Community News, July 7

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On Thursday, July 7, at 2 p.m., Chris Paparo of Fish Guy Photos will be at the Montauk Point Lighthouse for a talk titled “More Than Stripers — New York’s Other Marine Fish.” Learn about the many fascinating fish that inhabit the marine waters of New York State. Paparo is also manager of the Stony Brook University Marine Sciences Center at Southampton. The lecture is free with paid admission to the Lighthouse.

A Craft Fair is set for Saturday, July 9, and Sunday, July 10, on the grounds of Second House, featuring handmade items from crafters, artists and artisans, including jewelry, textiles, photos, home décor, and more. Plus there will be live music and a bake sale. Fair hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

Luis Ernesto Medina Faull, a Ph.D. student, will share what the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University is doing to tackle microplastic pollution in a program titled “From the Arctic to the Antarctic: Microplastics are Pervasive in the Ocean” set for Thursday, July 14, at 2 p.m. at the Montauk Point Lighthouse. These abundant micro-sized particles (diameters range from less than 0.001 to 5 mm) are either derived from the breakdown of larger plastic items or are intentionally manufactured (e.g., cosmetic microbeads, industrial pellets). Once they enter the ocean through rivers, sewage discharge, and surface runoff, microplastics move vertically and laterally along the coast and circulate into the open ocean. Oceanic microplastics then bind toxic chemicals and enter the food chain. They are also unintentionally included in fundamental studies of movement, chemical transformation, and storage of natural carbon in the ocean, all of which are huge concerns in the climate change community. This lecture is free with paid admission to the lighthouse.

To register for programs offered by the Montauk Historical Society, go to montaukhistoricalsociety.org.

The Montauk Library’s Classic Book Club will meet on Thursday, July 14, at 4 p.m. via Zoom. Up for discussion is “The Dream of the Red Chamber,” also known as “The Story of the Stone.”

For more information, go to montauklibrary.org.

Volunteers, as well as non-perishable food and monetary donations, are needed to help keep Montauk’s Little Free Food Pantry — located at the Montauk School — up and running, and stocked for those in need.

To help, contact Kate Mueth at npcowgirls@gmail.com.

After designing displays for international outposts of Hermès, Nike, and Loewe, Taiwanese artist Cheng Tsung Feng’s first American commission, Fish Trap VI, is coming to LongHouse Reserve.

According to a press release, the human-scale bamboo pavilion synthesizes the essence of Feng’s local fishing community. The piece was built in Taipei, deconstructed, shipped, and will be reconstructed at LongHouse on Wednesday, July 13, and Thursday, July 14; visitors are welcome to see the process. Inspired by a trip to the East End last fall, Feng’s sculptural pavilion is partly fabricated with LongHouse-grown bamboo. The artist studied traditional bamboo techniques, including learning to make traditional fish traps with the Thao tribe at Sun Moon Lake, before engaging them for his own designs.

On Wednesday, July 13. at 10 a.m. Feng will lead a bamboo workshop inviting the local arts community to build miniature fish traps, weaving by hand and encouraging them to add their own personal designs.

Tickets are $35; $25 for members, and available at longhouse.org.

The East Hampton Historical Society has announced the return of the East Hampton Antiques & Design Show on the grounds of Mulford Farm, Saturday and Sunday, July 16 and 17. The event also marks the celebration of the Society’s 100th anniversary and will open with a VIP preview cocktail party on Friday, July 15.

Admission to the Antiques & Design Show costs $15 for the general public on Saturday and Sunday. Show hours are Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Mattitaco Food Truck will provide a food concession during the show.

Tickets for the Friday night VIP Preview Cocktail Party start at $175 per person and include return visits over the weekend. For tickets, call the East Hampton Historical Society at 631-324-6850, ext. 1, or email info@easthamptonhistory.org. Tickets may also be purchased online at easthamptonhistory.org.

The second annual Lecture & Luncheon Fundraiser at Maidstone Club to support the new Stony Brook Medicine East Hampton Emergency Department, due to open late 2023, is set for Thursday, July 14.

