Arts & Entertainment
Children’s Theatre
Island Theatre Workshop’s Children’s Theatre summer program opens for the season on Monday, June 28, at the Sailing Camp Park on the Lagoon in Oak Bluffs. There will be four two-week sessions for ages 6 to 18 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Nurturing self-expression with immersion in voice, movement and acting training in a unique and supportive environment, students rehearse and perform an original play at the end of each session, with the support and guidance of experienced staff.
Practicing Arts Alchemy at the Yard
What do you get when you cross the bad boy of downtown dance with Carmen Miranda, Lenny Bruce, and a whole bunch of hard working bodies? Another tour de force show from the Yard, of course. This weekend the artistic love child of Patricia Hoffbauer and Mark Dendy, entitled Para-dice, pushes the boundaries of dance, theatre and performance.
Twelve Hundred dollars and a week of professional wall time was the award for three Island high school seniors who won the Martha’s Vineyard Arts Association scholarship given by the Old Sculpin Gallery. It is hard to know which is better: invaluable experience, or valuable resources.
This year the winners of the scholarship were Lonni Phillips, Naomi Scott and Maggie Howard.
On Sunday, there was an opening reception for this annual showing of the recipients of the scholarship; their exhibit runs until June 26.
Musical Mondays
The jazz, funk and blues guitar of Jon Zeeman and Friends will kick off Musical Mondays at Featherstone Center for the Arts on June 28.
It’s BYO lawn chair, blanket and picnic basket to the greens of the arts campus on Barnes Road, not far from the blinker in Oak Bluffs, each Monday evening from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Admission is $7 for adults or $5 with Our Island Club card; children are free.
Tennis and art will help raise funds for students, women and artists in Haiti through two Vineyard groups this weekend. The Fish Farm for Haiti Project will host a tennis tournament at Farm Neck, Friday through Sunday, and the PeaceQuilts organization will host a show of quilts made in Haiti.
Summer Welcome
The Martha’s Vineyard Center 4 Living will hold its first fundraiser — called Summer Welcome — at the Portuguese-American Club in Oak Bluffs on Friday, June 25, from 6 to 10 p.,m. The evening of Island-style fun includes dinner, dancing by deejay, door prizes and silent auction. Tickets are $10 each, with a cash bar. Proceeds go toward finding a permanent home for the Supportive Day Program.
