Jungle Fantasy Carnival 2010 - Provincetown, August 15 – 20. Announcing Parade Grand Marshals and Event Highlights. The Provincetown Business Guild will hold its annual Carnival Week August 15-20, 2010. This year’s theme is Jungle Fantasy.The PBG is proud to announce that Margaret Cho and Bruce Vilanch will be the Grand Marshals of the Parade. Miss Margaret Cho and Mr. Bruce Vilanch will also be performing during Carnival Week at the Madeira Room/Vixen located at 336 Commercial Street. Margaret Cho returns with new material from her newest stand up tour, Cho Dependent. Margaret will be performing August 15 - 24 (no show August 19th) at 9 p.m. Tickets are $40. Bruce Vilanch takes you on a trip behind the scenes of every major show business event and into the distressed minds of the participants. Bruce will be performing August 21 & 22 at 7:30 p.m Tickets are $25.

Tickets for both performers can be purchased at the Madeira Room /Vixen box office or by calling 508-487-6424.

The PBG is excited to announce a new event this year: Jungle Jam Pier Dance and Jungle Fantasy Costume Contest, taking place on MacMillan Pier. This new event is produced by David Flower Productions and the PBG and will include a Costume Contest with a $300 cash prize!

Welcome to the Jungle opening night party at the Boatslip has brought back resident DJ Mary Alice to spin for the night and there will be a super fun Safari Challenge interactive course designed by David Flower Productions who created last year’s Haunted House at the Aquarium Mall.

The Awards Ceremony for the winning Parade entries has been moved to the closing night party, Monkey Business at the Crown & Anchor.

For information on these events and other PBG events visit our website at www.ptown.org



The Provincetown Business Guild, PBG, has been promoting gay and lesbian tourism to Provincetown since 1978. The PBG is comprised of member business, throughout the community, who recognize the significant impact of the gay and lesbian market to the Provincetown economy.

August 6-25, 2010. Reception Friday August 6, 7-10 PM. PETER ACHESON was born Washington, D.C., and in lives Ghent, NY. Acheson received his BFA from Yale University. Acheson's paintings are a striking and refreshingly strange contrast to the slick Chelsea commodities we can become accustomed to. He rejects signature image and style for the pursuit of a level of mind deeper than language, a place where image and energy cannot be distinguished, where the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of painting are unified. What elevates Acheson’s paintings into their singularity is his ability to concentrate on perception while the paint is applied both directly and matter-of-factly. His visual language is familiar and remote, individual and nameless. Acheson works in a tradition that was explored by the Abstract Expressionists and such later figures as Forrest Bess. He has shown at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York City and his group exhibitions include a three-person show with Andrew Masullo and Chris Martin, and "Sense Ability," curated by Cecily Kahn.

AMY ARBUS has published four books, including the award winning On the Street 1980-1990 and The Inconvenience of Being Born. The New Yorker called her most recent, The Fourth Wall, her masterpiece. Her photographs have appeared in over one hundred periodicals around the world, including New York Magazine, People, Dazed and Confused and The New York Times Magazine. She teaches portraiture at the International Center of Photography, Maine Media Workshops and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She has had twenty-one solo exhibitions worldwide, and her photographs are a part of the collection of The New York Public Library and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. For this exhibition she will present new color photographs, part of her ongoing series, ‘Rites and Rituals,’ taken in 2009-10. The work is available to preview by contacting the gallery.

JEN BRADLEY use varied methods and mediums in her studio: printmaking, screen printing, oil paint, encaustic and drawing – with results that range in scale from very large to quite small. Although she continues her well known Gorilla Drawing Project at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo, the work for this exhibition plays more broadly with the allegorical significance of her obsession with apes. In this series she pays homage to Gustave Courbet, a leader in the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. Bradley has created a new set of paintings that have a very beautiful painterly quality and Realist feel, while incorporating found pornography as a way of exploring the connection to Courbet and erotic images he painted; something she discovered and employed after she was well involved in making the work. The magazine paper is preserved and mounted on to board then many layers of image are applied using transparent glazes, oil paint, pigment, wax and screen print to create the final effect. As all these elements began to collide in the studio and became alive and in the work, she was forced to experiment with materials and technique, and how to manipulate the paint. As a result much of the work was executed at the point at which it could either fail or succeed completely; the dangerous and alive place of total commitment, risk and love.



