Arts & Entertainment
Gone are the grownup gatekeepers of movie merit — kids are the audience for the weekly Cinema Circus films. So the Gazette and the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival bring you the big view from the smaller viewers with weekly kid critics.
Spelling Bee
Island Theatre Workshop opens a new production this weekend at Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven. It’s the Tony award-winning comedy and musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, directed by Taffy McCarthy and Linda Berg. This fun, high-energy show opened last night and continues through August 8.
Matt Tobin of Chilmark won the Klays for Kids Charity Skeet Shoot at the Martha’s Vineyard Rod and Gun Club. Held under ideal weather conditions on Sunday, July 18 at the club’s skeet range, this was the 13th annual Klays for Kids, which benefits the club’s three projects for Island kids.
Mr. Tobin bested seven other skeet shooters to take the first place in the shoot, while Phil Hughes of Oak Bluffs picked up second place, followed by Bill Damora of Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., who took third place.
In the second of its four grant cycles in 2010, the Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank Charitable Fund awarded grants totaling $8,000 to seven Island nonprofits.
Those organizations that received grants in June include the Aquinnah Cultural Center, Camp Jabberwocky, Friends of Family Planning of Martha’s Vineyard, Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society, Martha’s Vineyard Film Society, Martha’s Vineyard Museum and Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation.
Johanna Erickson will teach a specialty knitting class at the Tisbury Senior Center on Friday, July 30, from 10 a.m. to noon. The class will include knitting novelties, including a leaf, a rose, I Cord vines, made separately and applied to other knitting, such as a hat or purse. All knitters of any age are welcome. Basic knitting knowledge is necessary.
In August Ms. Erikson will teach Beginning Knitting and Refresher on Basics on Fridays, same time and place.
Author and garden historian Judith Taylor will give a talk on the historic and global migration of plants on Wednesday, July 28 at 7:30 p.m. at the Polly Hill Arboretum.
