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Wellfest, an afternoon of free health and healing workshops and sessions presented by the Martha’s Vineyard Whole Health Alliance, is on Saturday, May 1 from noon to 5 p.m. at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury. This free event features classes, demonstrations and workshops on movement, pilates, yoga, qigong, massage, reiki, acupuncture and more. Scheduled instruction includes a yoga class with Arlene Stark from 12:30 to 1:05 p.m., yoga therapy class with Jane Norton from 1:15 to 1:50 p.m., medical qigong with M.J.

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In honor of Earth Day, the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society will screen No Impact Man, a documentary film that follows Manhattanite Colin Beavan and his family during their year-long pursuit of a lifestyle that leaves zero environmental impact. To Vineyarders, such a goal would seem ambitious, but certainly plausible. But for a young family living in New York city, zero impact means zero elevators, taxis, Windex, television, material consumption of any kind, and no garbage.

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Kids’ Theatre Workshop

Island theatre arts educator Phyllis Vecchia is offering a Thursday afternoon spring creative drama workshop from May 6 through June 10. Designed for children ages four-and-a-half to nine, classes will be held from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. in the home economics room of the Oak Bluffs School. Each week, in addition to theatre exercises, costuming and character games, young thespians will reenact a new folk or fairy tale. No acting experience is necessary.

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The sound of 101 trained voices lifted to meet the acoustical splendors of the Whaling Church is one of those pleasures that come along only twice each year — during the Christmas holidays and over a weekend each spring. Last Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, hundreds of Vineyarders took advantage of this offering.

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This weekend, Pathways Projects, now at the tail end of their winter residence at the Chilmark Tavern off South Road (next to the Chilmark Store), adds some movement to their current exhibition, Forms and Visions.

The premiere of videography by Pathways’ fellows Enid Haller, Diana Gilmore and Kathy Rose, focused on the theme of coastal change, starts on Saturday, April 17, at 6 p.m., with a second screening at the same time on Sunday.

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Chappy Shadow Walk

I took a stroll this morning, before the sun would shine,

down Cape Pogue Ave to Chappy Road, and met a good friend of mine.

Across Dike Bridge and to the beach, we stopped a while to rest,

and each time I turned to look for him, he was always to the west.

We walked along in silence, but I had a lot to say,

past Poucha Pond along the shore until we reached Katama Bay.

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