When Laura Roosevelt, the Yard’s new president of the executive board, first started funding the arts in the early 1990s, she did not “get” contemporary dance.

Oak Bluffs Harbor Festival, Faeries Too

Harbors are for boats, right? Not necessarily. This Saturday, Oak Bluffs Harbor will be packed with food, faeries, and fireworks.

The annual Harbor Festival, celebrating the summer solstice and approaching season, starts with a stretch of over 40 vendors selling arts, crafts, antiques and food. There will also be non-profits talking about their missions and plenty of live music.

He calls it a studio. She calls it a school. The rest of us call it a great new place to do yoga.

Husband and wife team, Robert and Sherry Sidoti, have just opened their own studio located at 517 State Road, Vineyard Haven, next to the Black Dog cafe. There will be a full schedule of classes and workshops offered as well as the Island’s only certified Yoga Teacher Training Program, the FLY Yoga School, led by Sherry.

The Vineyard Playhouse may be under construction this summer, but that isn’t stopping them from putting on plenty of shows. First up are their Monday Night Specials, beginning June 25 and continuing throughout the summer. This year the shows are being held at the Hebrew Center, 130 Center street, Vineyard Haven.

Jane Hurst woke up last Saturday morning with a challenge: Think way back to last summer and collect all of the items necessary to conduct business at the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market, the first of the season.

Fish Farm Love

The Martha’s Vineyard Fish Farm for Haiti project is holding a tennis tournament fundraiser next weekend, June 22 through 24, at Farm Neck Tennis in Oak Bluffs. There will be men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles of all levels.

The cost is $50 per player/per event. Players should sign up by June 19 at TennisMV.com, or by calling Farm Neck Pro Shop at 508-693-9728.

For information about the project, which has been working with and helping the Haitian community since 2001, visit fishfarmhaiti.org.

Bloomsday

James Joyce didn’t name Bloomsday, a worldwide celebration of music and drama based on his work, but he did choose the date. It’s June 16, the day his most famous book, Ulysses, takes place, and the date of his first romantic liaison with his future wife, Nora Barnacle.

Ghostly Gadabouts

Swimmers and sunbathers aren’t the only people moaning for their Vineyard summers to begin. There’s also the plethora of Island ghosts who habitually haunt the downtown streets of the Vineyard. But they are a shy lot, often passing unseen, through and around you.

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School boys’ tennis team won the state Division 3 Championship — their first ever — over Nashoba Thursday, sweeping the first four matches in straight sets. (The fifth match was still being played at this time.)

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