The Parrish Art Museum’s “Artists Choose Artists” exhibition will open on Sunday, as part of the museum’s weekend-long celebration of its first anniversary in Water Mill.

    Initiated in 2009, the biennial shows invite online submissions from East End artists, which are reviewed by a panel of distinguished jurors, each of whom makes two selections. The works of jurors and the artists they selected are then exhibited together. According to Terrie Sultan, director of the museum, “by installing the juror’s work alongside that of the selected artists, we can offer a window into the deliberative process and provide interesting juxtapositions across artistic platforms and generations of working artists.”

    This year’s jurors and their selections are Laurie Anderson, who chose Elizabeth Dow and Mary McCormick; Judith Hudson (Don Christensen and Christine Sciulli), Mel Kendrick (Elise Ansel and Eva Faye), David Salle (Carol Hayes and Virva Hinnemo), Ned Smyth (Koichiro Kurita and Rick Liss), Keith Sonnier (Rossa Cole and Brian Gaman), and Robert Wilson (Tucker Marder and Ezra Thompson).

    Andrea Grover, organizer of the exhibition, called the review process “eye-opening, because it offers a snapshot of this moment and insight into trends and themes that are developing now.”

    Mr. Thompson, Ms. McCormick, and Mr. Salle explore a variety of approaches to portraiture. The anthropomorphizing of animals can be seen in interdisciplinary works by Mr. Marder, Ms. Anderson, Ms. Hudson, and Mr. Wilson, who sometimes use nonhuman subjects in distinctly human situations. Bold geometric abstractions painted on unusual surfaces connect the paintings of Mr. Liss and Mr. Christensen.

    The natural world comes into play in Ms. Dow’s paintings, Ms. Hayes’s scroll-like drawings, Mr. Kurita’s platinum-printed landscape photographs, and Mr. Smyth’s monumental photographs. Environmental concerns drive the works of Mr. Cole, whose sculptures explore environmental consciousness.

    Mr. Sonnier and Ms. Sciulli, sculptors, use light as a voluminous form. Light also plays an important role in Ms. Faye’s intricately cut and painted vellum drawings. The process of subtracting and simplifying forms manifests quite differently in paintings by Ms. Ansel and Ms. Hinnemo, as well as Mr. Gaman’s large-scale prints and Mr. Kendrick’s sculptures.

    Given the 300 submissions to the exhibition, the reviewing process can be daunting. “The quality of the work was high,” said Mr. Sonnier, “but there’s a lot of it. It’s also not easy looking at photographs rather than actual work, since issues related to materials and scale can be difficult to grasp. But I’ve had a lot of experience, serving on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, among others, which helped.”

    Ms. Hudson reviewed all the submissions. “On the one hand, looking at digital imagery is convenient,” she said. “I was in Rome, and digital images made selection possible. That being said, I am sure I overlooked some submissions that are subtle in ways that don’t work in that format.”

    Mr. Smyth observed that in the past, jurors would sit down together and discuss each slide as it was projected on a screen. “With online review you are isolated, but you aren’t influenced by other jurors and you have as much time as you want or need,” he said. He went through all the submissions a number of times, narrowing them down into smaller and smaller groups until he arrived at five. “Then I went to the artist’s Web site,” he explained. “You can get a sense of an artist’s overall body of work from his or her Web site which you can’t get from four or five images.”

    There was agreement among the jurors that the exhibition accomplishes its stated purpose, which is “to encourage dialogue and fellowship among the East End’s expanded, multi-generational network of artists.” According to Mr. Sonnier, “I think ‘Artists Choose Artists’ is an excellent idea because it involves artists in a dialogue, which happens all too rarely in the art world. It helps foster a community. I didn’t know either Rossa Cole or Brian Gaman, or their work. They are both quite different, but the work has very interesting investigative properties.”

    “I really like what the Parrish has become — a social center as well as a place to look at art — and this exhibition reflects that,” said Mr. Smyth. “Like the PechaKucha programs, the exhibition is a real equalizer, in that it brings together different types of artists, some unknown, some super-successful, some local, some international.” One of Mr. Smyth’s selections, Mr. Kurita, was a commercial photographer in Japan who did not move into fine art photography until the age of 40. Now living in Southold, Mr. Kurita cites Thoreau’s “Walden” as the inspiration for the decision to work with nature. Asked by Mr. Smyth about the response to his work in Japan, he said people in the United States appreciate it more. “In Japan, everything has to be new and Western. They don’t want nature,” the artist said.

    Ms. Hudson said narrowing down the selection to two artists was a challenge, but “luckily these two jumped out. Don Christensen moved me because he is an abstract painter who has managed the near-impossible, which is to make the form fresh and alive. As an artist, I also know there is nothing harder than making an abstract painting, much less making one that excites. I responded to Christine Sciulli because she strikes me as someone whose imagination can hardly be contained . . . there is an infectious joy that goes along with the toughness and exactitude.”

    For both Mr. Liss, who was selected by Mr. Smyth, and Ms. Sciulli, this was their first submission to “Artists Choose Artists.” Both were impressed by the information sessions conducted for the applicants by Andrea Grover, the museum’s curator of special projects. “It was amazing,” said Ms. Sciulli, “because she was really clear about how to maximize the application.”

    “Her seminars were so useful, not only for this exhibition but for any grant application I make in the future,” said Mr. Liss, a lifelong East End resident.

    For Ms. Sciulli, who creates installations using projected light, there were challenges. “I had to come up with a way to contain my light and prevent other light from getting in. Since it isn’t possible to build a room in any of the galleries — you can’t anchor anything in the floor or ceiling — I’m going to make a plywood shell that will house the installation. Constraints can usually be turned into something interesting.”

    There was general agreement that the exhibition plays an important role in bringing artists together. “Judith Hudson came for a studio visit and gave me great advice for future applications,” said Ms. Sciulli. “Afterward, she invited me to her studio. We’ve developed a great rapport.”

    “Artists Choose Artists” will remain on view through Jan. 19.

    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.

    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!”