“Best of Enemies,” a documentary by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville about the 1968 television debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr., will inaugurate the Hampton International Film Festival’s SummerDocs series on July 11 at 7:30 p.m. at Guild Hall. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the filmmakers and Dick Cavett, who is interviewed in the film, led by Kurt Anderson, a novelist and radio host.

Alec Baldwin, the series host, will lead conversations for “Listen to Me Marlon,” an offbeat documentary about Marlon Brando, which will be shown Aug. 1, and “Peace Officer,” a film about the militarization of America’s police, which will conclude the series on Aug. 28.

Tickets can be obtained at guildhall.org.

Yellin at Fireplace Project

The Fireplace Project in Springs will present “selv ab twact hums,” a show of new abstract works and newer wall pieces by Dustin Yellin, from tomorrow through June 21. A reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Mr. Yellin, who lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where he founded Pioneer Works: Center for Art and Innovation, works in painting, drawing, collage, photography, and sculpture. His sculptural-collage works, for which he is known, use paint and imagery gathered from vast media and paper archives to create three-dimensional sculptures on multiple layers of glass.

An Artist’s Intervention

Cole Sternberg, an artist from Los Angeles, has transformed a private residence in East Hampton owned by Bryan Graybill, a real estate developer, into a site-specific installation that will be open Wednesdays through Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. through June 7. The property, also known as ARTed House, is at 31 David’s Lane.

The 1960s house seems at first undisturbed, but the artist has made subtle alterations, such as filling the refrigerator with sculptures of beer bottles, eggs, and butter; placing a sculpture of a pair of shoes in a closet, and modifying seemingly ordinary books about the sea and Long Island with text and drawings. Outside, even a clothesline hung with sheets blowing in the wind is not what it at first seems to be. The installation engages visitors as active explorers of the domestic environment, rather than as passive viewers.

Leiber Collection Is Open

Exhibitions of Judith Leiber’s unique handbags and Gerson Leiber’s recent paintings are on view through Labor Day at the Leiber Collection, located on the couple’s property on Old Stone Highway in Springs.

Ms. Leiber, the first female apprentice and master in the Hungarian handbag guild, met her husband, an American G.I., when Budapest was liberated. After coming to the United States she worked for several handbag companies until forming her own in 1963.

Her handbags are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and many others. They are also on display in presidential libraries, and have been carried by first ladies to presidential inaugurations since 1953.

Mr. Leiber, whose work is currently on display in a solo show at the Leonard Tourne Gallery in Manhattan, began his art studies after World War II at the Art Students League. Inspired by nature — he designed the seven acres of gardens on his property — Mr. Leiber’s work has been influenced by both Cubism and Abstract Expressionism, and is in the collections of important museums nationwide.

The collection and gardens are open free of charge from 1 to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

Stone-Faced

“Sculpted Images,” an exhibition of photographs of ornate stonework from buildings in New York, Europe, and burial grounds in the Hamptons, is on view now through June 24 at the Eastville Community Historical Society’s Heritage House on Hampton Street. A reception will take place on Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.

The show will include photographs of overlooked faces on iconic buildings taken by Robert King, an architect from Harlem. Work by David Cosgrove, a Sag Harbor resident who carves faces from historic gravestones out of Honduran mahogany, will also be on view.

“Stonefaced,” a short documentary by Vivian Ducat of New York and Sag Harbor that records Mr. King’s photographic journey, will be screened at the Heritage House on June 13 at 11 a.m. A panel including Mr. King, Mr. Cosgrove, Ms. Ducat, and Bill Chaleff, an East End architect, will follow, and refreshments will be served.

Photographers at Ashawagh

Ashawagh Hall in Springs will be home to the East End Photographers Group from Saturday through June 7. The exhibition, organized by Marilyn Stevenson, will include traditional and digital work and alternative photographic processes by more than 30 artists.

An opening reception, with music by Out East and catering by Pam Greinke, will happen Saturday from 5 to 9 p.m. Other musical programs will feature Gene Hamilton and Friends on Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m., Job Potter and Friends on Friday, June 5, from 7 to 9, and Vulcan Destructo on June 6 from 7 to 10.

