Arts & Entertainment
The Bodhi Path of Martha’s Vineyard hosts Professor Lara Braitstein for teachings on Saturday, March 13 and Sunday, March 14, from 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 4 p.m. both days.
Kevin Crawford and Cillian Vallely of the group Lunasa return to the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven on Saturday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m.
Their new album, On Common Ground, was named one of the top 10 albums of 2009 by the Irish Echo, which called it “a pinnacle performance from Cillian Vallely and Kevin Crawford, two uncommonly gifted Irish traditional musicians.”
Emerging Artists Show
The Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library will be hosting an art show featuring the work of emerging Vineyard artists at the library June 7 to 19. Artists interested in participating may contact the library for details on submitting their work. The deadline for submissions will be May 1, 2010.
For more information, call 508-696-4210, extension 11, or visit online vhlibrary.org/artshow.shtml.
Lamenting in short order “that three and a half hour shambles on Sunday night,” the Academy Awards; the “very stupid piece in the New York Times this morning which implies that the popular movies should have won the awards;” and the news that show-business trade magazine Variety had fired its veteran critic — “that’s really an outrage” — David Denby sounds every bit the articulate, authoratative film critic he is every other week in the New Yorker magazine.
In the land of Neverland, where little kids never grow up and swashbuckling pirates can never seem to defeat a team of rough-and-tumble young orphans, imagination rules. So too does it rule in the gymnasium of the Tisbury School, where on Friday night a group of some two dozen kids will channel the despised clan of Captain Hook and the always-triumphant lost boys, in the school’s second production of a musical version of the hit movie Hook.
One Act Play Festival
