2:30 - 3:00 pm | Parade Prep

Get pumped for Provincetown's annual Pride Parade! There will be craft materials available for you to create posters & signs for you & your family!

3:00 - 3:30 pm | Family Pride Parade

Celebrate your family's pride in an energetic parade with the friends you've made this week! Join us as we sing, dance, and march through the streets of Provincetown and share our pride with the community. We will assemble and end at Bas Relief. A group photo will be taken just before the Parade, at 2:45pm.

Animal World Experience will visit the Provincetown Public Library to provide a fun, interactive, and educational animal presentation to audiences of all ages. The program will focus on local and exotic wildlife, the importance of protecting endangered species, and responsible pet ownership. Founder Matt Gabriel creates an animal presentation that is entertaining and also helps the audience to develop respect and awareness for animals of all kinds.

The #DCSuperPets are ready to sit, stay and save the world. Warner Bros Discovery has arranged for special advance screenings of DC League of Super-Pets during Family Week. They will be showing this at screenings inside at Waters Edge Cinema on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Please buy your tickets for one of these special showings here. 

Join us as LGBTQ+ families fill a boat for spectacular whale watching! Call to reserve your tickets through Dolphin Fleet 800-826-9300. Available rides are 9:30am and 10:30am. Don't forget to mention Family Week for a discount on your tickets!Join us as LGBTQ+ families fill a boat for spectacular whale watching! Call to reserve your tickets through Dolphin Fleet 800-826-9300. Available rides are 9:30am and 10:30am. Don't forget to mention Family Week for a discount on your tickets!

Do you have questions about Family Equality’s work for lived equality for LBGTQ+ families? Do you want to send a message of support to other LGBTQ+ families in states where harmful legislation has been introduced? Or do you want to take a fun family photo in our Family Week photo booth? Come send some love to other LGBTQ+ families in our advocate center. We’ll also have temporary tattoos and some extra SWAG to hand out as well as check off an item on the Family Week Scavenger Hunt! We’ll be at the Fire House and would love to talk more with you about our work and to see your beautiful family.

Join us as LGBTQ+ families fill a boat for spectacular whale watching! Call to reserve your tickets through Dolphin Fleet 800-826-9300. Available rides are 9:30am and 10:30am. Don't forget to mention Family Week for a discount on your tickets!Join us as LGBTQ+ families fill a boat for spectacular whale watching! Call to reserve your tickets through Dolphin Fleet 800-826-9300. Available rides are 9:30am and 10:30am. Don't forget to mention Family Week for a discount on your tickets!

The #DCSuperPets are ready to sit, stay and save the world. Warner Bros Discovery has arranged for special advance screenings of DC League of Super-Pets during Family Week. They will be showing this at screenings inside at Waters Edge Cinema on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Please buy your tickets for one of these special showings here. 

Join us for our Let's Get Regional Gathering! Meet other families that live near you and carry your connection home! We will meet up at Earnest Playground - look for the regions that will be designated by signs.

Time to explore and move mindfully for the youngest among us! Our instructor will teach some fun shapes, encourage attention and breath awareness, and cultivate a relaxed vibe.

Do you have questions about Family Equality’s work for lived equality for LBGTQ+ families? Do you want to send a message of support to other LGBTQ+ families in states where harmful legislation has been introduced? Or do you want to take a fun family photo in our Family Week photo booth? Come send some love to other LGBTQ+ families in our advocate center. We’ll also have temporary tattoos and some extra SWAG to hand out as well as check off an item on the Family Week Scavenger Hunt! We’ll be at the Fire House and would love to talk more with you about our work and to see your beautiful family.

Art on the Lawn is back for the 2022 summer season!

Join the Provincetown Public Library for a fun and interactive summer arts and crafts experience for children of all ages. The front lawn of our historic building will be transformed into a creative space for kids to experiment with different materials while exploring their own artistic imaginations. To showcase each child’s own artistic self-expression, kids will be encouraged to use different mediums, selected by the library, to decorate a large blank canvas with their own creations. Potential mediums include paint, crayons, chalk, finger-paint, and markers. The kids will love it!

Join Catherine Miller while she reads Everything You Say About Me THAT’S WONDERFUL is True by Dr. Casey, Medical Dogtor. This is a beautiful picture book for Pre-K- 6 year-olds that won a First Place Golden Quill award for Best and Most Unique ABC Book. It is an A to Z prescription for happiness in 26 alphabetical poems about positive qualities told from a dog’s perspective.

Join us for a family friendly outdoor movie night! Bring your blankets, bug spray and get ready to snuggle in for a special screening of Happy Feet 2! Seating will begin at 7:30pm and we'll be pressing play at 8:30pm.

Click here to register for Wednesday night’s screening of “Happy Feet 2.” We ask that folks register early so that we can bring enough treats for everyone.

A number of different species of seals occupy New England waters throughout the year, and groups of gray seals and harbor seals can frequently be seen resting in “haul outs” on local beaches. Join CCS naturalists for a gentle guided hike to a haul out in Truro and learn more about the biology and natural history of the seals and the role they play in a healthy ocean ecosystem. Meet at High Head Rd Parking Lot, Truro

For all ages 5-80

Space is limited so registration is required.

