In the Season of Twenty Summers with Alice Gong

This week, we welcome 20 Summers program director Alice Gong to discuss the Provincetown arts organization and its spring festival. She shares her path to the Outer Cape and explains that 20 Summers was founded about 15 years ago to honor and activate the historic Hawthorne Barn, built in 1906 by Charles Hawthorne as an art school and later used by generations of artists. Privately owned today, the barn is programmed by 20 Summers for five weeks a year with mostly free or suggested-donation conversations, concerts, workshops, installations, and a residency. The episode previews May–June 2026 highlights including Ecosystems and Imagination with Mark Adams, concerts, a Hawthorne-style painting class with John Clayton, residents’ events and installations, and new partnerships, while also describing year-round programming at the Stanley space, including the Media Diet installation through Memorial Day.