Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Cambridge

This year's slate of visual artists are:

VISUAL ARTISTS Dome Gallery, Both Days
Jim Banks
Jeannie Motherwell


PERFORMANCES:

Saturday, 7 p.m.  Radio Play Reading:  The Sinister Seance Swindler Scenario, by Siobhan Bredin

Saturday, 8 p.m.  FirstFruits, an open mike venue featuring an eclectic sampling of music, story, and movement.

Sunday, 12:30 p.m.  Catch the final 30 minutes of the Vineyard's Sunday church service with worship leader Christopher Greco.  Technically not a performance, we invite everybody, regardless of faith tradition, to get into it with our mix of gospel, folk/pop/rock, and hymns.  Greco recently co-produced a CD compilation, FirstSongs, of 11 original tunes and a favorite hymn from the church's first 10 years.

Sunday, 1:30 p.m.  Working with Publishers, Dome gallery.

Dave Schmelzer, founding pastor of the Greater Boston Vineyard, is also a writer.  His first novel, Danny Comes Home, was self-published by CrawlSpace Press.  A second novel, Up Too Late, is due out this year as is a nonfiction book about his reflections as a former atheist turned church leader.  Schmelzer also wrote the critically celebrated plays, Election Day and The Revolutionary, and was a contributing writer to the recently defunct Alewife newspaper.

Elizabeth Campbell Peters is the granddaughter of Baron Georg and Baroness Maria von Trapp, the couple whose lives in pre-World War II Austria inspired The Sound of Music.  Over a 20 year period, Peters translated her grandfather's memoir of his experience in World War I.  To the Last Salute:  Memories of an Austrian U-Boat Commander was published last year, with a personal introduction by Peters, by the University of Nebraska Press.  Peters also co-authored Cotting School:  A Pictorial History, due out this spring through Arcadia Publishing, featuring archival photos of the 115 year history of America's first school for children with physical, learning, and communication disabilities.