Island Time: Grand Openings

Island Time: Grand Openings

June 27, 2019

Some of the Vineyard’s best-loved summer traditions return this weekend, including weekly screenings of Jaws and Sunday night band concerts in Island parks. Fortunately, the days are at their longest now, so we can pack a lot into the time we have before July arrives and things really get busy. Here are some best bets for the weekend to come.

Friday, June 28 | Start with art

This doesn’t happen every day: Old Sculpin Gallery, housed in a historic boatbuilder’s shop on the Edgartown waterfront, is having a YART sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Members of the Martha’s Vineyard Art Association are cleaning out their studios and that’s your chance to pick up easels, frames, books, supplies and original art works.

From 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Edgartown, try your hand at making ice cream at the Farm Institute‘s Friday Fun Day. You can sample three different methods for making summer’s favorite melty treat, or just go with one. There’s a new family activity every Friday afternoon at the educational farm, located on Aero avenue in Katama.

Or grab a cone at the nearest ice-cream shop and head to the Capawock Theatre in Vineyard Haven, which begins its regular summer Friday screenings of Jaws at 4:30 p.m.

For night life, catch Island favorites the Brothers McMahon at the Port Hunter in Edgartown, starting at 10 p.m.

Saturday, June 29 | Get your goat

Sheep, pigs, ducks and pygmy goats are waiting to meet you at Native Earth Teaching Farm in Chilmark, which welcomes families from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday through early September. Goats in particular will be showcased today from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., when the Kids on the Roof 4-H goat club members will share what they’re learning about goats and even show you how to hold a baby goat (kid).

Goats are also the topic of a talk by Emily Fischer of Flat Point Farm, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Carnegie in Edgartown. She’ll talk about how the small-scale production of soap and cheese is helping to sustain her family’s farm, and share samples of her skin care products. Will a baby goat make an appearance? We can’t rule it out.

The Yard in Chilmark presents Ain Gordon and Josh Quillen in their spoken-word performance, Radicals in Miniature, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. Show time is 7 p.m.

Toy Story 4 plays the Strand Theatre in Oak Buffs at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. On stage, Dear Elizabeth—a play in letters, based on the passionate 30-year friendship of two American writers—begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse and Alex’s Place at the Y hosts an all-ages show by the Jelly Roll Horns with Sabrina from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Sunday, June 30 | All day music

The Martha’s Vineyard Museum in Vineyard Haven welcomes all ages to its Grand Opening Festival from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with games on the lawn, food trucks, live music and free museum admission including the new Thomas Hart Benton exhibition, Benton’s Martha’s Vineyard.

In Edgartown, local guitarist and singer David Wolff performs at Bad Martha Farmer’s Brewery from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Gallery openings today include Augmented Reality Art, 4 p.m. at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs; member artists at the Old Sculpin Gallery in Edgartown, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.; the season opening at Allen Whiting’s Davis House Gallery in West Tisbury, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and featured artists Rachael Cassiani and Tommy May at the Field Gallery in West Tisbury.

The Vineyard Haven Band begins its summer season of Sunday-night concerts in the park at 8 p.m. on the Ocean Park bandstand in Oak Bluffs. Down the street at the Strand, the 30th-anniversary restoration of Spike Lee’s acclaimed Do the Right Thing screens at 7:30 p.m. and in the Trinity Park Tabernacle, Black Violin performs at 8 p.m.

For a complete list of events, visit the Martha’s Vineyard Calendar.