Falmouth Academy will host an admissions open house on Saturday, Oct. 22 from 2 to 4 p.m. at their campus in Falmouth.

Throughout the afternoon, student guides will conduct tours of the campus, and Falmouth Academy teachers and current parents will be available to meet with visitors. The open house will include information sessions on the middle school, the school’s study skills curriculum, interscholastic athletics, and financial aid. Visitors will also have the opportunity to meet the school’s headmaster, David C. Faus.

Kids Clothing Swap

This Saturday, Oct. 15, there is a free kids clothing and book swap at the West Tisbury School.

Stop by to browse the gently used clothing, shoes and books or if you have items to donate, drop them off. Most items are for kids from kindergarten to sixth grade.

The swap takes place at the school from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and is free.

Left over items will be donated to charity.

Fun to Dance at YMCA

The collaboration between the Yard and the YMCA begins on Oct. 24 when Dance with the Yard starts its fall program of classes.

Kids will learn the fundamentals of modern, ballet, and creative dance skills with Yard choreographer-dance educator, Jesse Keller. Professional visiting artists from the Yard will also help out with the classes, in particular drumming and rhythm training, student choreography opportunities, and end-of-session performances.

A Walk in the Dark

Felix Neck is going dark, with nighttime walking that is.

Find out what goes bump in the night on Saturday, Oct. 22, as the wildlife sanctuary celebrates the coming of darkness with a guided evening walk. The journey finishes at a campfire with hot chocolate, s’mores and storytelling.

The evening is from 6 to 8 p.m. and registration is required.

The cost for members is $10 per group (up to 5 people), and $15 for nomembers.

All ages are welcome.

For those still trying to figure out what to do with all those leftover coffee grounds and egg shells, there is help. This weekend Felix Neck and the Polly Hill Arboretum are hosting a compost tea workshop with Ann McGovern, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s consumer waste reduction coordinator.

Wow, that’s a mouthful. Perhaps a bit of composting is in order for Ms. McGovern’s title. Like maybe, Lady Who Turns Garbage into Garden Gold. Yes, that’s more like it.

On Saturday night, Oct. 15, The Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School is opening up the doors to everyone’s inner Fonzie, or if you swing to a more aggressive time channeler, how about Marlon Brando in The Wild One.

“What are rebelling against? What’ve you got?”

Food and Wine Festival Has Legs

This weekend there will be tongues doing the tango all over the Vineyard as the Food and Wine festival lands once again on our shores. Let’s face it, food never appears here in this style of abundant and delicious diversity except for during this annual event.

For the wild food crowd, grocery shopping begins when you leave the supermarket. On the other side of those automatic sliding doors is a diffuse (and free) marketplace filled with geese, berries, turtles, seaweed, deer, scallops and basically anything else you can digest. This Sunday marks the second annual Martha’s Vineyard Local Wild Food Challenge, and organizer and chef Bill Manson has imported the resourceful philosophy of the hunter-gatherer from his native New Zealand. The contest takes place at the Rod and Gun Club in Edgartown, beginning at 4 p.m.