Built on Stilts, the annual dance festival held at the Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs, opened last night to begin its eight day run with a bit of drumming, belly dancing and a group of five-year-olds taking the stage fresh from their yearlong “Stiltshop” choreography class. What’s on the schedule for tonight is anyone’s guess, though, as the show never repeats itself.

Martha’s Vineyard knows Nancy Aronie in many ways. She is the mother of two beautiful sons, Josh Aronie, who owns and runs the Menemsha Café, and Dan Aronie, who recently died after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. She was instrumental in bringing the story of Dan’s illness, and the inner transformation that it brought to him and those around him, to the community in the film A Certain Kind of Beauty.

Civil war and genocide hardly sound like good topics for a children’s summer camp, but on Friday afternoon the former Speaker of the Rwandan Parliament addressed the Sense of Wonder Camp in Vineyard Haven about just those subjects, framing his remarks with suggestions on how to live well in the world.

Joseph Sebarenzi presented a simple message to the kids: be kind like a dove, fly high like an eagle and work hard like a bee.

A father of five, this is the message that Mr. Sebarenzi tells to his own children, he said.

A market where you can buy or barter for secondhand goods is called a swap meet in some places, trash and treasure market in others, and flea market on Martha’s Vineyard. The Chilmark Flea Market holds unlimited potential; anyone can rent a stall to set out anything — well, nearly anything — they want to sell.

The Vineyard Playhouse raised $350,000 at its annual fundraiser on Sunday night, a huge boost for the capital campaign now under way to renovate the historic playhouse building on Church street in Vineyard Haven. The renovation project includes remodeling the stage, which will be named after the late actress Patricia Neal, it was announced at the event early Sunday evening.

In the summer of 1963, America was on the brink of being split apart by the tumult of the Viet Nam War, the Civil Rights movement and Bob Dylan going electric.

The folk music revival was in full swing and was making a big impact in the popular culture. Martha’s Vineyard got caught up in the folk music movement that summer when David Lyman, the manager of a coffeehouse in Boston, and Philip Metcalf, a college student with a car and knowledge of the Vineyard, opened a coffeehouse called the Moon-Cusser.