Arts

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will celebrate its 70th anniversary season with a dramatic selection of works suitable for such an event, including a work commissioned from Victoria Bond to be performed early next summer.

As a child in Santa Barbara, the first thing Celeste Gainey wanted to be when she grew up was a poet. That ambition was fully realized in March with the publication by Red Hen Press of her first book, “The Gaffer,” from which she will read selections at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton on Tuesday.

The Montauk Library will present a musical change of pace on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., with a free performance by the Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O’s Celtic band.

Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber were editing their film “Peace Officer,” a documentary about the militarization of America’s police forces, when, on Aug. 9, 2014, Michael Brown was killed by a policeman in Ferguson, Mo.

Bill Boggs, a four-time Emmy Award-winning television host, will share stories about his encounters with Frank Sinatra and screen highlights from his televised interview with the singer — the longest of Sinatra’s career — tonight at 8 at Guild Hall.

Some many years ago, Joy Behar found herself on the receiving end of being taunted, behavior she typically instigates, not endures. She was performing one of her first comedic routines — she began her career when she was almost 40 — as an opener for the drummer Buddy Rich. The audience consisted of other drummers from Queens, and as Ms. Behar stood in front of them, they all banged the tables with their drumsticks.

“It’s getting very intense,” said Steph Paynes, guitarist and founder of Lez Zeppelin, “which is nice.”

“Cuba 1959,” an exhibition of photographs by Burt Glinn opens at the Tulla Booth Gallery in Sag Harbor. Pop in to the pop-up watercolor art show at Bridge Gardens in Bridgehampton on Saturday, Sunday, and Sept. 5 and 6. The show will benefit the Peconic Land Trust.

“You Made Me Love You: Celebrating 100 Years of the Great American Songbook,” starring Jennifer Sheehan, will take place at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday at 8 p.m. as part of Guild Hall’s Songbook Salon Series.

Songs, stories, and special guests are in store on Monday night at 8 at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor when Corky Laing, best known for his time as co-founder and drummer in the rock ’n’ roll group Mountain, and Kinky Friedman, a satirical country music artist, author, and would-be public servant, present “Folked Up Rock.”

Music Fridays will return to Bridge Gardens in Bridgehampton tomorrow at 6 p.m. with Joe Hampton and the Kingpins.

The Montauk Library will present “Man of Fire: José Clemente Orozco,” a free, illustrated lecture by Jane Weissman, on Wednesday evening at 7.

A benefit concert by Maxfield and Leo Panish for the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork will be held Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the congregation’s home, 977 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike.

Maxfield, who attends the Manhattan School of Music, has performed with the school’s Philharmonia and Symphony Orchestra and in recitals throughout the metropolitan area. Leo, his brother, was the concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestra at the school’s Precollege. The Panish brothers are from East Hampton.

The stars will be shining at Guild Hall this week, beginning tonight at 8 with a staged reading of “Sharpies,” a new comedy by Eugene Pack, an Emmy Award-nominated writer.

The Hampton Classic is riding into town and so are Lynn Matsuoka's equestrian paintings. See them at Snake Hollow Studio, Bridgehampton, located across the road from the Hampton Classic. See work by 11 local artists in "Convergence II," at Ashawagh Hall in Springs.

Last week, Ruth Appelhof told the board and staff she would retire as director of Guild Hall at the end of 2016, after 16 years of steering the East Hampton arts institution.

The Aviva Players, one of the first chamber ensembles to feature the music of women composers, will perform at the Montauk Library on Sunday afternoon at 3:30.

Bulletproof Stockings, a Hasidic rock duo, will grace East Hampton for the first time next week, and the two front-women are curious how the audience will react.

“Green Afternoon III,” a garden dance performance by Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre, will take place Saturday at 5 p.m. at the home of Marcia Previti and Peter Gumpel, 230 Old Stone Highway in Springs.

William Quigley, a painter who lives in New York and Los Angeles, will host an art exhibition and fashion runway on Saturday at 6 p.m. on the back lot of Schenck Fuels, 62 Newtown Lane in East Hampton.

I took a look at Ryan McGinness’s work at the Silas Marder Gallery, then I looked again, and then once more. No matter how familiar his world of idiosyncratic signs and symbols, there is always something new to see in their more-is-more layering.

As his teacher had before him, the late saxophonist Hal McKusick, who lived in Sag Harbor, wanted to inspire students to pursue their dream and be passionate about what they believe in. “That takes mentors,” he told The Star in 1998. “And that’s what I’d like to do with my students.”

Rock ’n’ roll, ballet, cabaret, and Dr. Oz will take turns entertaining and informing audiences at Guild Hall in East Hampton Village this week, with “Bjork: Biophilia Live,” a film that captures the artist’s 2013 multimedia concert in London, set to conclude the Rock Cinema series tonight at 8.

For those who like their iambic pentameter served alfresco while seated on lawn chairs or picnic blankets, this weekend should be a cause for celebration, with two free productions of Shakespeare plays to choose from and a new partnership that could offer more in the future.

Angel Reda, a vocalist, actress, and dancer who is currently starring on Broadway as Roxie Hart in “Chicago,” will perform a program of Frank Sinatra’s hits at the American Hotel in Sag Harbor on Monday at 7:30 p.m. Russ Kassoff, Sinatra’s longtime pianist, will accompany her.

“Summer Diaries,” a show by Billy Sullivan will open at Ille Arts with a reception on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. “Anna Walinska: Abstractions From the ’50s and ’60s” will open Saturday at Lawrence Fine Art in East Hampton with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through Sept. 3.

The Hamptons International Film Festival’s 23rd iteration, which will take place from Oct. 8 through 12, will be the last with Stuart Match Suna as chairman. Mr. Match Suna, the president of Silvercup Studios and a founder of the festival, has been chairman for 18 years.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill is offering two programs tomorrow at 6 p.m. The “Sounds of Summer” series will present Jake Lear, a singer and guitar virtuoso. “Gesture Jam,” a figure-drawing class featuring theatrical costumes and live accompaniment, will take place in the museum’s permanent collection galleries under the direction of Andrea Cote.

Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano, a cabaret duo, will bring “Helluva Town: A New York Soundtrack” to the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday evening at 8 as part of Guild Hall’s Songbook Salon series.

The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival is off to an auspicious start with two concerts of contrasting music that drew and delighted capacity audiences.