Guild Hall, Parrish

Free on Saturday

    Guild Hall and the Parrish Art Museum will allow patrons with a Museum Day Live! ticket free access on Saturday during regular business hours. The program, sponsored by Smithsonian magazine, is in its ninth year. Last year’s event drew over 400,000 participants nationwide, and this year’s expects record-high participation.

   The Museum Day Live! ticket is available to download at Smith­sonian. com/museumday. Visitors who present the ticket will gain free entrance for two at participating venues for one day only. One ticket is permitted per household, per e-mail address.

New Show at Lawrence

    Lawrence Fine Art in East Hampton will show work by Karl Klingbiel and Robert Szot, midcareer Abstract Expressionist painters working in Brooklyn. The exhibition will open on Saturday, with a reception on Oct. 12 from 4 to 7 p.m.

   The show, “Left Bank Brooklyn,” will focus on the painters’ determination to reinvent the AbEx style in their own image. The gallery will be open through December.

Early Motherwell at Guggenheim

    Robert Motherwell, who once stated that he did his best work in East Hampton, will have a show of his early collages at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan beginning tomorrow.

   The show will examine the origins of the artist’s style and the role of collage in his work as an influence throughout his career. On view primarily will be collages known as papier collé or paper pasted to a paper ground, as opposed to collage that encompasses other materials or objects pasted onto a support. The works began during the war and continued through the decade of the 1940s and early 1950s. Some 50 works will be on view.

   The exhibition will be on view through Jan. 5, 2014.

Get Ready for Moby

    The Moby Project, a multimedia, multi-sited exhibition and happening, will take place this weekend at Mulford Farm in East Hampton and in conjunction with “Moby-Dick,” a related show at Neoteric Fine Art in Amagansett.

   The shows riff on themes from Melville’s classic novel “Moby-Dick.” The artists will respond to the text in various mediums including sculpture, painting, performance, and installation.

   At Mulford Farm, Junko Sugimoto, a Japanese artist who lives in Brooklyn, will install a complex paper sculpture in the barn. Other artists who will have site-specific work at the farm are Don Christensen, Judy Richardson, Dennis Oppenheim, Scott Bluedorn, Bonnie Rychlak, Brian Gaman, Steven B. Miller, Clayton Orehek, Hope Sandrow, Jon Bocksel, Joe Pintauro, and others, and there will be a performance by Yves Musard.

   At Neoteric, 18 more participating artists, among them Sophia Collier, Peter Spacek, Charles Ly, Dalton Portella, and Scott Kelley, will hang, place, or install work in the gallery. Mr. Musard will offer a performance during the opening reception.

    Neoteric’s show will open tomorrow from 7 to 10 p.m. and remain on view through Oct. 18. The Mulford Farm show will open Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. and run through Oct. 6.

Getting Feral at Dodds and Eder

    “Kingdom Animalia” is the title of a new show scheduled to open at Dodds and Eder in Sag Harbor on Saturday, with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. From 6 to 9 p.m., Dodds and Eder will host the Twilight Lounge as part of the Sag Harbor American Music Festival.

   The art show was organized by Kathy Zeiger and includes work by Mark Wilson, Caitlyn Shea, Colin Goldberg, Dan Welden, David Bonagurio, Llewelynn Fletcher, Marc Dimov, Rachel Meuler, Roz Dimon, Scott Bluedorn, Steve Miller, Vito DeVito, and Will Ryan, featuring their renditions of indigenous animals of the East End and touching on the issues of balance and adversity that sometimes come with sharing a habitat.

   The exhibition will be on view through Nov. 10.

   Bach & Forth, an ensemble of four instrumentalists and a soprano, will open its second season here at 7 p.m. Saturday at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church. The members of the quintet are Trudy Craney, a soprano who has a house in Springs, Thomas Bohlert, the music director of the church, organ and piano, Linda DiMartino Wetherill, flute, Rebecca Perea, cello, and Terry Keevil, oboe.

   The program on Saturday reflects the ensemble’s commitment to music from the Baroque to the avant-garde, which gave rise to its name. Bach, Corelli, and Telemann will be performed, as well as a United States premiere of a solo work for alto flute by Gregg Caffrey. Two other contemporary pieces on the program are “Vita Nova,” for voice and piano, by Noa Ain and “Ornament of Grace,” for organ and oboe, by Bernard Sanders.

