The Watermill Center is shedding the relatively low profile it has maintained for the past few weeks with a weekend of open studios and rehearsals by resident artists, a guided tour of the facility, and the second installment of its spring International Brunch series.

Joss Lake, a novelist interested in expanding the form by destabilizing gender, time, and the boundaries between the self and other, will read from his novel-in-progress and discuss the ideas behind and sources of his writing tomorrow from 6 to 7 p.m.

Hans-Jörn Brandenburg, a German musician and composer and frequent collaborator of Robert Wilson, the center’s founder and artistic director, will present his theatrical work “pian-O-pera” in an open rehearsal from 7:30 to 8:30 tomorrow evening. Mr. Brandenburg’s research centers on musical restrictions that create and control movements and spatial arrangements.

Netta Yerushalmy, a dancer and choreographer who has worked in New York City since 2000, will present an open rehearsal on Saturday from 3 to 4 p.m. of “Paramodernities,” a series of dance experiments that deconstruct modern dance choreographies, performed along with the contributions of writers, philosophers, and historians who situated these works within the larger project of modernity.

Armando Mariño, a visual artist from Cuba, will open his studio on Sunday afternoon at 3. During his residency, he has continued to develop “Sweet Dreams,” an installation of 20 to 25 hand-painted mattresses, each of which contains a realistic portrait of a notable 20th-century political figure, among them Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Stalin, Qaddafi, and others.

A tour of the center’s building, grounds, gardens, and collection, which consists of more than 8,000 pieces collected by Mr. Wilson over the past 50 years, will be offered at 1 p.m. on Saturday. On Sunday at noon, Eva Schmidt, the center’s chef, will prepare a brunch inspired by the food culture of the East End.

All programs and events are free, but reservations are required.  .

The Montauk Music Festival’s seventh annual happening heralds summer’s imminent arrival, as the four-day event draws hundreds of artists and thousands of music lovers to the hamlet on the weekend before Memorial Day. 

Some 365 sets by more than 85 artists, from soloists to full bands, will be performed across 40 venues. This year’s festival features a wealth of talent hailing from the South Fork, including Megan Leonardo, Whaleheart, Hopefully Forgiven, and the Montauk Project, and from as far west as Texas and Colorado. The full lineup and schedule is at montaukmusicfestival.com.

“It’s definitely receiving more attention each year,” said Kenny Giustino, the festival’s founder. “Every year tops the last, which is hard to do, but that’s what’s been happening.” 

The party kicks off with tonight’s opening event at Gurney’s Resort. The $45 admission includes live music on two stages, hors d’oeuvres, and festival sponsors’ liquors and beers from 8 until midnight. All other performances are free. Those attending performances at a new stage this year, at the Montauk Lighthouse, must pay the landmark’s standard admission, Mr. Giustino said. On Saturday and Sunday, the Montauk Friends of Erin will host a barbecue on the downtown green with beer, wine, and soda, proceeds benefiting its charitable endeavors. 

The preseason festival provides a financial windfall for the hamlet’s many hotels, restaurants, and bars, with hotel occupancy jumping from around 20 percent to capacity, according to Mr. Giustino, who is also the founder and publisher of The Montauk Sun. “People can enjoy the different restaurants and bars. We hope they support the musicians, maybe by buying their CDs, because they’re getting all this great music at no charge.” 

Montauk residents are also big fans of the festival, he said. “It’s one of their favorite weekends,” and one that brings a different kind of visitor to the hamlet. Mr. Giustino allowed that “all the hoopla about Montauk” — the hamlet’s recent reputation for riotous behavior by summer visitors — is overblown, “but this is definitely a different crowd. They’re music-lovers, looking to see something new and exciting.” 

Meghan Trainor, whose song “All About That Bass” was one of the biggest singles in 2014, performed in the festival’s second year. “That was fun that she became famous,” Mr. Giustino said. “That’s what people are always looking for, to see something that hasn’t been discovered yet, and they’re the ones that can say they saw it at the festival.” 

The Rising Stars Piano Series at the Southampton Cultural Center will conclude its spring season with a piano concert by Jiayin Shen on Saturday at 7 p.m.

Ms. Shen recently returned from her native China, where she performed to sold-out houses with the Yantai Symphony Orchestra. The holder of a doctorate from the Peabody Conservatory of  Johns Hopkins University, she has toured extensively throughout China, Germany, Switzerland, England, Norway, Canada, and the United States.

