Art
Yacht Club Roulette
Test your luck and help Island kids at the same time: bring some friends to the Edgartown Yacht Club next Friday, Nov. 16, for a casino night to benefit the Martha’s Vineyard Boys’ and Girls’ Club. Organizers promise a fun-filled evening of gaming and good times where you can try your hand at blackjack, roll for the riches at the craps table, and spin your way to the penthouse at the money wheel and roulette tables. Door prizes and raffles are also planned. Admission is $10. For details, call 508-627-3303.
Belly Dance Revue
Come join in the fun when Edgartown Council on Aging presents Vineyard Belly Dance and Revue on Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 1:45 p.m. at the Anchors.
Group numbers, solos and duets will be performed by Pat Szucs, Betty Smith, Sheila Rayyan and Suzanna Nickerson. Special guest Jerri Wells will accompany the troupe. Jerri is a seasoned professional singer with a unique style and powerful voice.
Health Talk
An afternoon conversation to introduce a new model of integrative health consultation on the Vineyard will be offered by Soundhealth Integrative Medicine on Sunday, Nov. 11 from 3 to 4 p.m. at Che’s Lounge on Main street in Vineyard Haven. More information is available by calling 508-693-2833.
Island artist and American Impressionist Ray Ellis launches his 15th book, called By the Light of the Moon: The Moonlight Paintings of Ray Ellis, with a talk tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore on Main street in Vineyard Haven. Art historian Valerie Ann Leeds, adjunct curator of American art at the Flint Institute of Arts, traces the artist’s development as a painter of the night in this edited version of the introductory essay.
Small Wonders Show
Louisa Gould Gallery will opens its annual Small Wonders show the day after Thanksgiving, on Friday, Nov. 23, with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. This show features Marjorie Mason’s new oils, Robert Jewett’s ceramics and pottery and Louisa Gould and Thaw Malin’s new small paintings. This event is free with refreshments and entertainment.
The Martha’s Vineyard Film Society presents the comic feature The Big Bad Swim tomorrow, Saturday, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven.
A community pool in Connecticut is the setting for this film in which, as you might expect, learning to swim is the metaphor for life: Ultimately it’s better to jump in with both feet, and get in the swim, rather than sit on the deck, because life happens to you anyway.