Guild Hall will start the weekend with two loosely linked programs, one a movement and music workshop Friday at 7 p.m. at Amagansett's Mandala Yoga Center, the other a performance at Guild Hall Saturday evening at 7.
"Harmony in Motion," an immersive workshop, explores the connections among live music, movement, deep listening, and meditation. Maeve Gilchrist, a harpist and composer steeped in Celtic tradition, and Kaoru Watanabe, a practitioner of Japanese flutes and percussion, will join Bradley Teal Ellis, a Mandala Yoga dance artist, to lead participants through listening, movement, and breath exercises. No previous yoga, movement, or musical experience is required.
Tickets are $30.50.
Saturday's "Silkroad Up Close: Kaoru Watanabe, Kinan Azmeh, and Maeve Gilchrist" will bring together three musician members of Silkroad, a collective conceived in 1998 by Yo-Yo Ma as a model for cultural collaboration.
A clarinetist and composer, Azmeh blends Eastern and Western musical styles and improvisation, creating large-scale compositions for the New York Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, and the Seattle Symphony, among others.
Watanabe's work is rooted in traditional Japanese music while informed as well by contemporary jazz, improvisation, and experimental music. He has worked with such artists as Laurie Anderson, Jason Moran, and Andre 3000.
Hailing from Scotland, Gilchrist is known for bringing visibility to the Celtic harp through her improvisational and textural approach to the instrument and her collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Arooj Aftab, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
The program will feature three different voices in conversation with each other as they "find the sweet spots of stylistic intersection, dramatic contrast, and virtuosity, forging an entirely new aesthetic that feels as organic as can be," according to Guild Hall.
Tickets are $61.
More culture is on tap for Sunday, when at noon Sarah Harrelson, the founder and editor in chief of Cultured magazine, and Gordon VeneKlasen, a gallerist and collector, will talk about Harrelson's new book, "The Cultured Collector," which will be released on Nov. 18 by Monacelli Press.
The book provides access to 30 unique art collections through over 200 photographs and conversations with collectors, including Alicia Keyes and Swizz Beatz, Rashid Johnson, Michelle and Jason Rubell, Joe Jonas, and Daniel Humm. Central to the book, according to the publisher, is the idea that art as an investment is only a small part of collecting, and perhaps its least interesting one.
The conversation will be moderated by Melanie Crader, Guild Hall's museum director and curator of visual arts. A book sale and signing will follow. Tickets are $40.
