After 18 months of not singing together, the Island Community Chorus is ready to perform its first holiday concert since 2019. The chorus is currently smaller with 60 to 70 members, about 30 fewer than usual at their pre-pandemic holiday concerts. The group and its leader, Peter Boak, are happy to be back performing at […]
It took only three days to complete, but the raising of the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury in 1994 has been commemorated pretty much every year since folks first danced on its unfinished dirt floor. Islanders have come to know this annual celebration as the Barn Raisers Ball, and after a brief hiatus because of […]
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Socially distanced seating at the Film Center. Courtesy M.V. Film Society
The Martha’s Vineyard Film Center saw attendance go up slightly in March, with an uptick of people going to the Film Center when Island elders began getting vaccinated with the two-shot Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
“Being a nonprofit, we have that flexibility,” said Film Center executive director Richard Paradise. The Film Center is a movie theater attached to the nonprofit Martha’s Vineyard Film Society.
Paradise is planning to hold the fifth annual Spectrum Film Festival for the LGBTQ community and the Martha’s Vineyard Environmental Film Festival in May, with the FilMusic Festival in June and Doc Week in August.
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Updated at 1:55 pm on Monday: The BU Dental Health Center at 930 Comm Ave will close for patient care at 5:00 pm this evening, Monday, Feb. 1, and the Patient Treatment Centers at 635 Albany Street will close for patient care at 5:30 pm
With at least a foot of snow anticipated, and possibly more, starting midday on Monday, Boston University announced Sunday night that the Charles River Campus will be closed for the day as of 6 am, that all classes and academic activities should continue remotely at their scheduled times, and that all nonessential staff should work remotely.
Also on Sunday night, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh declared a snow emergency for the city from Monday night through Tuesday afternoon and a parking ban starting at noon Monday.
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A tale of two galleries
Bringing new exhibits to light during a pandemic. Brookside Oxen. Colin Ruel
Exterior view of Winter Street Gallery in Edgartown. Courtesy Winter Street Gallery
Installation view of A group of more or less than 10, Winter Street Gallery. Courtesy Winter Street Gallery
Installation view of The Winter Exhibition , Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown, 2020. Courtesy Winter Street Gallery
2020 may not have been the ideal year to launch a business. Yet two local couples have found that on an Island as supportive of the arts as Martha’s Vineyard, even a pandemic couldn’t waylay their gallery aspirations.