Art
Bring you family and friends to have breakfast for dinner on Sunday, Dec. 7, when Garden Gate Child Development Center will be holding a breakfast for dinner fundraiser at the ArtCliff Diner in Vineyard Haven.
From 5 to 8:30 p.m., diners will be able to choose from a few of the ArtCliff’s delicious breakfast dishes, including their mouth-watering pancakes and famous French toast.
Island-designed items worth well over $1,000 comprise the prize in a raffle to benefit the Island Food Pantry. This collection has been handmade by Vineyarders who are part of the Artisans Gift Gallery at 18 State Road, Vineyard Haven, the former home of the Belushi Pisano Gallery. The kick-off for the fundraiser will be the Artisans Gift Gallery’s grand opening party on Saturday, Dec. 6 from 2 to 6 p.m.
Handmade from the Heart
All Island artisans and bakers are invited to contribute to the much-anticipated holiday fundraiser for Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard, the Handmade from the Heart Bazaar. The one-day event will be at the Daniel Fisher House during the Christmas in Edgartown weekend, on Saturday, Dec. 13 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Family to Family
On Friday, Dec. 12, the Serving Hands Program and the Family-to-Family Program hand out Christmas dinners. As in the past, the group will provide all the ingredients for a wonderful holiday.
Distribution to income-qualified Islander will take place at the First Baptist Church parish house, on William street in Vineyard Haven from 2 p.m. Please do not arrive early, as volunteers will be packing the bags and boxes.
Vineyard Haven native Marshall Pratt recently sold just over 20 photographs to the Boston Athenaeum, an achievement made all the more impressive by the fact that the photographer is just over 20 years old.
Mr. Pratt is a junior at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where he studies photography. The work acquired by the Athenaeum is a collection of prints that depicts areas of Greater Boston that have become derelict or otherwise suffered the effects of poverty, cultural isolation and neglect.
Daniel Waters will read new and old poems, formal and informal, at a free reading on Tuesday, Dec. 9, at 7 p.m. at the Vineyard Haven Public Library.
Also known as DAW, the prize-winning Mr. Waters’ work has appeared in the Vineyard Gazette and Yankee Magazine, and is regularly broadcast on the Cape and Islands National Public Radio. He has published several books of poetry and is poet laureate of West Tisbury.