This event is for Crew and High School to dance and celebrate with us! Crew leaves at 7pm so High Schoolers can have some time for just them.
Families are invited to watch our youth show off their creativity, projects, and talent at our annual Variety Show! This is COLAGE's most popular event of the week, you don't want to miss it!
All age groups will have their closing circle to reflect on the week and make lasting connections that carry through the year! A group picture will be take here so make sure to wear your COLAGE shirt!
Families and community welcome to listen to our teens talk about what it's like being a COLAGEr today, their challenges, their joys, and what they want to tell the world. This is an especially great place for parents and prospective parents to listen to the wisdom of our youth.
Day 4 of the FIT program. Youth entering their junior and senior year of High School are eligible to participate in our FIT program to work with facilitation experts and hone their skills to prepare them to be a COLAGE facilitators once they're out of High School.
Meet at front steps of Town Hall.
If youth are part of theater or drag do-somethings and need extra time to perfect their acts before Friday's Variety Show, there will be time to do so here. Facilitators will make a final decision about this at Thursday's morning Workshop.
Youth lunch chats for 2nd Gen COLAGErs (COLAGErs who identify at LGBTQ+) and straight/culturally queer COLAGErs. Please ensure that your youth brings their own lunch if they intend to eat during the lunch chats.
On Thursday morning, COLAGErs will get to pick which "do-something" workshop they want to be in. There will also be an opportunity for them to present/perform what they worked on during the Variety Show on Friday. Waffles can choose from Ocean Adventures, Writing & Activism, Collaging, Theater, or Drag. *Note: If Waffles choose Ocean Adventures, close-toed water shoes i.e. Crocs, Keenes, etc., a towel, bathing suit, and a water bottle are ideal for this do-something. Crew can choose from Creative Writing, String Art, Theatre, Dance, Drag, and Song-Making. High School can choose from Drag, Creative Writing, and Collaging.
Hosted by Tony Hynes, Training Specialist, Center for Adoption Support and Education. This seminar will provide a space where interracial adoptive parents can share their questions, experiences and concerns about parenting children who are of a different race from their own. In addition, during this event, parents will learn about best practices in interracial adoptive families related but not limited to: best practices in creating diverse environments, how parents can help their children in fostering healthy racial identity development, how to talk about race and racism in interracial adoptive families, and the importance of birth family connections.
Waffles, Crew, and High School youth are invited to participate in a Provincetown Scavenger Hunt. Please arrive early or on time for check in, because we are blasting off at 3:30. There will be treats, treasures, and prizes. You don't want to miss it!
Day 3 of the FIT Program. Youth entering their junior and senior year of High School are eligible to participate in our FIT program to work with facilitation experts and hone their skills to prepare them to be a COLAGE facilitators once they're out of High School.
Meet at front steps of Town Hall.
Bring your voice and dance moves to the Second Annual Queerella DeVille Show! "Wigging Out" will feature well-known songs to advance a musical plot about Pride, self-acceptance, and overcoming conflict. Tickets start at $10 for youth and $25 for adults. This is a FUNdraiser for COLAGE.
Youth lunch chats for COLAGErs with disabilities and non-disabled COLAGEr allies. Please ensure that your youth brings their own lunch if they intend to eat during the lunch chats.
Waffles (8-10 year olds):
Body Positivity: COLAGErs come in all different shapes and sizes. How can we celebrate our bodies and understand our differences?
Field Day: Join the fun with Field Day! It’s going to be a day filled with awesome games and activities, where you can have fun with other COLAGErs doing relay races, team building games, and much more! will have the option to choose between Field Day or a Body Positivity workshop.
Crew (11-13 year olds): Our Families in the Media: During this workshop, COLAGErs will learn about media and representation, and the roles they play in our everyday lives. We will explore the presence of LGBTQ+ family stories in the media to better understand how seeing our families can help us tell our own stories, empower ourselves, and feel at home in the world at large.
High School (14-18 year olds): Desire, Consent, and Healthy Relationship: This workshop will help teens begin to tackle our culture's conflicting messages about sex and sexuality, cover the basics of safer sex supplies for all kinds of intimacies, discuss the necessity of consent, and explore healthy vs. unhealthy relationships.
If you have one or more LGBTQ+ parent/caregiver and are 18+, come join us for conversation and connection. Those not registered with COLAGE are welcome!
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. EVERYONE - remember not to climb on the dunes - the beach is a protected habitat!
Teen COLAGErs, don't miss the COLAGE Teen Zone!
PLUS: Have your picnic dinner delivered to be beach for you by the incredible Julie at Box Lunch! Click here to place your dinner order before Tuesday night.
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: There is an accessible boardwalk and mobi mat to access the beach, as well as beach wheelchairs available from lifeguards.
Special thank you to RSM for sponsoring this event!
