The spring session of the ACE MV adult education program begins Monday, March 8, International Women’s Day, with a free seminar, Women and the African Diaspora, commemorating black history and women’s history months.

Jump Rope for Hope

Students at the Tisbury School recently raised $4,147 to support the Red Cross Haiti relief efforts through a jump rope event, held for all grades.

Just after the earthquake hit Jan. 12, two fourth grade teachers, Pamela Herman and Veronika VanDe Geer, and their students saw the many children who now had lost everything, and initiated a jump rope for hope event. Children generated sponsors to support their jumping during each gym class. The $4,147 check was presented to the Red Cross just before school vacation.

Poets, Please

The Island Voices Poetry in Performance series moves to Pathways at the Chilmark Tavern on Wednesday, March 10, at 7 p.m. All Island poets are invited. Linda Black and Michael West will perform their work, with an open reading to follow. Island Voices continues on one Wednesday night monthly through the winter and will move forward in an expanded schedule through the summer and fall, to include spoken word performers, rappers and freestylers, slam poets, singer-songwriters and free-verse and traditional forms poets.

It’s a Cooking Class, Daal

The Datta family has been teaching and preparing food for patrons at the Vineyard Haven library for many years. On Tuesday, March 9, at 7 p.m., Uma Datta will offer an Indian cooking class and demonstration, providing instruction on how to cook using Indian spices and recipes. Class size is limited, so sign up early, either at the front desk or on the library Web site, vhlibrary.org.

Band to Sizzle Tonight

Tonight, Friday, March 5, Papa Tuck will cook steak sandwiches alongside The Tripping Lily Band, from 6 p.m. at the Portuguese American Club on Vineyard avenue in Oak Bluffs. Music begins at 7 p.m. All proceeds benefit Island charities. Tickets are $20, available in advance at the P.A. Club, Jim’s Package Store in Oak Bluffs; and Al’s Package Store and the Dock Street Diner in Edgartown.

History Listens

A workshop in collecting oral histories will be held tomorrow, Saturday, March 6, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, 59 School street in Edgartown, with a follow-up meeting on Saturday, March 20, from 10 a.m. to noon.