Art
Movie About Windsurfing
Will Benefit Sailing Team
Travel the world with four of its best windsurfers today, Friday, Feb. 8 in The Windsurfing Movie, which will be shown at 7 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven to support the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School sailing team.
Public Speaking Workshop
Susan Klein and Charlie Esposito will offer a workshop in March and April on effective public speaking and microphone use.
The workshop will meet four consecutive Thursday afternoons, March 13, 20, 27 and April 3 from 1:30 to 4 p.m. at the Tisbury Senior Center on Pine street in Vineyard Haven.
The fee is $275. The class maximum is 10. More information is available by calling 508-693-4140.
Edgartown School Theatre
Celebrates Science Fiction
Starting tonight, Friday, Feb. 8 and running through Sunday, the Edgartown School Theatre Department will present Starmites, a musical science fiction adventure.
Directed by Donna Swift and Beth Carr, the show is about a girl who is transported into one of her favorite comic books to help battle evil and restore order to Earth and Innerspace.
The holidays are over, the snow has blown in and the slow crawl to Memorial Day has begun. There is less work available and fewer options for weekend fun.
Rather than fall victim to the winter blues, however, Islanders from Edgartown to Aquinnah are starting to plan their warm-weather getaways.
“It’s nice to break up the winter, to get an infusion of sun,” said Clarissa Allen of the Allen Sheep Farm in Chilmark.
Information Meeting Is
Scheduled on Wind Farm
Cape Wind and the Martha’s Vineyard chapter of Clean Power Now will co-host a meeting on Monday, Feb. 11 about the proposed wind farm in Nantucket Sound. The meeting is set for 6:30 p.m. in the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven.
Speakers include Mark Rodgers of Cape Wind, which has proposed building the wind farm, and Sharon Strimling Florio of Clean Power Now.
High School Dinner
The Island Grown Initiative, together with chef Dan Sauer from the Outermost Inn, is working with Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s Culinary Arts Department program director Jack O’Malley and his students to host a winter local food dinner.
The dinner is set for Monday, Feb. 11 at 6 p.m. at the culinary arts dining room at the high school.