Arts & Entertainment
Barking up the Right Tree
In case you weren’t aware, May 5 is the day you learn about bark.
Author and naturalist Michael Wojtech visits Polly Hill Arboretum to talk about bark basics and how to identify different kinds of trees by their bark. Let’s face it, come winter you can’t depend on leaves to know the difference between a maple and sycamore.
It’s a big week at the Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary.
Today, April 27, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., they are throwing a Pinkletink Pizza Party. After pizza everyone heads outdoors to listen to the frogs send forth their mating calls. The cost is $5 for adults and $3 for children; nonmembers pay $7 for adults and $5 for children.
Shucking and Jiving in Chilmark
He is a lead singer. He is an oysterman. He can also build or fix your chimney. His name is Johnny Hoy.
EMTs With Style
On Saturday, April 28, from 7 to 10 p.m., Vineyard emergency medical personnel are taking to the catwalk for a charity fashion show. That’s right, the men and women you may not notice until you really, really need them, are going public and sexy.
The event is in honor of the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women Heart Attack and Stroke Awareness campaign.
Last Saturday night at the Chilmark Tavern, Dee Stevens, artistic director of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society, and David Stanwood, pianist and inventor of a new system of piano tuning, performed for the Imagine Arts Festival put on by Marianne Goldberg and the Pathways Projects Institute.
It’s Sheepapalooza time again. On Saturday, April 21, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. the Farm Institute is reveling in all things sheepie.
Morning chores begin at 9 a.m., followed by sheep shearing, fiber arts, lunch (play with sheep, eat sheep), farm tours and dog herding demonstrations.
The event takes place rain or shine. Cost is $10 per family, or $5 per individual.
For more details, visit farminstitute.org or call 508-627-7007.
