Join The Church’s first excursion: Creativity in the wild! Venture out from our beloved Long Island South Fork to discover the beauty of our neighboring North Fork community across the sound. Take a joyous morning boat or bus ride from Sag Harbor to Catapano Dairy Farm in Southold, a small goat farm and home to award-winning goat cheese. Guests are welcome to explore the property and set up alongside Eric Let’s meet up and explore the cultural wilderness! Tom Cugliani, curator of the inaugural Sculpture @ Sylvester Manor exhibition, leads a specially reserved 90-minute tour for The Church participants. Meet us at the Shelter Island side of the Ferry Terminal at 10 AM or at Sylvester Manor at 10:15 AM and join us for a final look at the exhibition before it closes the following day. Transportation and ferry tickets are not included in the ticket price and must be purchased separately. If you are unable to secure transportation and are still interested in attending, get in contact! Please reach out to info@thechurchsagharbor.org.

The ambitious project, which spans a small portion of the woodlands and gardens of the former plantation, features 25 esteemed local artists. While some of the works included address the former slaveholding plantation’s past, others address the context of the natural landscape and the changes it has undergone. For more information about the exhibition and for a full list of artists please visit the Sylvester Manor exhibition page.

Query: How has capitalism shaped who you are?

In the style of a traditional Quaker meeting, each iteration of Still, Small Voice will center around an organizing question about creativity, community, and being human in the 21st century. The format of the meeting is unprogrammed and anchored in silence, but receptive to the insights of all participants. It is a space grounded in humanistic pluralism and is welcoming and open to all. Facilitated by former Quaker clerk Erling Hope, the series will be held in The Church’s library.

Join ERASE Racism for an engaging book discussion and fundraising event with MSNBC political analyst and host of “The ReidOut,” Joy-Ann (Joy) Reid and Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights and The Leadership Conference Education Fund. As authors, they will be discussing their most recent work and exploring the current political landscape and the future of democracy in America. This event supports ERASE Racism's goal of eradicating racial disparities and will feature insightful conversations on race, politics, and the future of leadership in America. Guests will get a signed copy of Ms. Reid's book during the event and receive Ms. Wiley's upcoming book via mail.

We like to move it move it! Grab your dancing shoes JUST DANCE returns with the incredible and incomparable DJ MISTER LAMA. Join us for the straight-up good times and great dance party. Get into the grooves of your favorite tunes, make requests, and join the fun! Our Dance parties are a casual, cool, inclusive atmosphere for all ages looking to let loose and shake it off. Grab a snack or a beverage from our concession stand, dance the night away, and end the summer right!

An Americana acoustic rock troubadour, an international cabaret singer, and a lesbian punk rock band walk into a Church … and treat us to an evening of laughter, joy, and camaraderie! Our Summer Thursday Concert Series concludes with a musical showcase of women and humor with guests Inda Eaton, Susanne Mack, and The Fisties.

In tandem with the theme of our exhibition, each performer will present a selection of songs they feel explores humor through music. Come celebrate the final days of our summer exhibition, with a song and a laugh, as we head into fall remembering why women’s voices matter.

Want to get started writing fiction but unsure where to begin? Join Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Female Persuasion, The Position, The Wife, and Sleepwalking, for an introductory session on the act of getting started! In this 3-hour workshop, Wolitzer will guide participants through the early stages of the process including brainstorming, researching, developing characters, conflicts, outlining, and more. Hosted in the library of The Church, this class will be a safe, supportive place to develop ideas and begin work on a novel or short story of your own.

New sessions of Open Studio – Monotype Printmaking are here! In response to increased popularity and demand, we are excited to announce that there are now 2 different levels for the program: INTRO and ADVANCED. This is an ADVANCED session for participants who have taken attended a minimum of TWO Open Studio – Monotype Printmaking sessions at The Church.

The 4th Annual Celebrating Creatives of Color returns and for the first time will be hosted at The Church. The event will showcase about 25 creative artists and authors of color, from Sag Harbor and beyond, and provide an opportunity for artists and authors to display their work and interact with other art enthusiasts and collectors. All artwork and books will be for sale.

The 4th Annual Celebrating Creatives of Color returns and for the first time will be hosted at The Church. The event will showcase about 25 creative artists and authors of color, from Sag Harbor and beyond, and provide an opportunity for artists and authors to display their work and interact with other art enthusiasts and collectors. All artwork and books will be for sale.

