Sustainable Landscape Tour
ChangeHampton, a community organization dedicated to promoting restorative, biodiverse, and healthy and sustainable landscaping, has organized a free tour of three East Hampton sites that exemplify its mission.
The tour will begin Sunday morning at 11 at ChangeHampton's Community Pollinator Garden at East Hampton Town Hall, a public-private partnership with the town. Abby Lawless, the garden's designer, and Paul Munoz of Eco-Harmony will lead the tour. The pollinator garden by the Garden Club of East Hampton will also be visited there.
The tour will continue to Methodist Lane and Town Pond, the site of two bioswales by Surfrider and Piazza Horticulture. Kris Liem, chairman of Eastern Long Island Surfriders Ocean Friendly Gardens committee, will be on hand to discuss the projects.
The event will conclude at the Mimi Meehan Native Plant Garden next to Clinton Academy, 151 Main Street. The guide will be Abby Jane Brody, creator and curator of the garden with the Garden Club of East Hampton.
Music and Film
A busy weekend at the Southampton Arts Center will start Friday at 6 p.m. when local singer-songwriters will perform original music on the center's lawn. Presented with WLIW-FM, the free event will be hosted by that station’s Gianna Volpe and Marina DeLuca. Food and drinks will be for sale on site.
In conjunction with Hamptons Jazz Fest, Conrad Herwig, a jazz trombonist and four-time Grammy nominee, will perform "The Latin Side of Mingus" tomorrow at 7 p.m. on the center's lawn, weather permitting.
"The Latin Side of Mingus" is Mr. Herwig's most recent CD and marks more than 25 years of his "Latin Side of . . . " series. Equally adept in the non-Latin arena, he has been voted #1 jazz trombonist in DownBeat magazine and is a longtime member of the Mingus Big Band.
Tickets are $35, $30 for members, $15 for students.
"Another Body," a documentary film by Sophie Compton and Reubyn Hamlyn, follows a college student who seeks justice after finding deepfake pornography of herself online. It will be shown Sunday at 4 p.m. Tickets are $10, free for members.
A Rising Star
The Rising Stars Piano Series at the Southampton Cultural Center will feature a recital by Michael Davidman, a Pianofest alumnus, on Saturday at 6 p.m. Mr. Davidman will perform works by Caspar Franck, Enrique Granados, Franz Liszt, and his own composition, "The Lady From the Sea."
Mr. Davidman won third grand prize and the Orchestra prize at the 2022 Long-Thibaud International Piano Competition in Paris; a finalist award at the 2021 American Pianists Association, first prize in the 2018 New York International Piano Competition chamber ensemble, and first prizes in both soloist and concerto categories at the 33rd Ithaca College of Music Piano Competition.
Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. There is no charge for students under 21.
Southampton House Tour
The Southampton History Museum's Insider's View 2023, the 14th annual tour of Southampton homes, will be held on Saturday from 1 to 6 p.m., weather permitting.
The houses on the tour, which are not being identified in advance to protect the privacy of the homeowners, will be open from 1 to 4. An outdoor cocktail party sponsored by Sant Ambroeus will take place at the Rogers Mansion from 4:30 to 6.
Tickets are $150 in advance from the museum's website, $175 on the day of the event, between 11 and 3:30 at the Rogers Mansion.
For the Cinema
The Sag Harbor Cinema will hold a fund-raising party at the Sagaponack Farm Distillery, 369 Sagg Road, on Saturday at 6 p.m. The event will feature the reggae beats of Winston Irie, food from Harbor Market and Kitchen, Oyster Bliss, and Shmayleys mobile events bar, cocktails from the distillery, beer from Kidd Squid, wine from Channing Daughters, and a raffle.
Tickets, $250, include all of the above plus a swag bag and two free raffle tickets.
Gardening Tips
Bridget Wosczyna, who gardens in southeastern Pennsylvania and is vice president and bulb director for the Pacific Bulb Society, will be the next guest of the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons, on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Community House.
Ms. Wosczyna will discuss interesting aroids (jack-in-the-pulpits, voodoo lilies, elephant ears) and provide tips and care information for Long Island gardeners.
A former garden maintenance small-business owner, she grows Japanese woodlanders, Mediterranean arums, and hardy perennials, but has a barn full of pots of winter-flowering South African bulbs, which she grows and even occasionally flowers.
Ms. Wosczyna will offer plants for sale after the lecture. Tickets are $10, free for members of the alliance.
