Arts & Entertainment
Summer’s End Bazaar
The Friends of the Tisbury Council on Aging will host a Summers’s End Bazaar on Saturday, Sept. 20 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Tisbury Senior Center, located at 34 Pine Tree Road in Vineyard Haven.
The sale will offer jewelry, vintage linens, books, antique framed, tinted prints, unique seashore collage and more.
Interested vendors can get details at 508-693-5661. All ages are welcome.
The Sting Is On
On Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 7 p.m., the Vineyard Haven library will present The Sting. This move features two of our favorite actors: Robert Redford and Paul Newman. When a mutual friend is killed by a mob boss, two con men, one experienced and one young try to get even by pulling off the big con (an ultimate sting) on the mob boss.
In this serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after many years 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. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe is obsessed with “taking down” Moby.
Over the next several weeks, the Vineyard Haven Public Library will be showing and discussing Eyes on the Prize, the seven-part PBS documentary series that tells the story of the civil rights movement through news clips and interviews from the time it took place.
There will be several guest speakers. On the first evening Sheldon and Lucy Durr Hackney will be here.
The standout project in Saturday’s Think Globally, Shot Locally — a mixed bag of a forum at the Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival — was Sara Nesson’s work-in-progress Iraq Paper Scissors, a documentary about Iraq War veterans participating in the Combat Paper Project.
When most people think of animation, they think of Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Shrek, but the Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival’s Saturday evening Animation Lollapalooza aimed to dispel that misconception, showing a surprisingly adult selection including a meth-fueled teen sexuality, the systematic massacre of bubble-wrap bubbles, and a funny, amusing series about a girl trying to lose her virginity.
