The Church is holding its second annual International Women’s Day Shout Out and Dance Party on Saturday evening from 6 to 9, taking the occasion to celebrate inspiring women from the East End community.
This year’s honorees are Bonnie Cannon, the executive director of Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center; Cindy Capalbo, founder and organizer of Sag Harbor Helpers; Elizabeth Cataletto, an art teacher at Pierson High School; Pamela Greinke, founder and executive director of Hope and Resilience Long Island; Meghan McGinley Arnone, director of education and grants management at the Sag Harbor Cinema, and Elka Rifkin, co-founder of ACCESSforALL.
Each honoree will pay it forward by shouting out her own celebrants, according to The Church, which called it “the gift that keeps on giving.”
As for the dance party, D.J. Henry Eau will spin old and new dance favorites, and specialty cocktails will be available from a cash bar.
In addition to her stewardship of the recreational center, Ms. Cannon was the first African-American woman elected to the Southampton Village Board of Trustees. The co-founder of the Southampton African American Museum, at present she is commissioner of the Suffolk County Human Rights Commission and chairwoman of the Town of Southampton Housing Authority.
Ms. Capalbo. a Sag Harbor native, founded Sag Harbor Helpers during the earliest days of the Covid pandemic after recognizing the vulnerability of many isolated elderly residents. Today the entity supports approximately 15 residents each week and more than 50 individuals and families during the holiday season throughout the Sag Harbor community. She is also a member of the executive board of the village’s chamber of commerce.
Ms. Cataletto, an artist and educator, was born and raised in Sag Harbor, where her lifelong connection to the South Fork continues to shape her creative practice and teaching philosophy. For the past 16 years she has taught visual arts and photography at Pierson, where she encourages students to think critically, take risks, and develop a strong artistic voice.
Hope and Resilience Long Island is dedicated to supporting survivors of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking on the East End. Ms. Greinke established it four years ago when she recognized a critical gap in services, following a pandemic-related population surge and a concurrent increase in reported incidents of violence and exploitation.
Ms. Arnone managed the Forgetting to Remember Project, a $200,000 grant that brought together Sag Harbor Cinema and the Plain Sight Project, whose mission is to identify enslaved persons and free Blacks from the 1600s to the mid-19th century. At the cinema, she continues to lead grant management, securing and overseeing critical funding from private foundations as well as from county, state, and federal sources.
Ms. Rifkin was the director of the Watermill Center for nine years. In 2024, she and two former colleagues, Ava Locks and Brian O’Mahoney, formed ACCESSforALL, a team of experienced disability professionals offering business development insights and staff training solutions that generate and refine new approaches to accessible and inclusive services.
Tickets to the event are $25, $20 for members.
Reflections in Music, a nonprofit led by Bruce Wolosoff, whose goal is to make classical music accessible to new audiences, will take Clarice Jensen, a cellist and composer, to the Sag Harbor venue on Sunday afternoon at 3.
Known for performing on cello with effect pedals, Ms. Jensen will perform music from “In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness,” her fourth and most recent full-length album. Its title, which Ms. Jensen considers a metaphor for the creative process, is a quotation from Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet.”
Of the album, Tom Huizenga of NPR Music said, “With this album, Jensen reminds us how past and present can combine in potent, emotionally charged ways — how Bach’s old-school traditions and our new age of electronics can make arresting bedfellows.”
Ms. Jensen’s music has been described as “heavily processed, incredibly powerful neo-classical pieces that seem to come straight from another astral plane,” and as “a kaleidoscope of pulsing movement rich in acoustic beating and charged with other psychoacoustic effects, constantly shifting in density and viscous timbre.”
She has collaborated with many notable artists, among them Max Richter, Björk, Stars of the Lid, Dustin O’Halloran, Nico Muhly, Taylor Swift, Michael Stipe, the National, My Chemical Romance, and many others. In her role as the artistic director of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, she has performed works of modern classical music by Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and Gavin Bryars.
Tickets are $30. Attendees can take a yoga mat, a pillow, or a blanket in order to enjoy the concert in a “sound bath style.” Chairs will be available on request.