Hosted by the Southampton Hospital Foundation, this year’s guest speaker is Melissa Biggs Bradley, the founder and CEO of the travel company, Indagare, which specializes in “curating memorable journeys.” Bradley will be discussing her book, “Safari Style: Exceptional Camps and Lodges,” which “unveils Africa’s new generation of camps and lodges in a lavish volume of spectacular photographs capturing astonishing settings,” according to promotional materials. A summer lunch and book signing follows.

The East Hampton Emergency Department will operate under the Stony Brook Medicine health care system, which includes Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, and Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital.

It will provide essential services to the East Hampton communities and will join The Phillips Family Cancer Center, which opened in 2019, in delivering on Stony Brook’s promise of offering world-class clinical care and treatments to all those on the East End.

To purchase individual tickets at $500 or a table of 10 for $5,000 or $10,000, email Alexa.schultheis@stonybrookmedicine.edu or call 631-726-8700, ext 3.

The Hamptons International Film Festival’s summer outdoor movie series continues on Wednesday, July 13, with “Raiders of the Lost Ark” on the “big screen” in Herrick Park. Films will screen every Wednesday through August 17. General admission is free, but reservations for VIP squares are available for purchase at hamptonsfilm.org.

The Jewish Center of the Hamptons will present the East End premiere of “A Father’s Kaddish” on Thursday, July 14, at 7 p.m., followed by a post-film discussion with Steven Branfman, the subject of the film, and Jen Kaplan, director.

Tickets are $20 for members and $25 for nonmembers and may be purchased at jcoh.org/kaddish.

Marders in Bridgehampton is offering tours of the Folly Tree Arboretum in East Hampton on Saturday and Sunday, July 9 and 10, with two tours offered each day, 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.

The Arboretum is a cultural archive of trees dedicated to ecological storytelling. Founded by Tucker Marder in 2013, according to a press release, the foundation works to promote an exuberant environmental ethic through art and science. Trees in the collection include a sycamore that went to the moon on Apollo 14, a tree whose fruits have become evolutionarily useless and an oak tree that owns itself.

The cost is $18 per person and a space may be reserved by calling 631-537-3700.

The fifth annual Hamptons Artists for Haiti benefit will take place in three hangars at East Hampton Airport on Saturday, July 16, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. The event, featuring Lynn Blue Band, an open bar and catered food, will raise funds to build schools and feed Haitian students. Art by 30 local artists will be on the auction block.

For tickets, go to wingsoverhaiti.net.

Wake Smith, author of “Pandora’s Toolbox,” will lead a discussion focusing on reaching zero net emissions on Thursday, July 7, at 6 p.m.

Authors Iris Smyles and Frederic Tuten will be featured in a program called “Love and Other Sorrows” on Tuesday, July 12, at 6 p.m. Both recently had books published: Smyles is the author of “Droll Tales” and Tuten of “The Bar At Twilight.”

To register, email info@easthamptonlibrary.org.

Eastville Community Historical Society has announced the annual Fourth of July Art show featuring the Superposition Gallery’s “RESILIENCE,” curated by Storm Ascher at Heritage House, which opened July 4 and will run through September 30.

“We are honored to have our Legacy Supporter bring this exhibition to our site, the benefit art show will enhance collections and further programming for our museum,” noted Robin Brown, president of the Eastville Community Historical Society, in a press release. “With the support of this collaboration and our connection through the arts, we seek to enhance historic significance with a preservation point of view.”

The group exhibition captures our collective history, our survival, and long tradition of artists and creatives living in Sag Harbor.

Superposition is hosting a benefit sale exhibition of framed prints, drawings, and paintings to raise funds for the museum’s archival research initiative documenting Black and Indigenous history in the Hamptons and building the museum’s contemporary collection of artists and scholars who are reclaiming the Hamptons in this new era. Superposition Gallery has been a Legacy Supporter of Eastville and SANS since 2020. In addition to the exhibition inside the Eastville Museum, Superposition is funding public installations throughout the preserved museum grounds of the St. David AME Zion Church and Cemetery.

For more information, visit eastvillehistorical.org.

