Trio To Be Honored

Guild Hall's Lifetime Achievement Awards dinner at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, an annual celebration of the outstanding literary, visual, and performing artists of the South Fork, is set for Tuesday at 7 p.m. Tickets for the party, which will honor the playwright and librettist Peter Stone, the filmmaker Alan J. Pakula, and the painter Jane Freilicher, are still available.

The master of ceremonies at this year's awards dinner will be the ABC News anchor and senior editor Peter Jennings. He and the three honorees all have houses on the South Fork - Mr. Jennings in Bridgehampton, Ms. Freilicher in Water Mill, Mr. Stone in Amagansett, and Mr. Pakula in East Hampton. The poet John Ashbery will be one of the presenters.

Mr. Pakula, an Oscar nominee for best director for "All the President's Men" and for best screenwriter for "Sophie's Choice," was honored for his contributions to the medium at this year's Hamptons International Film Festival as well.

Host Of Awards

Mr. Stone has written the book for 14 Broadway shows and has been recognized with Oscar, Edgar, Tony, and Emmy awards. His stage credits include "The Will Rogers Follies," "1776," and "Woman of the Year." He also wrote "Titanic," which opens next year, and the Oscar-winning screenplay "Father Goose."

Ms. Frielicher has used her house in Water Mill and its surrounding ponds and wetlands as subjects in scores of paintings. She first showed her work 44 years ago and has since had almost 40 solo exhibits and a traveling retrospective in 1986.

The three will accept their awards in person at Tuesday's awards dinner. Tickets begin at $500 apiece and can be reserved by calling Guild Hall. They include round-trip transportation from the East End to Manhattan for those who need it.

Opera And Bookmaking

Guild Hall events closer to home this week include two new classes for adults. Oxsana Protenic, the director of Opera of the Hamptons, will lead an introduction to opera workshop covering composers, styles, and periods of music, costumes, and staging.

As a performer with the Metropolitan Opera, Ms. Protenic has taken the stage at the Kennedy Center, the United Nations, and Avery Fisher Hall, as well as venues around the country, in Europe, and in the Far East. The course will start Tuesday from 1:30 to 4 p.m. and will continue next Tuesday at the same time.

Michele Allison will head a holiday bookmaking class beginning Wed nesday from 10 a.m. to noon. Participants will use basic folding, gluing, and sewing techniques to make a variety of books just right for holiday gifts. The class will also meet on Dec. 11 and 18 at the same time.

Guild Hall's events and classes for children are listed on the Schools page of today's paper.