In conjunction with its current exhibition "What's So Funny? Women and Humor," The Church will host a panel discussion on comedy on Saturday afternoon at 3.
Organized in collaboration with the Sticks and Stones Comedy Club, the panel will include Kestrin Pantera, a film writer and director; Nancy Parker, one of the first female stand-up comedians, and Caroline Waxler, a writer and producer. Abby Russell, a television producer and a founder of Sticks and Stones, will moderate.
What is humor? Who gets to determine what's funny? Where do female comedians find themselves in the comedy world? Is it harder to be a comedian today? These and other questions will engage the panelists, who will take questions after their discussion.
Tickets are $15, $10 for members.
The venue will turn from humor to writing, starting Sunday morning at 10:30 with a reading by David Grundy and Hugh Ryan, both now in residence at The Church.
A poet and scholar, Mr. Grundy is the author of "A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets," while Mr. Ryan is a curator whose books include "The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison." After discussing their inspirations, Mr. Grundy will read from his poetry in progress, and Mr. Ryan will read from his memoir-in-essays currently underway.
Tickets are $10, free for members who R.S.V.P.
A second literary program, "Writing From Art: Poetry, Prose, and the Lyric Essay" a two-session workshop with Star Black, a Sag Harbor poet, photographer, and visual artist, is sold out.
For Living Lovers, an acoustic duo of Brandon Ross, a guitarist and composer, and Stomu Takeishi, an acoustic bass guitarist, will bring their music to The Church next Thursday at 7 p.m.
Based primarily in New York City, the duo has gained international recognition performing in Japan, the United States, and Europe. They have played in multiple editions of the New York Guitar Festival, in the Noguchi Museum Concert Series, and in the Viljandi International Guitar Festival in Estonia, among others.
Of their post-fusion contemporary music, Brad Farberman of Jazz Times magazine said, ". . . For Living Lovers is an intimate project. The conversations are quiet and deep. Not everything is said out loud, and there is mystery present; often when you think you’ve got a hold on the music, it slips away from you. . . ."
Tickets are $30, $25 for members, $15 for those 18 and under.
