Art
Hold That Thought! Cognition and MS is the title of a video screening Sunday, April 6, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Tisbury Senior Center, 34 Pine street, Vineyard Haven.
This 30-minute video about multiple sclerosis that explores the effects of cognitive difficulties on people’s lives. Cognition includes learning, memory, problem solving, information processing, attention and concentration.
Experts share information about the effects of MS and tools that can be used to improve cognitive ability.
Tucked into the corner of the Woodland Business Center in Vineyard Haven, between the bakeries and offices in this off-the-beaten-path part of town, is an office door. On a recent Monday, just shy of 9 a.m., workers passed right by it in their beeline pursuit of morning coffee. Not one paused to look in.
Had they done so, an empty hallway is all they would have seen.
See them first at Featherstone: now in its second decade as the Island’s only year-round art center, Featherstone Center for the Arts is preparing the walls for a pair of gallery shows from Island’s best young artists.
Paper and Pottery opens on Sunday to showcase work by students of Janice Frame and Scott Campbell at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. The show opens March 30 with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. and runs through April 6.
Film Producer Seeks
Historic Photographs
The producer of the documentary about the legendary Vineyard schooner captain Zeb Tilton is seeking the loan of pictorial elements.
J.B. Lamont, the film’s editor, reports that the production already has some 500 photographs that have been contributed by museums, libraries, newspapers, family members and collectors, in addition to motion picture footage from a wide number of sources.
Chocolate, a pair of running shoes and you: the first Hot Cocoa 5K Run and Walk for the Safe Haven Project, an event where all proceeds go directly to the spring camp, is set for April 20.
The run will be the kick-off event of this year’s Safe Haven camp, which brings children with HIV and AIDS together for a week away from judgment on Martha’s Vineyard.
The race begins at 10 a.m. on the first full day of camp, April 20, followed by cocoa, cookout and celebration at the finish line with this year’s campers.
The temperature in Florida Tuesday was a goosebump-raising 58 degrees, but Island artist Margot Datz was riding shotgun in a convertible and was not about to let the weather foil her plans of a road trip with the top down. “I’m on a teenage adventure at 54,” she crooned into her cellphone while en route from Jacksonville, Florida to Savannah, Georgia.