Community
The third annual International Feast for Compassion Benefiting People Facing Devastation: Darfur is set for Saturday, Dec. 1, at 6 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center on Centre street in Vineyard Haven.
All are welcome to come enjoy delicious international foods and music while helping the most challenged people on the planet. The musicians will be David Stanwood, as well as the trio of Greta Bro, Ricardo Frota and John Hicks.
After that Thanksgiving dinner settles, get outdoors and relax with family and friends at Felix Neck’s Fall Festival, set for Friday, Nov. 23, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the wildlife sanctuary on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road.
When the Elves Faire in Edgartown opens on Saturday, Dec. 8 at 10 a.m., children and parents can enjoy craft-making together, producing gnome or princess hats, snow globes and many other delights. Other favorite attractions are decorating gingerbread houses and face painting. Booths are set up with all the materials and a coach for each project.
Sandy Grant, who won $10 million with a scratch card on Saturday, is sitting in the front room of her modular home in Edgartown, swatting flies with a rolled-up instruction manual. Her count is two kills from 10 attempts since the conversation with a reporter began. “I’ve been looking to get a fly swatter,” she says thoughtfully, still musing on the viability of the idea. It is the type of item Ms. Grant feels she can now afford, but it is important for her to need the things she buys.
Holly Day Fair at Church
Benefits Worldwide Relief
The Grace Episcopal Church at Woodlawn avenue and William street in Vineyard Haven will hold its annual Holly Day Fair on Saturday, Dec. 1 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with the luncheon served between 11 a.m and 1 p.m.
Galleries Host Benefit
Granary Gallery, Gardner Colby Gallery and Field Gallery all are coming together to host a benefit for one of their own. Eighty artists will be donating proceeds of the sale of their artwork to benefit Dee Dee Hagen, wife of artist John Hagen. She was recently diagnosed with malignant melanoma.
The benefit will take place on Saturday, Dec. 9 at 6 p.m. at the Granary Gallery, located on Old County Road in West Tisbury. For more information, call 508-693-0455.