“ColorPop” Pops Up

Folioeast will open “ColorPop,” an exhibition of work by Peter Dayton, Janet Jennings, and William Pagano, at Malia Mills on Main Street in East Hampton with a reception Saturday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Organized by Coco Myers and Kay Gibson, the show will continue through Feb. 4.

Mr. Dayton will present works from his “Rockets” series, brightly colored hard-edged forms that appear poised to take flight. Ms. Jennings’s recent oils and watercolors in “ColorPop” feature geometric blocks and bands of color. Color and geometry also figure prominently in Mr. Pagano’s works, which are executed in oil and in dye sublimation on aluminum.

Drawing Botanicals

The Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons will hold a workshop devoted to drawing botanicals on Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at the John LoGerfo library at the Bridgehampton Community House. 

Led by Andrea Cote, a multidisciplinary artist and art educator, the class will focus on the basic skills and techniques for drawing from life and will encourage personal expression. No prior art experience is necessary, and participants have been encouraged to make use of a favorite plant, flower, or clipping. 

The cost is $25, $20 for members, and $15 for premium members.

A production of “Crimes of the Heart” — the winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize — will be presented at the Southampton Cultural Center from Friday through Jan. 28. The dark comedy, written by Beth Henley, focuses on a trio of young sisters in Hazlehurst, Miss., who are struggling with a variety of existential woes ranging from relationship troubles to professional failures. 

First staged at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, “Crimes of the Heart” moved to Off Broadway, then Broadway, and was eventually made into a feature film in 1986 starring Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, and Sissy Spacek. Directed by Joan M. Lyons, the S.C.C. production stars Bonnie Grice, Tina Realmuto, Mark Strecker, Deyo Trowbridge, Josephine Wallace, and Kristin Whiting. Performances are Thursdays and Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. General admission tickets are $25, and student and group rates are available.

An Oscar-winning epic, a teenage odyssey, and a series of power struggles will play out on screen during this year’s East Hampton Library Winter Film Festival, which presents free showings of six foreign films starting on Sunday at 2 p.m. with the Colombian feature “Bad Lucky Goat.” Curated by the head of adult reference, Steven Spataro, the festival will continue on Sunday afternoons through the end of February. All films will be presented with English subtitles.

Released in 2017, “Bad Lucky Goat” is set on an island in the Colombian Caribbean, where two teenage siblings inadvertently kill a goat while driving their father’s truck. The accident sends the duo on a comedic quest to get the truck repaired in time to pick up tourists arriving for a stay at their family’s hotel.

“Afterimage,” the last work from the late Polish director Andrzej Wajda, is a 2017 biopic that focuses on the life of the Russian-born, avant-garde painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who lost both an arm and a leg fighting in the tsar’s army during World War I, but would later battle the rise of Stalinism in Poland. It will be shown on Jan. 21.    

Set in 1983, “The Teacher,” screened on Jan. 28, is a 2016 Czech satire about a middle school teacher who uses her power over her pupils’ grades to extract favors from their parents. Because the teacher is a ranking member of the Communist Party, the parents must make a choice: accept the injustice in order to appease the powers that be, or take a stand and risk reprisal.  

The 2016 Bulgarian film “Glory” is next up on Feb. 11. It tells the story of a railroad worker who finds a pile of cash on the tracks and alerts the police rather than pocketing it. The hero’s good deed gets him entangled with the corrupt Ministry of Transportation, which sets off a series of mishaps including the loss of his prized possession — a Russian watch (the brand name Slava translates to “glory”) given to him by his father. 

The 1966 Mexican film “Time to Die” — whose screenplay was written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez — is a classic tale of revenge. After serving a sentence for killing a man in a duel, Juan Sayago heads back to his hometown, hoping to live a quiet life. The sons of the man he killed, however, have been awaiting retribution. A “High Noon”-style showdown ensues. This one will be shown on Feb. 18.

The festival concludes on Feb. 25 with “Pelle the Conqueror,” a sweeping turn-of-the-20th-century drama starring Max von Sydow as a farmhand (and recent widower) who brings his son, Pelle, from Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life only to find a new world of hardships to overcome. The Danish-Swedish co-production was the winner of the 1989 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.­

Cracked Actor, a group of local musicians who come together every so often to do a tribute to a dear departed rock legend, is setting its sights on Lou Reed and his work with the Velvet Underground on Saturday at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett.

Led by Carlos Lama and featuring G.E. Smith and The Star’s own Christopher Walsh, Jack Marshall, Kevin Foran, Chris Clark, and Anthony Genovesi, the group will play selections from the studio albums “The Velvet Underground and Nico,” “White Light/White Heat,” “Loaded,” “The Velvet Underground,” and Reed’s solo album “Transformer.”

Mr. Lama said that the concert was “a natural extension of Cracked Actor performing the music of David Bowie, since the Velvets influenced him immensely, and because Bowie produced Lou’s second solo album, ‘Transformer.’ ” He added that Mr. Smith was a huge fan of the band dating from childhood, and would listen to it rehearse from the street outside of a New York City club called the Dom. 

Mr. Lama said he envisions the show as a 1960s happening complete with the kind of light and sound experience the Velvets provided early on with Andy Warhol’s Plastic Exploding Inevitable.

The show is at 8 p.m. and admission is $10.

Guild Hall has four grants totaling $125,000 that will support both its educational programming and the digitization and interpretation of its permanent collection, it announced this week.

The Hearst Foundation, which provides funding for nonprofit organizations and institutions working in the fields of education, health, culture, and social service, has awarded Guild Hall $50,000 to broaden its on-site and in-school arts programs for kindergarten through 12th grade, including its Drama Literacy, Project Hero, Word Up!, ArtLink, Student Art Festival, Teen Arts Council, artXchange, and a professional production of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” incorporating local high school students in paid roles as members of the cast and crew.

Two grants, $50,000 from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation and $20,000 from the Gerry Charitable Trust, will support the creation of a publicly accessible, searchable, online database of the 2,400 works in the museum’s permanent collection that will be an important resource for the study of eastern Long Island’s legacy as an art colony.

The Robert Lehman Foundation has awarded a $5,000 grant toward the museum’s 2018 exhibition “The Artist Curated Collection,” the first in a new series that will invite artists whose work is included in Guild Hall’s collection to organize exhibitions that draw upon the the museum’s holdings to interpret and inform art history. Bryan Hunt will serve as curator for the inaugural show.

The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation primarily supports the study of New York State history, which was the personal passion of Gardiner, who was the 16th Lord of the Manor of Gardiner’s Island until his death in 2004. 

Robert Gerry, a New York oral surgeon and preservationist, established the Gerry Charitable Trust to support preservation projects. 

The Robert Lehman Foundation enhances the role of the visual arts within American and world culture by supporting museum exhibitions, art education programs, scholarly publications, and lectureships.

Although midterm elections are almost a year away, every move on the political chessboard — Doug Jones’s recent victory in Alabama among them — is being closely scrutinized by the press for indications as to which way the electorate is likely to vote in November.

In our country’s volatile political climate, much can happen between now and next summer, but one sure thing is that politics will even more thoroughly saturate the media as the elections approach. It is fitting, then, that the summer season at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will feature three plays steeped in political issues that are timely as well as timeless.

The season will open on May 29 with the world premiere of “Fellow Travelers,” a new play by Jack Canfora that examines the relationship between Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan and their close connection to Marilyn Monroe. 

Kazan directed Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” on Broadway in 1947, and both espoused radical politics, but in 1952, when they were summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Miller refused to name names and received a suspended jail sentence, while Kazan identified 17 onetime members of the U.S. Communist party he had worked with, among them Clifford Odets.

The summer schedule will also feature “Frost/Nixon,” Peter Morgan’s play based on a series of interviews with former President Richard Nixon conducted by the British journalist David Frost and broadcast on television in four programs in 1977. 

