was thrilled to host our first joint-residency with director and photographer Dawit N.M. & writer and photographer Gioncarlo Valentine earlier this October, and to hear them talk about…
Diane Cook & Lydia Kiesling in Conversation
Authors Diane Cook and Lydia Kiesling join the first-ever Twenty Summers virtual festival to talk about their recent novels, The New Wilderness (Harper, 2020) and The Golden State (Picador, 2019), re…
Shayla Lawson & Elise Peterson in Conversation
Visual artist and podcaster Elise Peterson talks with author Shayla Lawson about her recent book, This is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls & Being Dope, as well as their first Prince concerts, …
Jenna Wortham & Naima Green in Conversation
Twenty Summers was thrilled to welcome author & journalist Jenna Wortham in residence at the Hawthorne Barn this past September, and to host a virtual conversation with photographer Naima Green.
Naim…
Alaya Dawn Johnson Discusses Trouble the Saints
Alaya Dawn Johnson joins Twenty Summers’ first virtual arts festival from Mexico, where she’ll take us on a walk up a path from the village she now calls home, as well as answer questions about her l…
Francesca Ekwuyasi reads from Butter Honey Pig Bread
Francesca Ekwuyasi joins Twenty Summers for our first virtual arts programming to read from her recently released novel Butter Honey Pig Bread (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), an intergenerational saga ab…
Healthcare Panel with Doctors Carl June, David Porter & Josh Bilenker
Immunologist Dr. Carl June, medical oncologist Dr. David Porter, and Loxo Oncology at Lilly CEO Dr. Josh Bilenker gathered virtually early in September to discuss Dr. Porter’s and Dr. June’s groundbr…
Heid Erdrich, Andrea Carlson & Eric Gansworth in Conversation
Esteemed poets Heid E. Erdrich and Eric Gansworth join visual artist Andrea Carlson in conversation to celebrate the release of Heid E. Erdrich’s latest, Little Big Bully (Penguin Group, 2020), and E…
Damon Young & Rion Amilcar Scott in Conversation
Recorded by Twenty Summers on August 18, 2020. All Rights Reserved.
Authors Damon Young and Rion Amilcar Scott kick off the first-ever virtual Twenty Summers festival with an epic, sprawling conversat…
Eric Kandel and Emily Braun in Conversation
Recorded at the Hawthorne barn on August 3, 2019 by Twenty Summers. All Rights Reserved.
Jeremy O. Harris and Emily Bobrow in Conversation
"Meet Jeremy O. Harris: The Queer Black Savior the Theater World Needs." So read a recent headline in Out magazine; Vogue anointed him “one of the most promising playwrights of his generation." The h…