Bishop Robert Christopher Wright from Atlanta, Ga., will address the congregation this Sunday, August 18, at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs at the 10 a.m. service. His sermon is titled The God of Now.

Rev. Wright is the first African American to become an Episcopal bishop in Georgia. He was elected by the lay delegates and priests of the Diocese of Atlanta in June of 2012. Prior to his ordination as bishop, Bishop Wright was canon pastor and vicar of St. Saviour at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York city and chaplain of the Cathedral School.

The Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard is grateful to Jeffrey White and Eleanor Hubbard for donating the proceeds of the open studio event they held at their house in West Tisbury last weekend. It was to honor Ulla, their rescue cat, on her 20th birthday. Ulla is a calico whose hearing is a bit iffy, but who can still jump up on the bed. Calico cats are long-lived by reputation.

Friends of MVYRadio welcome singer-songwriter Laura Marling for a special Labor Day benefit concert. Ms. Marling is considered one of the most unique and celebrated folk artists working today.

The concert is on Sunday, September 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center at the Tisbury Marketplace in Vineyard Haven.

Livingston Taylor concerts are many things, all of them wonderful, but most they are events that break down the barriers between performer and listener. As he said in a past interview with the Gazette, the audience is the boss.

“You need them, they don’t need you,” he admitted, giving some insight into both his humility on stage and his appreciation. He says a show should feel more like a conversation with the audience.

The Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs offers a free family movie night special event with the screening of The Watsons Go To Birmingham at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, August 20. The film stars Tony-winning actress Anika Noni Rose and three-time Tony nominee David Alan Grier.

At dusk last night a single lantern lit by Gordon Long and his son Roy made its way down the center aisle of the Tabernacle in the Oak Bluffs Camp Ground. There was a collective gasp from the large crowd gathered inside the Tabernacle and around blankets and picnic baskets on the lawn.

A Place at the Table, narrated by Jeff Bridges and scored by T-Bone Burnett, is a documentary that places the spotlight on hunger here at home. It tells the stories of people struggling with food insecurity in the U.S., where 50 million people are unsure of where their next meal will come from. The Vineyard Committee on Hunger and Martha’s Vineyard Film Society will sponsor a showing of the film on Wednesday, August 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the film center at the Tisbury Marketplace in Vineyard Haven.

Each week the folks at Cinema Circus show a series of short films on Wednesday evening at the Chilmark Community center.

If the summer traffic is starting to fray your nerves, think Martha’s Vineyard Comedy Festival held at the Lampost on Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs. The event is billed as the only profanity-free comedy fest in the nation and features primarily African American comedians who offer “originality and sophistication while on stage.”

The first annual Keren Or Literary Festival welcomes authors Julia Newman, Sarah Caravallo, Estelle Ana Baca and Paul West to the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven this Sunday, August 18, at 6 p.m. Keren Or is the only center in Israel dedicated exclusively to the education and care of children and young adults who are blind or visually impaired and have additional multiple disabilities. Support for the festival will go to the Keren Or speech therapy program.