Arts & Entertainment
Reading is good for you and good for others, too, this winter, as the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore is teaming up with Big Brothers Big Sisters to help provide books to Island kids. Little brothers and sisters in the mentoring program have created wish lists of book titles at the store and everyone is invited to choose a book to give to the children. All books for the kids are 20 per cent off.
On March 19, 2011 Jonathan Lipsky, a noted Island playwright and professor, died at the age of 66 from a rare form of cancer. Mr. Lipsky was known for his plays, his skills as a teacher and his books and ideas on how to use dreams to further creativity.
Before he died, Mr. Lipsky was asked by his son Jonah, now a senior at Bennington College, which of his plays he would like to see in an anthology, if one were to be created. During his lifetime, Mr. Lipsky had never published his plays.
“His interest was in writing the plays and putting them on,” Jonah said.
That’s just part of what artist Peter Eaton Gurnz, of Edgartown and Los Angeles, wants people to think about when they view his new exhibition, “Five Leaves Left,” in Miami at the annual Art Basel art fair, which opened Thursday and runs through the weekend.
The town of Tisbury is getting set for their own Twelve Days of Christmas celebration. The events begin on Wednesday, Dec. 12, and continue each day through Dec. 23. The events are as follows:
The West Tisbury elves are throwing their annual Christmas Greens Faire this Saturday, Dec. 8, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the West Tisbury Congregational Church.
The elves are actually the ladies of the church who for weeks beforehand forage in the fields for the freshest greens to make wreaths, centerpieces, boxwood kissing balls and miniature trees. The Faire has been going on for decades and the ladies have their artistry down to a spiritual science.
The Martha’s Vineyard Fish Farm Haiti Project will raffle off a 30-by-24-inch oil painting by Vineyard artist Mark Zeender on Dec. 24. The painting, valued at $2,500, can be seen in the window of the Paper Store on Main and South Water streets in Edgartown. Five other prizes — 100 gallons of fuel from Vineyard Propane, a sunset cruise for two aboard a Black Dog Tall Ship, a silver Vineyard tie bracelet from Moonstone Jewelers, a $75 gift certificate from Jim’s Package Store and a stash of Chilmark Chocolates — will also be raffled off.
