Arts & Entertainment
On June 21, the Oak Bluffs Association will kick off summer with HarborFest 2008, a free event featuring music, arts, crafts, food and entertainment.
The association, which is producing the event, is accepting applications for booth space from artists, non-profits, food concessions as well as children’s games and entertainment.
Applications are available at daRosa’s on Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs, on-line at oakbluffsmv.com under the events tab, or by e-mailing a request at [email protected].
It was Sunday afternoon, deep underground in the sub-basement studio of community radio WVVY, and they were having what one of the flustered on-air staff called “real extreme technical difficulties.”
The monitor outside the studio, an ancient Aiwa radio cassette, was not picking up any signal. Hurried phone calls were made and the suspicion was confirmed: the station was not broadcasting the program, although it was apparently going out okay to a small number of online listeners.
The Vineyard Haven Library begins a new foreign film series on Wednesday, May 7, at 1 p.m.
The first movie is Russian, with subtitles for the Russian, Finnish, and Sámi (spoken in Lapland) languages. The film begins in September, 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A Lapp woman, Anni, gives shelter at her farm to escaped soldiers of the two enemy armies. Unable to speak each other’s language, the two men begin to fall in love with Anni and are forced to let their body language speak for them.
Sounds of chattering teenagers filled the performance hall as they slowly gathered around the piano at the center of the stage. Dressed in causal clothing, some of it splashed with names of colleges they hope to attend next fall, these Island teens appeared relaxed in their role as international performers fresh off a seven-engagement tour of Austria.
After performing in the cathedrals, palaces and streets of Vienna, the Minnesingers this week were preparing for this weekend’s Island show, called Can You Dig It?
The IMPers will present a night of improvised theatre next Friday, May 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven.
This two-act show will include two types of improv: first, short-form improvised games and skits — a fast-paced act with lots of audience participation as well as laughs. Second, the troupe will take the stage to perform their Chicago-style, theatrical-based long-form improvisation. Based off a single suggestion, the troupe improvises a one-act play, usually lasting about 30 to 35 minutes.
Modern art, commercialism and child development collide in the documentary My Kid Could Paint That, screening this Saturday at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society series.
Parents all watch and admire as their offspring first pick up a paint brush; most encourage their children to express themselves through art. But what happens when it turns out that a child might be a true prodigy — with parents willing to go to great lengths to convince the world of her genius?
