Another busy weekend at The Church will kick off on Saturday at 6 p.m. with a screening of “Skin Hunger,” a 26-minute film by Jamie Diamond, a multidisciplinary artist and past resident of the Sag Harbor cultural center.
Consistent with Ms. Diamond’s ongoing exploration of human connection and intimacy, the film examines loneliness and a new kind of service: renting people for “platonic touch” — aka cuddling.
Steven is a handsome, affable 60-year-old man who lives alone on Coney Island. Although surrounded by people at work during the day, he’s lonely, and craving to be touched. He contacts Ella, the city’s leading touch practitioner, and embarks on an enlightening experience.
The film spotlights the phenomenon of paying for nonsexual contact and the rapidly growing community that seeks to share the mental and physical benefits of touch with the rest of the world.
Following the screening a discussion will take place with Ms. Diamond, Matt Cianfrani, the director of photography; Amy Lawday and Abby Russell, the producers, and Ella, the subject of the film.
Tickets are $20, $15 for members.
The Church’s final Insight Sunday program of the year, set for Sunday at noon, will feature Peter Solow, a visual artist and educator from Sag Harbor whose work “Piazza Signoria” is on view in the venue’s current exhibition “Here and There: The First Churchennial.”
While best known for his oil paintings and drawings, Mr. Solow has more recently experimented with mixed-media works integrating painting, drawing, photography, and digital technology.
“Piazza Signoria” is a 14-foot-long mixed-media piece the artist worked on while in residence at The Church. Reading it from left to right, the technique rests on photographs from the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, the home of the Uffizi Gallery; then transitions into orange-hued hand-rendering recalling the preparatory drawings that Renaissance masters such as Michelangelo used in the creation of wall murals.
While Mr. Solow draws inspiration from such sources as Giacometti, Manet, Cassatt, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Matisse, and Mondrian, his work is also connected to the American Experience, including visual art by Hopper, Homer, Franz Kline, Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, Berenice Abbott, music by Aaron Copland, and the poetry of Walt Whitman.
Tickets are $10, free for members who R.S.V.P.
The Church’s resident creatives will take over on Sunday afternoon. Each winter they are selected from artists based on the South Fork, and they will be on hand from 1 to 3 p.m. to open their studios and discuss their work.
The 2026 residents are A.G. Duggan, Robin du Plessis, Christina Graham, Laurie Hall, Eva Iacono, and Nathalie Shepherd. Their studios will be free to visit.
Matty Davis, a 2025 resident, will conclude his tenure on Sunday afternoon at 3 with an open rehearsal of a newly developed work in progress. An artist and choreographer based in New York City, he uses choreography to cultivate high-stakes relationships, ranging from the interpersonal to the cosmic, pushing himself, his collaborators, and his audiences to face such forces as trust, love, and responsibility.
In a foreword to an interview with Mr. Davis in Bomb magazine, Chloé Cooper Jones, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, said Mr. Davis’s performance work “explodes the typical perception of what dance can be, do, or consider,” citing a “singular synthesis between movement and other mediums such as drawing, writing, publishing, and photography.”
Mr. Davis will take questions after the performance, which is free for members who R.S.V.P.
