The Union Chapel opens this Sunday with the Rev. Dr. Dorothy Watson Tatem as the guest preacher. This is her third visit and the beginning of the 140th season of Union Chapel. The chapel is located in Oak Bluffs at the south end of Kennebec and Circuit avenues. An organ prelude by Garrett Brown begins at 9:40 a.m.; the service is at 10 a.m.

Little League Championships

On Saturday, June 26, Martha’s Vineyard Little League will hold its championship games at Veira Park in Oak Bluffs. The minor league game will begin at 11 a.m., followed by the majors championship at 2 p.m. Come watch the real boys and girls of summer!

Tennis and art will help raise funds for students, women and artists in Haiti through two Vineyard groups this weekend. The Fish Farm for Haiti Project will host a tennis tournament at Farm Neck, Friday through Sunday, and the PeaceQuilts organization will host a show of quilts made in Haiti.

Twelve Hundred dollars and a week of professional wall time was the award for three Island high school seniors who won the Martha’s Vineyard Arts Association scholarship given by the Old Sculpin Gallery. It is hard to know which is better: invaluable experience, or valuable resources.

This year the winners of the scholarship were Lonni Phillips, Naomi Scott and Maggie Howard.

On Sunday, there was an opening reception for this annual showing of the recipients of the scholarship; their exhibit runs until June 26.

Former ABC news anchor Carole Simpson has made, in her words, thousands and thousands of speeches, so she knew she wanted to do something special on Saturday to really engage those Vineyarders and visitors gathered at Deon’s Restaurant in Oak Bluffs to commemorate Juneteenth, the 145th anniversary of the end of slavery in the United States.

Island nostalgics, rock’n’roll and reggae music fans alike know his iconic images. Now photographer Peter Simon goes multimedia — for a presentation about his 40-year career documenting historic events from the protests of the 1960s, the hippie communes, nude beaches and the New Age movement, to the greatest names in pop music, the action of major league baseball, and the majesty of Martha’s Vineyard.

His talk, Peter Simon: Through the Lens, is on Wednesday, June 30, 7 p.m. at the Vineyard Haven Public Library.

Peek Behind Fences in Edgartown

Get green with garden envy at the Garden Conservancy’s Edgartown tour. Six private gardens will become open to the public on Monday, June 28 from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. This is a self guided tour so take your time walking or biking around town while stopping to explore a flag garden representing the Union Jack, a hillside garden with the Edgartown Harbor as a backdrop, or a small cottage compound filled with seven unique gardens.

Summer Welcome

The Martha’s Vineyard Center 4 Living will hold its first fundraiser — called Summer Welcome — at the Portuguese-American Club in Oak Bluffs on Friday, June 25, from 6 to 10 p.,m. The evening of Island-style fun includes dinner, dancing by deejay, door prizes and silent auction. Tickets are $10 each, with a cash bar. Proceeds go toward finding a permanent home for the Supportive Day Program.

Can you handle the heat? Roscoe Tanner brings his 153-mile-an-hour serve to the Vineyard Youth Tennis center on Tuesday, June 29. At the 1978 U.S. Open, his serve actually broke the net. But don’t worry, he’s not looking to ace you. Tanner, once ranked fourth in the world, will be holding clinics all day long. High schoolers are from 9 to 10:30 a.m, adult women from 1 to 3 p.m., and men from 2 to 5 p.m.

Practicing Arts Alchemy at the Yard

What do you get when you cross the bad boy of downtown dance with Carmen Miranda, Lenny Bruce, and a whole bunch of hard working bodies? Another tour de force show from the Yard, of course. This weekend the artistic love child of Patricia Hoffbauer and Mark Dendy, entitled Para-dice, pushes the boundaries of dance, theatre and performance.