Sacchi Green, Annabeth Leong, and Anna Watson

Readings

4 PM

Sacchi Green’s work has appeared in a thigh-high stack of publications with erotically inspirational covers, and she’s also edited thirteen erotica anthologies, including Lambda Literary Award winners Lesbian Cowboys and Wild Girls, Wild Nights from Cleis Press. Editing Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year 20th Anniversary Edition has been a special thrill for her, since her very first erotica story was published way back in Best Lesbian Erotica 1999. She writes in western MA, hangs out whenever possible in the mountains of NH, and makes occasional forays into the real world.

Annabeth Leong is frequently confused about her sexuality but enjoys searching for answers. Her work appears in dozens of anthologies, including Best Lesbian Erotica 20th Anniversary Edition. She performed her dramatic monologue, "The Lesbian Sex Extravaganza Bag," at Sticky Stories Boston, and is eager for future opportunities to "make it rain" dental dams.

Anna Watson sends a big femme kiss to Carol Queen, whose inspiring workshop at OutWrite many years ago catapulted her into the world of writing queer smut. Anna currently identifies as a piece of tired-ass pimento baloney in the white bread sandwich of her teenage sons and elderly parents, and yet she bravely soldiers on, writing and publishing as much butch/femme erotica and other queer writing as possible. She’s pretty sure she deserves a femme medal of valor, and is just waiting for the awarding body to appear.

Alison Prine & Jan Freeman

Readings

7 PM

Alison Prine's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Harvard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Prairie Schooner among others. Her first collection of poems, Steel, was chosen by Jeffrey Harrison for this year’s Cider Press Review Book Award and will be published in January 2016. She lives in Burlington, Vermont where she works as a psychotherapist.

Jan Freeman's new collection of poems is Blue Structure. She is the author of Simon Says, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Hyena; and the chapbook Autumn Sequence. She is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. In 1995 she founded Paris Press to bring back into print Muriel Rukeyser's groundbreaking prose work The Life of Poetry. She lives in western Massachusetts.

August 20, 2016

Tough Girls & Lucid Dreamers VI

Readings + Performance featuring Eileen Myles, Katrina del Mar, Michael Cunningham, Bobby Miller, Sarah Greenwood, Karyn Kuhl, Thalia Zedek, Monica Falcone, Jay Critchley, Mark Adams, Runn Shayo, and others

6 to 9 PM

Eileen Myles is the author of nineteen books including I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems, and a 2015 reissue of Chelsea Girls. In 2017 Grove Press will publish Afterglow (a memoir) about Myles’s late pitbull, Rosie, a one time Provincetown resident. Eileen is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant, four Lambda Book Awards, and a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Art. In 2016 they received a Creative Capital grant and the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing. They’ve had work included in the past in shows at Southern Exposure (SF) David Zwirner, and most recently The Artist’s Institute (NYC) exhibited Myles’s 1992 campaign materials. Myles has showed their work several times in Provincetown at AMP and Schoolhouse Gallery where they will be exhibiting work in August. Myles teaches at NYU and Naropa University and lives in Marfa, TX and New York.

Katrina del Mar Katrina del Mar is a New York-based photographer, video artist, writer, and award-winning film director. Her work has been described as “beautiful”, exuding an “intimate chemistry” and also as “filth of the highest quality.” Katrina herself has been described as a “major league cutie,” “a wild woman,” “the Lesbian Russ Meyer,” and “apparently, the lesbian stepchild of Kenneth Anger.”

Her solo exhibition GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS, first presented at Participant Inc. in New York City, shown at AMP Gallery in the summer season of 2013. Likewise, her solo exhibition Summer Sang in Me, first presented at Strange Loop Gallery in New York City was exhibited at AMP Gallery in 2014. In 2012, Katrina presented a series of films and photographs from the Golden Age of Performance Art (1988-2000) On the Edge of Society: Moments in Live Art, at Warehouse 9, Copenhagen, Denmark. Her solo exhibition, Gangs of New York, was presented in 2010 at Wrong Weather Gallery in Porto, Portugal. Invited to teach at the University of the Arts in Bremen, Germany, she conducted the first ever Queer Trash Feminist Film Workshop, also in 2010. Katrina has shown her critically acclaimed Girl Gang Trilogy of films internationally, including venues such as the Museum for Contemporary Art (CAPC), Bordeaux, France, the Fringe Film Festival, London, UK, 2012; Nightingale Cinema, co-presented by Chicago Underground Film Festival, the MoMA Dome 2 in Rockaway Beach, and Bio Paradis, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Katrina’s work has garnered numerous awards including a fellowship in video from the New York Foundation for the Arts, “Best Experimental Film” from the Planet Out Short Movie Awards announced at the Sundance Film Festival, the 2010 Accolade Award of Merit, and Winner of Juried Competition, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 2012.

Katrina is currently producing a “non-linear, semi surreal” documentary-style web series called DelMarvelous: A Day in the Life, Katrina del Mar, which will be screened at AMP during this year's Provincetown International Film Festival.

Michael Cunningham is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours (winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award & Pulitzer Prize), The Snow Queen, Specimen Days, and By Nightfall, as well as the non-fiction book, Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown. His latest book, A Wild Swan and Other Tales (illustrated by Yuko Shimizu) was published in November 2015. He is a Senior Lecturer at Yale and lives in New York.

