Five Things You Need To Know Today: August 17
Illumination Night, a frank discussion of race and the media and Robert Kennedy Jr. at the Martha's Vineyard Film Festival.
Motown founder Berry Gordy will be honored at Heard it through the Grapevine, an annual forum on race and media in the 21st century at Martha's Vineyard Regional High School.
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1. It’s Grand Illumination Night! The grounds of the Martha’s Vineyard Campmeeting Association will be festooned with lanterns at 8 p.m. A Community Sing concert in the Tabernacle will precede the lighting of the lanterns at 7 p.m.
2. Robert Kennedy Jr. will be on hand for a screening of “The Last Mountain,” about mountain-top coal mining, at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival. The film will screen at 8 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center. Kennedy and director Bill Hanley will lead a question-and-answer session following the film. Tickets are $14, $7 for Film Festival members.
3. PBS Newshour senior correspondent Gwen Ifill, Anita Hill, Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree and Motown founder Berry Gordy will join a host of other high-profile academics and media personalities for “Heard It Through the Grapevine,” a panel discussion of race and media in the 21st century. Doors open at 11 a.m. for the free event, which features a film screening, a tribute to Gordy, a panel and book signings at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Performing Arts Center.
4. Want to prepare a paper lantern for Illumination Night? The West Tisbury Library is holding a craft workshop at 5 p.m. for ages 10 and up. Participants must pre-register.
5. Author Bill Sargent will stop by the Chilmark Library from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. to discuss his book "The Well From Hell," about the BP oil spill disaster.
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Grand Illumination and Sing-a-long Night
August 17, 2011 at 7:00 pm -
Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association Tabernacle
Trinity Park, Oak Bluffs, MA -
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Chilmark Community Center
520 South Rd, Chilmark, MA -
Martha's Vineyard Regional High School
100 Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Rd, Oak Bluffs, MA
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West Tisbury Free Public Library
1042 State Rd, West Tisbury, MA -
Chilmark Free Public Library
522 South Rd, Chilmark, MA