If you have ever donated to COLAGE, including the pay-what-you-can registration donation for COLAGE Family Week programming, we would like to celebrate you! And what's a better way to celebrate in the summer than with ice cream? Join us by the anchor statue across from Lewis Brother's Ice Cream. Hang out on the benches with other families, walk the pier with your kids, or grab and go explore the rest of town! There will also be a family photo op! For those who opt-in, families will get a digital copy of their photo and COLAGE will keep a copy so we can celebrate you all year long!
Day 2 of the FIT program. Youth entering their junior and senior year of High School are eligible to participate in our FIT program to work with facilitation experts and hone their skills to prepare them to be a COLAGE facilitators once they're out of High School.
Meet at front steps of Town Hall.
The whole family is welcome to join us for Drag Bingo with the incredible, glamorous icon Kay Sedia! Come share your love, your laughter and your wallet for an afternoon to benefit COLAGE. Come for the queen, the kitsch and the prizes. Play 1 round for $5; 2 for $8; 3 for $10 or 4 for $12. This FUNdraiser for COLAGE.
Youth lunch chats for COLAGErs of Color and white COLAGErs allies. Please ensure that your youth brings their own lunch if they intend to eat during the lunch chats.
Waffles (8-10 year olds): Our Families in the Media: Youth will start by learning about what is true/false in the media and how media can have a both negative and positive impact on our families. They will be given the chance to analyze different videos that they may be exposed to. They will then have the option to create their own positive social media artifacts. Gender Spectrum: In this workshop, youth will get a basic understanding of gender 101 and get to think about the diversity of gender expression, gender identity, outward presentation and how this intersects with physical and emotional attraction.
Crew (11-13 year olds): Intersectionality & Allyship: In COLAGE we often talk about what we have in common, but we also have a lot of things that make us different from each other! This workshop gives COLAGErs a space to talk about their differences with people who already share one identity with them. In this workshop we will explore the different aspects of allyship and intersectionality, and their effects on our life.
High School (14-18 year olds): Self Care & Community Care: In this workshop, we will define mental health and wellness, familiarize youth with the concepts of self care and community care, share about what these look like in our own lives and communities, and do a listening exercise to practice non judgemental listening as community care. Part of the objective is to talk about mental health and wellness in a less individualized way, and connect mental health and community care to current events and social justice.
Bring your voice and dance moves to the Second Annual Queerella DeVille Show! "Wigging Out" will feature well known songs to advance a musical plot about Pride, self acceptance, and overcoming conflict. Tickets start at $10 for youth and $25 for adults. This is a FUNdraiser for COLAGE.
High Schoolers welcome to come celebrate our Youth Action Board graduating members and learn more about what the YAB is all about and how to join. Free pizza will be provided!
Families are welcome to free snacks at The Canteen. This is a great chance for families to network with each other. Teen Zone will be available for High Schoolers to connect with each other.
Day 1 of the FIT program. Youth entering their junior and senior year of High School are eligible to participate in our FIT program to work with facilitation experts and hone their skills to prepare them to be a COLAGE facilitators once they're out of High School.
Meet at front steps of Town Hall.
Youth lunch chats for People with Trans Parents, Adopted COLAGErs, Donor Conceived COLAGErs, and COLAGErs whose Parent Came Out. Please ensure that your youth brings their own lunch if they intend to eat during the lunch chats.
This is an info session for prospective and current LGBTQ+ parents about COLAGE and our programming. Whether you are registered with COLAGE or not, you are welcome to join this info session and learn what COLAGE programming offers, and how we can best support our youth.
Waffles (8-10 year olds): Welcome & Our Families: Hey COLAGErs! Welcome to Family Week! Come meet our amazing Waffles Staff, get to know your peers, find out what we’ll be doing all week and make new friends! We’ll spend this time getting to know each other, playing games, and talking about what connects all of us for this week and beyond.
Crew (11-13 year olds): Welcome & LGBTQ 101: Hey COLAGErs! Welcome to Family Week! Come meet our amazing Crew Staff, get to know your fellow crew members, or reconnect with your COLAGE family from years past! We’ll spend this time getting to know each other, playing games, and learning about how current LGBTQ+ issues relate to our families.
High School (14-18 year olds): Welcome & LGBTQ+/Queerspawn History: Come connect with new and old COLAGErs alike! We will be getting to know one another and learning how to support each other during the week. We will discuss important moments of LGBTQ+ and queerspawn history from before the 20th century to the present day.
Come join COLAGE for our Family Week kick-off! Youth will get to meet their facilitators, parents will get to mingle with each other and COLAGE staff, and everyone can participate in fun crafts and games! A Queerella DeVille surprise might also be there!
Family Week is here! Family Week attendees are encouraged to check in with Family Equality and COLAGE, pick up their swag bag and wristband, and enjoy the resource fair with local vendors and partner organizations. This will be hosted at the Crown & Anchor Inn.
