Art
David Crohan and Friends Play from the Heart at Tabernacle
Pianist David Crohan will present a benefit concert in the Tabernacle Monday, July 13 at 8 p.m.. The concert is to benefit Compassionate Care ALS and Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard. David’s friends include Katie Mayhew, Hugh Taylor, Merrily Fenner, and Tom Billitto. Three of these friends appeared regularly at David’ Island House on Circuit avenue.
CAMUS, A ROMANCE. By Elizabeth Hawes. Grove Press. July 2009. 304 pages. $25 hardcover.
As an undergrad, Elizabeth Hawes became fascinated with Albert Camus and embarked on an exploration of not only the work but also the world of the brilliant, handsome and charismatic writer and philosopher. Although she was physically half a world away and metaphorically a universe away from her subject, she was determined to somehow enter her idol’s world.
Seashore Ramble
Chilmark native Conrad Neumann will present a free program titled Geo-rambles at Sea and Ashore in Pictures, Poems and Yarns: A Geologist/Oceanographer’s Travels at the Chilmark Public Library on Wednesday, July 15, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Mr. Neumann, who summers in Chilmark and lives in Chapel Hill, N.C. in the winter, taught geology and oceanography at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill for many years.
As filmmaker Roman Polanski once said: “Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theatre.” He clearly never saw a film screened at the Tabernacle. As riveting as the movie may be, it would be next to impossible not to appreciate the open-air theatre in which it was shown.
You can bring the kids for the stilt walkers and jugglers, for the popcorn, pizza and face-painting, for all the under-the-big-tent fun that is Cinema Circus at the Chilmark Community Center every Wednesday at 5 p.m. The main act, of course, is the movie. This week the film is Kirikou and the Sorceress, and here to review it is Island kid critic Stella Frank.
See article below for details of the grownup film, Lost Son of Havana, which screens at 8 p.m., same place.
Kirikou and the Sorceress
By Stella Frank
Seasonal residents Peter and Bobby Farrelley are famously fanatical Red Sox fans, so it’s no surprise their names appear as executive producers on the film The Lost Son of Havana, about legendary Sox pitcher Luis Tiant, the folk-hero hurler with a 19-year career in the majors, most memorably at Fenway. Tonight the film has its Island debut at 8 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center, with Q& A with some of the filmmakers after the screening.