Arts & Entertainment
Concert Benefits Plants and Animals
Mezzo-soprano opera singer Lia Kahler-Littlefield and pianist Richard Gordon are coming to the Island to perform a benefit concert entitled, Songs for My Father. Ms. Kahler is dedicating the concert of songs and arias about flowers, plants and animals to the memory of her father, Albert Littlefield, who was born and grew up on what is now the Polly Hill Arboretum.
The concert benefits both the arboretum and the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard.
Alden Besse to Preach
Trinity Episcopal Church in Oak Bluffs welcomes the Reverend Alden Besse as preacher and celebrant this Sunday, Sept. 11.
Rev. Besse retired to the Vineyard in 1990 from his parish in Whitinsville. For fifteen years he served as Pastoral Assistant at Grace Church in Vineyard Haven. For many years Rev. Besse has been active with the Martha’s Vineyard Peace Council, as chairman and now as co-chair. He is also well known on the island for his long-time participation in the annual CROP Walk.
Instead of just checking out art, how about getting to the heart of the matter by visiting the centers of creativity?
This Saturday, Sept. 10, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Featherstone Center for the Arts is hosting studio tours of the following artists: Deborah Colter, Stephanie Danforth, Jeri Dantzig, Traeger di Pietro, Anne D. Grandin, Washington Ledesma, Richard Lee, Steve Lohman, Julia Mitchell, Alison Shaw, Lucinda Sheldon, Jenifer Strachan, Jeanne Staples, Wendy Weldon, and Barney Zeitz.
To us an apt cliche, an embarrassment of riches, really.
Center for Living Benefit
On Tuesday, Sept. 13, Flatbread Pizza is hosting a benefit for the Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living. What this means is that from 5 to 10 p.m. on that day and evening, $3.50 of every pizza sold will be donated to the center.
On Thursday, Sept. 15, Philip Weinstein, a professor of English at Swarthmore College and a part-time resident of Aquinnah, will lead the first of four in a series of book discussions entitled the Fictions of Colonial Encounter. Each discussion will focus on a particular novel that relates in some way to the idea of colonial empires, and the effects of their gradual decline.
Next Thursday’s lecture will focus on The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and take place at the Aquinnah Public Library.
Al Hurwitz will speak to members and guests of Vineyard Village at Home on the art of children’s drawing on Thursday, Sept. 15, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the Chilmark Library.
Dr. Hurwitz is the author of Children and Their Art and has taught children from preschool to the Harvard graduate school of education. He is a recent recipient of the National Art Education’s Lifetime Achievement Award as well as a former Art Educator of the Year and is the former world president of INSEA, UNESCO’s International Society for Education Through Art.