In addition to her solo recitals, she is active in chamber music performances and piano duo ensembles, and has collaborated with musicians from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. She is an alumna of Pianofest of the Hamptons.

Tickets are $20, free for students under 21.

Classical piano will be featured at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m. when Yoonie Han, an award-winning soloist, will wrap up the museum’s Salon Series for the season. 

Ms. Han has garnered first prizes in competitions in Washington, D.C., Fayetteville, Ark., the Juilliard School, Cincinnati, and in 2009 was honored with the Gawon Music Award as the “most brilliant pianist aged 17 to 31 of any nationality who possesses the most promising potential for global prominence.”

Her Parrish concert will span nearly 300 years of Western music, with compositions by Bach, Liszt, Saint-Saens, Jean Sibelius, and Arvo Part, a contemporary Estonian composer. 

Tickets are $20, $10 for members and students.

The Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue will present “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” a Drama Desk and Tony Award-winning comedy by Christopher Durang, beginning next Thursday at 7 p.m. and continuing through June 12.

Mr. Durang, who is known for his outrageous and often absurd comedy, has insisted that the play is not a Chekhov parody, despite some apparent similarities. He said he took Chekhov scenes and characters “and put them in a blender.”

The story revolves around Vanya, his adopted sister, Sonia, and Masha, a third sibling, who visits the other two at their farm in Bucks County, Pa. A glamorous actress who supports Vanya and Sonia, Masha sweeps into their lives with a much younger boyfriend, and, as they discuss their lives and loves, threatens to sell the house.

Ben Brantley of The New York Times called it a “sunny new play about gloomy people” when it ran on Broadway in 2013 with a cast led by Sigourney Weaver and David Hyde Pierce. The playwright emphasized that the play does not require familiarity with the work of Chekhov.

The production is directed by Diana Marbury and stars Smeralda Abel, Andrew Botsford, Rosemary Cline, Amanda Griemsmann, Jane Lowe, and Eduardo Ramos.

Performances will take place Thursdays and Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays at 8, and Sundays at 2:30. Tickets are $30, $25 for senior citizens (except Saturdays), and $10 for students under 21.

New at Drawing Room

The Drawing Room in East Hampton will present two concurrent exhibitions, “Toni Ross: New Sculpture” and “Artists in the Field,” from tomorrow through June 20.

Ms. Ross’s new stoneware sculptures explore surface, structure, and stability, with scored, abraded, and slip-brushed surfaces revealing the sculptor’s processes and referring to architecture, assemblage, and cuneiform. Several of the works incorporate discernable yet ambiguous textual elements.

“Artists in the Field” includes work by Irene Kopelman, Pat Pickett, and Alexis Rockman, all of whom operate in direct contact with nature to create work informed by traditions of scientific observation. 

Ms. Kopelman will show small paintings created while camping for a month in the Amazonian rainforest. Ms. Pickett has used drawing, photography, and video to capture how trees respond to invisible natural forces. Mr. Rockman’s “East End Field Drawings” use indigenous soil and sand to create works on paper that depict the region’s ecosystems.

RJD Show for the Retreat

The RJD Gallery in Sag Harbor will open “The Art of Discovery,” an exhibition to benefit the Retreat, with a reception Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will continue through June 12.

It includes the work of five artists selected from more than 100 who submitted works by making donations to the Retreat: Amanda Bellino, Anthony D’Avino, Miles Jaffe, Sarupa Sidaarth, and Anzhelika Doliba.

Ms. Bellino uses sand, mortar, and gel to create multi-dimensional sculpture. His antique toy collection is the inspiration for Mr. D’Avino’s work. Miles Jaffe’s “Artists’ Color” series features paint tubes that explore the relationship between pop culture, the artist, and his medium.

Ms. Sidaarth uses acrylic paint to make circular and metallic elements to transform images that raise social issues. Ms. Doliba is part of a group of artists who alter space with murals, plaster forms, and faux finishes.

The Retreat is the only nonprofit domestic violence agency serving the East End.

Arts Center Appointment

The Southampton Arts Center has announced the appointment of Amy Kirwin as its new director of programs. Since 2010, Ms. Kirwin has served as head of museum experience at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, where that uncommon title encompassed both visitor services and public programming. 

Her varied background includes extensive experience in theater, ranging from a degree from the Circle in the Square Theater School in Manhattan to management positions with the Broadway League and the Tony Awards.

