Arts & Entertainment
It’s six days before opening night of the Vineyard’s first production of Rent — that’s about 8,000 minutes, for fans of the Broadway musical’s company song Seasons of Love, which poses the question, how do you measure a year, and answers it with the surprisingly catchy refrain, “five-hundred, twenty-five-thousand, six-hundred minutes..”
New, original short plays will be presented by the Tisbury and West Tisbury schools on Saturday, Feb. 6 and Saturday, Feb. 13 at the Vineyard Playhouse, 24 Church street, Vineyard Haven. Performance times for both dates are 2 and 7 p.m.
The Tisbury School plays are Calculated Risk, by Pam Herman’s class, and Tornado Fourth Grade-O! by Veronika VandeGeer’s class. The plays from West Tisbury are Digging for Clues, by Rebecca Solway’s class, and A Map For Freedom, by Mary Boyd’s Class.
Here’s a sneak peek at each play:
In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music From the Civil Rights Movement in honor of black history month will be live-streamed on Feb. 11 at 8 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center, courtesy of the social action committee and the program committee.
One Night, Three Acts, Eight Bucks
The Island is home to a lot of talent, but if you aren’t much of a barfly, you’d think homegrown musicians fly south for the winter. Tonight at 7 p.m., the Unitarian Universalist Society will turn their chapel into a dancefloor.
Fans of hot chowder and classic movies will find something to cheer about with the Friends of the Chilmark Public Library’s winter Chowder and a Movie series. Every other Wednesday in January, February and March at noon, the library serves up a pot of hot chowder and a movie favorite from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s. It’s all free. The schedule is as follows:
About 200 Islanders took in Saturday’s Family Film Feast event, the last in this successful new Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival’s winter series, which varied each month in all ways except in its emphasis on the spirit of community.
Community drumming aficionado Rick Bausman led a drum circle with kids involved during the first hour, while, underscoring the feast portion of the event, a meal made from food donated by the Farm Institute and Whippoorwill Farm was prepared and served by Amy Miller and Billy Dillon.
