The Real King Kong

After-Christmas Carol

The Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival’s Family. Film. Feast. series continues this holiday weekend at the Chilmark Community Center with Why Wait?, a program of family friendly shorts featuring Lost & Found, based on the book by Oliver Jeffers.

The Saturday, Dec. 26 evening begins at 5 p.m. with dinner prepared by a local chef using food donated by Island farms; dinner is $10 for adults, $5 for children. There will also be a musical performance by a Vineyard musician, followed by the film; all tickets are $6, available at the door.

Plum Streams Live

Plum TV, Comcast channel 76, announces live streaming on plumtv.com.

Plum TV is a network of eight stations around the country featuring local TV from destinations such as Martha’s Vineyard, Aspen, Vail and Miami Beach.

Science education on the Island will benefit from generous new donations and grants.

First, through the online education charity DonorsChoose.org, Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School teacher Jane Paquet will have applied sciences resources and experiences for 70 students. One generous donor contributed $226 in total to the project, which was matched with funds from a DonorsChoose.org grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Mental Illness Support

A free Vineyard support group open to anyone with a close relative, spouse or significant other suffering from a mental illness — such as bipolar disorder, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder or anxiety disorder — is being sponsored by the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts.