Grab your dancing shoes! Our much-loved program JUST DANCE returns! Join us for the straight-up good times and great dance party. We are thrilled to welcome DJ HENRY EAU recommended to us by the one and only legendary DJ Mister Lama. Get into the grooves of your favorite tunes, make requests, and join the fun! Our Dance parties are a casual, cool, inclusive atmosphere for all ages looking to let loose and shake it off. Grab a snack or a beverage from our concession stand, dance the night away, and start the weekend off right!

Query: What is Authenticity

In the style of a traditional Quaker meeting, each iteration of Still, Small Voice will center around an organizing question about creativity, community, and being human in the 21st century. The format of the meeting is unprogrammed and anchored in silence, but receptive to the insights of all participants. It is a space grounded in humanistic pluralism and is welcoming and open to all. Facilitated by former Quaker clerk Erling Hope, the series will be held in The Church’s library on the first and third Sundays of each month.

Land Acknowledgments are a traditional custom in many Native communities and nations and have served as a means of paying respect to the inhabitants of the land since time immemorial. These days, American communities are creating these public ceremonies to represent milestones on the journey of Relationship-building, Healing & Reconciliation. In this 3-hour workshop, Rev. Houston R. Cypress, a Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer Artist and Environmentalist from the Otter Clan of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, will discuss how to go beyond land acknowledgment into action. Using movement, music, cinema, and text, Cypress will guide participants through a process of crafting an interdisciplinary expression of land acknowledgment for the lands on which they live.

Join us as Chenae Bullock presents a reflective evening honoring Indigenous wisdom and illuminating humanity’s needed participation and awareness in the call to action to protect, honor, and cleanse our waterways. A water protector, community leader, cultural preservationist, indigenous perspective historian, humanitarian, and traditional Shinnecock woman, Chanae is a highly sought speaker and cultural practitioner. Her presentation will focus on waterways of our region specifically and a Q&A with those in attendance will follow.

With a rich meditation practice influenced by Buddhist traditions, Jean-Sébastien Brettes, a certified mindfulness teacher, facilitates a space where self-awareness becomes the pathway. Join us for April’s Wellness Wednesday and explore a deeper understanding of a mindfulness practice that cuts through stress and confusion by mindfully directing attention. This session is designed to guide participants in leveraging the RAIN technique and the five meditation hindrances to embark on a journey of self-discovery, aligning with the principle of humility, which is the founding block of all virtues and true wisdom.

WORD, our popular series of spoken word and readings, returns! We welcome you to explore the program’s third iteration Spring Cleaning. Featured writers include Rev. Houston R. Cypress, Rachel DeLoache Williams, and Adriana Devers. Writers may opt to share a previous work that never left the pages of their journal or write a new work to cleanse themselves of a lingering idea that they’ve been eager to explore. Our writers have been asked to reflect, declutter, and invite ideas, stories, and inspirations that may have been tucked away to resurface, releasing them into the universe as we enter a new season.

We invite you to a special After Hours discussion of Space – Sight – Line with The Church’s chief curator, Sara Cochran. Sara will lead guests on a curatorial tour of the exhibition. She will then be joined by an esteemed group of collaborators essential to the exhibition: Sarah Heinemann, Artist and Senior Lead Draftsperson for the Sol LeWitt Studio who installed Wall Drawing 528B and James Miller, Artist and Jim Labmie Studio Assistant who installed Zobop (Wild Poppy) on The Church’s front stairs. The group will explore the intricate process and intriguing ideas behind the installation of site-specific works. A Q&A will follow the tour and discussion.

Query: What is the relationship between freedom and power?

In the style of a traditional Quaker meeting, each iteration of Still, Small Voice will center around an organizing question about creativity, community, and being human in the 21st century. The format of the meeting is unprogrammed and anchored in silence, but receptive to the insights of all participants. It is a space grounded in humanistic pluralism and is welcoming and open to all. Facilitated by former Quaker clerk Erling Hope, the series will be held in The Church’s library on the first and third Sundays of each month.

The Third Annual Creativity Conference returns to The Church!

Join us for our third-annual full-day gathering of ideas exploring creativity in the arts and sciences, featuring six outstanding thought leaders.

This year our program delves deeply into the life sciences.
Our speakers are:

Mark Epstein
Psychiatrist, Author of The Trauma of Everyday Life, et al.
On: Buddhism, John Cage and Psychotherapy

Rachel Herz
The world’s leading expert on the psychological science of scent
On: Scent and Wellness

Heather Lynch
Director, Stony Brook Collaborative for the Earth
On: In Defense of Anthropocentrism in the Anthropocene

Seth Ruffins
Director, Optical Imaging Facility at the Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine
On: The Intricate Art of Nature

Scott Small
Director, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Columbia University
On: Forgetting and the Creative Process

Sarah Thornton
Sociologist, Author of Seven Days in the Art World
On: Her new book Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us About Breasts

Knowledge Friday returns with Steve Bechard and Tim Regan. Steve is a world-class angler; Tim is an accomplished ocean videographer. Join us for a visual foray into the beautiful art of fly fishing and the waters of the East End allowing them to reel in our attention and discuss the catches that have changed them the most, both on the line and through the lens.

