Arts & Entertainment
To make a gyotaku fish print an artist also needs to be a man of the sea. Not old mind you, but definitely experienced in the both the art of surfcasting as well as the brush. Steve London is such a man.
First Mr. London catches the fish. Then he inks the fish and presses it into mulbery fiber paper called unryu, keeping alive the art form he learned from a Japanese master. The results of this craftmanship will be on display from July 2 through 8 at the Old Sculpin Gallery located on Dock street in Edgartown next to the Chappy ferry.
Summer stress driving you crazy? Admit it, vacationing isn’t always the mellow ride you envisioned. Trying to pack 365 days of fun into one weekend can even make you think better about coworkers and cubicles left behind.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Island Community Chorus
After a day at sea, or at least on the beach, what better way to ring in the Fourth on the Vineyard than a rousing session of sea chanties? On July 3 starting at 8 p.m. the Island Community Chorus will begin their summer concert with a round of chanties guaranteed to take you to the high seas of enjoyment. The program takes place at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs.
Free Pancakes
It’s a freedom festival of the most floury kind. Pancakes for free and someone else is making them. What more could a harried vacationer ask for?
The breakfast party is being thrown on Monday, July 4 by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in honor of our veterans. The eating begins at 8:30 a.m. and the flapjacks are flipped until 10 p.m. at the Merchants Mart off State Road in Vineyard Haven.
For more details, call 774-563-0460.
Home Port Cookbook: Beloved Recipes from Martha’s Vineyard. By Will Holtham with A. D. Minnick, Photography by Mike Buytas, Illustrations by Susan Tobey White, Lyons Press, $19.95
A quick glance at the program for this year’s Hebrew Center Summer Institute speaker series is enough to show that change has happened at the institute.
It is suddenly more diverse in both subject matter and guests.
Chalk it up to the new chairman of the summer institute committee, Geraldine Alpert, and her desire to see the series broaden its appeal.
“I thought I would try to get a more diverse program that attracts people from all over the Vineyard, not just the Jewish population,” she said.
