Arts & Entertainment
Dementia Care
Family caregivers or professionals may attend a Dementia Certificate Program course on Friday, Sept. 17 from 1 to 4 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 18 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional Transit Authority in Edgartown.
Tuition for this training from Alz-heimer’s Services of Cape Cod and the Islands is $85 and includes a certificate of completion and 6 CEUs.
Tuition for family caregivers is $10 to cover the costs of materials.
CPR/First Aid Classes
The Red Cross offers CPR and First Aid classes on Saturday, Sept. 11, at the YMCA in Oak Bluffs.
The class is in two parts: from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. is Adult and Child CPR/AED (rescue breathing, first aid for choking, recognizing a heart attack); the cost is $65 for this certification only. The First Aid class follows, until 4:30 p.m.; the cost is $80 total for both classes.
The Vineyard prides itself on promoting all things local: music, painting, livestock, produce, you name it. This weekend, though, the Island goes international as it celebrates the cinema of the world.
Last night the fifth annual Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival kicked off as it always does, with an opening night reception on the Mansion House rooftop.
There was a sacred energy on stage last Saturday at Nectar’s when John Forté took the stage alongside his good friend Ben Taylor, Ben’s sister, Sally Taylor, and their mother, Carly Simon. It was a little like peering into someone’s living room. There was a banter on stage that you didn’t want to interrupt and yet wanted to be part of, hoping someone would clue you in on the inside jokes and sideways glances.
“Astonish me!” Sergei Diaghilev famously demanded of the poet Jean Cocteau; this past week and the next at the Vineyard Playhouse — until Sept. 16 — the theatre does exactly that. From the moment the audience arrives and is ushered not to the theatre but to tables and chairs downstairs in a pub setting or, as the trio of actors all iterate, “a lounge bar, really,” the astonishment begins.
Pastel Art Show
As a television writer-producer, Arnold Rabin worked first with the networks, then with the United Nations, before executive producing for PBS.
As an author, Mr. Rabin’s novel, The Rat and the Rose, received an award from the Small Press Association; he also has written short stories and a children’s book.
Now he debuts as an artist. Following several years attending pastel workshops with Ellen McCluskey, Mr. Rabin opens his first official showing of his pastel drawings at the West Tisbury Library.
