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Posted August 23, 2007
Dance: Being changed by being there
At the end of the Urban Bush Women's (UBW) performance last Friday night at the Yard, I rose to my feet, but my standing ovation was somehow not enough. After all, these dancers had moved me almost to tears.
Art: Island to island - Building lives through art
Wilfrid Dantis balances three of his small paintings of mangoes, one in the crook of his arm and two grasped in his long fingers, attempting to exhibit them to his visitor. On the canvasses, the fruits dangle from their stems, bright, bulging and lush - glowing to put holiday lights to shame.
Dance: We dance
Built on Stilts, a community dance festival, continues this week through Saturday, August 25.
Art: Planting the seeds of art
Children make wonderful artists. Just ask Jackie Sullivan of the Old Sclupin Gallery in Edgartown. She spent her summer teaching children the wonders of making art.
Art: 25 years at the wheel
The gallery at Chilmark Pottery, past a lovely field beside a little dirt road off of State Road in West Tisbury, is filled with colors. The porch from the outside is an overwhelming array of blues where an ongoing red dot sale takes place.
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Posted August 23, 2007
Party Over Here
A big party is growing at the FARM Institute in Edgartown and you're all invited. Saturday, August 25, from noon to 8 pm, Cornapalooza will explode at Katama Farm.
Astrology: Virgo takes the stage...
The sun is presently in Virgo. Once Saturn enters Virgo on September 2, the meanings and archetypes of the sign gain greater influence. What can you expect under this Virgo influence?
Birds: Late summer magic
Things are getting very interesting in the great outdoors. Just past the mid-point of August, everything is changing dramatically in the bird world. The nesting season is over, and all birds, both adults and young of the year, are engaged in prolific feeding, growing new feathers and preparing for the upcoming winter.
The fair after dark
Although night has fallen, there is no shortage of light at the Ag Fair in West Tisbury, from the neon yellow Octopus ride that spins and hurls fair-goers, to the pink and yellow flashing lights illuminating the fried dough and caramel apple booths.
Kid power keeps the Fair running
Kids at the Fair. The words bring to mind traditional scenes of youngsters whining for more French fries, cotton candy, and another spin on the Ferris wheel, begging Mom and Dad for more money for rides, spending hours (and small fortunes) on games of skill and chance.
Off North Road: Top hat
The Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Fair always sparks memories: the heroic successes of Trina Kingsbury's wood chopping, Fred Fisher's drag horses, the year I thought my young son's swinging our seat would catapult us from the Ferris wheel on which I have been uneasy since I was a five-year-old kid, the endlessly stickiness of spun-cotton candy, undeniably the best sweet on the fair grounds, fried dough, batter-fried lily blossoms, hot dogs, dart games which I could never win and uncountable stuffed dolls and animals which our children cherished until age and dust consigned them to oblivion.
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