The Art Scene: 02.05.15

Living Pictures

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will present “The Fish Juggler,” a free program of tableaux vivants, living pictures, created by the East End Special Players, a group of learning-disabled actors, on Saturday from 2:30 to 3 p.m. Tableau vivant is a style of theater initially popularized in the court of King Louis XIV.

The actors will pose against a backdrop of paintings by Gabrielle Raacke, an East Hampton artist and producer of the program. The group will also perform a skit, honed and written after several weeks of improvisation workshops held on Saturdays at the Bridgehampton Community Center.

Next Thursday at noon, Cara Conk­lin-Wingfield, the museum’s director of education, will present “Learning Visually, an illustrated talk that will use works from the permanent collection to explore what can be learned from looking at art. The talk will take place in the Lichtenstein Theater, and lunch will be available for purchase from the Golden Pear Cafe. Tickets are $10, free for members, students, and children.

“Love Is . . . ?” is a program of 16-millimeter school films about romance, love, and marriage assembled by A/V Geeks that will be presented at the Parrish on Friday, Feb. 13, at 6 p.m. The person behind A/V Geeks, Skip Elsheimer of Raleigh, N.C., has been collecting old educational films for 20 years and showing them around the country.

The Valentine’s Day edition will feature 1950s and ’60s movies about courtship that answer such questions as “How Do I Know It’s Love?” “Are You Ready for Marriage?” and “Who’s Boss?” Tickets are $10, free for members, students, and children.