The Church is honored to welcome Renaissance Man and “Father of World Music,” David Amram to Sag Harbor, for an intimate concert and an unforgettable evening. Join us for a performance and dialogue with a living legend who strives to “remain open and respectful to all forms of artistic expression and to the people and the cultures who keep these arts alive and share them with others.”

Performing a combination of his classical jazz compositions and weaving together anecdotes of his experience working with some of America’s most notable creative giants, Amram invites audiences to an evening that explores the polymath’s incredible contribution to the legacy of American Music and offers a renewed embrace of international cultures.

New sessions of Open Studio – Monotype Printmaking are here! In response to increased popularity and demand, we are excited to announce that there are now 2 different levels for the program: INTRO and ADVANCED. This is an ADVANCED session for participants who have taken attended a minimum of TWO Open Studio – Monotype Printmaking sessions at The Church.

New sessions of Open Studio – Monotype Printmaking are here! In response to increased popularity and demand, we are excited to announce that there are now 2 different levels for the program: INTRO and ADVANCED. This is an INTRO session, there are no prerequisites to attend.

Matthew Satz’s painting, Smoke Painting 4.21.15, 2015, captures an illusory moment in time, the moment between the physical and immaterial. Join us for the first Insight Sunday of our Spring exhibition, Space – Sight – Line, where Matthew will discuss his elegant painting, the shape of its meaning, and the process fueling his work.

Late Night Open Studio just got a lot bigger: introducing Late Night Open HOUSE, an evening of art making and game playing, activating two levels of The Church’s building. This bi-monthly program brings our community together to share fun and creativity. Invite your friends, family, and kids, or come solo and meet someone new. Let’s create and play together!

A new addition to the program will include a game night on the Main Floor for all those board game enthusiasts. As fellow game lovers, The Church will provide games like Scrabble, Monopoly, Jenga, Apples to Apples, Battleship, Cranium, Chess, Dominos, GO, and Meta Mop. Don’t see one of your favorite games listed? We encourage guests to bring their own board games.

Please join us in a ceremony to welcome Spring and enhance the connection to self, others, and nature with Zuzanna von Salm of Ceremonia Meditation. The ceremony will include a mediation session and a few creative rituals to cleanse and prepare for the new season. Drawing upon cross-cultural training, Zuzanna combines various methods to help participants ground, set personal intentions, and envision a season of bloom and growth.

Want to get started writing fiction but unsure where to begin? Join Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Female Persuasion, The Position, The Wife, and Sleepwalking, for an introductory session on the act of getting started! In this 3-hour workshop, Wolitzer will guide participants through the early stages of the process including brainstorming, researching, developing characters, conflicts, outlining, and more. Hosted in the library of The Church, this class will be a safe, supportive place to develop ideas and begin work on a novel or short story of your own.

Query: What role does creativity play in my life?

In the style of a traditional Quaker meeting, each iteration of Still, Small Voice will center around an organizing question about creativity, community, and being human in the 21st century. The format of the meeting is unprogrammed and anchored in silence, but receptive to the insights of all participants. It is a space grounded in humanistic pluralism and is welcoming and open to all. Facilitated by former Quaker clerk Erling Hope, the series will be held in The Church’s library on the first and third Sundays of each month.

“Time is your most valuable asset,” says Mr. Wash, a self-taught artist who taught himself to draw and paint while wrongfully incarcerated for twenty-one years, resulting in a body of work that remarkably evokes human emotions. Sentenced to life in prison in the late 1990s for nonviolent drug offenses he did not commit, Mr. Wash refined his craft eventually painting portraits of his fellow inmates, often depicting them as free men. In 2016, Mr. Wash was granted clemency by former U.S. President Barack Obama and has since gained traction as an artist having shown both nationally and internationally.

Dancer and choreographer Claudia Hilda interweaves performance, digital media, and writing to create art that is sensitive, reflective, and widely aware of contemporary times. Méritos, a dance performance that makes up part of the Las Repúblicas series, explores the journey towards awakening and liberation after a lifetime devoted to a failed social-political system. The piece will be presented by Hilda solo, followed by a screening of additional works from Las Repúblicas and a Q&A.

The opening of Space-Sight-Line on March 9th from 6-7:30 PM is free to the public.

Space - Sight - Line, our Spring show, explores the way artists play with visual perception. The perspective of the viewer is a key dynamic in this show. The works included are playfully deceptive, often using ingenious techniques that invite the viewer to stop and rethink where they are and what they are seeing. Surprising uses of space, light, and unexpected media and approaches to art-making empower the art. It makes us look at ourselves looking and invites interaction – and will bring a whole new level of drama and delight to experiencing the iconic architecture of The Church.

The exhibition began with an invitation to artist Christine Sciulli to create a site-specific work in the rafters of The Church. Inspired by water, her piece is both a sculpture and a 3-dimensional drawing in space. Different angles change the shape of the piece and the relationship between its elements, turning the vast ceiling of The Church into her canvas. 

Artists will include Uta Barth, Walead Beshty, Mel Bochner, Tara Donovan, Jim Lambie, Sol LeWitt, Gordon Matta-Clark, Matthew Satz, Christine Sciulli, Keith Sonnier, and Steven J. Yazzie. The exhibition is curated by Sara Cochran.

Performer Tess Dworman creates movement-based work using the tools of improvisation. Mel Elberg is a poet working in video, and frequently collaborates with artists of all mediums. These days, Dworman is intrigued by the inherently performative nature of conventions, like Comic Con or Santa Con– environments where people of mutual interests in niche cultures come together to play, imagine, and perform for each other or together. It’s a paradigm that speaks to the dynamics of performance at its most basic level, questioning the roles of viewer, performer, and context: the relationships between the spectator and the spectacle. Elberg is interested in word-maps, the spontaneous legibility of poetry, and how writing constraints can lend themselves to performative scores.

Join us at The John Jermain Memorial Library for this co-presented collaborative program featuring author and esteemed winemaker Richard Olsen-Harbich. Olsen Harbich has been making award-winning local wines for over forty years. In his debut book, Sun, Sea, Soil, Wine, he explores the intricacies of our region’s unique climate, geography, and soils, which produce high-quality, unique wines. Join us for an afternoon discussion and learn about the intricate history of winemaking and how Long Island grew to garner recognition as a premier wine destination. Books will be available for purchase and inscription.

For ticketing questions please call 631-725-0049 or email programs@johnjermain.org.

Query: How does transformation come to us, or we to it?

In the style of a traditional Quaker meeting, each iteration of Still, Small Voice will center around an organizing question about creativity, community, and being human in the 21st century. The format of the meeting is unprogrammed and anchored in silence, but receptive to the insights of all participants. It is a space grounded in humanistic pluralism and is welcoming and open to all. Facilitated by former Quaker clerk Erling Hope, the series will be held in The Church’s library on the first and third Sundays of each month.

New sessions of Open Studio – Monotype Printmaking are here! In response to increased popularity and demand, we are excited to announce that there are now 2 different levels for the program: INTRO and ADVANCED. This is an ADVANCED session for participants who have taken attended a minimum of TWO Open Studio – Monotype Printmaking sessions at The Church.

Dan Rizzie’s first and “sacred” word to describe printmaking is “collaboration.” Join us for our February Insight Sunday and the final day of our exhibition, Master Impressions, where the formidable artist and East End printmaker discusses the beauty of the collaborative process between artist, the printer, and the press. Guests will be able to view some of Dan’s prints and artist books and gain an in-depth look at his practice..

The innovative Reflections in Music series returns with artistic director Bruce Wolosoff and an ensemble of gifted musicians inviting audiences to Love Stories, a chamber music concert of duos and trios all of which have something to do with love. Composer and pianist Bruce Wolosoff, soprano Luna Seongeun Park, violinist Max Tan, and cellist Aaron Wolff, will perform classics by Faure, Rachmaninoff, Piazzolla, Clara Schumann, and the newly revised version of Bruce Wolosoff’s acclaimed piano trio “The Loom” which was inspired by watercolors by his good friend and The Church co-founder Eric Fischl.

Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky, wants you to think about double-think and how we frame events, create meaning, and interact with our world. Join us for an evening of exploration and reflection on one of the world’s most influential science fiction works presented by an artist with a globally conscious mind.

The accomplished and socially minded composer, multimedia artist, and writer returns to The Church, post-summer residency, with a presentation of Parallax of Quantum, an exploration of the impact of George Orwell’s 1984.

Wake up your joints and stretch into Spring as Dina K returns to The Church! Join us as our meditation and movement guide from our Spring Jubilee returns as a Wellness Wednesday speaker, guiding us through some gentle joint work and stretches that promote good posture and mobility.

Query: How do I resist the luxury of despair in a world as messed up as this?

The Church invites you to Still, Small Voice, a bi-monthly gathering for reflection and contemplative sharing. In the style of a traditional Quaker meeting, each iteration of Still, Small Voice will center around an organizing question about creativity, community, and being human in the 21st century. The format of the meeting is unprogrammed and anchored in silence, but receptive to the insights of all participants. It is a space grounded in humanistic pluralism and is welcoming and open to all. Facilitated by former Quaker clerk Erling Hope, the series will be held in The Church’s library on the first and third Sundays of each month.