Arts & Entertainment
Holly Day Fair at Church
Benefits Worldwide Relief
The Grace Episcopal Church at Woodlawn avenue and William street in Vineyard Haven will hold its annual Holly Day Fair on Saturday, Dec. 1 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with the luncheon served between 11 a.m and 1 p.m.
Alpaca Farm Open House
The Island Alpaca Farm on Head of the Pond Road in Oak Bluffs will hold pre-holiday open houses on Sunday, Nov. 18 and Sunday, Nov. 25 from noon to 4 p.m. Besides offering products from the farm, the open houses will provide snacks and hot cider. More information is available by visiting islandalpaca.com.
Gifts for Peace
The annual PeaceCraft Holiday Gift Shop opens Friday, Nov. 23 at the Tisbury Market and Deli on Main street in Vineyard Haven. Distinctive goods and holiday crafts will be available Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Fish Farm for Haiti Project sponors PeaceCraft to provide support to self-help artisan groups around the world. The shop will be open until the day before Christmas. For more information or to volunteer, call Meg at 508-939-9094.
“I don’t even like musicals,” says Donna Swift, writer and producer of more than a dozen musicals and founder and excutiver director of Troubled Shores Inc., a not-for-profit theatre organization. She is sitting on a newly painted stage prop for her latest production — a reworking of the Seventies musical Godspell — in the cafeteria of the Oak Bluffs elementary school.
“I try to put that in my writing, though — to say, ‘Look how ridiculous this is — I’m singing now.’”
In the aftermath of the Patriots Day northeaster this spring, Chappaquiddick resident Francesca Kelly climbed into her pickup truck. She drove over debris-strewn roads, finally making her way to Norton Point. The whole time, a piece of classical music played on the stereo. When she got there, she parked and watched the water rush through the breach, a dead dolphin caught in the sands nearby.
Prostate Support Group
The Martha’s Vineyard Prostate Cancer Support Group’s next meeting is at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 21 at Martha’s Vineyard Community Services (across from the high school) in the Middle Building in the downstairs board room.
Any and all are welcome. Participants may bring family, friends and wives. A reference library is maintained for participants’ use.
More information is available by calling Emily Wetherall at 508-693-7900, extension 236.
