Grey Gardens’ Fest

The year 1975 brought two films into the world whose shelf life has yet to expire: “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and “Grey Gardens.” Classics in themselves, they have also given rise to various spinoffs and rituals.

The Parrish Art Museum, in partnership with the Maysles Documentary Center and the Hamptons International Film Festival, will honor one of those rituals next Thursday at 5 p.m., when an evening of “Grey Gardens” activities will begin with an “Edie Parade.” Audience members have been invited to dress as Big Edie or Little Edie Beale, whose eccentric lives in a 28-room East Hampton mansion were chronicled on film by Albert and David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer. 

Following the parade, excerpts from the film will be screened, and a panel discussion will take place with Michael Henry Adams, a Harlem historian, Jerry (The Marble Faun) Torre, the Beales’ only regular visitor; Sara Maysles, Albert’s daughter, and Ms. Meyer. 

Winston Irie, a reggae singer and fixture on the East End music scene, will perform in the museum’s “Sounds of Summer” series tomorrow at 6 p.m. Born in Guyana, he has performed or shared a bill with Lenny Kravitz, A Tribe Called Quest, and Richie Havens, and has opened for Jimmy Cliff, Steel Pulse, and King Yellowman, among others.

Table seating is reserved for Golden Pear Cafe patrons, so the museum has advised guests to take chairs or blankets for the outdoor show.

Tickets for each program are $10, free for members and students.