Arts & Entertainment
If when walking out among the autumnal stylings of nature, the urge to utter in capital letters In Leaves No Step Had Trodden Black comes quite easily, then perhaps Featherstone’s Fall Festival of Poetry and Music is for you.
On Oct. 20 from 4 to 6 p.m. the festival will feature the words and music of Island poet laureate’s past and present including Lee H. McCormack, Steve Ewing, Dan Waters, Justen Ahren and Fan Ogilvie. William Waterway, the founder of the Martha’s Vineyard Poetry Society, will also take the stage.
Fans of both classic gumshoe detective novels and recent crime fiction will appreciate Jim Kohlberg’s new mystery novel The Golden Gate is Red. In this engaging book, the author gives readers a murder mystery set amid the atmospheric fog and steep hills of San Francisco. But unlike most crime fiction, Mr. Kohlberg focuses on the psychological toll paid by his main characters; the unraveling of whodunit takes a back seat to the emotional journeys.
If anyone is headed to New York city next weekend, local photographer Michael Zide will be featured at the PhotoPlus International Expo to be held at the Javitz Center on Oct. 25 to 27.
Mr. Zide will have a collection of his Martha’s Vineyard and Western Massachusetts images on display as well as participating in a print-signing which takes place between 10:30 a.m. and noon on Friday, Oct. 26. Visit michaelzide.com.
Wednesday, Oct. 24, is PechaKucha Night at the Harbor View Hotel. Is this a new kind of trivia night, bingo or sporting event? Wrong, wrong and wrong again.
PechaKucha night started in Japan in 2003 as an event for creative people to get together, network and show their work. It is now a worldwide celebration where everyone uses the same format: each participant gets to present 20 images for 20 seconds each. This keeps the evening concise and flowing.
On the Vineyard where art galleries abound and artists abound even more, there is, it seems, art everywhere. But it’s not just traditional galleries that showcase art. Venturing off the tracks, one can encounter not only art that enchants but artists who do so as well.
This month the work of Chris Hughes is being highlighted at Mocha Mott’s in Vineyard Haven and the work of Edie Yoder at the Chilmark Library.
This weekend and next the Island Theatre Workshop is presenting its annual Pick of the Crop play series. As its name declares ITW is a community theatre group of and for the Island. All of its playwrights, directors and actors are amateurs. By this we mean not paid, rather than unskilled or inexperienced. Most players have appeared in numerous Island productions throughout the years and are familiar presences on stage.