Bobby Miller is a performance poet, writer, actor and photographer. He is the author of four books of poetry; "Benestrific Blonde", "Mouth of Jane", ”Troubleblonde” and "Rigamarole". He has been published in many magazines and periodicals including Verbal Abuse, Vice Magazine, UHF Magazine and The Village Voice. He is included in The 1995 American Book Award- winning "Aloud: Voices from The Nuyorican Poets Cafe", "Verses That Hurt; Pleasure and Pain from the Poemfone Poets, and “The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry”, listed on the top ten Poetry National Bestseller List. Mr. Miller’s book, "Fabulous! A Photographic Diary Of Studio 54" 144 black and white photographs with text was published by St. Martin's Press in September 1998, He is also the author “A Downtown State of Mind: NYC 1973 – 1983”, “Wigstock in Black & White: 1985 – 2005”, “Jackie 60 Nights”, “Amina”, “Queer Nation”, “PORTRAITS: Volumes 1 – 3”, ”Ptown Peeps” Volumes 1 , 2 and 3, “Forget Them Not”, ”Fetish and Fairytale Folk”, “Diva’s, Dudes & Dandies”, and “Fabulous! A Photographic Diary of Studio 54: REDUX” with 37 color plates added for the 37th Anniversary of Studio 54. All of his books can be purchased at www.blurb.com/user/store/TroubleBlond.

His is work has been exhibited in NYC, Palm Springs and Provincetown at AMP Gallery, Patty DeLuca Gallery, and Woodman Shimko Gallery. Bobby has been taking photographs since 1974. His first influence was his mother Dorothy C. Miller, a prolific amateur photographer. His first contemporary influences were Christopher Makos, Robert Mapplethorpe and Jimmy De Sana. He studied photography with Lisette Model in 1976 in NYC at The New School during the last year of her life. As a hairdresser and make-up artist he has worked with photographers Lynn Goldsmith, Francesco Scavullo and Robert Mapplethorpe and many others.

As a poet and spoken word artist he has collaborated with recording artist DJ Dmitry of the band Dee-Lite on a recording of “My Life as I Remember It to Be” released in 2015 and can also be heard on Epic Records CD Home Alive with Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Joan Jett, and others performing his “Keep Your Mouth Off My Sisters”.

He has performed his original material at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, The Whitney Museum, The Smithsonian Institute, New York University, Westminster College, The Rhode Island School of Design, Bennington College, The American Crafts Museum, The New York Historical Society, The Massachusetts State Poetry Festival, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, The CMJ Music Festivals, Jackie 60/Mother/ NYC, ARO.SPACE/Seattle, The Kitchen, LaMama etc., Dixon Place, P.S.122, Fez, and The Downtown Arts Festivals in lower Manhattan. He was also a winner in The National Poetry Slam as a member of The Nuyorican Poets and has performed internationally with poet John Giorno and alone at venues including The Tabernacle, The Battersee Arts Center and The ICA in London and The Glasgow Center for The Arts in Glasgow, Scotland. He has been seen on television on the PBS program City Arts and the BBC/PBS produced program The Clive James Hour. Mr. Miller also curated and hosted Verbal Abuse, a spoken word evening, the first Sunday of each month at Mother Nightclub in New York City.

Sarah Greenwood is a songwriter and performer, born in Switzerland to British transplants. Graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Sarah is the recipient of multiple Professional Writing Division Awards for Songwriting from Berklee. She released several well received eponymous EP's including 24 Hour Shift before forming GSX, known for its fiery live performances. Sarah's full length album Manifest was released in 2005 and GSX headlined and played both internationally, notably to a crowd of 50,000 in Reykjavik, Iceland and nationally, at notable venues including the Gramercy Theater and the notorious CBGB’s, where they opened for Joan Jett. The GSX videos Bringin' Me Down and I Got What I Came For directed by Katrina del Mar, both made the Top Ten on LOGO's Click List(MTV Networks). Sarah is currently working on a new record. She lives in New York City. website

“Greenwood has a knack for transforming pain and anger into edgy songs which alternately smolder and blaze with the eloquently pissed-off attitude of Chrissie Hynde. Her Lyrics are reminiscent of Lou Reed and Patti Smith.” - Boston Phoenix

Karyn Kuhl: The Stars Will Bring You Home is the newest EP from the Karyn Kuhl Band. Home for Kuhl is Hoboken, NJ, where she was a founding member of Gut Bank and Sexpod, two staple bands during the much-revered Maxwell's club's legendary heyday. The album was produced by another Hoboken stalwart, James Mastro (The Bongos, Ian Hunter), and recorded at the local Nuthouse Recording studio by Tom Beaujour (Nada Surf, Juliana Hatfield), and at Water Music by Rob Harari.

Thalia Zedek started her career as a musician in the groups White Women and Dangerous Birds, whose 1982 singles “Alpha Romeo”, "Smile On Your Face", and "Walking Emergency" are rare finds these days. She really made her mark shortly thereafter with Uzi, whose 1986 Homestead release Sleep Asylum was a landmark not only for the Boston region but for the underground in general. It rightfully put Thalia in the company of other challenging female pioneers such as Kim Gordon, and was reissued by Matador in the mid-1990’s to much acclaim. In 1998, a mere two years after Uzi, Thalia broke new ground again with the NYC band Live Skull. The three records that she released with them more than stand the test of time and laid the groundwork for artists who followed such as PJ Harvey. It was with Come that Thalia rose with the swell of popularity of so called Indie Rock. Fueled by the guitar interplay between herself and bandmate Chris Brokaw, Come released four full length records, Eleven-Eleven, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Near Life Experience, and Gently Down The Stream as well as various EP's and singles and toured extensively throughout the 90s.

