Arts & Entertainment
Vitamin C with Carbs
It’s out of the pulpit and into the peach pit this Saturday at the West Tisbury Congregational Church’s annual peach festival. From noon to 4 p.m. gorge on peach ice cream, peach shortcake, and peach smoothies on the church lawn. Peach preserves are also available for take home.
So get reunited with Peaches and Herb, run off with James and the Giant Peach (don’t forget to squash Spiker and Sponge along the way) and get peachy keen with this Island tradition. For details, call 508-693-2842.
Olga is in the henhouse and that’s something to crow about. This Sunday, Ms. Hirshhorn once again curates the annual Chicken Alley Art and Collectibles sale and does a lot more than dustup a few feathers. Art gallery, vintage clothing shop, delectable collectibles, hey now, is this Lagoon Pond or Montparnasse?
Jackopierce
High-energy acoustic harmony duo Jackopierce is appearing Saturday, August 14 at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown. You can bank on hearing their song about the Island, titled Vineyard.
Yoga Class Gives Back
Bend it for the Bard, and all the other arts, by taking Johanna Hynes’s vinyasa yoga class on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. at Vineyard Arts Project, 215 Upper Main street Edgartown (parking available). Drop-in fee is $20, kids $12, and 20% of the proceeds go to benefit Vineyard Arts Project.
In the Treehouse With Enos Ray
Paintings by Enos Ray will be on exhibit from now through Labor Day at Treehouse Studios in West Tisbury. All are welcome to a reception on Sunday, August 15, from 4 to 7 p.m. David Corcoran will provide music during the reception as well as present his paintings. For details, call 508-693-6645. Treehouse is at 472 State Road, opposite up-Island Cronig’s. The gallery is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Five years ago, on August 29, 2005, America watched in horror and frustration as New Orleans drowned. Images of suffering and loss remain in our collective psyches today, but many of the sensational events that took place during the rebuilding process were not adequately sensationalist to dominate the media. Filmmaker Katherine Cecil’s new documentary, Race, however, follows the key players and expert commentators in the race for mayor of New Orleans only seven months after Katrina. Screening today at 6 p.m.
