Art
Seriously, what could be a funnier title than Robert Frost’s Answering Machine? by Daniel Waters (Indian Hill Press, $15). The West Tisbury wit-man, known far and wide as D.A.W., has been posting his quatrains in The Vineyard Gazette, Yankee Magazine, and on N.P.R. When we hear his doleful voice – Disney could cast him as Eeyore in the Winnnie the Pooh cartoons — reading his own hilarious, too-true verbal apecues on the air, we pat down our desks for a pen so we can share the ditty with friends.
Like this one entitled Cricket
Lama Yeshe Drolma has returned for her eighth year of teaching at The Bodhi Path Buddhist Center in West Tisbury to give a series of teachings in August and September.
Beginning Sunday, August 10 at 10 a.m. running through Sunday, Sept. 28, Lama Yeshe will teach on the topic Samsara and Nivana, explaining the significance of these Buddhist terms which describe the state of all sentient beings trapped in suffering and the path beyond it.
Alison Shaw Gallery Fine are photography of Alison Shaw. Open Wednesday through Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m., or by appointment at 88 Dukes County avenue, Oak Bluffs, tel. 508-696-7429 or alisonshaw.com.
Current exhibit: Blue opens Saturday, August 9, with artist’s reception from 4 to 7 p.m. as part of Dukes County Avenue Arts District stroll. Continues through August 22.
The opening montage of What Would Jesus Buy? — a documentary based on evangelizing performance artist Reverend Billy — is of shrieking shoppers jockeying for place at the doors of strip malls, and sprinting with reckless abandon towards aisles of product.
The Wailers, the most popular reggae group of all time, will be playing a special concert at Outerland Monday, August 11, with all proceeds directly benefiting Friends of the World Food Program and help fund the life-saving food assistance programs of the United Nations World Food Program.
The program is the largest humanitarian organization in the world, reaching an average of 88 million people in 80 of the world’s poorest countries each year.
Kids’ Art on Show
Artists from the ages of 7 to 11 have been working all summer to create masterpieces everyone and their mother can love. Now this artwork is on view for the public.
On Saturday, August 9, the Old Sculpin Gallery will be completely transformed as they hold a reception to showcase the work created at the camp from 2 to 4 p.m. at the gallery on Dock street in Edgartown.
For details, call 508-627-4881.