High school drama students played in the Yard last weekend — performing in a new (for them) up-Island setting to match the students’ new much-upped fund-raising goal: enough money to take a strong ensemble to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival next year.

This fundraiser was particularly significant for the drama department because of their long-term endeavor to raise $6,000 per student to participate in the Fringe, at the invitation of a national student theatre organization.

Energetic dancers of all ages lit up the stage on Sunday evening for the 14th annual Kaleidoscope Dance spring concert, the first to be held at the Performing Arts Center at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. Kaleidoscope Dance, under the direction of extraordinary choreographer Laura Sargent Hall, displayed a wide variety of dance, ranging from exquisite ballet pieces to eclectic gymnastics-inspired sequences. All came under the theme of the recital: School Days.

When an actor is nominated for an Oscar, the studio handles the marketing, with expensive lobbying campaigns planned over months.

When Kate Murray and her drama department at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School found out they’d been nominated for a comparable reward — a spot representing American student theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival ­— they had one day to turn around their own campaign.