Jen Bradley’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the U.S and is in private collections both nationally and internationally. She received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 1995. She has been awarded a C-Scape / National Seashore fellowship and a Margo Gelb Dune Shack Artist Residency. She is an establish member of the arts community in Provincetown and in Boston, Ma. where she currently works out of her studio.



ADAM DAVIES is a photographer whose work explores the edges of urban and rural landscapes. Using an 8 by 10 inch large-format camera to take color negatives that are then digitally scanned and printed, his working process bridges nineteenth century and contemporary methods. Adam has recently attended residences at Yaddo, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. He is currently a finalist for the 2010 Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards and has recently exhibited at Project Basho Photography Center, Westmoreland Museum of Art, and Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Provincetown. Adam has held teaching positions at Carnegie Mellon University, Robert Morris University, Harvard University, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Born in United Kingdom, Adam currently lives and works in Washington, DC.

A native of New York City, PAULA HORN KOTIS studied psychology at Hunter College, graduating in 1943. She learned photographic skills from her father in his Upper East Side portrait studio. Immersing herself in this work and eventually taking charge of the studio, Kotis began to produce and receive notice for her own pictures.



Ms. Kotis studied the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson and others and commenced to produce a powerful body of photographs taken in New York and throughout Europe. In 1948 she made a remarkable series of images documenting the journey of Jewish Holocaust survivors for displaced persons camps near Famagusta, Cyprus to the port of Haifa in northern Israel.

Ms. Kotis moved to Greenwich Village in the early 1950's where her friends were actors, musicians, artists and writers. She collaborated on projects with the novelist James Baldwin and the poet Frank O'Hara, and photographed jazz greats including Sarah Vaughan and Charlie Parker. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Ebony, Arts, Evergreen Review and U.S. Camera.

Paula Horn Kotis lives in New York City and Wellfleet, Massachusetts.





The Schoolhouse Gallery is located at 494 Commercial Street in the heart of Provincetown¹s East End Gallery District.

The 6th Annual Provincetown Jazz Festival™ will be held on August 13 - 14, 2010 at the Provincetown High School in Provincetown, Massachusetts. For 2010, the Festival will celebrate the survival and revival of New Orleans Jazz as we commemorate the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. A portion of the proceeds from the Jazz Festival will be donated to the New Orleans Musicians Clinic which provides a health clinic for the uninsured jazz musicians and artists in New Orleans, and was founded and is directed by Bethany and Johann Bultman of Provincetown and New Orleans.

On Friday, August 13, 8:00pm, three jazz greats will be featured:
• GREG ABATE - Internationally Acclaimed Jazz Saxophonist.
• DANE VANNATTER - Award Winning Jazz Vocalist.
• JANICE FRIEDMAN - New York Pianist & Vocalist.
• With Chris Rathbun on Bass & Bart Weisman on Drums.

On Saturday, August 14, 8:00pm, there will be a tribute to New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, featuring PAUL SANCHEZ on Vocals & Guitar with STEVE AHERN on Trumpet. Paul Sanchez is the winner of Songwriter of the Year from OffBeat Magazine. He was born in New Orleans and has lived and worked there most of his life. Paul and his family survived Hurricane Katrina and he lost much of his written music in the flood. His new CD Farewell To Storyville has just been released on Threadhead Records. Paul's trip is sponsored by Threadhead Records, a fan-funded and volunteer run record company dedicated to helping New Orleans musicians rebuild their lives.

New to the festival and opening for the concert will be the BERKLEE RISING STARS featuring CLAY LYONS on Sax and MATT JOSEPH on Trumpet. Clay & Matt are two very talented students from the Berklee College of Music in Boston who competed and were selected to perform at the Festival. They will be accompanied by Berklee faculty musicians:
• SUZANNE DAVIS on Piano.
• BRUCE GERTZ on Bass.
• ROBERT KAUFMAN on Drums.

