December 2008
Calendar of Events
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Monday
1World AIDS Awareness Day AARP Chapter 408's Monthly Meeting & Christmas Party to be held at the Bridgehampton Nutrition & Senior Center, 585 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Tpke in Bridgehampton, beginning at 1pm. Food will be served, along with entertainment with a performance by the Silver Steppers. For more information, please call 516-532-5765.
Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce Executive Committee Meeting, All Chamber Officers and Directors should attend. At Il Capuccino Ristorante, Madison Street, Sag Harbor, 6:00pm.
World AIDS Day Prayer Service at 7pm, at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork, 977 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike (near the intersection with Scuttlehole Road), PO Box 1444, Bridgehampton NY 11932. For more information, please call 537-0132 or visit www.uucsf.org
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3Fall Nature Night: "An Introduction to the Winter Sky,", for adults and children ages 7-14. At the Long Pond Greenbelt Nature Center, 1061 Bridgehampton/Sag Harbor Turnpike in Bridehampton, starting at 6:00pm. Featuring Matt Ivans, a local astronomy enthusiast. For more information, please call 537-3752 or visit www.longpondgreenbelt.org
Thursday
4Play: "The Skin of Our Teeth" by Thornton Wilder, and presented by the students of Pierson Middle-High School. Performances on Thursday and Friday at 7pm, and on Saturday at 2pm and 7pm. For more information, call 725-5302 or visit www.sagharborschools.org
Friday
5The Picture Show at Bay Street: "Ryan's Daughter," at 8:00pm. Admission is $5. For more information on the movie, please visit the Bay Street Theatre box office on Long Wharf in Sag Harbor, or you can call Bay Street Theatre at 725-9500 or visit www.baystreet.org
Saturday
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Light-up!Bird Walk: Winter Water Birds, sponsored by SOFO, the South Fork Natural History Society, and Hugh McGuinness. To be held at the SOFO Museum, 377 Sag Harbor-Bridgehampton Tpke in Bridgehampton, beginning at 7:45am. For more information or to reserve your spot, call 537-9735, e-mail sofo@hamptons.com or visit www.sofo.org Annual St. Nicholas Fair, from 10am-4pm at Christ Episcopal Church, Division and Union Streets, Sag Harbor. Handmade wreaths, holiday gifts, craft items, and all sorts of homemade baked goodies! After shopping and browsing, have a bit to eat in our cafe. Begin the holidays with the Christmas spirit, and a gift or two for your friends and family. For more information, call Rev. Shawn William, Priest-in-Charge, at 725-0128 or email info@christchurchsagharbor.org. Your Faith, Hope and Joy Restored
Goat on a Boat Theater Presents Randy Kaplan singer and songwriter! Showtimes at 11am and 3pm in the parish Hall of Christ Episcopal Chursh, 4 Hampton Street in Sag Harbor. Tickets are $10 for adults, $9 for grandparents, and $5 for children under 3. For more information or to make reservations, please call 725-4193 or visit http://www.goatonaboat.org
Paintings of Italian Towns featuring works by Gordon Gagliano. On view at the John Jermain Memorial Library, corner of Main and Union Streets in Sag Harbor, at 3pm. Show runs through the end of December. For more information call 725-0049 or visit http://sagharbor.suffolk.lib.ny.us
Santa's Visit & Holiday Light-Up, By popular demand, Santa's Visit and Holiday Tree-Lighting and Village Light-up will be on the same evening!
- 4pm - Santa Arrives by Fire Truck - Cheer on the Man in Red as he rides down Main Street on a Fire Truck to his destination at the Bay Street Theatre on Long Wharf!
- 4pm-5:30pm - Santa's Visit, Photos & Fun!- Visit with Santa and tell him how good you've been this year! He'll be sure to listen as you tell him what you'd like for Christmas, while you enjoy Music, Entertainment and Refreshments, courtesy of his many Elves! Get your photo taken with Santa, so you can prove to your friends that you really met him!
- 6:00pm - Light-Up at the Windmill on Long Wharf - gather on the Wharf and join us to officially light up the Village's Holiday Lighting. See our beautiful Christmas Trees, our Lit Snowflake Banner display across Main Street provided by the Chamber, and the lit Garlands and Wreaths on Village lamp posts, provided by the L.V.I.S.