Ursula Burns, the first black woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company, will be the featured speaker in the next installment of the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center’s Thinking Forward Lecture Series on Friday, July 22, at 4 p.m. at The Church, 48 Madison Street. The titled of her talk is “From the Tenements to the C-suite.”

Burns is the founding partner of Integrum Holdings, current Chairman of Teneo Holdings LLC and retired chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation and VEON, Ltd. She is also the author of “Where You Are Is Not Who You Are,” published in Jun 2021. The moderator will be long-time BHCCRC Advisory Board Member Ken Miller, a former senior advisor at Teneo.

Reservations may be made at thechurchsagharbor.org. Space is limited.

The Church will be among the locations for Hamptons Jazz Fest, hosting seven concerts this summer.

A full schedule of the concerts and the participating musicians may be found at thechurchsagharbor.org. Tickets are $20 and free for those ages 15 and under.

The Sag Harbor Masonic Club’s Tuesday Jam Session continues this week from 7 to 9 p.m., in the Masonic Temple, located at 200 Main Street, above the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum, with plenty of parking in the rear of the building.

For more information and tickets, visit masonicmusicseries.com.

“The History of Mashashimuet Park” will open with a reception on Sunday, July 10, at 5 p.m. at the Sag Harbor Historical Society Museum at the Annie Cooper Boyd House on Main Street in the village.

Mashashimuet Park is not only a centerpiece in Sag Harbor, but has also served as a meeting place for community, school and family events for generations, according to a press release. In 1908, Sag Harbor benefactress Olivia Solocum Sage, also known as Mrs. Russell Sage, began the process to create the park, which was later named “Mashashimuet” — Algonquin for “Place of the Great Springs” — by William Wallace Tooker.

Throughout the month of July, the Old Whalers’ Church will offer some interesting programs. Every Thursday, starting at 5 p.m., is family time with “Soulful Songs & Stories” in the chapel, and then at 6:15 p.m. kids in grades four through six can learn how to play the ukulele. On Sunday, July 10, at 9 a.m. take a tour of the church and see how its organ works up close. Finally, the HooDoo Loungers will perform at a “Paint the Church Fundraiser” on Friday, July 29, at 7 p.m.

The church is located at 44 Union Street. Go to oldwhalerschurch.org for more information.

A reminder to students who have an interest in science, check out the Field Science and DNA Camp — offered by the Shelter Island School District and the Nature Conservancy — from Monday, July 18, through Friday, July 29.

Any student in Suffolk County, entering eighth through 12th grade, can explore what it’s like to solve scientific mysteries by working both outdoors and in a lab, examining natural habitats and collecting plant and insect samples.

Students will then identify samples at the Shelter Island School biology lab using state-of-the-art DNA techniques, including DNA extraction, purification, amplification and sequencing. Results will then be shared with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Barcode Long Island database, which tracks biodiversity on and around Long Island.

No experience is necessary for this hands-on program, which allows high schoolers to contribute to ongoing conservation science research. Traditionally underrepresented students are strongly encouraged to apply.

The program, held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily, is free, as is the ferry ride to get there. For more information, email dan.williams@shelterisland.k12.ny.us.

Want to learn more about electric vehicles? Then join the conversation on the topic at LTV Studios on Monday, July 11, at 4 p.m. To register, go to energizeeh.org.

At a tent sale to support Ukraine relief held on June 25 at St. Ann’s Church raised almost $49,000 to help Ukrainian refugees. The money will go directly to Episcopal Relief and Development workers on the ground at the Polish border where Ukrainian women and children fleeing war arrive daily.

For the sale, St. Ann’s invited shoppers into its tent to peruse a large assortment of donated furniture, art, decor, antiques, tableware, clothing, plants, toys, and homemade gourmet selections. Face painting and temporary tattoos were also on offer for youngsters and the young at heart. Despite a planned closing time of 2 p.m., demand continued high until early evening, and the sale went on.

The event’s success is attributed to help from hard working St. Ann’s volunteers, motivated shoppers and two parishioners who each offered to match the sale’s proceeds.

