Shane Weeks News Today

Queens Botanical Garden in Flushing is getting ready to honor Indigenous People’s Day with unique and engaging events planned on Monday, Oct. 9.

By Cailin Riley For his entire life, Shane Weeks has been dedicated to community service, and to the Shinnecock Nation in particular, starting at the age of just 1 year old, when he was participating in traditional dances. On a big stage last month,

The annual event celebrates Native American traditions and culture over four days on the Shinnecock Nation's grounds.

Flushing Town Hall is hosting a lineup of events this holiday season from musicals to jazz concerts and a holiday carnival to benefit the global arts

The Watermill Center’s spring Community Day offers locals the chance to experience The Center’s grounds just as its artists-in-residence do — as a space to explore, unwind, and get inspired. On Saturday, June 4, The Watermill Center’s Community Day w

The Parrish Art Museum’s 2022 schedule of special exhibitions includes major career retrospectives and focused presentations including “An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960–2018,” opening April 24; “Set It Off,” curated by Deux Femmes Noires:

Join Carbon CREW Project, Drawdown East End, Damon Gameau, and Southampton Arts Center for an array of virtual talks, workshops, and films on ways that we can participate in “regenerating” our earth and reversing climate devastation.Project Drawdown’s mission is to help the world reach “drawdown” - the point in the future when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline, thereby stopping catastrophic climate change - as quickly, safely, and ...

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 ...