It’s not every day that you can walk into the Grange Hall and hear the steel drums of the Drum Workshop, Inc. plinking in one corner, the delicate strumming of the berimbau from the Angola Center for Capoeira drifting in from another, and artists, artisans and performers chatting about the various projects they have on the horizon.

Windemere Auction Party Tonight

Nestled amidst the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital is the elderly housing wing known as Windemere. In a way, the hospital sort of hugs the complex, literally encircling the building, and figuratively by giving the residents the much needed care they deserve.

But living at Windemere is not about staying at the hospital. Rather, residents take part in the abundance of activities the Vineyard has to offer. One of the ways this is possible is through the annual Windemere live auction event.

Skidmore Graduate

Isobel Flake, of Vineyard Haven, received her bachelor of arts degree cum laude from Skidmore College at its 100th commencement exercises held Saturday, May 21, at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.

The ghosts and haunts have been quiet of late on the Island but just when you thought it was safe to go back to the graveyard, the joint is about to get bone-rattling busy.

That’s right, no more cozy winter potlucks for our Island ghosts bored with scaring the local residents because, well, we scare them back. They are now ready to greet the summer visitors and take them on a ferry ride of another sort, to the grand beyond. Consider yourself forewarned. Perhaps best to go with a seasoned guide.

Arts on the Vineyard

Arts on the Vineyard are everywhere, but starting this Sunday, June 12, the place to go for one-stop arts shopping begins again.

For such a small place, the Island has a surprisingly diverse people — a native tribe, a long-established African American community, waves of Portuguese speakers — and so for its annual Juneteenth celebration, the Martha’s Vineyard NAACP has asked several Islanders to share their interracial experiences here.

There’s wonderful and then there’s the Sense of Wonder, which is like wonderful to the nth power.

Sense of Wonder is an arts camp for kids run by Pam Benjamin that succeeds in every aspect, including making adults jealous they can’t join in on the fun.

Well, this weekend everyone’s invited to drift back to childhood and remember when imaginary friends kept you company and hours spent drawing, tongue tucked tightly between the lips in concentration, was the only item on the day’s agenda.

The Vineyard Playhouse’s current production of Tape, opens on a set that itself poses a plot twist and a conundrum at the same time: Lights bear down on a typical off-highway motel room with twin beds, a banal color scheme of beige, gold and brown, a sink on one side rimmed by overhead white globes. Over in the right-hand corner, a vague charcoal-hued stain hints that a repaint of the unadorned walls is long overdue.

It’s a three-person play and a two-bed motel room. Something’s already intriguingly off-kilter.

Behind a small unobtrusive sign near Beetlebung Corner on Middle Road in Chilmark beats what many feel is the heart of dance on the Island. This is the location of the Yard, a Vineyard fixture since 1973.

A vibrant summer at the Yard was by no means a certainty this year, though, after it was revealed last fall that the dance organization was deeply in debt. In announcing its summer season, the Yard looks to a financially stable future that builds upon its longtime reputation of artistic integrity.

Don’t fritter away opportunity.

I never pass up the prospect of a perfect picking or forgo a chance for a floral feast. This week, black locust trees are in bloom, and with the appearance of their flowers comes more than just a snazzy scent.