    Five of Bach’s Choral Preludes, for organ, and his “Sheep May Safely Graze,” in which the entire quintet will perform, are on the program, as well as Telemann’s Trio Sonata in C minor and Corelli’s Sonata for flute and cello, Opus 5 No. 3. Tickets are $20 and will be sold at the door.

   Mr. Caffrey is a young Irishman whose compositions have been heard around the world. Ms. Ain is an award-winning American lyricist and librettist. She is also a painter whose most recent exhibition was in August at the Monika Olko Gallery in Sag Harbor. Ms. Craney starred in Ms. Ain’s one-woman opera, “Joan of Arc.” Mr. Sanders, the other contemporary composer, was educated at Wichita State University and is a music director and organ consultant in Germany, where he did postgraduate work.

    Mr. Bohlert, the accompanist of the Choral Society of the Hamptons, said the instrumentalists had met as members of the South Fork Chamber Orchestra in performance with the Choral Society. Mr. Keevil has frequently been its oboe soloist.

    Because of his position at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church, where he arranges a series of concerts called Music at the Old Town Church, Mr. Bohlert has been central to the formation of Bach & Forth.

   He is a cum laude graduate of Wag­ner College, where he concentrated on piano, attended the Mannes College of Music, and received a master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music. A frequent recitalist, he is certified by the American Guild of Organists, and composes music for organ, choir, and handbells. He also writes about music for The East Hampton Star.

   Mr. Keevil, who plays duduk and English horn in addition to oboe, is a member of three additional chamber ensembles. He is the director of the community chamber music program at the State University at Stony Brook, from which he received master’s and doctoral degrees, and teaches privately in Stony Brook.

   Ms. Craney is known for her versatility as a soprano soloist, with appearances ranging, like Bach & Forth’s, from the Baroque to the contemporary, and she adds art song to her credits. Her operatic roles include Mme. Mao in John Adams’s “Nixon in China.” Performing in major houses in this country and abroad, she has had leading roles in operas by Verdi and Prokofiev, and was the Queen of the Night in 39 European performances of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.”  She lives and teaches voice in Manhattan as well as Springs.

   Ms. Wetherill, the flutist, who began her career in Europe, has performed with La Scala Opera and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and toured as a soloist in the Middle East, South Asia, South America, and China. She divides her time between New York City and Lucca, Italy, where she directs an international festival and academy.

   The cellist, Ms. Perea, has a continuing interest in 20th century music including pop. She has performed with rock bands and popular artists such as Natalie Cole and Bobbie Ferren. She has toured Eastern Europe and been the principal cellist in several chamber orchestras and musical theater productions in this country.

   Bach & Forth’s second season will continue at the Unitarian Universalist Church in East Setauket on Nov. 10 and at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in the Citicorp building in Manhattan on Feb. 4.  

   On Memorial Day 2011, Fran Castan wrote searingly in this newspaper of the death of her first husband, the Look magazine war correspondent Sam Castan, killed by enemy fire in the highlands of Vietnam, just an hour’s plane ride away from their apartment in Hong Kong. Traumatized, she fled the British colony, where they had happily settled short months before, and returned to the United States, carrying their 13-month-old toddler and a weight of buried memories that would surface many years later in her award-winning poetry. Last month, in recognition of ongoing achievement, Ms. Castan was named 2013 Long Island Poet of the Year by the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, an honor she will receive on Sunday afternoon at the association’s headquarters in Huntington.

   Back in New York with no idea how she would live after Mr. Castan died, but with a B.A. in English from Brooklyn College and experience gained from working together with him before the war (“a life like Cinderella, only then the ball was over”) to interview such cover-story subjects as Bob Dylan and Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Ms. Castan took herself to the New York Public Library on 42nd Street.

    “I made a list of magazines and started walking north.” The first one she came to, a block away on 43rd, was at the top of the list, The New Yorker.

    The magazine “opened the door” to her, she said last week at the house in Barnes Landing, Springs, where she and the painter Lew Zacks, who were married in 1972, have lived year round for 22 years. Never mind that she was hired as an “editorial assistant,” “Mad Men”-era doublespeak for the little fish in the typing pool, where, she remembered ruefully, “every woman had a master’s.” What mattered was the money, and the springboard, and the poetry and fiction editors, “who were grooming me to be a reader.”

   Three years at The New Yorker, though, were enough. “I got impatient,” Ms. Castan said. “My life had been a different life, and it was taking too long. I wanted more responsibility and more money, and I’d met Lew.” She quit to become a writer and editor at Scholastic magazine.

   Not until she was 40, with a fellowship to the MacDowell Colony behind her and a job as a popular teacher of literature and creative writing at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, did she think of writing poetry.

   “It was a language I spoke early on,” she said. “It was part of me, like breathing, but the poets I read were dead white men. I didn’t know any women poets. I thought, ‘I will love this all my life, but it’s not what I will do.’ It wasn’t something I ever thought a woman could or would do. But was I reading it? Was I loving it? Yes!”

   “Then these things came to me. I started writing them down. They weren’t prose.”

   Most of her early poems, which have been collected under the title “A Widow’s Quilt,” were about Sam and Vietnam. “We have never seen the Vietnam tragedy through such eyes, with such grief, rage, clarity,” the political theorist and editor Robin Morgan, who published some of her work in Ms. magazine, said of the book. But when a visitor asked the poet whether the death of her first husband had been the most important event of her life, she protested, “Do not define a life by a death.” The most “challenging” event, the most “difficult,” the “saddest,” perhaps. The most important, no.

   On the 75th anniversary of the Poetry Society of America, Ms. Castan’s poem “Operation Crazy Horse” won the society’s prestigious Lucille Medwick Award:

    A grand Kowloon hotel. A hedge

    of red hibiscus. A tiled pool.

    A masseuse who pressed fragrant

    oil of almond into my body

    in the full heat of the sun.

    Elsewhere, northwest of Saigon,

    a man beheld you, and fired.

    . . . .

   “The Lucille Medwick Award was the highlight for us” in the selection of Ms. Castan as Long Island Poet of the Year, said Cynthia Shor, director of the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association. “The qualifications are threefold: outstanding poetry, teaching of poetry, and general support of poetry on Long Island,” she said, citing the poet’s “five Pushcart Prize nominations and an extended teaching career.” Ms. Castan, the producer of Poetry Pairs, an annual Guild Hall event showcasing one local poet of repute and one with national renown, mentors several younger poets here and often gives readings at the East Hampton Town Marine Museum and elsewhere on the Island.

   When he heard about the award, Ms. Castan’s stepson in California, Dan Zacks, sent his congratulations and a rare 1900 edition of Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass.” The book has occupied a lot of her time, often midnight to 2 a.m., since.

   “I set myself a task to read the whole thing cover to cover before Award Day,” she said. “Reading poetry is not like reading a novel, not simple syntax. I have to read very slowly. There’s so much richness, if it’s good — allusion to other works, music to absorb. It requires attention to detail.”

   Reading Whitman in connection with Sunday’s ceremony has brought her back, she said, to her own work, which has a number of themes in common with his; she mentioned war, water, Long Island, relationships, family, and nature among them. Whitman, who, she noted, “was gay when it wasn’t okay,” saw the world as his family; Ms. Castan sees the world in hers, balancing, as her mentor William Matthews wrote in his introduction to “A Widow’s Quilt,” “the private and political with extraordinary dexterity.”

To Hannah VoDinh,

a Young Poet:

. . . .

I will not rest

in this or any other life

until the Vietnamese names

rise on the giant V in Washington

until they are formed

in the same stone of honor as the American names

as you are formed, dear

Lotus, of a single, human moment of transcendence.

    “One of my favorite things to do when I write from nature is to go with Lew when he paints and I write, side by side,” Ms. Castan said. Plein-air poetry, she calls it. It can happen anywhere, often at Louse Point in Springs, not far from where they live. In 2010, after the couple spent two summers in Italy, they collaborated on “Venice: City That Paints Itself,” published to acclaim both in paperback and a stylish coffee-table edition.

   Getting ready for Sunday’s ceremony, where she will be expected to read from her work, “has kind of got me back to my center,” Ms. Castan said. “Okay, there’s an award, but what does it really mean? It gives you all these opportunities. I am going over old work, unpublished pieces, new work — to see what I’ll be reading that day, to see what’s connected, not just random poems. I want to expose some new work, as well as what some people expect — and then to send things out.”

   What with one thing and another — life — she has fallen behind, she acknowledged, in submitting her work for publication.