- 6:00pm - Twilight Guided Art Tour, Visit Sag Harbor's many wonderful art gallerie on a guided tour! Holiday goodies will be served at all galleries! Meet at the Windmill directly after the Tree Lighting ceremony. Co-sponsored by the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce, the Rebecca Cooper Gallery and Tulla Booth Gallery.
- Santa also has an E-Mail Address! And he'd love to hear from you! Good boys and girls can write to him at therealsanta@optonline.net
For more information, please call 725-0011 or e-mail us at sagchamber@peconic.net.
Breakwater Yacht Club's Holiday Party from 5:30pm-8:00pm, at the Breakwater Yacht Club, 51 Bay Street in Sag Harbor (across from the American Legion Building). Please bring a toy for a needy child as part of the Toys for Tots Program. For more information, please call 725-4604 or visit www.breakwateryc.org
Sponsored by the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce.The Picture Show at Bay Street: "Bridge on the River Kwai," at 8:00pm. Admission is $5. For more information on the movie, please visit the Bay Street Theatre box office on Long Wharf in Sag Harbor, or you can call Bay Street Theatre at 725-9500 or visit www.baystreet.org
Sunday
7Pearl Harbor Day
Monday
8"Giving Tree Program" Begins, sponsored by the Sag Harbor Elementary School. An annual drive to collect gifts for families in need which runs through December 19th. For more information, call 725-5301 or visit www.sagharborschools.org Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt "Holiday Get Together," at the Long Pond Greenbelt Nature Center, 1061 Bridgehampton/Sag Harbor Turnpike in Bridehampton, from 6pm-8pm. For more information, please call 537-3752 or visit www.longpondgreenbelt.org
Tuesday
9Cookie Mix in a Jar, for kids ages 5 and older, at the John Jermain Memorial Library, corner of Main and Union Streets in Sag Harbor, from 4pm-4:45pm. For more information or to reserve your space, please call 725-0049 or visit http://sagharbor.suffolk.lib.ny.us Holiday Concert, by the Sag Harbor Community Band, joined by the Sweet Adelines Long Island Sound Chorus! At the Old Whalers Church, 44 Union Street, Sag Harbor, starting at 8pm. Join us for complimentary refreshments after the concert! Admission is FREE, however a freewill offering will be taken to benefit the Church's Building Maintenance Fund. For more information, call 725-0429.
Wednesday
10Human Rights Day
Thursday
11Winter Concert, featuring Holiday Tunes performed by the Sag Harbor Elementary School's Large and Small Choruses, Guitar Club and Orchestra! At the Sag Harbor Elementary School, on the corner of Hampton Street and Clinton Avenue in Sag Harbor, beginning at 7pm. For more information, call 725-5301 or visit www.sagharborschools.org Harbor Bells Holiday Concert, at the John Jermain Memorial Library, corner of Main and Union Streets in Sag Harbor, at 7pm. Admission is FREE. For more information, please call 725-0049 or visit http://sagharbor.suffolk.lib.ny.us
Friday
12Holiday Workshop & Gingerbread House Building, for children and their parents. At the Sag Harbor Elementary School, on the corner of Hampton Street and Clinton Avenue in Sag Harbor, beginning at 7pm. Sponsored by the Sag Harbor Parents & Teachers Association (PTA). For more information, call 725-5301 or visit www.sagharborschools.org Bird Walk: Owls by the Light of the Moon, a slide show followed by a field outing and walk for adults, sponsored by SOFO, the South Fork Natural History Society, and Joe Giunta. To be held at the SOFO Museum, 377 Sag Harbor-Bridgehampton Tpke in Bridgehampton, beginning at 7am. Admission is $7 per person. For more information or to reserve your spot, call 537-9735, e-mail sofo@hamptons.com or visit www.sofo.org
Saturday
13Bus Trip to NYC, sponsored by the Sag Harbor Parenting Center. Bus leaves Sag Harbor Elementary School at 8am and departs NYC at 6pm with arrival back in Sag Harbor around 8pm, Tickets are $20 per person. For more information, call 725-5301 or visit www.sagharborschools.org "Make One-Take One" Holiday Decoration Workshop, all day, at the John Jermain Memorial Library, corner of Main and Union Streets in Sag Harbor. For more information or to reserve your space, please call 725-0049 or visit http://sagharbor.suffolk.lib.ny.us
