Gosselin — Keegan

Meghan Gosselin of Vineyard Haven and Brian Keegan of Plymouth announce their engagement. Meghan is the daughter of Ray and Mary Gosselin of Vineyard Haven and Margaret Ekholm of Falmouth. Brian is the son of James Keegan of Carver and Claire DeYoung of Marshfield. A June 2011 wedding is planned.

In a first for her gallery, Louisa Gould this week opens a European show, European Subjects Painted by Island Artists. The public opening reception is on Saturday, June 19, free from 5 to 7 p.m. with live music and refreshments.

The show includes five artists; Anne Grandin, Claudio Gasparini, Jules Worthington, Donna Blackburn and Louisa Gould.

Some 20 people gathered last Sunday evening at the Capawock Theatre in Vineyard Haven to watch a free showing of the movie Tea Party: The Documentary.

Juneteenth is the celebration of African American freedom and achievement and the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. The event dates back to June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers, led by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Tex., with news that the war had ended and the enslaved were now free. This was two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of Jan.

Eating a cheap meal out on the Vineyard can be a challenge, but with the second annual restaurant week scheduled to start on Saturday, Islanders and visitors alike will have the chance to dine out and still hang on to most of their weekly paycheck.

A long list of restaurants that includes the Sweet Life Café in Oak Bluffs, Chesca’s in Edgartown, Lambert’s Cove Inn in West Tisbury, Zephrus in Vineyard Haven and many more will be serving prix-fixe lunches and dinners from June 20 to June 24.

In the early days of the Island’s busiest season, there are many events billed as unofficial “welcome to summer” celebrations. Memorial Day weekend is generally considered the kickoff to the summer season, after which many stores extend their hours, many beaches require passes, and motorists begin to heed time limitations for parking spots, lest they find themselves graced with a ticket from a seasonal, special police officer.

Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation has received an $8,000 grant from the Edey Foundation for a coastal otter research project led by biologist Luanne Johnson, to document the diet and habitat of river otters on the Vineyard. The community-based project asks Island residents, conservation groups, teachers and students to help map otter trails and latrines and help analyze otter diets.

Hebrew Center Screens a Gentle Fable

The Summer Institute at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center this year celebrates the 10th anniversary of its film series, the Best of the Boston Jewish Film Festival. A season of eight films selected from the Boston festival will open at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center this Sunday, June 20, with the screening of Wondrous Oblivion at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $10.

The auteur-director of the earliest Saturday Night Live short films, and one of the show’s original writers, Tom Schiller, will present some of his classic films next weekend at the Vineyard Playhouse.

There will be two separate showings — on Friday, June 25 and Saturday, June 26 at 7:30 p.m. — both presented by Judy Belushi Pisano

Director MJ Bruder Munafo is seeking little fairies and wood sprites for this season’s Vineyard Playhouse production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Girls and boys ages 5 to 10 and under 4’9” tall are invited to apply for up to 12 open roles in the production. The children will perform an average of twice a week on a flexible rotating schedule agreed upon by the parents and the stage manager.