With all the cold and rainy weather it’s as if the seasons have been trying to go backwards. No doubt we’ll be complaining about the heat before long, though. Memorial Day weekend seemed quiet, but since I mostly stayed home, I can’t be sure about that. I was surprised at how many people were still around on Tuesday. Usually there is a lull after the long weekend, but unlike the weather, there is no going backwards as far as the influx of summer.
Interested in finding out the stuff dreams are made of? A psychotherapeutic dream seminar can help you explore the therapeutic potential of your dreams. The small group session will begin and end with a day-long workshop and then will meet for six weekly, two-hour groups.
For Vineyard Little Leaguers, tournament play is a mainstay of the summer when travel teams of All-Stars compete across the Cape each week. Beginning next year, as work progresses on the organization’s Penn Field project in Oak Bluffs, the Vineyard may at last be able to compete as a home team during the summer.
“On the Vineyard, it’s always been that we go off-Island for every tournament,” said Phil Regan, whose twin sons Jared and Jeremy play for the All-Star team in the summer and the Red Sox during the Little League regular season. Mr.
David Rhoderick is a professional musician. He is also a mainframe evangelist for IBM. These may seem like two completely different skills, but to Mr. Rhoderick, both jobs are like chord progressions, they harmonize.
Mr. Rhoderick is the organist at the West Tisbury Congregational Church, a job he secured in April after acting as the church’s interim music director this past winter.
On Sunday June 2 at 4 p.m. the West Tisbury Congregational Church will host a concert featuring Mr. Rhoderick and the church choir.
This past weekend the World Choreography Institute arrived in Edgartown to have a conversation about dance. On the final day of the think tank, dance masters and interested Islanders sat on couches and pillows on the floor in the living room of the Noepe Center for Literary Arts, formerly the Point Way Inn. They were dissecting a recording of George Balanchine’s ballet, Jewels, in particular the second movement of the piece, known as Rubies.
On Saturday, June 1, the Martha’s Vineyard Skate Park Association (MVSPA) will host a fundraiser at the Flatbread Company to raise money for improvements to the skate park. The event will feature live music by Ben Taylor, DCLA, 2nd Power and DJ Ricky Prime.
The Machine Jesse Green, star of the National Geographic Channel show American Chainsaw, will perform with his band Fevah Dream this Saturday at Dreamland as part of a fundraiser for Captain Eli Bonnell. Capt. Bonnell, an Edgartown fisherman, was severely injured this March while skiing in Aspen, Colo.
Donations will be taken at the door and the evening will also feature a 50/50 raffle.
The Vineyard’s teen improvisational group the IMPers is inviting children and teens ages 6 to 18 to the IMP All Things Theater camp. The sessions are held in three separate locations throughout the summer and allow participants an opportunity to learn about all aspects of theatrical performance and improv.
The Yard, a contemporary dance residency program located in Chilmark, and the Trustees of Reservations will host a performance on June 1 at the Mytoi Garden on Chappaquiddick. The “dance walk-around” will feature improvised modern dance performances by 12 members of the Yard and What’s Written Within, another Island dance group.
Preserving native plants by using them is the topic of a June 8 presentation with Arthur Haines at the Polly Hill Arboretum. Mr. Haines is a plant taxonomist, author and teacher who makes the case for preservation of native plants through foraging, wildcrafting and medicinal use. He argues that the waning use of wild plants coincides with a decline in our health and of the local landscape.