Southampton Arts Center Offers Full Slate of Programs for July
Film Screenings + Panels, Wellness, New Lawn Dances, and the Return of Silent Disco
(Southampton, NY… June 2021) Summer will bring a full calendar of events at Southampton Arts Center [SAC – southamptonartscenter.org]. From the introduction of Lawn Dances and Hamptons Jazz Fest to the much-anticipated return of SAC’s Silent Disco, the opening of our new exhibition, BEYOND THE STREETS on PAPER, to documentary screenings and panel discussions, wellness programs and so much more, summer is in full swing at SAC. Here’s what’s on deck for July…
Wellness: Bande Barre – Fridays + Saturdays, June 25 – August 14 @ 8 AM
This is a one-stop-shop for a complete body and mind workout. Barre seamlessly blends moves from ballet, Pilates, strength training, and yoga. You will be guided through a series of micro-movements and active holds, using a set of light hand weights and your body weight for resistance. These small, isolated movements yield extensive results: long, lean, sculpted lines. You’ll work muscles you didn’t even know you have and feel them for days after.
southamptonartscenter.org/wellness
Wellness: Bande Cardio Fit – Fridays + Saturdays, June 25 – August 14 @ 9:15 AM
This class highlights everything bande does best in an efficient (and addicting!) format. Our 45-minute class combines cardio and sculpt training in one. Cardio blasts will get your heart rate pumping while Barre fundamentals are merged with compound full-body movements designed to strengthen and lengthen. Cardio Fit hits every muscle. Your endorphins will be flowing.
southamptonartscenter.org/wellness
Wellness: Bande Barre – Fridays + Saturdays, June 25 – August 14 @ 10:15 AM
This is a one-stop-shop for a complete body and mind workout. Barre seamlessly blends moves from ballet, Pilates, strength training, and yoga. You will be guided through a series of micro-movements and active holds, using a set of light hand weights and your body weight for resistance. These small, isolated movements yield extensive results: long, lean, sculpted lines. You’ll work muscles you didn’t even know you have and feel them for days after.
southamptonartscenter.org/wellness
Kids: GIANT Room – Farm-to-Table - Thursday, July 1 at 4PM
Kick off summer with our Farm-to-Table Arts and Crafts special event brought to you in collaboration with The GIANT Room. For families who dare to dream of a food festival and bring it to life using paper, arts, and crafts material. Participants experiment with origami, paper folding, and paper engineering techniques; use special GIANT fabricated items; and a dose of imagination to make epic models of the dishes they envision. From tacos, to burgers, pizza, sushi, ice cream, fries, noodles - you name it - we’ll make yummy looking food, add our favorite dishes to our “menus” and put them on display to serve it to imaginary customers whether they're humans, animals, pets, or even tiny bugs. All creations will contribute to a delicious food festival sure to make your taste buds smile. This program is a fantastic blend of hands-on arts and crafts making, learning about science behind food, creativity, and family joy.
Recommended for families with children ages 3-12 years old.
southamptonartscenter.org/kids
Film: Grease – Friday, July 2 at 7:30 PM
SAC kicks off the 4th of July weekend with the screening of Grease starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.
southamptonartscenter.org/film
Kids: The Brown Rice Family – Thursday, July 8 at 4 PM
The Brown Rice Family is a world roots band jamming towards global solidarity and organic happiness. This high-energy, eight-member ensemble combines an eclectic mix of musical influences encompassing Reggae, Hip-hop, Dance-Hall, Brazilian, Afro-beat, Jazz styling, Latin, and Funk. This band’s performances are fun for the whole family!
southamptonartscenter.org/kids
Film: Fish & Men – Thursday, July 8 at 7 PM
FISH & MEN exposes the high cost of cheap fish in the modern seafood economy and the forces threatening local fishing communities and public health by revealing how our choices as consumers drive the global seafood trade. Panel includes Dr. Jennifer Jacquet, David Barber, Margie Mason, Valentine Thomas, Esq, Sean Barrett, and moderator Tela Loretta Troge, Esq.
southamptonartscenter.org/film
Film: My Octopus Teacher – Friday, July 9 at 8 PM
My Octopus Teacher is a 2020 Netflix Original documentary film directed by Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed, which documents a year spent by filmmaker Craig Foster forging a relationship with a wild common octopus in a South African kelp forest. At the 93rd Academy Awards, it won the award for Best Documentary Feature. Cinematography by Roger Horrocks.
