Arts & Entertainment
In addition to hosting a forum taking place at the Performing Arts Center at the regional high school on Wednesday, August 17, at 1 p.m. entitled Heard It through the Grapevine: Race and the Media in the 21st Century, Professor Charles Ogletree will, on Thursday, August 18, be accompanying the screening of the film The Presumption of Guilt. The film is based on his book, The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America and directed by Hafiz Farid, the CEO of Foremost Productions in association with NoCane Inc.
New Work at Old Sculpin
Beginning Friday, August 20, and running through August 26, the Old Sculpin Gallery in Edgartown (next to the Chappy Ferry) will be highlighting work by the late Libby Walbridge, new glass sculpture by Ian Whitt, and the continuing exhibitions of Anne D. Grandin, Gail Rodney, and the small works fundraiser. A reception for the artists will be held on Sunday, August 21, from 5 to 7 p.m.
For more details, call 508-627-4881 or to get a sneak preview of the exhibit visit oldsculpingallery.org.
Angel Flight Northeast is one of the unsung heroes of Island life: a group of pilots who offer free transport to people needing access to medical care. The organization is now in its 15th year, having served Martha’s Vineyard since 1997. As of June 4 (the last time statistics were tallied), Angel Flight NE had scheduled more than 8,600 flights and flown 5,400 missions for Vineyard residents. This equates to $1.7 million in donated time and expenses for patients and their families living on Martha’s Vineyard.
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.
Author Bill Sargent will discuss his new book, The Well from Hell: The BP Oil Spill and the Endurance of Big Oil, at the Chilmark Public Library on Wednesday, August 17, at 5:30 p.m.
As playwright, theatre and film director George C. Wolfe tells it, the event which first motivated him toward the arts was the same one that led him to his latest ambitious project, presenting the history of the American civil rights movement.
That moment, which set him on his course toward the arts, the plaudits for his stage and screen work, the Tony awards, and now the new job as chief creative officer for the nascent National Center for Civil and Human Rights, came in 1964 when he was a boy of 10, in the small town of Franklin, Ky.
