The Vineyard Playwrights’ Studio will hold its inaugural meeting at the West Tisbury Library on Wednesday, May 6, at 4:30 p.m.

The group is open to playwrights interested in an interactive workshop for evaluating plays of all lengths, themes and degrees of completion. Actors will provide readings, and a short, constructive discussion of the play’s strengths and shortcomings will follow.

Meetings will be at the library the first Wednesday of each month. The public is welcome to attend and participate.

In this year-long serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after two decades to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe fears and detests Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery, Broadway. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe is obsessed with “taking down” Moby.

Donna Blackburn, the resident artist on the staff of the Edgartown Public Library, will lead two free, four-week art classes at the library this May.

Basic Watercolors, a class for adults, will meet from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, May 5, 12, 19 and 26. Enrollment is limited to six people. To sign up and for details on what supplies you’ll need to bring, contact the library at 508-627-4221.

The Edgartown Public Library will present an evening program with Island poet, artist and printer Dan Waters on Wednesday, May 6, from 7 to 8 p.m.

Mr. Waters is a man of many talents and seemingly boundless energy. A former poet laureate of West Tisbury, he is proprietor of the Indian Hill Press and the author of three books of poetry, Robert Frost’s Answering Machine, Remembering the Islander and Needing Winter.

Boston winemaker turned Burgundy prodigy Alex Gambal will make his debut on Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday, May 13, at the Sweet Life Café before heading to the Nantucket Wine Festival for his already sold-out tasting event the following night.

The evening is a benefit wine dinner for the artists-in-the-schools program at The Yard, which brings extraordinary performers now to every Island school for special student workshops.