After Come ended in 1999, Thalia began writing and recording under her own name, but throughout her career Thalia’s voice has remained a singular calling card. Her songwriting has great depth and a pervading melancholic tone much like the work of Nick Cave. She has chosen unusual instrumentation to compliment her guitar, such as the viola and trumpet contributions of David Michael Curry and Mel Lederman on piano and keyboard. Her songs are rich in texture and reveal with each listen their delicately crafted layers.

On a recent release, Via, Zedek presented a collection of songs that range from the harrowing to the heartfelt. The opener “Walk Away” is a triumphantly melancholic exploration of living with ghosts, with Zedek’s richly emotive voice augmented by David Michael Curry’s gravelly viola and Mel Lederman’s measured piano. Via is an album about recovery, loyalty, chance, and gratitude: universal themes that become stirring in Zedek’s hands.

Along with the Thalia Zedek Bank, she is also in two great new experimental bands called "E" and "Dyr Fraser."

Jay Critchley is a conceptual and multi-media artist and activist whose work has traversed the globe, showing across the US and in Argentina, Japan, England, Spain, France, Holland, Germany and Columbia. He founded the controversial patriotic Old Glory Condom Corporation and was recently featured in Sculpture magazine. His 2011 show in Chelsea, NYC received key reviews in the New York Times, The New Yorker and the Village Voice. He created the inspired “Ten Days That Shook the World” in 2012 before the demolition of the 1953 Herring Cove Beach Bathhouse.

Jay’s movie, “Toilet Treatments”, won an HBO Award at Provincetown Film Festival in 2002, where he was featured last year in conjunction with his survey show at the Provincetown Art Association & Museum, “Jay Critchley, Incorporated”. The show recently traveled to Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

He has taught at the Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston, and has had artist residencies at: Harvard University; AS220, Rhode Island; Harvestworks, NYC; Williams College, MA; Real Art Ways, Hartford; Milepost 5, Portland, OR; Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Andalucia, Spain; and CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Seine, France.

Jay was honored in 2012 by the Massachusetts State Legislature as an artist and director of the Provincetown Community Compact, producer of the Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla, raising $4M for AIDS and women’s health. His one act experimental musical, “Planet Snowvio”, about the meeting of Free Speech Movement leader Mario Savio and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was recently read at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

Mark Adams: "I write I draw I scan the horizon. Painter, cartographer, human ecologist, elegiac dystopian. 25 years in the Provincetown Hook, 10 years of coastal surveys, 500 paintings, 5000 trail miles jogged, a string of failed relationships, couple hundred friends, a kayak, a bike, a guitar and a killer lamb curry. Just trying to get it right."

Runn Shayo: "I am a time-based, environmental, site-specific film and performance artist. I use film and video to create installations, sometimes combining multiple channel video projections with live art. My background as a dancer and an actor in theater and film has influenced my work a great deal.

The work I produce for the screen range from experimental documentaries to dance films, and to what I define as environmental site-specific performance art film. These pieces explore environmental aspects of landscapes through filmed performances.

My works usually deal with subjects of gender, immigration, or the environment. They explore the struggle of an artist in contemporary contexts. I discover my characters and their stories through researching archived popular TV shows, classic history films, and archived documentation of conceptualized contemporary performance art. The ancient form of storytelling is what I ultimately honor, yet, in the center of my exploration is the meaninglessness of words, the out-cast, the sidekick; a voice of a mute preacher."

Runn was born and raised in Israel, and moved to New York 19 years ago to attend school. He has lived here ever since.

Monica Falcone is originally from New Jersey and started playing guitar at age 13. In the 90's, Mony played among New York's garage scene in the all-female garage-a-billy band, Sit n' Spin, opening for some of their favorite bands such as The Muffs, Link Wray and touring with the 5678's. After 10 years of touring and recording she landed in Brooklyn where she met Tammy Faye Starlite. Over the past 10 years, she's played with Tammy in The Stay-at-Homes (covering the Runaways), Prima Ballerina (covering the NY Dolls) and most recently The Pretty Babies (covering Blondie.) Mony has also filled in on bass guitar for Tammy's Nico performances and frequently duets with Tammy for special events.

August 16, 2016

Xray Aims

No 99 | Performance/Installation

9 PM

Xray Aims is a Boston-based performance artist, and temporary piercer. The fight between beauty and pain, and the intrigue of breaching the delicate envelope that holds the body together are what leads Xray to this work. Combining these issues and interests with the built environment is what brings this work to public spaces.

Xray Aims has degrees in art and architecture, along with carpentry and production, which influence the work produced. Xray uses the body as a canvas, creating installation and a narrative involving multiple participants. Xray Aims performs and teaches in the US, Canada and Europe.

xrayaims.com and facebook.com/xrayaims

August 15, 2016

"Bound East for Easter Rebellion"

A One Act Play, Written by Jay Critchley, Directed by Stuard M. Derrick, and starring Tom Thompson and Runn Shayo

7:30 PM

In 1916, radical things were brewing across the Atlantic between Provincetown and Dublin. This experimental one-act play is a staged reading, with musical numbers, is a Centennial mash-up between Pulitzer/Nobel Laureate playwright Eugene O’Neill and leader/poet of the Irish Easter Rebellion, Padraig Pearse.

Set on the ship, S.S. Glencairn, it is adapted from O’Neill’s 1916 Provincetown debut play, Bound East for Cardiff. O'Neill is played by Tom Thompson and Pearse by Run Shayo. Musical numbers, with creative lyrics, include: Cape Cod Bay (formerly Galway Bay); Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral; and It's the Same Old Shillelagh.

