Featherstone Center for the Arts offers a different kind of ladies night on the first Monday of the month. Nancy Blank will bring out the still-life painter in you on March 1 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Pebble Gallery at Featherstone.

Reading specialist Kathleen Farrell will lead a free seven-session workshop for kindergarten students at the Edgartown library from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturdays beginning March 8.

Monday March 17 is Daffodil Day. Proceeds from flowers purchased will go to the Martha's Vineyard Cancer Support Group.

Back by popular demand, decoy carver Chris Murphy leads a workshop in carving duck decoys at the Martha's Vineyard Museum library in Edgartown, on Saturday, March 8, from 10 a.m. to noon.

Celebrating his late brother's life, Randy Pease brings Beautiful Beast: The Life & Work of Geoff Pease to Brooklyn, N.Y., on March 14 through March 16.

Anna Edey imagines a world with little need for fossil fuels, that provides us with all the comforts and technologies we currently expect and enjoy, includes ways to grow fresh food locally and allows us to keep using cars without harm to our air, soil or water.