Yoga Experience

Yoga on the Vineyard is hosting a weeklong yoga experience from July 26 to August 1 at the Vineyard Arts Project at 215 Upper Main street in Edgartown. Entitled Yoga, Mindfulness, Locavore, there are two classes each day (except Thursday) plus a meal after each class. Open vinyasa class is at 9 a.m. and gentle vinyasa is at 5 p.m. Cost for the yoga classes are $20 per person. For more information and meal prices visit yogaonthevineyard.com.

Music to Dress By

Come dress your best at the Best Dressed Fest at Nectar’s on Saturday, July 31. The Spoonbreakers will play and dance at 9 p.m. on the dance floor. Also on the lineup are Kahoots, the Vineyard band that has just finished recording their 12th full-length album called Play Something You Know, and Willy Mason, just returned from touring Europe with Norah Jones. Deejay Ricky Prime will spin as well. Tickets are $10 at the door.

On Sept. 16, 1969, approximately two months after Michael Zide moved to the Vineyard, 189,000 gallons of number two fuel oil spilled into the waters of Buzzard’s Bay as the barge Gloria ran aground.

The sixth annual African American Cultural Festival sponsored by the Cottagers, Inc. of Martha’s Vineyard will be held on Thursday and Friday, July 29 and 30, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Hartford Park in Oak Bluffs.

Former CIA lawyer Vicki Divoll will deliver a talk titled, Targeted Killing of Americans by the Obama Administration, on Wednesday, July 28 at 5:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Public Library. The focus of the talk will be whether the Executive Branch should be allowed to put a U.S. citizen on a CIA death list without judicial review. Recently, Anwar al Awlaki, a Muslim cleric born in New Mexico, has been added to the CIA list of suspected terrorists who may be captured or killed.

Island chefs, musicians and authors will be the centerpiece of Library After Hours, a celebration at the West Tisbury Free Public Library on Sunday, August 1 from 5 to 7 p.m.

It will be the kickoff of a nonprofit foundation focussed on a capital campaign to raise $1.2 million to expand the library building.

“We’ve been handed a rare opportunity to get state funding for half the cost of construction,” said trustee Dan Waters. “If we meet our fund-raising goal, the state grant will mean an enormous savings to the town.”