Art
But I Wanted a Baby Brother, by Kate Feiffer, illustrated by Diane Goode, Paula Weisman Books, $16.99
Two books from Little Pickle Press by Rana DiOrio, one illustrated by Chris Hill, the other by Chris Blair, both $16.95.
A child’s book works best when it operates on two levels, appealing to both child and parent. All the classics — Wind in the Willows, the Eloise and Madeline sagas, and Winnie the Pooh, accomplish this. But at bottom, the best books in this category impart something for children and grownups to ponder.
Practicing Arts Alchemy at the Yard
What do you get when you cross the bad boy of downtown dance with Carmen Miranda, Lenny Bruce, and a whole bunch of hard working bodies? Another tour de force show from the Yard, of course. This weekend the artistic love child of Patricia Hoffbauer and Mark Dendy, entitled Para-dice, pushes the boundaries of dance, theatre and performance.
Children’s Theatre
Island Theatre Workshop’s Children’s Theatre summer program opens for the season on Monday, June 28, at the Sailing Camp Park on the Lagoon in Oak Bluffs. There will be four two-week sessions for ages 6 to 18 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Nurturing self-expression with immersion in voice, movement and acting training in a unique and supportive environment, students rehearse and perform an original play at the end of each session, with the support and guidance of experienced staff.
Musical Mondays
The jazz, funk and blues guitar of Jon Zeeman and Friends will kick off Musical Mondays at Featherstone Center for the Arts on June 28.
It’s BYO lawn chair, blanket and picnic basket to the greens of the arts campus on Barnes Road, not far from the blinker in Oak Bluffs, each Monday evening from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Admission is $7 for adults or $5 with Our Island Club card; children are free.
Call them critics-in-training. Children go behind the camera, videotaping kids' reactions to films.
Some six weeks ago, by the light of a slowly rising full moon, painter Ray Ellis stole away to a silent corner of Edgartown and settled in to capture an image of the swollen moon creeping up over Chappaquiddick. Facing down-harbor, he had a perfect view of the Chappy bank, dotted with lights from the houses nestled along its coast.
“The moon was just coming up,” Mr. Ellis said yesterday. Carefully, he captured the silvery reflection of the great white globe in the harbor, a lone sailboat suspended in the water.