Arts & Entertainment
Ethel Skakel Kennedy declined interviews for more than 35 years. But when her eleventh child, Rory Kennedy, asked her to be the protagonist in a full-length documentary for HBO, she agreed.
“If you asked her, I think she would tell you it was because I asked her to do it,” Rory said. Ms. Kennedy is an experienced documentary film-maker but she was also hesitant about making the movie.
Each week the folks at Cinema Circus show a series of short films on Wednesday evenings at the Chilmark Community Center. The films begin at 6 p.m., but at 5 p.m. the circus — complete with jugglers, face painters, stilt walkers, food and music — gets underway.
An advanced screening of the films was arranged. In a world with few certainties, the kid critic is the critic to trust. This week’s reviewers are Ella and Lathrop Keene.
Kitten’s First Full Moon (Dir. Gary McGivney / U.S.A. / 2011 / 9 min.)
Finish off a hard day’s night with some classic Beatles music, performed by The Daytrippers.
The band is performing at the Flatbread Company in Edgartown at 9 p.m. on Thursday, July 26, for the Raise the Roof concert to benefit Habitat for Humanity for Martha’s Vineyard and the Island Housing Trust.
Music Makers Band Together for Library
The Flying Elbows string band featuring Jemima James, Dan Waters and Al Schackman performs tonight, July 24, at the Grange Hall as part of the Tuesdays at Twilight concert series to benefit the West Tisbury Library.
How do you like your Shakespeare? Light and comedic or deeply tragic? The Vineyard Playhouse is offering both this year in its annual summer run of outdoor Shakespeare productions at the Tisbury Amphitheatre. Those who fancy both will have the opportunity to see Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet, which are each running twice a week at the woodsy amphitheatre near the Tashmoo Overlook until August 18.
And this is Shakespeare with a slight gender twist.
People in Oak Bluffs late this week won’t be thinking about the next number 13 bus leaving for Edgartown — they’ll be thinking about the legendary Freedom Rides that bused through the Deep South and hostile racism during the Civil Rights movement.
On Thursday and Friday, The Cottagers Inc. of Martha’s Vineyard sponsor the eighth annual African American Cultural Festival, an event packed with free educational programs and culture. The festival takes place in Hartford Park off Massassoit avenue and at Cottagers Corner on Pequot avenue..
