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Kick off the long Memorial Day weekend at one of many festivals, outdoor concerts, parades and ceremonies happening in the suburbs.

Hamptons Doc Fest inaugurates spring Earth Day weekend with its annual Docs Equinox celebration, four days of live programming of four dramatic documentary films and Q&As highlighting the importance of taking care of our fragile world.

Hamptons Doc Fest and co-presenter Southampton Arts Center will offer a special sneak preview of “Attica,” from Showtime Documentary Films. The screening will take place at the Southampton Arts Center on Sunday, October 17, at 5 p.m. The powerful new

Pictured Above: Artist Diane Tufts’ “Resilience, Portraits from July 2018 – January 2019,” now on view as part of Southampton Arts Center’s “eARTh” exhibition. Earth Day was cautiously celebrated on the East End this year, after being overshadowed by the pandemic in April of 2020, but there haven’t yet been big parties or crowded galleries welcoming in the spring and our ongoing relationship with the planet we call home. But love for the earth is still written on the sleeves of ...

The Hamptons Arts Network, a consortium of 21 arts organizations on the South Fork, has brought an innovative touch to its fourth annual spring “Thaw Fest,” which instead of for just one weekend has this year been spread over the course of the next month, as the weather warms and we begin to venture back out into the world. The festival goes into full swing this weekend, with both virtual and live events continuing through mid-April. The full schedule is online here. The Hamptons Youth Quar...