A screening of “Ocean Keeper,” a documentary about the Amagansett Life-Saving Station, will be held at LTV Studios in Wainscott tomorrow at 6 p.m. Produced and directed by Eileen Olivieri Torpey, the film blends archival and contemporary footage to detail the station’s 110-year history, during which it was moved away from and back to its location on Atlantic Avenue.

    Isabel Carmichael and Deborah Carmichael are co-producers of the film, which was an official selection of the 2012 Hamptons International Film Festival. After the death in 2006 of their father, Joel Carmichael, who had rescued the station from demolition and renovated it for use as a family home, they and their brother, David Carmichael, donated it to East Hampton Town for preservation.

    The East Hampton Library is offering a free four-session workshop called “Meandering in the Mind of Vladimir Nabokov,” beginning next Thursday. The 5:30 to 7 p.m. workshop, conducted by Kara Westerman, a writer and editor, will focus on Nabokov’s “Lolita,” considering language, point of view, and the book’s transition from text to film.

    The third session will feature a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation. Those interested in participating may sign up at the adult reference desk or by calling the library.

    Dance Heginbotham, a performance group now in residence at the Watermill Center, will open its rehearsal process to show “Fly By Wire,” a work in progress set to the music of the American composer Tyondai Braxton.

    The performance group, which is devoted to the dance and theatrical work of John Heginbotham, a Brooklyn-based choreographer and performer, features highly structured, technically rigorous, and theatrical choreography, often set to the music of contemporary composers.

    The open rehearsal, at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 15, is free, but reservations are required and may be made through the Watermill Center’s Web site.

    Lois Bender, an artist and educator, will conduct a watercolor workshop from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 16 at Bridge Gardens, 36 Mitchell Lane, Bridgehampton. The class, which will focus on fall foliage and holiday floral bouquet, is open to beginners and experienced artists. Students may bring their own art supplies or purchase them from Ms. Bender. The class is $45 plus materials, and prepaid registration is required.

    From 2 to 4 that afternoon Ms. Bender will celebrate the success of this year’s “Art in the Garden” classes with light refreshments, cider, wine, and a viewing of artworks by workshop participants. The free event, also at Bridge Gardens, will include a walk-in watercolor workshop. More information can be had by e-mailing [email protected].

    Awadagin Pratt, a classical pianist who has been playing internationally for over 20 years, will perform on Saturday at 7 p.m. as part of the 10th-anniversary celebration of Southampton Cultural Center’s Rising Stars Piano Series.

    Born in Pittsburgh, Mr. Pratt began studying piano at the age of 6 and entered the University of Illinois at 16, where he studied piano, violin, and conducting. At the Peabody Conservatory of Music, he was the first student in the school’s history to receive diplomas in three performance areas. Mr. Pratt recently received Johns Hopkins University’s Distinguished Alumni Award.

    The winner in 1992 of the Naumburg International Piano Competition, he has performed at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Chicago’s Orchestra Hall and many other venues here and abroad.

    Mr. Pratt is currently professor of piano and artist in residence at the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music. A Pianofest participant in the early ’90s, he has returned on several occasions as a mentor.

    On Saturday, he will perform Liszt’s “Sonata in B Minor” and short works by Scarlatti, Couperin, Chopin, Tchai­kovsky, and Fred Hersch. Tickets are $15, free for students under 21.

    This year’s Black Film Festival opens tonight at 6:30 with a screening of “The Central Park Five,” a 119-minute documentary by Ken Burns, David McMahon, and Sarah Burns about the five young black and Latino men convicted of raping a jogger in Central Park in 1989 and exonerated 13 years later.

    The free program, which will take place at the Southampton Cultural Center on Pond Lane, will be followed by a panel discussion featuring one of the wrongly convicted men, Yusef Salaam; Dr. Anael Alston, an award-winning educator; the Rev. Kirk Lyons Sr., founder of Brothers Keepers; Kyle Braunskill, director of Safe Harbor Mentoring, a program that operates in prisons, and Audrey Gaines, a licensed clinical social worker.

    In keeping with the festival’s traditional format, tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m. the cultural center will provide a venue for spoken-word and jazz performances, this year featuring Charles Certain of Certain Moves, who brings jazz, rock, funk, and R&B, Sheree Elder, who is a jazz singer, and guest poets. The $20 admission fee helps fund the festival.

