Art
If just the thought of a trip to an art museum gives you a dull ache in the lower spine, you are not alone.
When she was deputy director for finance and operations at the Peabody Essex museum, Susan Davy, the new co-owner of the Dragonfly Gallery in Oak Bluffs, noticed that visitors often would be forced to leave the museum prematurely simply because of physical discomfort. “For some reason there’s something about walking, and then standing still, and then walking — it’s more tiring than just walking,” she said.
The Ocean Advisory Commission will hold a public workshop tomorrow in Woods Hole in preparation of the draft ocean plan for the commonwealth.
Since passage of the Oceans Act in 2008, effort has been underway to develop the Massachusetts Ocean Plan for the nearshore waters of the commonwealth, which includes the land and waters between 1,500 feet and three miles from shore, under town and commonwealth jurisdiction. The Oceans Act requires the plan to be drafted by the end of June and adopted before the end of December of this year.
The Martha’s Vineyard All Island Band Program presents its Spring Concert on Wednesday, May 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the performing arts center at the high school. Admission is free.
This concert is a culmination of a year’s hard work and talents for over 200 children ranging from grades four to eight.
The performing groups include the beginner band, the fifth and sixth grade band, the seventh and eighth grade band and the junior high jazz band.
“An elegant, ironic fable with literary origins that belongs to a distinctive middle-European artistic tradition with a puckish spirit that sometimes seems sweet and at other times ruthless.”
So says Andrew O’Hehir of salon.com about I Served The King of England, a documentary film that screens Saturday, May 2 at 7:30 p.m. at the historic Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven.
The IMP Free For All — when award-winning improv students open their doors to the community for free improv performances and workshops for all ages — begins on Friday, May 8, with two performances.
First the middle school troupe, IMP-act, takes the stage to perform short pieces from games and skits based on audience suggestions.
Then the IMPers, the teen professional improv troupe, take the stage to present their new piece — Animal Farm — created at the Chicago Improv Festival.
The Oak Bluffs Public Library, in conjunction with the annual celebration of Della Hardman Day on Saturday, July 25, is now accepting entries for a photography contest to will select Martha’s Vineyard images that reflect Della Hardman’s legacy theme — “Savor the moment.”
The winning entries will be published in the Oak Bluffs Public Library Calendar for 2010.