Art
Bon Voyage BravEncore
After 18 months of planning, rehearsing and fundraising, the BravEncore Theatre Troupe departs the Vineyard on Saturday to perform their original musical play at the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland. Islanders are invited to join a bagpiper in sending off the student thespians departing on the 3:45 p.m. ferry out of Oak Bluffs.
The troupe will perform Secret of the Seven Sisters (book by Kate Murray, music and lyrics by Kate Murray and Jake Estabrook) from August 20 to 23 at a theatre in Edinburgh.
Self-taught Nova Scotia artist John Neville will have his fifth exhibition at the Carol Craven Gallery, now in West Tisbury.
Chef Johnny Graham of the Home Port in Menemsha was one of the top 20 contestants on Bravo’s Top Chef. Chef Kyle Garell of Sidecar in Oak Bluffs started his own cooking show on Martha’s Vineyard Television. And while Mario Batali and Bobby Flay may not be there, Mr. Graham and Mr. Garell will go to head-to-head tomorrow as the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market becomes the next kitchen stadium.
Center for Pizza Eating
Martha’s Vineyard’s Flatbread Company is different from other pizzerias in two ways: first, the restaurant uses locally grown organic ingredients, and second, it holds a benefit night every Tuesday, when the restaurant donates $3.50 for every flatbread sold between 5 and 10 p.m. to a local nonprofit organization. Tuesday, August 24, the proceeds will benefit the Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living.
Flatbread is located at Nectar’s at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport.
Long gone are the days of Two-Buck Chuck that Stephanie Browne and her close group of girlfriends sipped throughout college. Cheap chardonnay and chablis have been replaced with a palette of curiosity, one that led them to form a wine club that eventually turned into Divas Uncorked. This weekend, the group of friends and their guests will host the fourth annual Wine and Food Festival, where Islanders and visitors will dine on the best food the Island has to offer accompanied by the best New England wine.
While a certain Chicago politician comes ashore in a little over a week, an ambassador from that other great Chicago institution, its jazz scene, will have already made landfall; the legendary Ramsey Lewis performs at the Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center this Sunday.
Mr. Lewis has just finished composing Colors: the Ecology of Oneness, a piece commissioned for a performance in Tokyo in September. He says he may test some of the new material on his audience at Oak Bluffs.