Arts & Entertainment
Dance Away
Two benefit New England Contra Dances for Island resident and musician Kerry Elkin are coming up off-Island: one is on Saturday, Sept. 13, at 8 p.m. at the Greenfield Grange in Greenfield. Mass.; the other is Friday, Sept. 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Scout House in Concord. All proceeds will go to Kerry for his medical needs and to MS research. For more information, see online [email protected].
All tickets available at the box office from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. located at the Mansion House on Main street. All seats that are not claimed 10 minutes before show time will be sold on a first come, first served basis. For details, call 774-392-2972 or check at the box office. Unless otherwise noted, films cost $10; $7 for film society members and children age 14 and under.
Friday
2 p.m. Tuya’s Marriage, Capawock Theatre. Director: Quanan Wang. Drama/Romance, China, 86 min.
In this serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after many years to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe has a paranoid hatred of Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe is obsessed with “taking down” Moby. His efforts have so far been failures, but that does not discourage him.
Dear P:
Phyllis Vecchia will be holding a fall creative drama workshop for four-and-a-half to ten-year-olds at the Oak Bluffs School in the home economics room. Classes will be held on Thursday afternoons from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m.
The series of classes will begin on Thursday, Oct. 2, and run weekly until Dec. 4.
The Vineyard Haven Public Library’s special author series continues on Monday, Sept. 15 at 7 p.m., with An Evening with Rose Styron.
Rose Styron is a poet, journalist and human rights activist. She is the author of By Vineyard Light, a collection of poems centered on Martha’s Vineyard, where she and her husband, the late writer William Styron, spent extended summers.
Wee Farmers
The Farm Institute will offer three Saturday sessions this fall for tots (ages 2 to 4) on Sept. 13, Sept. 20 and Oct. 11 from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Sign up for one or all three.
Each Wee Farmer session will offer a different garden and/or animal focus. Developed to engage young eaters in fresh food and how it gets to their table, little ones with their caregiver will join farmer/teacher Mary Baker on the farm to harvest, cook, eat and visit the animals with leftover treats.
