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The Watermill Center showed off an eclectic installment on Saturday night at the center’s annual benefit and auction, an "enchanted forest and performance art extravaganza" that featured works by more than 30 international artists. This year’s event was titled Tabula Rasa, or “clean slate,” a theme centered on evoking a mind-set absent of preconceived ideas. Robert Wilson, the founder and artistic director of the institute, was the mind behind the dynamic presentation. Photographs by Doug Kuntz

The nonprofit East End Birth Network has launched two new birth circles. Grupo de Nacimiento, a collaboration with the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton, where it met for the first time on July 11, is a monthly support group for parents and the first Spanish-speaking Birth Circle on Long Island.

Some museum galleries downplay local artists, but not Guild Hall in East Hampton. Now in its 73rd year, its Clothesline Art Sale will host the work of 400 artists — most of them residents of the East End — on Saturday. Open with free admission from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., visitors can purchase paintings, drawings, collage, and small sculptures as well as jewelry and furniture in a Makers Market, in the Cheryl and Michael Minikes Garden.

Sunshine is in the weather forecast for Saturday, just in time for the annual Ladies Village Improvement Society fair. Always held on the last Saturday in July, 2019 marks the L.V.I.S.’s 123rd year putting on the fair. It happens from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 95 Main Street in East Hampton Village.

Concerned Citizens of Montauk has warned people to avoid contact with the water in Fort Pond after samples taken at two sites on the pond earlier this week showed a certified harmful blue-green algal bloom, which can post a threat to human and animal health.

Due to heavy rainfall, the Suffolk County Department of Health Services has warned against bathing at Havens Beach in Sag Harbor based on the potential of high bacteria levels that exceed New York standards.

Tickets have gone on sale for the 15th annual East Hampton Library Authors Night on Aug. 10 starting at 5 p.m. under a tent in Amagansett.

The Bridgehampton Carnival, which raises money for affordable housing in the Town of Southampton, starts Friday — it was supposed to begin on Thursday, but rain seems to have delayed the opening — and runs through Sunday, returning from July 24 through July 27.

In its latest round of water testing results for the week of July 15, Concerned Citizens of Montauk identified East Creek at the south end of Lake Montauk as an area of serious concern. Water sampled there showed the highest levels of the bacteria enterococcus of any of the more than two dozen sites monitored by C.C.O.M.

Following reports that the Trump's administration was planning raids across the country to arrest undocumented immigrants, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's Office for New Americans offered tips earlier this week on what to do if federal immigration enforcement authorities arrive at people's homes or workplaces or approach them in public.

David M. Alpern, a reporter and senior editor at Newsweek magazine for 40 years, will play excerpts from his long tenure as a "Newsweek on Air" radio interviewer on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton.

In solidarity with marches held across the country on Friday to support immigrant families and those seeking asylum at the border, local activists will gather in Sag Harbor on Sunday for the second annual East End Walk for Interdependence.

The Clamshell Foundation’s Great Bonac Fireworks Show will be set off over Three Mile Harbor at 9 on Saturday. 

Good spots to watch the show include the head of the harbor, Maidstone Park beach, Sammy’s Beach, Gann Road, or beaches on the west side of the harbor. Boaters head into the harbor early for a good viewing spot. 

The rain date is Sunday.

For those interested in learning what home schooling entails, an informational session called Homeschooling 101 will take place at the East Hampton Library on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. 

Teresa Loos, who leads Homeschooling 101 classes at libraries across Long Island, will give an introduction to the rules and regulations, paperwork, samples of learning materials and transcripts, programs, and resources. 

The earliest morning ferries operated by Shelter Island's North Ferry Company are departing even earlier now in a change that was made with commuters in mind, the general manager of the business said Friday.

The first boat now departs at 5 a.m., followed by a second at 5:30 a.m., according to the new schedule. Previously, the earliest ferry departure was 5:10 a.m. on Mondays during the summer and immediately following holidays, and 5:40 a.m. on weekdays otherwise.

All of Three Mile Harbor, including its inlet and tributaries, will be closed to shellfishing from sunrise on Saturday through July 17 out of concern for public health related to the Clamshell Foundation's annual Great Bonac fireworks show, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's Division of Marine Resources announced Monday.

The annual St. Luke’s Fair, featuring activities for all age groups, will take place on Saturday from 10 to 4 p.m. on the grounds of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church at 18 James Lane in East Hampton. There will be face painting, a clam bar, a bouncy castle, shopping, food and drinks, wildlife exhibitions, a silent auction, and more.

Tony Garro of the Southampton Trails Preservation Society will lead a tour of the Beebe Windmill off Ocean Road on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Also on Saturday, the Bridgehampton Museum’s Corwith House on Main Street will be open from 10 to 2 to show off its summer exhibition, “Building a History: The Preservation of the Nathaniel Rogers House,” which chronicles the various owners of the 19th-century Greek Revival mansion on the corner of Ocean Road and Montauk Highway.

While many fitness and yoga studios will be closed for the holiday today, Jamie Lerner Fitness and Dance will be open at two locations. The Core Plus class will meet at the Body Shop at 26 Newtown Lane in East Hampton at 8:30 a.m., and Core Plus: Fit for Practice will take place at the Springs Presbyterian Church at 4:30 p.m.

Each class is one hour, and the cost is $25 at the Body Shop, $20 at the church.

The Town of East Hampton's chief fire marshal, Buzzy Browne, this week reminded residents and visitors that a new town regulation governing beach fires requires such fires to be built in metal containers rather than dug in pits in the sand.

Concerned Citizens of Montauk released its latest round of water testing results on Thursday, indicating potentially harmful levels of the bacteria enterococcus in many of the water bodies that the group monitors, even before the heavy rains that followed the June 24 sampling.

Fireworks season on the South Fork will be in full swing starting on Wednesday, and displays will continue to light up the skies this summer.

The public has been invited to see the the New York Mutual Base Ball Club play the Brooklyn Atlantics in an exhibition game in Herrick Park on Saturday.

Five of the nine East Hampton Town bodies of water that last week showed elevated bacteria counts remained high in samples taken this week by Concerned Citizens of Montauk. Two beaches in Southampton Town, meanwhile, came up with red flags this week in testing conducted by the Surfrider Foundation.

Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman, the founders of Yoga Shanti in Sag Harbor, will be honored at Fighting Chance’s summer party at the Wesnofske family barn on Scuttlehole Road in Bridgehampton on Saturday. They will receive a medal of honor for 2019 for Yoga Shanti’s 10 years of partnership with the free cancer counseling center, which is based in Sag Harbor and serves the East End. The studio offers a free twice-a-week yoga class for those entering long-term cancer remission.

The South Fork Natural History Museum is making a fuss about plastics.

On Saturday, SoFo will host Judith S. Weis, professor emerita of biological sciences at Rutgers University, for a talk and question-and-answer session on the international plastics crisis, how it affects the food chain, and what can be done to stem the impact.

The Southampton Town Police Department has joined more social media platforms in an attempt to further reach the community.

At the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton at 7 p.m., with the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons and housing authority officials from both towns.

The Center for Jewish Life in Sag Harbor has announced a number of courses to be offered as part of its annual summer education program for adults and teens.