   “In my going through enormous files, I am arranging things into groups, and there are several manuscripts that are due to be looked at, revised, reworked. I write them in white-hot heat and revise for years, and if they don’t reach a certain level I just keep moving along. Unlike other poets I know, I can’t switch readily back and forth. I don’t take the time away from rewriting and revising to send things along.”

“So, this is a good gift from the award.”

The induction ceremony, poetry reading, and meet-the-poet reception honoring Fran Castan will take place on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. at 246 Old Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station.

Deadline Extended

    The deadline for submissions to the Retreat’s juried art show has been extended to next Thursday. The top 25 entries will be featured in a group show at the Richard J. Demato Fine Art Gallery in Sag Harbor on Nov. 9.

    All of the submission fees will benefit the Retreat, a nonprofit domestic violence agency in East Hampton. The Web site for more information is hamptonsjuriedartshow.com.

Peconic at Ashawagh

    Tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday at Ashawagh Hall in Springs, the artists of Plein Air Peconic will show a collection of their artwork featuring the natural spaces of eastern Long Island conserved over the past 30 years by the Peconic Land Trust. Featured artists will be Kathryn Szoka, Keith Mantell, Tom Steele, Aubrey Grainger, Gordon Matheson, Michele Margit, Joanne Rosko, Casey Chalem Anderson, and Susan D’Alessio.

    An opening reception will take place Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. A portion of the proceeds from sales will be donated to the land trust.

New Show at Crazy Monkey

    Water is the theme of the next exhibition at Amagansett’s Crazy Monkey Gallery. Featuring paintings by Lance Corey and June Kaplan, who are gallery members, the exhibition will run through Oct. 27, with an opening reception Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

    Artwork by cooperative members such as Andrea McCafferty, Barbara Bilotta, Daniel Schoenheimer, Jana Hayden, Ellyn Tucker, Mark E. Zimmerman, Bobbie Braun, Beth O’Donnell, Melissa Hins, and Anna Franklin will also be on view.

Materials as Message

    “Material Matters,” which features the work of 11 artists who explore a variety of materials, will be on view at the Southampton Cultural Center’s Levitas Center for the Arts from Tuesday through Nov. 17, with an opening reception on Oct. 12 from 5 to 7 p.m.

    Organized by Arlene Bujese, the show includes work by Abby Abrams, Jeff Dell, Patricia Feiwel, Carol Hunt, Tracy Jamar, James Kennedy, Dennis Leri, Christa Maiwald, Gabriele Raacke, Bob Skinner, and Nicolas Tarr.

Hamada in Chelsea

    Hiroyuki Hamada, an East Hampton sculptor, will have a solo exhibition from next Thursday through Nov. 9 at Lori Bookstein Fine Art in Manhattan. Using plaster, resin, and waxes, Mr. Hamada transforms raw materials into layered sculptures with impressive scale and detail.

    Born in Tokyo in 1968, Hamada moved to the United States at age 18 and earned an M.F.A. from the University of Maryland. He has exhibited widely in this country and has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Best in Show

    The “Winners’ Show” at East End Arts in Riverhead opens with a reception tomorrow from 5 to 7 p.m. Participants are best-in-show winners from juried exhibitions held during 2012: Jan Culbertson, Jim Gemake, Cynthia Parry, Anne Seelbach, Katherine Liepe-Levinson, Elizabeth Malunowicz, Christina Nalty, Toby Haynes, and Karen Schulte.

    The show runs through Nov. 1. The gallery, which is at 133 East Main Street, is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Dash and Holtzman

    Concurrent exhibitions of work by the late artist, poet, and gardener Robert Dash and Chuck Holtzman, a Boston artist, open at the Drawing Room in East Hampton tomorrow and continue through Nov. 4. An opening reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

    Though most closely associated with Sagaponack through his art and his stewardship of the Madoo Conservancy, Mr. Dash spent many years exploring the landscape in and around Blue Hill, Me. This exhibition features pastels from his “Blue Hill” series.

    Mr. Holtzman’s focus has shifted from sculpture to drawing over the past 20 years. The exhibition includes cubistic wall constructions from the 1980s and more recent drawings that express a meticulous process of physical construction.

