to the outsider inside us all
MISSING TIME explores what slips through the cracks of memory, history, and perception. In Provincetown—the last stop on the map, where the land itself erodes back into the sea—we look at absence as a form of evidence. The festival asks what happens when moments disappear, when a place forgets its own stories, and when artists try to reassemble the fragments. Missing Time is not about nostalgia but about the psychic static that occurs between what was and what might have been.
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PROVINCETOWN
NORMAN MAILER
VS. MASSACHUSETTS
Norman Mailer lived as if literature were a contact sport—picking fights with America, Massachusetts, and himself, then turning the bruises into sentences that still dare you to look away.
PROVINCETOWN
MAUD SQUIRE
SKEENE & FURR
Maud Hunt Squire’s queerness entered public view not through her own early illustrations but through Gertrude Stein’s Miss Furr and Miss Skeene, where art, partnership, and coded intimacy finally stepped into language.
ENVIRONMENTAL
EDWARD ABBEY
MONKEY WRENCH GANG
Edward Abbey was the patron saint of beautiful trouble, preaching love for the desert and hatred of systems that paved it, reminding us that sometimes the most ethical act is to throw sand in the gears.
POLITICS
ANGELA DAVIS
THE FAMILY TREE
Angela Davis turned a jail cell into a global classroom, teaching the world that freedom is not granted by power but wrestled from it through solidarity, intellect, and relentless moral courage.
POLITICS
TIMOTHY LEARY
OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
Timothy Leary turned LSD into a cultural grenade, urging a generation to “turn on, tune in, drop out” while gleefully blowing holes in the walls of authority, academia, and the American psyche.
BOSTON 400
MOLASSES FLOOD
SWEET STICKY THING
Boston woke on January 15, 1919, to a tidal wave of molasses—thick, hot, and deadly—that moved faster than a man could run, crushed buildings, drowned horses and children alike, and left the city literally and morally sticky with the consequences of industrial greed.
MUSIC
DAVID BOWIE
AGENDA BENDER
Ziggy was a messenger from the stars whose gift to Earth was both ecstatic music and a liberated sense of self, inviting fans to play with identity and possibility in ways rock had never before fully embraced.
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