Arts & Entertainment
Barbara Reynolds took out an old photo album in a resource room at the Edgartown School last week, the pages tinted with age but the memories still fresh as though her students were sitting next to her at the table.
The Vineyard Playhouse hopes to raise $1 million this summer in the first phase of a $5 million capital campaign that encompasses the renovation, restoration and expansion of the historic theatre on Church street in Vineyard Haven.
The restoration already has begun. With Community Preservation Act funds and private donations, the playhouse has installed new wood clapboard siding and windows on three sides of the building, and a new fire-safety sprinkler system.
Summer Solstice Party
Can it be the longest day of the year is already upon is? Well, to take the sting out of the idea that the days will now be getting shorter, Featherstone Center for the Arts is throwing a summer solstice celebration from 5 to 9 p.m. tonight, June 21.
The event is hosted by William Waterway and Ellie Bates and is, in their words, “a heliospheric rendering of our solar system.”
Ah, but of course.
Art by Kids Speaks to Kids and More
This Thursday, June 23 at 7 p.m. IMP for Kids, the YMCA dance program and Joanne Cassidy’s vocal students are coming together to present an evening of entertainment and importance entitled Assertions: Kids Speak Out Through the Arts.
One could argue that all art is important, but this performance lends itself to a category all its own.
The Old Sculpin Gallery was full of lively energy and a crowd of people on Sunday. It was the show for the scholarship winners of the Martha’s Vineyard Arts Association.
This year’s winners are Isaac Hurwitz and Kira Shipway; the alternate is Tova Katzman.
Each of the three recent high school graduates presented an impressive array of work, stretching across mediums and subject matters.
Escape Via Siberia
At the beginning of WWII, as Germany invaded western Poland, many Poles fled east to escape the Nazi occupation. Before long they became victims of a secret treaty to divide Poland and found themselves under Soviet occupation. In 1940 many of them, including 200,000 Jews, were deported to labor camps throughout Russia.