Jay Critchley is a conceptual and multi-media artist and activist whose work has traversed the globe, showing across the US and in Argentina, Japan, England, Spain, France, Holland, Germany and Columbia. He founded the controversial patriotic Old Glory Condom Corporation and was recently featured in Sculpture magazine. His 2011 show in Chelsea, NYC received key reviews in the New York Times, The New Yorker and the Village Voice. He created the inspired “Ten Days That Shook the World” in 2012 before the demolition of the 1953 Herring Cove Beach Bathhouse.

Jay’s movie, “Toilet Treatments”, won an HBO Award at Provincetown Film Festival in 2002, where he was featured last year in conjunction with his survey show at the Provincetown Art Association & Museum, “Jay Critchley, Incorporated”. The show recently traveled to Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

He has taught at the Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston, and has had artist residencies at: Harvard University; AS220, Rhode Island; Harvestworks, NYC; Williams College, MA; Real Art Ways, Hartford; Milepost 5, Portland, OR; Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Andalucia, Spain; and CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Seine, France.

Jay was honored in 2012 by the Massachusetts State Legislature as an artist and director of the Provincetown Community Compact, producer of the Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla, raising $4M for AIDS and women’s health. His one act experimental musical, “Planet Snowvio”, about the meeting of Free Speech Movement leader Mario Savio and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was recently read at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

Stuard M. Derrick studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC, the Summer Shakespeare Session at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts where he played Leontes in "The Winter’s Tale," the Harvard Shakespeare Workshop, and playwriting as an undergraduate at Columbia University. In 1993 he was invited by the Provincetown Public Library to present a one-man show on Eugene O’Neill and has since presented at the Library evenings devoted to O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Susan Glaspell, Harry Kemp, and Wilbur Daniel Steele. He currently is the director of "O'Neill 100," the Library's year long centennial celebration of O'Neill's debut as a playwright in Provincetown. Stuard portrayed Yank, the dying seaman, in the 80th O’Neill Anniversary 1996 production of "Bound East for Cardiff" for the Provincetown Theatre Company, and produced and directed the 90th Anniversary O’Neill evening in 2006 at PAAM. He has twice received ACTE Best Actor nominations for his PTC roles of Mendy in "The Lisbon Traviata" and Siegfried Sassoon in "Not About Heroes." Stuard has written for the Columbia University “Spectator,” “Provincetown Magazine,” and the "Provincetown Banner."

Tom Thompson, who plays Eugene O’Neill, works as a professional space planner & designer, color analyst, constructor, remodeler, painter and modeling clay liberator. He performed the role of the boyfriend in Provincetown Theatre Company’s “Message to Michael” by Tim Pinckney. He is active in classical life drawing and oil painting, sculpture, and music - the piano and voice. Tom enjoys sun, sea and other weather-related activities – swimming, boating, cycling, and jogging. He is very excited to be performing and singing once again in "Bound East for Easter Rebellion."

Runn Shayo, who plays Irish rebel Padraig Pearse, is a Brooklyn-based, conceptual, performance and video artist, and an actor, a dancer, and a filmmaker. He recently portrayed the characters of Dr. Faustus in “Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights” by Gertrude Stein at Provincetown Theater, Alexander Grand Bell at the History Channel, and he co-starred in the feature film “Ego Auxiliary.” He was recently selected for the Immigrant Artist Program at the New York Foundation for the Arts. Runn’s solo works have been presented at: Art Market Provincetown, Fleet Moves Festival, Vox Populi Philadelphia, FLIC Festival, LOIKKA, and in Finland, among others. His film acting includes: "Mind Fuck", "Auxiliary Ago", "Adam and Steve", "Valentine's Day", and others. His most recent performance art piece, "The Artist is Not Present", was performed in galleries in New York and Seattle.

August 13

Jack Shamblin, Queering the Stage

Performance

7:30 - 8:30

By promoting my book Queering The Stage, available on Amazon, FastPencil, and Barnes & Nobles: I share stories of LGBTQ heroes and history.

Using video, music, and monologues; we visit queer stories such as the eighteenth century transgendered female-to-male soldier Catherina Linck a.k.a Anastasius; plus Michael Hardwick’s 1986 Supreme Court’s trial and attempt to end U.S. sodomy laws that persecuted homosexuals; and the ACT-UP activist Tim Bailey, whose corpse was dumped on the White House lawn.

Playing with my gender, I gradually shift sexes during the presentation into my trans-female identity Mia Kunter. This enables me to highlight my chapter Shake & Make A Performance and give a quick lesson in making live art.

Produced in 90s Manhattan and during Mayor Giuliani’s terrorizing of nightclubs and downtown arts, these performance-as-protest plays appeared at La MaMa, P.S. 122, Dixon Place, Mother, Jackie 60s; and the nightclub, Tunnel. Theatre artists, Kate Bornstein, Ellie Covan, and Theodora Skipitares were involved in original productions while working with playwright Caryl Churchill and director Anne Bogart influenced the storytelling.

Jack Shamblin is an American born international writer/actor/director/comedian/activist. Identifies as gender-queer and challenges his audience to home-bake performance art for pleasure and community, has been listed as a critic's pick multiple times, and with a captioned photo reading "Future So Bright” in Time Out New York.

He made his debut 1994 at La MaMa in Theodora Skipitares' “Under The Knife: A History of Medicine”.

