The season is changing and the Menemsha Galley is closed. The fishing continues.
Valerie Sonenthal’s Peaked Hill studio, 11 Peaked Hill Pasture Road, hosts Roberta Kirn’s Music of the Circle/Musica Do Circulo, an opportunity to play, sing, and move. Tuesdays, Oct. 13, 20, and 27, from 5:30 to 6:45 pm, free. For more info, email roberta@bewellsing.com.
Christina Montoya offers a two-hour “Healing in Present Space” class on Oct. 18, from 1 to 3 pm. Email her at montoyamovement@gmail.com.
Tuesday nights at 6 pm, pizza is served at the Chilmark Community Church at 9 Menemsha Road. Come at 5:30 pm and help set up. Sides and desserts are welcome.
The price of food is high.
Emily Broderick leads the Chilmark Community Church team in the three-mile Martha’s Vineyard CROP Hunger Walk on Oct. 18 at 1:30 pm, starting at St. Augustine’s Church in Vineyard Haven. Twenty-five percent of the funds raised stay on the Island, and the rest go to global programs that ease hunger. To support our team, contact Pastor Janet Stoddard at 508-645-3100.
After a long day, doodling over stains and coloring old lace with fabric pens is super-satisfying.
Chilmarkers can donate instead of trashing dry and clean clothing and household textiles, this week.
- Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 7 and 8, at the Chilmark School, 8 am to 2:30 pm.
- Friday, Oct. 9: Menemsha Cross Road Fire Station, 8 am to 5 pm.
- Saturday, Oct. 10: Chilmark library, 10:30 am to 5 pm.
- Sunday, Oct. 11: Chilmark LDO, 1 to 5 pm.
Donations will be sorted and delivered to the Martha’s Vineyard Fishermen’s Preservation Trust, Chicken Alley, and the Red Cross.
Nancy Aronie invites us to join her dear friend, teacher, and author, Mirabai Bush, in conversation on Oct. 9 at 4 pm, 1 West Meadow, Chilmark. Mirabai will read from her new memoir, “Almost Home,” and talk about her long and beautiful relationship with Ram Dass and the writing of the landmark book “Walking Each Other Home.”
Mirabai will bring books to sign. RSVP to Nancy: nancyjill73@gmail.com.
“If you want to understand a community, join the local League of Women Voters.” –Margaret Pitkin Bainbridge
The M.V. League of Women Voters is hosting a Candidate Forum for countywide offices on Tuesday, Oct. 13, at 6 pm at the Edgartown library, and on Saturday, Oct. 17, at 3 pm, offers an informational tea at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum.
Kara Taylor Gallery is closing after 1- years at the original Stanley Murphy Gallery. Come celebrate Saturday, Oct. 10, 4 to 7 pm, 24 South Road.
Rebecca Gilbert talks foraging for nuts at the “Friends, Foraging, and Fermenting” event at the Chilmark library, Saturday, Oct. 10, 1 to 3 pm.
Farm fun! Sunday, Oct. 11, 2 to 5 pm. 94 North Road Native Earth Teaching Farm. Cider pressing, applehead dolls, henna, and goat play. Free knitting books, clothing swap, community weaving, and the season’s last indigo vat. For more info, email nativeearthteachingfarm@gmail.com.