A closing reception will take place June 7 from 3 to 5 p.m. The gallery will be open from 1 to 5 p.m. on weekdays and noon to 5 p.m. on weekends.

Contemporary Prints

“Surface of Revolution,” an exhibition of works on paper by contemporary artists pushing the boundaries of drawing and printmaking, is on view through June 14 at the Southampton Arts Center. A reception is set for Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

Organized by Marie Tennyson, assistant director of the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University, the show will explore the future direction of works on paper with works by more than 40 artists, among them Lee Friedlander, Jasper Johns, William Kentridge, Kiki Smith, and Kara Walker.

The center is open Fridays from noon to 6 p.m., Saturdays from noon to 7, and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

In the White Room

A new show at the White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton, on view through June 15, will feature work by two East End artists, Nadine Daskaloff and Kat O’Neill, along with work by 18 other artists. A reception will be held Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Ms. Daskaloff, who was born in Marseille, France, will exhibit portraits that combine “elegance and whimsy, sultriness and vitality,” according to Esperanza Leon, an independent curator and gallery owner. Many of her portraits focus on women, their hairstyles, clothing, and accessories.

Ms. O’Neill, who is a photographer, playwright, and fiction writer, will show work from the “Recorded While Still Alive” portfolio that accompanied “Uncle Jack’s,” a series of stories published in The Star. The portfolio pairs old album covers or sleeves with photographs and stories.

Visions of Beauty

“Skin Deep,” a group exhibition that will showcase individual visions of beauty, will open at RJD Gallery in Sag Harbor with a reception Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through June 21.

The show will include work by Pam Hawkes, Odile Richer, Sherry Wolf, Adrienne Stein, and the gallery newcomers Tracy Harris and Johnny Caruso. All six artists focus on the human figure, but their approaches range from sharp-focus realism with a Pop edge to the use of muted colors and gold leaf to create the feel of Renaissance portraits.

Free Admission for Military

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill is offering free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day as part of the Blue Star Museums program, an alliance between the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and the Department of Defense. More than 2,000 museums across the country participate in the program.

The John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor will present a three-part Chinese film festival organized by Ou Wang, a Mandarin teacher at the Ross School, beginning next Thursday at 6 p.m. with a screening of “To Live,” a film by Yimou Zhang about a family’s struggles to live in China from the 1940s to the 1970s Cultural Revolution.

“To Live,” which was the co-winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, was banned in China due to its critical portrayals of certain government policies, and Mr. Zhang was barred from making films for two years. In all, he has directed more than 20 films, many of which have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, and has won prizes at international film festivals.

“Eat Drink Man Woman,” Ang Lee’s film about family relationships and conflicts between generations, will be screened on June 11. The festival will conclude with “Infernal Affairs,” Andrew Lau’s crime thriller set in Hong Kong, on June 18. The 6 p.m. programs are free, but preregistration for each has been recommended, as there is a limit of 18 people per screening.

Music in a lower key, figuratively speaking, will be offered at the Montauk Library on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. with a free concert by Francisco Roldan, a classical guitarist. The program will include works by Mauro Giuliani (Italy), Barrios (Paraguay), Joaquin Rodrigo (Spain), Charlie Byrd (United States), and Phillip Houghton (Australia).

Born in Colombia, Mr. Roldan has performed on four continents and is an adjunct professor of classical guitar at the Mannes College of Music in Manhattan, Lehman College in the Bronx, and New Jersey City University in Jersey City. In June, he performed works by Brazilian and Puerto Rican composers with the Cuerdas al Aire trio at the Mannes Guitar Festival in New York.

The Parrish Art Museum’s Sounds of Summer music series will take a new turn tomorrow at 6 p.m. when Dave Harvey, a professional caller and founder of New York City Barn Dance, and Dunegrass, an East End bluegrass group, will lead an evening of traditional American contra dance on the museum’s outdoor terrace.

The contra dance derives from Anglo, Irish, and Scottish traditions. As the band plays, Mr. Harvey, who has been leading such events for more than 20 years, calls the steps, which may include do-si-do, allemande right, ladies chain, circle left, pass through, and promenade.