Note, the next special event at St. Ann’s will be its Jazz Mass at 10 A.M. on Sunday, July 17. All are welcome.

The Peconic Land Trust and Slow Food East End are partnering for an event on Tuesday, July 12, at Bridge Gardens that will include a guided garden tour of the property’s edible landscape. Wine will be served.

To purchase tickets, email events@peconiclandtrust.org or call 631-283-3195.

Holiday House will present the second annual Holiday House Hamptons “Coming Together” Tabletop Event on Wednesday, July 20, from 5 to 9 p.m. at Topping Rose House, 1 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike in Bridgehampton. The event, which was founded by breast cancer survivor Iris Dankner, will feature 15 leading designers including ABC Carpet & Home, Ashley Stark Home, Sage & Madison, and Unlimited Earth Care by Frederico Azevedo, among others. Guests can peruse the chic tabletops while they enjoy cocktails by Tito’s Vodka, wine by Whispering Angel and hors d’oeuvres by Topping Rose House.

Proceeds from the event will benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Tickets are $250 and may be purchased at holidayhousehamptons.com.

In response to worsening conditions on the ground in Ukraine and Hungary, No Dogs Left Behind will host a fundraiser on Friday, July 14, from 5 to 7 p.m. at St. Ann’s Episcopal Church. Proceeds will support rescue efforts in the war-torn region.

Tickets are $100 and all proceeds will benefit the rescue and transport of dogs, as well as providing medical care, food, and a safe haven as they await being matched with families.

St. Ann’s is located at 2463 Main Street. To buy tickets, visit bit.ly/NDLBHAMPTONSTICKETS.

Mark your calendar for the Jazz Soul Celebration to benefit the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center, featuring an Earth, Wine & Fire Tribute Band and jazz by the John Ludlow Duo, on Saturday, July 30, under a tent at a private home on Halsey Lane.

For tickets and details, go to www.bhccrc.org

The Silas Marder Gallery will screen Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” on Friday, July 8, at 9 p.m. on the Haywall. Admission is free, but bring a beach chair or blanket.

The Parrish Art Museum will host its Midsummer Dance Party on Friday, July 8, from 8 to 11 p.m. Also at the museum, the Summer Jazz on the Terrace series with a live performance by Jacques Schwarz-Bart and his Afro-Caribbean Futuristic Jazz Quintet continues on Friday, July 15, at 6 p.m. as part of Hamptons Jazz Fest.

Good Ground Artists will open a new show on Thursday, July 7, at the Water Mill Museum, where it will remain on view through July 24. A reception will be held on Saturday, July 9, from 4 to 6 p.m. Member artists live across Long Island, though the group is based in Hampton Bays.

The Southampton Village Volunteer Ambulance invites the public to a family-friendly open house on Saturday, July 9, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will feature tours of the new building, EMS demonstrations, food and refreshments at the headquarters, located at 165 Windmill Lane.

For more information, call 631-287-0558 or visit villageems.org.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, the Peconic BayKeeper is presenting the Wild & Scenic Film Festival, at the Southampton Arts Center on Sunday, July 10, at 6:30 p.m.

For details, go to peconicbaykeeper.org.

Mark your calendar for the Hamptons Greek Festival, set for July 14 to 17, at the Dormition of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church, 111 St. Andrews Road. Festival hours are Thursday through Saturday from 4 to 11 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 9 p.m. Festival-goers will find traditional homemade Greek food and pastries, dancing to Greek music, entertainment and more.

For details, go to dormitionhamptons.org.

Learn about local species and habitats while creating marine-themed art at ARTSEA to benefit the Cornell Cooperative Extension on Thursday, July 14, at 6:30 p.m. at the Southampton Arts Center, 25 Jobs Lane in Southampton Village.

To register or for more information, go to backtothebays.org.

The Southampton Chamber of Commerce will host a Bastille Day networking event at the Hamptons Virtual Office, 53 Hill Street, from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 14. Food and wine will be served. Bring a business card.

RSVP by emailing info@Southamptonchamber.com, or call 631-283-8707.

