British book artist and teacher Paul Johnson is a pioneer in developing literacy through book arts. He will be offering four classes at Seastone Papers studio in West Tisbury beginning Saturday, July 26 with A Box of Fireworks; Sunday, July 27, Books You Can Hang as Pictures; Monday, July 28, Children’s Favorites: Books Kids Love to Make, and Tuesday, July 29, The Magic of the Movable Book: Kids as Pop-up Engineers.

For a long time people viewed the dearth of affordable housing on the Vineyard as a daunting and seemingly insurmountable problem. Even those who work in the field of affordable housing — which now has become its own industry on the Vineyard — will readily admit there are no easy solutions to the problem.

The Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center, in conjunction with the Summer Institute, presents former Vermont Governor and ambassador to Switzerland Madeleine Kunin Monday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m. There is no charge for admission.

In this serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after years in Manhattan to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe loathes Richard Moby, chief of the off-Island landscaping business Broadway. He is irrationally convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and Island-based nursery businesses in general.

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Library Art Exhibit

Marianne Neill will be showing recent gouache paintings and pastels at the Chilmark Free Public Library from Saturday, July 26 through August 15.

The show can also be seen during library hours, every day except Sunday.

Magical Marionettes

Dan Butterworth and his Magical Marionettes perform today, July 25, at 6 p.m. at the Tisbury School for the community.

Bring your kids, bring your parents, for Mr. Butterworth travels the world with a menagerie of characters — all moving on his intricate stage, into the air, and right out into the audience.

After the show, he will offer a demonstration of the tricks that lie behind the effects, so be sure to stay for insight into a rare art form.