The summer calendar at Flatbread Company is full of backyard boogies, family dance parties and live music featuring on-Island and off-Island musicians. And of course, the main event ­— Pizza.

Live music officially returns with Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish and Goodnight Louise at the opening party on Saturday, May 18, beginning at 8 p.m.

Kids can run for a great cause on Sunday, May 26, with proceeds benefitting Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard. Registration is from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the Wesley Hotel, 70 Lake avenue in Oak Bluffs. Preregister on Saturday, May 25, from 3 to 6 p.m. at the hotel.

Those interested in finding out about the fungus among us should head to the mushroom walk with mycologist Wesley Price on Sunday, May 19, from 10 a.m. to noon at Menemsha Hills Reservation in Chilmark. Mycology is the study of fungi and all their many uses, so get ready to embrace your inner mushroomologist.

Calling all Island thespians: it’s audition weekend and time to strut your inner scarecrow, mad monkey or one of Shakespeare’s finest.

The Island Theatre Workshop will be putting on a late summer production of The Wizard of Oz and they are currently on the prowl for principal actors. Auditions began on Thursday and continue on Saturday, May 18, from 4 to 7 p.m. and Sunday, May 19, from 4 to 7 p.m. at 12 Music street in West Tisbury. For more information, call 508-627-2456 or 508-737-8550.

The fourth annual Martha’s Vineyard Blessing of the Bikes is Saturday, May 18, beginning at 10 a.m. at the Federated Church, 45 South Summer street in Edgartown. Rev. Dr. Jerry Fritz, pastor and cyclist, will be officiating. The blessing is for cyclists of every age and faith.

Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School student newspaper, the High School View, has earned first place in the Scholastic Journalism Awards in the All-New England region for two consecutive years.

The community is invited to a meeting and to participate in discussion regarding affordable housing in Vineyard Haven. The meeting will be at 5 p.m. on Monday, May 13, at the Vineyard Housing Office at 346 State Road behind the Tisbury Farm Market in Vineyard Haven. Property at 6 Water street, between Stop & Shop and AA Island Auto Rental, was recently donated to the Island Housing Trust, and they are requesting comment from neighbors and the community regarding the use of the property.

Making it to its first birthday is quite an accomplishment for a painted turtle.

The Friends of Sengekontacket is teaming with Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary again this summer to offer a program for children ages four and up. The program, Saturdays on Sengie, begins on Saturday, July 6, and will run on successive Saturdays through August 17.

It was early May and the migrating birds, Felix Neck Bird-a-thon and our garden were calling us home to the Vineyard. We thought we were headed home from Big Bend, Texas, however the bird buggy (and we) had a different idea. How could we not bird the famous Bentsen-Rio Grande State Park, the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge or South Padre Island while we were in West Texas?