Arts & Entertainment
Tempest in a Lighthouse
Shakespeare’s The Tempest tells a story of shipwrecks, castaways, storms and islands ... all best seen from a lighthouse. So the Martha’s Vineyard Museum is hosting a free sneak preview of The Tempest at the Edgartown Lighthouse on Friday, August 27, at 6 p.m.
Performed by Shakespeare for the Masses, a popular off-season irreverent theatre troupe, the performance will be script-in-hand and lighthouse friendly.
Suzanne Vega Meets McCullers
In 1940, at just 23, a young Southern writer — a woman no less — wrote a novel that somehow captured the racial tension and moral isolation of those times in Georgia with such compassion, apprehension, tenderness and humanity that it still inspires today.
Her name was Carson McCullers and the book was The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
It’s not the Estuaries Project, but a project based on the estuary; the first annual collaborative arts retreat working under the title of the Great Pond Project. Unlike the long-awaited scientific research, Vineyarders will quickly see the results of this arts retreat on Edgartown Great Pond: on Friday, August 27, at 3 p.m. is a performing arts open house presented by the contributing artists.
The open house will be held at the home of Patrick Gage, 69 Kanomika Road (off of Meeting House Way) in Edgartown.
Gone are the grownup gatekeepers of movie merit — kids are the audience for the weekly Cinema Circus films. So the Gazette and the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival bring you the big view from the smaller viewers with weekly kid critics.
At an annual Native American speaker series held at Tufts University last winter, Aquinnah Cultural Center program director Linda Coombs saw a performance by a women’s musical group that simply blew her away. Of course, she wasn’t yet the program director at the time, but when she took on the role in May of this year, she knew she wanted the group, Ulali, to be part of the cultural center’s summer season schedule.
The Surgeon General of the United States will be on hand in Oak Bluffs on Saturday, August 28, for the 22nd annual Sullivan 5K Run/Walk Road Race for Health and Fitness. Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., will join former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., and E. Ginger Sullivan at the U.S. Track and Field Association certified 5K course.
