Art
Shooting Beauty director George Kachadorian wouldn’t mind settling for an Oscar, but his real objective is to get every student in the country to watch his 60-minute documentary. Mr. Kachadorian, along with the co-director and main subject of Shooting Beauty, Courtney Bent, also his wife, wants to engage America in frank, open conversation about disability.
The Rev. Hal Taussig will be the guest preacher at Union Chapel this Sunday, August 1. This will be his fourth visit to the historic chapel. The title of his sermon is Losing Balloons at the Beach, based on the theme of leisure and crisis. The service begins at 10 a.m. preceded by organ preludes by Garrett Brown at 9:40 a.m.
Ashrita Furman, the man with the most records in the Guinness Book of Records, will try to add to his list of more than 100 current records by attempting a grape-catching record this Wednesday on the Vineyard.
Jules Feiffer to Speak
On Wednesday, August 18, at 7 p.m., the Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library will present an evening with Jules Feiffer, the renowned comic strip artist and author of the new memoir Backing Into Forward. A reception and book signing will follow the talk, and copies of the new book will be available for sale during the event.
Before the government can tap the phone or read the e-mails of an American suspected of having terrorist links, it must get the approval of a federal judge. But if they target the same person for death, no such review pertains.
And that deeply concerns Vicki Divoll, a former CIA officer and Senate Intelligence Committee lawyer, who now teaches U.S. government and the Constitution at the U.S. Naval Academy, and who will speak on the subject of targeted killings of Americans by the Obama Administration, tomorrow at the Chilmark Public Library.
Pulitzer Prize winners Anthony Lewis and Geraldine Brooks; actor, writer and director Harold Ramis; and radio personalities Paula Lyons and Tony Kahn, along with other prominent authors, attorneys, actors and activists, will gather at the Chilmark Community Center on Thursday, July 29, for An Evening Without: Giving Voice to the Excluded.