Art
Lucinda Franks, author and Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, will share her insights into the Bernard Madoff scandal in a discussion on Thursday, August 13, at 8 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center.
Andrew Young, noted civil rights activist, former mayor of Atlanta, Ga., and ambassador to the United Nations in the Jimmy Carter administration, will be the special guest lecturer at the annual Taste of Road Scholar event taking place on Tuesday, August 18, at historic Shearer Cottage in Oak Bluffs.
Chappy Benefit Auction
Bake Sale
Snare some sweets and help the strays: Martha’s Vineyard Helping Homeless Animals Inc. is having a bake sale on Saturday, August 8, at Cronig’s Market in Vineyard Haven from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The group is a no-cage, no-kill shelter. All proceeds from the bake sale will go to providing for the animals’ food, heating, electricity and medical needs.
Anyone may donate baked goods on the day of the event between 9 and 11 a.m. All items must be individually wrapped. Call 508-696-8305.
Shaw Cramer Gallery today opens Repurposed, Recycled, the latest in its spotlight exhibitions.
Furniture, paintings, metal, glass, jewelry and collage by three Island artists and seven national artists combine to present an elegant collection of work composed of repurposed and recycled materials.
Wendy Weldon has painted on her used painting sandpaper, Rose Abrahamson created a collage and paint composition, and Laurene Krasny Brown combine gouache painted paper strips that form a quilt-like pattern.
Hailing from the streets of Shaolin — that’s Wu-speak for Staten Island — Ghostface Killah entered his 16th year in the rap game with a first-ever trip to the Vineyard last week. The thin-voiced rapper performed for a sold-out crowd Saturday night the same gritty metaphors and rowdy on-stage antics that launched him onto the charts in the early 1990s as one of nine veteran emcees of the Wu-Tang Clan.