Whether dancing or not, attendees can bring lawn chairs and blankets for the terrace and lawn. The Golden Pear Cafe will offer a traditional barbecue buffet dinner for $25, as well as local wines, craft beers, and cocktails for purchase. The contra dance program is included in the price of admission, which is $10, free for members,

The Rising Stars Piano Series at the Southampton Cultural Center will conclude its spring series with a recital by Orion Weiss on Saturday at 7 p.m. His program will include works by Beethoven and American composers in celebration of Memorial Day.

Mr. Weiss has performed with major American orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the New York Philharmonic. His awards include an Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Gilmore Young Artist Award, and the Gina Bachauer Scholarship at Juilliard. Tickets are $15, free for students under 21.

Our Fabulous Variety Show, a troupe of actors devoted to refining their craft while raising funds and awareness for both local and national nonprofits, will hold open auditions for a future production from 6 to 9 p.m. on May 31 at Hamptons Dance Authority in South­ampton.

The production, “Our Adventures in Wonderland,” will take place at Guild Hall in September. For the audition, dancers have been asked to bring dance shoes, singers to have a karaoke track to sing with or an instrument, and actors to prepare a two-minute dramatic or comedic monologue. All auditioners should bring a resumé and head shot.

The group is looking for all types of performers and will welcome any ideas that will bring to life the iconic elements of “Alice in Wonderland.” More information can be obtained by emailing ourfabulousvarietyshow@gmail.com or by calling 594-2906.

If the name Geoffrey Drummond is not familiar, it should be. For years, the East Hampton-based producer and director has provided armchair epicureans the vicarious thrill of watching others perform miraculous feats in the kitchen. From his early work on PBS, first with Jacques Pepin and then with Julia Child, to his latest Emmy-winning series with Eric Ripert, he has channeled his appreciation of all things culinary to introduce Americans to great chefs the world over.

While he still creates shows such as “Avec Eric” for the Cooking Channel, Mr. Drummond has trained his sights on something new in the past year: Stony Brook Southampton’s innovative Food Lab. The initiative, which aims to assist and buttress the region’s budding food entrepreneurs, will hold its first conference from June 5 to 7.

Mr. Drummond recognized potential in the growing popular interest in chefs, first seen in the 1980s. The cooking shows followed, featuring such guests as the legendary Andre Soltner of Lutece, and, in his first television appearance, Emeril Lagasse, who became the breakout star of the Food Network in the 1990s. Mr. Drummond now sees the same promise in independent food and drink production.

“We were the first on a mass level to introduce the idea of celebrity chefs,” he said, not in a “kitchen arena‚” but how they cooked at home for their family and friends. “Two generations away, the whole area of food is still exploding. When you travel somewhere, the questions are where did you eat, what did you eat, as much as what did you see.”

At the same time, more and more Americans are realizing the benefits of eating fresh foods, particularly in places like the East End, where we are so close to their growth and harvest. Mr. Drummond said it was particularly important that the Food Lab encourage efforts to make these foods available to people at all income levels, not just those in the upper brackets.

The Food Lab’s overall mission is to coordinate with its partners, who include Kathleen Masters, director of the Amagansett Food Institute, and Brian Halweil, publisher of Edible East End and related titles, on entrepreneurial and educational activities, drawing also on Mr. Drummond’s media connections. Ms. Masters will continue to provide the institute’s on-campus commercial kitchen to local entrepreneurs, while Mr. Halweil will develop online courses in the field of “edible business,” a term coined by Mr. Drummond to describe this small-scale food industry. Mr. Drummond himself will produce integrated television or web-based programs.

While many groups and individuals have supported the East End’s food producers, often through benefit “tastings,” Mr. Drummond aims for a more active promotion. “I am fascinated with how stuff is done. I want to take that fascination a notch deeper and go beyond the simple box checking off ‘had that, tasted that, stood on that line.’ ” His goal is “to grow the food community outward, to share information and wisdom.”

With so many people, just out of school or looking for a midlife career change, all hoping for a food-related career, giving them the tools to succeed and the reasons why many of them fail is important, said Mr. Drummond.

