The Sag Harbor Cinema’s Festival of Preservation will feature an eclectic program of more than 20 films, including documentaries, musicals, westerns, animation, dramas, and experimental films.

Coming to The Church in Sag Harbor are an eclectic musical recital, a journal writing workshop, and an open night studio for all creatives.

Lance Richardson, the author of a new Peter Matthiessen biography, will discuss it with Alex Matthiessen, the late author’s son and the head of the Peter Matthiessen Center, at the Ram’s Head Inn on Shelter Island.

From Lance Richardson comes a hefty helping of biography on Peter Matthiessen, novelist, pioneering environmentalist, advocate for native peoples, bayman, Zen teacher, Sagaponacker.