Highlights of Shamblin's career include: Hanging from “La MaMa’s fire escape” as Prometheus. Wearing an electrical prom dress with a TV monitor wig, performing at clubs and wedding receptions about domestic violence. Performing with Jayne Atkinson and Philip Seymour-Hoffman at the Public Theatre in the New York premiere of Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker. Presenting Sodomite! (a protest against U.S. sodomy laws ) to crowds of New Yorkers. Working with Kate Bornstein and Ellie Covan on a play Thurma at Dixon Place. Writing and performing for choreographer Paulo Henrique, Minimally Invasive European tour. Drenching his body in green paint, becoming a landscape while taking a bunny-eared condom and hopping it across his torso into his mouth. Running a play “Bread & Circus” 3099 co-created with Nicole Zaray at La MaMa Annex. Being submerged in a tight water cube to make a performance video with Eva Mueller and then projected at London's Sketch Gallery on four giant walls. Dancing at the bottom of a well in Lisbon as a homeless God for charity. Sewing his body to his lover for arts publication Umbigo. Parading on stilts made of books to become a fairy tale giant in arts festival Secrets at Jardim Botânico Tropical De Belem. Creating film O Castelo Preto with performance collective Advance D-Lux that he founded with J. Carlos Díaz at C.E.M. in Lisbon. Wearing white underwear packed with strawberries and being spanked by a chosen audience member.

Since 2010, creates live art show F#CK MiA (Lisbon, New York, Montreal,) play BLATANT, (New York),and video series on YouTube Anarchist Mia.

Follow on: Twitter: @jack_shamblin, YouTube: Jack Shamblin, YouTube: Mia Kunter, Facebook: jack.shamblin, Instagram: miakunter.

"Jason and Shirley", 2015

Director, Stephen Winter, presents his film along with Sarah Schulman | Screening and Discussion

7:30 PM

50 years before RuPaul… there was Jason Holliday. The most fabulous and controversial black queen you’ve never heard of!

December 1966, Jason was known throughout the New York pre-Stonewall gay world as the hottest mess around. Shirley Clarke was Jewish, wealthy and a rare female film director of her era to gain national prominence. Shirley invited Jason to her Chelsea Hotel penthouse to film him telling wild stories from his turbulent life, determined to find a groundbreaking “truth” in documentary. This footage became “Portrait of Jason,” (1967), and was hailed a masterpiece, as Jason tells stories of racism, homophobia, abuse and prostitution with Shirley urging him towards a tangled emotional breakdown that is unforgettable.

But what really happened that day? With dreams, musical numbers and graphic emotions, the NEW film “Jason and Shirley” revisits that fateful meeting and blows the lid off this true story of power, destiny and “truth.”

"Jason and Shirley" features Sarah Schulman as Shirley, and Jack Waters as Jason.

Stephen Winter is an award winning film director, screenwriter, consultant and producer. His latest film is "Jason and Shirley" (2015) which had its world premiere at the BAMCinemaFest. His other films include "Chocolate Babies" (1996, premiere Berlin Film Festival), and "Young Men Big Dreams: Inside The World of the Steve Harvey Mentoring Camp" (2014) for NBC/Universal. Some of the films he’s worked on are "Precious" (2008, Sundance, Cannes), "Paperboy" (2010), Lee Daniels' "The Butler" (2012, Cannes), John Cameron Mitchell’s "Shortbus" (2006, Cannes), Xan Cassavetes’ "Kiss of The Damned" (2010, Venice), John Krokidas’ "Kill Your Darlings" (2013, Sundance), David France’s Oscar nominated documentary "How To Survive A Plague" (2012, Sundance) and producer of Jonathan Caouette's landmark ("Virtuoso," A.O. Scott, New York Times, "4 Stars", Roger Ebert) documentary "Tarnation" (2004, Sundance, Cannes, New York Film Festival, The 2015 Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking). He has consulted on dozens of film projects across the world and his short play Be Still, about his sainted mother Aureen returning to Jamaica, was included in 24 by 24: The Best of the 24 Hour Plays Anthology.

Sarah Schulman has been an award winning novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, AIDS historian, political commentator, theater critic, political journalist and a firebrand active citizen participant for over 30 years. She is the author of 17 books including The Gentrification of The Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, Israel/Palestine and The Queer international, and the forthcoming novel The Cosmopolitans (March, 2016). She has a thirty year history in the avant-garde and with Jim Hubbard co-founded MIX:NY Queer Experimental Film Festival now entering its 20th year as a non-commercial, community-based film festival. As a screenwriter she has 3 collaborations with director Cheryl Dunye: The Owls (Berlin Film Festival 2010), Mommy Is Coming (Berlin Film Festival, 2012) and Unstuck (in pre-production.) With Jim Hubbard she is co-producer of his feature length documentary UNITED IN ANGER: A History of ACT UP that had its US premier at MOMA, and International premiere in Ramallah, Palestine. As an actor Sarah appeared in the 1980’s Downtown performance scene at The Performing Garage, The University of The Streets, Franklin Furnace and once played Valerie Solarnis in a 24 hour performance "The Plastic Inevitable." On film: in Dunye's Watermelon Woman (1995). As a playwright her works Carson McCullers and Manic Flight Reaction were produced at New York's Playwrights Horizons, and her adaptation of IB Singer's Enemies, A Love Story debuted at The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia. Sarah is co-director of The ACT UP Oral History Project (www.actuporalhistory.org), on the Advisory Board of Jewish Voice for Peace, faculty advisor for Students for Justice in Palestine at the College of Staten Island where she is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities. She is currently at work on Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and The Duty of Repair.

For more information, please visit: www.jasonandshirleyfilm.com

August 6, 2016

Michael Cunningham & Billy Hough

Readings

7 PM

Michael Cunningham is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours (winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award & Pulitzer Prize), The Snow Queen, Specimen Days, and By Nightfall, as well as the non-fiction book, Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown. His latest book, A Wild Swan and Other Tales (illustrated by Yuko Shimizu) was published in November 2015. He is a Senior Lecturer at Yale and lives in New York.

Billy Hough lives between Provincetown and New York City. He and Susan Goldberg comprise "Scream Along with Billy", a brilliant rock 'n roll stream of consciousness piano and bass duo, now celebrating its 11th year. He also is a member of the punk band "garageDogs", and plays piano and sings at the Gifford House on the weekends, and is a founding member of the Gold Dust Orphans. Billy has three songs on the film Rampart soundtrack, including his own song Venice, and covers of Downtown and Johnny Thunders' You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory. His music is featured in the recent film starring Richard Gere and directed by Oren Moverman entitled Time Out of Mind. He is working on a memoir.

August 3, 2016

Yvonne Andersen

Screenings of The Sun Gallery in Provincetown, 1955-59 (36 min) + Dominic Falcone, 1928-2009 (50 min)

7 PM

Join us at AMP Gallery for a very special evening of screenings and discussion with Yvonne Andersen. Yvonne, and her husband Domenic Falcone, directed the infamous Sun Gallery in Provincetown during the 1950s.

Yvonne Andersen: "We created the Sun Gallery in 1955. After 5 years and maybe 50 shows there we thought we had done every kind of exhibit that we could think of, including the first “HAPPENING” with live actor (Red Grooms Director) ...and now we had a baby (Paul) to consider. We moved to the Boston area. Dominic went to work as a cook at Harvard, we had a second baby.

A lot of neighborhood children showed up in my house to play with our children ...and use all the free art supplies laid out on the tables.This got expensive so I had to organize Saturday morning art classes. One day I showed the children my first animated film made with Red Grooms. They wanted to do it too! So we started the Yellow Ball Workshop, for which we are most known.

I had no idea that Film Animation Production classes for children had not existed before. I showed our first film at the Harvard Film Archives and it was a big hit. The classes were bigger the next year , and my students and films became shown on TV all over this country and and won awards at international Film Festivals.

I spent several years running around this country and others doing workshops and writing books and articles on the subject. Later I was recruited to teach flat animation, puppet animation and and Film Special Eeffects at at RISD. I worked there for 23 years, nine of them as Dept head of Film/Video/ Animation. I had to retire at age 70 when Dominic became sick. He died in 2009.

The Provincetown Museum and Art Association did two Sun Gallery Exhibitions, one in1981 and another in 2003. Tony Vevers wrote the catalogue for the first show and I presented a slide show,

When we were invited to do a second Sun Gallery Show in 2003 we showed one of the artists work that we had shown at the Sun Gallery and asked the artists to present one of their more recent works. It was fun to see how the styles changed. We prepared a 16mm film showing for that show. We showed the SUN GALLERY in Provincetown then, in a slightly different way, and FAT FEET, and APPOLIONARE UNEXPECTED (without a sound track) but the audience furnished it by laughing!

A few years after the Sun Gallery we returned to Provincetown for two summers to run a film series at the other end of town, consisting mostly of new films of all types by independent filmakers. Some of the early Yellowball Workshop films were shown then.

Domenic Falcone 1928-2009 has not been shown in Provincetown before. The documentary portion is 27 minutes, and includes Sun Gallery segments... “I SAW THEIR ANGRY Faces” a group of short animated films using his poems and narrated by him (12 minutes) We WILL LIVE FOREVER is a 6 minute animated film we made together, based on his poem and animated by myself. It has won first prize at 6 film festivals. This whole reel is 45 minutes long."

July 30, 2016

Judith Stein | 'Eye of the Sixties, Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art'

Reading & Book Signing

7 PM

"Art and money. Value and worth. How does art get from studio to museum? Journey back to the early sixties, to the beginning of the market for contemporary art, when the art dealer and tastemaker Dick Bellamy (1927-1998) made history but chose not to make money. At the fabled Green Gallery on Fifty-Seventh Street, Bellamy launched the careers of Pop, Op and conceptual artists, as well as mavericks and minimalists, artists such as Claes Oldenburg and James Rosenquist, Donald Judd and Dan Flavin, Mark di Suvero and Lucas Samaras, and Robert Morris and Larry Poons. The story of Dick Bellamy, a beatnik with a legendary eye, unfolds as postmodernism elbowed the past aside.

A Midwesterner whose mother was Chinese, Dick Bellamy opened the Green with the covert support of America’s first celebrity art collectors, Robert and Ethel Scull, two of Warhol’s earliest supporters. “There was nobody like Bellamy. I certainly consider myself his pupil,” art dealer Leo Castelli would later say. For decades after the Green, Bellamy preferred to be out of the limelight, becoming an éminence grise whose opinion mattered to savvy collectors, curators and fellow dealers.

Based on decades of research and on hundreds of interviews with Bellamy’s artists, friends, colleagues, and lovers, Judith E. Stein’s Eye of the Sixties recovers the lost history of the elusive art dealer." - July 2016 from Farrar Straus and Giroux

Judith Stein is a writer and independent curator. Her biography-in-progress of the art dealer Richard Hu Bellamy earned a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant (2008). Among her honors is a Pew Foundation Fellowship in the Arts in literary non-fiction (1994); an Award for Best Catalogue, International Art Critics Association, American Section, for I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin, (1995); and a writing residency at the Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy, (1999). For the last thirty years, her features and reviews have appeared in Art in America and Art News, as well as in The New York Times Book Review, Ms., and Metropolitan Home. She is a former arts reviewer for National Public Radio’s Fresh Air and Morning Edition. A graduate of Barnard College, she earned a doctorate in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.

