Academy Dinner
Tickets are still available for Guild Hall’s 39th annual Academy of the Arts Achievement Awards Dinner, to be held on April 22 from 6 to 10 at the Rainbow Room in Manhattan.
The event will honor Eric Fischl, the previous president of the Academy, with the Chairman’s Award for Service to the Academy, and Linda Lindenbaum with the Special Award for Leadership and Philanthropy. The evening will be hosted by Susan Stroman, the Academy’s president, and feature a performance by a pair of Broadway stars, Tony Yazbeck and Seth Rudetsky.
In addition, the new inductees to the Academy of the Arts will be recognized. They are Katie Couric, Neil Patrick Harris, Sheree Hovsepian, Jane Krakowski, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Joseph M. Pierce, David Rockwell, Jeffrey Seller, and Almond Zigmund.
Tickets start at $1,700, $750 for those 21 to 40 years of age.
All Star Comedy
The All Star Comedy series returns to Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater on Saturday at 8 p.m. with performances by Ken Krantz, Jon Kurschner, and Reg Thomas.
Mr. Krantz’s approach combines self-deprecating humor, his views on fatherhood, and his take on pop culture and current events. He has performed at the Gotham Comedy Club, the Stand, the Stress Factory, and the Comedy Cellar.
Mr. Kurschner has appeared in the movie “Midlife” and on “Comics Watching Comics,” both streaming on Amazon, and has performed at the New York Comedy Club, Levity Live, and Comic Strip Live, among others.
Mr. Thomas’s inspirations begin with his Haitian immigrant parents and include Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock. His talents have been commissioned by media companies such as BuzzFeed, Complex Media, and Atlantic Records.
Tickets are $42 to $54.
Librarians as Spies
In honor of National Librarians Week, Elyse Graham will be at the Montauk Library on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. to talk about her most recent publication, “Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II.” She will describe how academics and librarians worked under cover for the Office of Strategic Services, precursor to the C.I.A., and helped turn the tide of the war.
A historian and professor at Stony Brook University, Ms. Graham is the author of “The Republic of Games: Textual Culture Between Old Books and New Media,” and, under a pseudonym, “A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet” and “You Talkin’ to Me? — The Unruly History of New York English.”
Jazz in Sag
Jazz Night at the Sag Harbor Masonic Temple, a co-presentation with Hamptons JazzFest, returns tomorrow night at 7 with “Vocal Jazz in Motion: A Collective Groove.” The artists are Olivia Foschi, vocals; Bill O’Connell, piano; Oscar Feldman, also sax; Tony DePaolis, bass, and Claes Brondal, drums.
Doors open at 6:30. Tickets are $20, a portion of which is donated to local charities.
Classical Diversity
Up next in the concert series of the Shelter Island Friends of Music is the Catalyst Quartet, a Grammy Award-winning group known for its commitment to diversity in classical music, on Saturday at 6 p.m. at the island’s Presbyterian Church.
Founded in 2010, the quartet has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Kennedy Center, and has been hailed by The New York Times for its “invariably energetic and finely burnished” performances.
The ensemble features Karla Donehew Perez and Abi Fayette, violin; Paul Laraia, viola, and Karlos Rodriguez, cello. Their program will include works by Ravel, Astor Piazzolla, Paquito D’Rivera, and Gershwin.
The concert is free, with donations gladly welcomed.
Spring Cleanup
The next round-table discussion of the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons, set for Saturday from 10 until noon at the Bridgehampton Community House, will be about getting a garden in shape for spring.
Among the topics up for discussion are spring cleanup to prevent disease and make a garden more attractive; raking, electric leaf blowers, mower shredder attachments, electric leaf shredders; which shrubs and trees to prune now and which should wait until after flowering; pollarding, coppicing, and edging; composting, and creating new garden beds.
Round tables are open to nonmembers at no charge.