Annual Christmas and Holiday Gift Fair, featuring holiday gifts and wares for sale by local artists, craftspeople, and businesses, Photos with Santa Claus, Free Gift Wrapping, and a Coffee Cafe Snacks too! Presented by the Stella Maris Regional School, from 10:00am-6:00pm, in the school gymnasium, on Hampton Street in Sag Harbor, across from St. Andrews R.C. Church. For more information or to reserve tickets, please call 725-2525, or visit www.stellamarisschool.org
Goat on a Boat Theater Presents "The Night Before Christmas" featuring Liz Joyce and a Couple of Puppets. Showtimes at 11am and 3pm in the Parish Hall of Christ Episcopal Church, at 4 Hampton Street in Sag Harbor. Tickets are $10 for adults, $9 for grandparents, and $5 for children under 3. For more information or to make reservations, please call 725-4193 or visit http://www.goatonaboat.org
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Thursday
18Annual Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce Holiday Party and Annual Elections, to be held at Ziggy's Food & Drink, 964 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Tpke in Sag Harbor. Networking Hour (Cash Bar) from 6:30-7:30pm, followed by Dinner, Meeting and Elections. Hors d'oeuvres, Buffet Dinner, and Live Music for only $27 per person (Tax & Tip Included)!!! PLEASE R.S.V.P. by phoning Alan Fruitstone at 631-838-4945 or by e-mailing Alan at stone6739@aol.com
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Sunday
21Winter Solstice - The first Day of Winter Forefathers' Day
Monday
22Hannukah Begins - at sunset
Tuesday
23First Day of Hannukah
Wednesday
24Christmas Eve
Thursday
25Christmas Day
Friday
26Kwanzaa Begins Boxing Day
Saturday
27Holiday House Tour, sponsored by The Ladies Village Improvement Society of Sag Harbor, from 11am-4pm. Tickets may be purchased in advance for $35 at the Wharf Shop, on Main Street in Sag Harbor. On the day of the tour, tickets will be $40 and will be sold at the Annie Cooper Boyd House on Main Street. For more information, please call LVIS President Diane Lewis at 725-7984, or e-mail her at DRLbutterfly@aol.com.
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Tuesday
30Y.A.R.D.'s Winter Recess bus trip to the RINX, Long Island’s largest Ice Rink. This chaperoned holiday bus trip is offered to young people 11 years or older; younger children are welcome to join the group accompanied by an adult. Families Welcome! Enjoy an afternoon of skating and arcade fun for only $10.00, which includes transportation, admission, supervision and skate rentals (if necessary). You can take a break for lunch at the “Time Out Café”, their terrific snack bar. The bus will depart from the Pierson High School gym parking lot at 11:00am and will return by 4:00pm. Bring your own skates if you like. Reserve seats for you, your guests and your friends by calling D. Skinner at 725-5302, ext 750 or e-mail YARDDirector@aol.com and have a permission slip sent to you.
Wednesday
31New Year's Eve Spend the evening with family and friends, and make those New Year's Resolutions as you ring in 2009 !!!
- Don't forget your favorite Sag Harbor Restaurants as they provide fun and festive New Year's meals, fun, friendship, and a count-down to midnight!
Throughout
DecemberARF 2009 Benefit Calendars are on sale at area stores with all proceeds to benefit the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons. Calendars are being sold for $25 each, and are available at ARF's Adoption Center on Industrial Road in Wainscott, their Thrift Shop on Main Street in Water Mill, and in Sag Harbor at the BookHampton, Romany Kramoris Gallery and Sylvester & CO all on Main Street. For more information, please call 537-0400, or visit www.arfhamptons.org
Christmas Tree and Wreath Sale, Sponsored by the Sag Harbor Lions Club, through December 24th, from 10am-6pm. At the Windmill on Long Wharf. 725-0054.
