Big Lady, Big Laughs, Comedy Tonight

Some call her Big Roz. Others call her Lady Roz G. Most just call her drop-dead funny.

Roz G. is on the Vineyard July 7 through 9, as the opening performer of a summer of comedy thanks to the folks at Knock-Knock productions. All performances take place at the Katharine Cornell Theatre located at 54 Spring street in Vineyard Haven.

SylvieBags Returns

After a three year hiatus, SylvieBags is back in business. Those who have been missing her colorful vintage fabric handbags can look forward to viewing new designs at the Vineyard Artisans Festivals this summer (Sundays in July, Thursdays in August, plus the Labor Day weekend show).

Additionally, a selection of her vintage fabric pillows is available at the North Water Gallery in Edgartown. For details, call 508-693-0561 or visit online sylviebags.com.

Painting With a Pro

It’s a painting party! Artists all are welcome to join esteemed acrylics painter Debra Bretton Robinson as she paints en plein air (outdoors, from life) on North Water street in Edgartown across from the lighthouse next week, July 11 to 15, 9 a.m. to noon.

It’s BYOP (bring your own box of paints) but this can be a spectator sport too —the public is invited to join her by painting with her or by simply viewing the process as she paints.

A battle-of-wills comedy that made film critic Kenneth Turan’s Top 10 films of the year? Tell me more! By a first-time and female director? Yes, Mariana Chenillo, in Turan’s words, “creates fully imagined eccentric characters, places them in a wryly comic and specific world and takes deft pokes at the occasional rigidity of organized religion in the process.”

The Tisbury Street Fair, scheduled for this evening, has been postponed until Saturday evening due to weather.

It will begin at 6 p.m. in Vineyard Haven promising the same great food, face painting, climbing walls and lots more.

The town of Tisbury is turning 340 years old this year. Forty years ago the town decided the candles had become a bit too plentiful for a mere cake and the birthday bash known as the Tisbury Street Fair was born.

The Vineyard Playhouse has been awarded a prestigious $10,000 grant from the Shubert Foundation Inc., according to an announcement by the playhouse artistic director MJ Bruder Munafo and board president Gerry Yukevich.

Veteran Hollywood comedy writer Marty Nadler will be performing his one-man show, Very Vineyard 2011, at Grace Episcopal Church in Vineyard Haven, on Saturday, July 9, at 7 p.m.

Mr. Nadler’s writing, producing and performing career spans more than three decades. In television, he served as script consultant for The Odd Couple, story editor and head writer for Happy Days, contributing writer for Sesame Street and guest writer for Saturday Night Live.”

We all like to hear stories and many of us like to tell them too. But something happens when you’re in the hands of a master storyteller, one who has honed her craft over years of telling stories and teaching storytelling too.

Susan Klein will be telling her stories in her own magical way on Saturday, July 9 at the Martha’s Vineyard High School’s Performing Arts Center. The show begins at 7 p.m. and is a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity of Martha’s Vineyard and is sponsored in part by Holmes Hole Builders.

A deep connection with the senses is synonymous with artists, those tactile beings who crave materials in their hands. The resting of a paintbrush in the palm of a painter, the click of a shutter in the hands of a photographer, the composition of a scene, the satisfaction of capturing the perfect Vineyard light.

Trinity Episcopal Church welcomes Rev. Karen B. Montagno as celebrant this Sunday, July 10, at 9 a.m. All are welcome. The church is located across from the Steamship Authority in Oak Bluffs.

Coeditor of Injustice and the Care of Souls, the Rev. Montagno has worked for more than 21 years in higher education.