Art
The Vineyard Committee on Hunger along with several of our local houses of worship and Reliable Market are working together to ensure that Island families in need will have a great Easter meal. Help by contributing the cost of one family’s meal, $25.
The Easter Basket includes a ham, five pounds of potatoes, three pounds of apples, three pounds of oranges, a pound and half of onions, a pound of carrots, sweet potatoes and more.
April is National Poetry Month, and the Vineyard Haven library is issuing a call to all Island poets who would like their work shown in the library’s main display case.
Poets may submit a maximum of three poems. They should leave their names off the poems, but include another sheet of paper with their names, phone numbers, and the titles of the poems.
Poems can be left in a box on the Friends’ table just inside the main entrance of the library.
It’s the season of The School Play, the least cynical theatrical event in the business. Behind the curtains — that is, where there are stage curtains — schoolkids across the Island have been cooing over each other’s costumes, sketching each other’s faces with greasepaint, and studying lines and stage directions as well as for their math and science tests. Cue the butterflies, the beaming parents, the misty eyes and the magic that can’t be captured anywhere but on those boards.
In this year-long serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after two decades to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe fears and detests Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery, Broadway. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe has been obsessed with “taking down” Moby.
On April 4, laugh with WIMP and get the IMPers to the Chicago Improv Festival. The IMPers, Martha’s Vineyard’s teen professional improv troupe, scored an invitation to perform at the international Chicago Improv Festival alongside headliners from major motion pictures and television shows like Mad TV and Saturday Night Live. In the history of the festival this honor has only been extended to a handful of teen troupes. This is the second group of young improvisors from the Vineyard to receive this honor.
Vineyard House is hosting a potluck with The Sisters, including Sister Rose and Sister Maurice from the Bronx, bright, big-hearted, down-to-earth women who tell engaging, funny tales of living with the daily struggle of a habit, from the perspective of a nun’s habit.