Arts & Entertainment
Worried about rising oil, gas, and electricity costs? There are many ways to keep these costs under control, so the Tisbury Council on Aging is sponsoring a free one-hour session called How to Keep Your Energy Bills Affordable.
The talk will be at the Tisbury Senior Center on Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 4 p.m.
Energy consultant Chris Fried will lead the discussion, focussing on low-cost, energy-saving improvements that can be made to most homes.
Israeli Consul General to New England Nadav Tamir an update on Israeli/Palestinian and Israeli/Syrian peace negotiations on Friday, Sept. 5, at 7 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center. The talk is free and open to all.
Mr. Tamir was born and raised in Kibbutz Manara in northern Israel. He began his career of public service in 1980 in the Israel Defense Forces, where he eventually served as a company commander and retired with the rank of major.
Lagoon Music
Jazz pianist John Alaimo will give a sunset serenade on Sunday, August 31, when Pam and Jim Butterick open their home at 359 Barnes Road for a benefit evening of music on the Lagoon. From 6:30 to 10 p.m., there will be great music and light refreshment and, with luck, a lovely sunset over the lagoon.
A donation of $50 will be taken at the door to benefit the Steeple Fund of the Federated Church in Edgartown. For details, call the church office at 508-627-4421 or the Buttericks at 508-693-6871.
For four years, Salvatore Scibona has been shepherding new writers at the Fine Arts Workshop in Provincetown through readings of their work at local libraries and other cultural venues.
Saturday at 5:30 p.m., at the West Tisbury library, Mr. Scibona will read from The End, his own first novel, that already has generated luxurious reviews prior to its release this week. Responsible reviewers have compared him with Saul Bellow, Virginia Woolf and Graham Greene.
It’s a whole new, clean green spin on trashy books: on Saturday, August 30, Island author Mathea Levine will sign copies of her new definitely not trashy book I’m Lucy: A Day in the Life of a Young Bonobo at Riley’s Reads in Vineyard Haven — but kids will receive a 20 per cent discount on copies of the book if they bring three or more pieces of beach trash they’ve collected.
The Vineyard Haven Public Library begins a new evening movies series on Tuesday, Sept. 2, at 7 p.m. with the screwball comedy Bringing up Baby. starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn.
