Arts & Entertainment
Two of the Yard’s residencies culminate this weekend, both performances consisting entirely of new work.
On Saturday, the New England Choreographers Project presents Disappearing Woman, an informal showing by Nell Breyer, Alissa Cardone, and Lorraine Chapman. This work addresses the anxieties of three women in an increasingly dispersed, high-speed, distributed culture. The artists use the metaphor of digital media as an enveloping, inescapable extension of the body itself. There is a free family matinee (donations accepted) at 4 p.m.
“All Vineyard”: Kib Bramhall Returns
The Island plein air artists in Dragonfly Gallery’s Summer Visions show raised $400 for Martha’s Vineyard Habitat for Humanity. Sixteen artists each paid an entry fee of $25 as a contribution to Habitat: Monte Becker, William Buckley, Traeger di Pietro, Mary Emerson, Valentine Estabrook, Nancy Furino, Susan Johnson, Magi Leland, Ellen Liman, Kanta Lipsky, Thaw Malin, Marjorie Mason, Don McKillop, June Schoppe, Elizabeth Taft and Linda Thompson. A portion of the sales from the show will be donated to Island Affordable Housing Trust.
A devoted, multigenerational crowd gathered at the Judy Blume book signing at Bunch of Grapes Bookstore last Saturday afternoon, the first jointly held book signing between the store and Riley’s Reads.
Ms. Blume was signing any and all of her 28 releases, including the newest, Friend or Fiend? With the Pain and the Great One.
Poet Sassy Ross will be featured at a wine and cheese reading today, Tuesday, August 18, at 5:30 p.m. at The Yard on Middle Road in Chilmark. Admission is $25 for general seating; $15 for seniors and those under age 30.
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, tells the story of one of the most famous and controversial lawyers of the 20th century. At the center of such cultural and political touchstone events as the defense of the Chicago 8, the Attica Prison riots, the standoff at Wounded Knee, and the Central Park jogger rape case, Kunstler represented accused terrorists and murderers as well as civil rights and anti-war activists.
