Inda Eaton, a singer-songwriter who blends country, rock, folk, and pop into her Americana sound, will be first up in an event-filled five days at The Church on Friday at 6 p.m.
The evening will feature music and stories of experience, resilience, and hope, with a dash of humor, according to the Sag Harbor cultural venue. Ms. Eaton has performed on stages around the world, and her latest project, “IndAmerica,” continues her commitment to music as a bridge to unity and connection.
She has opened for John Hiatt, Blues Traveler, Hootie and the Blowfish, and LeAnn Rimes, and her albums “Shelter in Place” and “Go West” have earned critical acclaim.
Tickets are $35, $30 for members.
The fifth annual Celebrating Creatives of Color, a combination of readings, an art show and sale, and book signings, will return to The Church on Saturday from 11 to 5, showcasing artists and writers of color from Sag Harbor and beyond. Proceeds from the sale of books and artwork will help support the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center and The Church.
The morning will begin with a program of readings by writers including Harriet Cole, Don Lemon, Wendy Mills, Victoria Christopher Murray, Suzan Johnson Cook, and Jennifer Morgan. Sunny Hostin will host. Books will be available for purchase and signing after the reading.
Participating visual artists include Judy Henriques-Adams, Akili Buchanan, Daevon Byron, Andrew Canyen, Jeremy Dennis, Faith Evans, Beverly Granger, Garry Grant, Paloma Hostin, Jennifer Ivey, Rod Ivey, Michael Jelks, Paula Nailor, John Pinderhughes, Victoria Pinderhughes, Olney Marie Ryland, Shawn Rhea, Ernani Silva, Sharon Van Liempt, and Sheniqua (Shea) Young.
Celebrating Creatives of Color, which is free and does not require reservations, has been organized by Ms. Granger, Gwendolyn Hankin, Ms. Pinderhughes, Paula Taylor, and Olivia White, residents of the Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, and Ninevah communities.
“Noah’s Daughters: Soft Bodies in Hard Times,” the first choreographed dance performance ever commissioned by The Church, will happen on Sunday afternoon at 4.
Claudia Hilda, an award-winning dancer and choreographer, will be joined by Danny Quintana, a dancer, for a performance created in response to “The Ark,” the arts center’s current exhibition of animal sculptures by over 40 international artists. The set design is by Eleanore Jeffreys and music is by Alex Koi.
Ms. Hilda is a Cuban-born, New York-based movement director working across performance, choreography, and visual art. Through gestural compositions and visual storytelling, she explores identity, ancestry, and feminism from a cross-cultural, diasporic perspective. In February she premiered “Realismo Mágico” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Ms. Quintana is a Cuban professional dancer specializing in contemporary, modern, ballet, and Afro-Cuban dance techniques. Known for her strong dynamics and interpretive versatility onstage, she has performed at the Joyce Theater and New York City Center in this country and Barbican Hall in London and the Garnier opera in Monaco.
Ms. Jeffreys’s recent introduction to the world of performance has ignited a passion for designing immersive temporary experiences. Ms. Koi is a vocalist, composer-producer, and improvising musician whose influences include jazz, the avant-garde, rock, and electronic music.
Tickets are $25, $20 for members.
Who wouldn’t like to feel invincible? Josh Pais, an actor, teacher, and creator of Committed Impulse, will bring “An Evening of Creative Invincibility” to The Church on Tuesday from 7 to 9:30.
“Creative invincibility” is Mr. Pais’s term for a state where fear, self-doubt, or overthinking disappear. Under his guidance, audience members will move, breathe, and play as they discard any layers of resistance holding them back. Committed Impulse training, born from his own acting process, has helped entrepreneurs, artists, doctors, lawyers, public speakers, and others.
Participants have been asked to bring water, wear comfortable clothing to move in, and “be ready to laugh, feel, and wake up new parts of themselves.”
Tickets are $95.
