Coming Up Next:Throughout the year we produce Live In-Person Storytelling Shows at venues around the city, each curated around a theme or aspect of the LGBTQ+ experience.
Our shows feature storytellers of all ages, identities, backgrounds and life experiences, and their stories are professionally filmed for preservation in our digital archive. Our events also provide opportunities for intergenerational commingling and community-building!
Live Shows:
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A Cookout Kiki: Black Trans & Queer Storytelling Show
Join us for a night celebrating Black Trans & Queer excellence and creativty, featuring storytelling, art, DJ sets, drag and vogue performances and more!
Thursday, Oct 17, 2024
5-9pm
3 Dollar Bill, BK (in 9BN space)
Recent Past Shows:
Saturday, Sept 28, 2024
Empowered Voices: Women Living with HIV/AIDS
A Storytelling Show featuring women from Shirlene Cooper’s Visual AIDS’ Women’s Empowerment Art Therapy Group
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Pride at the High Line: Nurturing Our LGBTQ+ Family Tree
A Storytelling Show Celebrating Queer Chosen Family
Sunday, May 19th, 2024
What’s the Bubble Tea??
A Storytelling Show Celebrating Queer & AAPI Experiences
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Creative Catalysts
A Storytelling Show Celebrating LGBTQ+ Art and Creativty, and our first collaboration with Leslie Lohman Museum of Art!
Wednesday, Dec 13, 2023
Stories for the Ages: A Celebration of Intergenerational Connections
A return to The Generations Project’s original founding mission, to foster connections across boundaries of age within the LGBTQ+ community! Featuring storytellers of all ages sharing about meaningful intergenerational relationships that have impacted their lives.
Saturday, Oct 21, 2023
Recollectors: Stories of Children Who Lost Parents to HIV/AIDS
Highlighting an important, underrepresented perspective on the AIDS epidemic, as children who lost parents to the disease share in remembrance and community.
Saturday, Sept 30, 2023
Beloved & Bygone: Stories of Ptown Places Past
A evocative, personalized view on on the beloved and bygone queer landmarks of Provincetown. This in-person event will be emceed by Adam Golub . Get ready to immerse yourself in Ptown's rich and fascinating LGTBQ+ history.
Thursday, June 29, 2023
PRIDE at the High Line: Transformation Stories
An outdoor storytelling show to close out Pride month with stories celebrating the journey of becoming your true self!
Sunday, June 4, 2023
The LGBTQ+ Story
The Provincetown Arts Society in collaboration with The Generations Project presents this fundraising event to support The Generation's Project's mission to preserve the LGBTQ+ history of Provincetown through storytelling.
Friday, June 2, 2023
Radical! Pride Kick-Off Storytelling Show
An outdoor show at the historic landmark of Stonewall National Monument, featuring history-making activists of the LGBTQ+ movement.
Thursday, May 11, 2023
HOY! What’s the Bubble Tea??
In continuation of our Heritage Series, a night celebrating the AAPI community through music, performance, art and storytelling, at the intersection of LGBTQ+ and Asian identities.
Sunday, April 16, 2023
Hineni: LGBTQ+ Jewish Stories
In continuation of our Heritage Series, a night of community, music and storytelling, at the intersection of LGBTQ+ and Jewish identity!
Sunday, February 26, 2023
The 3rd Annual Genny Awards
TGP’s iconic yearly red-carpet gala fundraiser awards show extravaganza!
Thursday, December 1, 2022
LATINQ: An LGBTQ+ Latine Storytelling Show
In continuation of our Heritage Series, a night celebrating the unique intersections of LGBTQ+ and Latine identities, featuring storytellers of all ages and Latin backgrounds.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Nonna’s House: An LGBTQ+ Italian-American Storytelling Show
Our third installment of the program that kicked off our Heritage Series, highlighting the experiences of LGBTQ+ Italians!
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Meet Me on the Dance Floor
Our final storytelling show of Pride month, in partnership with the AIDS Memorial, stories about how LGBTQ+ people have met and connected through nightlife, parties and dancing under the disco ball!
