Art
Modern art, commercialism and child development collide in the documentary My Kid Could Paint That, screening this Saturday at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society series.
Parents all watch and admire as their offspring first pick up a paint brush; most encourage their children to express themselves through art. But what happens when it turns out that a child might be a true prodigy — with parents willing to go to great lengths to convince the world of her genius?
One is a wampum jewelry designer. The other is a fiber artist. They share many things — friends, a love of Martha’s Vineyard, a penchant for creating — and this week, they will add one more to the list.
Samba Chocolate, a performance of original samba music, will be presented for the first time at Che’s Lounge this Sunday, May 4, at 7 p.m. Inspired by a cold, dark winter, Island musicians Bella and Daniel Waters composed some hot and spicy music for nylon-stringed classical guitar and for cavaquinho, an authentic Brazilian four-stringed soprano guitar of Portuguese ancestry.
It was Sunday afternoon, deep underground in the sub-basement studio of community radio WVVY, and they were having what one of the flustered on-air staff called “real extreme technical difficulties.”
The monitor outside the studio, an ancient Aiwa radio cassette, was not picking up any signal. Hurried phone calls were made and the suspicion was confirmed: the station was not broadcasting the program, although it was apparently going out okay to a small number of online listeners.
Get Island musicians riffing about what makes a chord-sparring, memory-jarring, above-par, raise-the-bar jam session here, and the name Maynard Silva inevitably comes into the conversation.
On June 21, the Oak Bluffs Association will kick off summer with HarborFest 2008, a free event featuring music, arts, crafts, food and entertainment.
The association, which is producing the event, is accepting applications for booth space from artists, non-profits, food concessions as well as children’s games and entertainment.
Applications are available at daRosa’s on Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs, on-line at oakbluffsmv.com under the events tab, or by e-mailing a request at [email protected].