    Saturday the program moves to Stony Brook Southampton, where an episode from season one of “Roots” will be screened at 3:15 p.m. A question-and-answer session with John Erman, the director of the episode, and Tina Andrews, an actress who played Kunta Kinte’s girlfriend, will follow.

    On Sunday the festival concludes at the Southampton Center, in the old Parrish Art Museum building on Job’s Lane, with the world premiere of Nigel Nobel’s “Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall,” a 40-minute documentary shortlisted for the 2014 Oscar for best short documentary, and a showing of “Voices of Sarafina!” The Saturday and Sunday events are also free.

    A project of the African American Museum of the East End in Southampton, the festival is organized by Brenda Simmons, co-founder of the museum, together with Cheryl Buck and the film committee. Over lunch, Ms. Simmons talked about the challenges of getting one of the Central Park five to join the panel discussion.

    “I contacted Dr. Natalie Byfield, a writer whose forthcoming book, ‘Savage Portrayals: Race, Media, and the Central Park Jogger Story,’ will be published by Temple University Press. She put me in touch with Sarah Burns.”

    Ms. Simmons and Ms. Burns played telephone tag throughout the summer, until they finally connected and Ms. Burns referred Ms. Simmons to the Innocence Project, a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongly convicted prisoners. Two months ago, Yusef Salaam, who was 16 at the time of his arrest and now works for a New York City hospital managing the wireless system that doctors and staff there use to communicate, agreed to attend the screening and join the panel.

    The Saturday program will include “Beat the Drum” (2003), a prize-winning South African film about a young orphan who must confront the realities of urban life; “Beasts of the Southern Wild” (2012), the acclaimed story of the effect of a flood on a bayou community and a young girl, played by Quvenzhané Wallis, who was nominated for an Oscar; “Tug O War” (2013), a short film, and “Roots,” season 1, part 2 (1977), from the Emmy Award-winning mini-series.

    The day will conclude with “I Am Slave,” a 2010 film based on the real-life experiences of a 12-year-old girl abducted and sold into slavery in the Sudan. According to Ms. Simmons, “We chose this film before the release of ‘12 Years a Slave,’ with which its story has so much in common.”

    Sunday’s premiere, “Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall,” is a cinema verite documentary shot in one of the country’s oldest maximum-security prisons. It tells the story of the final months in the life of a terminally ill prisoner who was tended by hospice volunteers, themselves prisoners.

    The festival’s concluding film, “Voices of Sarafina!” is a documentary based on the 1987 Lincoln Center musical “Sarafina!” with members of the original young South African cast. The musical retold the story of the Soweto uprising in South Africa in 1976.

    With a fully reserved first performance of the “Water’s Edge Radio Hour” at Wolffer Estate Winery on Saturday, clearly an audience exists for a home-grown version of “A Prairie Home Companion,” the popular public radio staple.

    According to its Web site, “A Prairie Home Companion” had an initial live audience of 12 people. The show now has 4 million listeners. It remains to be seen whether “Water’s Edge Radio Hour” catches on to the same extent, but the enthusiasm is there, both in the current sold-out show and a well-received test performance in April.

    The variety show is the brainchild of John Landes, Joshua Perl, and Peter Zablotsky. Mr. Landes is the owner of Bay Burger in Sag Harbor and the sponsor of the Jam Sessions of live music there; Mr. Perl and Mr. Zablotsky are partners in HITFest, the Hamptons Independent Theater Festival.

    Mr. Landes came up with the idea three years ago, Mr. Perl said last week, adding, “I always wanted to do a radio show.” For the Naked Stage, another theatrical project of Mr. Perl’s where actors read scripts aloud before an audience, he once produced an evening of 1930s radio plays and thoroughly enjoyed it. It dawned on him that the stage readings were basically “radio theater without the broadcast venue and original work.” Since he had access to new plays and an entire performing community here, it didn’t seem like an overwhelming endeavor, given the resources. “I gave [Mr. Landes] a very enthusiastic ‘yes!’ ”

    When the April “trial balloon went very well,” the partners decided to take the next steps, securing sponsors, a broadcast home, and gathering and refining material. All have fallen into place, with Wolffer serving as the venue, 88.3 WPPB as the broadcaster, and several community sponsors.

    Then it came time to figure out the show. “It’s not the same as ‘A Prairie Home Companion,’ although the format is remotely the same,” Mr. Perl said. “There will be music, a host, sketches, editorials — local writers saying what it’s like to live out here.”

    The music will be provided by Hopefully Forgiven, the harmonizing duo of Telly Karoussos and Brad Penuel, who describe their sound as similar to Gram Parsons, early Rolling Stones, and “country brother bands” such as the Stanley Brothers. “It’s two guys on acoustic guitars with a very accessible melody, like Crosby, Stills and Nash harmonizing,” Mr. Perl said.

    They have a total of four initial performances scheduled for Wolffer. The first show is all set “and we have enough material for all four shows. I think evolution will be our best teacher. We’ll listen and see if we need a different mix, but we’re basically scripted and ready to go. I’m willing to adjust it as it goes.”

    The evening planned for Saturday will include sketches primarily written by Mr. Zablotsky, who has had his plays produced off-Broadway, and a few by Mr. Perl. The next performances will showcase work by a few other sources. “We’ll have recurring sketches and some wild cards,” said Mr. Perl. The idea is to display the general while doing the specific, with characters such as Max and Charlie, “a prototypical Hamptons couple looking for the sine qua non restaurant experience, who also go through a corn maze to comic effect. The work they do and the lives they lead are woven into the sketches” to draw a wider appeal, but they are “Hamptons people.”

    Another recurring series revolves around characters who are ticks. The tick couple’s “idyllic life here is interrupted by bedbugs, their daughter brings home a flea, the father decides to run for mayor.” It’s specific to the East End, but the concerns are general: “NIMBYism, feeling uncomfortable with ‘the other,’ status seeking.” It is the universalism of the storylines that Mr. Perl said will help the partners attain their long-term goal: syndication.

    Another component, born from Mr. Perl’s work as a creative writing teacher at Suffolk Community College, is a series of narrative essays written by his students. The actors for the first evening are Molly McKenna, Kathryn Lerner, Rachel Feldman, Lucas Beck, J. Kelly Caldwell, and Mr. Perl.

    Additional shows will be presented on Nov. 23 and Dec. 14. The fourth performance date has not been set but should be finalized shortly. The first broadcast will take place on Nov. 18. It will also be available as a podcast through the radio station Web site after each performance has been aired.

    The Hampton Theatre Company, which has been bringing drama to the people since the mid-’80s, opened its 2013-14 season last week with Jon Robin Baitz’s “Other Desert Cities,” a meaty choice and hopefully the beginning of a winning season for the Quogue group.

    Mr. Baitz’s play, first performed at Lincoln Center in 2011 and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize that year, is set on Christmas Eve 2004 at the Palm Springs home of Lyman and Polly Wyeth, a well-to-do Republican couple with connections in both Washington and Hollywood. Their children are visiting — Trip, a producer of a reality justice show starring old celebrities as jurors, and Brooke, who is returning for the first time in many years after a successful novel and a nervous breakdown. Also staying with the Wyeths is Silda, Polly’s sister, who is in early recovery (again) and just out of rehab.

    The lines are drawn early in the evening: The parents and children don’t see eye to eye politically. Silda is the “cool aunt,” still in touch with the Jewish heritage that Polly has packed away in favor of County Club beige, and Lyman, an actor turned ambassador, wants to avoid any unpleasantness and keep the peace between his wife and daughter.

    But peace will not be kept when Brooke brings several copies of her soon-to-be-published new book, which dredges up a deep and dark event from the family’s past — the terrorist actions and suicide of Lyman’s oldest son.

    To say more would give too much away. This play is about the slow reveals. Although there is much talk of judging and fairness, Mr. Baitz shows how hard it is to adjudicate a verdict when family is involved.

    The set, designed by Sean Marbury, is a loving tableau to desert design, complete with big stone fireplace, a wall of autographed pictures from Nancy and Ronnie and John Wayne, and windows showing the rocky and arid Coachella Valley beyond. It was gratifying to see Mr. Marbury pick up and wear the cloak left by his father, the brilliant designer Peter Marbury, with such grace and style.

    Diana Marbury, artistic director of H.T.C., offers a wonderful performance as Polly Wyeth, a woman comfortable in her habitat and easy to dismiss as a WASP, but with layers of both coolness and warmth underneath, and a need to protect her standing at any cost. “You can die from too much sensitivity in this world,” she says, a phrase with a meaning that warps as the evening progresses.

    Craig Braun as Lyman Wyeth gives a solid performance as the king of all he surveys, and why not? It’s December of 2004, Dubya’s in charge for another four years, and all is right in his world. But Mr. Braun brings layers of depth to Wyeth as well, especially toward the end of the evening.

    Vay David adds levity as Aunt Silda, a woman with dark secrets of her own, and Ian Bell offers bright spots as the youngest wise-cracking son in a dysfunctional family. But it is Morgan Vaughan as Brooke who steals the spotlight. Her heartbreaking portrayal of a woman on the verge — of losing her mind, of publishing another book, of telling her family what she really thinks of them — is brought to a head in the second act, and Ms. Vaughan’s performance is heartfelt and real every step of the way.

    Sarah Hunnewell directs this able ensemble with a deft touch. There is some awkward blocking in the beginning, but it sort of works with a family that feels awkward around each other anyway. And the message — that the truth shall set you free, no matter what that truth is — rings out loud and clear in Ms. Hunnewell’s production.

    Hampton Theatre Company’s “Other Desert Cities” runs through Nov. 10 at the Quogue Community Hall.

    Autumn seems to be film festival season on the South Fork. This weekend, the World Peace Initiative Hamptons debuts at Guild Hall. As a satellite of Artisan Festival International, its mission is to promote peace and cultural diversity by showcasing both the work of artists and over 25 films from around the globe. The community has been invited to attend along with international guests including environmental engineers, diplomats for peace, filmmakers, fine artists, and fashion designers.

     “We are an initiative, not just a ‘film festival’ or a ‘fine arts festival,’ ” the festival’s founder and executive director, Princess Angelique Monet, said in a release. “Promoting and expressing peace through select art forms provides a unique and entertaining platform that allows our guests the opportunity to form their own opinions based on the information being presented.”

    The program begins with an opening night Halloween masquerade character ball tomorrow from 8 to 11 p.m. The party will benefit the Children and the Arts Program and children will be welcomed with adults. Tickets cost $20 per person and can be purchased online at afiworldpeaceinitiative.org.

    Screenings and programs run from 10 a.m. until 10:15 p.m. on Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Sunday.

    The cinema segment, supported in part by a grant from the Suffolk County Office of Film and Cultural Affairs, includes several highlighted selections with accompanying special programs.

    “Forget Us Not” by Heather E. Connell documents the fate of more than 5 million non-Jews targeted by Hitler, focusing on several “lesser-known voices” including a disabled man, a Roma girl, and a Ukrainian child. The director will attend a panel discussion.

    “Lesson of Hayti” by Terry Boyd, Edward Harris Jr., and Byron Hunter examines “the unique history of black self-sufficiency and political power in the United States from its origins” following the Emancipation Proclamation, told by prominent historians and scholars. A discussion with Mr. Hunter and the film’s narrator, Dougie Doug, an actor and comedian, will follow.

    “Chasing Shakespeare,” starring Danny Glover and Graham Greene, is a love story by Leonardo Santana surrounding a mystical Arkansas Native American family. The screening celebrates National American Indian Heritage Month and there will be a performance at the festival by the InterTribal Dancers. “Egypt Through the Glass Shop” shines a spotlight on the Middle East when a hip-hop producer turned filmmaker travels to Egypt and delivers a “powerful first-hand account of the Egyptian Revolution.”

    “Look Up! The Sky Is Falling” is, according to the festival, a new genre of documentary that “integrates a mobile app component.” Addressing what festival organizers “believe is the single most important and terrifying environmental issue that the planet faces today — geoengineering and chemtrails,” the film shows how George Barnes, the filmmaker and Telly Award-winning director, makes a “terrifying discovery” while testing time-lapse camera equipment, then playing the footage backwards. He discovers the use of aircraft to spray the sky with toxic particles, “with the intention of blocking the sun and forcing climate change while creating unknown consequences.” Also discussed in the film is aluminum and its relationship to “aluminum-related diseases such as autism and Alzheimer’s.” It introduces a “revolutionary new app” that allows for instantaneous viewer activism. There will be a panel discussion with environmental experts and the director following the screening.

    Tickets for individual programs are $15, $12 for senior citizens, and $10 for children under 15. A day pass is $35 or $30 for senior citizens. They are available at afiworldpeaceinitiative.org.

    A search, via its Web site, of the John Jermain Memorial Library’s catalog will yield a wealth of media, from literature to periodicals to DVDs.

    A search of the Sag Harbor library’s Web site will also reveal a collection, now numbering approximately 100, of CDs produced by local artists. Recently added titles include “Go West” by Inda Eaton, “Time Bomb Love” by the Glazzies, “Smoke and Mirrors” by Joe Delia and Thieves, and a CD compilation of live recordings of the Thursday Night Live Band from the weekly jam sessions at Bay Burger, also in Sag Harbor.

    The collection, said Eric Cohen, the library’s coordinator of technology and media, was conceived last year after he had returned from a biannual conference for public libraries. “I went to a presentation on idiosyncratic local collections,” he said. “The people doing it were really talking about a collection of zines” — the small-circulation, self-published magazines that flourished in the pre-World Wide Web era — “but then they mentioned, at the end, that they were also starting a local music collection.”

    A thriving, year-round community of musicians on the South Fork allowed the creation of a local collection, Mr. Cohen said. Last year, shortly before Sag Harbor’s Great American Music Festival, he proposed the idea to Catherine Creedon, the library’s director, who, he said, was “very enthusiastic.” Kelly Connaughton, the festival’s organizer, was similarly enthusiastic, and connected Mr. Cohen with some participating local artists. “I was able to get them to donate albums,” he said. “It took off from there.”

    Mr. Cohen reached out to the music community by contacting local media, including The Star and radio stations, and posted an appeal for donated CDs on the library’s Web site, newsletter, and Facebook page. “And when I go to music events — I attended this year’s festival again — I ask for albums,” he said, “if I can get near artists.” To date, he said, no one has declined to donate work.

    The collection, which represents some 60 artists, includes both the celebrated and the lesser known, united only by their residency. That means that local favorites including Gene Casey and the Lone Sharks, Ms. Eaton, Michael Weiskopf, InCircles, Caroline Doctorow, Mr. No-Shame, and the HooDoo Loungers are alongside Judy Carmichael, the renowned stride pianist, who lives in Sag Harbor, and another well-known pianist and vocalist, Billy Joel.

    With its collection, the library has assumed a role as a nexus for local music in the way that Crossroads Music and the Stephen Talkhouse, both in Amagansett, provide the community with musical-instrument sales and instruction and a live-performance venue. Another common denominator is MonkMusic Studios in East Hampton, the recording and mixing studio owned and operated by Cynthia Daniels, a Grammy Award-winning producer and engineer. Many of the titles represented in the library’s collection were produced at Ms. Daniels’s studio.

    “It was an honor to be asked to contribute to the collection as a member of the local music community,” Ms. Eaton wrote in an e-mail. It was after an appearance at the Great American Music Festival, she said, that she was asked to submit a copy of “Go West,” her latest release. “Go West,” she wrote, is “an Americana roots rock-style album and features appearances by some of my East End favorites: Lee Lawler [of the band MamaLee Rose and Friends], Nancy Atlas, and Caroline Doctorow.” The album was recorded by Ms. Daniels at MonkMusic Studios.

    “We are proud to be included in the local music collection,” Mr. Casey, a former Sag Harbor resident who now lives on the North Fork, wrote in an e-mail. In establishing the collection, Mr. Cohen had contacted him seeking his recordings. “We were more than happy to contribute. We have a lot of fans and friends in Sag Harbor who might not come across our recorded original music otherwise,” Mr. Casey wrote. “For 20 years I was a Sag Harbor resident and frequent visitor to the library, so it is especially nice to ‘leave something behind,’ so to speak, for others to (I hope) enjoy.”

    “Like the community at large, our local music community is generous beyond words,” Ms. Eaton wrote. “To be included in this collection is a tremendous honor.”

    Mr. Cohen initially hoped to implement an audio-streaming function by way of the library’s Web site so that patrons could listen to the collection remotely, but it has proven challenging on multiple fronts. “It’s challenging my technical skills,” he said, and “in order to make it to legal, we have to have an agreement with artists,” as well as a means to authenticate that listeners are patrons of the library. Most artists, he believes, would not be in favor of allowing their work to be freely downloaded. The library’s officials, he said, are considering paying artists an honorarium for online performance of their work, but that remains under discussion.

    Until such a function is implemented, listeners can obtain a sizable and still-growing collection in a physical format by visiting the library. Since contributing his music, Mr. Casey wrote, “several fans have mentioned they discovered one of our songs on local radio and were able to find it at the Jermain library. Perfect!”