Hilde Oleson

Reading

5pm

Hilde Oleson will be reading from her newly released book of poetry entitled Why?.

Why? A collection of poetry by Provincetown poet Hilde Oleson has been published. This new book of 78 poems explores the dynamics of why. The bold, provocative yet intimate collection of poems allows questions, wonder and a pause regarding every aspect of every day.

Hilde Oleson left the assisted living facility approximately four days after her husband passed away, knowing that there was something else calling. Not knowing what she began her trek. The loss of her husband and subsequent move to Puerto Rico with her son crafted a part of this nomadic journey. She arrived on the Cape, in Provincetown, Ma during the summer of 2005. Hilde and her son Arlen came so he could play his dulcimer on the street. Hilde was changing and going through a sense of discovery, a reinvention and finding her true self.

During that summer something stirred inside Hilde, she was fascinated by the gentle calling of the bay, ocean, beach forest, gulls, flowers, sunrises and sunsets. Deep inside she knew there was something more, but what? Her son moved on after a few years and Hilde began a journey of life, a new awakening and wonder, filled with vigor.

Trained as a social worker and teacher, she searched for a way to help and volunteer. After many no’s, she went to the Aids Support Group and they welcomed her with open arms. Her volunteer work was to drive and transport individuals suffering with Aids. Here she met a man, Ward Pierson who helped change her life. He encouraged her to seek out a writing class and began to write. She was amazed that someone with such a cruel, harsh debilitating disease could be so giving and reach out to help others.

The writing was not to be, prose was not meant for her. Yet deep inside was stillness, a yearning to express a vivid story, through poetry. The words came to her often at night and she arose to write the words and record the story. A natural ability came from deep within without angst, struggle or correction, the poetry came.

Entering a poem she was selected as a winner in the New Women’s Writer contest. That was the start of this second life, a chance to begin again, to be the person she had always wanted to be.

Hilde Oleson, at age 93 has published a solo book of poetry for all ages that challenges the mind and inspires the heart. Why? delves into her lifelong quest of that question. The time to look, reflect and always question the things that were and the things that were not. Inspired by nature, Provincetown, the forest, world current events or the simplicity of a broken shell, Hilde takes us through a journey of learning and begs us to ask the question, Why? A progressive timeless, deep purposeful journey of beginning life again, when most others are content to rest in quiet repose; Hilde begs us to ask, look and listen.

Contact information for press or bookings: Beth Chapman (508)-479-1033

July 16, 2016

Nora Burns with Billy Hough

'David's Friend', a Multi Media Performance

7:30 PM

David’s Friend is the story of a crazy friendship in a restless city during a reckless time. It’s a comic odyssey about love, loss, cruising, disco, drag queens, strippers, sex, AIDS and New York City, told with music, videos, costumes, characters, tall tales and torrid truths.

Written and performed by Nora Burns with direction by Adrienne Truscott and Lucy Sexton, and visual collaboration by Len Whitney, featuring Billy Hough, this fast-paced show is a multi-media celebration of friendship, fun, freaks, fag hags, youthful passion, changing times, emotions, memories, Manhattan and music that moves your feet to a disco beat.

"Nora is leading the charge out of our collective PTSD with love, humor and pelvis thrusts" - Ann Magnuson

“Brave and sad and thrilling and painful and raw and so magical” - Tony Tripoli - Fashion Police

“Very Funny, very heartbreaking - a beautiful valentine” - Tim Murphy - author of the novel ‘Christodora’

“Hilarious and incredibly moving - captures a moment in time so many of us closed the door on” - Jennifer Coolidge

“It’s my Hamilton!” - James LaForce

“A Beautiful tribute to NYC, nightlife, and an era that was truly magical…I can’t say enough good things about it” - Miss Guy

Thank you for the amazing show, it was powerful, funny, heartbreaking and everything in between - the best kind of New York Story” - some chick I don’t know

Nora Burnsis a writer, performer, fag hag, mother, friend, and New Yorker.

"I moved to NYC in 1979 with the sole purpose of living in NYC, which I consider a viable and commendable occupation. After a decade of drunken dancing and watching friends die of AIDS, I started doing whacky gay sketch comedy (for lack of a better term). Our group, the Nellie Olesons performed for the next 15 years in venues from NY to LA, often sharing the dressing room with a porter and mop bucket while the bartender ran our lights in between mixing margaritas. We also performed at various festivals like Just for Laughs and We’re Funny That Way.

After my fellow Nellies decamped to LA, I regrouped with Mike Albo and David Ilku to form Unitard. We regularly performed our sophisticated toilet humor at Joe’s Pub and other venues in NY, LA and Provincetown. As a solo performer, I’ve appeared at the Aspen Comedy Festival and I am starting to perform my solo show Honey, I’m Home in NY and LA. So far I have only painfully bombed once, unfortunately in front of almost everyone I know, but the other shows went great!

My slender celluloid bio includes excruciatingly minor appearances in films like Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, and Broken Hearts Club. Television appearances include The Sandra Bernhard Experience and Logo’s Wisecrack Comedy Show.

