Third Annual Outsiders Festival
April 28 – May 10, 2027 · Provincetown, Massachusetts
Changemakers. Muckrakers. Clamrakers. Rulebreakers. Risktakers. Troublemakers. Butchers and Bakers and Candlestickmakers. Welcome to the original makerspace.
Presented by Camp Provincetown.
Changemakers. Muckrakers. Caretakers. Matchmakers. Heartbreakers. Ballbreakers. Risktakers. Rulebreakers. Youthquakers. Troublemakers. Bellyachers. Moneymakers. Mythmakers. Undertakers. Sailmakers. Movers and Shakers. Givers and Takers. Authentics and Fakers. Butchers and Bakers and Candlestickmakers. For 300 years, Provincetown has been making things — art, music, theater, literature, fortunes, families, scandals, rumors, revolutions, and the occasional spectacular mess. Call it the original makerspace: a narrow spit of sand at the end of the road where fishermen, artists, immigrants, outcasts, free thinkers, and assorted troublemakers have been making something out of practically nothing. Sometimes beautiful. Sometimes outrageous. Rarely ordinary.
Made in Provincetown celebrates three centuries of invention, reinvention, and creative disobedience. Not another exercise in polishing the past until everybody looks respectable, but a chance to rummage through the whole glorious, contradictory mess. The handmade tales and tall tales. The saints and scoundrels. The people who built the town, the people who escaped to it, the people who tried to change it, and the people who refused to be changed. From fishing boats to art studios, back rooms to center stage, Provincetown has been a place to make a living, make a name, make a scene, or make a complete fool of yourself. Sometimes all four before lunch. And somewhere along the way, this unlikely little town became a place where people could not only make things, but remake themselves.
Three hundred years is a fine excuse for a party, but we’re not throwing a birthday bash for a museum piece. April 28 through May 10, 2027, Camp Provincetown’s third annual Outsiders Festival takes the celebration into the streets, galleries, theaters, gathering places, and unexpected corners of town, followed by a tricentennial gathering at the Pilgrim Monument on June 14. Artists, performers, storytellers, neighbors, newcomers, and anyone with something to make, share, question, or stir up are invited. This isn’t about putting a period at the end of 300 years. It’s about what happens next. Because Provincetown isn’t a finished product. It’s a work in progress. And after three centuries, we’re just getting warmed up.
The 2027 Festival Guide
Events, artists, venues and ways to participate will appear here as they are confirmed. The dates are set. The rest is still being made.
The third annual Outsiders Festival begins. Opening events and participating locations will be announced.
Exhibitions, performance, film, music, conversation, archives and public participation throughout town.
The festival wraps up its spring gathering, with the tricentennial celebration still to come on June 14.
Explore the Cultural Record
Artists, workers, filmmakers, musicians, writers, cooks, agitators, outsiders and neighbors. Enter the story through any doorway.
Studios, schools, galleries, collectives and generations of artists who made Provincetown an international art colony.
The voices, stages, clubs, musicians and unexpected sounds carried through Provincetown across three centuries.
From radical experiments and new American plays to drag, cabaret and performance created beyond convention.
Provincetown on screen and behind the camera: filmmakers, actors, festivals, locations and moving-image history.
The photographers and images that documented, interpreted and reinvented Provincetown.
Writers, poets, publishers, libraries and literary lives shaped at the farthest edge of Cape Cod.
Personal style, costume, commerce and self-invention in a town where identity has always been an art form.
Fishing traditions, restaurants, gathering places and the food cultures that have sustained the town.
Refuge, resistance, organizing, argument and the public struggles that helped Provincetown become itself.
Artists, residents, workers and visitors tell Provincetown's story in their own voices.
Participatory Projects
Provincetown 300 will include a series of public workshops and collaborative sessions that turn local knowledge, lived experience and creative participation into lasting objects. Workshop dates, locations and participation details will be announced as they are confirmed.
A collaborative public charrette will ask what Provincetown should preserve, contribute and communicate to the future. Participants will help shape the contents, form and meaning of the Provincetown 300 Time Capsule.
A collaborative workshop developing a Provincetown-made survival guide inspired by Cookie Mueller’s wit, resourcefulness, and art of surviving in style.
Join Camp Provincetown at the Pilgrim Monument on June 14, 2027, to mark the tricentennial and imagine what Provincetown will make next. Program details will be announced.
Artists, performers, historians, venues, businesses, residents and community organizations: bring a story, a show, a workshop, an object, an idea, or a little good trouble. We’re making this together.