Arts & Entertainment
Noble Truths
Khenpo Tsering will visit Martha’s Vineyard tomorrow and Sunday for a weekend teaching series, the Four Noble Truths. An understanding of the Four Noble Truths is essential to Buddhist practice and offers a method to deal with the difficulties that are part of everyday life.
The teachings will be held from 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 4 p.m. both days at the Bodhi Path Buddhist Center, 21 Laurand Drive in West Tisbury. All are welcome to attend a single session or the whole series.
ICH SEHE DEN KOPF DES PANTHERS IM DUNKEL DER NACHT. By Dietmar Goessweiner.
AMERGIN AGAIN. By Joe Eldredge. hUMILITY pRESS, West Tisbury, 2009. $15, softcover.
The Island Community Chorus has been rehearsing since before the ferry rates went down, since before the fall Derby began – in fact, since the week public schools opened on the Vineyard – in preparation for this weekend’s holiday concerts at the Whaling Church.
Singer-songwriter Nancy Jephcote will entertain at the Vineyard Playhouse’s second Spoon in the Moon Coffeehouse, on Friday night, Dec. 4 at the playhouse on Church street in downtown Vineyard Haven.
Ms. Jephcote will be featuring songs from her new solo album, Garland of Rain. With an exquisite voice, profound lyrics and imaginative instrumental arrangements, her delivery is always genuine. In her own words, “this is genre-bending, folk-imbued original music with heart and spirit. The lyrics carry my experience, strength and hope.”
Tom Clark, Collections and Grounds Manager at the Polly Hill Arboretum, is giving a talk, Seasons of the Polly Hill Arboretum, at the Oak Bluffs library on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 6 p.m.
Red Cross Classes
The American Red Cross, Cape Cod and Islands Chapter will be holding an Adult CPR/AED and First Aid class on Dec. 12 at the YMCA on Martha’s Vineyard at 57 Pequot avenue in Oaks Bluffs. The class will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and costs $50 for CPR/AED only, or $60 for CPR/AED and First Aid.
Students will receive training manuals and certification cards.
