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Friday, March 19, 2010

Drawing and painting teacher Janice Frame had reason to be proud of Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School senior Lonni Philips’ success last week at Featherstone Center for the Arts. Ms. Philips has, after all, been a student of Ms. Frame’s since kindergarten, when her work most likely consisted of finger paintings and play dough sculptures.
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Throughout their lives, they have been labeled with various syndromes and conditions. They experience the world in a way that is different from the bulk of society and from each other. But this Saturday, March 20, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Vineyard Haven Baptist Church parish house, they will all share one label: they are artists.
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While Disney saturates the media with ads for its Tim Burton extravaganza Alice in Wonderland, young Island thespians are sending Alice tumbling through a television screen instead of a looking glass, in a play about the absurdity of media-saturated consumer culture, called Alice in Americaland.
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The Trustees of Reservations hosts a guided a walk in Chilmark on Sunday, March 21, from 1 to 3 p.m. This is a rare opportunity to visit Signal Hill and discover 70 acres protected by a conservation restriction situated between Menemsha Pond and Squibnocket Pond.
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The Vineyard Haven Public Library presents Connecting with Fossils, an interactive and illustrative talk to be given by Fred Hotchkiss on Tuesday, March 23.
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Calling kids aged 8 to 18 who can sing and/or act: it’s audition time for the Imp production of Bittersweet, a musical that includes many singing some non-singing roles. Bittersweet is written by Ross Mihalko and Donna Swift, with lyrics by Ross Mihalko and music by Brian Weiland — the creators of Bears Beware, Goldilocks Is in Your Town; Waking Beauty; Bluebeard; and The Tall Tale Trilogy.
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A traveling doll and book exhibit by the Green Mountain Doll Club of Vermont is on display at the Oak Bluffs Public Library. The dolls portray characters from children’s books, fiction and nonfiction.
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A doll making workshop for the benefit of Haitian children will be hosted by Pathways Projects Institutes on Saturday, March 20 at the Chilmark Tavern.
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Author Tony Horwitz will emcee the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore’s open mic night for writers, the final such event of the season, on Tuesday, March 23. Anyone currently working on a novel, short story, poetry or essay is invited to read for five minutes. This is an opportunity for writers to share a selection from a work in progress and for the Vineyard community to come out and hear what their neighbors are working on behind closed doors.
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BravEncore, a nonprofit organization that supports Island high school performing arts, presents Closets, an original play written by Kate Murray and her Theatre 2 class, on Friday, March  26 at 7 p.m. at the high school performing arts center. The play was recently performed at the Massachusetts High School Drama Guild competition.
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Charlie Chaplin’s Monsieur Verdoux screens at the Capawock, Wednesday, March 24 at 7 p.m.
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Oak Bluffs police officer and chaplain David Berube will be speaking at the Faith Community Church in Edgartown on Sunday, March 21, about his recent experience being a chaplain at the Mortuary Affairs Operations Center, Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. The Dover base is the first stop on American soil for the remains of fallen servicemen and women.
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Arts from the Vineyard Gazette Archives

Friday, March 12, 2010

The Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library will be hosting an art show featuring the work of emerging Vineyard artists at the library June 7 to 19.
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The Island Theatre Workshop’s One Act Play Festival begins tonight, Friday, March 12 at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven. This year’s festival, with shows spread over two weekends, features three plays: Trial by Jury, written and composed by Gilbert and Sullivan and directed by Lee Fierro with musical direction by Linda Berg; The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Crying, written by Murray Schisgal and directed by Leslie J. Stark; and Shasta Rue, written by Jane Martin, and directed and performed by former Vineyard resident Randi Vega.
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In the land of Neverland, where little kids never grow up and swashbuckling pirates can never seem to defeat a team of rough-and-tumble young orphans, imagination rules. So too does it rule in the gymnasium of the Tisbury School, where on Friday night a group of some two dozen kids will channel the despised clan of Captain Hook and the always-triumphant lost boys, in the school’s second production of a musical version of the hit movie Hook.
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Kevin Crawford and Cillian Vallely of the group Lunasa return to the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven on Saturday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m.
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Lamenting in short order “that three and a half hour shambles on Sunday night,” the Academy Awards; the “very stupid piece in the New York Times this morning which implies that the popular movies should have won the awards;” and the news that show-business trade magazine Variety had fired its veteran critic — “that’s really an outrage” — David Denby sounds every bit the articulate, authoratative film critic he is every other week in the New Yorker magazine.
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The first annual Vineyard Limerick Challenge will be held Sunday, March 14 at 3 p.m. at the West Tisbury library. The challenge: compose a limerick related to Martha’s Vineyard. Entries will be judged by other library patrons.
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Learn about e-book readers (Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader and Barnes and Noble’s Nook); downloadable audio books and MP3 players; online language learning (Mango); technology in the classroom; Google tools; MAC/PC Computers; Nintendo Wii Sports Resorts, Wii Fit Plus, Wii Active; and many more electronic gadgets at a free Technology Fair at Oak Bluffs Public Library on Saturday, March 20 from 1 to 4 p.m.
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The Farm Institute in Katama is offering spring seasonal programming for ages two and up. Programs run from March 23 through May 29 and families can sign up for a series or individual sessions.
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Reconnecting with your best friend from kindergarten on Facebook is fun. Reconnecting with your great-great-great-great grandmother on ancestry.com? Thrilling.
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Vineyarders including Tom Hale and Ted Morgan will discuss their wartime experiences at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum on Saturday, March 20 at 3 p.m. in connection with the museum’s ongoing exhibit, Those Who Serve: Martha’s Vineyard and World War II.
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The Bodhi Path of Martha’s Vineyard hosts Professor Lara Braitstein for teachings on Saturday, March 13 and Sunday, March 14, from 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 4 p.m. both days.
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American Red Cross will hold an Adult CPR/AED and First Aid Class in Oak Bluffs on March 13 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and costs $50 for Adult CPR/AED or $60 for Adult CPR/AED and First Aid.
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Sail Martha’s Vineyard, the Island’s community sailing program, offers beginner through advanced sailing classes to children at the Sailing Camp Park on Barnes Road in Oak Bluffs. Registration for the summer sailing programs will take place on Saturday, March 13, between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the Sail MV building at 110 Main street in Vineyard Haven.
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