Learn how to play the game of American Mah Jongg on Thursday, July 14, at 1:30 p.m. at the Southampton Arts Center.

Go to southamptonartscenter.org to register.

Southampton Town Police Department will run a week-long Youth Academy, starting July 18 at the Westhampton Middle School, to introduce young people to the rigorous training that police officers experience during their six months at the police academy.

The program, held daily from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., will focus on laws that govern police, investigations, crime scenes, defensive tactics and more, and cover specialized units, including emergency service, K9, and technology used by police.

The academy will culminate on July 22 and extend to a 5 p.m. commencement ceremony. To apply, contact Lt. Susan Ralph at ralph@southamptontownny.gov. Applications, which will be emailed or mailed upon request, are due Friday, July 8.

The Southampton History Museum is offering a chance to learn more about landmark Basilica Parish Of Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary on Sunday, July 10, at 2 p.m. Built in 1908 of granite and marble in the Gothic Revival-style, it is a Minor Basilica of the Catholic Church. Its interior holds many marvels, all bathed in the light of stunning stained-glass windows from a studio in Innsbruck, Austria, where mosaic stations of the cross were also crafted. A 400-year-old pulpit is from France and the shamrocks in the arches are testimony to the Irish servants of the time, who would not work in the area if there were no place for Mass.

To reserve, go to southamptonhistory.org.

Hamptons Doc Fest and the Southampton Arts Center will team up for a family-friendly outdoor summer screening of a “Cat Daddies” at the Southampton Arts Center, 25 Jobs Lane, on Sunday, July 17, with the grounds open at 7 p.m., and the film starting at dusk.

The multiple award-winning film directed by Mye Hoang, former executive director of the San Diego Asian Film Festival, is a portrait of eight unique men whose lives have been changed by their love for cats. They include a stunt man, a truck driver, a tech worker, a schoolteacher, an actor/Instagram influencer, a homeless man, and a group of firefighters. A live interview with Hoang will take place after the screening. ARF will also be on site from 7 to 8 p.m. with their adoption van full of kittens and cats and will collect unopened cat food donations for distribution to those in need, each donor receiving a free bag of popcorn. Bring a beach chair or blanket and a picnic for the outdoor screening.

There is also an optional dinner/movie package at Claude’s Restaurant in the Southampton Inn, one block away at 91 Hill Street. Book at southamptoninn.com for the $50 package which includes a three-course dinner and the film, excluding alcohol, tax and tip.

Tickets and information are available at hamptonsdocfest.com and southamptoncenter.org, and may also be purchased in person at SAC at 25 Jobs Lane. Tickets are $15 each, $5 for children under 12; and free for SAC members.

Word game lovers will want to check out Word Game Palooza on Friday, July 8, at 1 p.m. Join others who play Scrabble, Boggle and more.

The Friends of the Rogers Memorial Library will present Swingtime Big Band on Thursday, July 14, at 7 p.m.

Former New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and author of “The Profession” will give a talk on Friday, July 15, at noon. He will discuss his career in law enforcement and the reduction in crime under his tenure as police commissioner in Boston and New York, as well as chief of police in Los Angeles, and share his opinion on the current challenges that policing in America faces — including the rise in crime across the nation, racial inequality and injustice, social and political polarization, immigration, media roles and influence, and terrorism.

For information about library programs or to register, visit myrml.org.

The Good Ground On Stage concert series, hosted by Southampton Town, will continue with Social Gold on Thursday, July 7, at 7 p.m. July 14 brings Conga Cartel.

The library will offer a Do Your Own Thing bus trip to New York City on Wednesdays, July 13 and August 10. The bus will depart from St. Rosalie’s Church parking lot at 9 a.m.

Poetry Rising group will meet at the library on Saturdays, July 9 and August 13, at 1 p.m.

Learn about Long Island’s lighthouses in a photo lecture featuring Eco Photo Explorers on Thursday, July 14, at 7 p.m. Through photography, the lecture will explore the history of interesting lighthouses from Coney Island to Montauk, examining lighthouse architecture, their technology, and the stories that make these vital structures such an integral part of our local history. In addition, the story behind Long Island’s life saving services will also be discussed.

