The Pamet Float is Back!!

You must sign up in advance in order to get a float!

Come One – Come All To the Pamet River Float!
Meet at the Main Campus, 10 Meetinghouse Road, to be shuttled to the starting point.
Bring your friends and experience the outer cape landscape from a unique point of view.  You will float in an inner tube with the outgoing tide, down the Pamet River from the Pamet Harbor to Castle Hill. The Float is about 1 mile (about a half hour float), downstream following the river as it wanders back and forth across the marsh. Afterwards, join us on the back deck for lunch!

This year, sign up to borrow a float, or for an additional $25, you can take your float home and enjoy it the rest of the summer!

Be prepared to be wet, wear sunscreen, and water shoes are a must!   Life vests are recommended for less experienced swimmer and required for children.  

Things to bring on your Pamet River Float:

·       Swimsuit, OR Swim top and shorts

·       WATER SHOES ARE REQUIRED (Old tennis shoes, water shoes, etc.)

·       Hat and /or Visor

·       LIFE VESTS are recommended for NON-SWIMMERS, INEXPERIENCED SWIMMERS, and Mandatory for Children. 

·       Sunblock – Essential item!

·       Sunglasses (Eyeglass holders, use an attachment string).

·       Beach Towels

·       DO NOT TUBE WITH YOUR VALUABLES (jewelry, phones, watches, credit cards, etc.)

Tuesday, July 23
6:00pm
Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at the door

2023 NEA Heritage Fellow recipient Elizabeth James-Perry (enrolled Aquinnah Wampanoag) engages with Northeastern Woodlands Native cultural expressions, including basketry, finger weaving and quillwork and primarily sculptural and elegant woven forms of purple wampum shell-carving of the Atlantic Quahog with its connection to Native identity and maritime traditions. The artist both wild-harvests and grows species for spinning and  dyes. James-Perry also designs public and private Restorative Native Gardens and Shellscapes. Her newest work was a Blue Shark Garden in Franklin Park 2023, and a Sea Turtle Mound Corn garden created with the Native students at Amherst College 2022, following her MFA installation Raven Reshapes Boston with artist Ekua Holmes.  

James-Perry’s artwork has been commissioned at institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, and Allard Pierson Museum.  Employed with her tribe, she was the Federal Tribal Co-Lead on the Northeast Regional Ocean Planning Body. The artist is concerned with sustainability in Native lifeways, and holds a degree in Marine Science and a certificate in Digital Tribal Stewardship for Washington State University. Recent art exhibits include Double Arrows at Tufts University Art Gallery and Seeping In at the Mead Museum, and in Boundless at the same museum.

Take a workshop with Elizabeth, this year's Woody English Distinguished Artist and Writers Chair!

The Mosquito
Friday, July 26
4 pm - 6 pm
Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at the door

The Mosquito’s mission is to celebrate and honor the diversity and commonality of our human experiences through the art and craft of storytelling.

For the past 9 years, The Mosquito has presented hundreds of stories to thousands of audience members at sold-out venues on Outer Cape Cod and virtually, through slams, where audience members are invite to directly participate by telling short, personal stories based on a theme. Our curated events feature audience favorites and dynamic special guest storytellers.

Many storytellers, speakers, corporate leaders and writers have benefited by engaging in the process of learning how to artfully craft the stories they want to tell through our workshops and coaching.

By engaging in the act of personal storytelling through accessible year-round programming, we aim to fill a gap in live, unmediated experiences that offer meaning and cultivate community.

Join Vanessa’s workshop to learn how to tell your own story, and even participate in the event!

Thursday, August 1
6pm - 9pm
At the Pamet Yacht Club

Mark Bittman is the author of 20 acclaimed books, including the How to Cook Everything series, the award-winning Food Matters, and The New York Times number-one bestseller, VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00.For more than two decades his popular and compelling stories appeared in the Times, where he was ultimately the lead food writer for the Sunday Magazine and became the country’s first food-focused Op-Ed columnist for a major news publication. Bittman has starred in four television series, including Showtime’s Emmy-winning Years of Living Dangerously. He has written for nearly every major newspaper in the United States and many magazines, and has spoken at dozens of universities and conferences; his 2007 TED talk has more than a million views. He was a distinguished fellow at the University of California (Berkeley) and a fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists; he is a member of the faculty of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Throughout his career Bittman has strived for the same goal: to make the food, in all its aspects, understandable.

David Grayson - When not working on Wall Street, David has been actively barbecuing meats for over 15 years. The typical barbecue master specializes in brisket, ribs, chicken and pork butt. A 14lb. brisket may be smoked for over 12 hours before it is ready to eat. David cooks in a Backwoods "Fat boy" smoker that he had custom built in Shreveport, Louisiana and shipped to Truro. He has attended barbecue schools throughout the United States. He has studied with Ed Roith of the Kansas City Barbecue Society, Paul Kirk who has won over 500 competitions and Johnny Trigg, the "Godfather of Barbecue". David is also a certified barbecue judge and a member of the Kansas City Barbecue Society and the New England Barbecue Society. His meat is shipped from McGonigles Market in Kansas City, Missouri.

