Giving Her Her Flowers, an art exhibition featuring Black women artists celebrating Black women writers and culture creators with ties to Martha's Vineyard. Curated by Dana Todd Pope of the Women's LIVE Artist Studio. Presented by Women's LIVE Artist Studio, in partnership with the Oak Bluffs Public Library Sankofa Festival and HBCU Legacy Week On The Vineyard.

Come to the Oak Bluffs Library for a game night for adult board game enthusiasts! We'll be playing games like Evolution, Settlers of Catan, coup, racehorse dominos, and dominion.Sessions will be held 8/1, 8/8, 8/15, and 8/23 in the conference room of Oak Bluffs Library (with the exception of 8/8, which will be in the meeting room). Our first session will be … Read More

Journalist Miles Marshall Lewis joins us at the library to discuss his book, "Promise That You Will Sing About Me: The Power and Poetry of Kendrick Lamar" A stunning, in-depth look at the power and poetry of one of the most consequential rappers of our time.Kendrick Lamar is one of the most influential rappers, songwriters and record … Read More

Amina Jordan-Mendez is an Arts Facilitator, Community Organizer and Poet-Performer of Western Massachusetts.  For over 10 years Amina has created and led arts integration, culturally responsive leadership, and wellness workshops.  Amina has coordinated projects and performed with community-based organizations, and state agencies.  With clinical and holistic training within emotional, cultural and mental health sectors, Amina’s poetry and facilitation ground at the … Read More

The Poetic Black Poet’s Story on Origins and Triumphant Path of the Negro SpiritualsThis workshop led by Robert Zachary creates a platform around the profoundness of a culture born from struggle.  It works in the poetic Black Poet’s mission as bards unto the people and coincides with the same historical setting of the Negro Spirituals. … Read More

Born and raised in Uganda, Godfrey Muwulya started performing African dance and music at the age of five. Here he will lead a performance and workshop.In 2005 he joined Ndere Troupe, the foremost Uganda Culture Troupe, where he became the lead instrumentalist and dancer. He left Ndere Troupe in 2008 to pursue his solo career … Read More

Come play Magic: the Gathering at the Oak Bluffs Public Library! Players of all skill levels are welcome. On the first and third Fridays of the month.Food and drink will not be provided, but feel free to bring your own as long as you clean up after yourself.Children under 14 should be accompanied by an … Read More

 PORCH STORIES  Award winning, International  Storyteller, Singer, Arts Educator, celebrates summer with stories about cultures and creatures, earth and ocean from the African Diaspora and beyond. For kids ages 3-10 and their families. Therese Folkes Plair, graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, has beena performing artist since grade school, and an arts' educator since 1990.Ms. Plair has been a visiting artist for the … Read More

Please join us in a book talk with authors Richard Taylor and Tom Dresser as they discuss their new book "Black Homeownership On Martha's Vineyard". Martha’s Vineyard has always been a unique island and vacation destination, made even more diversewith the arrival of Black homeowners in the nineteenth century. Early landowners included the formerly enslaved Charles … Read More