Bilingual Puppets

Bella’s Musical Puppet Show presents Arakataka’s Chorus Band/Coral do Arakataka, where everyone is invited to join in singing the American and Brazilian folk songs, on Sunday, June 6 at 11:30 a.m. in the makeshift theatre in a warehouse behind 56/58 Main street in Vineyard Haven.

Just back from their performances and workshops in Chicago, the IMPers, the Island’s teen professional improv troupe, will perform their improvisation games and skits based on audience suggestions on Saturday, June 5, at 8 p.m. at Katharine Cornell Theater on Spring street in Vineyard Haven.

This troupe has been honored three times by the Chicago Improv Festival and has performed at the Boston and Providence Improv Festivals. Don’t miss this one-night-only show, fun for teens and adults alike.

Kids Get Creative

Phyllis Vecchia Creative Drama will teach for three weeks this summer: July 5 to 9, July 26 to 30, and August 9 to 13. Classes are from 9 to 11 a.m. for children ages four and a half through nine years old. Preregister online at mvrhs.org or call 508-696-8738

Pam Benjamin’s Sense of Wonder Creations organization will host a student art show on June 12 from 1 to 5 p.m. and June 13 from 1 to 6 p.m. at the studio at 23 Grove avenue in Vineyard Haven

The show will close with a reception with music, a Czechoslovakian flame juggler, food, games, pottery wheel throwing demonstrations (kids will be able to make a pot to take home) and other surprises, on June 13 from 3 to 6 p.m. at the same location.

World War II, which shaped the 20th century and produced what’s been called the greatest generation, also inspired many classic films — and a selection of the best is being presented on Island with special introductions by American history scholar Sheldon Hackney.

The series begins on Monday, June 7, with The 49th Parallel, a 1941 British drama and wartime propaganda film starring Laurence Olivier, screening at 8 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

D.A.W.

Daniel Waters’ latest collection, Life Lesson, has just been released.

Volume three of The Verses of D.A.W. can be ordered online from indianhillpress.com.