Art
Each week the folks at Cinema Circus show a series of short films on Wednesday evenings at the Chilmark Community Center. The films begin at 6 p.m. but at 5 p.m. the circus — complete with jugglers, face painters, stilt walkers, food and music — gets underway.
The world’s oceans need protection, a globe-traveling National Geographic underwater photographer told a large audience at the Tabernacle last Saturday.
After 35 years of photographing the oceans, Brian Skerry, 49, said he is troubled by growing evidence of degradation of habitat and the waste and loss of sea life. “I think the oceans are dying a death of a thousand cuts,” he said.
In a final tally of their summer fund-raising effort that begins with Possible Dreams but knows no bounds, Martha’s Vineyard Community Services brought in $465,000.
DiAnn Ray, co-chairman of this year’s Possible Dreams auction, said: “We are very pleased. In the past, we had fewer streams of revenue, but now we have funds coming in from lots of places.”
It’s official: Kindle and e-books may flourish, but real books with pages you can turn are here to stay. Just as television thrived without disposing of movies, books and book lovers will never go away. Last Sunday’s Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival proved it.
Power Talk
The Aquinnah/Gay Head Community Association will host a wine and cheese gathering at the Vanderhoop Homestead on Aquinnah Circle at the Gay Head Cliffs on Monday, August 15 (rain date August 16), starting at 5 p.m.
The evening will feature a talk by Mark London, the executive director of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission, about the issue of wind power and how it will affect Aquinnah and the Vineyard generally. Advocates and opponents will be invited and questions will be taken.
This Sunday, August 14, is Founders Sunday at the Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs. As a part of this celebration, the Union Chapel is honored to have the Rev. Dean K. Denniston Jr. as its guest preacher. Born in Boston, and raised in Boston andon the Vineyard, Mr. Denniston is the grandson of the Rev. Oscar E. Denniston, who in 1907 founded Bradley Memorial Church, the Island’s first African American church.