Creatives of Color
The fourth annual Celebrating Creative Artists of Color will be held at The Church in Sag Harbor for the first time, on Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. The event will showcase 28 artists and authors of color, from Sag Harbor and beyond, providing them with an opportunity not only to display their work but to interact with collectors and other creatives.
At 1, Sheri Pasquarella, executive director of The Church, will be joined by Suzanne Randolph, a fine-art adviser, for a tour of the show. Readings by selected authors and book signings will follow at 2.
Among the participating writers are Don Lemon, Snny Hostin, Saleem Abdal-Khaaliq, Noel Hankin, Paula Rainer, Linda Anderson, Joan Benjamin, and Harold Dow. The visual artists include Judith Henriques-Adams, Michael Butler, Jeremy Dennis, John Pinderhughes, Darlene Williams, Olney Marie Ryland, Ermani Silva, and Kamoy Smalling.
The event was organized by residents of the Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, and Ninevah communities, among them Andrea Cottman, Beverly Granger, Gwendolyn Hankin, Victoria Pinderhughes, Paula Taylor, and Olivia White.
Admission is by $5 cash only, at the door. A portion of proceeds from admission and the sale of artworks and books will support the Southampton African American Museum and The Church.
Two Violinists
The Young Concert Artist performance series at LongHouse Reserve will bring two violinists, Oliver Neubauer and Lun Li, to the East Hampton venue on Sunday afternoon at 5.
Mr. Neubauer, a Young Concert Artists Jacobs Fellow, won first prize in the 2023 Susan Wadsworth Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Mr. Li’s prizes include the Paul A. Fish Memorial Prize and the Buffalo Chamber Music Society Prize.
The artists will present solo pieces, then come together for a duet. Tickets are $30, $20 for members.
Funny Women
In tandem with its current exhibition, “Are You Joking? Women & Humor,” The Church’s Summer Thursday Concert series will conclude next Thursday at 6 p.m. with a performance by Inda Eaton, Susanne Mack, and the Fistys.
Ms. Eaton is known not only for her Americana acoustic rock but also for her humor and storytelling. Ms. Mack is a singer, writer, and regular performer on the New York City cabaret circuit. Winners of this year’s Battle of the Fantasy Girl Bands at the Stephen Talkhouse, the Fistys have performed at Pride Dance Party at the Clubhouse in East Hampton and at Sag Harbor’s Masonic Temple.
Tickets are $30, $25 for members, $15 for those 18 and under.
Black Land Loss
Tomorrow evening’s fifth annual Black Film Festival, Part 1, features a screening of “Gaining Ground: The Fight for Black Land,” a 2023 documentary by Eternal Polk. It will be shown at 6 at the Parrish Art Museum.
By 1910, Black Americans had amassed 60 million acres of farmland. That number had dropped to 3.9 million acres by 2023 due to several causes, among them Heirs’ Property, which typically comes into play when someone dies without a will. “Gaining Ground” illuminates the causes, effects, and what is being done to fight the exploitation of the Heirs’ Property Law.
The festival is a collaboration between the museum and the Bridgehampton Child Care & Recreational Center, the Suffolk County Office of Minority Health, the Witness Project of Long Island, and Black Public Media. Tickets are $20, $18 for senior citizens, $15 for members’ guests, $13 for museum members and BHCCRC friends. There is no charge for students or children.
Fashion and Nature
“Iris,” a 2014 documentary about Iris Apfel, the late style aficionado who had an outsize presence on the New York fashion scene for decades, will be shown at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday at 5 p.m. Directed by the renowned documentarian Albert Maysles, the film is about “a very different kind of woman who holds your imagination from the moment she appears,” said Manohla Dargis of The New York Times.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Fern Mallis, a celebrated fashion consultant, and Simon Doonan, the former creative director of Barneys New York.
Mountainfilm on Tour will return to the arts center on Sunday at 7:15 p.m. The program includes documentaries focused on the Achuar people of Ecuador’s Amazon rain forest, life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, kayakers in Zambia, and paramotoring in the American Southwest, among other subjects.
Tickets for each program are $10, free for members.
The Bard in the Park
The Queens-based Hip to Hip Theatre Company, which presents free and accessible Shakespeare productions in public parks, will bring “The Winter’s Tale” to Agawam Park tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” there on Saturday, also at 7:30.
Presented with the Southampton Cultural Center, each program is preceded by an interactive children’s workshop, “Kids and the Classics,” half an hour beforehand.
The Sticks and Stones Comedy Club will present four shows featuring Sherrod Small at the cultural center, tomorrow and Saturday at 7 and 9 p.m. Mr. Small can be heard as a regular on “Opie Radio” on SiriusXM and as co-host of the “Race Wars” weekly podcast.
Rob White, a comedian and tattoo artist, will perform on Wednesday at 8 p.m.
Tickets to each show are $35, $50 and $70.
Open Call
The Hampton Theatre Company will hold auditions for four roles in “Now and Then,” a comedy/drama by Sean Grennan, on Sunday and Monday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Quogue Community Hall.
Rehearsals will begin Sept. 9, and the show will open Oct. 17. More information about the play and the characters can be found by following the audition link on the theater’s home page.
