Humorist and author David Sedaris visits the Vineyard on Saturday, August 2, with two performances.

Island Images presents an evening with Chilmark painter Linda Thompson on Friday, August 1, from 5 to 7 p.m.

On Monday, August 4, the West Tisbury Library is inaugurating a series of documentaries by local filmmakers with a showing of two films by Marjory and Robert Potts.

Rising Tide therapeutic equestrian center hosts its annual Cocktails & Auction on Saturday, August 2, from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury.

In what is being announced as the “comedy event of the summer” on the Vineyard, Boston’s Lenny Clarke and Friends bring their comedy to Flatbread on Sunday, August 3, at 7 p.m.

Bring your shovels, buckets, rakes and anything else you have to the annual Sand Sculpture Contest at South Beach (right fork) on Wednesday, August 6.

Polly Hill Arboretum in West Tisbury presents two programs of note in August.

At Miss Lani’s summer camp art classes, you can pretend to be Jackson Pollack for the day.

On Thursday, August 7, Vineyard House hosts its 17th Annual Water Tasting by the Sea event to benefit the Island’s only sober living facility.

The Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs will host Dr. John Silvanus Wilson Jr., president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., as its visiting speaker this Sunday, August 3.