Arts & Entertainment
The Rap on Willy Anderson
Parents: Andy Anderson and Cola Parker
Siblings: Ella and Lucy Anderson
School: Applewild School, Fitchburg, Mass.
Going into: seventh grade
Favorite subject: Math
Favorite movie: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Favorite book: Brisingr
Favorite song: Viva La Vida by Coldplay
Favorite activities: Biking, swimming, sailing, running
Favorite summertime food: Clam chowder
Most filmmakers expect years of struggle and sacrifice before enjoying a moment of success in the film industry. Some never even catch a glimpse of it. The costs of making a film are high, the changes of making a hit low. But every once in a while, a filmmaker can change all the rules.
For Jasmine McGlade and Damien Chazelle, success sprang from a college assignment.
For the first time in her rich musical history, Vineyard musician Kate Taylor is prepared to release an album with a distinctly personal touch: she has written, or cowritten, all the songs on the album. And throughout Fair Time! — the title track is a reference to the West Tisbury Agricultural and Livestock Fair — she weaves heartfelt tributes to Islanders who have helped to make her Vineyard home.
The Wire
Steve Lohman will unveil a new series of large scale wire sculptures this Sunday at the Old Sculpin Gallery on Dock street in Edgartown. Mr. Lohman is known locally and internationally for his playful steel and wire sculptures. Graceful and whimsical, his lyrical creations capture the subtleties of life and form with a single line. There will be an artist’s reception Sunday, July 19 from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibit will run through August 1.
On Sunday, July 19, a giant Mother Earth puppet together with accompany the Green Man — a 12-foot-tall spirit of vegetation — lead a wild menagerie of puppets down Main street in Vineyard Haven.
The parade marks the middle of the third annual Martha’s Vineyard Puppet Festival. Troupes from Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine join forces with four groups from the Vineyard to offer shows and tell stories from Africa, Asia, the forest and the sea.
Woods Tea Company
Acoustic folk group the Woods Tea Company presents a concert in the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs on Saturday, July 18, at 8 p.m. The Woods Tea Company performs Celtic tunes, bluegrass, sea shanties and American folk songs on instruments including banjos and bouzoukis, guitars and bodhrans, and traditional whistles. Tickets are $20, online MVCMA.org or at the door. For details, call 508-693-0525.
