Helen Lamb and Camp Jabberwocky will be honored as recipients of the 2009 Creative Living Award on August 11 at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury beginning at 5:30 p.m. All are invited.

A screening of an acclaimed documentary film about the SS United States and a special tribute to the late Walter Cronkite will take place in Edgartown on August 12. The event is a benefit for the SS United States Conservancy, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the SS United States, widely considered the crowning maritime achievement of the 20th century. Mr. Cronkite will be honored as the SS United States Conservancy’s first National Flagship Champion.

Chappy Benefit Auction

Bake Sale

Snare some sweets and help the strays: Martha’s Vineyard Helping Homeless Animals Inc. is having a bake sale on Saturday, August 8, at Cronig’s Market in Vineyard Haven from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The group is a no-cage, no-kill shelter. All proceeds from the bake sale will go to providing for the animals’ food, heating, electricity and medical needs.

Anyone may donate baked goods on the day of the event between 9 and 11 a.m. All items must be individually wrapped. Call 508-696-8305.

Island Voices

Island Voices at Che’s Lounge in Vineyard Haven offers a new poetry performance series continues on Wednesday, August 5 at 7:30 p.m. Ben Williams will perform and host the event with Island poets Janette Vanderhoop and Andrew Larsen performing their work. An open reading follows the featured poets. All Island poets are invited.

The Ceilidh on Vineyard Avenue

In Scottish, it’s called a ceilidh (pronounced kay-lee), which literally translates as a visit or gathering where friends and family share songs, stories and dance.