Arts & Entertainment
A concert of new work by Michelle Mola and Dudley Brooks, two innovative choreographers chosen from an international pool of over 100 applicants, opens this weekend at the Yard on Middle Road in Chilmark.
Mr. Brooks’ work has a sense of the ridiculous; he’s funny. This weekend, Brooks will premiere D was a Dancer, featuring Edward Lear nonsense poems set to music, and A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Dance — the dance world will never be the same!
“Gentlemen, I am tickled pink to be instructing you colored fliers,” announces white Captain O’Hurley (Joe Forbrich) to his black World War II aviation cadets, in a voice dripping more sarcasm than the crankcase of a P-40 Warhawk extrudes oil. In truth, at the time that the first black airmen were trained at Tuskegee Army Airfield in 1941, many believed the cadets lacked the intelligence and skill to fly a single-engine or multi-engine plane.
They were wrong.
Slow Food Potluck
Slow Food Martha’s Vineyard is holding its June community potluck at the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury on Thursday, June 25, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. In addition to the potluck there will be an update on plans for the July summer potluck and fundraiser and request for volunteer help for this event. In the Slow Food tradition please bring a dish to amply feed six — including a local ingredient if possible — your own place settings, and BYOB. For details, e-mail [email protected].
Five-card drive? Or five-car draw? Either way you call it, Saturday’s Poker Run — where classic cars drive to five spots to get a playing card, and the best poker hand wins — is a great charity fundraiser, part of the annual Island Power Cruise. The poker run begins at 10:30 a.m. at the Wesley Hotel, but kids and their parents will be the local winners if they come to Al’s Package Store on Upper Main street in Edgartown — the second-card stop — any time between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Bread Sale
Vineyard Committee on Hunger’s annual Bread and Bake Sale will be held Saturday, June 20, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., as ever under the Linden Tree next to the Capawock Theatre on Main street, Vineyard Haven. Both bread and baked goods will be available for purchase.
The Vineyard Committee on Hunger has chosen to donated the money from this year’s bread sale directly to Huruma (Mercy), the home for children depicted in Len and Georgia Morris’ film Rescuing Emmanuel.
A new Italian fine dining restaurant is opening Wednesday, June 24, at The Charlotte Inn on Summer street in Edgartown. Owner and chef A.J. Black promises to infuse flavorful Italian herbs and spices, quality truffle oils and Barolo wines into homemade pasta and entrées of fresh seafood, whole fishes, aged beef, veal and lamb, free-range poultry and risottos.
His passion is to prepare uniquely rustic and classically refined dishes like filetto al pepe verde, duck fantasia, the chef said in a statement, with fresh lobster and fish specials prepared daily.