southamptonartscenter.org/film
Live: Lawn Dances – Saturday, July 10 at 6 PM
Lawn Dances is the first annual dance festival at Southampton Arts Center presenting contemporary New York-based choreographers who are invited to re-imagine their work on an outdoor stage situated on the lawn. Two shared bills will present the works of Baye & Asa, Jasmine Hearn, Kayla Farrish, Jodi Melnick, Loni Landon and Christopher Williams. The series provides a platform for fresh unique voices and connects them to new audiences in the East End. Lawn Dances is curated and programmed by choreographer Loni Landon and performance producer Sasha Okshteyn.
southamptonartscenter.org/live
Live: Lawn Dances – Sunday, July 11 at 5 PM
Lawn Dances is the first annual dance festival at Southampton Arts Center presenting contemporary New York-based choreographers who are invited to re-imagine their work on an outdoor stage situated on the lawn. Two shared bills will present the works of Baye & Asa, Jasmine Hearn, Kayla Farrish, Jodi Melnick, Loni Landon and Christopher Williams. The series provides a platform for fresh unique voices and connects them to new audiences in the East End. Lawn Dances is curated and programmed by choreographer Loni Landon and performance producer Sasha Okshteyn.
southamptonartscenter.org/live
Film: One Ocean Film Tour – Sunday, July 11 at 7:30 PM
The One Ocean Film Tour presented by Hydro Flask, is a world-class series of ocean-loving films focused on adventure, the aquatic environment and inspirational stories. This year’s tour features 8 short films including ocean conservation, surfing, diving, exploration and much more.
southamptonartscenter.org/film
Kids: Goat on a Boat: Punch & Judy in the Kitchen – Thursday, July 15 at 4 PM
For hundreds of years, the Punch & Judy puppet tradition has been a popular treat. In this updated version Punch & Judy cook up some wacky fun in the kitchen. Hand-carved puppets created and performed by Liz Joyce & A Couple of Puppets.
Trained as a fine artist, Liz also was certified in Art Education K-12. In the early stages of her career, Liz worked with and apprenticed with Terry Snyder, a master puppeteer from Richmond, Virginia. Her artistic approach to puppetry has also been influenced by European puppetry traditions and the eccentric energy of New York's downtown performance artists. She honed her carving skills working with traditional puppet carvers in Prague, Czech Republic, and often collaborates with other puppeteers in the international puppet community. Liz's puppet operetta, Sing a Song of Sixpence was awarded an UNIMA Citation, the highest award in American puppetry. Since 2001, Liz has hosted many talented puppeteers at Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre in Sag Harbor, NY where she is founder and artistic director. She recently served on the Board of Directors for the Jim Henson Foundation and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Puppeteers of America and the Puppetry Guild of Greater New York.
southamptonartscenter.org/kids
Film: Basquiat – Friday, July 16 at 8 PM
Despite living a life of extreme poverty in Brooklyn, graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (Jeffrey Wright) strives to rise up through the heady New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s. He becomes the brightest star of neo-Expressionist painting and one of the most successful painters of his time, and even develops a friendship with Andy Warhol (David Bowie). But Basquiat's tumultuous life, specifically his addiction to heroin, overshadows his rise to fame, threatening all.
southamptonartscenter.org/film
Art: BEYOND THE STREETS on PAPER Exhibition Opening – Saturday, July 17 at 12 PM
SAC’s summer 2021 exhibition, BEYOND THE STREETS on PAPER, is both a historical homage to the earliest mark makers and rule breakers and a celebration of an essential practice seen throughout contemporary art. The show explores experimental processes to imaginative works seen on paper from artists who trained in, and were inspired by, graffiti, street art, hip-hop, punk rock, zines and underground art. The exhibition explores that, with a democratization of materials and surface, the intricateness of the ever-growing movement is both unique and revolutionary. Curated by Evan Pricco and Kim Stephens.
southamptonartscenter.org/beyond-the-streets
Film: Martha: A Picture Story with Maysles Foundation – Sunday, July 18 at 7:30 PM
This film tells the story of Martha Cooper, a legend in the graffiti world thanks to her ground-breaking book, Subway Art. Now, she struggles to find her place in a new world driven by social media. Prior to the screening, a panel featuring Martha Cooper, BEYOND THE STREETS on PAPER curator Evan Pricco, and filmmaker Charlie Ahern, moderated by BEYOND THE STREETS on PAPER’s Roger Gastman, will take place.
southamptonartscenter.org/film
Kids: Mil’s Trills – Thursday, July 22 at 4 PM
Mil’s Trills is a Brooklyn-based children's music project dedicated to creating positive inclusive experiences that strive to engage and embrace young audiences and families through music. Through joyful live shows, albums, a collaborative songwriting web series, we work to find new creative ways of bringing people together towards an equitable and peaceful global community.
