The Glam Jam, a night of music and to collect unperishable food items for the food pantry, will take place at the Masonic Temple on Tuesday, November 12. Arrive early... more
Submissions are now being accepted for the fourth annual Bliss Morehead Poetry Grant. The $1,000 grant is awarded each April to the competition winner. Applicants must be unpublished poets aged 17 or older and reside on the East End of Long Island (Riverhead and points east). Bliss Morehead was a resident of Shelter Island who dedicated much of her life to the art of poetry. As a student of poetry, and a poet herself, she sought to share “this most complex of cultural achievements.” Bliss was the founder and curator of the Shelter Island Poetry Project which produced the annual ...
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Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts has released its winter/spring 2025 lineup of classes and workshops. Among the offerings are Improv for Everyone, running from January 27 to March 3, for those 21 and older; On-Camera Scene and Character Study, January 27 through March 4, for those 16 and older; Mic Drop … Karaoke Edition, from January 29 through March 5, for those 21 and older; and On-Camera Workshop, one day only, Saturday, March 15, for those 16 and older. For details about each workshop, or to register, visit baystreet.org.
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The Shelter Island Community Chorus will host its seventh annual Handel’s Messiah Sing, on Sunday, January 12, at 3 p.m. at the Shelter Island Presbyterian Church, 32 N. Ferry Road (Route 114), Shelter Island. The annual Messiah Sing honors the late Jack Monaghan, who founded the tradition, held each January on the first Sunday after Epiphany. The seventh annual Messiah Sing will include 11 choruses and a number of solos, led by Suzanne Nicoletti, and accompanied by Paolo Bertolani. Choristers are encouraged to bring their own scores, Schirmer Edition preferred; a limited number of scores will be available. East End ...
6 Jan 2025 by Staff Writer
The Choral Society of the Hamptons will hold auditions on Monday, January 13, for all singing parts (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) for singers interested in joining the group prior to the Choral Society’s next concert on Sunday, March 30, at the First Presbyterian Church of East Hampton. The Choral Society rehearses at the same church and the auditions will take place there as well. Rehearsals begin the following Monday, January 20. Singers accepted into the chorus are welcome to attend this first rehearsal before committing to the chorus. Generally, there are weekly rehearsals on Monday evenings and occasional weekend commitments ...
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The Church in Sag Harbor will hold its next Wellness Monday on January 13 at 3 p.m. at which Karen Meyer, assisted by Stephanie Joyce, will offer the Healing Vibrations of Reiki. Tickets are $10 for nonmembers. The program will touch on the fundamentals of Reiki and why Einstein’s words “everything is vibration” and “everything is energy” are the language of Reiki practitioners worldwide. Participants will learn the basics of Reiki and experience it hands-on, discover the healing power of sound and the healing properties of instruments such as the gong, the crystal singing bowl, and tuning forks, as well ...
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The Stony Brook University FoodLab is offering a workshop series about the immune system. “Power Up Your Immune System: Nature’s Way” workshop series begins on Sunday, January 12, and continues each Sunday through March 16, from 2 to 4 p.m., at the Stony Brook Southampton campus. The series, presented by nutritionist Nadia Ernestus, is a comprehensive program designed to educate attendees on the benefits of raw foods and natural remedies in supporting the immune system. Each session combines theoretical insights with practical demonstrations, providing participants with the tools to incorporate these practices into their daily lives. The opening workshop on ...
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Bay Street Theater and Sag Harbor Center for the Arts will screen the film “Pride” on Sunday, January 26, at 4 pm. The feature will kick off a series of screenings of LGBTQ+-themed films on the last Sunday of each month, in collaboration with Hamptons Pride. “Bay Street is giving us a wonderful opportunity to create a fun and engaging new social outlet, just in time for the long winter months. In the before-dinner hour on last Sundays, we hope to grow what will become a vibrant community film series, and will work to make each screening one you won’t ...
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Hamptons Observatory is partnering with the Southampton Arts Center to present a free lecture and book signing by Dava Sobel. Sobel, who will discuss her book, “The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science,” is a New York Times best-selling author, Pulitzer Prize finalist, East End resident, and a Hamptons Observatory founding advisory board member. The lecture on Monday, January 13, at 6 p.m. is available in person and virtually. Sobel will delve into the groundbreaking discoveries of Marie Sklodowska Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and a ...
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The Sag Harbor Historical Museum was awarded a $10,000 grant to restore headstones in Sag Harbor’s Old Burying Ground on Union Street. The grant was from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, which supports projects that highlight New York history. The group of headstones to be repaired were severely damaged in the Hurricane of 1938 and have remained broken in multiple pieces and partially buried in the ground since that time. The headstones are a valuable part of Sag Harbor history, telling a story reaching back to the Revolutionary War. Capt. Lester BeeBee, the patriarch of the BeeBee family was ...
19 Dec 2024 by Staff Writer
Staff Writer on Nov 11, 2024