Billy Hough lives between Provincetown and New York City. He and Susan Goldberg comprise "Scream Along with Billy", a brilliant rock 'n roll stream of consciousness piano and bass duo, now celebrating its 11th year. He also is a member of the punk band "garageDogs", and plays piano and sings at the Gifford House on the weekends, and is a founding member of the Gold Dust Orphans. Billy has three songs on the film Rampart soundtrack, including his own song Venice, and covers of Downtown and Johnny Thunders' You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory. His music is featured in the recent film starring Richard Gere and directed by Oren Moverman entitled Time Out of Mind. He is working on a memoir.

Mark Adams

Doggerel, shanties, bromides and sob stories.

Reading, 7 PM

"I just want to make enough to buy this town and keep it rough."

Mark Adams: "I write I draw I scan the horizon. Painter, cartographer, human ecologist, elegiac dystopian. 25 years in the Provincetown Hook, 10 years of coastal surveys, 500 paintings, 5000 trail miles jogged, a string of failed relationships, couple hundred friends, a kayak, a bike, a guitar and a killer lamb curry. Just trying to get it right."

Linda Ohlson Graham & Hilde Oleson

Readings

4pm

Linda Ohlson Graham: Leading Humanity in a Path to Global Peace and calmer weather patterns ... is the powerful dynamic that inspires Linda Ohlson Graham's award-winning fine photography and ecstatic poetry. Linda feels an intimate connection to the cosmos: she has sailed thousands of miles with the night sky in view: 4 hours on ... 4 hours off throughout the Bahamas, the Caribbean, Central and South America, even off shore to Cape Cod one spring. This experience has rooted her more deeply in her desire to contribute to WORLD PEACE and calmer weather patterns.

Linda also lived in (1984-93) and co-directed (1984-96) the J.M.W. Turner Museum in Denver, CO. During this time the Museum was chosen 'One of the 99 Finest Museums in America' by Atlantic Monthly.

From March 2010 through March 2012 she was Colorado District 2 co-ordinator for the Campaign to Establish a US Dept. of Peace. Linda led a lobbying team in the Washington, DC office of Congressman Jared Polis, who signed HR808 a few days later. In October 2010 Linda was named CO Department of Peace Poet Laureate. Her photography and spiritual writing portray the richness of her life's experience.

Linda's recently self-published book: Earth Ocean Heavens, a mini guide book to aide Humanity in entering "The New Age" envisions 'allllllll of us' collectively entering a truly peaceful next thousand year cycle by enough of us intentionally quieting our thinking Mind(s) for just a few minutes daily. Her book shares, in poetic language - accented by award winning fine photography, Humanity's Path to Global Peace and calmer weather patterns.

Hilde Oleson: From a pretend husband at age 3 to falling in love at age 80, Hilde Oleson has lived on dreams. The daughter of a Methodist minister in small Vermont towns, she lived a quiet life. Later she worked in urban slums as a social worker and a teacher. She moved to Cape Cod and Provincetown after the death of her husband, and from that grief emerged a new life as a poet. Dreams Reward was her first published collection.

"When Hilde Oleson arrived on Cape Cod for the first time in 2004, she was recently widowed and adrift. She came with her son Bill, a musician who had a summer gig in Provincetown, and she has never left. The poems in, Love in the Nursing Home, published in 2011, focus on the four years she and Ken spent at a New Hampshire facility when she could no longer care for her husband herself. Published last year, Coffee at Hilde’s: Four Provincetown Poets, is a collection of selected poems by Oleson, Lorraine Kujawa, Pat Lombardi and Margaret Phillips, who meet every Wednesday morning “to conspire, inspire and write” at Oleson’s apartment." - Nicole Muller, The Register

June 10, 2016

Billy Hough & Susan Goldberg

Performance

7:30 pm

Billy Hough lives between Provincetown and New York City. He and Susan Goldberg comprise "Scream Along with Billy", a brilliant rock 'n roll stream of consciousness piano and bass duo, now celebrating its 11th year. He also is a member of the punk band "garageDogs", and plays piano and sings at the Gifford House on the weekends, and is a founding member of the Gold Dust Orphans. Billy has three songs on the film Rampart soundtrack, including his own song Venice, and covers of Downtown and Johnny Thunders' You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory. His music is featured in the recent film starring Richard Gere and directed by Oren Moverman entitled Time Out of Mind. He is working on a memoir.

Susan Goldberg lives in Provincetown. She is well known as "Solid Goldberg" for her awesome bass playing in bands such as "Scream Along with Billy", "Space Pussy", and "Cla de Bossa Nova", among others.

June 10, 2016

Provincetown International Film Festival

Festival-Sponsored events at AMP Gallery

Thursday, June 16, 4 pm

Illeana Douglas is a celebrated actress, comedienne, writer, producer, director, Illeana Douglas has starred in films like Goodfellas, Cape Fear, To Die For, Picture Perfect, Ghost World, as well as TV shows from Six Feet Under to Welcome to Sweden. She was an Internet pioneer with Easy To Assemble; millions have watched the web series she created and starred in from 2008 to 2013. As part of the Turner Classic Movies family she hosted Second Looks, and has done film introductions and memorable interviews with some of Hollywood's greatest. She's probably watching a movie right now.

Illeana will be at AMP Gallery to sign copies of her new book, I Blame Dennis Hopper: And Other Stories from a Life Lived In and Out of the Movies.

I Blame Dennis Hopper is the story of one woman's experience in show business, but it is also a genuine reminder of why we all love the movies: for the glitz, the glamor, the sweat, passion, humor, and escape they offer us all.

Friday, June 17, 4 PM

French Kiss, short film screening and discussion.

Sunday, June 19, 2 PM

Stephen Pace: Maine Master, short film screening.