Art
Our Island Club, the consumer savings program that also raises monies for Island charities, has distributed its 2008 donations.
In the program’s three years, more than $85,000 had been distributed to over 140 organizations. The club includes more than 3,000 members who can save at more than 125 Island businesses.
Our Island Club is providing scholarships to Featherstone Center for the Arts, Permanent Endowment Fund of Martha’s Vineyard, the Farm Institute, Vineyard Nursing Association and Community Services/Early Childhood Development.
Eight Island kids participated in a dance competition Tuesday morning at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square in New York city as a part of the Pimple Blocker Battle, hosted by Clearasil. The competitions pits five dance crews against each other to become the first Clearasil Dance Crew.
G rateful Vineyarders will long remember the dazzling musical high wire act performed so superbly last weekend by Peter Boak and the inspired Island Community Chorus in their thrilling Spring 2009 concert.
A family-friendly Circus Yoga workshop will be held on the Vineyard on Saturday, April 11, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at Island Co-housing common house on State Road in West Tisbury.
The workshop comes from Anita McFarlane is an actress, dance theatre artist, certified Kripalu yoga teacher, circusyoga teacher and children’s theatre educator.
Poetry is coming back to Che’s Lounge in Vineyard Haven. The popular music venue has hosted several poetry events including Vineyard Slam, Hot Words, and the Warrior Writers (Iraq Veterans against the War). Linda Black and Michael West, organizers of the new Island Voices series, invite Island poets of all ages, styles, and levels of accomplishment to come and share their work in celebration of National Poetry Month.
ArtFarm Enterprises will be holding auditions for their inaugural production of Kim & Delia, an original full length play by Islander and ArtFarm co-founder Brian Ditchfield, on Sunday, April 26, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Farm Institute. Most of the roles have already been cast, but producers are still looking for an actress between the ages of 10 and 12 to play the lead role of Kim, and a non-Equity actress to play several ensemble roles.
Audition sides are available online at artfarmenterprises.com.