Tristan Israel and Nancy Jephcote will perform next Friday evening, Nov. 9, at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven. They will be performing original songs and will be joined by musicians Paul Thurlow and Brian Weiland. Mr. Israel, aka the Singing Selectman, recently put out a new CD entitled The Sound After the Flash. His songwriting echoes the best of the 1960s folk revival. Ms. Jephcote’s music is usually associated with her fiddle playing and country style. Her songwriting, however, lends itself to more of a modern folk/pop style.

Chris Murphy, son of the late artist and decoy expert Stan Murphy and a decoy carver himself, guest curated the newest exhibition of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum. The Art of The Hunt: Martha’s Vineyard Decoys opens this weekend with a reception at the museum galleries on Friday from 5 to 7 p.m.

Today, Nov. 2, from 4 to 6 p.m. there will be an artists reception for Kye Howell and Ilao Jackson of the So Focused Photography Group. The reception takes place at the photography gallery at The WorkOut and Tennis Center located at the Airport Road in West Tisbury.

The lessons at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High school last Friday were centered on 1960s diner sit-ins and dormitory riots. And the teacher was civil rights pioneer, author and journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

At a schoolwide multicultural assembly hosted by the Martha’s Vineyard Youth Leadership Initiative, Ms. Hunter-Gault told stories from her youth and read from her recent book, To the Mountaintop, written for high school-aged students.

On Sunday, Oct. 28, Ann Randolph will perform her one-woman show Loveland at the Katharine Cornell Theatre. The show, like all her shows, is based on real life.

“The tale came out of traveling back and forth from Loveland, Ohio to Los Angeles,” Ms. Randolph said. “My dad was dying and my mother had a stroke and then took up drinking for the first time in her life.”

If this sounds like subject matter one usually runs in the opposite direction from, consider this.

Patrick Phillips wants you to think about the arts. The publisher and editor of Arts and Ideas Magazine has also contributed much of the energy behind Art Island, a festival of arts and ideas, taking place here on Martha’s Vineyard.