In 1860, the forty-year-old structure now known as the Sea Change Cottage was floated across Cape Cod Bay to the West End of Provincetown. Several other homes came across the Bay too, in a hasty migration from Long Point, that curling spit of land at the very tip of Massachusetts.
Sea Change Cottage served as a bakery for the tiny Long Point settlement in its years across the bay. Today, this beautiful antique home serves as a unique retreat for artists and activists, women and men whose artistic visions for social change – through performance, writing, and the visual arts – are creating new possibilities and profound change in their respective communities and beyond. In a sense, Sea Change Cottage is still a bakery, providing an extraordinary “kitchen” for the remarkable talents and commitments of artists and activists across the generations.
The Sea Change Cottage has three bedrooms, three full bathrooms, a kitchen, a living room, a writing studio, laundry facilities, and across-the-street access to the beach on Cape Cod Bay. Rehearsal or Studio Space for performance or visual artists can be secured if needed. The cottage is ideal for residents engaged in collaborative projects. Requests to accommodate children and family members, while considered on a case-by-case basis, are generally encouraged and accepted. There is no television in the cottage, no smoking, and no pets.
Following a visioning and planning process beginning in 2000, Gaea initiated the Provisions Library and Sea Change Residencies to employ foundation resources strategically and actively in disseminating and integrating alternative viewpoints, voices and possibilities for deep social change.
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