Art
Compassionate Care ALS represents a new, or perhaps ancient, approach to medicine. Focusing on health care rather than disease treatment, the Cape-based nonprofit seeks to improve the quality of life of people who have ALS. This degenerative and irreversible nerve decay was made famous by Lou Gehrig and then Stephen Hawking. Doctors can do little to treat it or slow its progress ive destruction, even as the mind and senses remain.
Rising Tide
Rising Tide Therapeutic Equestrian Center is having their third annual cocktail party/fundraiser tomorrow night, Wednesday, July 15, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Styron family home on 53 High Hedge Lane in Vineyard Haven. Sponsored by LeGrenier Restaurant, Jim’s Package Store, Donaroma’s Nursery & Landscape, Red Pony Farm & Consignment/Tack Shop and Linda Sibley of Vineyard Electronics, the event is open to the public. For tickets and information, call Vickie Thurber at 508-693-6112.
Island Historian
Reveals New Book
David McCullough, Pulitzer-prizewinning author of The Path Between the Seas, Truman, John Adams and 1776, is working on a new book, set for release in 2010. The as-yet-untitiled tome chronicles the remarkable history of innovation and achievement in the fields literature, medicine, design and the arts by Americans living in Paris.
The New England Choreographers Project brings together two artists for one show on Sunday at 7 p.m. at the Yard in Chilmark: the theatrical, idiosyncratic and profoundly musical Lise Brody and Nicole Pierce.
Ms. Pierce brings her multi-media dance/theatre company EgoArt to share her ongoing exploration of Mozart’s Requiem, and performs her solo, Bunny, to electronic music. Lise Brody frolics through the Inquisition in Dances About Witches and mines the intricate music of Peter Schickele with her intergenerational dance company, Screech to a Stop.
Borough Bard Slams at The Yard
Tony award-winning Def Jam poet Lemon Andersen brings his one-man spoken-word show, Excerpts from County of Kings: The Beautiful Struggle, to the intimate barn theatre at the Yard, July 10 and 11. It’s a jarring and poignant coming-of-age stage memoir that flows from hard-edged drama to urban poetry, creating a vivid portrait of growing up in New York city during the birth of hip-hop.
Late Summer Gardens
Chanticleer horticulturalist Dan Benarcik presents Fashionably Late: Ideas for the Late Summer Garden, a talk on Wednesday, July 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the Polly Hill Arboretum’s Far Barn.