Arts & Entertainment
Viking Scholar to Give Lecture
Like any selfrespecting Viking, Leif Eriksson roamed far and wide. A difficult guy to pin down, the subject of his actual homestead has been in much debate among Viking specialists. Relatively recently, 1960 to be exact, L’Anse aux Meadows, translation Jellyfish Cove, a cozy nook at the northernmost tip of Newfoundland, has been touted as the place Mr. Eriksson hung his helmet.
Wind Farm Talk
This morning, Sept. 17, Paul Pimentel of the Vineyard Power Committee, a grassroots group devoted to creating a windfarm at a site beyond Noman’s Land, will discuss the feasibility, benefits and economics of a wind farm at that location. He will also examine the feasibility of an electricity co-op.
Mr. Pimental is a professional engineer with 40 years experience in energy systems including the development of windmills, solar power and cogeneration.
Painter Mark Bullen is offering a three-day intensive master class in portrait painting at Featherstone Center for the Arts, Oct. 1 to 3.
Through daily demonstrations from the live model, Mr. Bullen will show you how to achieve drawing, form and color in your own work. There will be an emphasis on mixing flesh tints, drawing with a brush and understanding light and shade. The class is designed for both beginning and advanced painters’ benefit. The class runs Friday through Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuition is $375.
Satsang Lounge
Come to the cabaret, my friend, come to the cabaret. Billed as the Satsang lounge the Yard will be hosting this modern day art extravaganza featuring musicians, performers, dancers, artists, writers and filmmakers on Saturday, Sept. 18. Essentially, a smorgasbord of creative mediums.
What to expect? Who knows, except for the unexpected. This is the first edition of Satsang Lounge on the road. The lounge began at the Wesbeth Theatre in New York City and now calls Los Angeles home.
Phil daRosa Performs
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Phil daRosa will perform this Saturday Sept. 18, at the Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs. Phil is about to release a new EP and this is your chance to say I heard it first.
Doors open at 7 p.m. Opening for Phil are Erich Luening and Meghan LaRoque.
Tickets are available at ticketsmv.com or at Above Ground Records, daRosa’s and Island Music. For more details, call 508-524-2065.
It’s the singer, not the song or is it? After all, it is the melody that lingers, the words that capture the undefinable. Songs are mercurial things, each having a mystery path — so far from the iPod or radio dial — that evades the fan. But next weekend, at various locations across the Island, the Martha’s Vineyard Songwriters Festival brings a dozen of the nation’s best songwriters together to celebrate songs, stories and each other.
