Gone are the grownup gatekeepers of movie merit — kids are the audience for the weekly Cinema Circus films. So the Gazette and the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival bring you the big view from the smaller viewers with weekly kid critics.

The spirit of the human voice and its capacity to bring people together with melody and rhythmic movement is a big part of Jim Thomas and his spirituals choir. They perform tomorrow night at the Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs. The program is called Songs from the Field: the Mystery of Spirituals, and it includes songs and stories going back to the Civil War era.

As in the past, the 28-member choir will have the audience swaying and clapping along. The choir sings slave songs that carry a message and tell a story crossing the generations.

This is only their second summer, but already those distinctive yellow rickshaws of Vineyard Pedicab have become a staple of downtown Oak Bluffs.

During the recent heat wave, while most people were at the beach or in air-conditioned rooms, the young men and women of the pedicab company could be found pedaling passengers all around town. They perform a valuable service, getting people to their destinations while giving them informal tours of the downtown, always doing it with a smile.

The meeting room of the Chilmark Public Library was filled to capacity Wednesday night, with guests spilling over into the adjacent children’s area and front hallway of the building, as Vineyarders gathered to hear readings from Paris Press’s latest collection, Sisters: An Anthology.

By IVY ASHE

The meeting room of the Chilmark Public Library was filled to capacity Wednesday night, with guests spilling over into the adjacent children’s area and front hallway of the building, as Vineyarders gathered to hear readings from Paris Press’s latest collection, Sisters: An Anthology.