Arts & Entertainment
Spring was in full bloom at the second annual Beetlebung Festival for the Arts and Edibles last Saturday, where a night of good eats, good music and great company echoed through the Chilmark Community Center.
The first arrival of seasonal friends and workers began to trickle in, catching up on winter activities over a dinner of Grey Barn pork, kale salad, frozen yogurt and planning for summer over coffee from the Chilmark Coffee Co. and baked goods.
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker are coming to the Vineyard Haven Library and they are doing some plain talking about the Civil War. In fact, their presentation is entitled, The Blue and Gray in Black and White.
Actually, they will be doing more than just speaking. They will bring the world of the Civil War to life via stories, personal insights from those who participated in the war, and songs including slave songs, Underground Railroad songs, finger-picking and bottleneck blues guitar, harmonica, old-time banjo, slide guitar, piano, spoons and bones.
“April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.”
So said T.S. Elliot at the beginning of his epic poem The Waste Land.
Here on the Vineyard, though, April is poetry month, nothing cruel about that, and to celebrate, the West Tisbury Library’s is holding its annual community poetry night on Sunday, April 22 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Ocean Wilderness
On Saturday, April 14, Pathways Projects Institute will present the first of a two part exhibition, Ocean Wilderness: A Conversation Across the Arts, Writings & Collaborative Forms. The event — a mix of poetry, music, videography and photography — will take place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Pathways Gathering Space at the Chilmark Tavern.
A second arts opening, Ocean Wilderness: Poetic Spaces and Objects, will take place Sunday, April 22 at 6:30 p.m. Admission to both openings is free and light fare will be served.
The hall was filled with people, the message from the minister powerful.
“Go and testify to the way God works, for that is what Jesus’s life, ministry, death and resurrection is all about,” said the Rev. Cathlin Baker to conclude the Easter service last Sunday morning. “Jesus showed us the way God works. And so now we know — life overcomes death, and love conquers sin. We are Easter people, people who are to bring hope to the world, to bring light from the shadows. So go and tell, go and tell.”
Kids Week at Bank
