SKETCHBOOK WORKSHOP WITH WALKER METTLING
A 2 hour workshop for all ages & levels
$25

REGISTER HERE

About the workshop:
For the past 10 years the Providence Comics Consortium has created the weirdest generative sketchbook games to get our kid and adult artist's brains warmed up, flexible and loose. We will sprint through an assortment of improvisational, mind-bending sketchbook games that will leave you with idea-generating strategies for future projects and a sketchbook full of images for you to mine later. Great for adult and kid artists, teachers looking for ideas, people on dates, grandmas, and anybody else.... SO FUN!!

About the instructor:
Walker Mettling is a cartoonist, printmaker, and since 2010 he’s directed the Providence Comics Consortium, an experimental education-based intergenerational comics micro-publisher which teaches comics classes at public libraries and publishes a huge array of comics, zines and books In 2019, Walker had a solo show next door at FARM projects. You can see some of his work there.

Meet the artists behind our new art exhibit In FLUX and check out this very cool show!
In FLUX will be on view at the Hall until June 17th.

Learn more about the artists, mother and daughter duo Sonya and Natalya Woodman HERE

Excited about the fall season and its centerpiece, Halloween? Us too! Join us for our first ever Pumpkin Palooza, outside in the back yard at the Hall. Get crafty and carve your best pumpkin (or two!)…bring it to the Hall by 4pm Fri. the 30th…then come back on Saturday in your best costume and enjoy the display! We’ll alight all the pumpkins at dusk for an extra spooky and fun visual!

Along with the pumpkin display, there will be a wonderful art installation of painted Halloween-themed 35mm slides, “Spooky Projections”, created by 13 & 14 year old students of PAAM’s Youth Art Reach 101 class taught by Wellfleet artist Megan Hinton.

Social distancing and COVID safety guidelines will be present…along with treats, prizes and a few surprises!

This 90-minute documentary film follows the story of the only Mayflower passenger who had been to North America previously. A decade earlier, Stephen Hopkins had been aboard a Jamestown-bound ship that wrecked on Bermuda, inspiring Shakespeare's final play, The Tempest.

REGISTER HERE TO ATTEND - This program is free, but capacity is limited!

This 90-minute documentary film follows the story of the only Mayflower passenger who had been to Nrth America previously. A decade earlier, Stephen Hopkins had been aboard a Jamestown-bound ship that wrecked on Bermuda, inspiring Shakespeare's final play, The Tempest.

Shot on location, the intrepid Hit and Run History crew retraces Hopkins’ life crisscrossing the Atlantic. Two-time Emmy-nominated producer and host Andrew Giles Buckley, a Hopkins descendant, grew up hearing stories that New Plymouth’s iconoclast tavern keeper may have the model of The Tempest’s drunken and mutinous Stephano. In their Gumshoe Historian style, Buckley and crew of Hit and Run History seek out the reality of a man who was everywhere at the founding of America.

Our favorite tradition at the Hall returns this summer! This is a free program. Due to limited capacity and safety requirements, please preregister if you’d like to attend.

REGISTER HERE for T-REX, TUES. 9/1

About the film:
Flint, a city made famous by Michael Moore's documentary Roger & Me, and more recently by the lead poisoning water crisis, has been hard-hit for years as factories closed, jobs left, and crime, unemployment, and poverty became endemic. It's the most unlikely and challenging of backgrounds for an Olympic athlete to make it through. But Claressa “T-Rex” Shields is as tough as they come.

T-Rex: Her Fight for Gold is the coming-of-age story of boxing phenom Claressa Shields, who was just 17 years old when she won the Olympic gold medal for women’s boxing in 2012. Now with a record of 69-1, she is ranked number one in the world heading into her second Olympic competition, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Games.

Shields was 13 years old when it was announced that women would for the very first time compete in boxing at the 2012 London Olympics. Although she’d only been boxing for two years, her coach, Jason Crutchfield, predicted she'd be there — and that she'd win gold. It seemed an audacious dream for Shields, whose prior aspirations included having ten kids by the time she was 26, and who grew up bouncing between homes while her father was in prison and her mother struggled with addiction. To accomplish her dream, she would need a stable life. Coach Jason and his family took her in, housed her, and kept her focused.

The film traces her rise as an Olympic athlete from the streets of Flint to the podium in London, and the subsequent challenges and disappointments as Claressa watches fellow athletes receive recognition and endorsements while none come forward to support her, raising questions about race, class, and gender bias. Agents suggest she should soften her image, but Claressa is her own person, ready to push the boundaries while fighting for another gold and a better life.

About the filmmaker: Sue Jaye Johnson is an award-winning journalist and producer who spearheaded an unprecedented collaboration between The New York Times, NPR and WNYC to tell the story of the first women to box in the Olympic games. Her series began with a six-page photo spread in the New York Times Magazine. She co-produced several radio stories for the series including Teen Contender, a feature radio documentary about Claressa Shields. Johnson and her co-producer Joe Richman of Radio Diaries gave Shields a microphone and recorder to document her journey to the Olympic Trials. Claressa’s diary aired on NPR’s All Things Considered in February 2012 to an audience of 12 million listeners and won the Peabody Award. Johnson was an early pioneer in interactive documentaries and has collaborated with public television and radio producers to create innovative web documentaries since 1997. She and her team won numerous awards for their collaborations including a Peabody Award and the Columbia-DuPont Award. She has taught visual storytelling at Harvard University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

AWARDS

• Hot Docs Film Festival

  Student Choice Award

• San Francisco International Film Festival

  Audience Award - Best Documentary Feature

• Traverse City Film Festival

  Roger Ebert Prize for Best Film by First Time Filmmaker

• Sidewalk Film Festival

  Best Documentary Feature

• SXSW Film Festival

  World Premiere

Missing live music? We have a couple of great concerts lined up in our backyard, where there’s plenty of room for social distancing and safe enjoyment!

*Pre-registration, adherence to safety guidelines and masks are required.

*Bring a lawn chair or blanket for seating and bug spray (just in case!).

*We will have a cash bar serving a variety of beverages (alcohol & non-alcohol) and packaged snacks. Attendees are invited to bring their own refillable water bottles.

Please note that although we love them too, dogs/pets are not currently permitted at our outdoor events. Thank you for understanding!

DUE TO RAIN, THIS HAS BEEN MOVED TO FRIDAY 8/14.
TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE!

BUY TICKETS HERE FOR GREGG SULLIVAN FRIDAY 8/14