Will Ryan, an East Hampton artist with a house on Maui, has organized two fund-raisers for the fire-ravaged community of Lahaina, a music concert at Stephen Talkhouse and an art auction at AB NY Gallery.
Will Ryan, an East Hampton artist with a house on Maui, has organized two fund-raisers for the fire-ravaged community of Lahaina, a music concert at Stephen Talkhouse and an art auction at AB NY Gallery.
“Forgotten Founders: David Hempstead, Senior,” a documentary by two local filmmakers, focuses on both Hempstead, who was born a slave in 1774, freed in 1805, and went on to own a 95-acre farm on Shelter Island, and the Plain Sight Project, a nonprofit devoted to naming and recognizing the enslaved people of the East End.
“The Chalk Garden” at Southampton Cultural Center, plant sale and members party at Madoo, concerts at LTV, Old Whalers Church, and Shelter Island Presbyterian Church, advice on fall gardens and sustainable lawn care.
Two HIFF features with local connections are “Ron Delsener Presents,” a documentary about the influential concert promoter who has a home in East Hampton, and “Rule of Two Walls,” a film about artists in Ukraine, exec-produced by the actor Liev Schreiber, a part-time East Ender.
“Mary Heilmann: Waves, Roads, and Hallucinations” is a deep dive into the art and life of Ms. Heilmann that eschews talking heads in favor of the artist’s forthright voice and her artwork.
A chamber music trio will perform works by Haydn, Ravel, and Martinu at the Carl Fisher House in Montauk.
“RE:CYCLE — The Ubiquitous Bicycle” will bring 19 vintage bicycles to The Church in Sag Harbor, along with a selection of fine-art photographs and video art devoted to that mode of transportation.
Jack Evans’s talk at The Church in Sag Harbor about his adaptation-in-progress of Peter Matthiessen’s novel “Far Tortuga” will also include a theatrical performance based on the script and a screening of the trailer.
Women from the New York School in new exhibit, author’s talk about an art world landmark, two painters at the Drawing Room, award for Lindsay Morris, a lecture and workshop at the Leiber Collection, an artist’s journey on film.
Bay Street will host a rock ’n’ roll concert with Nancy Atlas and her band and a documentary on Jewish resistance fighters in World War II.
HIFF film “This World Is Not My Own” is a creative documentary that illuminates the life and work of a self-taught Black artist with 3D animation and motion-capture technology, as well as archival materials and interviews.
Jennifer Esposito’s film “Fresh Kills” dramatizes the lives of the often-silenced women who married or were born into the world of organized crime in the 1980s and '90s on Staten Island, where the filmmaker was born and raised.
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