About the Body
The Watermill Center's 2023 summer benefit will feature as its theme the body's role in art making. Set for July 29, "The Body" will include performances, installations, and exhibitions by a roster of international artists; cocktails, and "floating dinner" between 6 and 8.
A seated performance of Robert Wilson's "Ubu," a workshop restaging of Alfred Jarry's 1896 classic, "Ubu Roi," will happen at 8:30. Dessert and Champagne will conclude the evening.
The benefit's honoree is Simone Forti, a pioneer of improvisational dance whose work has avoided traditional technique in order to challenge and expand the parameters of dance. She was associated with the legendary Judson Dance Theater Group, which revolutionized dance in New York in the 1960s.
Among the evening's performers will be Regina Jose Galindo, recipient of the Baroness Nina von Maltzahn Fellowship for the Performing Arts. The benefit is a tribute to the late philanthropist, who endowed the eponymous fellowship.
Tickets start at $1,500, $650 for young patrons.
The End for Film
The Montauk Film Festival is coming up Monday through next Friday at the Montauk Library. This year's films are a mix of shorts and features with documentaries, grouped in categories such as Social and Cultural, Environmental, Surf and Turf, and Narrative.
The environmental films include the feature "After the Bite," about the response in a Cape Cod community following a fatal shark attack. Ivy Meeropol's film explores the shift in attitudes toward the water -- her own and others' -- as people learn to live with their "new normal" and coexist with the sea life in their midst. The film will begin streaming on Max on Wednesday, and on screens at the library, on Monday at 1 p.m.
Other features are "Ground Swell: The Other Side of Fear," "Sloane: A Jazz Singer," "Stop Playin' With Em," and "It's Love Bro." There are 26 films in all.
All screenings are free. Further information about films and screening times is available on the festival website.
Helping Haiti
The sixth annual "Hamptons Artists For Haiti," a benefit for the Wings Over Haiti Foundation, has moved to the Hayground School in Bridgehampton, where it will take place on July 29 from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
Coco Myers of Folioeast has organized an auction of artworks by more than 60 East End artists. The event will also include an open bar, music by the Lynn Blue Band, hors d'oeuvres, raffle prizes, jewelry, and global goods by Donna Karen's Urban Zen.
The Wings Over Haiti Foundation, founded by Jonathan Glynn, a Sag Harbor artist and pilot, has opened two schools in Haiti, which together educate more than 350 students.
Tickets are $175 in advance, $195 at the door, free for children under 12.
Film and More
"I Am Not OK," a short film by Gabrielle Lansner about a mother's impassioned response to the killings of Black Americans, set against the protests that followed the death of George Floyd, will be the centerpiece of an evening at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday.
The doors will open at 6, with hors d'oeuvres, live music, and drinks on offer from 7:30 to 8:30. The film will be shown after introductions by the arts center and Brenda Simmons, the executive director of the Southampton African American Museum, the evening's sponsor.
A panel discussion will take place from 9 to 9:30 and be followed by a reception for Demarcus McGaughhey, a mixed-media artist.
The event is free, with donations welcomed when registering on the arts center's website.
Choral Singing
"Do Re Mi," a workshop organized by the Choral Society of the Hamptons for "people who love to sing," will be held on Sunday from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the Southampton Cultural Center.
Titled "The Art of Choral Singing," the workshop will be conducted by Shoshana Hershkowitz, an artist-in-residence at Stony Brook University, where she conducts the Stony Brook Chorale and Camerata Singers.
The workshop, which is for both experienced and beginning singers, will focus on different areas of individual and group singing. A reception will follow.
The cost is $10, free for members of the choral society and students. To access free registration, members and students have been asked to email [email protected].
A second workshop is set for Aug. 20 at the same time.
Rocking the Library
Tommy Sullivan, a creator of the first rock band at West Point and an original member of the Brooklyn Bridge and Ramatam, will be at the East Hampton Library on Saturday at 2 p.m. to perform music from what he considers rock's golden age, 1955 to 1970.
As part of the concert, Mr. Sullivan will tell stories about some of the icons he has shared the stage with, among them Jay Black, the Beach Boys, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Maestro, the Monkees, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the Four Tops.
Perlman Party
The Perlman Music Program will hold its summer benefit on Friday, July 28, on its Shelter Island campus. In advance of the event, a silent auction will be accessible online.
Hosted by Toby and Itzhak Perlman, the evening will feature cocktails at 6, a chorus and orchestra concert at 7, and a seated dinner at 8.
Tickets are $1,250, $500 for cocktails and the concert.
