A reception for the new director of student support services for Martha’s Vineyard Public Schools, Philip Campbell, is scheduled for 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 11.

If you’re looking for a brush-up on your organizational skills, you may want to attend the workshop with Kim D’Arcy on Wednesday, Feb. 5. If sibling rivalry is a challenge in your life, you can try the workshop with Jeanine Fitzgerald on Tuesday, Feb. 11.

Boaz Kirschenbaum is turning 40 and doing it in public, with music, too, on Saturday, Feb. 1, beginning at 6 p.m. Well-wishers who will be bringing their instruments and voices to the Katharine Cornell Theatre include Daytrippers, Good Night Louise, Flying Elbows, Jellybone Rivers and Nina Violet.

Travel up-Island nearly any night of the week and you’ll find folks engaged in all types of artistic expression at the Pathways Gathering Space at the Chilmark Tavern.

Jessica Seeman and Andrew Dubno of New York city announce the birth of a daughter, Ava Louise Dubno, born on Jan. 8 at home.

Brenna Parsons Westover and Jeffrey Westover of Norwood announce the birth of a daughter, Ava Metell Westover, born on Dec. 22, 2013 at the Newton-Wellesley Hospital.

John Freeman, Camp Ground resident and eclectic musician, will present everything you could ever want to know about harmonicas at the men’s first Saturday breakfast hosted by the United Methodist Church at the Trinity parish house on Saturday, Feb. 1.

The Holmes Hole Sailing Association is taking orders for its annual mid-winter dinner. This year it will be held at the Wharf Pub on Sunday, Feb. 9, at 6 p.m.

There are daily experiences of Island life, such as being on a first-name basis with just about everyone, that become routine so gently we are hardly aware of their idiosyncratic aspect. We take for granted having to wait in a line of cars while a boat is hauled across the road, or seeing swooping gulls open scallop shells by dropping them on the road in front of us, or knowing that when we get out of a movie at 10 p.m., the only place to go is home. But the cherry on top of this quirky Vineyard confection is our town post offices.

Tracing your family tree is the theme at the Introduction to Genealogy workshop with Kay Mayhew on Saturday, Feb. 8, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum.