Stress Reduction Class

Grinding teeth. Biting nails. Living a life rife with road rage. It’s stress you say, the price of living in the must do, must have, must see, must be everything moment in our culture. But admit it, the whole race to nowhere has got you feeling down and out.

Well, this Sunday at 7 p.m. the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center is presenting a workshop specifically designed for you.

Understanding Zionism

Zionist Thought Then and Now, is a new class being led by Rabbi Caryn Broitman. The class will focus on the many different understandings of Zionism in the past 100 years, through reading thinkers both religious and secular, both left and right.

There will be 4 sessions: Oct. 12, 19 and 26 and Nov. 2. All classes will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Children’s Gardens

Award-winning children’s garden designer Jane L. Taylor, founding curator at Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden at Michigan State University, will lead a program about creating educational and entertaining gardens for children. Open to all teachers, parents and community members, the program will take place on Saturday, Sept. 25 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Edgartown School.

Choreography Residency Unveiled

Go ahead. Fall on your face. Try something you’ve never done before.

This advice was given by the Yard’s associate artistic director, Lise Brody, to the artists taking part in this weekend’s Bessie Schönberg Choreographers’ Residency. But it’s something we all could take to heart, this notion of leaping into the void with no net. Right?

Adult and Community Education of Martha’s Vineyard (ACE MV) will hold a course sampling fair with walk-in registration on Tuesday from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the regional high school.

Enrichment courses begin the first week of October, as will two Island courses being offered for college credit (English composition and a medical terminology class) and essential English and math courses for those seeking a high school diploma or college prep.