Art
The opening scene of Pet Peeves, a short film written and directed by actress and longtime Chilmark summer denizen Brooke Adams, begins with a pretty, perky twentysomething in blonde, braided pigtails named Sherry (Sunny Mabrey) wandering from her new home in Hollywood to a neighbor’s bachelor pad for a cup of sugar. Instead, she gets a little something sweet of a different sort from the chiseled man after she startles him from swimming nude laps in the pool.
The Tisbury School will host five traveling art exhibits during the upcoming school year, thanks to the Permanent Endowment for Martha’s Vineyard. This grant award has given the school the opportunity to bring quality museum reproductions to students and the public.
The size of the reproductions within the exhibit are remarkable, measuring up to 17 feet by 7 feet. Each of the exhibits will be housed in the main hallway of the school for one week and will be open to the public.
Here’s what will be showing and when:
A Sea Change
A groundbreaking documentary about ocean acidification, A Sea Change, screens at the Chilmark library on Wednesday, September 16 at 5:30 p.m. The screening is free, sponsored by the Menemsha Fisheries Development Fund and the Friends of the Chilmark Public Library.
Said one critic, “The story that ‘A Sea Change’ tells is urgent, unsettling and desperately in need of understanding and action.” For details, call 508-645-3360.
Islanders have a rare chance this weekend to see the creative process revealed in words and movement, when Carolyn Dorfman presents what is being called an intimate evening of dance, dialogue and discovery. The choreographer is an Island favorite — last year her dance company performed Mayne Mentshn at the Performing Arts Center; in the spring, she and her dancers taught in Vineyard elementary schools; in 2006, her company performed The Klezmer Sketch here in a program that also included Urban Bush Women and a piece with Island children performing.
Dragonfly Show
September Light on the Vineyard, an exhibition of works by Island plein air artists, opens Tuesday at the Dragonfly Gallery. The show runs through Sept. 27, and the opening reception is next weekend, Saturday Sept. 19, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Artists include Thaw Malin, Marjorie Mason, Hemine Hull, Susan Sellers, Susan Johnson, Bill Buckley, Mary Emerson, Kanta Lipsky, Adrian Ryan, Magi Leland, Nancy Furino, Greg Watson, Carrie Mae Smith, Linda Thompson, Liz Taft, Traeger diPietro, Anne McGhee and Marsha Winsyrg.
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