Sag Cinema News
The Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center has taken two important steps toward its hoped-for late fall opening. Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan, who was the head of the cinema’s programming committee, has been named its founding artistic director. Ms. Vallan has served on the programming and selection committee of the Venice Film Festival since 2008.
The cinema’s fund-raising efforts will continue with an eBay for Charity auction that will go live on Wednesday and end at 4 p.m. P.S.T. on Sept. 4. A village-wide party will be held at Page Restaurant on Sept. 3. Ross Bleckner, David Salle, Eric Fischl, Cindy Sherman, and Laurie Simmons are among the more than 60 artists whose works will be for sale, along with a variety of unique experiences.
LongHouse Grant
LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton has been awarded a grant of $46,756.50 from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to enable it to expand its reach into the Eastern Long Island community. Aimed primarily at the immigrant population of the East End, the grant will help defray the costs of LongHouse’s Public Art in the Gardens program.
As part of its outreach efforts, LongHouse engages with underserved members of the community with informal talks, bilingual flyers, and free guest passes. It formed an alliance with an ESL class and offers complimentary bilingual tours for students and families.
Joel Sartore Talk
Joel Sartore, a photographer who has completed portraits of more than 9,000 species for the National Geographic Photo Ark exhibition now on view at the Southampton Arts Center, will make his first visit to the center on Saturday to sign copies of his Photo Ark books from 2 to 3 p.m. and give an illustrated lecture in the theater at 5:30. Tickets to the talk are $25, $20 for members.
“Dear Erich,” a jazz opera by Ted Rosenthal, will be presented Monday at 7 p.m. Mr. Rosenthal’s father, Erich, escaped Nazi Germany just before Kristallnacht, but the rest of his family was not so lucky. The opera addresses themes of war, refugees, survivor guilt, and the promise of a new world. Tickets are $30, $25 for members. A question-and-answer session will follow the performance.
‘College Behind Bars’
On Friday at 4:30 p.m., Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will hold a preview screening of “College Behind Bars,” a new documentary series directed by Lynn Novick and scheduled to be shown on PBS in November. The film explores the lives of a dozen incarcerated men and women as they struggle to earn college degrees in the Bard Prison Initiative.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Ms. Novick and two graduates of the initiative, Dyjuan Tatro and Sebastian Yoon. Tickets are $20.
Murder in Patchogue
A Hamptons Doc Fest screening of “Deputized: Como Pudo Pasar?” — a documentary about the 2008 murder in Patchogue of Marcelo Lucero, an undocumented Ecuadorean immigrant — will take place at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton on Monday at 7 p.m.
Prior to the killing, attacks on Latino immigrants by gangs of teenagers had been taking place for years in Suffolk County. Only after Jeffrey Conroy killed Lucero did the attacks gain widespread attention. The film includes interviews with the Lucero family as well as Mr. Conroy and his father. A discussion with Susan Hagedorn, the director, will follow the screening.
Two Concerts
The Montauk Library will host a jazz concert by Janice Friedman on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. and a program of blues and folk music by Michael Weiskopf on Wednesday evening at 7. Both programs are free.
A vocalist, pianist, and composer, Ms. Friedman will perform her new original jazz musical, “Salt Suite,” as well as an eclectic mix of jazz standards and Brazilian rhythms from her five albums.
Mr. Weiskopf will perform with Randolph Hudson III and Lauren Matzen, two band mates from the Complete Unknowns, a Bob Dylan tribute band. The program will include original material from his four albums as well as songs by Mr. Dylan, John Prine, and others.
Shakespeare in the Park
The Hip to Hip Theatre Company, which brings free professional productions of popular classics to typically underserved communities, will return to the Southampton Cultural Center with two Shakespeare plays. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will be performed Friday, and “The Tragedy of Richard III” on Saturday, both at 7:30 p.m. in Agawam Park.
The performances will be preceded at 7 by “Kids and the Classics,” 30-minute interactive workshops designed to give children ages 4 to 12 a chance to engage with the text by previewing the characters and situations.
Madoo and Perlman
The Madoo Conservancy and the Perlman Music Program are celebrating their 25th anniversaries with an exhibition of artworks by Robert Dash, Madoo’s founder, which is on view during the music program’s Stires-Stark Alumni Recital series at its Shelter Island campus.
The exhibition includes a group of lithographs Dash produced in 1971 with his friend the poet James Schuyler. The concert series will conclude with programs on Friday, Aug. 30, and Aug. 31.