Art
The Vineyard Playhouse will transform into Spoon in the Moon Coffeehouse on Friday, April 2, with the assistance of a musical trio whose harmonies and arrangements inject new life into familiar traditional songs.
Cindy Kallet, Ellen Epstein and Michael Cicone perform both a cappella and with simple accompaniment from guitar and hammered dulcimer. The material is drawn from both contemporary and traditional works from America and the British Isles, with an occasional sea shanty thrown in. Their live performances are engaging for audiences of all ages.
The product of a global collaboration will be on display at the Virginia Weston Besse Gallery at Featherstone this Sunday, March 28. One Day in the Life is a documentary photography and writing exhibit that involves students from more than thirty countries around the world, including several at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
As spring gets in to full swing, everything becomes a little more animated. This is especially true on Friday, April 2, at the Katharine Cornell Theatre, when the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society presents a special screening of The Secret of Kells, a 2010 Oscar nominee for best animated feature.
At this year’s Massachusetts High School Drama Guild Festival the students in Kate Murray’s Theatre II class presented a new work, the brainchild of a creative collaboration between teacher and students. And this weekend, they are bringing it home, with several productions for the Vineyard audiences slated at the high school’s performing arts center.
Closets Opening Soon
BravEncore, a nonprofit organization that supports Island high school performing arts, presents Closets, an original play written by Kate Murray and her Theatre 2 class, on Friday, March 26 at 7 p.m. at the high school performing arts center. The play was recently performed at the Massachusetts High School Drama Guild competition.
Admission is free, but donations are welcome; all proceeds benefit the BravEncore troupe trip to perform at the 2010 Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Grief Support
Is someone close to you dying or been struck by a terminal illness? Do you feel that you are already grieving? Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard is forming an anticipatory grief group, to support those undergoing the fear, frustrations and other emotions that accompany the grieving process that often begins before death.