Thursday, June 9, 2022
PRIDE at the High Line
Kicking off Pride month, a fun outdoor storytelling event on the High Line, featuring stories about the LGBTQ+ history of the Chelsea neighborhood!
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Queer Secrets (Part 2)
A celebration of delving deep, confessing, sharing our secrets and talking openly about what is so often left unsaid, giving a platform to our community’s untold stories.
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Queer Secrets
A celebration of delving deep, confessing, sharing our secrets and talking openly about what is so often left unsaid, giving a platform to our community’s untold stories.
Sunday, March 6, 2022
The 2nd Annual Genny Awards
TGP’s iconic yearly red-carpet gala fundraiser awards show extravaganza!
Friday, November 12, 2021
Queer Love: Cruising, Dating, Sex & Freedom
A storytelling show about all the ways LGBTQ+ have met and connected throughout the decades!
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Revival: Survivor’s Stories
Another installment of our ongoing collaboration with the NYC AIDS Memorial, survivors of HIV sharing stories of triumph and resilience.
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Nonna’s House: An LGBTQ+ Italian-American Storytelling Show
Our second installment of the program that kicked off our Heritage Series, highlighting the experiences of LGBTQ+ Italians!
Thursday, February 29, 2024
The 4th Annual Genny Awards
Our biggest event of the year, celebrating our amazing intergenerational community and the art of storytelling!
THIRD THURSDAY Intergenerational Writing Party
THE GENERATIONS PROJECT is teaming up with SAGE for an ongoing monthly series of VIRTUAL intergenerational Writing Parties! In keeping with our mission to build intergenerational LGBTQ+ community, foster friendships across generations and combat social isolation among our elders, we are inviting LGBTQ+ folks of all ages and backgrounds to join us EVERY THIRD THURSDAY of each month for these fun, social bridger events. Through short, accessible creative writing prompts, we'll offer our diverse perspectives, discuss our unique and shared experiences, and stay connected!
Sign up at our link HERE!
THIRD THURSDAY Intergenerational Writing Party
THE GENERATIONS PROJECT is teaming up with SAGE for an ongoing monthly series of VIRTUAL intergenerational Writing Parties! In keeping with our mission to build intergenerational LGBTQ+ community, foster friendships across generations and combat social isolation among our elders, we are inviting LGBTQ+ folks of all ages and backgrounds to join us EVERY THIRD THURSDAY of each month for these fun, social bridger events. Through short, accessible creative writing prompts, we'll offer our diverse perspectives, discuss our unique and shared experiences, and stay connected!
Sign up at our Eventbrite link HERE!
Eccoci Qui (Here We Are): LGBTQ+ Stories from Italian America
A virtual storytelling show on the holiday formerly known as Columbus Day, sharing real stories from real LGBTQ+ Italian-Americans!
Columbus Day was chosen to represent us, but is far from how LGBTQ+ members of the Italian American community see themselves. In this special TGP storytelling workshop and event, 6 LGBTQ+ Italian Americans will share their stories of coming to terms with their identities as LGBTQ+ people of the Italian diaspora.
With storytellers :
Frances Rose Subbiondo
Michela Griffo
Anthony Scudese
Vinny Bonanno
Margarita Russolello
Joe Avena
Moderated by Summer Minerva who will weave in her experiences of exploring the ancient traditions of 3rd gender people in Italy.
Tickets available HERE.
Help Us Build the First Comprehensive LGBTQ+ History Exhibit in Provincetown
THE GENERATIONS PROJECT is teaming up with the PILGRIM MONUMENT AND PROVINCETOWN MUSEUM to exhibit a 2-part LGBTQ+ historical anthology of Provincetown over the past century.
We are building an LGBT anecdotal history of Ptown as well as a short documentary series that will together create a vibrant portrait of Provincetown's LGBTQ+ history through first-hand account.
