Bring your shovels, buckets, rakes and anything else you have to the annual Sand Sculpture Contest at South Beach (right fork) on Wednesday, August 6.

The Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs will host Dr. John Silvanus Wilson Jr., president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., as its visiting speaker this Sunday, August 3.

Not many people can point to a single pivotal point when their life made an about-face, but Kib Bramhall has no doubt that art class changed his life. Sixty-five years later, he is still painting. His newest show opens at the Granary Gallery Sunday.

Vineyard Gardens combines poppies and paintings as it hosts Gallery in the Gardens on Fridays throughout August from 5 to 8 p.m.

Singer-songwriter Cindy Kallet will perform a benefit concert for Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary’s Fern & Feather Day Camp on Sunday, August 3, at 7:30 p.m. at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury.