The Dia Art Foundation will open “Dan Flavin: Icons” at the Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton today. The works, created from 1961 to 1964, are the artist’s earliest experiments with light. Dia will present five of the eight works he made in the series.

Their titles are dedicated to friends in the way he would later title his mature fluorescent works with humor, irony, and tragedy. The “Icons” will be up through April 2017.

The third annual Steinbeck Festival, held in honor of the celebrated author who lived in Sag Harbor from 1955 until his death in 1968, will take place Saturday and Sunday, with events at several venues in the village.

The festival will kick off Saturday at 5 p.m. with a V.I.P. reception at Harbor’s Edge. The event will include a boat tour of the Steinbeck property, which overlooks Sag Harbor Cove. Tickets are $125.

Bay Street Theater, organizer of the festival, will be the starting point for the weekend’s signature event, the “Travels With Charley” dog walk, which will begin Sunday at 11 a.m., wind through the village, and conclude with bagels and bones at the theater.

Sag Harbor was the departure point for Steinbeck’s 11-week cross-country trip with Charley, his French poodle, which formed the basis for his book “Travels With Charley.” Jill Rappaport, a journalist and animal advocate, will again lead the walk. The cost is $25, $35 the day of the event. A pledge form for walkers who want to enlist sponsors can be downloaded from baystreet.org. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Athe Animal Rescue Fund, and a prize will be given to the walker who raises the most money.

The John Jermain Memorial Library will host “John Steinbeck and Sag Harbor: A Love Story” on Sunday at 2 p.m. Tom Clavin and Joe Pintauro, Sag Harbor writers, will discuss Steinbeck’s life in the village and provide a look at the private man behind the famous books. The event, which is limited to 18 participants, will include refreshments and a question-and-answer session. Preregistration has been suggested.

Canio’s Books is not to be left out of the celebration. The bookshop will host “Trucks and Dogs,” photographs by Kathryn Szoka of pooches with their trucks and, in some instances, their human companions, taken in Sag Harbor during the 1990s. The exhibition, on view from tomorrow through May 26, is a tribute to Steinbeck’s “Travels With Charley.”

On Saturday at 5 p.m., Canio’s Cultural Cafe will present a talk about Steinbeck’s ethical philosophy by Richard Hart, a Steinbeck scholar, professor of ethics and philosophy at Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, N.J., and vice president for academic relations for the International Society of Steinbeck Scholars. Mr. Hart will provide examples of the author’s moral philosophy in his works of fiction, including “Of Mice and Men,” “Cannery Row,” and “The Moon Is Down.”

The Sag Harbor festival has previously coincided with the National Steinbeck Center’s annual celebration in Salinas, Calif. This year, however, the center has canceled the festival, which would have been its 35th, electing instead to make it a biennial affair.

The Montauk Library will present a free performance of “Love, Loss, and What I Wore,” a play by Nora and Delia Ephron based on the book by Ilene Beckerman, on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

A series of monologues, the play, which ran Off Broadway for two and a half years, uses clothing, accessories, and the memories they trigger to tell funny and often poignant stories about such matters as the importance of an all-black wardrobe, the nightmare of dressing rooms, and the tyranny of purses, as well as other, more serious issues.

The production, directed by Terry Brockbank, will feature five East End actresses: Linda Betjeman, Kathy Brockbank, Susan Cincotta, Jenifer Maxson, and Sara Mundy.

The Perlman Music Program will present a recital by Philip Zuckerman, a violinist and an alumnus of the program, on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Clark Arts Center on Shelter Island. The 21-year-old will perform works by Bach, Ravel, Schubert, and Wieniawski, accompanied on piano by John Root.

Mr. Zuckerman maintains a vigorous schedule as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. A reception for the artist will follow the performance. Tickets are $25, free for ages 18 and under, and can be purchased at perlmanmusicprogram.org.

On Sunday afternoon at 2:30, also at the Clark Arts Center, a free concert by the program’s students and alumni will feature classical masterworks. Reservations are not required.

The Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival will present “Iris,” the last film by Albert Maysles, who died in March at the age of 88, on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at Bay Street Theater.

The film, which will be released theatrically later this month, is the story of Iris Apfel, a fashion icon who founded Old World Weavers, a textile company, with her husband, Carl, in the 1950s. Nine presidents hired the firm for White House restorations.

Mr. Maysles and his brother, David, who died in 1987, were pioneers of cinema verite. Their films include “Gimme Shelter,” “Grey Gardens,” and “Christo’s Valley Curtain,” among many others.

A panel discussion hosted by Susan Lacy, longtime producer of the PBS American Masters series, who now works for HBO, will include D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus, and Mirra Bank, themselves noted documentary filmmakers. Tickets are $15.

“Hang Five” at Ashawagh

“Hang Five,” a group exhibition, will be on view at Ashawagh Hall in Springs from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday and 10 to 5 on Sunday. A reception will happen Saturday from 5 to 8.

The five artists, who work in different mediums, include Aileen Florell, whose ceramic works have been influenced by her Scandinavian roots and her studies in China. Cynthia Loewen is a realist painter who creates portraits, landscapes, and seascapes in stipple, watercolor, and acrylics.

Robert Rustmann will exhibit sculptures distilled from archeology, myth, ritual, and the human form. Annie Sessler will show traditional Japanese Gyotaku-inspired fish prints as well as new layered and embellished works. Photography will be represented by the work of John Todaro, whose recent color and black-and-white landscapes will be accompanied by a series of semi-abstractions and a suite of miniatures.

Meaningful Abstraction

“Performative Process,” a group show organized by Ryan Steadman, an artist, writer, and curator based in Brooklyn, is now on view at Halsey Mckay Gallery in East Hampton through May 3.

Performative process has been defined as the creation of an artwork that exposes the means or circumstances of its making upon its form. The intersection of process and performance has appealed to contemporary artists looking to create a meaningful form of abstraction.

The exhibition includes work by Elise Adibi, Ben Morgan Cleveland, Keltie Ferris, Donna Huanca, Kate Gilmore, Adam Marnie, Reuben Lorch Miller, John Riepenhoff, and Brie Ruais.

For the Retreat

“Light in the Tunnel,” a show of work by the three winners of the sixth annual juried art show for the Retreat, will open Saturday at RJD Gallery in Sag Harbor and remain on view through May 4. A reception will be held Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

The artists, Gail Postal, Stephen Slater, and Lauren Tilden, were selected last fall from hundreds of submissions. They have created works specifically for the show, and a portion of the proceeds will go directly to the Retreat, the only nonprofit domestic violence agency serving the East End of Long Island.

Open Studio at Watermill

Natacha Mankowski, a resident artist, will open her studio at the Watermill Center on Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m. “The Island,” which the artist calls a “spatial opera,” is a collection of objects, sounds, and paintings that offer her personal vision of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Born and educated in Paris, Ms. Mankowski, who has an M.A. in architecture, blurs the traditional categories of representation of space. Her work, adapted into the diverse mediums of painting, installation, and architecture, considers virtual and real space in terms of science and experience.

Tripoli to Open on Newtown

Tripoli Gallery, which has been a fixture on Job’s Lane in Southampton for six years, will open a second branch at 87 Newtown Lane in East Hampton on Saturday with “For Lisa,” a solo exhibition of paintings by Felix Bonilla Gerena. A reception will take place from 5 to 8 p.m.

Mr. Gerena, who lives and works in Puerto Rico, has dedicated the show to Lisa de Kooning, who encouraged him to further abstract the forms in his paintings.

His depictions of the female figure, tropical flowers, and the cerulean sea that surrounds his homeland all convey his love of beauty, while his distinctive brushstrokes fuse a forceful confidence with organic, curvilinear fluidity. The show will run through May 17.

Dan Welden Workshop

Dan Welden, a master printmaker who lives on Millstone Road in Noyac will open his studio Saturday and Sunday for artists and photographers interested in a three-hour printmaking workshop.

Each participant will create a work using the Solarplate process, which Mr. Welden developed in the 1970s. Solarplate is a prepared, light-sensitive polymer surface on a steel backing with which artists can produce fine prints without the use of acids, grounds, or solvents.

The workshop fee, $75, includes a 6-by-8 inch Solarplate, which can be used to make additional impressions, and all materials. More information can be obtained by emailing chrisadd.ambrey@ gmail.com.

Three at Grenning

The Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor has opened its 17th season with an exhibition of paintings by Maryann Lucas, Thomas Cardone, and Edwina Lucas. The show will run through May 17.

Maryann Lucas is showing rich and complex still-life paintings, many of which feature food and table settings. Edwina, her daughter, is also drawn to still life, taking animals and flowers as her subjects. Thomas Cardone is a plein-air painter who focuses on bayside scenes and the boats therein.

“East End Collected”

The Southampton Arts Center will present “East End Collected,” an exhibition organized by Paton Miller, a Southampton artist, from tomorrow through May 17. A reception will take place May 2 from 5 to 7 p.m.

The show, which celebrates the East End’s community of artists and the collectors who have supported it, will include work by 40 artists, among them Sydney Albertini, Eric Ernst, Terri Hyland, Pat Moran, Kryn Olson, Darius Yektai, and Mr. Miller.

Art for Aid, a new project dedicated to creating art events that benefit charitable organizations and endeavors, will be launched on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Ross School with a one-time show of work by contemporary artists. The evening will benefit five local food pantries and the Steven J. Ross Scholarship Fund.

Art for Aid is the brainchild of Wendy Wachtel, who opened Walk Tall Gallery in East Hampton in 2007 while at the same time working in international high-end real estate. “At the gallery, I started to combine the art world with different philanthropic groups to which I could give a portion of sales,” she said recently.

Ms. Wachtel, who lives on North Haven, closed Walk Tall after four years. For the past two and a half years she has been assistant director of Meals on Wheels in East Hampton.

While running the gallery, she worked with the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation’s annual Art for Life benefit on the East End, hosting related exhibitions as well as openings and after-parties. The foundation serves more than 3,000 students annually through its education programs.

Art for Aid will hold its second exhibition in July at the Bridgehampton Community House in connection with Art for Life, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Rush Philanthropic. The birthday party will include cake, music, mimosas, and the art of Danny Simmons and Rush artists.

The inaugural Art for Aid show will take place in the downstairs gallery of the school’s tennis pavilion. The artists — Shari Abramson, David Geiser, Mr. Simmons, and Walter Us — are all people Ms. Wachtel has worked with in the past.

“These artists are exceptional because all of their work, though aesthetically different from one another, is so deeply, emotionally charged,” she said. “Each of the 65 works that will be shown is moving and profound.”  Chris Engel and Jennifer Cross, Ross faculty artists, will also participate. “These are all well-established artists; they don’t need to do this.” A large portion of sales will go directly to the charities.

Ms. Abramson, who lives in East Hampton, will exhibit abstract paintings. Mr. Geiser will show work from “Day Before Lascaux,” a series of works on parchment that evoke the early cave paintings. Mr. Us, a Sag Harbor artist, will be represented by landscapes. Mr. Simmons once called his style of painting “neo-African Abstract Expressionism.”

Looking ahead, in late summer or early fall, Art for Aid will hold a show and reception at the Children’s Museum of the East End that will benefit Head Start. “My ear is to the ground regarding the many charitable causes Art for Aid can champion. This is our community, and to keep it bountiful for some, it must be made bountiful for all,” said Ms. Wachtel.

Beneficiaries of the first Art for Aid show, in addition to the scholarship fund, are the Sag Harbor Community Food Pantry, the Southampton Food Pantry, the Living Water Food Pantry in Wainscott, the Bridgehampton Community Food Pantry, and the East Hampton Food Pantry.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present its second New Works Festival with free readings of plays in development, beginning tomorrow at 7 p.m. with “A Delicate Ship” by Anna Ziegler. “The Green Heart” by Charles Busch and Rusty Magee will be presented on Saturday at 3 p.m., and Julia Brownell’s “Plane Play” will happen Sunday afternoon at 2.

A panel discussion moderated by Ken Davenport, a Tony Award-winning producer, will feature the creators of “The Green Heart,” who will discuss the process of developing new musicals and reshaping older ones. That program will take place Saturday at 7 p.m. and will be followed by a cocktail reception to meet the writers and the other artists. Tickets are $10.

Scott Schwartz, the theater’s artistic director, conceived the festival last spring as a way to bring cutting-edge theater to the East End while giving playwrights a chance to hear their works in progress in front of an audience. This year’s festival will focus on the theme of “rediscovery,” as it includes two works that have had initial productions but are still being developed and revised.

Mr. Schwartz and Will Pomerantz, the associate artistic director, selected the plays, which came to them in various ways. “We notified the major literary agents and agencies in New York that we were soliciting submissions for this festival,” said Mr. Schwartz, “and, in fact, one of the plays, ‘Plane Play,’ came through a literary agent.”

The two read scripts throughout the year, both for the New Works Festival and for Bay Street to develop and possibly produce in the future. “ ‘A Delicate Ship’ came from an actor who knew about the project and knew the playwright was continuing to work on it. ‘The Green Heart’ was recommended by a director, Carl Andres, whom we’ve worked with at Bay Street on a number of productions.”

“I’m very pleased with the program,” Mr. Schwartz said. “All three plays have very strong, distinctive voices, and each is funny in its own way. They’re quirky, and they have serious drama at their core, but they are all comedic, which, after the long winter, is kind of nice.”

“A Delicate Ship” premiered in March 2014 at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. At its heart is a love triangle involving Sarah and Sam, who are new lovers discovering each other, and Nate, Sarah’s best friend since childhood, who arrives on her doorstep unexpectedly.

Ms. Ziegler’s plays have been produced at theaters around the country and abroad, and she has received commissions from the Manhattan Theatre Club, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and the Ensemble Studio Theatre, among others. Her awards include the STAGE Award, the Weissberger Award, the Edgerton New Play Prize, and the Douglas T. Ward Playwriting Prize.

A dark, comic musical, “The Green Heart” is based on a short story by Jack Ritchie and was originally presented in the late 1990s. The current version features a revised libretto by Mr. Busch and previously unheard music and lyrics by the late Mr. Magee.

The musical revolves around an egotistical millionaire who, having discovered that he has squandered his inheritance, plots with his mistress to marry an older, wealthy woman who will unwittingly support them both. Once hitched, however, he discovers he is falling in love with his wife. Scheming and double-crossing figure prominently in the ingenious plot.

Mr. Busch is an actor, playwright, and female impersonator whose plays include “Vampire Lesbians of Sodom” and “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife.” In 2003 he received a Drama Desk lifetime achievement award as both performer and playwright.

A composer-lyricist, actor, and comedian, Mr. Magee won a New York Outer Critics’ Circle award for his music and lyrics for Moliere’s “Scapin” and wrote the music and lyrics for the American Repertory Theatre’s “Ubu Rock.” His life was cut short by colon cancer at the age of 47.

“Plane Play” will have its first public reading as part of the New Works Festival. When his wife runs off with her yoga instructor, Josh finds himself a single father with a newborn and a 17-year-old stepson. His narcissistic, alcoholic mother flies into town determined to repair her damaged relationship with her son with a blast of her riotous sense of humor and unending cheer.

Ms. Brownell’s plays have been performed Off Broadway at the Duke and at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. The Public Theater, Minneapolis Playwrights’ Center, and the Actors Theatre of Louisville have hosted readings and workshops of her work. She has also written for television.

Guild Hall has announced the election of three new trustees to its board. Florence Fabricant, Alan Levin, and John Shea were elected on Feb. 25.

Ms. Fabricant has regular columns in The New York Times on food and wine and writes features for the paper as well as travel pieces and restaurant news. Mr. Levin was until 2013 the executive vice president and chief financial officer of Endo Health Solutions, and before that an executive at Pfizer for many years. He has degrees from Princeton University and New York University’s Stern School of Business. Mr. Shea is a senior partner at the regional firm Twomey, Latham, Shea, Kelley, Dubin, and Quartararo and was a White House counsel to the Council on Environmental Quality earlier in his career.

Two well-known bands on the South Fork’s music scene will join forces on Saturday for a concert of rootsy Americana music.

Black and Sparrow, led by Klyph Black and John Sparrow, and Hopefully Forgiven, fronted by Telly Karoussos and Brad Penuel, will perform at 8 p.m. at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

Mr. Black and Mr. Sparrow have been collaborating for more than 20 years, both in the band Rumor Has It and as Black and Sparrow, which began life as a duo. They have opened for such artists as the New Riders of the Purple Sage, Mick Taylor, Taj Mahal, Hot Tuna, and the Subdudes.

One year ago, Black and Sparrow followed up their 1995 debut, “Friend and Partner,” with the release of “Second Time Around,” by then having added the musicians Randolph A. Hudson III, Mike Mazzaraco, and James Benard. The latter release recalls an eclectic mix of influences including the Grateful Dead, the Band, and Bob Dylan, as well as other artists who have thrived since the 1960s and ’70s.

“The record sold pretty well,” Mr. Black said of “Second Time Around.” “It started off hot and we’re still selling it.” Tracks from the album have been featured on WPPB and WEHM, he said, as well as on radio stations farther afield. “We’re working on some new songs,” he said, promising three new selections on Saturday.

Hopefully Forgiven’s debut release, “Play On,” was recorded in a barn in Sag Harbor. Saturday’s concert, Mr. Karoussos said, will serve to launch an intensive schedule of performances lasting through the summer and beyond. The band, which also features Ben Goodale and Bryan Beyer, describes its sound as a “hard drivin’, mellow vibin’, harmony-soaked roller coaster cocktail of 100 years of American music and spirits.”

The double bill came together, Mr. Black said, through his previous performances at Bay Street and subsequent conversations with Gary Hygam, the theater’s managing director for production. “I had always told Telly that we would be a good show together,” he said. “The two bands complement each other. I really dig what they do, and love the fact that they sing, their vocals are big. I asked Gary if we could do a double bill, and he went for it. I called Telly, they were psyched to do it, and here we are.”

Mr. Karoussos called the concert “a good opportunity to highlight music that’s being written and performed locally.” He and Mr. Black, he said, have long been acquainted. “He’s helped me out a lot, sat in with me on gigs, and I’ve always thought he was one of the greatest guys and greatest musicians I’ve ever met. Our styles are somewhat complementary, so this is a good opportunity for us both.”

Hopefully Forgiven will perform at the Lower Hudson Valley Farm Fest in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., on April 26. “This is our big launch,” Mr. Karoussos said of the Bay Street concert. “We want to make this a blowout, and have been rehearsing our asses off to make it great.” The bands will perform separate sets, which will be followed, he said, by “a big jamboree of both bands.”

Tickets for Black and Sparrow/Hopefully Forgiven are $20 and available at baystreet.org or by calling the theater’s box office at 725-9500.

The concert will be preceded by another performance of the Americana, roots-rock variety. The Weight, a five-piece ensemble featuring Jim Weider and Randy Ciarlante from the Band, Brian Mitchell and Byron Isaacs of the Levon Helm Band, and Marty Grebb, who worked with Rick Danko and Richard Manuel of the Band, will take the stage tomorrow night at 8. Tickets are $35 for side sections and $45 for center.