Books & Ideas
Fire Tree Studios is once again coming to the Vineyard this fall and offering a seven-day painting retreat. The retreat begins on Sunday, September 11 and runs through September 18.
On Tuesday, August 23, from 5 to 7 p.m. the Chilmark Library will host an event entitled Two States Now: A Discussion on the Policy Implications of the Forthcoming UN General Assembly Debate on Granting Palestinian Statehood. The talk is part of a national action day event being observed in various communities and in Washington, urging Americans to show their support for President Obama’s approach to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
You Have a Story to Tell
Patrika Vaughn has been helping people write their memoirs for 16 years. And next week she can help you with yours.
On Friday, August 26, Ms. Vaughn will lead a seminar from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the process of memoir writing. On August 27 she will conduct one-hour individual consultations.
The seminar and consultations will take place at the Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs. The cost is $100, which includes a four CD set.
There’s a lot growing at the Polly Hill Arboretum in West Tisbury and we’re not just talking about what comes up from the ground. Next week features three outstanding lectures by specialists in their fields.
Author Bill Sargent will discuss his new book, The Well from Hell: The BP Oil Spill and the Endurance of Big Oil, at the Chilmark Public Library on Wednesday, August 17, at 5:30 p.m.
As playwright, theatre and film director George C. Wolfe tells it, the event which first motivated him toward the arts was the same one that led him to his latest ambitious project, presenting the history of the American civil rights movement.
That moment, which set him on his course toward the arts, the plaudits for his stage and screen work, the Tony awards, and now the new job as chief creative officer for the nascent National Center for Civil and Human Rights, came in 1964 when he was a boy of 10, in the small town of Franklin, Ky.