Community News, August 11

MONTAUK

There are several opportunities to hear live, outdoor music in Montauk this month, starting with the Wallflowers at the lighthouse on Saturday, August 13. And then Music for Montauk’s Summer Series continues with Sounds of the Sea chamber orchestra on Saturday, August 20, at 6 p.m., also at the lighthouse.

And don’t forget the Montauk Chamber of Commerce hosts the Monday night Concerts on the Green from 6 to 8 p.m., and on Sundays from 6 to 8 p.m. The Gosman’s Summer Concert Series continues with the Nancy Atlas Project on Sunday, August 14, and the Zanti Misfits on August 21.

The Friends of the Montauk Library host a book sale at the library every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The proceeds fund additional library resources, materials, and programming.

AMAGANSETT

Meet beekeeper Mary Woltz, owner of Bees’ Needs, and learn more about the critical work of her bees on Tuesday, August 16, at 10 a.m. at Peconic Land Trust’s Quail Hill Farm on Deep Lane. Learn about colony collapse and other issues affecting the health of local bee populations. The event is free. To register, email events@PeconicLandTrust.org or call 631-283-3195, ext.122.

Stony Hill Stables is offering a Horsemanship Series on three Thursdays in August from 5 to 7 p.m.

On Thursday, August 11, the series will open with “How to be a Horseman or Horsewoman” with trainer Michelle Sharma and a surprise special guest. On Thursday, August 18, it will continue with “Basic Vet Care, Vital Signs and First Aid” with Dr. Devita Wooten and vet tech Ashley Lynott from Miller & Associates; and Thursday, August 25, a blacksmith demonstration with longtime farrier Rich Klauber will be held. Each session in the series is $100 or all three for $250 when paid in advance and includes a picnic dinner. Preregistration is required and space is limited. Sign up early to receive a swag bag with gifts from The Tack Trunk in Amagansett and Bridgehampton. Each participant will be entered in a raffle to win a prize from the Hampton Classic. All proceeds will benefit the Stony Hill Stables Foundation, a nonprofit offering scholarships for equestrian training for local residents. Stony Hill Stables is located at 268 Town Lane.

For more information and to register, go to stonyhillstables.com or call 631-377-8587.

SPRINGS

A Garden Tea Party and book event with Mindelle Pierce, author of “Love with No Tomorrow — Tales of Romance During The Holocaust,” will be held in the Leiber Collection Sculpture Garden on Sunday, August 21, from 4 to 6 p.m.

The book includes the love story of iconic handbag designer Judith Leiber and celebrated modernist artist Gerson Leiber, who met on the war-torn streets of Budapest, Hungary, in 1945. The two fell in love, courted, and married as Budapest rebuilt itself after one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. In 1946, the couple moved to America and immersed themselves in the world of art and fashion in New York City, turning their experiences of horror during the war into a life of beauty, love and inspiration.

For more information, visit leibermuseum.org.

The Springs Presbyterian Church’s 140th birthday is this weekend and a party to celebrate is set for Sunday, August 14, from 5 to 7 p.m. If you have ever been a member, enjoyed the church dinner or attended the many other community events at the church — basically, everyone — you’re invited. There will be live entertainment, food and drink, and much more to celebrate the community landmark.

Tickets for the event are $50 per person or $100 per family. More information and tickets may be obtained by calling 631-324-4791 or typing springspc.org on your keyboard.

EAST HAMPTON

The East Hampton Historical Society’s Lecture Luncheon Benefit will take place this year on Thursday, August 11, at 11 a.m. at the Maidstone Club, with landscape architect Thomas L. Woltz as guest speaker. He will discuss “Dynamic Preservation Through Landscape Design.”

Tickets for the event start at $275 per person and may be purchased by calling 631-324-6850 or emailing info@easthamptonhistory.org. Tickets may also be purchased online at easthamptonhistory.org.

The Jewish Center of the Hamptons is hosting the East End premiere of “No Place on Earth,” a Holocaust documentary nominated for Best Screenplay by the Writers Guild of America, on Thursday, August 11, at 7:30 p.m. Following the screening will be a discussion by cave digger and author Chris Nicola about his historic discovery: In 1942, 38 men, women, and children, ages 2 to 76, sought refuge in a muddy hole in the ground to evade being caught by pursuing Nazis. These five Ukrainian families created their own underground society, and held together by an iron-willed matriarch, emerged after 511 days, surviving underground longer than anyone in recorded history.

Tickets are $20 for members and $25 for nonmembers. Survivors are welcome at no charge. To RSVP, please visit jcoh.org.

