Arts & Entertainment
If trees could talk what story would they tell? Tom Clark, curator at Polly Hill Arboretum, knows better than most.
On Tuesday, June 11, he will lead a walking tour and share stories about the trees of the arboretum. Meet at 10 a.m. at the arboretum, 809 State Road in West Tisbury, for an hour-long trek. Cost is $5 or free for Polly Hill members.
Champagne, cupcakes and poetry lead the way as the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society and the West Tisbury Library present an evening with poets Jorie Graham and Fanny Howe. Ms. Graham is the author of 12 poetry collections including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Dream of the Unified Field. Ms. Howe has written more than 20 books of poetry.
A Nike Air Jordan sneaker lay sopping wet on a table in the flower studio at Tea Lane Farm on Tuesday. Flower artist Ellie Wetherbee had just finished carving the green floral foam into the shape of the old school sneaker and soaked it before she began to add flowers to the shape.
“It’s like carving a big block of cheese,” she said as she carefully scraped away the final shape of the shoe.
Robin Forte, Island Grown Schools’ Harvest of the Month guest chef for the Edgartown School, moved through the lunch room with a tray of asparagus roll-ups for students to try. As she moved from table to table she saw a pattern emerging, one that has become familiar through the course of this first year of our Harvest of the Month program. The children at first would politely say “No, thank you” to the taste test. Then one student would venture, “I’ll try it,” and then each person in turn around the table would say the same thing.
On Saturday afternoon the Yard dance residency program hosted a performance at Mytoi Garden on Chappaquiddick. The performance was a collaboration between The Yard and The Trustees of Reservations and featured modern improvisational dance by members of Dance The Yard and What’s Written Within, another Island dance group.
This past weekend the World Choreography Institute arrived in Edgartown to have a conversation about dance. On the final day of the think tank, dance masters and interested Islanders sat on couches and pillows on the floor in the living room of the Noepe Center for Literary Arts, formerly the Point Way Inn. They were dissecting a recording of George Balanchine’s ballet, Jewels, in particular the second movement of the piece, known as Rubies.
