Arts & Entertainment
Tonight the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society is screening The Way at the Capawock Theatre in Vineyerd Haven.
The folks at Cinema Circus are hosting another winter screening to be held on Saturday, Jan. 7, beginning at 5 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center. The event includes food, activities and, of course, a series of short films. Earlier this week a screening of the films was arranged with two young Island cineastes to give the kids’-point-of-view on what’s good, great and not so much.
The review for this weekend’s kids’ movie comes from brother and sister team, Tristan and Charlotte Scott.
The Lost Thing
The Rap on Kid Critics Tristan and Charlotte Scott
Name: Tristan and Charlotte Scott
Ages: 7 1/2 and almost 5
School: Second grade and kindergarten at the Chilmark School
Pets: Two cockatiels named Nelly and Mary, a hamster named Chalissa, plus chickens, ducks, guinea hens, cows, sheep and pigs. And bees too.
Something new you are learning: Tristan - Rock and water cycles, and our life cycle too. Charlotte - numbers and letters. I’m also trying not to cry about small things.
Alcoholics Anonymous
Information: 508-627-7084.
All meetings are nonsmoking.
Sunday, 6:45 a.m., open discussion meeting, First Baptist Church, William street, Vineyard Haven.
Sunday, 10 a.m., open discussion, State Beach, first bridge, Oak Bluffs, (weather permitting).
Sunday, 11 a.m., open discussion meeting at the Council on Aging on Wamsutta avenue in Oak Bluffs.
Sunday, 7 p.m., grapevine meeting at old Oak Bluffs School, School street, Oak Bluffs.
Al Hurwitz Reception
Al Hurwitz is a world-renowned art educator. He has won numerous awards including a National Art Educator award, a Sir Herbert Read award from the International Society for Education through Art and, most recently, the Eisner Lifetime Achievement Award. He also holds the Chair Emeritus of the Center for Art Education at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and has written the classic art book, Children and Their Art: Methods for the Elementary School with Michael Daly.
From foreign films to home-grown musical acts, the best movies, books and albums of 2011, as selected by Vineyard experts, are sure to keep Islanders entertained through the winter.
From foreign films to home-grown musical acts, the best movies, books and albums of 2011, as selected by Vineyard experts, are sure to keep Islanders entertained through the winter.
“It was a great year to be a reader,” West Tisbury librarian Beth Kramer wrote in an e-mail to the Gazette. Her choices for the year may be from different genres, but all are, said Ms. Kramer, “beautifully rendered tales that took you around the world and deep into the hearts of their characters.” Her list follows.
