Five Things You Need to Know Today: July 19

Five Things You Need to Know Today is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance.

1. will be up all day today and tomorrow at . Garden Gate Child Development Center will be displaying the works of graduate artists from the Classes of 2000-2012. For more information, call 508-696-9997.

2. The starts today. This huge, 3-day book sale to benefit the Oak Bluffs Public Library is sponsored by the Library Friends of Oak Bluffs. Used books in all categories, for all ages, at bargain prices including: adult, teens, and children; hardcover, paperback, fiction, and non-fiction; DVDs, CDs and audiobooks. 10 am to 7 pm

3. There is at the this evening featuring the highly acclaimed poet Jorie Graham. Graham, who lives in Cambridge and teaches at Harvard University, is the author of twelve poetry collections, including The Dream of the Unified Field, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Graham will read from her new book PLACE (Ecco 2012) Refreshments will be served.  Free and open to the public. 5 pm. 508-693-3366   

4. Kelsey Banfield of will be signing her book “The Naptime Chef, Fitting Great Food Into Family Life,” and doing a demo this evening at in Vineyard Haven. 6 pm – 8 pm

5. Tonight at the , there is a . This documentary tells the stories of five birds driven to extinction in modern times and sculptor Todd McGrain’s project to memorialize them. The film follows McGrain as he searches for the locations where the birds were last seen in the wild and negotiates for permission to install his large bronze sculptures there. 7:30 pm.