Arts & Entertainment
Felix and Flatbread
Part of the proceeds of every pizza sold at Flatbread on Tuesday, Sept. 28 from 5 p.m. until closing will go directly to Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary to support nature and wildlife protection on Martha’s Vineyard.
Felix Neck naturalists will be on hand to talk about fall’s bird migrations at Flatbread Pizza (at Nectar’s near the airport) and the Flying Elbows will enjoy music.
For details, call 508-627-4850 or see flatbreadcompany.com.
COMSOG Festival
The Community Solar Greenhouse’s annual Fall Festival will be held on Sunday, Oct. 3 from noon to 3 p.m. at 114 New York avenue. Islanders anticipate the COMSOG soup each year (it’s free!) as well as the music, games, trifles and treasures sale, raffle and vendors.
Featherstone Center for the Arts, the nonprofit arts campus on a hilltop in Oak Bluffs, has a new executive director, after its board appointed Ann Smith to replace Francine Kelly at its annual general meeting last Wednesday.
Ms. Kelly, who has vastly expanded Featherstone’s programs and fundraising since arriving in 2003, asked the 18-member board in August for retirement effective Labor Day. She will stay on as a consultant to plan events to promote the center’s 15th anniversary next year.
By HOLLY NADLER
Perhaps the most fruitful painters’ retreat occurred in the fall of 1888 when Vincent van Gogh invited Paul Gauguin to join him in Arles. Gauguin brought a bale of jute which the two artists cut into canvases. The rough-hewn quality of the jute changed the brushstrokes of both the painters and the unique Arles light lives on in their masterworks from that period.
Twinkling Ingmar Bergmanesque lights sparkled in the spooky, dark woods of Chilmark. A big bowl of baby tomatoes sat on an outdoor table. Inside the anterior barn space at the Yard, the makeshift stage was adorned with microphones, drums and a hand-waving papier-mâché R2-D2. It seemed everyone and everything was welcome at the Satsang Lounge.
West Tisbury artist Leslie Baker recently opened a show of her landscape work at the Copley Society of Art in Boston. A painter, portrait artist and children’s book author, Ms. Baker’s plein air oil studies are well known on the Vineyard, where she has lived year-round since 1997. The Copley show is anchored by a sweeping triptych of Long Point Wildlife Refuge on a hazy, late summer day. The show opened on Sept. 11 and will hang until Oct. 8. The Copley Society of Art, founded in 1879, is located at 158 Newbury street in Boston.