Tickets are now on sale for Author’s Night, a literary event with 100 authors signing books at a cocktail reception. The event is set for Saturday, August 13, at 5 p.m. A separate dinner party following the event is also planned at a private residence with purchase of dinner ticket.

Tickets may be purchased at authorsnight.org or at the library on Main Street.

The East Hampton Library will host an Author Talk with Alan Amron, who wrote “An Invented Life: The Smoking Gun,” a biographical novel about the Post-it sticky notes for 3M, the battery-operated water guns for Larami, LJN, Entertech, Buddy L, Coleco, Tyco, Cap toys, and Blue Box toys, the Photo Wallet for Kodak and more. The talk is set for Monday, August 15, at 6 p.m.

Go to easthamptonlibrary.org to register.

Kids Cancel Cancer to benefit the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation, an international organization committed to funding world-class cancer research around the world, is set for Wednesday, August 17, from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Clubhouse. The event was created and is being organized by adolescents to specifically raise money for pediatric cancer research.

Kids Cancel Cancer will be a day of arcades, miniature golf, great food, raffle prizes, and more. Parents are more than welcome to attend too.

Tickets are $100 for kids, $125 for adults. For more information, or to buy tickets, visit waxmancancer.org

A talk hosted by Rabbi Joshua Franklin and the Jewish Center of the Hamptons is set for Thursday, August 18, at 7 p.m., this one a discussion with Jonathan Ornstein, executive director of the Jewish Community Centre of Krakow, detailing the institution’s continued humanitarian efforts in the wake of a war-torn Ukraine and her displaced citizens.

To register for the event, go to jcoh.org/event/.

If you’ve wanted to learn how to play the ukelele, David Cataletto and Jane Hastay are offering the chance on Fridays at 10 a.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of East Hampton.

For details, email tickleslapmusic@gmail.com or call 631-332-2550.

WAINSCOTT

The Artists Alliance of East Hampton will hold the very first Easels Up art event at LTV Studios on Friday, August 12, Saturday, August 13, and Sunday, August 14, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with a reception on Friday at 5 p.m. Admission is free for all.

For the event, 60 artists will display a work of art on their own easels. The artwork will be for sale.

For more information, visit artistsalliance-easthampton.org.

SAG HARBOR

August 1 marked National Black Business Month and it’s also the month (and year) that Azurest, a community of Black home and business owners, celebrates it’s 75th year nestled in the Village of Sag Harbor and the Town of East Hampton. To mark the occasion, an event is planned at the Bridgehampton Community House for Saturday, August 13, from 6 to 10 p.m. honoring the anniversary.

Founded by Black business and landowner, Maude Terry, Azurest came to be through persistence and courage, buying land to establish a resort community when many African Americans were shut out of resort areas nationwide. A historically African American community, Azurest’s beginnings are attributed to Terry, a Black school teacher from Brooklyn, and other African Americans from greater New York who vacationed in Sag Harbor’s Eastville neighborhood, renting Black-owned cottages along Liberty and Hampton Streets.

Among the honorees at Saturday’s celebration will be ABC TV’s Linsey Davis; Suzan Johnson Cook, the first African American woman from New York State to become a U.S. ambassador and Colson Whitehead, two-time Pulitzer prize-winning author . 

The Antigua Barbuda Hamptons Challenge, a sailing regatta and benefit at John Steinbeck Waterfront Park, will be on Saturday, August 13, to benefit i-tri girls, a nonprofit that empowers young women through triathlon competition. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. a Caribbean Festival and Craft Fair will take place with live music and vendors with local, handmade goods. At the same time, the Antiqua & Barbuda Hamptons Challenge Regatta, also to benefit i-tri, will be taking place in Noyac Bay. In the evening at Steinbeck Park, the regatta winners will be presented with prizes during a cocktail party from 5 to 7 p.m.

For details about all elements of this fundraiser, go to itrigirls.org.

Randy Kolhoff, owner of Black Swan Antiques, will present “Discovered Photos of Old Sag Harbor” on Sunday, August 14, at 5 p.m. at the Sag Harbor Historical Museum’s Annie Cooper Boyd House. The museum’s Mashashimuet Park exhibit will also be open for viewing.

The regular hours for the museum are now 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Appointments may be made by calling 631-725-5092. For more information, visit sagharborhistorical.org.

The historic Sag Harbor Custom House is open for guided tours every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 1, 2, and 3 p.m. Advance sign-up available at the Custom House, beginning at noon on tour days. The house is closed to the public on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

The cost to take the tour is $5 for Preservation Long Island members; $10 nonmembers; $8 seniors; $5 children 12 and under. For more information visit, preservationlongisland.org

The Church’s monthly Insight Sunday series continues with multi-disciplinary artist Bastienne Schmidt on August 14 at 10:30 a.m. Tickets are $15. Schmidt will speak about her work, “Measuring Time, Grid Calendar” (2020), featured in The Church’s summer exhibition “Threading the Needle,” which explores how the conceptual approaches of contemporary art intersect with the expertise and skill of craft techniques.

