UPCOMING EVENTS
For additional information on any of these events, please call 508-627-4441.
To view the Museum's entire calendar of events, please visit the Calendar.
Cooking Through Cultures: Brasilian & Portuguese Cooking
Thursday, February 16, 6:30 – 8:30pm
MV Regional High School, Rm. 111.
In collaboration with Adult and Community Education of Martha's Vineyard, the Museum gives you the opportunity to explore culture through cuisine. Join Elton Nascimento as he prepares bacalhau, a dish made with salted cod that has its roots in both Portuguese and Brasilian cuisine. Elton Nascimento grew up in Curitiba, a city near the coast in southern Brazil. He moved to the Island as a young adult bringing cooking influences from both Portuguese and Brasilian cultures with him.
$35 (plus a $10 material fee that goes to the instructor). Sign up for the series of five classes for $135, and save $40. To register, call 508-627-4441 x110.
Museum members, MVYPS staff, and seniors, take an additional 10% off on the series or each class. Bring a container for leftovers.
Cooking Through Cultures: Wampanoag Cooking
Thursday, February 23, 6:30 – 8:30pm
MV Regional High School, Rm. 111.
In collaboration with Adult and Community Education of Martha's Vineyard, the Museum gives you the opportunity to explore culture through cuisine. Kristina Hook-Leslie will share a recipe passed down from her ancestors as she prepare venison stew in the Wampanoag tradition. Kristina Hook-Leslie grew up learning about foraging for ingredients and preparing native food from her mother and grandmother in Aquinnah. Today, an elder in the Wampanoag tribe, she shares her stories and food preparation methods that date back centuries.
$35 (plus a $10 material fee that goes to the instructor). Sign up for the series of five classes for $135, and save $40. To register, call 508-627-4441 x110.
Museum members, MVYPS staff, and seniors, take an additional 10% off on the series or each class. Bring a container for leftovers.
Exclusive Tour with Bonnie Stacy, Chief Curator
Wednesday, March 7, 3 – 4 pm.
MV Museum Galleries.
Join Chief Curator Bonnie Stacy, and tour the current exhibits on display at the Museum. Bonnie will reveal her favorite objects in the exhibits. Refreshments will be served.
Free for Members/$7 for non-Members.
Molly Glasgow presents "A View from the Grey Barn: Traditional Farming in the 21st Century"
Monday, March 12, 5:30pm.
MV Museum Library.
Get the dirt on local food from one who knows. Join Grey Barn Farm owner Molly Glasgow for a conversation about family-owned farming on the Vineyard as it is practiced today.
For a taste of Molly Glasgow and The Grey Barn, check out her blog.
$8 for Members/$12 for non-Members.
Cooking Through Cultures: Jewish Cooking
Thursday, March 15, 6:30 – 8:30pm
MV Regional High School, Rm. 111.
In collaboration with Adult and Community Education of Martha's Vineyard, the Museum gives you the opportunity to explore culture through cuisine. Explore two different traditions of Jewish cooking. Lori Shaller will teach the Ashkenazic tradition (originating in Spain, Portugal and the Mediterranean) while Ljuba Davis will focus on Sephardic (originating in Eastern Europe). Lori Shaller is a teacher at both the Martha's Vineyard Public Charter School and the Martha's Vineyard Hebrew Center. She has long studied Jewish cooking. Friend Ljuba Davis, a musician originally from Berkeley, CA, specializes in Sephardic tradition from Eastern Europe.
$35 (plus a $10 material fee that goes to the instructor). Sign up for the series of five classes for $135, and save $40. To register, call 508-627-4441 x110.
Museum members, MVYPS staff, and seniors, take an additional 10% off on the series or each class. Bring a container for leftovers.
Jan Burhman presents "A View from the Kitchen Porch: Traditional Foodways in the 21st Century"
Monday, March 19, 5:30pm.
MV Museum Library.
Having you been stewing about your diet? Learn to go local and go slow from Vineyard caterer, cookbook author, and slow-foods expert Jan Burhman.
Check out Jan Buhrman's blog for more information from the Kitchen Porch.
$8 for Members/$12 for non-Members.