Arts

If it is not quite yet the highest of the high season, no one told Guild Hall, which is planning an action-packed week of art and culture leading up to the July 4 holiday weekend.

It begins tomorrow with a party for those on the Garden as Art committee. It is not too late to join the event in a significant contributing capacity. Laura Perrotti at Guild Hall has more information. The party will be at a private residence in the Georgica Association; this year’s theme is toxic-free gardens. Edwina von Gal, the honorary chairwoman of the event, will be the featured guest.

 Nilson Matta, a creative force in the evolution and popularity of Brazilian jazz in the United States, will perform at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m. as part of its Jazz en Plein Air series.

Since coming to New York in 1985, Mr. Matta, a bass player, has worked with both American and Brazilian jazz luminaries and created his own musical signature.

The Golden Pear Café will serve beer, wine, and food throughout the evening. Seating is limited; first come, first served.

A concert of American music, including Broadway favorites, love songs, and patriotic tunes, will take place Sunday at 5 p.m. at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor. A supper of hot dogs and ice cream on the church lawn will follow the performance.

The Rev. Mark Phillips, church pastor, Dominick Abbate, music director, and David Cummings, bell choir director, planned the program, which they have informally titled “Music We Don’t Sing in Church.” In addition to the church’s voice and bell choirs, the concert will include two notable soloists, Michael Bodnyk and Susan Vinski.

Free outdoor concerts will rock Montauk’s village green and the dockside stage at Gosman’s this summer, starting at 6:30 p.m. Monday with a performance on the green by Joe Delia and Thieves. Also on the green, an open mike with Ray Red will happen Wednesday from 5:30 to 8 p.m.

The Gosman’s concerts will kick off July 6 at 6 p.m. with the Nancy Atlas Project. Gene Casey and the Lone Sharks, Mamalee Rose and Friends, HooDoo Loungers, and Randy Jackson will also perform on the dockside stage during the summer.

Text and subtext rule in Judith Hudson’s most recent work. First there was the “Sex Advice Drawings” series, beginning in 2008 and continuing up through the present. Now comes a related “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on view at Tripoli Gallery in Southampton.

Revolution, art, and puns by the dozen mark the premiere of Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties” at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor this week. In the play, Henry Carr, an English consular officer played by Richard Kind, tells of his relationships with James Joyce in the midst of writing “Ulysses,” Tristan Tzara as the Dadaist movement picked up speed, and Lenin at the start of the Russian Revolution.

King at Duck Creek

An exhibition of large-scale outdoor aluminum sculptures by William King will be held at Duck Creek Farm in Springs from Sunday through Aug. 4. An opening reception for the artist, a longtime resident of East Hampton, will take place Sunday from 4 to 8 p.m.

Founded in 1795, Duck Creek Farm was originally owned by three generations of the Edwards family. John Little, an East Hampton artist, purchased seven and a half acres of the property in 1948 and moved a 19th-century barn there. The Town of East Hampton bought the property in 2006.

Akiko Kobayashi, a violinist, and Eric Siepkes, a pianist, will give a free concert of works by Beethoven and DeFalla at the Montauk Library on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. The duo met at an international music festival in 2009 and have been performing together ever since.

East End filmmakers have been invited to submit short surf movies to be considered for “Atlantic Vibrations, Vol. 2,” an outdoor screening on the terrace at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill. The deadline for submissions is July 23; the program will take place Aug. 22. Filmmakers can send links to their videos and brief synopses to [email protected].

Bay Street Theater announced a series of new programs and changes last week. Some might appear cosmetic — a new name (Bay Street Theater and Sag Harbor Center for the Arts), a new mission statement, and a newly designed logo — but all are in line with two objectives: to make the theater a more inclusive place, while at the same time raising money for the nonprofit organization.

The next alumni concerts of the Perlman Music Program will take place tomorrow and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Clark Arts Center on Shelter Island. Tomorrow’s program will consist of solo repertoires. Saturday’s chamber music concert will feature Sean Lee and Areta Zhulla, violins; Jocelin Pan, viola; Talya Buckbinder, cello, and Peter Dugan, piano. The program will include works by Beethoven, Dohnanyi, and Schumann.

Tickets to each concert are $20 and can be purchased through perlmanmusicprogram.org or at the door. The concerts are free for ages 18 and under.

 “1 Way Up,” a documentary about two London teenagers struggling to escape their gang-torn neighborhood by competing in a BMX bike competition, will be screened at Guild Hall on Saturday at 3:30 p.m., in advance of its theatrical premiere in London.

Directed by Amy Mathieson, the film is a production of Shine Global, a nonprofit film production company in New York dedicated to ending the abuse and exploitation of children. Tickets to the benefit screening, at $25, $10 for children, are available at the Guild Hall box office.

Guild Hall’s exhibition program will kick into high gear this weekend, as three new exhibitions open Saturday, joining Arlene Slavin’s “Intersections,” which debuted last month.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill is introducing a series of lunchtime talks called “Brain Food: Conversations on Art,” led by Alicia Longwell, the museum’s chief curator. Each talk promises an informal gathering where participants can listen to an hourlong illustrated lecture and conversation on the museum’s exhibitions, publications, and artists who have work in the collection.

Maria Bacardi, a Cuban-born singer who lives in East Hampton, will perform “Romance and Rosés” at the Wolffer Estate Vineyard in Sagaponack next Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. as part of the winery’s Twilight Thursdays series. David Oquendo will accompany her on guitar.

