Arts

Take the high road! Dell Cullum will teach drone photography at the Long House Reserve on Oct. 17.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will hold auditions for its next concert on Monday, by appointment, at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church. Rehearsals are usually held on Mondays from 7:30 to 10 p.m.

Another film from the 2013 documentary festival, “The Only Real Game,” directed by Mirra Bank of East Hampton, is now available for download from iTunes, Amazon.com, and the film’s website. “The Only Real Game” is about the importance of baseball to the people of Manipur, a remote and troubled corner of India beset by civil wars, martial law, drugs, and H.I.V./AIDS.

This year’s African American Film Festival, which will feature a stage play, spoken word performances, and live jazz as well as movies, will take place from next Thursday through Oct. 4 at the Southampton Arts Center on Job’s Lane.

Guild Hall’s JDT Lab will present “Theatre of the Oppressed: An Introduction to Forum Theatre,” live, interactive, and free, on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Graduate students in applied theater from the City University of New York’s School of Professional Studies, along with Kasia Klimiuk, the lead artist, will stage a piece on social and human rights issues. After the performance, audience members can act out the changes they want to see in the world.

The fifth annual Sag Harbor American Music Festival will bring an eclectic mix of rootsy American sounds to that village this weekend.

The LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will honor Dan Hinkley and Elizabeth Scholtz at its annual Landscape Awards Luncheon on Saturday.

Kenny Mann, a Sag Harbor filmmaker whose feature “Beautiful Tree, Severed Roots” was shown at the Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival in 2013, has written and produced “The Mtepe Shungwaya Sails Again: A Tribute to the Boat-Builders of Lamu,” a new 13-minute documentary that will be shown at the Maritime Museum of San Diego on Friday, Oct. 2.

Philippe Cheng, a previous contributor to The Star who lives in Bridgehampton, has published a book of his art photography titled “Still: The East End Photographs.” A book signing will take place at Barnes & Noble at Broadway and 83rd Street in Manhattan on Friday, Oct. 2, at 7 p.m.

Anna Jurinich, a Croatian-born artist will open at Peter Marcelle Project in Southampton with an exhibition of paintings exploring the human condition. The Tokyo photographer Daisuke Yokota will have his first solo exhibition in the United States at Harper’s Books in East Hampton.

The Southampton Cultural Center will take a different approach to theater with its presentation of “The Fantasticks,” which will open next Thursday at 7:30 p.m. and continue for three weekends.

A benefit reception and auction for the East End Special Players will be held Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the home of Marie-Eve and Michel Berty at 44 Sayre’s Path in Wainscott.

Coming home takes on greater significance when you spend a majority of your life on the road. For Judy Car­michael, a renowned stride pianist and, more recently, vocalist, coming home is particularly sweet when it affords an opportunity to perform at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

The 12th annual OLA Film Festival, a program of acclaimed Latino films organized by Isabel Sepulveda de Scanlon of the Organizacion Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island, will take place Friday, Sept. 25, through Sept. 27 at the Parrish Art Museum.

Our Fabulous Variety Show, an East End troupe of actors whose theatrical performances help raise money for nonprofits here, will present its 11th production, “Our Adventures in Wonderland,” at Guild Hall in East Hampton starting tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. and continuing with two programs on Saturday and three next weekend.

“Instruments of the People,” a free concert by Francisco Roldan, a classical guitarist, and Danny Mallon, a percussionist, will take place at the Montauk Library on Sunday afternoon at 3:30.

The Rising Stars Piano Series will return to the Southampton Cultural Center for its 13th season with a two-piano program featuring Natalia Lavrova and Vassily Primakov on Saturday at 7 p.m.

The Amagansett Library will host a free concert by Jim Campagnola, a saxophonist, keyboardist, composer, and bandleader, today at 6:30 p.m.

This summer, Taylor Rose Berry finally finished “White Noise” by Don DeLillo. While not earth-shattering news to most, it will be of interest to her friends, patrons, and those who attended the PechaKucha night at the Parrish Art Museum in June. During her talk that evening, Ms. Berry detailed her struggles with that book and how it led to her first and only failing grade on a term paper.

The Southampton Culture Center, on Pond Lane in Southampton Village will have a group show of local artists selected by Christina Strassfield, the director and senior curator at Guild Hall’s museum. The Sara Nightingale Gallery in Water Mill will show “Danish Design Meets American Art”, an interesting match-up of Danish home furnishings and contemporary art.

oe Delia and Thieves will bring a repertoire of rock and blues to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor tomorrow evening at 8. A keyboardist, record producer, and writer, Mr. Delia has not only worked onstage with Keith Richards, Bruce Springsteen, and Stevie Wonder, he has also composed scores for feature films, documentaries, and television.

In the early 1990s, when she was in working toward her M.F.A. at Rutgers, Christina Schlesinger was feeling lost. “I asked myself, ‘When did I feel great?’ and I decided it was when I was a tomboy. I had all this energy and spunk.” She embarked on a series of works she calls “Tomboys.”

The Montauk Library will present a free performance of “The Past Is Still Ahead,” a play by Sophia Romma based on the life of Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva, a Russian poet who died in 1941 while exiled in Siberia, on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

The All Star Comedy Show, hosted by Joseph Vecsey, will return to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor tomorrow at 8 p.m. Dante Nero, a Brooklyn-born actor and comedian will headline and Kate Wolff and Eric Neumann will also be featured.

Although the box office for the Hamptons International Film Festival doesn’t open until Sept. 26, its organizers are attracting early interest with intermittent announcements of its significant films.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will hold open auditions for its production of John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” on Sept. 21 from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 to 6 p.m. The production, which will be directed by Joe Minutillo, will run from Nov. 9 through Nov. 29.

Stacy Sullivan, a vocalist with six CDs on her resumé, will perform “It’s a Good Day: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee,” her live show about the music and life of the late singer, at the Southampton Cultural Center on Saturday evening at 7.

Selections of short documentaries from Telluride Mountainfilm, one of the United States’ longest-running film festivals, will be presented Saturday and Sunday evenings at 7:30 at the Southampton Arts Center.

Antonio Asis and Costantino Nivola will be at The Drawing Room in East Hampton. Don't miss this chance to see works by two artists with a lifelong commitment to the study of light and form.

Uniphi Good, an East Hampton and Manhattan management, marketing, and media company that emphasizes selfless action and universally beneficial outcomes, will present its second annual East End Music and Arts Festival from next Thursday through Sept. 19.