Tickets will be $25.00 per concert.
Contact:
• Bart Weisman, Executive Producer & Performer
• Phone: 508-274-2513
• Email: bartweisman@bartweisman.com

The Provincetown Jazz Festival is a nonprofit corporation.


More Information:www.ProvincetownJazzFestival.org

One of the most popular Gay Travel desinations in the western hemisphere is Provincetown MA also know as Ptown. Here it is where we celebrate total Equality and Gay Marriage is law. Provincetown MA is located at the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. For those who follow the gay travel and event circuit, Provincetown is currently a destination of choice during the week surrounding July 4th till late October. Provincetown offers two full series of events that compete during Circuit Week for best boat cruise, most elaborate dance event, and most famous DJ's. Famous Festivals during the year include the Christmas-themed Holly Folly, Bear Week, Mates Leather Weekend, Womens Week, Family Week, Single Mens Weekend, Provincetown Film Festival and the Provincetown Jazz Festival that make Provincetown a perfect Gay Travel destination. Provincetown also serves as a heaven for Art. Provincetown is the first arts colony in America established by Charles Hawthorne in 1899, making Provincetown the first and oldest running art colony in the US. Provincetown is surrounded by the Cape Cod National Seashore. To the north lie the "Province Lands," the area of dunes and small ponds extending from Mount Ararat in the east to Race Point in the west, along the Massachusetts Bay shore. Visitting the Cape Cod National Seashore is spectacular and an absolute unique breath taking experience and an absolut must for any Gay Travler. See you in Provincetown 2009.

Going to Provincetown and looking for the best Provincetown Hotels deal ? We can help you in choosing some of the best Provincetown Hotels. One of the best price and comfort deals in Provincetown is the Crown & Anchor Inn Hotel. The Crown & Anchor Inn offers the best in accommodations right where the action is! Whether you choose a standard room or upgrade to a fabulous oceanfront suite, you're sure to enjoy all that The Crown & Anchor has to offer. Dine in The Central House Restaurant, take in a first class show in The Crown Cabaret, lounge by the heated pool as you enjoy a cocktail or dance the night away in the Paramount Nightclub. With the perfect central location, The Crown & Anchor Inn affords you easy access to all of Provincetown. The Crown & Anchor Inn is located at 247 Commercial Street, Provincetown MA call for your reservation 508-487-1430.

The Provincetown's east end gallery district where you can find some of the best Art Galleries in Provincetown. Provincetown Art Galleries are world reknown and feature some of the greatest Artists. Sarah Jessica Fine Arts is one of the most unique Art Gallery on Cape Cod. They carry original works by emerging and museum artists. Creating works in Oil, Watercolor, Encaustic, Multimedia, Etching, Engraving, Wood Block, Glass, Ceramic and Sculpture. The Gallery at Whalers' Wharf Cinema represent the work of several diverse and talented artists. Current exhibiting artists include Scott Bowden, Randa Krise, Joni Cozza Mansfield, Peter McDonough, Lisa-Marie Nowakowski, Jim Rann, Brenda Silva, and Rik Kapler aka~Wave. The Provincetown Art Association and Museum has anchored the artistic and cultural life of the region for nearly a century. During this time, PAAM has amassed a significant collection of close to three thousand works of American art. With eighteen hundred members, PAAM has grown into a cultural center that enriches all of Cape Cod and beyond. Fifty thousand visitors come each year to more than one hundred annual programs—exhibitions, auctions, lectures, concerts, garden tours, panels and workshops.

Stellwagen Bank, ranked as one of the top ten whale watching sites in the world by the World Wildlife Fund, is an important feeding ground for endangered marine mammals such as the North Atlantic right whale, humpback whale and the finback whale. The sanctuary is just 6 miles off Provincetown and whales can be spotted as close as a few hundred feet off-shore on occassion. Go down to the Fishermans Wharf in Ptown and take on one of the whale watching trips and you'll have an awe-inspiring experience as you get up close and personal to these gentle giants of the sea. Our local Whale Watching Tours are some of the best in the country.