Trunk Show

A two-day trunk show featuring jewelry, apparel, paintings, photographs, ceramics, and books by nine South Fork artists will open tomorrow with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. at 21 Gould Street in East Hampton. The show will also be on view Saturday from 1 to 7 p.m.

Susan Nieland, who organized the exhibition, will show her handmade jewelry. Taylor Barton will be represented by “Pedro ’n’ Pip,” a book with music she calls a “rock ’n’ roll odyssey” for children. Judy d’Mello will bring organic cotton and silk tunics handwoven in India, while Sue Heatley will show artist-made scarves and wraps in silk, wool, and satin.

Abstract paintings by Janet Goleas and paintings and handmade ceramics by Rosario Varela will be on view, as will limited-edition archival pigment prints by the photographer Lindsay Morris. Jill Musnicki will also show limited-edition photographs, as well as handmade embroidered bags, and Anna Clejan will exhibit handmade ceramics.

Four at Ashawagh

Ashawagh Hall in Springs will present “Short Days,” an exhibition of work by Anahi DeCanio, John Todaro, Annie Sessler, and Sarah Jaffe Turnbull, on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 10 to 5. A reception will take place Saturday from 4 to 8.

A connection between nature and abstraction links the work of the artists. Ms. DeCanio will exhibit new abstract paintings, including her textured, layered, Zen landscapes. Mr. Todaro will show work from a new series of semi-abstract photographs with an emphasis on botanical forms.

Ceramic sculptures, monotypes, and solarplate etchings by Ms. Jaffe Turnbull reflect her interest in the interplay among color, light, and shape. Ms. Sessler’s Japanese-inspired ink impressions are hand-rubbed onto cloth.

Dragonetti at Quogue Library

Michele Dragonetti, a photographer who divides her time between Montauk and New York City, will exhibit selections from her ongoing Boat Hull series at the Quogue Library’s art gallery through Dec. 31. 

The series was begun among the marinas of Montauk, where Ms. Dragonetti was drawn to boats out of the water and in need of repair, and has expanded to include images from Sag Harbor, Noyac, Vermont, Connecticut, Los Angeles, and Portugal.

The Southampton Arts Center will present “An Evening of Cabaret With Valerie diLorenzo” on Saturday at 7 p.m. The actress and singer is a fixture at cabaret venues in New York City and on Long Island and has upcoming engagements in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., and Sacramento, Calif., among others.

Saturday’s program will feature both music and stories as Ms. diLorenzo muses on her love affair with the Great American Songbook and the history behind some of its iconic songs. Among the composers featured are Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, Kander and Ebb, Joni Mitchell, Irving Berlin, and Elvis Presley. The musical director Amanda Borsack Jones will accompany the singer.

Tickets are $20, $15 for senior citizens. Reservations can be made on the center’s website.

The Madoo Conservancy in Saga­ponack will hold its annual holiday market on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Among the gifts are gardening books, clove-studded apple pomanders, fresh-cut greens from the garden, Sneedboer garden tools, Madoo-grown paperwhites, and kindling made from cedar shakes from the center’s Summerhouse.

The Bridgehampton High School Band will perform holiday music, a bonfire will be blazing in the Temple, and hot cider or spiced mulled wine will help ward off the chill. The party is free. 

Also on Saturday, Andy Brand of Broken Arrow Nursery in Hamden, Conn., will conduct a wreath-making workshop. The $60 fee ($50 for members) includes materials from Broken Arrow and Madoo to make a unique wreath. Participants, who must register on the Madoo website, have been asked to bring pruners and work gloves.

The Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum will interrupt its winter hiatus with its third annual holiday cocktail party on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. Steve Shaughnessy will be playing jazz in the festively decorated Sage Parlor, where drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be on offer.

Items donated by the American Hotel, Wolffer Estate Vineyard, Baron’s Cove, Hampton Jitney, c/o the Maidstone, and Martha Clara Vineyard will be raffled off.  A new piece created by Bob Weinstein, and this year’s whale ornament, will be available. Tickets are $25 and can be secured from the museum’s website. All proceeds will go toward the museum’s capital campaign for restoration.

“Chopin and 19th-Century Paris,” a free concert by Anna Karkowska, a violinist, and her sister, Katarzyna Karkowska, a pianist, will take place at the Montauk Library on Saturday evening at 7:30.

The sisters, graduates of the Juilliard School and the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, will perform a selection of Chopin’s masterpieces, arranged for piano and violin by Pablo de Sarasate and Anna Karkowska, as well as music of his contemporaries. By including humorous commentary in the program, the sisters will explore the life and times of the composer as well as his music.

The library will also present a recital by the piano students of Marlene Markard and Ellen Johansen of East Hampton on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. A reception will follow.

The Hamptons International Film Festival’s Screenwriters Lab is now accepting submissions for its 2017 program, which will take place from April 7 through April 9 in East Hampton. The lab develops screenwriting talent by pairing emerging screenwriters with established writers and producers.

The lab looks for a broad selection of screenplays that address a wide range of subject matter. Mentors advise in a one-on-one creative laboratory setting, while additional events bring the participants together with board members, sponsors, the local artistic community, and other friends of the festival.

Submission is by Withoutabox, which can be accessed through the festival’s website. The early bird deadline is Dec. 5, the regular deadline is Dec. 19, the late deadline is Jan. 2, and the extended deadline is Jan. 16.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will host a stop-motion animation workshop tomorrow evening from 6 to 8 p.m. Led by Laura Bellmont of the Good School, participants will use professional animation software, explore animation methods and materials, and collaborate with other guests. The cost is $10, free for members, and cocktails will be available for purchase.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will celebrate the holiday season on Sunday afternoon with two performances, at 3 and 5:30, at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church. The program includes Mozart’s Missa Brevis in F, Bach’s Cantata No. 61, festive works by Purcell and Schutz, and Christmas carols.

