Chaos rules at Stiltshop, where day camp-style rehearsals prepare youngsters to participate next to older and more experienced dancers in Built on Stilts, the Island’s annual homegrown community dance festival. Call it Built on Stilts with a shorter attention span.

Dance for Radio

Community Radio WVVY(93.7) will holdits annual summer fundraiser on Thursday,August 20,at Nectar’s. 

The lineupfeatures Willy Mason and friends includingKahoots, with WVVY deejays between sets and starting the evening off with some greatdance music. 

A free piano recital by Amaryllis Glass will precede the film screening Tuesday, August 18 at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs, They Came to Play, an award-winning, uplifting feature-length documentary chronicling the International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs. The film is at 8 p.m. and the recital begins at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday night at PikNik and beats are spinning from a deejay’s turntables, blaring outside the bounds of the gallery’s backlot. A crowd in their taste-maker threads, eating from the retro the ArtCliff Diner truck, is gathered in small town Oak Bluffs to see cityscapes. The scene at PikNik’s Urban Show demonstrated the transience of the urban mindset, its ability to be transplanted even to a mostly rural Island.

In 1975 Claudia Weill’s film The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir, which she codirected with Shirley MacLaine, was an Oscar contender for best feature-length documentary, and she later became the third woman in history to be admitted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, known for the prestigious film award, as a film director.

Renowned Printmaker

On Saturday, August 15, the Granary Gallery in West Tisbury will welcome the renowned printmaker Lou Stovall with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m.

Born in Athens, Ga., in 1937, Mr. Stovall grew up in Springfield. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and at Howard University. Since 1962, he has lived and worked in Washington, D.C.

His drawings and silkscreen prints have brought him grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Stern Family Fund.