Adult and Community Education of Martha’s Vineyard (ACE MV) will hold a course sampling fair with walk-in registration on Tuesday from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the regional high school.

Enrichment courses begin the first week of October, as will two Island courses being offered for college credit (English composition and a medical terminology class) and essential English and math courses for those seeking a high school diploma or college prep.

Choreography Residency Unveiled

Go ahead. Fall on your face. Try something you’ve never done before.

This advice was given by the Yard’s associate artistic director, Lise Brody, to the artists taking part in this weekend’s Bessie Schönberg Choreographers’ Residency. But it’s something we all could take to heart, this notion of leaping into the void with no net. Right?

Business Awards

The Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce will hold its second annual “Martha’s” business awards on Wednesday, Sept. 29 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Lambert’s Cove Inn in West Tisbury.

Nonmembers are welcome to attend and learn about the benefits of chamber membership. There will be fabulous refreshments and exciting door prizes. Winners will be announced and presented to the honorees.

The aspiring Australian filmmaker Nicholas Mason had no idea what his Manhattan Short Film Festival would become when he first imagined the by-the-people-for-the-people-to-vote global movie contest more than a dozen years ago.

West Tisbury artist Leslie Baker recently opened a show of her landscape work at the Copley Society of Art in Boston. A painter, portrait artist and children’s book author, Ms. Baker’s plein air oil studies are well known on the Vineyard, where she has lived year-round since 1997. The Copley show is anchored by a sweeping triptych of Long Point Wildlife Refuge on a hazy, late summer day. The show opened on Sept. 11 and will hang until Oct. 8. The Copley Society of Art, founded in 1879, is located at 158 Newbury street in Boston.

Networking Women

The Martha’s Vineyard Women’s Network will kick off the new off-season with a social event from 6 to 8 p.m. at the back bar at the Atlantic restaurant in Edgartown. Bring your business cards and enjoy Atlantic’s great bar, dinner menu and get a chance to reconnect. Bring a friend. This is a free event open to all members and nonmembers. No registration required. A cash bar and dinner menu will be available.

Twinkling Ingmar Bergmanesque lights sparkled in the spooky, dark woods of Chilmark. A big bowl of baby tomatoes sat on an outdoor table. Inside the anterior barn space at the Yard, the makeshift stage was adorned with microphones, drums and a hand-waving papier-mâché R2-D2. It seemed everyone and everything was welcome at the Satsang Lounge.

It was a Tivoli Day organizers dreamt about: good food, music, people and even better sales. Circuit avenue was busier than a weekend night in August last Saturday afternoon for the 33rd annual street fair, as the street bustled with Oak Bluffs businesses, food vendors and shoppers seeking end of the season deals.

By HOLLY NADLER

Perhaps the most fruitful painters’ retreat occurred in the fall of 1888 when Vincent van Gogh invited Paul Gauguin to join him in Arles. Gauguin brought a bale of jute which the two artists cut into canvases. The rough-hewn quality of the jute changed the brushstrokes of both the painters and the unique Arles light lives on in their masterworks from that period.

As the response to a recent non-hurricane demonstrated, there is a longstanding tension on the Vineyard about whether it is one cohesive Island or rather a balkanized land mass of individual towns, each with their own personalities and interests. This Saturday the Martha’s Vineyard Museum celebrates that tension in kicking off a year-long exhibit titled Your Town, Our Island.