Open Gardens
The Garden Conservancy's annual Open Days program has brought more than a million visitors into thousands of private gardens in 41 states since its launch in 1995. Five South Fork gardens will be open on Saturday.
The East Hampton sites are the garden of Dianne B., which will be open from 10 to 3; the Marcia Previti/Peter Gumpel garden, 10 to 4, and the garden of Arlene Bujese, 10 to 2.
In Bridgehampton, Villa des Amis will be open from noon to 4, and Entwood, a seven-acre garden, from 10 to 4.
Admission to each is $10. Tickets can be purchased on the Garden Conservancy's website, where maps of each location can also be found.
Jazz for Freedom
Keith LaMar is a poet, writer, and activist who has spent more than 30 years on Death Row at the Ohio State Penitentiary for a crime for which he says -- and many activists agree -- he was framed. Mr. LaMar has said that jazz kept him from losing his mind in prison..
Freedom First began in 2020 as a concert series with dozens of musicians on the streets of New York playing the jazz standards that have helped Mr. LaMar survive. Freedom First will be at the Arts Center at Duck Creek on Saturday at 5 p.m. as part of the venue's summer music series.
The performers will include Albert Marques, a pianist who conceived the movement's first album, also called "Freedom First"; Kazemde George on tenor saxophone, Caroline Davis on alto saxophone, Eva Lawitts on bass, Zack O'Farrill on drums, and Mr. LaMar, who has recited his poetry via phone and video from prison.
Birbiglia, Again
Because Mike Birbiglia's July 29 performance at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor has already sold out, the venue has scheduled a second show by the actor-comedian for 9:30 the same evening. Fans would be wise to visit the website for tickets as soon as possible.
Free Singing
A cappella concerts of Hungarian folk melodies, held in honor of Bela Bartok, one of that country's most prominent composers and folk song collectors, will take place Saturday at 5 p.m. at the Amagansett Life-Saving Station, and again on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at the Southampton Arts Center.
A project of the Libero Canto School of Singing, whose goal is to encourage "free singing," the program will feature songs presented in their traditional forms as arranged by the contemporary composers Song Yi Jeon, Guillermo Klein, and Libero Canto's Marisa Michelson and Sara Serpa, as well as original songs by Bartok. The performers are Kinga Cserjesi, Deborah Carmichael, Margot Bassett Silver, and Ms. Michelson.
Tickets for both concerts are by donation.
Multimedia Improvisation
SignofSound, a multidisciplinary art performance by Fabiana Yvonne Lugli, an East Hampton-based artist from Rome, will take place on Saturday, starting at 6 p.m. at 28 Alewive Brook Road in Northwest. The event will begin with Italian food and a wine tasting; the performance will start at 8:30.
SignofSound is an improvisation by Ms. Lugli, a trained ballet and contemporary dancer, involving music, painting, video art, and dance. The performer reacts to the experimental sound and music on a color-saturated backlit wall canvas.
Perlman Concerts
As the Perlman Music Program's chamber music workshop concludes, its young artists will present their final concerts on Friday and Saturday, in the performance tent on the Shelter Island campus. The concerts will take place at 2:30 and 7 p.m. both days.
Admission is free; reservations are not necessary.
A Correction
An article written in advance of tomorrow's Southampton Arts Center Architecture and Design Tour in last week's issue misstated the number of houses on the tour. The number is four, not three. The day includes a brunch and panel discussion as well.
