Books & Ideas
Bodhi Path Buddhist Center founder Shamar Rinpoche, the 14th Sharmapa, will be on Martha’s Vineyard for a weekend teaching series July 24 and 25, teaching from his latest book, The Path To Awakening. Teachings will be 10 a.m. to noon and from 2 to 4 p.m. both days. There will be a welcoming reception and book signing on Friday, July 23, from 5 to 8 p.m.
Nell Irvin Painter’s The History of White People examines the concept of white as a racial category: what is considered a white race, what is not, what such distinctions mean and how notions of whiteness have changed in response to shifting demographics, aesthetic tastes and politics.
She will discuss these ideas on Thursday, July 22, at 8 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center.
Kids’ Drama Workshop
Phyllis Vecchia Creative Drama will be holding a summer workshop for children four-and-a-half to nine years old at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School summer camp program. It will begin Monday, July 26, through Friday, July 30, daily from 9 to 11 a.m.
Each class will consist of theatre warmups, acting out a folktale or story tale, reading of the story, dressing up in costumes, putting on a performance, puppet play and theatre games. In the last class there will be a short performance for the parents.
Come aboard for a golden hours sail in Vineyard Haven harbor and workshop with Island photographer and artist Louisa Gould, shooting from about 5 p.m. through sunset on Wednesday, July 21.
Jennifer O’Neill to Speak
Jennifer O’Neill, Hollywood star of the film Summer of ‘42, model and cover girl, will share her story about how she found hope and peace in the midst of her tumultuous movie career, on Thursday, July 22, from 7 to 8:15 p.m. at the Tabernacle on the Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs. A freewill offering will be taken in lieu of admission fee.
When Boston College Law School professor Ray Madoff set out to write a book about the legal rights of the dead in America, she only intended to include one chapter on the law itself, devoting the rest of the book to a philosophical, psychological, sociological and even religious interpretation. But as she began prying into the more remote and cobwebbed corners of the legal system, she stumbled upon a bizarre legal world of grave robbing, posthumous procreation and cryogenic preservation that was too rich a topic; in the end, she devoted the entire book to this world.