LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will present a full schedule of fall events and will be open five days a week through December 31. All are welcome to enjoy weekly programming for the whole family, current and permanent artworks on display, craft and making projects, and leaf peeping as the trees across 16 acres put on their annual fall foliage extravaganza.
On Thursday evenings through November, experience the power of plants and art at dusk as LongHouse extends hours until 7 PM. Each week is a special program — poetry and music on October 19, and a special evening honoring Día de Los Muertos on November 2, celebrating ancestors with Oscar Molina and his migration series of sculptures.
Fall Foraging allows visitors to touch and gather leaves, pine cones, and acorns to help create a community meditation circle, made from natural plant material. LongHouse will provide a basket for you to collect fallen leaves as you wander.
Halloween weekend kicks off with the annual party for dog friends, with Canines in Costume on October 28 from 10 AM to 12 PM, bring your furry friends to LongHouse dressed in their Halloween costumes for a romp on the great lawn, with treats, and companionship. This is a collaboration with ARF.
LongHouse Illuminated returns Friday and Saturday evenings in December on the 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, and 16. Visit LongHouse after dark and roam the garden paths lined with lights and glowing sculptures. NeoPolitical Cowgirls will perform Zima, as creatures in the woodlands while they roam the grounds. Warm up in the pavilion with a holiday market of festive music, food, drinks, and art and jewelry made by local artists.
Visit Wyatt Kahn’s three corten steel sculptures as part of Life in Abstract – Parade, Painting the Painter, Umbrella – in partnership with the Public Art Fund, Daniel Arsham’s Bronze Eroded Venus de Milo, Steven and William Ladd’s Right Here Right Now, and Maren Hassinger’s Monuments 3 and 6, woven from branches on the property.
Member Mornings are every Saturday from 10 AM to 12 PM, before LongHouse opens to the public. Come early for gentle yoga and meditation with Jason Amis, arts and crafts for kids with Shine Studio, and wandering the gardens before visitors arrive.
For more information visit longhouse.org.