Arts & Entertainment
Sisters Marlee Brewster Brockmann and Patience Brewster will be feted with an artists’ reception for their new exhibition on Sunday, August 1 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Field Gallery in West Tisbury.
This has been a remarkably satisfying season for Island theatregoers. We have available not only our regular offerings — the Vineyard Playhouse’s mainstage season and Shakespeare in the amphitheatre, Camp Jabberwocky, Children’s Theatre, special events at the Yard — but also an energetic new theatre company, ArtFarm Enterprises, which has presented some glorious work in collaboration with Vineyard Arts Project and will soon be presenting more with the Actors Shakespeare Project from Boston.
Ben Taylor
Ben Taylor will play live at the Island Theatre on Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs on Wednesday, August 4, from 6 to 8 p.m. Doors open at 5:30.
The concert is a benefit for the capital campaign for the Island’s Waldorf preschool, Plum Hill School. Tickets are $30 general admission, or $100 which includes an after-show party at Island Cohousing’s common house. Ninety per cent of the ticket price is tax deductible.
Shooting Beauty director George Kachadorian wouldn’t mind settling for an Oscar, but his real objective is to get every student in the country to watch his 60-minute documentary. Mr. Kachadorian, along with the co-director and main subject of Shooting Beauty, Courtney Bent, also his wife, wants to engage America in frank, open conversation about disability.
The Rev. Hal Taussig will be the guest preacher at Union Chapel this Sunday, August 1. This will be his fourth visit to the historic chapel. The title of his sermon is Losing Balloons at the Beach, based on the theme of leisure and crisis. The service begins at 10 a.m. preceded by organ preludes by Garrett Brown at 9:40 a.m.
Before the government can tap the phone or read the e-mails of an American suspected of having terrorist links, it must get the approval of a federal judge. But if they target the same person for death, no such review pertains.
And that deeply concerns Vicki Divoll, a former CIA officer and Senate Intelligence Committee lawyer, who now teaches U.S. government and the Constitution at the U.S. Naval Academy, and who will speak on the subject of targeted killings of Americans by the Obama Administration, tomorrow at the Chilmark Public Library.
