Art
Salve Workshop
Holly Bellebuono of Vineyard Herbs returns to the Polly Hill Arboretum on Tuesday, July 7 from 1 to 3 p.m. for her popular salve-making workshop. This fun hands-on workshop starts with a walk to identify and collect medicinal herbs. Afterwards participants make their own oil infusions and beeswax-based ointments. Learn practical knowledge on when and how to use herbal salves, and take home your useful creation. Supplies are included. Cost is $40, $35 for Polly Hill Arboretum members. Please register in advance, call 508-693-9426.
Outspoken author, lawyer and political commentator Alan Dershowitz will be the special guest at Sunday’s presentation of The Case for Israel: Democracy’s Outpost, a 77-minute documentary screening at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center.
The film begins at 7:30 p.m. on July 5. Tickets are $15 at the door on Centre street in Vineyard Haven.
IMP All Things Theatre Camp will start its sixth year on Monday, July 6. The camp is part of a year-round theatre program where kids ages six to 18 are given the opportunity to explore theatre. Held at the Edgartown School, IMP camp is about choice. Children are given the opportunity to choose their path as they explore all types of theatre. They can choose full or half-day options, one-week or two-week sessions and different types of theatre. A theme encompasses the work of each IMP camp session.
Irish Tunes on July 4
Irish music duo Michael Rooney (on harp) and June McCormack (on flute) bring freshness, forcefulness and finesse to traditional music for a concert at 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 4, at Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven. Tickets are $15 in advance at Aboveground Records, Island Entertainment and Alley’s General Store, or $20 at the door. Children are free at the door. Call 508-693-6996 or 508-693-6237
The Hon. Marie Laurence JocelynLassegue, Haiti’s Minister of Women’s Affairs and Rights, will visit the Island from July 15 to 19 as the guest of the volunteers of Martha’s Vineyard Fish Farm for Haiti Project and PeaceQuilts, two Vineyard humanitarian organizations working to relieve poverty in Haiti. She will be accompanied by a small delegation, all here to support the Island to Island Solidarity initiative.
Steve Masterson, an arborist at the Polly Hill Arboretum in West Tisbury, is raising money to ride in the STIHL Tour des Trees, a week-long, 500-mile, cross-country cycling event. Considered America’s largest fundraiser for tree research, the tour benefits the Tree Research and Education Endowment Fund, an international charitable organization.
