Visionary Architecture
In a celebration of the connection between utopia, technology, and architecture, the Sag Harbor Cinema will host a screening of “Things to Come,” a visionary 1936 collaboration among H.G. Wells, Alexander Korda, and William Cameron Menzies, on Sunday at 4 p.m.
Written by Wells and based on his 1933 novel, directed by Menzies, and produced by Korda, the film opens in 1940 when John Cabal (Raymond Massey), a resident of Everytown, fears that war is imminent.
Sure enough, war comes and lasts 30 years, destroying the city and leading to a dark age of plagues and despots. But Cabal leads a group of pacifist scientists and thinkers whose dream is to build a utopian society on the ruins of the old. “Things to Come,” with its groundbreaking set designs, charts humanity’s path from destruction to utopia.
Before the screening, Raffaella Bortoluzzi, founder of Raffaella Bortoluzzi Architecture, will explore how emerging technologies, from 3D printing to algorithmic design, are reshaping our built environment.
Garden Fair
Merry Madoo, the 12th annual holiday fair in the garden of the Madoo Conservancy, will bring a distinctive group of vendors to Sagaponack on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Madoo-made gifts include clove-studded Lady Apple pomanders, fresh-cut greens from the garden, and top-six, Madoo-grown paperwhites. The shop will have Sneeboer garden tools, Madoo pottery, and other garden gifts. Roasted chestnuts, vin chaud, and mulled cider will also be on offer.
The vendors include Figaro Apothecary, Gretchen Comly, Hoare and Hoare Antiques, Kitty Clay, Local Wool Company, Meg Cohen, Pine Baron USA, RBR Rust Belt Renaissance, Sagaponack Distillery, SantM, and the South Fork Bakery, which will conduct a holiday cookie-decorating workshop from 11 to 2, offering children a chance to decorate cookies from the bakery to take home.
Both the fair and the workshop are free.
Holiday Choral Concert
Two performances of “Wolcum Yole!”, the annual holiday concert of the Choral Society of the Hamptons, will happen Sunday afternoon at 3 and 5:30 at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church. The concert is being presented in honor of Daniel K. McKeever for his more than 30 years’ service as board president of the choral society.
Walter Klauss, a frequent choral society guest director who is the music director at Sag Harbor’s Old Whalers Church, will lead the chorus, which will be accompanied by the South Fork Chamber Orchestra and Lydia Saylor, a soprano soloist. The program will feature works by Benjamin Britten, Dieterich Buxtehude, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Tickets are $35, $75 for preferred seating, $10 for students. Raffle tickets will be sold at the door and from choral society members. After the 5:30 concert, a free reception will be held at the parish hall of Most Holy Rosary Catholic Church, with wine, snacks, a silent auction, and carol singing.
A Classical Christmas
More holiday music will be featured in “Songs of the Seasons: A Classical Christmas Concert,” a presentation of the Hamptons Festival of Music, next Thursday at 6 p.m. at Hoie Hall, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton. The concert will feature Greer Lyle, a Metropolitan Opera award-winning soprano, and Logan Souther, the festival’s associate conductor, in a program designed to spread Christmas cheer through classical music, with selections from Handel’s “Messiah” and Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio” as well as holiday carols and classics.
Tickets are $50 and available from the festival’s website.
Blues and Dickens
The Sag Harbor Masonic Temple’s music series will present a performance by Jake Lear on Saturday at 8 p.m. Mr. Lear, who grew up with the music of John Lee Hooker, Jimi Hendrix, and Howlin’ Wolf, is dedicated to the blues. Elmore magazine called his album, “Lost Time Blues,” “the perfect marriage of ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ and ‘Texas Flood.’ ”
Tickets are $20.
On Sunday afternoon at 1, Laura Jasper, a local actor and theater artist, will perform a one-woman reading of Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol,” suitable for all audiences. Admission is free, but donations of canned food for distribution to local charities will be welcomed.