   The Southampton Cultural Center will be alive with the sound of Broadway music on Sept. 28 at 7 p.m., as it hosts the one-hour “Showstopper Showcase,” a lively medley of the greatest hits of Broadway as part of SeptemberFest, a weekend devoted to art and culture in Southampton Village. The show was put together by Michael Disher, the director, and one of the performers, Valerie diLorenzo, an experienced hand at musical theater and cabaret in New York.

   Ms. diLorenzo has performed at some of New York’s leading cabarets, such as the Metropolitan Room and the Laurie Beechman Theater. Cabaret is an art form that is under attack in the city, as rising rents force out the old, small bars and clubs that used to host the performers.

   “The SeptemberFest event is very popular in Southampton. A lot of people don’t know about the theater company. I saw this as an opportunity to bring a cabaret-style show to the cultural center,” Ms. diLorenzo said Friday. She is slated to appear in the upcoming production of “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” also at the Center, from Oct. 17 through Nov. 3. Mr. Disher is directing that production, as well.

   “Michael chose the cast,” Ms. diLorenzo said. “Everyone in the cast are local people,” she said, and all of them have performed at the Cultural Center in the past.

   The evening is an eclectic collection of songs, from Stephen Sondheim to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, knitted together to give the audience the same sense of peaks and valleys one gets from a musical.

   There will be solo ballads, duets, and trios. “I’m doing a duet, ‘You’re Just in Love,’ made famous by Ethel Merman,” Ms. diLorenzo said.

   The choice of “You’re Just in Love” shows the broad range of songs that Mr. Disher has combed through in putting together the Sept. 28 show. From the 1950 Irving Berlin hit show, “Call Me Madam,” it was written as a second act showstopper by Berlin. It is a counter-punctual duet, with the belt sound originally sung by Ethel Merman, sparring with the lyric tenor sound originally performed by Russell Nype.

    The evening will conclude with the cast of 10 doing “The Best of Times,” by Jerry Herman, from “La Cage aux Folles.”

    “We’re all dressing up,” Ms. diLorenzo said, laughing, adding that members of the audience were more than welcome to dress up, or dress down, as the mood moved them.

    “A classy evening of theater, an hour, free of charge,” Ms. diLorenzo promised.

    Besides Ms. diLorenzo, the cast also includes Isabel Alvarez, Daniel Becker, Bethany DellaPolla, Adam Fronc, Jillian Lyons, Joan Lyons, Mary Ellen Roche, Jack Seabury, and Sue Vinski.

    SeptemberFest will be presented from Sept. 27 to 29 and will feature concerts, art shows, hayrides, pumpkin carving, food, and other activities. A schedule is available at Southamptonseptemberfest.com.

   Corky Laing, legendary rock ’n’ roll drummer and resident of Greenport, will return to the Bay Street Theatre on Saturday at 8 p.m. to perform “Heavy Metal Humor,” a one-man show that draws on his half-century as an entertainer.

    Mr. Laing, best known for his tenure in the group Mountain, performed his show, “The Best Seat in the House,” at Bay Street on May 18. His return engagement comes on the heels of two sold-out performances on Nantucket.

    His years with Mountain, and later West, Bruce, and Laing, the latter group featuring Leslie West of Mountain and Jack Bruce, who played in Cream with Eric Clapton in the late 1960s, are essential components of his experience. But the Montreal native, who has recorded or performed with such artists as Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Bo Diddley, Ozzy Osbourne, Meat Loaf, Gov’t Mule, and the Allman Brothers Band, has had many other experiences on which to draw. As both a witness to and participant in the early days of the British Invasion, Mr. Laing enjoys a rare insight.

    With the band Energy, he performed alongside many artists of rock’s pantheon, including the Rolling Stones and the Who, when all involved were barely out of their teens. His memory of these experiences is sharp: Asked for just one anecdote, he delivered a narrative, involving Keith Moon of the Who, that was as detailed as it was hilarious. Such stories will be abundant in “Heavy Metal Humor.”

    The show, Mr. Laing said last week, is about “the lifestyle of rock. The whole curve is wild and outrageous, and leads to a lot of very humorous predicaments and anecdotes and situations. You walk away laughing — not so much because I’m funny, but the situations are funny.”

    In these anecdotes, he said, “I preface everything with the fact that I met most of these hero rockers before they were even known anywhere. The show is based on everybody starting out as an unknown. In Montreal, the English rockers all came through to get their visas before they went to the big U.S.A. They all came through very meek and green, and Montreal was the first stop.”

