Tivoli Day Fun Run

Start the Tivoli Day festivities on Sept. 15 with the sixth annual George V. Tankard Memorial Martha’s Vineyard NAACP 5K Road Race and one-mile Fun Run. The fun run begins at 9:30 a.m. from the Wesley Hotel on the Oak Bluffs harbor, and the 5K begins at 10 a.m. from the bus stop at Ocean Park.

Preregistration is from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 14 at the Wesley Hotel, while race day registration at the same location begins at 7 a.m.

For more information, call Roger Wey at 508-693-7887.  

Phyllis Vecchia begins another of her popular creative drama workshops for children ages four and half to eleven, this fall at the Oak Bluffs School. The classes will be held on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. Classes begin on Tuesday, Oct. 2, and Thursday, Oct. 4, and run for eight weeks.

Heather Rogero at the Martha’s Vineyard School of Etiquette has opened enrollment for the fall sessions of her Classy Little Ladies courses in manners, poise and style.

The five-session course for girls ages 5 through 12 begins the first week in October. Students are placed in age groups, with friendship preference available. Each class is one hour; the course concludes with a mother/daughter afternoon tea also at the Mansion House Inn in Vineyard Haven.

The Vineyard Playhouse is extending its season through September with a limited run of Robert Brustein’s new play The English Channel, a comic and provocative imagining of William Shakespeare’s coming of age as a playwright.

Pequot Exhibition

The Pequot Hotel is getting ready for its annual art exhibition. For the past seven years the Pequot has hosted an art show displaying many of the Island’s new and seasoned artists as well as others from Rhode Island and New York.

This year’s two-day exhibition will open Saturday, Oct. 13 with an artists’ reception from 6 to 8 p.m. It closes on Sunday. Anyone interested in being a part of this year’s exhibition should contact the hotel at 508-693-5087.

The third annual Aquinnah Youth Powwow on Sunday will have an Ivy League flavor. Not that Polos and Dockers will replace traditional breech clouts and jingle dresses, but this year the event, hosted by the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), will include 120 graduate students from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, courtesy of Tobias Vanderhoop, a prime mover in this event produced by tribal young people.