This region’s rich bounty of fresh produce and seafood has always attracted foodies. Early on, that might have meant picnics with the likes of Pierre Franey and Mr. Pepin, but in the years since, wineries, breweries, James Beard Foundation dinners, and gourmet markets have sprouted like cornstalks in July. More recently still, urban transplants of all ages have joined the community as both growers and marketers of specialty foods tied to locally available ingredients. This is a national trend, but the region’s proximity to New York City makes it especially pronounced and well supported here.

With so much homegrown activity happening, Robert Reeves, associate provost at Stony Brook Southampton, began discussions with Mr. Drummond last year. The school was already offering the old Long Island University food services building as commercial kitchen space through the Amagansett Food Institute’s South Fork Kitchens initiative, and both men thought this could be the nucleus of a much broader effort.

The institute offers its 3,000-square-foot licensed commercial kitchen in four-hour blocks of time. Before it opened, people who wanted to cook and sell food products had to count on the generosity of South Fork restaurants in sharing their kitchens, or drive to Calverton to a similar small-business incubator.

Now, businesses such as Carissa’s Breads, Gula Gula Empanadas, Madeline Picnic Co., and Miss Lady sodas have used or continue to use the space. A cafe in the kitchen serves some of the food made there as well as dishes using fresh produce from the institute’s farm members.

What next month’s conference will do, besides introduce the region to the Food Lab, is bring people together to discuss how to start and grow a food business, the ins and outs of beverage production, farm and agribusiness, seafood and meat, and the social purpose of the food business. The schedule was still in formation earlier this month when Mr. Drummond spoke to The Star.

The participants to date include Amanda Hesser and Jessica Soffer, whose conversation will serve as the keynote event; Florence Fabricant, who will moderate the business panel, and many local and regional entrepreneurs and related distributors of specialty foods, from Andy Arons of Gourmet Garage in the city and Daniel Lubetzky, who founded KIND Snacks, to Sean Barrett of Montauk’s Dock to Dish and Joe Trembly of Joe and Liza’s Ice Cream.

In addition to the talks there will be plenty of opportunities for tastings, including raw bars and Channing Daughters wines, Hampton Coffee at breakfast, nibbles from the South Fork Kitchens Cafe, a chef’s dinner, food trucks, and other sips and samples. Tickets are $259, with a limited number of discounted tickets for farmers, students, and those over 65. Inquiries can be sent to Kathleen.Russo@stonybrook.edu.

Sounds of Summer will return to the covered terrace of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill this summer, kicking off tomorrow at 6 p.m. with the HooDoo Loungers, the nine-piece New Orleans party band whose repertoire incorporates traditional New Orleans jazz, brass band standards, classic R&B, and funk.

For those wishing to supplement the music, the Golden Pear cafe will offer local wines and craft beers and a Big Easy buffet featuring jerk chicken breast, blackened mahimahi, dirty rice and red quinoa salad, and cornbread, for $25 per person.

Subsequent programs will feature Contradance with Dave Harvey and Dunegrass (June 5), Mambo Loco (July 3), Jake Lear (Aug. 7), and, for the third consecutive Labor Day weekend, Bluegrass & BBQ with the Ebony Hillbillies. All programs are $10, free for members, students, and children. Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs for the terrace and blankets for the lawn.

Lovers of classical music have a lot to choose from this season, starting on June 7 at 4:30 p.m. with a kick-off chamber music workshop concert at the Perlman Music Program’s Clark Arts Center on Shelter Island.    

Merry Peckham, an acclaimed cellist, will direct the workshop, which will present extraordinary young instrumentalists chosen for the summer program from around the world. The offerings will include master classes, “Classical Collaborations,” instrumental and and chorus concerts at various East End locations, and conclude in mid-August with a weekend of masterworks.

The first concerts in the Classical Collaborations series will take place on June 13 at 8 p.m. at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons and June 14 at 4:30 p.m. at the Levitas Center for the Arts at the Southampton Cultural Center. In both concerts, Merry Peckham, Paul Katz, Roger Tapping, Don Weilerstein, and Vivian Hornik-Weilerstein, along with Itzhak Perlman, the famed violinist who with his wife, Toby Perlman, founded the summer institution, will be joined by young artists.

