Art
On Saturday, August 1, Curt and Ida Gear will host their second annual fundraiser for AHEAD (Adventures in Health, Education and Agricultural Developments), Inc at their home in Oak Bluffs. The soirée will go from 4 to 8 p.m. with food, drinks and music.
Corn Maze
Surprise your friends and lose your enemies in the Farm Institute’s corn maze. Covering five acres in Katama, the maze is open daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Cost is $10 for those over 15 years old, $5 for ages 3 to 14, and free for kids two and under. For details, call 508-627-7007, or visit farminstitute.org.
During college in 1940, while working as a summer cowhand on the family’s Northern California cattle ranch, Dave Brubeck asked his father’s permission to take a job playing jazz at a San Francisco night club. Confounded by the idea, his father shook his head and replied, “I can’t understand why you would want to spend time in a dark and noisy and smoky place, when you could be out here with me in the fresh air with beautiful country all around you.”
The Chappaquiddick Summer Music Festival opens its 14th season on Thursday, July 30, with a recital by internationally acclaimed cellist Inbal Segev, accompanied by pianist Noreen Cassidy-Polera.
You can bring the kids for the stilt walkers and jugglers, for the popcorn, pizza and face-painting, for all the under-the-big-tent fun that is Cinema Circus at the Chilmark Community Center every Wednesday at 5 p.m. The main act, of course, is the movie. Here to review what’s on the big screen tomorrow — a collection of short films — is Island kid critic Hilary Joie Lowitz.
Haitian Situation
Film producer George Rivera will screen three segments on the situation in Haiti, on Thursday, July 30, at 8 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center. Mr. Rivera calls Haiti a country long past the point of desperation, resulting in a dangerous level of donor fatigue made all the more significant by the current economic crisis. In 2008 alone, Haiti received $750 million in direct foreign aid. At the same time, the Haitian people survive largely on remittances from relatives living abroad, the majority in the U.S.