In her piece, Schmidt uses the grid as a minimalist meditation on space, perception, and systems.

For more information, go to thechurchsagharbor.org.

SHELTER ISLAND

The fifth annual Windmill Cocktail Party to support the restoration and preservation of the 1810 Dominy Windmill at Sylvester Manor will take place on Saturday, August 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Windmill Field, 21 Manwaring Road.

Go to sylvestermanor.org for more information.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

The Hampton Library’s Fridays at Five author series continues on Friday, August 19, with Ken Auletta, who will read from his book “Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence.”

The library is located at 2478 Montauk Highway. The cost of admission is $25 per lecture.

The next in the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center’s Equality Matters talks will be with The Rev. Dr. William Joseph Barber II, president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, who will discuss “Race in America” on Friday, August 12, at 6 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Bridgehampton. The church is located at 141 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike. The talk will be moderated by, as well as sponsored by longtime advisory board member of the center Ken Miller.

The talk is free but reservations are required. Go to bhccrc.org for more information.

WATER MILL

On Thursday, August 11, at 7 p.m., Simon Bromberg of Ambassador Apiaries and Beekeeping Services will lead a discussion at the Water Mill Museum on the busy life of bees. Bromberg will tell stories from local beekeepers, farmers and wound care experts.

Admission is free and all are welcome. Call the museum at 631- 726-4625 for more information.

The Parrish Art Museum and the Bridgehampton Child Care & Recreational Center continue their history of partnership with the third, two-day Black Film Festival outdoors at the museum on Friday evenings, August 19 and 26. Part I features “Neptune Frost,” a sci-fi punk musical that brings unique dynamism to an Afrofuturist vision. Guests are encouraged to wear Afropunk attire to celebrate the film, self-expression, music, and art. The short film “Kinks, Locs, and Love” on August 26 is followed by a discussion on Black hair with a panel of experts. Both programs include a tour of the new exhibition “Another Justice: US is Them — Hank Willis Thomas | For Freedoms.”

The Black Film Festival is dedicated to presenting award-winning feature films and shorts celebrating Black culture and raising awareness about issues that specifically impact Black communities, selected by a committee representing the Parrish, BHCCRC, The Witness Project of Long Island, and the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, Office of Minority Health.

For more information, visit parrishart.org.

SOUTHAMPTON

Today is the day — Thursday, August 11 — for the Moonlit Plunge, the summer version of the Polar Beach Plunge, to benefit Heart of the Hamptons food pantry. Get down to Coopers Beach and take the plunge under the full moon.

Get your ticket at heartofthehamptons.org.

Grab your beach chair or blanket and head over to Coopers Beach for the next Concert in the Park, sponsored by the Southampton Cultural Center. Wednesday, August 17, brings The Lone Sharks. Music starts at 6:30 p.m.

If you find yourself in the mood for barbecue chicken and ribs on Saturday, August 20, then head over to the firehouse at 25 Windmill Lane where that’s exactly what’s being served from 5 p.m. until there’s nothing left. There will be live music, plus a beer and wine garden (an additional cost) and a chance to win prizes. Tickets are $40 at the door ($10 for kids under age 10).

Advance tickets may be purchased by calling Eric Halsey at 631-875-2906

Ellen’s Run, the popular 5K run/walk to raise money for the Ellen Hermanson Foundation, which supports local breast health initiatives, is set for Sunday, August 21. Race start is 9 a.m. with registration in advance or earlier in the morning on race day. The starting line is at Southampton Intermediate School on Leland Lane.

For registration details, go to ellenhermanson.org.

The Rogers Memorial Library is setting up an outdoor movie viewing opportunity on Tuesday, August 23, at 8 p.m. “Luca” will be the feature. Bring beach chairs or blankets to sit on.

The Southampton High School Class of 1971 is planning a reunion on September 17 at 6 p.m. at Southampton Yacht Club, 96 Little Neck Road in Southampton.

For more information, email connie@nugentpotter.com.

HAMPTON BAYS

The Good Ground On Stage series, hosted by Southampton Town, continues tonight, Thursday, August 11, with music by “Mean Gene & The Flamethrowers” starting at 7 p.m. Noiz is set for Thursday, August 18.

Space is currently being offered to sell goods at the Italian American Association’s Community Garage Sale, which will take place on September 11 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. indoors at St. Rosalie’s Church Community Hall. A table and two chairs will be provided to paid vendors; the cost is $25 per space. Following the sale vendors must take leftover items away with them.