Find more information on library programs by visiting the website at hamptonbayslibrary.org.

Hampton Bays Beautification will hold its monthly meeting on Monday, July 11, at 7 p.m. at the Hampton Bays Library. All are welcome.

A flea market will be held on Saturday and Sunday, July 9 and 10, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days, at Good Ground Antique Center, 52 West Montauk Highway. Multiple vendors will be there with antiques, jewelry, vintage and unique furniture. Live music, too, in the afternoon.

The East Quogue Village Green Summer Concert Series continues on Tuesday, July 12, with Project Vibe playing Reggae. The music starts at 7 p.m. at the hamlet green on Montauk Highway.

The Westhampton Beach Gazebo Concert Series continues with a performance this evening by The North Shore Pops. The free concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. and are held on the Westhampton Beach Village Green, located at the corner of Main Street and Mill Road. The Thursday, July 14 concert will feature Penny Lane Beatles Tribute Band.

The Westhampton Beach Project will bring its fourth annual free two-day event to the Great Lawn in Westhampton Beach on July 29 and 30, starting at 8 p.m. on both nights. The event comprises contemporary dance, music and food from local Long Island restaurants.

For details about the event, go to whbproject.com.

Tweens and teens will use forks and paint to create a puffer-fish work of art on Friday, July 8, at 5:30 p.m.

Movies on the Great Lawn kicks off on Monday, July 11, at 8:23 p.m. with a screening of “Cool Runnings.”

Tweens can learn how to use the library’s 3D printer on Tuesday, July 12, at 4 p.m.

Children are invited to celebrate the ocean with a fun craft on Wednesday, July 13, at 4 p.m.

Create “candy sushi” with other teens and tweens on Friday, July 15, at 5:30 p.m.

For information about library programs, call 631-288-3335 or visit westhamptonlibrary.net.

Local and New York City actors are presenting a free staged reading of P.G. Wodehouse’s comic adaptation of “The Play’s the Thing” at The Remsenburg Academy, 130 South Country Road, on Friday and Saturday, July 8 and 9, at 8 p.m.

To reserve tickets (2 per order), email theplaysthethingacademy@gmail.com.

The Flanders Fire Department and the Flanders Riverside and Northampton Community Association will hold a community blood drive on Saturday, July 9, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Flanders Fire Department, located at 19 Firehouse Lane. All donors will receive a free T-shirt and a chance to win tickets to a Mets game. Hero sandwiches from Meetinghouse Deli will also be served.

To make an appointment, call 1-800-933-2566 or visit nybc.org.

The Alive on 25 series, an evening of summer fun on Main Street, continues on Friday, July 15, at 5 p.m. AO25 is a free, walkable street festival featuring live music on multiple stages, local craft beverages, food trucks, street dining, vendors, local artisans, face painters, stilt walkers, jugglers and activities the whole family can enjoy. The next dates are July 29 and August 12.

The Hamptons Observatory will present a free virtual lecture by one of its advisory board members, Alan Rice, who will speak about the effects of simultaneous strikes by large meteors and what we might learn from them. The event will take place via Zoom on Thursday, July 21, from 7 to 8 p.m.

Registration is required. For more information, visit bit.ly/meteor-talk.

Join a group bike ride on Saturday, July 9. The 20-mile ride will begin at 9 a.m. leaving from Conscience Point Marina and go through North Sea for views of golf courses, a windmill, ponds, bays and farms, and make a stop to meet Will Peckham on his boat for an oyster and wine tasting. Will, who had worked on Wall Street, started West Robins Oyster Company and is now a supplier to Whole Foods.

RSVP by calling 917-747-0885.

On July 9 hike Long Springs starting at 9 a.m. Meet at the trail head opposite 747 Majors Path, in Southampton, just south of the intersection with Edge of Woods Road. The hike will include views of streams, springs and vernal ponds.

The walk leader is Tim Corwin; call 631-204-7821.

Saturday, July 9, kayak from Towd Point to Alewive Creek and Fish Cove starting at 10 a.m. Put in on Towd Point Road; parking is on the left-hand side immediately past a little bridge. Bring your own kayak and paddle. Life jackets with whistle are mandatory.

