THE MOTHERLODE ARTS

This fall, Motherlode moves out of the archive and into the streets. We invade MARSFEST in September, play dangerous games with Edgar Allan Poe, pull up a chair for Cookie Mueller, trade barbs with Oscar Wilde and disappear into the astonishing cultural labyrinth of Alphonse Mucha—and Mucha more. Art, history, theatre, music and beautiful trouble collide as the stories we have been uncovering begin turning into exhibitions, performances, broadcasts and public events.

In December, we cut the ribbon on SONO, the new South Norwood Cultural District, while looking toward the farthest edge of Cape Cod. There, Motherlode and Camp Provincetown will announce the 2027 Provincetown 300: MADE IN PROVINCETOWN agenda—a yearlong celebration of the artists, outsiders, inventions and acts of refusal manufactured in a town that has never waited for permission. This fall, the archive doesn’t sit still. It comes alive.