Coat Drive, sponsored by the Sag Harbor "Old Whalers" Church. Bring your unwanted coats and jackets to the Church located at 44 Union Street, Sag Harbor. Items left in the basket outside the Church Office will promptly be brought inside within an hour of drop-off. Please use the office/side entrance. For more information, call 725-0894.
Community Care Giving Tree Program, to benefit Sag Harbor area families and children who are in need of assistance. Look in your local Sag Harbor business for a Community Care Tree Display, and choose from either:For a list of participating stores displaying the Community Care Tree, please call Lilliam Woudsma from the Sag Harbor Food Pantry at 329-2151 or Dr. John Gangemi from Release & Balance Chiropractic at 725-2117. Please be generous during the Holidays, a particularly difficult time of year for those less fortunate.
- Donation of a Toy for a Sag Harbor Child
- Monetary Donation to offset Heating Oil costs for a needy family, or
- Monetary Donation to the Sag Harbor Food Pantry
Country Lane's After-Christmas and New Year's Sales, all this week; 50% off all Christmas/Holiday items. And beginning January 3rd will be our annual storewide sale. Most, but not everything, will be on sale; pottery, some prints, shaker boxes, some quilts, folk art, etc. For more information, call Vicki Nolan at 725-8243 or visit Country Lane at 85 Main Street, on the corner of Washington Street in Sag Harbor.
"Customer Appreciation Day," coffee and donuts are served at Apple Bank, Main Street, Sag Harbor, the first Friday of each month, during lobby hours. In appreciation of all of our customers, both existing and new! Let us introduce ourselves to you! For more info, call 725-2200.
Dominican Sisters Thrift Shop, located on Washington Street in Sag Harbor, can be a great place to find your holiday gifts! Stop in and see for yourself!
Donate a Toy for the Holidays, a toy drive for local families in need, sponsored by the Batiste Salon, 75 Main Street in Sag Harbor, through December 17th. Bring new, unwrapped toys too the Salon, and they will be distributed through local charities, churches, and Southampton Hospital. For more information, please call the Salon at 725-9494.
Food Pantry Donations, for the Sag Harbor Community Food Pantry. Please be generous to those less fortunate than you, especially during the holidays! Non-perishable food donations are accepted at Apple Bank, Sag Harbor Village Hall, the Whaler’s Church and other Village locations. 725-0894.
Santa has an E-Mail Address! And he'd love to hear from you! Good boys and girls can write to him at therealsanta@optonline.net
Toys for Tots Drive, Sponsored by Sag Harbor Village and the Sag Harbor Fire Department Ladies’ Auxiliary. Bring toys or clothes to Village Hall, 55 Main Street, Sag Harbor, throughout the month of December. 725-0222.
New Year's
Day Events"Start Your New Year Right Trail Walk," by the North Haven Trails Association, starts at North Haven Village Hall, Ferry Road, North Haven, at 10:00am. Bring binoculars - Refreshments will follow. For more information call 725-4764.
Annual C.O.N.P.O.S.H. Open House, by the Community of Neighborhoods for the Preservation of Sag Harbor, from 2pm-6pm. For more information call 725-5257.
The Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce maintains its Calendar of Events pages for the promotion of community events taking place in the greater Sag Harbor/Noyac/North Haven areas, as well as events sponsored by Sag Harbor Chamber Members, regardless of the event location. We therefore reserve the right not to list events taking place outside of this area, or those sponsored by those businesses that are not Sag Harbor Chamber Members in good standing.
If your organization or business is hosting or sponsoring such an event, notify us by E-Mail at sagchamber@peconic.net, by Fax at either 725-3028 or 725-8245, or by Postal Mail at PO Box 2810, Sag Harbor, NY 11963.
Details of events and activities listed on our Calendar of Events pages are subject to change without notice by the event sponsor, including dates/rain dates, times, admission fees, attendance limits, or other restrictions. Please verify any and all details of an event before making arrangements to attend. The Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce provides details of events as a community service for informational and promotional purposes only, and should not be implied to be a co-sponsor of any event, unless otherwise specifically stated. The Chamber is neither responsible for, nor liable for any problems that arise between the patron and the sponsor.
Our Calendar of Events pages are updated as we receive notification of future events. For further information on any event, please contact the Event Sponsor first. , or the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce.
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