Saturday, August 10
6pm - 9pm
Castle Hill’s Main Campus, 10 Meetinghouse Road

Mark your calendars! Join us for our biggest fundraiser of the year! Come purchase great art for a great cause! Stay tuned for more news and artwork previews.

Tickets are $25 each, or 2 for $40, and include one drink ticket to be redeemed at the bar for beer, wine, or soda of choice.

Enjoy local oysters and other hor d’oeuvres, beverages and the music of the NY Opera Society at the home of Terry Kahn & Lesley Silvester.

The New York Opera Society (NYOS) develops new audiences for opera by commissioning, creating, and funding exemplary productions. To that end, NYOS serves as a conduit to the public by disseminating important messages, musical inspiration, and seminal artistic performances via partnerships with major performance venues, corporations, nonprofits and governments to present the work of our artists. In its most recent season, NYOS commissioned and co-presented the world premiere of Upon this Handful of Earth with Sacred Music in a Sacred Space in NYC and a highly lauded excerpted world premiered staged reading of Letters from Ruth at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; both works by Gisle Kverndokk and Aksel-Otto Bull. NYOS has also commissioned the first operatic version of Tres Sombreros de Copa by Ricardo Llorca which premiered in Brazil and will have its Spanish premiere at Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid in November 2019. Previously, NYOS has produced the Lincoln Center and United States premiere of its contemporary Spanish opera, Las Horas Vacias, by Guggenheim fellow and Juilliard faculty member Ricardo Llorca; three tours and world premieres of NYOS’ commissions from Gisle Kverndokk’s and Wiik’s Max & Moritz: A Cartoon Opera in Seven Pranks and Supersize Girl. Other notable NYOS evenings have taken place at the National Gallery of Art, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Embassy of Italy, New York’s World Financial Center, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, and the United Nations. Audiences have included the Royal Couple of Norway, the Undersecretary of Defense in Washington, D.C., Queen Sofia of Spain (at a gala in her honor), Barbara Walters, Stanley Tucci/Martin Scorsese (at a gala in their honor), and nearly every European and South American Consulate. NYOS has been favorably featured in The Washington Post, on PBS, in a feature article in The Wall Street Journal, and Opera News. NYOS is led by Executive Director Jennifer Cho and a dedicated Board of Directors chaired by philanthropist, Lesley Silvester.

Please note: this is the correct date, not what is listed in the printed catalog!

Provincetown Dance Festival on Sam’s Stage at Edgewood Farm

Two Days of Dance!
August 23rd & 24th
Performances begin at 7pm
(Rain Dates: August 30 & 31)

Tickets: $40 in advance, $30 for students
This Year’s Performers will include: Jean Appolon Expressions: a contemporary dance company deeply rooted in Haitian-folkloric culture, audience favorite tap artists Khalid Hill and Orlando Hernandez with live music, the dynamic contemporary artists of Rovaco from New York City, Boston Ballet II, and a return engagement of the much beloved classical Indian dance artist, Rachna Agrawal.

Check in later this year for announcements of additional contemporary and ballet artists from around the nation.

The Mindful Body
with Ellen Langer

Tuesday, August 27, 6:00pm

Widely known as “the mother of mindfulness,” Ellen J. Langer is regarded as one of America’s most influential psychologists. Her new book, THE MINDFUL BODY: Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health (Ballantine, on sale 9/5), is the culmination of decades of revolutionary research that makes a convincing case to see mind and body as a single unit. This gives us enormous control over our health and well-being.

When it comes to our health, too many of us think that a medical diagnosis describes a static or worsening condition. We live our lives as though our ailments—our stiff knees or frayed nerves or failing eyesight—can only change in one direction: for the worse. Langer’s life’s work proves the fault in that logic. She has spent more than forty years testing the limiting effects of our negative assumptions as well as the healing power of being mindful—actively noticing the world around us and not distracted by memories or projections into the future. In THE MINDFUL BODY she unpacks her findings and boldly demonstrates how our thoughts and perspectives have the potential to shape our well-being. Taking us into Langer’s trailblazing Harvard lab, THE MINDFUL BODY recounts many of her colorful experiments to illustrate the influence of mindfulness on how our bodies function, how we heal, and even how we age.

Ellen J. Langer was the first woman to be tenured in psychology at Harvard, where she is still professor of psychology. The recipient of three Distinguished Scientists awards, the Arthur W. Staats Award for Unifying Psychology, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Liberty Science Genius Award, Dr. Langer is the author of twelve other books, including the international bestseller Mindfulness, as well as The Power of Mindful Learning, Counterclockwise and On Becoming an Artist. Her trailblazing experiments in social psychology have earned her inclusion in The New York Times Magazine’s “Year in Ideas” issue. She is known worldwide as the “mother of mindfulness” and the “mother of positive psychology”. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.