Film Festival Poster
HamptonsFilm has announced the poster for its 33rd annual Hamptons International Film Festival, which is by Vija Celmins, a world-renowned artist and longtime Sag Harbor resident, and features her 2010 piece “Starfield.”
Ms. Celmins is known for her meticulous renderings of natural imagery, including ocean waves, desert floors, and night skies. She has had more than 40 solo shows, and is represented in the collections of major museums worldwide. The Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland, is currently hosting a retrospective exhibition of her work from the 1960s to the present.
The 2025 film festival will run from Oct. 3 through Oct. 13.
Jazz and Tango
In partnership with Hamptons JazzFest and Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Southampton Arts Center will present “The Piazzolla Mulligan Project: Tango, Jazz, and Dance Reimagined” on Saturday at 6:30 p.m.
The project brings together an ensemble of jazz virtuosos, tango specialists, and dynamic dancers in a reimagination of the 1974 collaboration between Gerry Mulligan, a saxophone icon, and Astor Piazzolla, a nuevo tango master. The evening promises “sultry melodies, lush harmonies, and pulsating grooves,” says the arts center.
Tickets are $40, $35 for members.
Light at LongHouse
Luminosity, the annual summer benefit and art auction for East Hampton’s LongHouse Reserve, will happen on Saturday from 6 to 11 p.m. The evening will begin with cocktails, live music, and an opportunity to bid on works by almost 70 artists, among them Laurie Anderson, Ross Bleckner, Vija Celmins, Renee Cox, Maryam Eisler, Eric Fischl, Mary Heilmann, and Cindy Sherman.
An alfresco farm-to-table dinner catered by Hamptons Aristocrat and a dance party in the venue’s Fly’s Eye Dome will follow. Tickets start at $1,500, $200 for the after-party.
Blues at the Temple
Jake Lear and the Kings will rock Sag Harbor’s Masonic Temple when its music series devoted to East End musicians resumes on Saturday at 8 p.m.
With Mr. Lear on guitar and vocals, Jamie Ellis on bass, and Mike Guglielmo on drums, they perform classics from such blues luminaries as Robert Johnson, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy,
Howlin’ Wolf, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, as well as blues takes on Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix.
The doors will open at 7; tickets are $20.
Mezcal and Music
OLA of Eastern Long Island will hold its Sabor [“Taste”] cocktail fund-raiser next Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. at The Church in Sag Harbor.
Chaired this year by John Leguizamo, the award-winning actor, the event will include Mexican tapas from La Fondita, cocktails made with mezcal from Dos Hombres, wines from Wolffer Estate Vineyard, and other beverages.
Entertainment will be provided by Latin Moon, featuring Carolina Fuentes, a.k.a. Mila Tina, percussion; Carolina Kohn, vocals and piano, and Julie Bluestone, saxophone and flute.
Tickets are $300.
Comedy Times Two
The Sticks and Stones Comedy Club returns to the Southampton Cultural Center on Sunday with two shows, starting at 6 p.m. with Jamie Denbo in “Beverly Saves Your World,” and continuing at 8 with a standup set by Liz Glazer.
Ms. Denbo is Beverly, in this show a 70ish Jewish mother whose journey of self-discovery has landed her in California, where she is learning about everything from sound baths to not getting canceled.
A comedian, actor, writer, and former law professor who has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, Ms. Glazer recently won first place in both the Boston Comedy Festival and the Ladies of Laughter Competition.
Tickets for each show are $35 for general admission, $50 for reserved seats, and $70 for top tier seating, plus fees.
Brinkley and Karan
Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater will honor Christie Brinkley and Donna Karan with its Lifetime Achievement Awards at its 2025 annual summer benefit on Saturday.
While the 5 p.m. dinner at Le Bilboquet is sold out, tickets remain for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at the theater at 6 and a performance, tributes, and live auction hosted by Richard Kind at 7:30. Auction items include a week in Paris for four; four tickets to see Leslie Odom Jr. in “Hamilton” on Broadway, and a private-chef dinner for 12.
Tickets for cocktails and the performance are $1,000.