$10/$5 CCS member.

This event is hosted by Center for Coastal Studies and is not affiliated with Family Week.

Attention all self-identified dads! Join us as we gather beach-side for connection, community, and fun! This will be a meet-up style event so bring your own snacks and blankets- and don't forget the beach toys! Heads up: the sand may be hot for little feet so don't forget your flip-flops!

Everyone who identifies as a parent on the male/masculine side of the spectrum is invited!

Get in touch with your inner diva, and let your fierceness shine! Join author Lil Miss Hot Mess for a Drag Queen Story Hour, where you'll learn to swish, shimmy, and shout "yesss queen" like the best of them as you sing along to her books If You're a Drag Queen and You Know It and The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish. Then, we'll put those skills to the test with a fabulous catwalk, dance party, and more. Hosted by Provincetown Theater.

The #DCSuperPets are ready to sit, stay and save the world. Warner Bros Discovery has arranged for special advance screenings of DC League of Super-Pets during Family Week. They will be showing this at screenings inside at Waters Edge Cinema on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Please buy your tickets for one of these special showings here. 

Enjoy a picnic lunch while sailing adventure with our friends at Hindu Charters! Based in P-town since 1946, Hindu Charters offers a classic sailing experience around the picturesque Cape Cod Bay. Operating this season aboard an 1870s designed wooden sailing ship, the Bloodhound. will be available thru Hindu Charter or at the checkin at Ptown Inn on Sunday, July 25 until filled. Fees are $35/child$65/adult and are paid directly to Hindu Charters upon registration

This event is from 1 - 2:30PM. Families should arrive at 12:45.

Grab your snacks, your water, and your sense of play and meet up with other BIPOC families at the playground.

Belonging Books will be joining us. Belonging Books is a local community program provider and pop-up bookseller that centers and celebrates the voices and stories of people of color and other underrepresented communities on Cape Cod. Belonging Books strives to create space for joy, celebration, safety and belonging.

Time to explore and move mindfully for the youngest among us! Our instructor will teach some fun shapes, encourage attention and breath awareness, and cultivate a relaxed vibe.

Do you have questions about Family Equality’s work for lived equality for LBGTQ+ families? Do you want to send a message of support to other LGBTQ+ families in states where harmful legislation has been introduced? Or do you want to take a fun family photo in our Family Week photo booth? Come send some love to other LGBTQ+ families in our advocate center. We’ll also have temporary tattoos and some extra SWAG to hand out as well as check off an item on the Family Week Scavenger Hunt! We’ll be at the Fire House and would love to talk more with you about our work and to see your beautiful family.

The Provincetown Public Library will offer a children’s Storytime on the Library’s front lawn during the summer months! Each session will feature a great new theme for kids, accompanied by fun picture books, designed to stimulate young minds while enjoying the outdoors.Bring your friends and spread the word…Storytime is back!

Storytime will not meet on rainy days.

Join Center for Coastal Studies educators for two fun days of discovery about the wonderful and mysterious world of whales. Through hands-on activities, games and art participants will learn about these charismatic, majestic and often mysterious creatures. For kids ages 6-10 This is a drop off program Join for one day or both. Registration required HERE $30/$20 CCS members for one day (either Tuesday or Wednesday) $50/$30 CCS members for both days.

Catherine Miller will be reading from  her brand new book From Wags to Riches at Family Week! A novel for Middle Grades readers, hear all about a sassy Yorkie named Wags who escapes from a puppy mill, and eventually frees all the other dogs, aided by Sheriff Dimonte Deck and his husband Norbert Dingle. 

Join us for an afternoon of beach fun! Be sure to bring your swimsuit, a beach towel, and a picnic dinner for a relaxing oceanside afternoon.

We won't be having campfires this year, but there will be plenty of kite flying and sandcastle building! Box Lunch will have a pre-order for picnic meals but concessions will be available on-site, too. Teen COLAGErs, don't miss the COLAGE Teen Zone! EVERYONE - remember not to climb on the dunes - the beach is a protected habitat!

Parking at the Beach Bash will be $25 before 5pm. If you're not planning to drive, there's a shuttle available! You can use this link to learn more!

Note: The link sent in the daily e-newsletter is broken. Use this link instead!

Come learn what "The Blues Parade" can do to help kids and families explore the limitless powers of imagination to take a more joyful and whimsical approach to the exploration, discovery and celebration of life through music. Learn about the Blues and co-create a blues song. You’ll even get your own personal Blues name!

Join Craig in Motta Field for a performance of some cutting-edge effects using Rubiks Cubes. It will be entertaining and amazing for any age—yes, including adults. 

Following the performance, Craig will conduct a teach-in on exactly how to solve a cube.  It takes practice, but anyone can learn, and a folder of workshop materials and flashcards will be given to all. 

In addition, all participants will also receive their own cube along with other really cool prizes, like a computerized robot that can solve a mixed cube in 5 seconds.  Needless to say, you will laugh, be amazed, learn, and possibly win some really cool stuff.