Arts & Entertainment
Do you agree it’s time for a change? Have we had enough of the same old same old? We seem to have fallen into a rut over the past eight years. Many of us welcome a chance for change, a breath of fresh air, a new view of the world. Bring more people around to our way of thinking. Share our feelings with a larger segment of the population.
We want to do more than we’ve done in the past. We can do better. This is no time to sit on the sidelines. We need to walk side-by-side, shoulder-to-shoulder and show our solidarity for the cause.
Phyllis Vecchia will be holding a fall creative drama workshop for four-and-half to 10-year-olds at the Oak Bluffs School. Classes began yesterday and will be held weekly from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. Classes run through Dec. 4.
The workshop will begin with theatre warm-ups and puppet play, followed by character warm-ups, a story, costume dress-up and a performance. Each week a new folk tale or fairy tale is presented for the children to reenact into a creative drama piece. No former experience is necessary, just a desire to have fun and work in a team setting.
This year’s ninth annual art exhibition at the Pequot Hotel will be held from tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 4 through next Sunday, Oct. 12. The opening reception will be tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m. Ten per cent of all sales will be donated to the Oak Bluffs library in memory of artist Betty Boyd who died last winter.
Students from University of Massachusetts Medical and Nursing School (Rural Health Rotation) will be surveying Islanders who attend the Friday Conversation meeting today, Oct. 3, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Oak Bluffs Senior Center. Their topic is the need for accident prevention plans for elders in a rural or Island setting. Their project is sponsored by the Elder Services Committee of the Dukes County Health Council. Bring your friends and neighbors.
Entrain’s Drums For Peace, a concert focusing on the theme of peace, love and unity, will be presented twice on Friday, Oct.3: first, an alcohol-free, all-ages show at 7 p.m., then an over-21 show at 10 p.m. Both shows are at Outerland at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport.
Entrain’s energetic percussion-driven sound will offer the audience an explosive two hours of drum ensemble pieces and rhythms from all over the world. The full band will also be playing tunes from their seven compact discs that contain this positive message.
The Carol Craven Gallery has hung its latest exhibition, featuring artwork by gallery artists J. Christian Snedeker, Nancy Furino, Rita Stern, Roger Phillips, Claire Chalfoun, Ann Grandin, John Evans, Gretchen Feldman and others.
There is a selection of American Modernist works by Benton, Gropper, Curry, Grosz and Lawrence, as well as paintings by South African artists Beezy Bailey and Usen Obot. Also featured is a major pastel by renowned artist David Hollowell, and a marvelous print by Faith Ringgold.
