Provincetown 2017 Calendar of Events
Something special happens in Provincetown nearly every weekend of the year, all year long. Search for events using the calendar below. Remember, event specifics can change, so recheck the event's website or call ahead to confirm all the details. Courtesy of the Provincetown Chamber of Commerce
JANUARY 2017
FREE parking in our municipal parking lots… COME VISIT!
1 New Year’s Day
2 Celebrating 2017 with FIREWORKS, 5:30pm – Ptown.org
7 Independent Documentary Series: JANIS: LITTLE GIRL BLUE, 5pm, $10 –WellfleetPreservationHall.org
14 Food On Film series: AGE OF INNOCENCE, 6pm, $15 –WellfleetPreservationHall.org
16-18 Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend
FEBRUARY 2017
FREE parking in our municipal parking lots… COME VISIT!
5 Independent Documentary series: HEART OF A DOG, 5pm, $10 –WellfleetPreservationHall.org
11 Food On Film series: RAISE THE RED LANTERN, 6pm, $15 –WellfleetPreservationHall.org
13-15 Valentine’s Day Weekend ~ Bring your Love to Provincetown!
13-15 President’s Day Weekend
MARCH 2017
FREE parking in our municipal parking lots… COME VISIT!
10 Food On Film series: EAST OF EDEN, 6pm, $15 – WellfleetPreservationHall.org
12 Year Rounders Festival – Town Hall
17-20 St. Patrick’s Day Weekend
25-27 Easter Weekend Bring your Easter basket to Provincetown!
31 Food On Film series: I AM LOVE, 6pm, $15 – WellfleetPreservationHall.org
APRIL 2017
FREE parking in our municipal parking lots… COME VISIT!
Mid April – Whale Watching season begins – WhaleWatch.com,PtownWhalewatch.com
1 Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum Reopens – Pilgrim-Monument.org
1 All Fool’s Day
14 Food On Film series: METROPOLITAN, 6pm, $15 –WellfleetPreservationHall.org
15-18 Patriot’s Day Weekend
22-May 1 Earth Day, Appearances Green Art Festival –ProvincetownConservationTrust.org
23 First Day of Passover
MAY 2017
Mid May Ferry Service Resumes
Visitors Center at Province Lands reopens – NPS.gov/caco
Highland Lighthouse reopens – CapeCodLight.org
Twenty Summers at Hawthorne Barn event series – 20Summers.org
Ragnar Relay Race – RagnarRelay.com
Run to the Top of the Pilgrim Monument – RunToTheTop.org
Outer Cape Chorale Concerts – OuterCapeChorale.org
Provincetown 10K – Provincetown10K.com
7 Concert with Gregg Sullivan (formerly of Blood, Sweat and Tears), 7pm, $15 –WellfleetPreservationHall.org
8 Mother’s Day
14 Amy Winehouse retrospective: Love Is Blind, 7:30pm –WellfleetPreservationHall.org
20-22 Monumental Yard Sale – Ptown.org
20-22 Single Women’s Weekend – ProvincetownForWomen.com
26 – 30 Memorial Day Weekend Girl Party – www.ProvincetownForWomen.com
26-29 Memorial Day Weekend
JUNE 2017
2-5 Women of Color & Friends Weekend – ProvincetownForWomen.com
2 A Night at the Chef’s Table – ASGCC.org
2-5 CABARET FEST – CaberetFest2016.com
3-6 Encaustic Conference – www.castlehill.org
4-5 International Coastal Rowing Challenge – ProvincetownYachtClub.org
5 Provincetown 10K – Provincetown10K.com
6 Carnival of the Dogs ProvincetownDogPark.org
6-8 WorldFest – www.facebook.com/worldfestptown
7 Sisters in the Name of Love – ASGCC.org
3-5 The 9th International Encaustic Conference – CastleHill.org
15-19 Provincetown International Film Festival – PtownFilmFest.org, 508-487-FILM
17 Ramadan
18 Outriders 30th Annual Boston to Ptown Bike Ride – www.outriders.org
21 Father’s Day
23-26 Provincetown Portuguese Festival & Blessing of the Fleet –ProvincetownPortugueseFestival.com
Castle Hill Summer Workshops begin – www.castlehill.org
Fine Arts Work Center Summer Workshops begin – www.fawc.org
JULY 2017
Race Point Lighthouse Tours On the first and third Saturdays June – Oct. 2015 racepointlighthouse.org
Every Wednesday in July & August - Music, Sunset, Bonfire - Herring Cove Beach
1-4 Independence Day Weekend ~ July 4th Parade starts at 11am, begins East End, Harbor Hotel and proceeds up Commercial to Franklin Street. Fireworks start at dusk over Provincetown Harbor (view from any bayside beach)
1-7 Independence 2016 – OnlyAtTheCrown.com/independence
9-17 Bear Week in Provincetown – www.ptownbears.org
11 Provincetown Art Association 12x12 Silent Auction Closing Party – www.paam.org
TBA Fine Arts Work Center Summer Awards Celebration – www.fawc.org
17 PAAM Annual Secret Garden Tour – www.paam.org
19-23 Girl Splash – www.girl-splash.com
