Art
The WIMP/IMPers Get the IMPers to the Chicago Improv Festival Benefit has moved its performance to April 11 at the Grange Hall Theatre in West Tisbury. The show will still feature WIMP originals Jamie Alley, Christopher Brophy and Laura Silber alongside the IMPers, Martha’s Vineyard’s teen professional improv troupe.
Paul Carrick wrote and illustrated Watch Out for Wolfgang. And it’s a keeper.
To have illustrated and written his first children’s book is obviously very exciting for Mr. Carrick. “There’s something magical about seeing it neatly bound together in a complete package,” he said. “It was a special experience to be involved in all aspects of its design: I got to pick the book’s dimensions, the typefaces — everything.”
In this year-long serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after two decades to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe fears and detests Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery, Broadway. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe has been obsessed with “taking down” Moby.
Classes Begin at Sail MV
Sail Martha’s Vineyard is starting a series of continuing education presentations on Thursday evenings this spring. The first will be next Thursday, April 9, with J.P. Uranker discussing quarterboards. Mr. Uranker has an educational background in art and more than 25 years experience in woodcarving. He will discuss the different styles of quarterboards and the techniques used in carving them. The presentation will be at the Sail MV building at 110 Main street in Vineyard Haven.
The Island Community Chorus will feature two great works from the 20th century choral repertoire in its annual spring concert, performed at 7:30 p.m. this Saturday, April 4, and again at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 5, at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown.
Under the direction of Peter Boak and with accompanist Garrett Brown at the piano, the chorus will present Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms (1965) and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana (1937), as well as selections from the Liebeslieder Waltzes, written by Johannes Brahms in 1868 and 1869.
In warmer weather, construction begins to pick up speed, and Habitat for Humanity is certainly not slacking. On Friday, April 3, Habitat for Humanity of Martha’s Vineyard will hold two important ceremonies, a testament to the fine progress that organization has been making in putting roofs over Island heads. First, a Dedication Ceremony, wherein the keys to a new home are presented to the new homeowners; and then, a Groundbreaking Ceremony, to inaugurate the launch of a new green construction project.