“Evita,” Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice’s musical about the rise of Eva Peron from a provincial teenager with dreams of a better life in Buenos Aires to the wife of President Juan Peron of Argentina, will conclude the Mainstage Season in August.

“When I was finalizing the season with the team at Bay Street, it became pretty clear that it was a season about politics,” said Scott Schwartz, the theater’s artistic director. “What I like is that none of the plays is specifically about today, but, whatever your political affiliation may be, whatever your beliefs about our current politics, these plays raise questions of morality and questions of truth that have been around a long time but are still relevant.”

“Fellow Travelers” came to Mr. Schwartz’s attention through Leonard Soloway, a well-known Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning producer who lived in East Hampton. “I thought the story of these artistic giants and how the politics of their time basically destroyed their relationships but also inspired them to create some of their greatest work was fascinating.”

“Fellow Travelers” is a five-actor play, though there are more than five characters. The prime figures are Kazan, Miller, Monroe, and Harry Cohn, who was the head of Columbia Pictures until his death in 1958. “It’s beautifully written,” Mr. Schwartz said, “and it has a lot to say about morality in the arts and our responsibility to ourselves as opposed to our responsibilities to our communities in the face of very strong political winds.”

Regarding “Frost/Nixon,” Mr. Schwartz said, “It’s kind of a wonderful boxing match of a play between Frost and Nixon, but it’s also about how television and politics relate and a bit of a critique of the media and of how television necessarily oversimplifies everything.”

“ ‘Evita’ is such a great musical, and I’m excited by the opportunity to see this show, which is usually presented on a very large scale, in our intimate space, where you can get up close to the characters and see the sweat and passion and energy.” He noted that the production would include a lot of dance, especially Argentinean tango.

“It’s a show not only about the rise of Eva Peron, but of a whole new populist political movement in Argentina. And Eva Peron’s is a fascinating journey to watch with the #MeToo movement and the whole issue of women and men in the work force and in politics.”

Mr. Schwartz stressed that while the three plays address political issues, they are powerful theatrical experiences. “They’re all kind of crackling, sort of wrestling matches of plays. There’s a muscularity to all three of them, they’re fun, they’re dramatic, they’re tense. I think it’s a summer that will give everyone an exciting ride.”

New Perspective on Flavin

“Dan Flavin, to Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, Master Potters,” the first exhibition to bring together Flavin’s work with that of the two renowned European ceramicists, is on view at the Vito Schnabel Gallery in St. Moritz, Switzerland, through Feb. 4. For those fortunate enough to be in the neighborhood, a reception will be held tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m.

The show includes 18 of Flavin’s fluorescent light works from two 1990 series dedicated to the Vienna-born Rie and her German protégé, Coper, as well as 15 vessels from his personal collection of objects by the two late artists. Organized in collaboration with Stephen Flavin, president of the Flavin estate, the exhibition “has been conceived to explore affinities between three artists who employed dramatically different mediums to establish and redefine space and to investigate issues of materiality, harmony, and permanence,” according to the gallery.

Flavin lived in Bridgehampton from 1972 until his death in 1996.

A Call for Submissions

The White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton has invited painters, mixed-media artists, photographers, and sculptors to submit work for “Flow,” an exhibition that will be on view there from Jan. 26 through Feb. 11. The deadline for up to three images is Jan. 18. More information, including requirements and fees, is available by emailing [email protected].

As in years past, Nancy Atlas and her band will turn Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor into a refuge from winter’s chill with six evenings of rock ’n’ roll starting Saturday at 8 with “A Night of Revelry With Danny Kean” and continuing with five Fireside Sessions in January.

The Nancy Atlas Project has been a fixture on the East End music scene for more than 20 years. Since buying her first guitar in London at the age of 19, she has opened for such icons as Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, Jimmy Buffett, Toots and the Maytals, and Crosby, Stills, and Nash, to name a few. 

