Art
This week’s evening lecture at the Chilmark Community Center is Inside Enemy Lines: How Technology Is Changing the Business of Media with Jessica Vascellaro, deputy bureau chief in New York, and formerly San Francisco, for the Wall Street Journal.
The Night Belongs to Opera
For two nights only, Opera Noire of New York comes to Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs with two separate but equally spectacular programs: tonight, August 17, A Gala Performance of Opera’s Greatest Hits begins at 8 p.m. Then on Thursday, August 19, From The Underground Railroad to the
Great White Way begins at 8 p.m.
Rising Tide Benefit
Cocktails, hors d’oeuvre, and live and silent auctions are featured at the fourth annual summer cocktail party to benefit Rising Tide Therapeutic Equestrian Center on Thursday, August 19 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Held at the home of Rose Styron (53 High Hedge Lane in Vineyard Haven), the party will feature a selection of appetizers prepared by some of the Island’s favorite chefs. Admission is $60 at the door.
By MEGAN DOOLEY
On Thursday night, soprano Jeanine De Bique told the story of a woman torn between her loyalty to her family and her love for a man whose family ties made him enemy to her own. She asked that the gods strike her down with lightning, “because it’s better to be dead, I guess, than to be in love,” said Ms. De Bique. She told another story of a woman who found herself unexpectedly pregnant by a cold, cruel man, and the heartbreak that ensued.
Poet Judith Tannenbaum, the author of By Heart: Poetry, Prison and Two Lives, is presenting her work at Featherstone on Thursday, August 19 at 6:30 p.m.
Nina Gomez Gordon will be the featured artist at a a wine and cheese reception on Thursday, August 19 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Made Here on the Vineyard in Nevin Square in Edgartown,
Ms. Gomez-Gordon earned a bachelor of arts in fine art from Bowdoin College and studied painting and sculpture at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago and Maine College of Art. She has been a professional artist on Martha’s Vineyard for more than 16 years, specializing in plein air landscapes, abstract art, figure drawings from life and portraits by commission.