Live Performance
Born in Soldotna, Alaska, Emily Johnson is a dancer, writer, and choreographer who belongs to the Yup’ik nation, the largest of the various Native groups in that state. Ms. Johnson will be at The Church in Sag Harbor on Sunday at 3 p.m. for “Architecture of the Overflow,” a live performance.
For the event, quilts will be laid out on the main floor of the building, and audience members will be invited to sit on them as Ms. Johnson leads a movement and sound-based performance that will envelop participants “in shared histories and experiences,” according to The Church. Assisted by Korina Emmerich, audience members can also contribute to the quilt squares, through stitching or adding their own visions of the future.
Ms. Johnson is a Bessie Award-winning choreographer, Guggenheim, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, a United States Artists fellow, and a recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award.
Tickets are $25, $20 for members.
Jazz and Pop
Sag Harbor’s Masonic Music series will kick off the weekend Friday at 7 p.m. with “Jazz With Cinematic Swagger,” featuring Omar Kabir on trumpet and trombone, Alex Levine on guitar, Marcos Varela on bass, and Rich Baratta on drums.
Saturday will bring Bingo Bango, a Sag Harbor band, to the Temple’s Inner Sanctum at 7 p.m. The group covers popular and deep B-side tracks from groups as varied as the Beatles, Blondie, the Beach Boys, Sheryl Crow, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash. The musicians are Robert Florio, guitar; Catherine Caylus, bass; Steven Skoldberg, keyboards, and Alex Sarkis, drums.
Tickets for each show are $20.
Comedy at Bay Street
Joseph Vecsey, the veteran comedian who has led Bay Street Theater’s All Star Comedy series since 2010, will be back on Saturday evening at 8 with a new lineup.
Harry Terjanian, who began performing at New York City comedy clubs as a teenager, has appeared in the Just for Laughs Festival, the Los Angeles Latino Comedy Festival, and the Johnny Carson Comedy Festival.
Sharief Johnson is a comedian, actor, and writer from New Jersey who won SiriusXM radio’s comedy contest and starred in seven episodes of the television series “Power Book III: Raising Kanan.”
Jesse Eigner, who recently won the New York Comedy Club invitational tournament, has performed at the Asheville Comedy Festival, the San Diego Comedy Festival, and the Sacramento Comedy Festival.
Tickets are $42 to $54.
How Plants Thrive
A Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons lecture featuring “Lessons From Plants on Human Thriving” will bring Beronda Montgomery to the Bridgehampton Community House on Sunday at 2 p.m.
A writer, science communicator, and plant biologist, Ms. Montgomery will explore how insights gathered from plant physiology, “phenotypic plasticity,” and other plant-growth phenomena can help improve our lives and human society. The talk will focus on how plants can achieve their own purposes by following common principles of thriving and resilience as individuals and in communities.
Ms. Montgomery is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society of Plant Biologists, and the American Academy of Microbiology.
The talk is free for members, $10 for nonmembers.
Summer Songbook
The spring launch party and fund-raiser for LTV Studio’s Hamptons Summer Songbook by the Sea series will take place on Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Manhattan’s Triad Theater, 158 West 72nd Street.
Produced by Josh Gladstone, LTV’s creative director, and Donna Rubin, an independent producer, the shows feature acclaimed cabaret and Broadway artists. The launch party will offer a chance to preview some of the performers lined up for this summer’s series.
The cost is $75 per person, plus a two-drink minimum, and can be purchased at bit.ly/3G4AkjG. Attendees will be given a discount code for use toward summer ticket purchases.
Five Comics
The Sticks and Stones Comedy Club will return to the Southampton Cultural Center on Saturday at 7 p.m. The lineup includes Stevie GB, who took up comedy 30 years ago during a career as an accountant; Rob White, who riffs on relationships and the absurdities of everyday life; Joe Winchell, a trained stage actor from Sag Harbor; Harry Freedman, who has toured for years with Ray Romano, and Ryan Kenny, whose material ranges from dating struggles to family mishaps.
Tickets are $35, $50 for reserved seating, and $70 for top tier, plus fees.
