Arts

Hamptons Art Network presentation and jazz concert at The Church, comedy at the Southampton Cultural Center, roundtable gardening discussion in Bridgehampton.

South Fork cultural organizations are celebrating Black History Month with a variety of cultural programs, ranging from multimedia presentations about Black comedians and Sidney Poitier to a benefit performance by That Motown Band, jazz concerts, an Afrofuturism art exhibition, and more.

Gerald Brann and Yellow Brick Road, an Elton John tribute band, and three female comedians "of a certain age" will be at the Suffolk Theater in Riverhead.

The multipart exhibition “Artists Choose Parrish,” for which 41 contemporary artists selected work from the museum’s collection to pair with their own, yielded a plethora of fascinating juxtapositions across styles, mediums, and decades.

Scott Bluedorn on Brooks and Park at Leiber Collection, window installation at Duck Creek, Ryan Wallace in Chelsea, group show at Kathryn Markel, talk on Dennis Oppenheim at the Parrish, Eric Firestone and Onna House in Florida.

Bay Street Theater will host a rockabilly dance party with Gene Casey and the Lone Sharks, and launch three new classes.

A freestyle street/club dance jam will happen at The Church, featuring hip-hop, funk, soul, popping, locking, breaking, and other dance styles, with dance party breaks between performances.

While managing a law office for more than 40 years, Joan Lyons has pursued a second career as an actor and director, leading up to her direction of a staged reading of “The Glass Menagerie” at the Southampton Arts Center.

“Can Music Heal?” discussion brings a composer-conductor to Sag Harbor, Guild Hall announces Academy of the Arts nominees, the Masonic Temple hosts the Roses Grove Band and the Jam Session, and R&B and rock are coming to Riverhead.

Printmaking programs at The Church, winter critiques at the D’Amico Studio, a multimedia workshop at Guild Hall, Donald Sultan talks at the Parrish, art initiatives at the Springs Library, a solo show for Elizabeth Hazan, and art talks in Chelsea.

A simulcast of Bizet’s “Carmen” is coming to Bay Street Theater from the Metropolitan Opera, and Mike Birbiglia will return with two shows this summer.

Sissy Sakvarlishvili, who left the country of Georgia after the Russian invasion and came to the U.S. in 2013, will host a program of Georgian national dances and culture at LTV Studios in conjunction with the Pesvebi Georgian Cultural Center.