The 4th Annual Celebrating Creatives of Color returns and for the first time will be hosted at The Church. The event will showcase about 25 creative artists and authors of color, from Sag Harbor and beyond, and provide an opportunity for artists and authors to display their work and interact with other art enthusiasts and collectors. All artwork and books will be for sale.

Co-presented with Dia Art Foundation, an exclusive dialogue between two pioneering icons, Liliana Porter and Coco Fusco, and moderated by MoMA Curator of Latin American Art and Director of the Cisneros Center, Inés Katzenstein. An introduction will be given by Sheri Pasquarella, Executive Director of The Church, and Humberto Moro, Deputy Director of Program at Dia Art Foundation.

We are pleased to offer a free docent tour to our community. No RSVP or booking is necessary. Join us at 3 PM for a deeper look at our current exhibition, Are You Joking? Women and Humor. Thank you to Lorinda Ash for donating her time for this tour.

The Church is thrilled to welcome Michael Blake’s Chroma Nova 5, for an evening of paradoxical yet seamless jazz. With a sinuous blend of Brazilian rhythms and modern jazz, the quintet is said to “bring to mind palm trees growing out of frozen tundra.” Join us as Hamptons Jazz Fest returns to The Church with one more great concert.

In the span of four decades the New York City musical force known as Michael Blake has contributed an impressive body of work to contemporary jazz. This has led to widespread critical acclaim and an identifiable refined sound, that embraces sonic multidimensionality. Dance of the Mystic Bliss, the debut album of Chroma Nova 5, landed on The Guardian’s Album of the Month in June 2023.

Rev. Barbara Ann Michaels, Jester of the Peace wants to laugh with you about your life. She promises you can “Find the Funny, Find the Freedom.” Join us, as the interfaith minister, performance artist, and wellness leader invites participants to learn firsthand why humor is sanity and the harbinger of healing. Circus of the Heart: #ItsFunnyNow encourages us all to investigate our lives to find stories that were hard to experience when they were happening, yet, over time, have become funny to us, in part, today.

Denise Silva-Dennis knew the moment she picked up a pencil and paper that she had an innate talent. “As for finding my voice,” she told the National Woman’s History Museum “I never felt like I lost it. Growing up immersed in two different Native American nations, I always knew what I wanted to do.”

Join us this Insight Sunday as we explore Denise’s poignant painting Land Back Butter, peering into how humor is woven into her work. This work is included in our exhibition, Are You Joking? Women & Humor. Following the discussion, Denise will field questions from the audience.

We are pleased to offer a free docent tour to our community. No RSVP or booking is necessary. Join us at 3:30 PM for a deeper look at our current exhibition, Are You Joking? Women and Humor. Thank you to Lorinda Ash for donating her time for this tour.

For Living Lovers, the acoustic duo of guitarist/composer Brandon Ross and acoustic bass guitarist Stomu Takeishi comes to the East End! The stringed duo, primarily based out of New York City, has gained international success performing and recording in Japan, U.S., and Europe receiving rave reviews for their uniquely adventurous musical “sound-world”. The music of For Living Lovers, developed from the worlds of Jazz and Creative Music, will carry you into the gestures and rhythms of sound and silence, as they reveal hidden depths in Ross’s compositions and layer each moment with keen intentionality and poise.

Explore the possibilities of creative writing and develop new connections between visual art and the written word! Led by published poet and scholar Star Black, this 2-session literary workshop will focus on the idea of Ekphrasis, an ancient Greek term meaning "the use of detailed description of a work of visual art as a literary device."

Jewel, the four-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and mental health pioneer, is coming to The Church! We invite you to an evening of dialogue and exploration, insight and discovery, as the well-known musician, poet, and visual artist enters conversation with Sheri Pasquarella, Executive Director of The Church. Earlier this spring, the award-winning musician made her debut and mark in the visual arts world presenting The Portal: An Art Experience by Jewel at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The exhibition explored the intersection of music, mental health, technology, and art. Join us as we welcome her to our community and learn how her visual arts disciplines helped her in crafting melodic structure in songs, how it became essential in her healing and mental health advocacy, what it was like to create and present the immersive art experience at Crystal Bridges, what her creative practice is like when writing poetry, what were challenges she faced penning her autobiography, and more.