23-30 21st Annual Family Week – www.familyequality.org/familyweek/
25-31 6th Annual Whale Week to benefit the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies – CenterForCoastalStudies.org
TBA Homemade Boat Race to benefit the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies –www.capeboating.com
TBA Summer Jazz with Bart Weisman @ PAAM – www.paam.org
TBA Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders’ Annual Summer Party @ Pilgrim Monument –www.glad.org/2013-summer-party
TBA Camp Lightbulb, Summer Camp for GLBT Teens – www.camplightbulb.org
AUGUST 2017
Race Point Lighthouse Tours On the first and third Saturdays June – Oct. 2015 racepointlighthouse.org
1-2 Pan-Massachusetts Challenge – www.pmc.org
6 Summer Jazz with Bart Weisman @ PAAM – www.paam.org
9 Castle Hill Benefit Silent Art Auction – www.castlehill.org
11 The 11th Annual Provincetown Jazz Festival – ProvincetownJazzFestival.org
TBA FAWC Annual Auction – Festivities and silent auction start at 4:30pm, live auction starts at 6:30pm – www.fawc.org
13-19 Carnival Week “Back to the 80’s” – www.ptown.org
18 Carnival Parade: starts at 3pm – www.ptown.org
TBA Summer Jazz with Bart Weisman @ PAAM – www.paam.org
TBA 27th ASGCC Annual Life Auction and Raffle – www.asgcc.org
SEPTEMBER 2017
Race Point Lighthouse Tours On the first and third Saturdays June – Oct. 2014 –www.racepointlighthouse.org
5-8 The Great Provincetown Schooner Regatta –ProvincetownSchoonerRace.com
9-10 23rd Annual Celebration of Life Concert and Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla – Swim4Life.org
TBA Yankee Lambda Car Club Show and Parade – www.yankeelcc.com and Classic Car Club Ticket to Ride – www.asgcc.org
12 Castle Hill Paints the Town – www.castlehill.org
12-18 Afterglow Alternative Performance Arts Festival – AfterGlow Festival.org
13 Rosh Hashanah
17 Harbor to the Bay Bike Ride Boston to Cape Cod – ASGCC.org
17 PAAM Fall Consignment Auction – PAAM.org
18-20 Cape Cod Classic - National Gay Pilots Association NPG.org
22-25 11th Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival –TWPtown.org
23-25 Pet Appreciation Weekend (PAW) CASAS – CasasAnimalShelter.org 508-487-4243
24 Bike Run for K9 Fundraiser– www.capecodpoliceK9.org
TBA Truro Treasures Grape Stomp and Jazz Fest – www.trurovineyardsofcapecod.com
27 PMPM Historic House Tour – www.pilgrim-monument.org
26-27 Provincetown Dahlia Show – www.facebook.com/groups/PtownDahlias
29-October 3 Mates Leather Weekend – www.matesleatherweekend.com
OCTOBER 2017
Race Point Lighthouse Tours On the first and third Saturdays June – Oct. 2015–www.racepointlighthouse.org
1 Provincetown Dance Trophy Ballroom Dance Competition featuring The Mood Swing Orchestra, Provincetown Town Hall, 339-832-2812 –BostonOpenDanceSport.com
2 Provincetown Dahlia Show – www.facebook.com/groups/PtownDahlias
7-10 Columbus Day Weekend
7-10 Fall Monumental Yard Sale Weekend – Ptown.org
10-16 32nd Annual Women’s Week – WomensWeekProvincetown.com
17-26 Fantasia Fair – FantasiaFair.org
19-23 Provincetown Round Up Weekend – ProvincetownRoundUp.org
19-23 Provincetown Dance Festival – www.CastleHill.org
28-November 1 Halloween Week in Provincetown BOO! Haunted attractions, lots of parties, kids parade and much more! Call your favorite Restaurant and Accommodation.
30 Dead Silence – an immersive haunted theatrical attraction, benefitting the Friends & Supporters of the Provincetown Public Library – DeadSilence-Terror.com
NOVEMBER 2017
FREE parking in our municipal parking lots… COME VISIT!
11 Veteran’s Day
23 Lighting of the Monument 5-7pm – Pilgrim-Monument.org
24-27 Thanksgiving Weekend Art & Craft Fairs! Great Holiday Shopping!
24 Thanksgiving Day
TBA PBG Casino Night at the Crown & Anchor – www.Ptown.org
26 Lighting of the Lobster Pot Tree Lopes Square – ProvincetownView.com
26 Annual Pilgrim 5k Trot, Thanksgiving morning, 9am – A benefit for the PAAM – www.PAAM.org
DECEMBER 2017
FREE parking in our municipal parking lots… COME SHOPPING!
1 World AIDS Day – www.asgcc.org
2-4 PBG Holly Folly Weekend – www.ptown.org
3 “Souper Saturday” Fundraiser for Soup Kitchen in Provincetown –www.ptownsoup.org
6 Hanukkah begins
21 First Day of Winter
25 Christmas Day
26 Kwanzaa
30 First Light Provincetown www.ptown.org/firstlight
31 New Year’s Eve – Begin the year in Provincetown! Reservations a must! Call your favorite Restaurant and Accommodation.