Arts & Entertainment
The Yard, a contemporary dance residency program located in Chilmark, and the Trustees of Reservations will host a performance on June 1 at the Mytoi Garden on Chappaquiddick. The “dance walk-around” will feature improvised modern dance performances by 12 members of the Yard and What’s Written Within, another Island dance group.
Travel down the rabbit hole with the Martha’s Vineyard School of Ballet as they present Alice In Wonderland at the Martha’s Vineyard High School Performing Arts Center on Sunday, June 2, at 2 p.m. The production features a cast of children from the Martha’s Vineyard School of Ballet under the artistic direction of Beth Vages.
The Oak Bluffs Association has begun accepting applications for booth and table spaces at this year’s 22nd annual Oak Bluffs Harbor Festival. Artists, craftsmen, food concessions, vendors and other organizations are encouraged to apply. This year’s festival will include live musical entertainment at Nancy’s Snack Bar by Island favorites such as the Beetlebung Steel Band.
Burnt toast.
It was the meal that made Michael Compean’s mother certain her son would someday be a chef. Scrambled eggs and burnt toast.
It was Mother’s Day in 1988. Michael Compean was 10 years old, living in California with his family and, like many children, he made breakfast in bed for his mother.
“That’s when she knew,” he said, “that’s when she knew I was meant to be a chef.”
Memorial Day on Martha’s Vineyard offers some traditional events that honor fallen service men and women but also celebrates the beginning of the summer season.
The Memorial Day Parade begins at 10 a.m. at the American Legion Hall, 34 William street in Vineyard Haven with the route ending at the Oak Grove Cemetery. Flags go up at the Avenue of Flags at the Oak Grove Cemetery at 7:30 a.m., and they will come down at 3 p.m.
Like so many other Islanders, David Stanwood recently admired the new trompe l’oeil mural on the back wall of the Whaling Church, a replica of the mural that graced the walls when the church was first built in 1843. Amid the neoclassical details that create the illusion of a light-filled room, Mr. Stanwood saw piano legs.
