All summer long, lipulse.com will tell you exactly what to see and where to be seen in the Hamptons. Check back on Monday, when we’ll recap it all for you. Headed out East? Use the hashtag #LIPulseWeekends and we might feature you in the social media portion of our recap.
375th Contra Dance with Dave Harvey and Dunegrass
Parrish Art Museum
Time: Friday, 6pm
Price: $10
Break out your dancing shoes and gather up the crew. Everyone’s favorite caller, Dave Harvey, will grace the Parrish stage for the first time alongside East End Bluegrass favorites, Dunegrass. Enjoy this festively traditional barn dance as Southampton celebrates its 375th birthday.
Contact: Susan Galardi, galardis@nullparrishart.org or 631-283-2118
SoFo First Annual Climate Change Forum
South Fork Natural History Museum, Bridgehampton
Time: Saturday, 5-7pm
Price: $500 for VIP (includes post-event dinner hosted by Board President Andy Sabin with speakers and special guests), $150 for general admission and $75 for students
Start things off by sipping wine from Channing Daughters Winery and beer from Montauk Brewing Company from 5-6pm. Alfredo Merat will play live music. Then, learn about creative ways to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow climate change on our beloved East End.
Contact: Diana Aceti, sofodevdir@nulloptonline.net or 631-903-7217
Web: sofo.org
Decorators-Designers-Dealers Sale and Auction
Southampton Fresh Air Home, 36 Barkers Island Road, Southampton
Time: Saturday, 5-8:30pm
Price: $250
Guests from up and down the East Coast tend to line up for this one. Come to the highly-anticipated 23rd Annual Southampton Fresh Air Home’s Decorators-Designers-Dealers (DDD) Sale, Auctions and Cocktail Party Gala and go home with some fabulous items up for grabs in the famous live, silent and wine auctions. Expect items from some of the top names in fashion, jewelry, travel, dining, beauty and more. Add to your wine cellar with fantastic vintages included in the wine auction.
Contact: Thomas Naro, tnaro@nullsfah.org or 631-283-5847, sfah.org
VFW D-Day Fundraiser
Boardy Barn, Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays
Time: Saturday, 5-8pm
Price: $65
What better way to honor D-Day than by supporting our veterans? The annual VFW Post 5350 fundraiser was supposed to be held over the winter, but Mother Nature had other ideas. That’s okay, summer is way better anyway. Enjoy deluxe seafood and a carving board buffet and win big in one of the raffles or the Chinese auction. Under the Influence will perform music from the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
Contact: Jack Cassidy, 631-513-2016; Bob Miller, 631-325-1805 and Bill Hughes, 631-653-9898
Women’s Fund of Long Island Summer Kick-Off: We are the Change
Sebonack Golf Club, Southampton
Time: Saturday, 6-8:30pm
Price: GirlsFLI Angel Program Ticket is $250, Champion VIP Reception + Program Ticket is $1,000
Oscar winner Patricia Arquette is the guest of honor at Women’s Fund of Long Island’s Summer Kick-Off, an evening to celebrate Long Island’s young women changemakers. All proceeds will go to the organization’s GirlsFLI program.
Contact: EVite
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Cocktails with Barefoot Contessa
Ina Garten’s East Hampton Village compound
Time: Saturday, 6-8pm
Price: $300 (100 available), $500 tickets include private pre-party reception with Ina Garten and signed copy of her newest book Make It Ahead (25 available). Purchase at easthamptonhistory.org.
Food Network star Ina Garten, host of Barefoot Contessa, and Jeff Garten will throw what promises to be one of the season’s memorable cocktail parties to raise money for the moving and restoration of the Hedges barn at the Mulford Farm on James Lane. Hors d’oeuvres and drinks based on her best-selling cookbook Make It Ahead will be served on the grounds of her beautiful French barn-like studio.
Contact: East Hampton Historical Society, info@nulleasthamptonhistory.org