In partnership with Hamptons JazzFest, the Southampton Arts Center will host a performance by Sammy Figueroa, a percussionist, bandleader, and Grammy nominee, on Saturday at 6:30 p.m.
Known for his work in Latin jazz, jazz, and Afro-Caribbean music, Figueroa has performed or recorded with Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, David Bowie, Mariah Carey, and Herbie Hancock, among others. Saturday’s show will pay tribute to Cal Tjader, a pioneering vibraphonist who helped bring Latin jazz to a wider audience in the 1950s and 1960s.
Tickets are $30, $25 for members.
Also at the arts center, set for next Thursday at 5 p.m., is a screening of “Lilly,” a biopic about Lilly Ledbetter, an Alabama tire-factory worker whose goal was to lift her family into the middle class.
As her retirement approached, she learned that for 20 years the company had been paying her only half of what her male counterparts received. That discovery led her to fight for equal pay, took her eventually to the Supreme Court and Congress, and ultimately resulted in the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which was signed into law in 2009.
The film stars Patricia Clarkson, an Oscar nominee, in the title role. Rachel Feldman, the director, Wendy Federman, the executive producer, and Clarkson will take part in a discussion and reception after the screening. Tickets are $25, $20 for members.
“How to Live on Earth,” a documentary directed by Fredi Devas about humanity’s connection to nature and its role in our future, opens at the center Thursday at 5 p.m. Presented by the actor Benedict Cumberbatch, the film features commentary by scientists, Indigenous activists, farmers, and economists, including Xiye Bastida, a climate justice activist, Sam Kass, a food entrepreneur, and Dan O’Neill, a field biologist and wildlife filmmaker.
The screening will be followed by a talk with Jonnie Hughes, the co-founder of Open Planet Studios, which produced the film with Villars Institute Foundation and Silvania.
The program is free.