For more information or to reserve a space call Annette at 631-728-3379 or email to aavelli1120@msn.com.

QUOGUE

The Quogue Library will host the next in its 2022 Foreign Policy Association Great Decisions Discussion Program on Saturday, August 13, at 5 p.m. The topic will be “The Renewed Climate Change Agenda.” For details, visit quoguelibrary.org.

WESTHAMPTON BEACH

The Westhampton Beach Gazebo Concert Series continues with a performance on Thursday, August 11, with Endless Summer, a Beach Boys tribute band. The free concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. and are held on the Westhampton Beach Village Green, located at the corner of Main Street and Mill Road. The Thursday, August 18, concert will feature Groovin’ Blue, a Linda Ronstadt and Young Rascals tribute band. Contact the library, 631-288-3385 or westhamptonlibrary.net, for rain date information.

The Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center will host its annual gala fundraiser, A Summer Affair, on Saturday, August 13, at a private waterfront Remsenburg estate.

The gala will feature food and beverages, auctions, and live music.

For the last two decades, Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center has provided programming and educational opportunities to thousands of students of all ages,” said Executive Director Julienne Penza-Boone. “Our mission is propelled forward each year by people of all ages and backgrounds coming together to support the theatre and the incredible work of our dedicated staff and teachers. But in order to stay in business, we must raise more than half of our budget each year since ticket sales only cover half of the costs of running the theater.”

To purchase tickets or learn about sponsorship opportunities, go to whbpac.org or call 631-288-1500

The Westhampton Beach Fire Department will hold its annual open house at the firehouse on Sunset Avenue on Sunday, August 21, from 2 to 5 p.m. The event will feature water games, rescue demonstrations, equipment exhibits, and fire truck rides. There will also be fire extinguisher training and fire safety demonstrations. In addition there will be free fireman’s helmets for the youngsters plus food, refreshments, and ice cream for all. This is a rain or shine event.

Here’s some advance notice to starting getting in shape for the Vin Zorbo 5K Memorial Run Walk, set for Saturday, September 24. Organized by the Father Slomski Council of the Knights of Columbus, the run will start at the Westhampton Beach Village Marine. There will be swag and you can pick up your race packet the evening before at the Westhampton Brewery at Gabreski Airport and have a carb-filled beer while you’re at it.

To register, go to event.elitefeats.com

RIVERHEAD

The East End Arts Council is celebrating 50 years of putting the arts front and center with its first-ever Summer Soiree on Thursday, August 18, at 6 p.m. The event will take place on the East End Arts campus on the Peconic River waterfront and, besides the usual eats and drinks, will include a curated art sale, a Mystery Masterpiece art raffle, silent auction, the chance to create your own floral arrangement and an ice cream from Mr. Softee.

For tickets and details about the event, go to eastendarts.org.

THE NORTH FORK

Peconic Landing will hold its 20th Anniversary Celebration, featuring live music and fireworks, on Saturday, August 13. A rain date is scheduled for August 14.

Free to all, the event will take place behind the historic Brecknock Hall, at One Brecknock Road in Greenport.

For more information, visit peconiclanding.org.

OTHER NEWS

The Choral Society of the Hamptons is seeking a permanent part-time music director whose term will commence February 2023. It has been without a music director since the death of Mark Mangini, the much loved previous music director of 20 years.

In collaboration with the Choral Society’s board of directors and administrative director, the music director will be responsible for a minimum of two concerts per year: conducting rehearsals, auditioning new singers, establishing schedules and budgets, setting objectives and selecting programming repertoire. Interested candidates should submit a resume and artistic statement including their philosophy and approach to conducting, program development, and repertoire selection to info@choralsocietyofthehamptons.org.

YOUTH CORNER

The Westhampton Free Library is again hosting its Kids on the Green series, which will be held Tuesdays throughout the summer at 5:30 p.m. at the Westhampton Beach Village Green. This week, August 16, brings Darlene Graham: Darlene and Her Shades of Green Band.

For more information, call 631-288-3335 or visit westhamptonlibrary.net.

Birding is a great way to make new friends, learn about the environment, and get outdoors, so why not join the South Fork Natural History Museum’s Young Birders Club? The club meets at 10 a.m. on the third Sunday of every month, August 21, this month, and is open to anyone age 8 to 18 who is interested in learning about birds. Bring binoculars if you have them and a field guide to birds of the eastern United States; a guide will be provided if you don’t have one. Free.

An open exploration lab featuring watercolor art is among the offerings this week at Project Most, based at the Community Learning Center at Neighborhood House. For a full list of programs offered by Project Most, as well as details about times and fees, go to projectmost.org.