Networking Women

The Martha’s Vineyard Women’s Network will kick off the new off-season with a social event from 6 to 8 p.m. at the back bar at the Atlantic restaurant in Edgartown. Bring your business cards and enjoy Atlantic’s great bar, dinner menu and get a chance to reconnect. Bring a friend. This is a free event open to all members and nonmembers. No registration required. A cash bar and dinner menu will be available.

The aspiring Australian filmmaker Nicholas Mason had no idea what his Manhattan Short Film Festival would become when he first imagined the by-the-people-for-the-people-to-vote global movie contest more than a dozen years ago.

West Tisbury artist Leslie Baker recently opened a show of her landscape work at the Copley Society of Art in Boston. A painter, portrait artist and children’s book author, Ms. Baker’s plein air oil studies are well known on the Vineyard, where she has lived year-round since 1997. The Copley show is anchored by a sweeping triptych of Long Point Wildlife Refuge on a hazy, late summer day. The show opened on Sept. 11 and will hang until Oct. 8. The Copley Society of Art, founded in 1879, is located at 158 Newbury street in Boston.

Twinkling Ingmar Bergmanesque lights sparkled in the spooky, dark woods of Chilmark. A big bowl of baby tomatoes sat on an outdoor table. Inside the anterior barn space at the Yard, the makeshift stage was adorned with microphones, drums and a hand-waving papier-mâché R2-D2. It seemed everyone and everything was welcome at the Satsang Lounge.

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.