Arts & Entertainment
Garden Tea Party
Featherstone Center for the Arts is going big this weekend with two events.
On Saturday, May 12, from 2 to 4 p.m. they are hosting the third annual Garden Tea Party and Fashion Show. The event takes place outdoors under the tent and seating will be done at tables of eight. Check out the spring fashions while sipping tea, pinkie up or down is fine, and enjoying the beauty of the Featherstone grounds. The cost is $40 per person.
Evening Under the Stars
The Martha’s Vineyard Cancer Support Group, Inc. is holding its annual fundraiser, An Evening Under the Stars, on Thursday, May 17. The event takes place at Lattanzi’s Restaurant in Edgartown from 6 to 9 p.m. There will be hot and cold hors d’oeuvres, beverages, desserts, and music by Mike Benjamin.
The cost is $100 per person.
For more information contact Jane Carroll at 508-696-9849 or AnneMarie Donahue at 508-627-7958.
On Sunday, May 13, beginning at 4 p.m., the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center is hosting the Composer-Performer-Repertory Ensemble, also known as CPR. It’s an unwieldy name, but the acronym, suggesting a life-saving antidote, is apt. This group can play.
The ensemble is comprised of Matthew Woodard on violin and viola, Nicholas Davies on clarinet, Lev Mamuya on cello, Christopher Staknys on piano and was recently founded by its director, Howard Frazin, at the New England Conservatory.
In the spring of 1967, Tom Mills, the high school choral and orchestral director at the time, hand-picked a select group of student singers who began meeting to sing madrigals and sacred music. When thinking of possible names for the group someone floated the idea, Tom Grape and His Bunch. Thankfully, Barbara Lopes, then a freshman in high school, had a better idea: The Minnesingers, in tribute to a performance troupe of “lovers of song” who traveled throughout Germany in the 12th to 14th centuries.
The percussion of daily life for too many Israelis and Palestinians includes the snare of machine gun fire, or the bass of bomb blasts. But Vineyarder Rick Bausman has ventured to the region, first in 2009 and again 2010, with new rhythms to inspire and unite the next generation of Jews, Muslims and Christians. This October he returns for a nine-day drumming bus tour of the region and he wants Islanders to have the first chance to sign up.
Academy Open House
Falmouth Academy will host an admissions open house on Saturday, May 12, from 2 to 4 p.m. for families interested in learning more about the school. A van will pick up Vineyard families at 2 p.m. in Woods Hole to transport them to the school, and will return to Woods Hole in time for the 5 p.m. ferry.
More than 20 students from the Vineyard will attend the school next year.
