Art
Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War will meet Islanders and pre-sent their stories, and their strategies for ending the war, at a special event on Wednesday, August 20, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven. They also will take questions.
Transformational Show
In their last camp show of the summer, staff and campers of IMP All Things Theatre Camp have spent two weeks creating an entirely new and original show based of the theme of Transformation. This show will feature Shakespeare, story theatre, fables, music and dance as well as a unique improvised plot. Fun for all ages, the show is enjoyable even if you have never heard of IMP Camp before.
Sea Chanties for Zeb
Zeb Schooner Life, a film documentary about the Vineyard’s legendary schooner Captain Zeb Tilton, airs at 8 p.m. Wednesday, August 20 at the Whaling Church in Edgartown, which plays a role in the film. The event includes sea chanties by Mark Alan Lovewell and Tristan Israel, and appearances by special guests.
Zeb-Schooner Life also will be screened at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven on August 30.
Got Chops?
The film Chops, about high school jazz bands competing at the Essentially Ellington Festival, will screen as the final Tabernacle summer film, tonight, Tuesday, August 19, at 8 p.m. in the Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs.
Filmmaker Brice Broder turns his lens on one Florida band at the festival hosted by Wynton Marsalis at Lincoln Center. Running 88 minutes, Chops is appropriate for all ages. Admissions is $8 and $5 for film society members.
Truth comes from the mouths of babes — or rather kids, or young adults, or the future of humanity. Whatever you label them, these pint-sized pulse-takers of youth culture are back this summer with their own reviews of movies for young viewers screening every Wednesday at the Chilmark Community Center.
The organizers of the Summer Film Series at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival teamed up with the Gazette to bring you reviews by Island kids, here for the summer or year-round, each Tuesday, before each Wednesday film presentation.
“Vote or Die!” was the message rapper Puff Daddy delivered during the 2004 presidential elections as he and other celebrities banded together to motivate the youth of America to vote. After extensive media campaigns, nearly half of 18 to 24-year-olds turned out at the polls. This marked an 11 per cent increase from the 2000 election and the highest youth turnout since 1992.