Jazz on the Terrace, an annual summer series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, will open this year with “The Music of Burt Bacharach and Michael Jackson,” a performance by The Iris Ornig Group, tomorrow at 6 p.m.

Ms. Ornig is a bassist and composer who has been a fixture on the New York jazz scene since emigrating from Germany in 2003. Mr. Bacharach and Mr. Jackson have had a significant influence on Ms. Ornig, whose program will put their music through a creative jazz filter.

The band features Dave Smith on trumpet and flugelhorn, Jeremy Powell on tenor saxophone, Addison Frei on piano, Allan Mednard on drums, and Ms. Ornig on bass. Tickets are $12, free for members and students. The museum has recommended that guests bring chairs and blankets.

In connection with its exhibition of American landscape paintings by Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver, and Casey Chalem Anderson, Ille Arts in Amagansett will present a performance of folk and roots music by the Fairlane Family on Saturday night from 7 to 10. Dancing will be encouraged, and lemonade served. 

The Amagansett Library will present “Stage to Film,” a series of six movies adapted from plays, starting Wednesday at 7 p.m. with “Fences,” the Oscar-nominated film adapted by August Wilson from his own play. Subsequent programs will feature “Coriolanus,” “Glengarry Glen Ross,” “Raisin in the Sun,” “Marat/Sade,” and “Bug.”

As an added incentive, from 5:30 p.m., Felice’s, the Italian restaurant adjacent to the library, will include a complimentary glass of wine with dinner on Wednesdays upon presentation of a film ticket.

The Southampton Cultural Center will kick off its annual Concerts in the Park series with a performance by Nancy Atlas on Monday at 6:30 p.m. at Agawam Park. After the inaugural concert, programs will take place Wednesdays at 6:30 through Aug. 30, with Saturday concerts on Aug. 5 and Aug. 12 at 5. Three shows will happen at Cooper’s Beach in Southampton.

Gene Casey and the Lone Sharks will perform on Wednesday at Cooper’s Beach. Other programs will feature Vanessa Trouble, the David Glukh Klezmer Ensemble, Chiclettes, and Mambo Loco, among others.

What better way to welcome summer in the Hamptons than with “Surf Movie Night,” a free program of short, noncommercial surf movies that will be shown under the stars at the Southampton Arts Center tomorrow at 8:30. 

The program was created by the photographer and filmmaker Michael Halsband, who selected the films with Chris Gentile, the owner of Pilgrim Surf Shop, and Taylor Steele, a surf filmmaker. Guests have been advised to bring chairs, blankets, and picnics, unless it’s raining, in which case the screening will be held in the center’s theater.

On Sunday at 4 p.m. the center will co-present with Via Brooklyn “A Night of Hitchcock: Talk, Theater, and Screening of ‘The 39 Steps.’ ” A film historian will speak about Hitchcock’s legacy, the cast of Via Brooklyn will perform a teaser for their upcoming play at the center of ‘The 39 Steps,’ and the Hitchcock classic will be shown. Tickets are $35, $20 for children, and include concessions, wine, and beer.

Outdoor films are a South Fork tradition, one that dates back to 1955, when the Hamptons Drive-In opened in Bridgehampton on the site of the future Bridgehampton Commons. It closed in 1983, but recent summers have seen a proliferation of outdoor screenings at various South Fork locations.

As if its October festival and SummerDocs programs weren’t enough, the Hamptons International Film Festival is leading the way, with more than 25 showings in Montauk, East Hampton, and Southampton.

Its outdoor series launches at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter tomorrow with “Hook,” Steven Spielberg’s take on “Peter Pan” starring Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, and Julia Roberts. Screenings will happen every Friday evening at 7:45 outside the RECenter through Sept. 22.

Among the 13 titles on the Y.M.C.A.’s schedule are “Back to the Future,” “Little Shop of Horrors,” “Addams Family Values,” and “West Side Story.” The screenings are free, as is the popcorn.

As in years past, the Southampton Arts Center will turn itself into an outdoor venue with free films courtesy of HIFF. “Independence Day,” in which Bill Pullman, Will Smith, and Jeff Goldblum try to save the world, will open the series on Friday, July 7, at 8:30 p.m. 

Other titles include “Young Frankenstein,” “Airplane,” and “The Artist.” In what has become an annual tradition, the series will end with “Jaws” on Sept. 1. In the event of rain, screenings take place in the center’s theater.

Three  HIFF screenings will happen in Montauk, beginning July 16 at Gurney's with “Twenty Feet From Stardom." Also at Gurney's,  “Open Water” will screen on Aug. 13. The Surf Lodge will show “Searching for Sugar Man,” an Oscar-winning documentary, on Aug. 6.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will present a special outdoor program of film and music on Aug. 11. “Afripedia” will feature two 30-minute documentaries from Senegal and Ghana about Africa’s young generation that is challenging preconceptions and stereotypes. Concerts of African music by Ismael Kouyate and Band will take place at 7:30 and 9:30, bracketing the 8:30 screening.

Forever Bungalows on Route 114 in Sag Harbor has jumped on the bandwagon with five outdoor films set for Sunday evenings at 8. Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” will screen Sunday evening. Subsequent programs include “The Lost Boys,” “Mars Attacks,” “Hot Fuzz,” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel.”

