Sag Harbor’s Billy Baldwin, the author of 13 children’s books, screenplays, and creator of a successful cookie company, will be at The Church in that village Friday at 6 p.m., to talk about his somewhat unlikely career.
Unlikely, because being dyslexic, reading and writing posed an emotional and practical challenge, but one he overcame. It began when, many years ago, he founded the company, “Cookie Island,” and created his first book, with that title, to help market the brand. He hasn’t looked back. Touting his stories, which champion the underdog as hero, he is also attracting film and television interest.
Baldwin will be joined in conversation by Stephen Hamilton, the director, actor, and co-founder of Bay Street Theater. Tickets are $10, free for Church members who R.S.V.P.
Erwin List Sanchez, a sculptor and photographer who divides his time between Cozumel, Mexico, and Greenport, will conduct a workshop devoted to the art and practice of pinhole photography on Saturday from 11 to 1.
The session will focus on the history and process of the pinhole camera, also known as “camera obscura,” and demonstrate how a simple cardboard box can be transformed into a lens-less photographic device. Participants will create their own pinhole cameras and use them to capture black-and-white images from in and around The Church. By the end of the session, each attendee will have captured, exposed, and developed their own pinhole negative, which can be digitally scanned and inverted to reveal the positive image.
All materials are included in the admission cost, which is $85 ($78 for members). Prior photography experience is not required.
Also on Saturday, at 6 p.m., Elisabeth Biondi, the curator of “A Thousand Words: Photography at The New Yorker,” will be on hand to talk about working at the magazine as its first visuals editor. She will lead the audience through the publication’s photo selection process and discuss the similarities and differences she encountered in selecting the photos now on view.
Biondi will take questions after the talk, and attendees will be able to view the exhibition outside the venue’s normal exhibition hours. Tickets are $20, $15 for members.
