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 our weekly kid critics.
A grand puppet parade down Main street, Vineyard Haven on Saturday will be a highlight of the fourth annual weekend-long Martha’s Vineyard Puppet Festival. The parade will begin at 5 p.m., but anyone who would like to join the parade can bring a puppet friend and meet at Katharine Cornell Theatre at 4:30, or come at 3 p.m. to a free puppet-making event and make a parade puppet to follow the giant puppets — Mother Earth, Mother Ocean and Father Sky.
By her own definition, artist Victoria Campbell’s life path has been “a long, crooked road,” with interludes in theatre, filmmaking and performance art. Her restless creative peregrination has taken her through Europe, New York and Los Angeles. In an unforeseen twist, Ms. Campbell’s journey took a detour into the ruined slums of Haiti in the wake of the January quake. On Wednesday, July 14, art and humanitarianism will come together as she screens her acclaimed documentary House of Bones at a fundraiser for the Haitian neighborhood of Christroi.
Law professor Ray Madoff will discuss her new book, Immortality and the Law: The Rising Power of the American Dead, on Thursday, July 15, 8 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center. Described by the Financial Times as a “stunning polemic,” Ms. Madoff examines the distinctly American approach taken to the law of the dead; when it comes to property in America, the dead have greater control than anywhere else in the world.
By BETTYE FOSTER BAKER
The Cottagers, Inc. 28th Annual House Tour, titled Architectural Treasures, Past and Present will be held on Thursday, July 15, rain or shine. In the fine tradition of distinctive homes associated with the tour, five residences will be featured.
Sisters Celebration
Bring your sister (if you’re speaking), your daughters, nieces, cousins, friends, sister in law, and neighbors to A Sisters Celebration on Wednesday, July 14, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Library, featuring readings by Carol Gilligan, Jessica Harris, Rose Styron and Jan Freeman, director of Paris Press and co-editor of Sisters: An Anthology (Paris Press, 2009)
Writers included are Margaret Atwood, Dorothy Parker, Joan Baez, Barbara Kingsolver, Wendy Wasserstein and Alice Walker.