Join us in the Garden for a Sunday morning reading with writers, David Grundy, poet and author of A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets, and Hugh Ryan curator and author of The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison. Dive into the impetus behind the work and gain insight into their practices as the two discuss their inspirations and share excerpts from their current work in process. Explore two different genres as David reads from his poetry in process, and Hugh reads from his memoir-in-essays currently underway. A Q&A with those in attendance will take place after the discussion.

What is humor? Who gets to determine what is funny? Where do women comics find themselves in the comedy world? Is it harder to be a comedian these days? Join us as three brilliant women, writers, and comedians come together in conversation to talk about these questions and more.

We will hear from Kestrin Pantera, an award-winning film writer/director, Nancy Parker, comedy legend, and Caroline Waxler, acclaimed writer and producer. These ladies will be joined by Moderator Abby Russell, of our local Sticks and Stones Comedy Club, here in Southampton.

New sessions of Open Studio – Monotype Printmaking are here! In response to increased popularity and demand, we are excited to announce that there are now 2 different levels for the program: INTRO and ADVANCED. This is an INTRO session, there are no prerequisites to attend.

Query: How weird are you?

In the style of a traditional Quaker meeting, each iteration of Still, Small Voice will center around an organizing question about creativity, community, and being human in the 21st century. The format of the meeting is unprogrammed and anchored in silence, but receptive to the insights of all participants. It is a space grounded in humanistic pluralism and is welcoming and open to all. Facilitated by former Quaker clerk Erling Hope, the series will be held in The Church’s library.

Diana Diamond is a pre-eminent expert on personality disorders, attachment, and narcissism. Join us for the opportunity to gain the invaluable knowledge of one of our distinguished community members as she discusses the concept of narcissism as a clinical and social phenomenon. Dr. Diamond will discuss the impetus for her latest book Treating Pathological Narcissism with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy. The discussion will illuminate the special challenges of treating individuals with narcissistic traits or narcissistic personality disorder who retreat from reality into compensatory grandiosity, thereby compromising their lives and relationships. She will also discuss how to recognize when narcissistic traits become pathological and require treatment, and how practitioners can engage and connect more deeply with patients suffering from pathological narcissism. After the discussion, there will be a lively Q&A.

TORRES makes her East End debut at The Church! Join us as the indie-rock songwriter invites audiences to a solo set of an artistically self-aware artist who defies conventional standards of popular music to deliver contemplative and authentic tones.

Treating songwriting as a craft and more than just an art form, Torres began redefining her skills as she separated from the polished commercial songwriting she learned in university and began carving out her own unique sound. Check out her latest album What an Enormous Room on Spotify and learn why with over 70K listeners, TORRES is on the rise.

Grace McLean brings her “electrifying” presence (Huffington Post), “whip-smart” songwriting (New York Times), and “pathetic” journal entries (Grace’s ex-boyfriend) to Sag Harbor for a musical Monday event. Join us for an evening of original music, re-imagined covers, stories about boys, and bubbles.

Frank Bruni, bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist, comes to The Church to discuss his book The Age of Grievance. Join us as we explore his lucid and powerful examination of the ways in which grievance has come to define our current culture and politics, on both the right and left. Following this exploration there will be an insightful Q&A with the audience. Books will be available for purchase and to be signed.

Mercer Quintet returns to The Church! After a sold-out performance in February, popular demand has called the collaborative modern jazz ensemble to return to Sag Harbor for a summer evening concert of original compositions steeped in musicality, philosophy, and curiosity.

Comprised of Mercer Shavelson (Keyboard), Adam Cordero (Saxophone), Joey Curreri(Trumpet), Nick Panoutsos (Upright Bass), and Alex Yoo (Drums), the quintet takes listeners on a rhythmic journey that invigorates and inspires. Drawing from many influences including Hip-hop, Avant-garde Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, and Folk music from around the globe, Mercer Quintet invites audiences to enjoy newly developed pieces and contemplate the next generation of rising jazz stars.

New sessions of Open Studio – Monotype Printmaking are here! In response to increased popularity and demand, we are excited to announce that there are now 2 different levels for the program: INTRO and ADVANCED. This is an ADVANCED session for participants who have taken attended a minimum of TWO Open Studio – Monotype Printmaking sessions at The Church.