Art
Let Freedom Ring
Islander Mev Good will tell the story of two people, one white and one black, and their shared pursuit of freedom, in A Daughter of a Slave Gives Me My Freedom: A Personal Account, his talk on Tuesday, April 26, at 7 p.m. at the Vineyard Haven Public Library.
Dementia Care Training
An in-depth, eight-hour training designed to meet the state education criteria for dementia care professionals is being offered April 29 and 30 by the Alzheimer’s Services of Cape Cod and the Islands.
Topics covered in the Dementia Certificate Program for Professionals training include an overview of disease progression, empathic communication skills, managing challenging behaviors, medication management and others.
Improv Impresses
Here’s your chance to say, years from now when these teenagers show up on Saturday Night Live or Second City, “I saw them when...”
The IMPers have been accepted once again to the prestigious Teen Comedy Festival in Chicago, and they will show the hometown crowd what they’ve got with a benefit performance next Friday, April 29, at the Grange Hall Theatre in West Tisbury.
If the walls at Nectar’s could talk, or sing for that matter, they would share an intricate story of rock and roll, blues, folk, hip-hop, reggae and pop, but more than that, the story of the soulful music community on the Vineyard. Now, as the only remaining music club on the Island prepares to open for its third season, one thing remains true about the venue: No matter who’s in charge, the music continues to challenge a Vineyard audience.
Learn Reiki
The Yoga Barn is hosting workshops with Libby Barnett, MSW and reiki master. Reiki I is Saturday, April 30, from 2 to 8 p.m. and Reiki II is Sunday, May 1 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The tuition for Reiki I is $95 and for Reiki II is $130, both discounted from regular tuition. As an additional discount Reiki I will be offered at $75 for nurses (proof of certification required).
He would fashion a paintbrush from a twig and some of his own hair, he would grab whatever was available — plywood, masonite, a seashell — and in this way, Captain John. J. Ivory created an eccentric artistic legacy befitting his legendary vagabond life.