Arts

While high-profile films and well-known actors and directors are an important part the Hamptons International Film Festival, the work of film artists who will define the future of the medium is likely to be found in the festival’s competition section, a category distinguished by its focus on emerging, often first-time, filmmakers who take risks and challenge cinematic conventions.

The indefatigable Joe Lauro will bring a new film compilation to the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor tonight at 8 as host of “Legends of Rock,” a celebration of the diversity and passion of American music

Music for Montauk will present the American String Quartet in a free concert at the Montauk School auditorium on Saturday at 5 p.m.

The annual Sag Harbor American Music Festival, a celebration of the community through live music, starts tonight and continues through Sunday. The weekend offers a headline concert and fund-raiser, an abundance of free performances by South Fork musicians, and a music-themed film.

“Harry and Snowman,” Ron Davis’s multiple-award-winning documentary about a Long Island horse trainer and an unkempt plow horse he rescued and turned into a national show-jumping champion, will make its theatrical debut tomorrow at venues across the country, including AMC Loews Stony Brook 17.

Canio’s Gallery in Sag Harbor will open “The Odd in the Ordinary,” a group exhibition of work by local photographers, with a reception tomorrow from 5 to 7 p.m. Organized by Kathryn Szoka, the exhibition reflects what six photographers see as they observe the East End. “Solarplate 2016,” a juried exhibition of Solarplate etchings will be on view at the Alex Ferrone Gallery in Cutchogue from Saturday through Nov. 13. Dan Welden, the originator of the Solarplate process and an internationally known printmaker, painter, and educator whose home and studio are in Sag Harbor, judged the exhibition.

The Rising Stars Piano series at the Southampton Cultural Center will feature the classical pianist Nicholas King on Saturday evening at 7. Mr. King, who performed during the 2015 Pianofest season, will juxtapose German, Slavic, and Nordic idioms in the program.

Our Fabulous Variety Show, an East End troupe of actors whose theatrical performances help raise money for nonprofit groups, will present “Neverlanded,” an original and contemporary take on J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan,” in four performances at Guild Hall this weekend.

Tito Batista and the Black Rose Orchestra will perform at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 8 p.m.

Throughout Bob Golden’s career, the musician and potter has reliably demonstrated a gift for creating opportunity, and, like any good drummer, his timing has been flawless.

The Parrish Art Museum and BOMB magazine are presenting a free reading at Marders in Bridgehampton on Saturday afternoon at 5.

The East Hampton Historical Society has announced an extended run of its exhibition “Living Well Is the Best Revenge: A Jazz Age Fable of Sara and Gerald Murphy.” The show will continue through Oct. 30, and two tours, led by the society’s director, Richard Barons, will take place, the first on Saturday at 10 a.m., the second on Oct. 29, also at 10. Laura Donnelly, the Murphys’ granddaughter and a food writer for The Star, will participate in the Oct. 29 tour.

Guild Hall’s JDTLab will present “Revisiting Steve,” a free evening of cabaret celebrating the musical theater career of Stephen Sondheim, on Tuesday at 7:30.

The Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival, to be held at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor from Dec. 1 through Dec. 4, has named Alex Gibney the winner of its 2016 Career Achievement Award.

A free concert by the classical pianist Quynh Nguyen will take place Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at the Montauk Library.

The East End Arts School is now offering music lessons for children and adults of all ages and levels at two locations: its main campus in Riverhead and its new satellite campus at the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center.

“Richard Pousette-Dart: The Centennial” has just opened and will be on view through Oct. 15 at the Pace Gallery in Manhattan. It is an opportunity to recall the art and career of Pousette-Dart, who died in 1992 at the age of 76.

Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater will hold a sneak preview of “Chapter & Verse,” a film by Jamal Joseph, an Oscar-nominated writer, activist, former Black Panther, and professor at Columbia University’s graduate film program, on Sunday afternoon at 2. A question-and-answer session with Mr. Joseph will follow the screening, which will benefit Impact Repertory Theatre and the Eastville Community Historical Society.

“Archaeology From Egypt to Your Own Backyard,” a talk by Stephen Harvey, an Egyptologist and director of the Ahmose and Tetisheri Project at Abydos, Egypt, will take place Sunday at 4 p.m. in the Havens Barn at the Shelter Island Historical Society.

A reception will be held tomorrow from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Art Barge on Napeague for “Art Sail,” a show by the Barge artists. Roisin Bateman and Mark Webber, two East End painters, will exhibit new work at the Jackson Carriage House in Amagansett tomorrow through Sunday, with a reception set for Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m.

“Break Out!,” a new two-woman play written and performed by Maggie Bloomfield and Susan Dingle, will be presented at the Southampton Cultural Center on Saturday evening at 7.

Will Ryan has had a few rough years, but even though the physical toll of his rare blood disease is still evident in his reed-thin physique, the vitality of his spirit is obvious.

The Hamptons International Film Festival, which runs from Oct. 6 through 10, announced the bulk of its lineup on Tuesday: 126 films from 32 countries, with 8 world premieres, 9 North American premieres, and 20 United States premieres.

The Hamptons International Film Festival announced some of its key films for this year’s event last week. On Oct. 6, it will open the festival in East Hampton with “Loving,” the story of the couple whose Supreme Court case did away with laws against interracial marriage in 1967. Directed and written by Jeff Nichols, it stars Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Marton Csokas, Nick Kroll, and Michael Shannon.

Samantha Hankey, a rising mezzo-soprano, will join a new chamber singing group from the Choral Society of the Hamptons at a benefit for the society on Sept. 24, to be held at the storied Woodhouse Playhouse in East Hampton.

Admit it, it’s been on your list since May, but did you actually go see the Dennis Oppenheim exhibition at the Storm King Art Center?

Francisco Roldan, a classical guitarist, and Elisabet Torras Aguilera, a dancer, will perform “Flamenco!” a free program of dance combined with the music of composers from Italy, Spain, and Central and South America, at the Montauk Library on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

In 1998, Sandy Tolan, an American journalist and author, met Ramzi Aburedwan, a 19-year-old Palestinian musician living at the time with his impoverished grandparents in a refugee camp near Ramallah on the West Bank. That meeting led to a piece on National Public Radio about the young musician with a dream of a career in music and “Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land,” Mr. Tolan’s 2015 book about Mr. Aburedwan and the broader social and cultural context in which his story has unfolded.

“My Lessons From Dogs,” a solo show written and performed by Patrick Christiano and directed by Kate Mueth, will be presented at Guild Hall on Sunday afternoon at 2. The program will benefit the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons.

The Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue has announced its 2016-2017 schedule, which will launch in timely fashion on Oct. 20, less than three weeks before Election Day, with David Mamet’s 2008 Oval Office satire, ”November,” a peek at one day in the life of an egomaniacal and beleaguered president seeing reelection.