Arts & Entertainment
The Martha’s Vineyard Film Society has appointed Richard L. Berkley and Susan Kantrowitz to its board of directors.
A seasonal Island resident, Ms. Kantrowitz is responsible for all legal matters affecting the WGBH Educational Foundation, including the production contracting process and the negotiation and administration of national collective bargaining agreements with actors, writers and musicians. She also oversees the WGBH media library and archives, which manages all aspects of film research and the licensing in and out of stock footage.
The popular children’s musician and PBS Kids cohost of SteveSongs comes to the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs for a free family concert on Thursday, August 13.
Hailing from the streets of Shaolin — that’s Wu-speak for Staten Island — Ghostface Killah entered his 16th year in the rap game with a first-ever trip to the Vineyard last week. The thin-voiced rapper performed for a sold-out crowd Saturday night the same gritty metaphors and rowdy on-stage antics that launched him onto the charts in the early 1990s as one of nine veteran emcees of the Wu-Tang Clan.
Shaw Cramer Gallery today opens Repurposed, Recycled, the latest in its spotlight exhibitions.
Furniture, paintings, metal, glass, jewelry and collage by three Island artists and seven national artists combine to present an elegant collection of work composed of repurposed and recycled materials.
Wendy Weldon has painted on her used painting sandpaper, Rose Abrahamson created a collage and paint composition, and Laurene Krasny Brown combine gouache painted paper strips that form a quilt-like pattern.
They are among the greatest storytellers in our country’s history. Tomorrow, they will be gathered in Vineyard Haven to share their colorful tales with Martha’s Vineyard. Of course, the four men weave these tales without a word, and are no longer alive to tell them in person. But their stories live on in their vibrant, expressive artwork.
Andrew Young, noted civil rights activist, former mayor of Atlanta, Ga., and ambassador to the United Nations in the Jimmy Carter administration, will be the special guest lecturer at the annual Taste of Road Scholar event taking place on Tuesday, August 18, at historic Shearer Cottage in Oak Bluffs.