“I’m thrilled to join the staff of the arts center to take the lead on programs,” she said, “and I look forward to bringing new and exciting offerings to Southampton Village and the East End.”

Floral Photography

The “Florescence Exhibit,” a show of work by three photographers who engage floral subjects, will be on view at the Alex Ferrone Gallery in Cutchogue from Saturday through June 19. A reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Participating artists are Barbara Macklowe, who has a house in East Hampton and an eponymous antiques gallery in Manhattan; Sandra Carrion, who teaches photography at Nassau Community College, and Richard Gardner, whose influences include the artist Man Ray.

Terry Elkins at Estia’s

Landscape paintings by Terry Elkins are on view at Estia’s Little Kitchen in Sag Harbor through July 11. A Texas native, Mr. Elkins was academically trained until, as a graduate student at the University of Houston, he met Willem de Kooning, Ron Gorchov, and other New York artists. As a result, his work turned toward abstraction, and he decided to move, first to New York City and then, in 1987, to Bridgehampton.

Finding himself in “a landscape surrounded by ocean,” he returned to representation, focusing on landscapes, nautical and marine themes, lighthouses, and the older houses and barns of the East End. His work is in numerous private and public collections.

Hampton Classic Poster Artist

Shannon Lawlor of Alberta, Canada, has been selected as the official poster artist for the 41st annual Hampton Classic Horse Show, which will take place in Bridgehampton from Aug. 28 through Sept. 4. The selected artwork, “Flexible Soul,” is a painting of the famed Olympic show-jumping stallion Flexible, photographed at last year’s Masters Tournament at Thunderbird Show Park in Langley, British Columbia.

Houston Person, a tenor saxophonist, will return to the Bridgehampton Museum’s Art of Song/Parlor Jazz series on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. with a program titled “Let’s Fall in Love.”

Dubbed “jazz’s working-class hero” by Russ Musto of All About Jazz, Mr. Person first gained national attention in the 1960s, and in 1968 began a 30-year musical partnership with Etta Jones, the Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist who died in 2001.

Asked by Mr. Musto to describe his music philosophy, Mr. Person said, “Well, it’s uplifting and important. And a release and a relief. That’s what it is, jazz, so-called jazz, to me. It’s important that it’s relaxing. Something that when the end of the day comes, after a hard and frustrating day out in the world, that relieves you. Relaxes you and makes you feel good.”

The program, as always, will be hosted by Jane Hastay, a pianist, and Peter Martin Weiss, a bassist, both of whom will accompany Mr. Person. The concerts take place at the museum’s archive building, east of the monument. Tickets are $30.

The Salon Series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will present a concert by Carol Wincenc, a Grammy-nominated flutist and winner of lifetime achievement awards from the National Flute Association and the Society of Arts and Letters, tomorrow at 6 p.m. She will be accompanied on the harp by Parker Ramsey, one of her Juilliard students.

Ms. Wincenc has premiered concertos written for her by such composers as Christopher Rouse, Lukas Foss, Henryk Górecki, Joan Tower, Paul Schoenfield, and Jake Heggie. She has appeared as a concerto soloist with orchestras from Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, London, and Warsaw and at festivals throughout the United States and Europe.

Tickets are $20, $10 for members.

The 33rd season of the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Long Island’s longest-running classical music series, will present 13 concerts, from July 31 to Aug. 28, beginning with “Mozart: A Portrait in Music and Words,” narrated by Alan Alda. Tickets, always in demand, will go on sale Saturday at the festival’s website, bcmf.org, or by calling 212-741-9403.

Other programs will include “Unfinished Business,” a program of music by Schubert, Arvo Part, Elizabeth Brown, and John Harbison, which will take place at the Parrish Art Museum in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name; a program of French Baroque music that includes Rebel’s “Les Elements,” and three of Bach’s “Brandenburg” concertos, which will be performed at Bridgehampton’s Channing Sculpture Garden.

“Sacred Threads,” an exhibition of ecclesiastical vestments and textiles from the 14th to the 18th centuries from the collection of Jill Lasersohn, will open to the public on Sunday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton and remain on view through May 30. A reception benefiting a number of local charities will be held Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

The exhibition marks the first time works from Ms. Lasersohn’s holdings, one of the largest private collections in the country, will be on public view. It will include early Renaissance velvets and silks, rich with gold threads; a set of bishop’s gloves, and a set of gold buttons used to elect a doge in 14th-century Venice, with an accompanying image of a painting by Giovanni Bellini.