southamptonartscenter.org/kids
Wellness: West Kept Secret – Friday, July 23 at 9 AM + 11 AM
Cardio, strength training and Pilates are combined into one high-intensity interval. This summer, WKS is heading to SAC as part of a pop-up fitness tour.
southamptonartscenter.org/wellness
Film: Moonstruck – Friday, July 23 at 8 PM
A Brooklyn widow, engaged to a mama's boy, falls in love with her fiancé’s brother. Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Vincent Gardenia, and Danny Aiello star in this film directed by Norman Jewison.
southamptonartscenter.org/film
Live: Silent Disco – Saturday, July 24 at 7 PM
Come dance under the full moon at this outrageously fun (and quiet) rave featuring two DJ’s and multiple music genres. Quiet Events provides their three-channel LED-style headphones allowing guests to change channels to different types of music. Headphones light up with colors assigned to each channel so dancers can see what others are listening to based on the color of their headphones. At any given moment you might find a group of friends dancing to three different styles of music, which makes this event entertaining not only for the participants, but for onlookers as well.
southamptonartscenter.org/live
Film: 20 Feet from Stardom – Sunday, July 25 at 8 PM
Filmmaker Morgan Neville shines a long-overdue spotlight on the hit-making contributions of longtime backup singers like Darlene Love and Merry Clayton.
southamptonartscenter.org/film
Kids: GIANT Room – Herve Tullet – Thursday, July 29 at 4 PM
This is for families who dare to dream of their own art exhibition. Join our special event in partnership with The GIANT Room for a unique arts and creative tech workshop. Participants will design and create art using techniques inspired by renowned artist and children’s book author, Herve Tullet. “Ripping, tearing, crumpling, folding, turning over, assembling... my pieces are easy to make,” Herve notes. “But with a simple random gesture, they reveal an image to the eyes that was not expected. There’s a surprise, and this surprise generates enthusiasm and energy.” We’ll create art pieces in various scales, colors and arrangements. Take it a step further and even add light, sound or movement to our pieces, and put it on for a one-day exhibition on SAC’s West Lawn. This event is a joyful mix of arts, creativity, and engineering. All masterpieces will be set up in a culminating show that emerges from the making. Come and see what your dots, lines and circles turn into.
southamptonartscenter.org/kids
Film: Do the Right Thing – Friday, July 30 at 8 PM
A Spike Lee Joint: Salvatore "Sal" Fragione (Danny Aiello) is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito), becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
southamptonartscenter.org/film
Live: Hamptons Jazz Fest – Saturday, July 31 at 7 PM
Cultural diversity and roots of jazz will be celebrated with performing artists from the US and around the world. Music styles will range from World, Latin and Jazz - all of which are not usually represented on the East End of Long Island. Bill O’Connell with Paquito will play at Southampton Arts Center for this date.
southamptonartscenter.org/live
For more information on events, including registration details, please visit southamptonartscenter.org/events.
SAC’s galleries are open Thursday through Monday from 12 to 5 PM. Admission is free for the BEYOND THE STREETS on PAPER, courtesy of Vistaprint. WHIMSY, SAC’s outdoor sculpture garden, is free and will be open daily through Labor Day weekend. Learn more at southamptonartscenter.org/exhibitions.
SAC continues to follow all New York State and CDC guidelines for all programs and events.
Select Southampton Arts Center programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The SAC Summer Stage is sponsored by Primary Care and Reproductive Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian. BEYOND THE STREETS on PAPER is sponsored by Vistaprint and Hamptons Magazine, with support from Ingrid Arneberg and Will Marin. WHIMSY is sponsored by Hauser and Wirth, with additional support from Marlborough Gallery and James Lane Post. FILM @ SAC is sponsored by Brown Harris Stevens. KIDS @ SAC is sponsored by Investors Bank. Silent Disco is presented by Simone and David Levinson.
ABOUT SOUTHAMPTON ARTS CENTER
Southampton Arts Center is committed to community building through the arts. We present and produce inspiring, inclusive, socially and regionally relevant programs across all disciplines – welcoming, connecting, and collaborating with the diverse members of New York’s East End community and beyond. SAC is a not for profit 501(c)(3) organization.
For more information about Southampton Arts Center, located at 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, New York 11968, visit southamptonartscenter.org or call 631.283.0967. Follow SAC on Facebook and Instagram @southamptonartscenter. For press inquiries, contact Rachel Bosworth via email at rachel@rachelbosworth.com or by phone at 631.220.1220.
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