Hamptonsdrivein.com, which provides the large, inflatable screens for many summer screenings, is another source of information, although details can be scarce. Outdoor screenings will take place at Amagansett Square on July 12, 19, 26, and Aug. 2. The John M. Marshall Elementary School has scheduled a screening for Sept. 8, and the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum will present “Emerging Artists in Film” on Sept. 9.

Several other venues that have held screenings in past summers, among them Cooper’s Beach in Southampton and the Mulford Farm in East Hampton, have yet to announce their plans.

As of press time, Marders in Bridgehampton had not determined if it will reboot its Films on the Haywall series, long a pillar of the South Fork’s outdoor screenings.

All venues suggest that viewers take beach chairs and blankets.

Guild Hall will hold a premiere screening of “Larsenworld: LongHouse in East Hampton” tomorrow night at 8. The 23-minute film chronicles the many facets of the career and dreams of Jack Lenor Larsen, the noted textile designer and collector who established the LongHouse Foundation, now LongHouse Reserve, in 1991.

The film will be followed by a panel discussion including Mr. Larsen, Eric Fischl, one of the artists featured in the film; Caroline Baumann, director of the Cooper-Hewitt-Smithsonian Design Museum, Ralph Gibson, a multimedia artist who composed the music, and Susan Wald and Edgar Howard, who directed the film. Andrea Grover, Guild Hall’s executive director, will moderate the discussion.

The program is free, but reservations are required.

Thirty years ago, Paul Schenly, an acclaimed classical pianist, injured a hand. From that acorn, the oak of Pianofest of the Hamptons grew. While Mr. Schenly was undergoing physical therapy in New York City, a friend suggested he escape its steamy summers and continue his recovery in the Hamptons.

“So I rented a small cabin on Three Mile Harbor,” he said during a recent conversation, “and I just fell in love with nature and the Hamptons. I thought it would be a wonderful place to start a sort of artists’ colony for pianists.”

He discussed the idea with several local people, and one, Bill Plate, was so enthusiastic about it that he offered to connect Mr. Schenly with others who might be helpful. 

Then, as now, he was teaching at the Cleveland Institute of Music during the academic year. The institute offered to lend him six pianos for the summer, which he trucked to East Hampton, and he found a house on Pantigo Road that was sturdy enough to house them.

From the beginning, Pianofest has offered concentrated study to a small group of pianists selected by audition, who are also given opportunities to perform at local venues. The program started with six students. Now in its 29th year, it has 26 students, 13 grand pianos, and receives several hundred applications a year.

“We don’t advertise,” Mr. Schenly said. “It’s all by word of mouth. This year’s group has students from 12 different countries and 22 different schools.” He noted that there are often students with double majors, usually coupling music with math or physics. This summer he has not one but two weightlifting champions, and a figure skater who was performing in Europe in “Holiday on Ice” when Mr. Schenly tried to contact him about travel arrangements.

“Concerning repertoire,” he said, “Pianofest decides on the program the night before the concert. Usually four or five pianists perform. The programs are selected based on what I hear during the week at lessons, on giving everyone performance opportunities, and on creating a balanced and entertaining program.”

This year, the program will present 14 concerts, starting Monday at 5:30 p.m. at the Southampton Cultural Center’s Levitas Center for the Arts. The concerts will continue twice weekly until Aug. 14, with programs in Brookhaven, Stony Brook Southampton, and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton. Tickets are $20; free for students with ID.

The artist Taryn Simon’s “The Innocents” opened at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Saturday. While the project dates from 2002, its subject is timeless: wrongful conviction for violent crimes and the subsequent reversal of those convictions because of DNA evidence. Ms. Simon photographed a number of those exonerated in locations that were significant to the case, such as the scene of the crime, the scene of the alibi, or the scene of misidentification.

Ms. Simon embarked on the undertaking by contacting the Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to exonerating wrongly convicted people through the use of DNA testing, and to reforming the criminal justice system. On Sunday afternoon at 3, Guild Hall will host a panel discussion featuring Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, the founders of the Innocence Project, and several of the people who have been found not guilty and freed. Ms. Simon will introduce the program.

Mr. Neufeld said during a telephone conversation that in the mid-1980s, he and Mr. Scheck tried to use DNA evidence to re-open an old conviction. Their request was denied. Soon thereafter, they were able to use it successfully, resulting in the overturning of a conviction.

“We said, wow! This has extraordinary potential, and we should do it,” said Mr. Neufeld. When they first set up the Innocence Project, they were on their own. They used the clinic at the Cardozo School of Law, which became their own freestanding clinic there. Eventually, they separated from the law school and set up as an independent nonprofit, yet remain affiliated with the law school.

“When we started, there was tremendous resistance, particularly on the part of prosecutors, who most of the time would not agree to post-conviction DNA testing. At that time there were no statutes on the books authorizing it, and judges were reluctant to do anything that wasn’t based on a statute.”

Judges eventually began to write decisions authorizing post-conviction DNA testing, after which Mr. Neufeld and Mr. Scheck were determined to get statutes passed by every state and by the federal government that would allow post-conviction testing. They were successful.