    A Canadian act had to be on the bill, he explained, hence gigs opening for the very young Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix, an American who found fame in England before returning to conquer America. “With Energy, I met these guys way before they hit the big time,” he said. “Here we were, three young teens playing with these bands, and it was their first time overseas. It was wonderful to meet these guys, to see the Stones’ first tour. The Stones weren’t the Stones we know yet, just these guys competing with the Beatles for popularity. They were nervous! It was a wonderful time — there was no ego at all. The Zombies, the Animals, the Stones, coming through Montreal. Nobody knew what it was going to turn out to be.”

    In a way, “Heavy Metal Humor” is a natural, logical progression for Mr. Laing. He has seen the world from behind a drum kit — the best seat in the house, after all — but he is much more than a rock drummer. “There are people in Finland that take hard rock very seriously,” he said with equal parts admiration and wonder. “It’s a lifestyle, so I was guest lecturer in the philosophy department in Helsinki, and in Manchester, and started this thing at the University of Western Ontario where one of the dean’s assistants asked me if I’d put together a course. It’s one of the top business schools and top music faculties, and they asked me to do a course one winter to show business people how to work with creative people and vice versa. I guess it comes from the fact that I still have a pulse after 50 years of living in the rock industry. I did some guest lecturing at McGill [University] in Montreal. It was a lot of fun.”

    There is also music: “I’ve got songs I was fortunate enough to write with a few bands,” Mr. Laing said. “I play them on guitar, and I have the drum set there — my all-consuming mistress — to help me out any time things start to go left.”

    Mountain, alas, is no more. Mr. West lost part of one leg to diabetes in 2011. Steve Knight, the keyboardist, died in January, and Felix Pappalardi, the band’s bass player and a producer of artists including Cream, was shot and killed by his wife in 1983. “You can’t glue that together,” Mr. Laing said of his band. “I prefer to celebrate it on stage the best I can. I’m the last drummer standing — or sitting.”

    The present and future can only feel the influence of these musical giants, and Mr. Laing feels the same loyalty to listeners as they toward him. “I believe if you’re very loyal to the people you’ve tried to communicate with, they’re more like friends,” he said. “That’s what counts these days. I’ve found that doing this show, the people I associate with that I consider my friends and family — ‘fans’ is a little superfluous — I feel very connected to them. My following, whomever and however many there are, is wonderful and loyal to me. They’ve been staying with me, and I’ve been staying with them. It’s pretty hard to maintain anybody’s interest these days. I’m thrilled to be able to do it.”

    Tickets for “Heavy Metal Humor” are $15 in advance or $25 on the day of the event. “I love the venue,” Mr. Laing said of Bay Street.

    Tickets for the Hamptons International Film Festival will be available starting tomorrow for purchase online. The festival will run from Oct. 10 to Oct 14.

   At press time, the festival had only released the names of the opening, closing, and centerpiece films as well as the Views From Long Island titles.

   “Kill Your Darlings,” a film by John Krokidas, will be shown on opening night. It is based on the life of the poet Allen Ginsberg and a pivotal year in his creative development. The director and star, Dane DeHaan, will attend the screening.

   On the night of Oct. 13, a Sunday, the centerpiece film will be “Nebraska,” Alexander Payne’s latest, which also signals a return to his native state. It stars Bruce Dern and Will Forte as a father and son on a road trip to claim a purported fortune.

   The closing night film, on Oct. 14, is “12 Years a Slave.” Directed by Steve McQueen, it is based on a true story of a free black man from New York State who was abducted and sold into slavery. The film stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Brad Pitt.

   Tickets for the opening and closing nights are $30. A full breakdown of prices is available on the Web site hamptonsfilmfest.org, where tickets can be purchased for a $3 handling fee.

   Tickets will also be available at festival ticket offices at QF Gallery on Newtown Lane in East Hampton, in Southampton (this weekend only) at the Southampton Center on Job’s Lane (the former Parrish Art Museum), and in Manhattan at 416 West 42nd Street. The Web site has the box office hours of operation. Passes and packages are also available for purchase.

Soyeon Kate Lee, a Korean-American pianist who won first prize at the 2010 Naumburg International Piano Competition, will perform tomorrow at 6 p.m. in the Salon Series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill.

