Arts & Entertainment
Art by JoAnne Rice
West Tisbury Library will be hosting an art reception on Oct. 8 at 4 p.m. entitled Painting as a Journey into Self featuring artist JoAnne Scotford Rice.
Ms. Rice is an expressive arts therapist with interests in genealogy, Island history, American Indian spirituality, and Theravada Buddhism.
This retrospective of her work reveals her many interests as well as her journey through art and its many mediums including painting, drawing and photography.
Bodhi Path
The Bodhi Path Buddhist Center’s off-season schedule will include meditation sessions on four days of the week.
Tuesday and Thursday sessions will be from 6 to 7 p.m., Saturday mornings will be from 10 to 11:15 a.m. and include sitting meditation and yoga. On Sundays from 10 to 11 a.m. there will be meditation or teachings.
The Bodhi Path center is located at 21 Laurand Drive in West Tisbury. For more information, call 508-696-5929.
Tisbury Harvest Festival
The Tisbury School will be hosting their annual Harvest Festival on Sunday, Oct. 10 from 3 to 5 p.m.
The festival includes a potluck supper, hayrides, live music, pumpkin decorating, face painting, games and more. The Harvest Festival is part of the Tisbury School’s continued community outreach program. The event is hosted and sponsored by the Tisbury School PTO. All games and activites are free of charge.
Bring a dish to share.
Popping Piggies
Popcorn with butter and salt while seated in front of a movie? That’s just so yesterday’s news. How about popcorn with slow roasted pig while watching live capoeira, visiting farm animals or pressing cider. Sounds too good to be true? Well, this Saturday, Oct. 9 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. all this and more are taking place at the eighth annual popcorn festival and fundraiser at the Native Earth Teaching Farm off North Road in Chilmark.
Golf Goodness
The sixth annual Birdies for Baseball charity golf tournament will take place Saturday, Oct. 23 at Mink Meadows Golf Club in Vineyard Haven.
Enjoy breakfast, lunch, great prizes and of course, golf.
Fee is $90 per player with sponsorships available. All proceeds benefit the VBI Scholarship and field maintenance funds.
For more information, call 508-989-8154. To register, call 508-693-0600.
BACKING INTO FORWARD. By Jules Feiffer. Nan. A. Talese / Doubleday, 2010. 464 pages, photographs. $30 hardcover.
Jules Feiffer is one of our icons in the hall of fame that includes Mike Wallace, Beverly Sills, Bill Styron and Walter Cronkite. Island icons are colossi in the big wide world, and brand-makers of the Vineyard as a place that harbors the rich and famous and give-backers to the community. The billionaires who build bulgy houses come and go.
