Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll
| Cape Cod Times
Sandwich Glass Museum, 129 Main St., reopened earlier this month with three exhibits that will be on display for much of 2021:
— “Electric Garden of Unearthly Delights” (through June 1) showcases “luminous glass” by Mundy Hepburn, who works with the same scientific principles used in television and fluorescent light to create art. He fills blown-glass forms with gas mixtures such as helium, neon, argon, krypton and xenon, then activates it all with high-frequency static electricity. The result is described as “a kaleidoscope of swirling patterns of multicolored light.” Connecticut native Mundy’s “moving, living art” has been exhibited in over 30 installations.
— “Fritz Glass” (through Oct. 31) highlights the work of featured artist Fritz Lauenstein, who, after studying glass-blowing in Maine and Vermont, set up his studio in Dennis in 1990. He creates both functional and decorative glass, including marbles, paperweights, perfume bottles, jewelry, vases and bowls. His work has been shown and sold in museums and over 200 galleries.
— “Glass Menagerie A-Z” (through June 13) is an exhibit of glassmakers’ creations of the animal kingdom from Arts to Zebras. The exhibit, which opened last year, features the works of local glass artists, along with items from the museum collection and loans from the New Bedford Museum of Glass.
When: 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays through March; 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. April through December
Admission: $12, $11 for ages 65 and up, $2 for ages 6-14, free for age 5 and under
Information: 508-888-0251, https://ift.tt/3s4Gq7o
SATURDAY, FEB. 20
Listen to a good story
A virtual edition of West Yarmouth Library’s “Good Stories, Well Read” will feature classic stories read by local actors via Zoom.
When: 2 p.m. Saturday
Where: Online on Zoom
Admission: Free
Registration (required for link) and information: twilson@yarmouth.ma.us or 508-760-4820, ext. 1317
SUNDAY, FEB. 21
Music from the heart
The Cape Cod Museum of Art will host a live-streaming “Songs from the Heart” concert with Dennis Flaherty on vocals and Paul McWilliams on piano. The theme is love in its diverse forms, and all are songs from the Great American Songbook with the word “heart” in the lyrics.
When: 4:30 p.m. Sunday
Where: live-streaming online
Admission: $7
Reservations: https://ift.tt/2lGJOoc or 508-385-4477
THURSDAY, FEB. 25
Get history with your supper
Highfield Hall & Gardens Virtual Supper Club series will celebrate Black History Month with author/historian Skip Finley, who will talk about some of the 50 stories in his “Whaling Captains of Color: America’s First Meritocracy.” Finley, a retired broadcaster and writer for the Vineyard Gazette, considers whaling the first American industry with a diverse work force. He culled stories of the time from archives and libraries. A three-course dinner, by Chef Roland Catering, is delivered (within a 20-minute radius of Falmouth) with reheating instructions.
When: 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday (dinner must be ordered by Tuesday)
Where: Online, with Zoom instructions delivered with dinner
Cost: $125 per person, $60 without the meal
Information and reservations: highfieldhallandgardens.org
Michael J. Fox talks with Harlan Coben
The Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival will hold its first winter event this year with a virtual talk between actor, advocate and author Michael J. Fox with author Harlan Coben. Fox, a seasonal resident of Aquinnah, will discuss his memoir “No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality.” Fox has appeared in multiple TV shows (including “Family Ties” and “Spin City”) and films (including the “Back to the Future” series) and founded the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. Coben is a bestselling author of 31 novels, largely suspense, and creator/executive director of multiple TV shows.
When: 7 p.m. Thursday
Where: Online
Admission: Free
Registration (required): mvbookfestival.com
THURSDAY, FEB. 25, AND THURSDAY, MARCH 4
New jazz festival launches virtually
A virtual event that’s billed as “The TRULY Cape Cod Jazz Festival” will celebrate the area’s “secret jazz history” for Black History Month as a way to give more opportunities to jazz artists of color. “The only way to have actual inclusion in a jazz festival on the Cape is to create our own. It’s that simple,” said festival tech coordinator, Chuck V., chief engineer for Polyphonic Studios in Bourne, in announcing the show. The lineup, which he says involves artists who rarely get booked at Cape Cod venues, includes Tyrone Fredericks Jr., Alan Eugene Price, FiST Rivera, Brad the Maroon, Donald Smith III, as well as local jazz artists such as Andy Troyanos, The ZYG 808, Gabriella Simpkins, Mwalim and Andrew Hellwig. The event, hosted by Naheem Garcia, will feature “a multicultural array” of jazz artists, representing progressive jazz, hard bop, experimental, Caribbean, acid jazz, hip-hop jazz and jazz-soul.
When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday and March 4
Admission: Free
Where and information: Live-streaming on the Polyphonic Studios pages on IGTV (Instagram) and Facebook, and polyphonicsstudios.com.
Contact Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll at kdriscoll@capecodonline.com. Follow on Twitter: @KathiSDCCT.
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