Arts

Itzhak Perlman, who has a celebrity status that is rare for a classical musician, is the subject of a new documentary that will be premiered at the opening of the Hamptons International Film Festival.

Music will fill the air starting tonight and going though Sunday as the Sag Harbor American Music Festival celebrates seven years of presenting established and up-and-coming artists to residents and visitors to the village.

After a three-year hiatus, the 11th annual Artist Birdhouse Auction will take place on Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Union Cantina in Southampton. It will benefit Lucia’s Angels and the Coalition for Women’s Cancers at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital in their fight against breast cancer.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will hold auditions for its Dec. 3 concert beginning Monday evening.

“What if the Victorians had access to digital technology? What would it look like?" It's a question that guides the artists of Steampunk, some of whose work is on view at the Southampton Arts Center.

Kenny Mann's “Naisula — A Prayer for a White Woman, Her African Servant, a Shaman, and a Spirit Child,” an epic poem, will be staged for a performance at Guild Hall on Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the venue’s JDT Lab.

Although Alfonso Ossorio, and then Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, receive all the credit for starting the midcentury modernist art colony in East Hampton, a group of European émigrés actually preceded them during and just after World War II.

“The Watery Owl of Minerva,” a live multi-projection and sound performance by Optipus will take place outdoors at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill on Saturday at 8 p.m.

The Sixties Show, a band known for its impeccable, note-for-note recreations of the hits, B-sides, and deep cuts from the 1960s, will return to Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater on Saturday at 8 p.m.

Next up at Ashawagh Hall in Springs is the fourth exhibition by Hamptons Project, a group consisting of Dennis Bontempo, Brian Monahan, Michael Monahan, Christina Friscia, Raul Lagos, and Richard Mothes. “Jeremy Dennis: East Hampton Indigenous” will be on view at Guild Hall from Friday, Sept. 29, through Dec. 12. The exhibition features photographs of East Hampton landscapes that have significant archeological, historical, and sacred meaning to the Shinnecock and Montaukett tribes native to the East End.

Our Fabulous Variety Show will bring three new programs inspired by “Alice in Wonderland” to Guild Hall this weekend, starting tomorrow night at 7:30 with “Wonderland,” the troupe’s 18th production, which explores the balance of power in a utopian world inhabited by Alice, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and many other denizens of Lewis Carroll’s wondrous creation. “Wonderland” will also be performed on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

By the time it closes on Oct. 9, the Hamptons International Film Festival will have screened 65 feature and 50 short films from 40 countries.

Two free a cappella performances will take place this weekend at the Montauk Library. Tomorrow evening at 7:30, the Chickpeas, a quintet consisting of Liz Sarfati, Marcia Previti, Lisa Shaw, Deb Coen, and Jane Hastay, will perform a program of traditional and popular songs by composers ranging from Harold Arlen to Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne to Bob Dylan.

Queen Esther Marrow has performed for Presidents Reagan, Bush Sr., and Clinton; Pope John Paul II, and in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s World Crusade, a series of civil rights rallies. Her next stop is the Southampton Cultural Center.

A broad discussion about art — and the business of art — engaged a capacity audience on Saturday at the Amagansett Library when Randy Lerner, an Amagansett resident and art collector, interviewed the artist Dan Rizzie, who lives on North Haven.

Three programs from Mountainfilm on Tour, a traveling selection of the best short films from the annual festival in Telluride, Colo., will be shown at the Southampton Arts Center tomorrow and Saturday. The festival’s stated goal is to use “the power of film, art, and ideas to inspire audiences to create a better world.”

“A Grand Tour: The Songs of Jerry Herman,” featuring the Broadway performers Sal Viviano, Ted Levy, and Deborah Tranelli, with Charlie Romo and Valerie diLorenzo, will bring the music of the renowned composer-lyricist to Guild Hall on Saturday at 8 p.m.

The LongHouse Reserve will hold its annual Landscape Awards Lecture and Luncheon on Saturday, starting at 10 a.m. at Hoie Hall at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton with lectures by Deborah Nevins and Kris Jarantoski.

Enoc Perez Perez returns to Harper's Books in East Hampton with a kind of revival of the theme with completely different aims and mediums with “Nudes,” an exhibition of 15 paintings.

Ryan Wallace has fashioned a career out of using byproducts and remnants from his studio to inspire paintings, sculptures, and other mixed-media works of art in an infinite cycle of re-cycling.

The ninth annual Save the Waves film festival, an evening of surf, adventure, and documentary films, will take place tonight at Atlantic Terrace in Montauk. Doors will open at 7, and a program of short films will run from 7:30 to 9.

Marc Fasanella, a professor of art, architecture, and design, will talk about “Ralph Fasanella: Images of Optimism,” a monograph that includes 70 full-color reproductions of his father’s paintings, on Saturday at 5 p.m. at Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor. The East Hampton Arts Council and Golden Eagle’s Studio 144 have teamed up to hold a series of networking nights for artists, professionals, and other community members, the first of which will take place this evening from 6 to 8 at the barn at the Golden Eagle at 144 Main Street in East Hampton.

Loudon Wainwright III, the singer-songwriter whose memoir, “Liner Notes,” was published last week by Blue Rider Press, will perform “Surviving Twin” tomorrow and Saturday at 8 p.m. at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. Mr. Wainwright has called the show, a theatrical hybrid of music, family photographs, and dramatic readings, “a posthumous collaboration” with his father, who was a columnist and editor for Life magazine.

The Southampton Arts Center and the Southampton African American Museum will stage “Harriet, Rosa, and Me,” by JD Lawrence, tomorrow at 7 p.m.

Delaney Colaio was one of 3,051 young people who lost a parent on Sept. 11, 2001. Now 18 and a freshman in college, she is a co-writer and co-director of “We Go Higher,” a documentary by and about the surviving children of the attacks.

Center Stage at the Southampton Cultural Center will celebrate its 10th anniversary season with performances of “Center Stage Sings: Fantastick Promises” tomorrow and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 5:30.

Edward Albee's collection of ur-modernism art and objects will be auctioned at Sotheby's on Sept. 26. The proceeds will go to the playwright's foundation.

“Angels in America: Millennium Approaches,” part one of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, will be presented at Guild Hall tomorrow at 7 p.m. in an encore screening of a new staging by London’s National Theatre.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill announced last week that it had acquired the entire holdings of the James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation, including the art and archives left to establish it.

A one-night-only reading of “Are You Now or Have You Even Been?” has a stellar cast and sold out quickly at Guild Hall.