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Provincetown Community Compact Dune Shack Residencies open for 2021

Contact: Jay Critchley
jay@thecompact.org
https://thecompact.org/

The Provincetown Compact Compact announces 2021 dune shack residency applications are now open. The Compact is pleased to offer residencies for C-Scape and Fowler Dune Shacks in the Cape Cod National Seashore. Residencies are available April through November for the general public (Community Residencies). Residency applications may be found at thecompact.org/dune-shacks.html. Applications close January 15, 2021. Community residencies are open to all and are selected by lottery.

The two historic dune shacks that the Compact maintains, The Fowler and C-Scape Shacks, are among the nineteen shacks located within Peaked Hill Bars National Register Historic District of the Cape Cod National Seashore. The shacks are primitive — no electricity or indoor plumbing — and isolated, allowing for uninterrupted solitude and refuge. The Compact maintains and administers these shacks under an agreement with the Seashore.

Unfortunately, due to complications of the COVID-19 pandemic, the usual juried residencies for artists and writers will not be offered this year. The Compact will be honoring juried selections from 2020. All weeks are available to artists and the public.

The 2020 season ran smoothly in spite of travel restrictions and strict sanitation and social distancing protocols put in place to comply with COVID-19 safe practices. Anticipating that our battle with the pandemic will continue into the 2021 season, residencies will again be scheduled for 5 days, as they were in 2020, to allow for a 48 hour decontamination period between stays. Weeks for Fowler will be Sunday through Friday, for C-Scape, Saturday through Thursday.

The Provincetown Community Compact, Inc. (The Compact) was established in 1993 as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization by artist Jay Critchley. It is organized as a community-building and philanthropic organization to support artists and the vitality of the community.

The mission of The Compact is to advance the health and cultural well being of the community of Provincetown and the Lower Cape – its people, the natural environment and the economy. Our initiatives include: The Swim For Life, Dune Shack Residencies, our Think-ubator program, Prayer Ribbons and special projects and initiatives. The concept for The Compact was to recreate an inclusive, visionary and fully democratic contract with the community, reimagining the original Mayflower Compact, which was signed in Provincetown Harbor in 1620.

For application: www.thecompact.org