Vocal Workshops
The Choral Society of the Hamptons will celebrate the return of communal singing with “Do Re Mi,” a three-session workshop for both beginning and experienced singers that will take place at the Southampton Cultural Center.
The series will begin Sunday at 3 p.m. with “The Power of Breath.” Led by Jeremy Little, a tenor and principal artist with the Metropolitan Opera, the session will focus on vocal technique, with an emphasis on breath support.
For “The Art of Choral Singing,” set for April 3, Shoshana Hershkowitz, conductor of the Stony Brook Chorale and Camerata Singers, will explore healthy habits for ensemble singing.
“Healing Through Music” will conclude the series on April 10. Louise O’Hanlon, a choral conductor, health coach, and mindfulness teacher, will lead some light movement, yoga stretching, and other practices that engage the body and mind in communal singing.
Tickets, which are available online, are $10 per session, $25 for all three, and free for Choral Society members and students.
Oscar Party
The Sag Harbor Cinema will host an Oscars watch party starting at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, with live coverage from the Red Carpet. Entry is free, but advance registration on the theater’s website is required. Ticket holders will be able to leave the cinema and return at any time until the telecast ends.
Refreshments and drinks will be available for purchase on the third floor as well as in the Green Room. Oscar prediction ballots will be available, and the most accurate voter will receive a prize.
Open Call
The Neo-Political Cowgirls has announced auditions for local dancers and “excellent movers,” ages 10 to 22, for its summer outdoor production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream." The roles are for the “Squad of Fairies,” who help create the physical magic of the production.
Auditions will take place on April 10 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Community House, but pre-registration is required by emailing [email protected]. Actors, who will be notified about available time slots, have been asked to prepare a short poem, Shakespearean text, or monologue, and be "dressed to move."
Rehearsals will begin in early June; the production will run from July 21 through Aug. 7.
Choices for Actors
Noelle Parker, a film and television veteran who has worked with Sean Penn, Blythe Danner, Sam Waterston, and Sarah Jessica Parker, among others, will lead “The Art of Making Choices,” a six-week acting workshop, starting Tuesday at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.
The course is designed to give both beginners and experienced actors a firm foundation to approach any character. Using scene and monologue work, participants will learn how to break down a script, pose questions that reveal the action and motivation of each moment, and how to personalize the character using both physical gestures and their own experiences.
Ms. Parker played the title role in NBC’s “Amy Fisher: My Story,” and the wayward daughter of Swoosie Kurtz in “Sisters.” Her film credits include “At Close Range,” “We Only Know So Much,” and “Look Who’s Talking Too.”
Classes will meet on Tuesdays from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. through May 3. Open to those 14 and up, the cost is $250 for the series, $50 per class.
Virtual Reading
John Elizabeth Stintzi (JES), a non-binary and trans novelist, poet, visual artist, editor, and teacher, is next up in the Watermill Center’s Viewpoints conversation series. The virtual program will take place on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.
Born and raised on a cattle farm in northwestern Ontario, Canada, JES has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and been given the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers from the Writers’ Trust of Canada. Their work has been published throughout the United States and Canada.
Their novel “Vanishing Monuments,” a finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, was called “an unforgettable book, a restless, rapturous read” by Katharine Coldiron of The Arts Fuse. Of a just-published novel, “My Volcano,” Publishers Weekly said, “It’s a brilliant achievement.”
A reading from their work will be followed by a conversation with the artist Andrea Cote. Tickets are $25; attendees will receive a Zoom link on the morning of the event.
Reviving the Dead
The Roses Grove Band will bring the psychedelic music of the Grateful Dead to the Inner Sanctum of the Sag Harbor Masonic Club on Saturday at 8 p.m. “I love Americana; I love improvisational music,” Jon (Hondo) Weissberg, the band’s drummer, told The Star in 2016. The Grateful Dead, he said, “really combined those two things very well.” Admission is a $20 donation.
The club will host the Jam Session’s weekly concert of live jazz with guest musicians on Tuesday evening at 7. Tickets are $15.