Donate HERE
“Evolving Pride" Storytelling Event: Centering Black and Brown Voices
Join The Generations Project for our special nationwide digital storytelling Pride event, “Evolving Pride: Centering Black and Brown Voices.” We’ll be sharing heartfelt, "live-told" stories from Black and Brown leaders of the LGBTQ+ community.
Featuring Storytellers:
Nyala Moon
Carla Kelly
Craig Bannister
Timothy DuWhite
Alexandra Grey
Emceed by the lovely Justin Sams and Summer Minerva
FREE TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE!
"First Times" Storytelling Workshop with The LOFT
Beginning in June, TGP in collaboration with The LOFT will be facilitating an online virtual "First Times" storytelling workshop. We invite all perspectives on the theme to include stories about first experiences, new beginnings, rites of passage, etc. Stories will be shared aloud in front of friends and family at a Final Story Share!
Dates: (Dates to be announced soon!)
Workshop registration is currently full. Please contact us with any inquiries.
Odd Fridays Creative Writing Workshops!
Every Odd Friday (1st, 3rd, 5th Fridays) of each month, from 5-7pm EST, we will be facilitating online creative writing workshops via Zoom! Participants of all ages and backgrounds will come together from around the world to discuss current events, explore various themes and topics and be guided through several unique, short creative writing prompts. There will be opportunities to share in small groups of 3 and with the larger group, and periodically entire sessions will be dedicated to an open-mic style opportunity for sharing. No writing experience is necessary. These are fun, easy exercises to get your creative juices flowing, inspire and motivate you and help you share your voice so we can all stay connected.
Interested in joining? Contact us HERE and we will reach out to you!
The Stonewall 50 Time Capsule "Quarantine" Writing Workshop
The Generations Project welcomes Stonewall 50 Consortium members and other LGBTQ+ voices to join a special 1 Day Writing Workshop on Sunday, May 17th, from noon-2:00PM.
This will be an opportunity to reflect on and share our thoughts, emotions and experiences of quarantine and Covid-19, within a supportive, inclusive group environment. Facilitators will guide participants through various brainstorms, prompts and discussion topics, in small and large groups, culminating in a short piece of writing-- a personal journal entry, a letter to the future, a summary of daily life in quarantine, etc. to be included in the Time Capsule as testament to this unique moment in history.
Participants will be invited to share their created content with others in June and beyond until the Stonewall 50 Time Capsule is sealed and closed at the New York Historical Society. Our time capsule was scheduled to close June 30th, 2020, but the closing is being postponed until museums in NYC reopen.
Space is limited. Register now to reserve space in the Stonewall 50 Time Capsule!
"Hopeful Journeys" Storytelling Workshop
In this 4-week intergenerational workshop, participants will be guided to create a 5-10 minute story revolving around the theme of Hope; removing stigma and finding a light in darkness. Participants will craft unique stories about their own experiences with HIV/AIDS (storytellers will present in front of friends and family during a private online final story share after the workshop ends).
Select storytellers may be invited to share their story at our upcoming sunset story hour series at the AIDS Memorial!
Registration Full
"Dads" Storytelling Workshop
In this 4-week intergenerational workshop, participants will be guided to create a 5-7 minute story revolving around the theme of DADS. We invite all perspectives on the theme to include stories about being a dad, having a dad, not having a dad, fatherhood, family, gay parenting and adoption.
*Select storytellers may be invited to share their story at our upcoming DADS Storytelling Show, (either streamed online or potentially hosted at the Eagle).
Workshop Dates: Wednesdays (Starting May 6th, 2020) & Fridays (Starting May 8th, 2020)
Facilitated and presented in real time via Zoom
Registration Full
SOW AND GROW STORYTELLING SHOW
THE GENERATIONS PROJECT RETURNS THE FIRST SATURDAY OF SPRING FOR OUR SOW AND GROW STORYTELLING SHOW!
Join The Generations Project on the first Saturday of Spring to celebrate and cultivate the "seeds" of our LGBTQ movement! Every big idea starts small, but with the sunlight of our collective attention, we can help grow these budding initiatives into a garden we can all enjoy for generations to come.