Ms. Lee has performed as a soloist with many orchestras, including the London Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Naples Philharmonic, andhasgivenrecitalsatAliceTullyHall, the Kennedy Center, Madrid’s National Auditorium, and many others.

In addition to her performing career, she serves on the faculties of the City College of New York and the CollegeConservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati, and is co-founder and artistic director of Music by the Glass, a concert series of young professionals in New York City.

Tickets are $20, $10 for members. A reception for the artist will follow the concert.

   The streets of Sag Harbor and Southampton will be alive with music this weekend, with both the Sag Harbor American Music Festival and South­ampton’s SeptemberFest in store.

   In Sag Harbor, it all starts tomorrow night with a fund-raising concert at the Old Whalers Church by BeauSoleil Avec Michael Doucet, a Grammy Award-winning Cajun and folk band. The concert starts at 8 p.m., but doors will open at 7. General admission tickets are $25 and can be purchased through the festival’s Web site, sagharbormusic.org.

    On Saturday it’s free music all day long and into the night, starting at 11 a.m., with bands and performers playing jazz, blues, roots, folk, and pop music at all sorts of venues inside and out around the village. The music will be inside in case of rain.

   Among those scheduled to play are the Grammy-winning artist Randy Brecker, who will be the special guest of the Jazz/Soul Train Express, Caroline Doctorow and the Steamrollers, Joe Lauro’s Hoodoo Loungers, and Inda Eaton. Other local favorites include Hopefully Forgiven, Alfredo Merat, Jettykoon, Ludmilla Queiroz Benevides and Marcello Pimenta, Moore Johansson, the Complete Unknowns, and Matty Liot.

   Primarily, it’s the proprietors of retail shops, art galleries, and restaurants who will sponsor the music in Sag Harbor, but the John Jermain Memorial Library is involved as well, offering music for the little ones by Christine Giuliano. The American Legion will offer classic Americana music by the Sag Harbor Community Band, and Richie Siegler will bring his 30-piece Escola de Samba BOOM! percussion band to wake the village on Saturday at 11 a.m.

   An after-party to be held at Bay Street Theatre on Saturday night will feature the Dan Bailey Tribe and Joe Delia and Thieves from 9 to 11. Tickets, at $10, can be purchased that day at the theater’s box office.

   Kelly Connaughton, co-artistic director and president of the nonprofit festival, said that any additional donations will support music in the village through­out the year.

   Some musicians will play during the festival in Sag Harbor and the one in Southampton, including Mick Hargreaves, Sara Hartman, and Gene Casey and the Lone Sharks, who will headline SeptemberFests’s kickoff party under a tent at Agawam Park tomorrow night at 6:30 p.m. Tickets cost $25 in advance through the Southampton Cultural Center or the Southampton Chamber of Commerce, and $35 at the door.

   The music will continue in South­ampton on Saturday starting at 11 a.m., with live entertainment on Main Street, at the Southampton Center on Job’s Lane, at Agawam Park, and at Village Hall. Reggae by Project Vibe will open a 1:45 p.m. concert at the park, and New Life Crisis will take over at 3:30 p.m. with danceable versions of alternative and rock songs.

   Maniac Pumpkin Carvers will be on hand throughout the weekend there, too, just one source of the entertainment for all ages that will complement additional village happenings with historical, agricultural, and seaside themes. Those looking for a taste of Southampton food will find it in the park, where there will also be a chowder contest. On Sunday, an art show Local Taste of Southampton, will find it in the park, and it will include a “Best of Hamptons” chowder contest. On Sunday, the park will be given over to an art show with a focus on East End talent, and a jazz performance by Charles Certain.

   Full schedules of the events can be found online at sagharbormusic.org and southamptonseptemberfest.com.

A Correction

    An article last week about the South­ampton Cultural Center’s “Showstopper Showcase” gave an incorrect date. The correct day and time is Saturday at 7 p.m.

   Mark Allen, the founder and director of the Machine Project, a Los Angeles-based cultural organization that organizes “vacations for plants, concerts for dentists, and car theft workshops for children” from an Echo Park storefront, will speak about the group on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. at the Parrish Art Museum. Its aim is to investigate art, technology, natural history, science, music, literature, and food in an offbeat and creative manner, in diverse settings such as beaches, museums, and parking lots.

   Mr. Allen’s illustrated talk is $10; free for members, children, and students. Space is limited and advance reservations have been suggested.