“A lot of what the project does is not simply getting old cases reopened and clients exonerated, it is also about examining those cases, deconstructing them, and seeking changes in the criminal justice system to make it more reliable, more scientific, and, ultimately, more just,” Mr. Neufeld said.

Both he and Mr. Scheck had been active in the civil rights and antiwar movements, “so the whole notion of social justice and criminal justice was pretty much ingrained in us.” They became acquainted when they worked as public defenders in the South Bronx in the 1970s.

The Innocence Project receives several thousand letters a year from inmates all over the country. An intake department sends out questionnaires, reviews them, analyzes initial investigation and court documents, and then decides whether to take the case.

“Taryn approached us with the idea a long time ago, and we were completely blown away. We had to get the subjects’ cooperation. As you can imagine, when you represent someone for five years who has been in prison for 25 years, they trust you. They thank God first, their mother second, and then the Innocence Project. That’s not bad.”

The subjects cooperated with Ms. Simon, and she became friendly with many of them. “They are extremely pleased with the photographs, and we at the Innocence Project found that the book of these photographs has been one of the most effective means of our reaching people and getting them to understand the phenomenon of wrongful convictions. So her art has been a tremendous tool for enlisting people in wanting to make criminal justice better.”

The program is free, but reservations are required.

Small is beautiful, even in the overheated atmosphere of a long South Fork summer. While two large tented art fairs have recently withdrawn from the summer social and commerce scene, a new, organically formed, and super-concentrated group of galleries is taking over the old Amagansett Applied Arts building’s top floor to mount its rendition of a Hamptons art fair‚ with just a dozen participants as of this writing. 

Taking place from July 14 to 16, the Upstairs Art Fair will have a salon feeling and include galleries from here or downtown New York City. All of the principals are friends or friendly, making it almost a family event. Although it will open on a Friday night from 6 to 10, with a V.I.P. preview from 4 to 6, no waiters will be pushing carts of Ruinart Champagne down the aisles or passing trays of catered canapes. The mood and style will be casual.

Harper Levine, who is organizing the fair with his friend Bill Powers from the Half Gallery in Manhattan, said the original intention was to serve as a satellite or alternative fair to the big tents. “We want to be a fair for the sake of the art, not a fair for the sake of a fair.”

Seeing the competition fall away was a surprise. “We didn’t plan it that way, but it’s interesting that we will now be the only one that weekend.”

But no one can be too surprised that the summer crowd had little time (aside from the opening night party) for the large but lackluster annual fairs that kept trying to separate billionaires and multimillionaires from their money. Still they persisted, until suddenly they just gave up. Art Hamptons cried uncle first, in February, and Art Southampton went public with its intention to dial it back just in the last few weeks.

Of the three fairs that battled it out in recent years, only one remains, Market Art + Design (originally known as ArtMRKT Hamptons). It will be open from July 6 to 9 on the Bridgehampton Museum grounds. Some 60 galleries and dealers are participating.

Mr. Levine said last week that he and Mr. Powers have been planning this for only a few months. “We were going to take the whole space, but it wasn’t practical, given our cost constraints. Then we thought it was interesting to use only the upstairs, and that gave us the name.”

They kept it small and between friends because of the intimate space. “It’s a beautiful old barn, once a center for ceramics, photography, printmaking, and other art.” The barn, on Indian Wells Highway, is rustic, and they want to keep that feeling. “There may be some minimal buildout to provide walls, but we want to maintain its original charm. The goal is to make it not look like the average art fair in a conventional hall or tent.”

The local galleries involved are Mr. Levine’s own Harper’s Books, the Rental Gallery and Halsey Mckay Gallery, his neighbors on Newtown Lane; and KARMA, with locations in Amagansett and New York. The other galleries include Ceysson Benetiere, Half Gallery, James Fuentas, Magenta Plains, New Release, Rachel Uffner Gallery, and Yours, Mine, and Ours gallery.

There is no curatorial theme, unlike some smaller (and even very large) fairs. “We don’t know what they’re bringing, but we are confident in the program of all of the galleries exhibiting. They may have different aesthetics, but all of them are more about the art and the artist than anything else,” Mr. Levine said. 

He expects that sales prices will vary from affordable to less so. “We very specifically tried to have low group rates for the galleries. It’s not a giant investment. The connoisseurship will be high, as well as the accessibility.” The fair should offer buying opportunities for the seasoned collector to the art fair neophyte, he said, and to people who appreciate art for what it is, not merely as decoration.

There will be no luxury cars or expensive jewelry on display and no related talks or other events. The fair will consist of anywhere from 100 to 200 pieces of art shown in a space with a “block party feel to it — fun, casual, approachable.”

Admission will be free and visitors will be welcomed to come browse straight from the beach or however else they wish to  present themselves. If the fair is successful, the partners will continue, but it is not likely they will ever be interested in corporate sponsors, marquee-name food partners (“They can always bicycle into Amagansett and get a dosa,” said Mr. Levine), or a crowd of white suits. They just want “a cool venue, good galleries, and interesting art.”