The Future Museum
Andras Szanto, a writer and cultural strategist, will be at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill on Friday at 6 p.m. to discuss and sign copies of his new book, "Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues With Architects."
Mr. Szanto will consider architectural visions for future museums with Jing Liu, co-founder of the design firm SO-IL and one of the architects featured in the book, which poses the question, "What will the art museum look and feel like in five, 10, 50 years?"
Corinne Erni, the museum's chief curator, will moderate the conversation. Tickets are $16, $12 for senior citizens, $5 for members, free for students.
Music Triple Play
The Masonic Temple in Sag Harbor has added a monthly Glam Jam to its ongoing music series and the Jam Session's live jazz programs.
Glam Jam invites musicians to play with others on the second Thursday of each month. Thursday's 7 p.m. program will feature Ur Mom, whose members are Holly Li, Christine Sciulli, Francine Fleischer, Christina Sun, and Almond Zigmund. Admission is a can of food for donation; guests can bring their own food and drinks.
Jake Lear is up next in the temple's music series, on Saturday at 8 p.m. Raised on the music of John Lee Hooker, Jimi Hendrix, and Howlin' Wolf, Mr. Lear is dedicated to the blues.
The temple hosts the Jam Session's live jazz programs on Tuesday evenings at 7. Tickets for the music series and the jazz programs are $20.
Radio Play Auditions
Center Stage at the Southampton Arts Center will hold open auditions for "The Big Christmas Show: A Musical Radio Play" on Sunday from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the arts center. Conceived and written by Joe Landry and Michael Disher, the play is set on Christmas Eve in 1950 during a variety radio broadcast that takes an unexpected turn.
Actors have been asked to come prepared with celebrity impersonations of 1930s, '40s, and early '50s stars. They will be asked to sing one verse, a cappella, of a Christmas song of their choice.
Rehearsals usually take place on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Performances will be held Dec. 9 and Dec. 10.
More information is available from the director, Mr. Disher, at [email protected].
Nature's Noise
Creative Lab, a series of interdisciplinary workshops led by Guild Hall's visiting, exhibiting, and resident artists, will bring Gordon Hempton, an acoustic ecologist, to its education center on Tuesday at 6 p.m.
Mr. Hempton has circled the globe three times over the last 35 years to capture Earth's rarest nature sounds, which can only be fully appreciated in the absence of manmade noise. During the workshop he will talk about his practice and provide a look at his new work, which will premiere at Guild Hall in the spring.
Tickets are pay-what-you-wish, $5, $10, or $25.
Dylan Standards
Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will host the Complete Unknowns, a band that has performed the music of Bob Dylan for the last 16 years, on Friday, Oct. 20, at 8 p.m. Titled "Back to Basics," the concert will focus on Mr. Dylan's pivotal work, including "Don't Think Twice," "Blowin' in the Wind," and "Hurricane."
The band members are Michael Weiskopf, Randolph A. Hudson III, Stuart Sherman, Taka Shimizu, Klyph Black, James Benard, Alex Sarkis, and Lauren Matzen.
Tickets start at $35.
Plant Sale and Talk
The Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons will hold a free yard sale on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., rain or shine, at the Bridgehampton Community House. An annual fund-raiser, the sale features gently used items such as tools, garden ornaments, garden books, containers, and plant material.
On Sunday, Tony Piazza will be at the community house at 2 p.m. to talk about "Native Plant Communities in Landscape Design." Founded in 1998 and based in Sag Harbor, Piazza Horticultural is a pioneer in the field of environmentally sound design and maintenance practices.
The talk is $10, free for members.
A Farmer's Life
"Bodhi-Sativa," a short film directed by Bridget LeRoy and co-produced by Bryan Downey about David Falkowski, the owner of Open Minded Organics, will be shown at LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton Thursday at 6 p.m. Mr. Falkowski is a third-generation Bridgehampton farmer who began growing cannabis after struggling to get by.
The film was recently named a semifinalist for the New York Indie Shorts Awards and winner for Best Short Documentary at the Venice Indie Film Fest.
Tickets are $30, $10 for members.
On Higher Power
The Southampton Cultural Center will screen "The Light of Man," an award-winning 67-minute documentary by Kevin L. McCrudden, on Monday at 7 p.m.
Mr. McCrudden has said he interviewed renowned leaders in history, comparative religion, spirituality, science, quantum physics, and consciousness "to create a pivot, a transformational moment in the world's history and what people believe God or a higher power is."
Tickets are $20.
