Camp Provincetown
3rd Annual Outsider Festival
Provincetown 300 is a town-embedded cultural initiative marking Provincetown's tricentennial in 2027. Rather than a single event or anniversary celebration, it is the culmination of a deliberate three-year process of experimentation, participation, and community building. Heresy (2025) established the model. Missing Time (2026) expands and tests that model across multiple venues, partnerships, and audiences. Provincetown 300 carries that work forward into a season-long civic celebration that honors the people, stories, creative traditions, and acts of reinvention that have shaped Provincetown for three centuries.
At its core, Provincetown 300 is designed as cultural infrastructure. The project invests in the systems that make meaningful cultural work possible: artist support, documentation, archives, storytelling, public participation, partnerships, and the organizational capacity required for long-term stewardship. The goal is not simply to produce events, but to strengthen the networks, relationships, and platforms that allow Provincetown's cultural identity to be preserved, shared, and renewed. By embedding activity throughout the town and across multiple sectors, Provincetown 300 creates opportunities for residents, businesses, artists, visitors, and institutions to participate in a shared civic narrative.
Foundational partners and early investors are invited into stewardship of this vision. Their role is collaborative and advisory, helping shape a durable framework while respecting the independence of the project's artistic and operational leadership. The tricentennial season also serves as a gateway to two lasting legacy initiatives: Made in Provincetown, an ongoing platform celebrating the town's creative output and cultural economy, and the Provincetown Time Capsule, a public archive designed to carry the voices, stories, and aspirations of the present into the future. Together, these efforts ensure that Provincetown 300 is not simply a commemoration of the past, but an investment in the next century of Provincetown's cultural life.
CAMP PROVINCETOWN
The Missing Time Portals
The Cordial Eye Gallery and Artist Space
Hyannis, Massachusetts
The Salty Market
Truro, Massachusetts
Record your message on your phone and upload it to the growing Missing Time Archive at Motherlode.TV/Portals. Share your experience using #MissingTime
FEATURES
PROVINCETOWN 300: THE MUSIC
Provincetown’s musical history cannot be told through record sales, chart positions, or industry awards. Its story lives in harborside bars, upstairs rooms, crowded benefits, beach gatherings, coffeehouses, theaters, sidewalks, and…
How Did a Painter From Rural Georgia Help Shape Modern Provincetown?
KENNETH STUBBS (1907 – 1967) How does a boy from a tiny town in rural Georgia become one of the artists who helps shape the future of Provincetown? Kenneth Stubbs…
Jig Cook: Broadway Beckoned. He Chose Delphi.
Some people start a theatre company to put on plays. Jig Cook wanted to change the way people lived. In Provincetown in 1915, he, Susan Glaspell and a circle of…
PROVINCETOWN 300: FILM & TV
The history of film and television in Provincetown is the story of a town that became a refuge for creative risk-takers. Like the Provincetown Players transformed American theater and Charles…
SARAH KAIN — FRAGMENTS INTO FORM
Camp Provincetown Interview Provincetown doesn’t announce itself. It reveals itself—slowly, then all at once. For Sarah Kain, it happened in the 1970s, driving over the dunes with her mother, descending…
CAMP PROVINCETOWN: 10 QUESTIONS
Joey Mars 1. For those meeting you for the first time, who is Joey Mars? Creation and destruction right off the bat, Chucky. Really! Jeez, aren’t you supposed to toss…
PROVINCETOWN 300: THE PHOTOGRAPHERS
For Provincetown 300, photography deserves its own place alongside literature, theater, music, painting, and film because the town has long attracted artists interested in documenting not only what Provincetown looks…
THE GARDEN OF OTHER PEOPLE’S STORIES
Tony Costa committed the crimes. Provincetown, the press and three celebrated writers transformed them into mythology. In the winter of 1969, Provincetown’s celebrated refuge for artists, drifters, writers and young…
You Cannot Control Us!
Provincetown, Truro, and the birth of an independent state of mind. Long before Provincetown became a refuge for artists, radicals, misfits and other assorted troublemakers, it was already giving the…