Led by their music director, Mark Mangini, the singers will be joined by the soloists Rada Hastings, soprano; Nils Neubert, tenor, and Jason Eck, bass-baritone, and the strings of the South Fork Chamber Ensemble.

The 5:30 performance will be followed immediately by a free holiday reception at the Parish Center of Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Church in Bridgehampton. The evening will include homemade food, wine from Channing Daughters Wintery, a carol sing-along, and a silent auction.

Written when Mozart was only 18, Missa Brevis in F, K. 192, is one of the era’s most beautiful settings of the Mass in miniature. Members of the chorus will participate as soloists in this piece. Henry Purcell’s “Behold, I Bring You Glad Tidings,” Heinrich Schutz’s “Hodie Christus Natus Est,” and the Bach cantata will complete the program. 

Ms. Hastings, who lives in New York City, performs frequently on both the operatic and concert stages. She has appeared in recital in Trinity Church’s Noonday Concert Series and at the Liederkranz Foundation and Estonian House. In addition, she has performed with the Opera Theatre of Connecticut, Liederkranz Opera Theater, Amato Opera, and the Greenwich Village Chamber Singers.

A frequent soloist with the choral society, Mr. Neubert is a sought-after interpreter of Lieder, oratorio, opera, and chamber music, and a frequent guest at international music festivals. A doctoral candidate at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, he teaches at the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, the Mannes School of Music, and the Music Academy of the West.

Mr. Eck has sung with the Opera Theatre of St. Louis as the Sergeant of Police in “The Pirates of Penzance” and as Angelotti in the Atlanta Opera’s production of “Tosca.” He studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Indiana University, where he was bass soloist in Arvo Part’s “Passio” and in Giuseppe Verdi’s “Requiem.”

Mr. Mangini is one of New York’s most active choral conductors and is the founder and music director of the Greenwich Village Chamber Singers. His repertory ranges from the pre-Bach era to numerous commissions of contemporary works.

Tickets to individual concerts are $30 in advance, $35 at the door, and, for youth, $10 and $15. Preferred seating is $75. Tickets and information are available at choralsocietyofthehamptons.org.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons is an auditioned chorus that performs with professional conductors, soloists, orchestra, and accompanists. It has presented high-quality choral music on the East End of Long Island since the late Charlotte Rogers Smith, a local choir director, founded it in 1946.

Our Fabulous Variety Show will present a double-barreled sendup of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” this weekend at Guild Hall, starting tomorrow evening at 7:30 with the first of three performances of “The New Christmas Carol.” 

Written by Anita Boyer and Kasia Klimiuk, the founders and artistic directors of the Southampton theatrical troupe, “The New Christmas Carol” is the story of Neeza Scrooge, the daughter of Ebenezer, of whom Dickens was apparently unaware. A student at Dickens High School, where her father is the principal, Neeza is torn between staying true to herself or trying to fit in with the more popular students.

The production visits Neeza’s past, present, and future, with appearances by Jacob Marley McFly, the Ghost of ’80s Past, the Cratchit children, Scrooge’s sister Fan, and others. A typical O.F.V.S. mash-up, “The New Christmas Carol” includes cheerleaders, carolers, a slumber party, an appearance by Lady Gaga (Ms. Klimiuk), and plenty of dancing. Other performances will take place Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at 2.

A second piece, “How Scrooge Stole Christmas,” inspired by Dr. Seuss’s “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” will play on Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday evening at 6. Anthony D’Alessio portrays the miser in both plays. According to the troupe’s website, their 16th production is a “hilarious and thrilling cabaret-style adventure to destroy Christmas” that asks the question, “How deep will Scrooge sink?” Tickets to each show range from $20 to $50.

A third O.F.V.S. production, “Holidays With Raffa,” forsakes Christmas and Dickens for a performance by Danny Ximo of DEOX RAFFA on Saturday at 9 p.m. The show will consist of Broadway show tunes, slam poetry, and Mr. Ximo impersonating Liza Minelli, Tina Turner, Raffaella Carrera, and other well-known divas. Several local musicians, actors, and dancers round out the program, which pays homage to the traditional vaudeville variety show. Tickets are $20.

“Songwriters in the Round,” a concert hosted by Caroline Doctorow and featuring three other singer-songwriters, will take place Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett. Hugh Prestwood, Mary Ann Rossoni, and Mike Laureanno will share the stage with Ms. Doctorow for an evening of music rooted in folk, blues, and country. 

A member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame who was discovered in 1978 by Judy Collins, Mr. Prestwood has written hits for Randy Travis, Trisha Yearwood, Michael Johnson, Shenandoah, and Crystal Gayle. 

Ms. Rossoni is noted for her narrative songwriting style and her comfortable onstage delivery. Her songs, many of which tell of life in New England, blend storytelling with country, blues, and folk.

Mr. Laureanno is a 2016 Kerrville New Folk finalist and a 2016 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival songwriting contest winner. He is also a recording engineer, producer, and veteran sideman.

A mainstay of the East End music scene, Ms. Doctorow has recently released a new album, “Dreaming in Vinyl,” which has climbed to number two on the folk radio airplay chart. She has released 11 solo albums, and her work appears on dozens of albums by other singer-songwriters, and on several film and television sound tracks.

Tickets are $15.