Art
IMP, the Island’s youth improv troupe, has been selected to perform at the 2010 Teen Chicago Improv Festival, and will be in the spotlight for two nights in a row this weekend in an effort to raise funds for the trip to the Windy City.
Unbeknownst to most, the story of The Little Mermaid predates the 1989 animated classic by more than 150 years. The real story is a bit more complex and a great deal darker than the Disneyfied version we all know and love, and this weekend students at the West Tisbury school will offer their own interpretation.
Once on This Island Jr., is an adaptation of a Broadway musical based on the novel My Love, My Love, by Rosa Guy, which is in turn an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, first published in 1837.
The Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center invites the public for a film and discussion on Sunday, April 11 at 3 p.m. for their Yom Ha’Shoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, program. A screening of the prize-winning film, Pilgrimage into the Past, will be followed by a talk with the film’s director, Austin de Besche, and the film’s subject, Holocaust survivor Michael Kraus. The event is free; donations will be accepted.
The East Coast School of Etiquette this summer will offer a new class, Manners for Three, Four and Five-Year-Olds, to the Vineyard program which also includes etiquette classes for kindergarten through grade five.
The new preschool program has been designed as a 10-lesson presentation, with creative activities to help children learn introductions, telephone manners, dining skills and more.
Held at Farm Neck Country Club in Oak Bluffs, the classes are available in July and August.
Benefit Party
The Portuguese American Club in Oak Bluffs is hosting Jimmy Buffet Night, a benefit party for Brenda Lehman, at 6 p.m. Friday, April 16. The evening will feature live music courtesy of the Sting Rays, food, trivia, silent auction, and prizes for best Parrothead. Tickets are $20, available at the door or in advance from Deb Rogers at 508-627-4171, or Barbara Phillips, 508-627-9097.
Vineyard Verses
The Friends of the Chilmark Library invite Islanders to celebrate National Poetry Month with a reading by Vineyard poet and stonemason John Maloney on Wednesday, April 14 at 5:30 p.m. Mr. Maloney, has had work published in Poetry, Ploughshares, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere, as well as in his two books, Proposal and Town of Chilmark. His work poem, Good!, was featured on Garrison Keillor’s National Public Radio show, The Writer’s Almanac, in March.