Tickets are now on sale for Summer Dinner Theater, the Sag Harbor Church’s annual benefit, which will feature an evening of stories and songs by Laurie Anderson on June 7. Catered by Sen restaurant, the evening will begin with cocktails at 5:30, followed by dinner and remarks at 6:30, with the performance at 8.
Main-floor tickets are $850 per person, $6,800 for a table of eight; mezzanine tickets are $650, $1,300 for a table for two. The event is likely to sell out well in advance.
Meanwhile, Tohanash Tarrant, a Shinnecock artist, will lead a workshop there devoted to the basics of beading, on Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Ms. Tarrant will guide participants through the steps of designing and fabricating a beaded necklace of their own. She will also present examples of her own designs, illuminating her process.
Ms. Tarrant is the founder of Thunderbird Designs, a sustainable business whose masks, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, and other designs are sold at farmers markets, powwows, and other seasonal events. Tickets are $45, $40 for members of The Church, and include all necessary materials, which can be taken home after the workshop.
In connection with the venue’s current exhibition, “Eternal Testament,” David Bunn Martine, a visual artist and curator of the Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center Museum, is up next in the Insight Sunday series, on Sunday at noon.
Inspired in part by history and reimagined perspectives, Mr. Martine’s work explores the spiritual strength and vibrancy of historical figures while stylistically staying within the realm of realism. He will discuss his process and his purpose in selecting historical scenes to portray.
His painting in the exhibition, a playful nod to Grant Wood’s “American Gothic,” according to The Church, depicts Chief David (King) Pharaoh and Queen Maria Pharaoh in the 1860s, at Indian Fields in Montauk.
In 1910, the entire Montaukett tribe was declared extinct in a Suffolk County courtroom, with 150 tribal members present at the decision. The image of the Pharaohs, looking directly at the viewer in front of their ancestral home, embodies the tribe’s determination to establish recognition from New York State for their descendants, which continues to be denied.
Mr. Martine is of Shinnecock, Montaukett, and Nednai-Chiricahua Apache lineage on his mother’s side and Hungarian descent on his father’s. The recipient of a Joan Mitchell Award in painting and an Andy Warhol Research Fellowship, he received a B.F.A. in art at the University of Oklahoma, attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M., and earned an M.A. in art education at the University of Central Oklahoma. He is the author of “No Reservation: New York Contemporary Native American Art Movement” (2017), which documents Native art practices in the city.
Tickets are $10, free for members who R.S.V.P.