Ms. Bacardi’s debut album, “Deseo,” released last year, is a collection of traditional ballads of love and longing performed in the Cuban bolero style and sung in Spanish, French, and English. The performance is free. Glasses and bottles of wine and cheese and charcuterie plates will be available.

Sandra Bernhard will bring her live show to Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater tomorrow at 8 p.m. The evening blends theater, rock ’n’ roll, and stand-up comedy with a soupcon of burlesque and cabaret.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons is joining forces with Guild Hall on Sunday to celebrate the life and music of Leonard Bernstein, with a 6 p.m. screening there of Susan Lacy’s “Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note” and a related panel discussion. On June 28, the choral society will present “Bernstein! From Bible to Broadway” at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.

Judith Hudson at Tripoli

“Judith Hudson: A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will open at Tripoli Gallery in Southampton tomorrow and remain on view through July 13. The exhibition consists of a series of watercolors that explore the humorous, lusty, and quixotic sides of Shakespeare’s comedy. A reception will be held on Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.

“Shakespeare is the master of one-liners,” said Ms. Hudson, who lives in Amagansett and New York City. “The flesh and fur and dreams and antics of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ are a bottomless resource, as are the digressions.”

The Hamptons International Film Festival SummerDocs series, hosted by Alec Baldwin at Guild Hall, kicks off Saturday with “Life Itself,” the first film to be made about the life of the late Roger Ebert, a film critic and media personality known for his work at The Chicago Sun-Times and on TV. After the screening, there will be a discussion with Chaz Ebert, Mr. Ebert’s widow.

“Travesties,” a Tony Award-winning play by Tom Stoppard, will begin performances on Tuesday at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. The play, directed by Gregory Boyd, is a partly imagined and partly historical realization of prominent figures living in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I.

There is a lot of white space in the work of both Matt Kenny and Adam Marnie, on view at Halsey Mckay gallery in East Hampton. Sometimes it seems the art is an extension of the wall, a way of lying on top of it while gathering its support. In the case of Mr. Marnie, it is the wall, playing with our notions of positive and negative space.

PechaKucha Night Hamptons will return to the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill for its eighth iteration tomorrow at 6 p.m. Consisting of rapid-fire presentations on the theme of living creatively on the East End, the program features 10 speakers, each of whom shows 20 slides for 20 seconds each, yielding a presentation lasting six minutes and 40 seconds.

Ballet Hispanico, widely recognized as the nation’s leading Latino dance company, will perform “Sortijas,” or “Rings,” a newly commissioned work by Cayetano Soto, a young Spanish choreographer, at Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater Saturday at 8 p.m. Founded in 1970 by Tina Ramirez, Ballet Hispanico’s mission is to explore, preserve, and celebrate Latino cultures through dance. The company, which has a diverse repertory of more than 100 works by some of the foremost choreographers of the time, has performed for nearly three million people in 11 countries.

Fans of “Antiques Road Show” can take their own trash or treasures to St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in Bridgehampton on Saturday. The event, Antique Treasures, will allow participants to take up to three items that they simply love and want to know more about, or hate but have kept because Grandmother said it was of great value. Either way, for $30, attendees can learn the truth about their keepsakes, which can be anything from decorative and fine arts to jewelry, silver, and small antiques.

Amanda Green’s spring “Trunk Show,” a performance by an ensemble of Broadway stars of songs cut from three of Ms. Green’s musicals, will take place June 23 at 7 p.m. at Birdland in Manhattan.

The Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival is accepting submissions until July 15 for its 2014 program, which will take place from Dec. 4 through Dec. 7 at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. The entry fee is $50 for features, $40 for shorts, $15 for student films. Priority is given to filmmakers with some connection to Long Island or New York City.

More information, including submission instructions, is available at ht2ff.com.

A free concert by Antonio Lysy, a cellist, and Neal Stulberg, a pianist, will be presented at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton on Sunday at 3 p.m. Works by Bach, Messiaen, Debussy, Veprik, Mansurian, and Schumann are on the program.

Mr. Lysy has performed as a soloist in concert halls worldwide. He enjoys exploring the versatility of the cello, from Baroque to electric. Mr. Stulberg is not only an acclaimed pianist but also a conductor who has led many leading international orchestras. Both artists are on the faculty of the U.C.L.A. Herb Alpert School of Music.

Artists on Inspiration

    “Unmasking the Muse: Inspiration in the Arts,” a panel discussion with Laurie Anderson, Andrea Cote, and Maria Maciak moderated by Marion Wolberg Weiss, will take place Saturday at 5:30 p.m. at the Pollock-Krasner House in Springs.

    Ms. Anderson, who has a house in Springs, is an internationally renowned experimental performance artist, composer, and musician whose work has extended the boundaries of performance for four decades.

To be a vital regional theater in America, the person in charge must be willing to take chances, to mine the theatrical landscape for new works he or she believes in. Scott Schwartz, the new artistic director at the Bay Street Theatre, has done just that, and has come up with a diamond in the rough in “Conviction,” a play by Carey Crim, with Mr. Schwartz directing. It received its world premiere on Saturday night.

“Occasional Music for Early Winds and Plucked Strings,” a free concert by William Feasley and Sarah Weiner, will take place at the Montauk Library Saturday evening at 7:30.

Mr. Feasley, the first guitarist to be awarded the Peabody Conservatory’s Artist Diploma, will play the theorbo, a long-necked string instrument, and a 19th-century guitar, in addition to the classical guitar. Ms. Weiner, who has performed both modern and classical music with ensembles around the country, will play baroque oboe and recorder.