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10 lucky bidders can score dinner at the P-town dump

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John Waters (Blade file photo by Michael Key)

Want a date with John Waters?

For the second year in a row, the Baltimore-based writer and filmmaker has put himself on the auction block to benefit one of his favorite causes: the Provincetown Film Society.

Last year, Waters offered a guided tour of sex haunts in Provincetown as an auction item. This year he’s cooking up a formal dinner for 10 lucky bidders – at the town dump.

According to the auction website, successful bidders will be treated to a “dumpster dive meal” with food from local markets prepared by Chef Jack Hetnarski, formerly of Prune NYC. It will be served on “custom damaged plates” from artist John Derian, alongside “dead flower arrangements” from Garden Renovations Nursery of Provincetown. And it will all take place at the Provincetown Dump, where people bring their trash and recyclables.

“Regardless of your culinary sense of adventure, we can promise you’ve never had a dinner like this,” the film society says on its website. “How can you resist?”

Waters said he thinks it’s a fitting location for someone who’s known as the Pope of Trash, and whose cult movie “Pink Flamingos” stars Divine as a character who wants to be known as “the Filthiest Person Alive.”

“It’s not out of character” to have a dinner there, Waters reasons. “We’re making it elegant but it’s going to be at the dump…I think it’ll be a fun night.”

“Director John Waters: A Formal Dinner at the Provincetown Dump,” is one of more than 100 items up for bid in the annual winter auction to raise money for the film society, which produces the Provincetown International Film Festival and many other events.

Waters has spent every summer in Provincetown since 1964 and is a strong supporter of the film society. His tour of sex haunts last year raised more than $17,000.

The date at the dump will be either July 18, 19, or 20. The website shows three lots up for bid with two tickets each and four lots with one ticket. The winners will all dine on the same night, and the date will be firmed up once the winning bidders are identified and contacted, so people can make travel arrangements if necessary. All bidders for this item must be over 21 and must follow local public health protocols.

Other auction items include: a virtual Provincetown architectural tour with historian David Dunlap; vacation rentals in Umbertide, Italy, and Culebra, Puerto Rico; a private Provincetown dune tour; a stay at designer Ken Fulk’s Mary Heaton Vorse House; a custom voice mail message by Kathleen Turner; a drag makeover from Billie Jean Beetum; Broadway tickets to Company, Mrs. Doubtfire, Six and Hadestown; and souvenirs, private dinners and gift certificates to various Provincetown shops and restaurants.

The online auction went live on Feb. 2 and ends on Feb. 13 at 11:59 p.m. The website is: biddingforgood.com/ptownfilm.

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