Paddle leader is Vincent Scerbinski; call 631 287-2713 or email vscerbinski@verizon.net.

On Tuesday, July 12, at 6 p.m. set out on a sunset nature tour of North Sea Harbor with the South Fork Natural History Museum. Kayaks are available to rent or bring your own. The paddle will begin at the Conscience Point Historic Site in Southampton, and continue north toward the Conscience Point Shellfish Hatchery. It will continue with a paddle through tidal creeks into Serenity Pond.

For registration and details about programs, including location, email info@sofo.org.

YOUTH CORNER

On the heels of the successful completion of the first of its “Teens Take Back the Sex Talk” workshop series, OLA of Eastern Long Island and Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic (PPHP) are poised to launch the second series in their ongoing collaboration. The dates have not yet been scheduled. These workshops, delivered in Spanish and English for teens age 14 to 19, provide accurate information about sexual and reproductive health in an atmosphere that promotes lively, candid discussion among participants about topics that can be hard for adolescents to talk about with each other.

Topics for the second series will be at least partly generated by a survey that participants in the first series filled out. Learning from young people themselves what they are interested in and would like more information about allows the workshops to speak directly to the needs of this age group.

For more information, call 631-899-3441 (OLA) or 631-240-1145 (Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic).

The annual i-tri Hamptons Youth Triathlon, sidelined by COVID-19, is back and will be staged on Saturday, July 13, starting at 7:30 a.m. at Long Beach in Sag Harbor. The event is open to all kids between the age of 10 and 17. The super-sprint distance triathlon includes a 300-yard swim in open water, a 6 mile bike ride on a mostly flat course with designated bike lanes, and a 1.5 mile run on a course closed to vehicular traffic.

To register, go to itrigirls.org/event/hyt.

The Westhampton Free Library is again hosting its Kids on the Green series, which will be held Tuesdays throughout the summer at 5:30 p.m. at the Westhampton Beach Village Green unless noted, like the next in the series on July 12, which will be held at the Raynor Country Day School, 170 Montauk Highway in Speonk. It will feature Magic with Amore.

For more information, call 631-288-3335 or visit westhamptonlibrary.net.

The Bridgehampton Museum will host week-by-week art classes for children ages 6 to 12. Each course will aim to expand the creative horizons of children and connect them with the area’s local history. Children will have a chance to dive into a unique array of art specialties, ranging from cartooning and storytelling to abstract painting and improvisation; while receiving individualized attention in each subject. The week-long classes will explore sustainability, appreciation of the past, and how we tell our own stories through art and performance.

“We want to inspire children to learn that there are many creative ways to tell one’s own story and leave one’s mark in history,” said Bridgehampton Museum executive director Nina Rayburn Dec.

The seven-week program will include classes in up-cycling and tie-dying, cartooning, storytelling through visual art, music, storytelling and movement, dance and improv, yoga and abstract painting, and mixed media self-portraits.

Classes are held from 9 a.m. to noon, Monday through Friday, except on holidays.

Register for one or more courses at bridgehamptonmuseum.org. For more information or questions, email events@bhmuseum.org or call 631-537-1088, ext. 5.

Children from newborn to age 4 are invited to participate in a series of high-energy music classes, led by Ramblin’ Dan’s Freewheelin’ Band, at the Southampton Arts Center. The series continues through August 3.

The GIANT Room, an innovation hub for kid innovators and creatives — providing programs at the intersection of sciences, math, design, engineering, technology, and arts — will be stationed at the Southampton Arts Center this summer. Starting July 7, it will be held on Thursdays at 1 p.m. For a complete list of associated programs, email info@southamptonartscenter.org.

Project Most, based at the Community Learning Center at Neighborhood House, has a full lineup of programs for children age 18 months and up, including an exploration lab on Saturday, July 9. Skateboarding clinics will be offered on Saturdays, July, 9 and 23.

For a full list of programs offered by Project Most, as well as details about times and fees, go to projectmost.org.