Arts & Entertainment
The National Alliance on Mental Illness will offer a series of 12 weekly classes, starting April 11, for families of people diagnosed with serious mental illnesses.
Classes will examine the symptoms of schizophrenia, bipolar disease, major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorders, as well as offer coping skills, basic information about medications, listening and communication techniques, problem solving, recovery and rehabilitation and self-care.
Occupy on Full Stomach
On Saturday, March 24 the empowerment and education working group of Occupy MV is hosting a free community dinner and screening of Eyes Wide Open. The documentary movie focuses on the Federal Reserve and the IRS. The screening begins at 7 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center and will be followed by a question and answer session.
Garden Gate Benefit
The Garden Gate Child Development Center is throwing its annual Night of Adventure benefit party and auction on March 24 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Wharf in Edgartown.
One of the auction items is a chance to sing with Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish at the Ritz in Oak Bluffs.
Other more sedentary items, include a trip to Florida with Red Sox spring training tickets, breakfast at Linda Jean’s, a Mohegan Sun overnight trip with Wolf Den reserved seating. Full moon bidders beware.
King of the Irish Pipes
To get your Irish on, and we’re talking real Irish, not just some do-si-do with a leprechaun and too many Guinness, you need to go to the core of your very Irish soul. On Friday, March 16, KCT concerts is providing just the guide.
Paddy Keenan is not exactly a regular on the Island, he doesn’t live here, but he returns often, fiddle in hand, to remind us what Irish music can be in the hands of a master.
Leave it to Boomer; A Look at Life, Love and Parenthood by the Very Model of the Modern Middle-Age Man, by Jerry Zezima, iUniverse, Inc., New York, Bloomington, 2010, 154 pages (paperback, $15.95)
Jerry Zezima is a funny guy. You may have read some of his columns in the Vineyard Gazette over the years. In his first book, Leave it to Boomer, he traces his life as a middle-age father and husband. When someone tells his wife and daughter that Jerry is “very witty,” they both respond: “We just ignore him.”
Daffodil Days
Thousands of daffodils are coming to the Vineyard on Tuesday, as part of an annual fund-raiser for the American Cancer Society.
Boxes containing 11,000 flowers will arrive Tuesday morning at 10:15 a.m. on the ferry. A team of core volunteers will meet at the Steamship Authority in Vineyard Haven to collect and then distribute the budding flowers.
