Calendar, Community & Art

Published: August 21, 2008

Calendar

• Built for action
  In its 12th season, the Built on Stilts Festival remains a steadfast event, drawing a packed house to the Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs. The seven-night festival is a smorgasbord of dance and more, from hip-hop and ballet to improv and drumming.
• Shedding light on racism today
  Tonight, at 5 pm, the W.E.B. DuBois Institute of Harvard University, one of the nation’s oldest research centers dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of Africans and African Americans, will sponsor the discussion, “Race [Still] Matters,” at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown.
• Music : Nancy Jephcote : Music that heals
  Music often has no declared purpose other than entertaining, passing the time, or setting a mood. But at this past Friday’s performance at the Katharine Cornell Theatre, singer/songwriter Nancy Jephcote accomplished all that and more.
• Digging up Aquinnah history
  Making new discoveries about the past can be a unique and rewarding experience — especially when you have ties to that past. Such is the case for Rachel Sayet, a Mohegan tribal member who is a graduate student at Harvard.
• Slice of the Vineyard
  Seafood is an Island staple. But sometimes the craving for a slice of pizza trumps that of shellfish. When that happens, the Vineyard is the right place to be.
• Sense of Wonder winds down
  Sense of Wonder Creations concluded its 18th summer on Friday, August 15, with a party.
• Jabberwocky takes a bow
  Camp Jabberwocky celebrated the conclusion of its 55th summer season with its annual play on Saturday, August 16.
• Short Subjects

Community

• History, tradition and community
  It is sometimes difficult to believe that Tobias Vanderhoop, the recently hired Tribal Administrator of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), wasn’t always here.
• Paddling through nature
  The Trustees of Reservations offers several tours, both guided and self-guided, of the Cape Poge Wildlife Refuge on Chappaquiddick.
• The Last Word : Visiting Red Cloud
  Having just logged 5,600 plus miles on our little Saturn on our trip out West and back, I can attest to the fact that most of the United States grows corn.
• Everything you’ve always wanted to know about fungi
  Ample rainfall has made this summer a memorable one for fungi fanciers: mushrooms in numbers not seen for years have popped up across the Vineyard, in fields, woodlands, and lawns.
• Making the grade
  As soon as Chicama Dawn made her entrance the judges were impressed. Her long legs and well-built muscular top line accentuated her quality of confirmation. Her strut was strong and proud.
• Birds : Fantastic finish to summer
  Change is in the air, literally, both day and night. Aside from the obvious and very noticeable changes such as the shortening days and increasingly brisk nights, the twilight, both at dawn and dusk, resembles a watercolor dream in the delicious late-August air.
• Community Shorts

Galleries

• A Treehouse With Charm
  Artist and antiques dealer Ruth Adams is open for business at the Treehouse Studios, now opposite the West Tisbury Post Office at 472 State Road. Her sign is out, and objects for sale dot the store’s front yard.
• A Different Stroke
  It could be the opening scene from a movie: An attractive woman sits on her porch and gazes across her Chilmark yard where the family’s Icelandic horses graze. Pausing between thoughts, she absent-mindedly chews on an ice cube from her lemonade, an expression of reverie on her face.
• A Brush With The Soul : Heather Neill
  Pennsylvania painter, Heather Neill, has a dream: She wants to live on the Vineyard, and judging by the success she’s achieved this summer, she’ll soon reach her goal.
• The Question Of Insuring Art
  For the average art collector, the question of whether or not to insure art at home can be a difficult one.
• Shows & Openings