Ms. Lasersohn, who lives in East Hampton, explained that ecclesiastical garments were protected during wars, crusades, and the Reformation. The priest or minister or deacon would wear them only on important holidays. Nuns and monks repaired damaged garments. “When towns would be pillaged, these would be hidden, sometimes in the oddest places,” she said.

Clothing from the Renaissance is extremely rare. “Even the wealthiest people, like the Medicis, had only five or six gowns. Textiles were so expensive that, when you look at paintings from the period, you’ll see that sleeves are pinned or laced on. They could be removed.” A single garment might have taken six months to weave, and the dyes, which were imported, were sometimes more expensive than the articles themselves. “Renaissance bankers made their money from the dyes and the alum that would secure the dyes to the fabric.”

Ms. Lasersohn began collecting 25 years ago after her husband’s career forced them to relocate from Manhattan, where she was working for Town & Country magazine, to Silicon Valley. “My husband was born and raised on the Upper West Side, so he couldn’t wait to buy land, and he bought a lot of it. While he was at work, I had nothing to do, no neighbors, no family. I was bored to tears, and he knew when he would get home I would be pretty clingy.” 

Her husband, Jack Lasersohn, a health-care venture capitalist, asked her what her dream job would be. “I had been fascinated by textiles and fashion since the second grade, and I studied textiles in college, so I said I wanted to start a textile collection. Soon after that, he had business in France, so while he was working, I went to the flea market in Paris.”

Over the years, her sources have included dealers such as Cora Ginsburg, a foremost authority in the field; auctions, and flea markets, with an occasional find on eBay. “A collector never stops looking for the piece she doesn’t have,” she said. “I don’t collect American, because there isn’t much of it from before the 19th century. I’m fascinated with the 18th century and earlier. I like Turkish textiles, butmost of what I have is Italian, French, English, and Spanish. I’m hungry now for the 1300s, but I still love the 18th century.”

Her collection includes needlepoint, needlework, embroidery, brocades, velvets, silks, and damasks. She also has a large group of toile de Jouy and printed cottons, as well as tapestries, lace, and buttons. On her travels, “visiting museums is all I do. I’m a museum rat. I love books on textiles, and five years ago I became crazy buying art books, because I would go through them and I’d find pieces of mine in paintings.”

Because antique textiles are so fragile, museums rarely put them on public view. Most are in storage, and an appointment is necessary to see them. Similarly, Ms. Lasersohn’s collection requires handling with white gloves, storage in boxes with acid-free tissue paper, and other protective measures. “Even though, because they are going to be handled, there is going to be some wear and tear in this exhibition, I’ve been having so much fun getting to see them.”

The Internet has made collecting easier than it was 25 years ago, “but it has also increased my competition. Years ago at auctions, you’d get your paddle, everybody knew who you were, you knew the dealers, the auctioneer, and you’d raise your paddle. Now it’s not only telephone calls and pre-bidders, it’s also the computer. I’ve got somebody in Tokyo who collects Renaissance velvets bidding against me.”

The St. Luke’s exhibition came about when, several years ago, Mary Busch, who, like Ms. Lasersohn, is on the board of the East Hampton Historical Society, wanted to do a fund-raiser for the church’s outreach programs. “I mentioned my collection, thinking of a small show, but Mary had a different idea. We’ve put together a beautiful catalog, we’ve done a tristate outreach, and I’m interested in getting the fashion world involved, too.” 

Charles Keller and Glenn Purcell, fashion designers who are collectors of objects made by Dominy family craftsmen, have overseen the installation. “Everybody is volunteering their time,” Ms. Lasersohn said, “and they’re putting in a lot of hours. And it’s all for outreach. I don’t know how many communities would do this.”

There is no charge to visit the exhibition, which will be open Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and on Memorial Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Sundays from 1 to 3. However, a $20 donation will be appreciated. All donations will help fund Meals on Wheels, the Retreat, East End Hospice, Maureen’s Haven, and St. Luke’s Brown Bag Lunch and Laundry Love. Tickets for the benefit party are $150.

Private group tours with Ms. Lasersohn will be available on Wednesdays throughout May. Arrangements can be made by emailing jenniferborg@me. com.

Correction

An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Ms. Lasersohn had worked for Glamour magazine. She in fact worked for Town & Country.