Arts & Entertainment
A Toast to Rabbie
If a Scot be ripe for toastin’,
If a Scot be fit for praise,
If a Scot stands high above the rest
For the way he spent his days,
Let’s raise a cup now, all about,
And celebrate the cheer
That Rabbie Burns has brought to the world
Now for two hundred, fifty years.
Nay, no poet was ’ere as fecund or fine
Bank Art Exhibit
An exhibition of Lisa Vanderhoop’s photography and giclée prints opens today at the Chilmark Sovereign Bank and continues through February.
The wildlife and nature images were shot on the Vineyard, Africa, the Galapagos and Costa Rica. Ms. Vanderhoop’s humorous Vineyard Sea Dog valentine cards also will be for sale.
Jazz afficionado Leslie J. Stark is offering his popular jazz appreciation series at Featherstone Center for the Arts again this winter, with classes meeting from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in February and March
The Martha’s Vineyard Film Society is turning to the Island’s artistic community with a competition to design the poster for its 2009 Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival, set for September. The winning poster design will receive a cash prize of $250, two opening night film festival tickets and a two-person membership to the film society. Each serious entry will receive two tickets to one festival screening.
A Call to Young Artists
The theme of this year’s Island Book Cover Art Contest, open to all Vineyard sixth grade students, is Island lighthouses. This will be the 19th annual cover competition sponsored by the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce.
Here are the requirements: entries must be drawn with a horizontal layout, on 9-inch by 12-inch wide white paper, using only markers or crayons. Chalk, pencil or pen entries are not eligible.
In this year-long serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after two decades to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe has a paranoid hatred of Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery, Broadway. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe is obsessed with “taking down” Moby.
