With a generous double program that traveled easily from sacred music and opera to jazz and Lady Gaga, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Minnesingers displayed their versatility with two spring concerts over the weekend.

For three days in April, Key West, Fla. became a southern outpost of the Martha’s Vineyard arts scene.

The former poet laureate of West Tisbury, Justen Ahren, stepped into his Island-wide laureate role with an April 30 reception at the West Tisbury Free Public Library.

The Spectrum Film Festival festival was the Vineyard’s first film festival to focus on the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

There was standing room only onstage at the Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center Thursday evening, when about 100 string students from the Island’s town schools joined forces for America the Beautiful, the finale of their spring orchestra concert.

This weekend at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown, a concert production by the Island Theatre Workshop celebrates the songs Rodgers and Hammerstein created for their Pulitzer-winning musical South Pacific.

Don’t ask Bob Dutton what he thinks of the latest movies. As managing director of three theatres for the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society, he rarely has a chance to sit down for long enough to take in a full-length feature.

Gardening is big business all over Martha’s Vineyard. To meet this demand, the Vineyard's long-established landscape and garden companies have been joined in recent years by a wave of young gardeners who are willing to work long hours during the season to make a good living.

Smiling portraits of friends and neighbors meet stark representations of addiction and evil in the show by artist James Langlois at the Vineyard Playhouse.

The Spectrum Film Festival, at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center April 27 through April 29, is the Island’s first cultural celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender experiences.