Art
The Vineyard Haven Public Library evening lecture series will present a public information session on the proposed Cape Wind project on Thursday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. at the Katherine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven.
Mark Rodgers of Cape Wind, the project proponent, and Audra Parker of the Alliance to Save Nantucket Sound, a group that opposes the project, will discuss the proposed wind farm, which would consist of 130 wind turbines on Horseshoe Shoal. Judy Crawford will moderate the session.
Stephen DiRado's photographs taken on the Vineyard have hung in galleries in New York city, Houston and London and belong to prestigious museum collections in Boston, Berlin and Toledo, Ohio. There was even a play inspired by his summers photographing on the Vineyard, performed at the New Jersey Repertory Company in 2003.
Yet here on the Island, Mr. DiRado's work is conspicuously absent. The Martha's Vineyard Museum has five of his pieces in its archives, but no galleries here exhibit his work.
Four hundred thousand dead civilians and 2.5 million displaced refugees. Hundreds of undefended villages razed by government-funded marauders on horseback. People living in camps with poisoned wells. Starving two-year-olds who look like they’re 102. Mothers who send their daughters out to collect firewood, knowing they will be raped. The violence in Darfur makes the early 21st century look as dark as the 20th.
Featherstone likes to take chances.
Several years ago Featherstone Center for the Arts introduced a gallery show featuring out-of-the-mainstream art, filled by artists who practiced what they felt was important, not what sold.
The show proved a success, and now Featherstone devotes one gallery show to the unconventional art created by Island artists. Titled The Other Side of Vineyard Art: Not Beaches and Boats, this year’s exhibition opens this Sunday, Sept. 16 with a wide array of creations, many never before exhibited.
Classical Class
Love concert music but hate compositions written in the 20th century? Perhaps you’ve listened to the wrong pieces. Experience the best of the 20th century in a six-week course with musicologist Charles Blank, open to all ages. It begins Sept. 17 at the Tisbury Senior Center.
Lucinda Childs, a pioneer of post-modern dance and a Vineyard resident, is the subject of a documentary screening free at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 11 at the Capawock Theatre on Main street in Vineyard Haven.
The 53-minute documentary was made in 2006 by Patrick Bensard of the Cinematheque de la Danse in Paris. It includes rehearsals, performances and interviews in London, New York and Paris with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Philip Glass, Anna Kisselgoff, Yvonne Rainer, Susan Sontag and Robert Wilson.