Mr. Kean is a singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and actor who has been performing professionally since he was a teenager. He appears regularly at clubs and festivals in the New York City area and in June released “Here It Is,” an album that draws from R&B, early Motown, classic soul, funk rock, and neo-soul.

Tickets are $30 in advance, $40 the day of the show.

Michael Halsband was barely a year out of art school when an assignment to photograph Keith Richards for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine led to an invitation from Mick Jagger to photograph the Rolling Stones’ 1981 North American “Tattoo You” tour. In addition to using his motor-driven Nikon, Mr. Halsband experimented with a movie camera, but he determined that footage would not serve the assignment. 

That concert footage, which remained unseen for more than 30 years, will be shown for the first time on a large screen Friday at 7 p.m. at the Southampton Arts Center on Job’s Lane, accompanied by live narration by Mr. Halsband and music by the band. Tickets are $5.

The program is presented in conjunction with the “Halsband Portraits” exhibition, which is on view at the center through Sunday, when Mr. Halsband will be on hand for a free gallery tour and champagne toast at 2 p.m.

For more than 20 years, David Milarch has devoted his life to cloning and propagating ancient trees in an effort to restore old-growth forests and reduce the effects of climate change. The Sag Harbor Partnership, which has been engaged in its own restoration effort on behalf of the Sag Harbor Cinema, will present a screening of “The Tree Prophet,” a film about Mr. Milarch by Christian Scheider and Tucker Marder, on Saturday at 5 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church in Sag Harbor. A benefit for the partnership, the program will include a discussion with the filmmakers and the science writer Carl Safina.

Mr. Milarch’s crusade, which initially defied the prevailing scientific opinion that old-growth trees such as redwoods and sequoias could not be cloned, emerged from a vision he had in 1992, when he was so seriously ill that his heart stopped for 12 minutes. At various points in the 28-minute film he talks about the mission of his Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, which is based in Copemish, a small town in northern Michigan, in spiritual, even biblical, terms.

“We built this ark,” he says. “We’re leading the genetics of the greatest trees on earth two by two onto this ark for the same purpose Noah was instructed to lead the animals two by two.” Only 2 percent of original old-growth forests remain in the United States, and even fewer in the United Kingdom. “We’ve cut the mother trees — the best — and left the rest, the junk,” resulting in the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the depletion of oxygen in the planet’s oceans.

The tree archive has not only successfully cloned the world’s oldest and largest trees, it also created the first “super grove” of cloned coast redwoods and giant sequoias in Oregon. 

Mr. Milarch’s project came to the attention of the filmmakers, both of whom grew up on the East End, when the archive heard about the redwoods at the  LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton. 

“They were interested in trying to clone them because of their hardiness,” Mr. Marder said. “Normally, redwoods can’t live on the East Coast, but LongHouse has five that are about 30 feet high.” The archive contacted Charlie Marder of Marders nursery in Bridgehampton, “and David had an effect on my dad, who suggested Christian and I make a film about him.” Charlie and Kathleen Marder produced it.

“David is sort of a polarizing figure in the scientific community because he has an evangelical spirit,” said Mr. Scheider. “But he also has a hell of an idea when it comes to a scientific hypothesis that came to him not as a scholar but as a nurseryman from northern Michigan. His is a rare combination of a sort of born-again religious fervor and science. I think it’s a healthy marriage.”

The filmmakers spent 10 days in Copemish, where Mr. Milarch and his family live. They also traveled from Los Angeles to Portland, Ore., filming the oldest, tallest, and largest trees in the world.

“The Tree Prophet” was screened at the Santa Monica Film Festival and has been accepted by the San Francisco Independent Film Festival. In keeping with Mr. Milarch’s spiritual fervor, the film’s score, composed by Forrest Gray, consists primarily of choral singing and organ. The filmmakers hope to arrange a tour of the film to churches and other religious spaces around the country, where the score would be played by live church organ whenever possible.

Tickets for the screening and panel are $40; $150 includes admission to a reception with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres that will follow the panel at 6:30 at the Beebe House in Sag Harbor.