Madoo Market and Party
The 12th annual Much Ado About Madoo garden market and celebratory cocktail party will be held at the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack on Saturday.
The garden market, open from 11 to 4, will feature over two dozen stalls, including offerings from Antonia Textiles, Christofle, Everyday Elegance, Gretchen Comly, Home and Loft, Merrichase, Munder-Skiles, Rafe New York, and Victoria Munroe Fine Art.
Garden Rooms, a series of outdoor living vignettes by interior designers and architects, will also be open from 11 to 4, and will remain for viewing through June 29.
The cocktail party will be held from 5 to 8 in the Madoo gardens. Tickets are $350, $315 for members.
Arts and Advocacy
LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will be the site of "Andromeda's Sisters," the eighth annual Arts and Advocacy event for the benefit of the Neo-Political Cowgirls, on Saturday at 5 p.m. The party will feature plays, a panel discussion, and immersive experiences with the work of female artists on display, as well as Champagne and light catering.
This year’s honoree is Gail Pellett, a writer, director, and producer of television documentaries and public affairs programs for PBS. She has also reported on TV and radio for NBC, CBC, NPR, and Pacifica Radio, and has written for The Washington Post, Mother Jones, The Village Voice, and other publications.
The panel, moderated by the author A.M. Homes, will include Abigail Disney, a film producer and director; Lucy Sexton, executive director of New Yorkers for Culture and Arts, and Minerva Perez, executive director of OLA of Eastern Long Island.
Tickets are $150, $250 for two.
Indigenous Culture
Guild Hall's Gather series, co-produced with Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio, has invited BIPOC scholars, artists, and leaders to discuss Black and Indigenous histories and traditions. The next guest will be Robin Wall Kimmerer, a scientist, professor, and writer, who will discuss her collection of essays, "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants," on Sunday at 2 p.m.
A member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Ms. Kimmerer draws upon her life as a scientist and a woman to show how other living beings, including asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders and sweetgrass, offer humans gifts and lessons.
Tickets are $35, $30 for members, and $56.73 ($51.73) with the book.
Up next in the Creative Lab series on Monday at 6 p.m. is Ahanu Valdez, a Shinnecock multimedia artist who specializes in poetry, pottery, and watercolor painting. The lab will focus on her practice and her work as part of Ayim Kutoowonk, a Shinnecock-language revitalization collective.
Tickets are $15, $10 for members.
Award-Winning Doc
As part of its Pride Month celebration, St. Michael's Lutheran Church in Amagansett will host a free screening of "1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture" (2022) on Saturday at 5 p.m.
The award-winning documentary follows the researchers who traced the origins of the anti-gay movement among Christians to a mistranslation of the Bible in 1946. That was the first time the word "homosexual" appeared in any Bible, in any translation, thus casting doubt on any biblical basis for L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ prejudice.
The screening will be followed by a virtual question-and-answer session with Sharon (Rocky) Roggio, the film's director.
Poetry and Prose
Visual poetry and a novel-in-progress are coming to The Church in Sag Harbor this weekend, starting Friday at 6 p.m. when Olga Tomkowiak, a resident artist, will show a selection of short visual poems, accompanied by words written by the novelist and essayist Frederic Tuten, incorporating body, object, space, and sound.
Tickets are $10, free for members.
Quincy Flowers, a writer based in Brooklyn, will talk about and read excerpts from "Canebrake," his novel-in-progress, on Sunday morning at 10:30. The story follows its protagonist from a family farm in Georgia to Detroit, where he embarks on an engineering career at General Motors as the riots of 1967 loom.
Tickets are $10, free for members, who are required to R.S.V.P.
Comedy Double Play
The Sticks and Stones Comedy Club returns to the Southampton Cultural Center on Saturday from noon to 5 with something new: a master class comedy workshop. Eddie Brill, a comedian, wrier, actor, producer, and mentor to comedians, will be the leader.
Mr. Brill performed comedy for David Letterman's audiences for almost two decades. Participants will receive one-on-one coaching. The cost is $150. Registration is by email to [email protected].
After a short break, Mr. Brill will return to the stage at 7 that evening with his comedian son Dan Madonia, for a Father's Day show. (Their performance will no doubt be informed by the fact that Mr. Brill didn't know Mr. Madonia was his son until the latter was a pre-teenager. Talk about comedic DNA.)
Tickets are $35, $50 for reserved seats, or $70 for V.I.P. seating.