Among other key events is an alumni recital featuring SuJin Lee, a cellist and recent graduate of the New England Conservatory, on June 26 at 7:30 p.m. Ms. Lee has performed throughout the United States and Europe.

The program’s master teachers will present a free concert on July 3 at 7:30 p.m., and its family concert, a community favorite, will occur on July 12 at 11:30 a.m.

Pianofest, another longtime institution here, is run by the classical pianist and teacher Paul Schenly and offers concentrated study to a select group of future stars who are selected by audition. During two four-week sessions 14 students will present 14 concerts in East Hampton, Southampton, and Brook­haven, starting on June 22 with a 5:30 program at the Levitas Center for the Arts. The concerts will run through Aug. 10.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will present its summer concert on June 27 at 7 p.m. at the Parish Hall of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton. Mark Mangini will conduct “The Creation,” Franz Joseph Haydn’s musical representation of the creation of the world as described in the Book of Genesis and Milton’s “Paradise Lost.”

A work dominated by arias as well as choruses, “The Creation” contains some of the most experimental music of its time. The Greenwich Village Chamber Singers will join the choral society, creating a chorus of some 100 voices who will be accompanied by a 30-piece orchestra.

The choral society’s summer benefit will follow at the new branch of Bridgehampton’s Osteria Salina in East Hampton. Benefit tickets, which include reserved seating at the concert, start at $300.

The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival will open its 32nd season on July 29 with “Enchanté,” a free outdoor concert of French music on the grounds of the Bridgehampton Museum. Guests can bring blankets and picnics along for the concert, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. and include compositions by Roussel, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Ravel, and Fauré.

Noteworthy components of this summer’s program are a new work by Mohammed Fairouz, which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, the world premiere of “Rounds for Robin,” a new piece by the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts, inspired by Robin Williams, and Stravinsky’s “A Soldier’s Tale,” which will be narrated by Roger Waters, the co-founder of Pink Floyd.

The festival’s annual benefit will occur on Aug. 1 at the Atlantic Golf Club in Bridgehampton. “A Night That Will Move You” will celebrate “music that dances” with pieces by Diego Ortiz, Corelli, Leclair, Matteis, Pixinguinha, Bach, and Piazzolla. Tickets for the evening, which the festival promises will include “great music, food, wine, and good cheer,” start at $1,500.

Most of the festival’s programs will take place at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, which is renowned for its acoustics, but “Deep Rivers,” which will include the Fairouz work as well as music by Bernstein, Copland, and Gershwin, will be at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill on Aug. 10, and the William Brian Little Concert, featuring “A Soldier’s Tale,” will take place at a benefit performance in the sculpture garden at Channing Daughters Winery in Bridgehampton on Aug. 14.

Music for Montauk, which ran from 1991 until the death of Ruth Widder, who founded the free series with William Akin, was without a new guiding force until Lilah Gosman, a Montauk native and vocalist, and her husband, Milos Repicky, a conductor and pianist, took it over 18 months ago.

With a new board of directors, the latest incarnation took its first step on May 9 with a spring concert at the Montauk School. The organization has now announced its summer series, five concerts that will take place from Aug. 11 through Aug. 15 at several Montauk locations.

The first program will be a chamber music concert at the Montauk Lighthouse. The Aug. 12 program is billed as a garden concert, with music for strings, guitar, and voice. A tango concert featuring a piano, bass, and bandoneon trio, will take place on Aug. 13.  Venues for the latter two programs were not set by press time.

Third House, in Montauk County Park, will be the site of a circus-themed concert on Aug. 14, with classical music interpreted in a Big Top setting. The music will include Copland and Dvorak. An Aug. 15 program will also take place at Third House.

For those who like ferries, the Shelter Island Friends of Music has three concerts planned, starting on June 6 with an acclaimed violinist and continuing on July 5 with a pianist and on Sept. 6 with the Lark Quartet.

In addition, the Eroica Trio will take the stage at the John Drew Theater of Guild Hall on July 24, presenting a new work by Bruce Wolosoff of Shelter Isand. And the Montauk and Rogers Memorial Libraries also offer recitals by classical musicians.

More information on all programs is available on the organizations’ websites.