Gabriel Bellebuono reviews a program of short films playing Saturday, Jan. 8, at 5 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center.

The Most Wonderful Egg in the World

Slow Food Martha’s Vineyard and the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival present a January Film and Feast at the Chilmark Community Center on Saturday, Jan. 8.

Lose Weight, Win Big

New Year’s resolutions, so common and yet so very, very fleeting.

I will cure my Facebook addiction, learn Swahili, write a children’s book, climb Kilimanjaro, become an expert fencer, save the blue-footed boobies singlehandedly, chew thoughtfully, walk slower, breathe deeper and, and . . . Ah heck, pass the booze and smokes. I’m done with all that.

More than 60 winter and spring classes will be offered through Adult and Community Education of MV (ACE MV) and the catalog is available at all the libraries and schools on the Island, as well as online.

Winter courses begin Jan. 10 at six locations: the regional high school, the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School, Featherstone Center for the Arts, West Tisbury School, Kitchen Porch and MVTV.

Certified qigong instructor Nan Doty will offer a four-week workshop based on the book The Healer Within: The Four Essential Self-Care Methods for Creating Optimal Health, by Roger Jahnke. Running on Wednesdays throughout January, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Library, the workshop promises the opportunity to begin the new year with vitality.

Quilt Winner

The raffle held to benefit the African Artists Community Development Project was drawn on Christmas Day out of the Tuareg basket. Susan Spence was the winner of a beautiful quilt that was a collaboration between craftswomen in Lusaka, Zambia, who sewed the panels, and women on Martha’s Vineyard, who pieced the quilt together.