The Yard, the Island’s choreography and performing arts center in Chilmark, is accepting applications for performers, students and professionals in their summer programs.

Applications for the Bessie Schönberg Choreographers’ Residency are due by Saturday, March 6, while the deadline for residency dancers and the new dancers’ work-study program registration is April 20.

Gentle Yoga

A new gentle yoga class with instructor Carol Vega Aranzabe, designed for beginners or those with osteoporosis, starts Thursday, March 4, at 4 p.m. at the Tisbury senior center. Yoga practice can help those with limited mobility increase self-awareness, release tension and stress, stretch and strengthen tight or weak muscles. Preregistration cost for the four-week session is $24; walk in rate is $10. Bring your own mat. For details, call 508-696-4205 Monday through Friday, or 508-939-4120 on Saturday and Sunday.

Help for Food Addicts

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous holds meetings every Tuesday at 6:45 p.m. at the Baptist Church Parish House in Vineyard Haven. The organization offers a 12-step program for people suffering from a wide variety of food addictions, including cravings for sugar and flour that can trigger unhealthy eating cycles. For information e-mail fa@foodaddicts.org or call 781-932-6300.

Wind Work Group Meets

The work group formed to help develop the Wind Energy Facilities Siting Plan for Dukes County will meet on Thursday, March 11, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Commission Office in Oak Bluffs.

Jenny Seward to Wed

David and Jenny Seward of Vineyard Haven are proud to announce the engagement of their daughter, Seniel Victoria Seward, to Andrew Joseph Hannagan, son of Candy and Chandler Lincoln of Edgartown.

The Falmouth Academy this week announced the Vineyard winners at the academy’s science fair.

Seventh grader Eli Hanschka, son of Nancy Tutko and Whit Hanschka of Vineyard Haven, won fourth place in the middle school (grades 7 and 8) for his research into the effect of water pH on the germination of bean seeds.

Sophomore Signe Baumhofer, the daughter of Kim and Mark Baumhofer of Vineyard Haven, earned honorable mention in the upper school for her research and defense of her project titled, “Does your healthy lawn include clover?”

The following Oak Bluffs School students received honors for the first trimester of the 2009-2010 academic year:

Eighth grade high honors: Katherine deBettencourt, Shannon Ferry, Brian Fraser, Benjamin Lukowitz, Emily Hammett, Matthew Marchand, Sam Permar, Paul Robinson, Sara Thompson, Molly Wallace, Emma Yuen.

Eighth grade honors: Tyson Araujo, Samuel Burke, Emelia Cappelli, Alex Clark, Stowe Counsell, Sarah Dawson, Julia Duart, Hayley Maciel, Kenya Peters Vega, George Sykes, Isabelle Wadleigh, Aaron Wilson.

The following Edgartown School students received honors for the second quarter of the 2009-2010 academic year:

Eighth grade high honors: Rae Filley, Alice Keenan, Charlotte McCarron.

Eighth grade honors: Caroline Gazaille, Sarah Parece, Sarah Strem, Sophie Ulyatt, Zachary Wannamaker.

Seventh grade high honors: Aubrey Asbmun, Alec Cobban, Quinn Cobban, Gabriella Hoxsie, Megan Hurley, Hanna Kim, Charlie Morano, Jacob Pertile.

Three Tastes of Italy

Slow Food Martha’s Vineyard and Jan Buhrman will present a series of three Italian culinary experiences, Italy at Your Table, during the first weekend in March.

February is Black History Month. It was first established in 1926 by Dr. Carter Woodson, a professor at Tulane University, who “strongly believed that documenting black history and educating the public were both vitally important ingredients to the progress of race relations and the progression of the lives of black Americans.” As a class, most of us believe that Black History Month is very important and that there should be more celebration and respect paid to black Americans. Today there has been a tremendous change for all citizens of America.