Arts

Josh and Hannah Faye Huizing will present a free concert of Disney songs and anecdotes about the media giant on Sunday at 4 p.m. at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church.

The Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a showing of two important documentaries this spring.

Sarah Hunnewell, who has served as the executive director of the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue for more than 20 years, has announced that she is stepping down to turn the company over to new leadership and new ideas.

Divaria Productions will present Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte” at the Bay Street Theater on Saturday evening at 8.

The Slocan Ramblers, a young bluegrass band from Canada, will perform two shows on Saturday at 6 and 8 p.m. at the Sylvester Manor Living Room on Shelter Island.

Two musicians who should be familiar to music fans far and wide will meet on the Southampton Arts Center's stage on Saturday.

“Open Garden,” a group exhibition of flower paintings and other mediums with floral motifs, will open at the Sara Nightingale Gallery in Sag Harbor with a reception Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through May 22. “EarthHamptons 2017,” a celebration of Earth Day featuring artworks, panel discussions, and talks, will take place Saturday and Sunday at Ashawagh Hall in Springs. A reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

A permanent collection show that opened at the Museum of Modern Art last week reveals the result of several decades of commitment to acquiring art objects created by women. “Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction” spans the years following World War II through the late 1960s and underlines the primacy of those early female abstract painters who found their way to the South Fork in those decades.

The Met Live in HD will present Tchaikovsky’s 1881 opera “Eugene Onegin” on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Guild Hall in East Hampton. Adapted from Pushkin’s verse novel, the opera is a meditation on love, betrayal, art, and the pitfalls of society.

“In Process,” the Watermill Center’s ongoing series of programs designed to connect its artist residents with the community, will feature performative works by Carrie Mae Weems, Lexy Ho-Tai, and Lotte Nielsen on Saturday afternoon from 2 to 4. The center will also offer a tour of its building, collection, and grounds from 1 to 2 p.m.

Iris Smyles, the fiction editor of The Star's East magazine introduced The Met: Live in HD simulcast of Verdi’s “La Traviata,” last month at Guild Hall.

Williams and Rossa Cole, who grew up in East Hampton and are descended from one of the Irish rebellion's folk heroes, have made a film about their ancestor and what their family's legacy means to them. The East Hampton Library will screen the film on

First conceived as“a one and done thing,” Paton Miller's "East End Collected" exhibition is back for a third year at the Southampton Arts Center.

The Hamptons International Film Festival’s “25 Films in 25 Years” series will continue tomorrow at 6 p.m. at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill with a screening of “Embrace of the Serpent,” a 2015 entry that went on to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

La Compagnia Amarilli, a vocal duo formed in New York City in 2013, will perform “Rosa Mystica,” a concert featuring music by Pergolesi, Monteverdi, Schutz, and Telemann, at St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in Bridgehampton on Saturday at 5 p.m.

A staged reading of “Venus in Fur,” David Ives’s darkly funny adaptation of Sacher-Masoch’s erotic novel “Venus in Furs,” will take place Tuesday night at 7:30 at Guild Hall as part of the JDTLab series.

The opening of Guild Hall’s 79th Artist Members Exhibition on Saturday afternoon was accompanied by a private reception for the 2017 prizewinners. Joyce Kubat was awarded top honors for her ink-on-paper piece “Armour.” She will have a solo show in the museum’s Spiga Gallery in 2019. Judging this year’s 383 artworks was Ruba Katrib, curator at the SculptureCenter in Long Island City.

If it’s April, it must be time for Art Groove to take over Ashawagh Hall in Springs for the weekend. The seventh iteration of the multimedia event will include art, music, and video on Saturday from noon to 11 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Monika Olko Gallery in Sag Harbor will open concurrent solo shows of work by Paton Miller and Brett Loving with a reception tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibitions will run through May 9.

For the past few weeks, “Black and White,” currently on view at his Tripoli Gallery in Southampton, has explored the absence of color with a diverse cast of artists, both new and familiar to the gallery.

The Hamptons International Film Festival’s “25 Years: 25 Films” series will visit the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Sunday at 6 p.m. with the 1999 film “Judy Berlin.” Edie Falco, who stars in the title role, will attend the screening and discuss it afterward.

A program of country music performed by Tennessee Walt will take place at the East Hampton Library on Saturday afternoon from 1 to 3. The occasion for the performance is the 90th anniversary of the Bristol Sessions in Bristol, Tenn., during which a producer for the Victor Talking Machine Company, the early record label, recorded blues, ragtime, gospel, ballads, topical songs, and string bands.

For more than a decade, Eric Dever employed a square canvas and a limited palette in his painting. Those familiar with those works will find his latest paintings very different and surprising.

T.S. Eliot called April the cruelest month, but that was 15 years before the first of Guild Hall’s 79 Artist Members exhibitions, which, at least for the award winners, are anything but cruel. This year’s iteration, which will include works by more than 400 artists, will open on Saturday and continue through June 3.

Gabe McKinley’s drama “Extinction” — running now through April 16 at Guild Hall — sits firmly in the “Men Behaving Badly” genre.

Fifty years ago, Ron Jones, a young teacher in Palo Alto, Calif., devised an unusual project as an experiment for students in his sophomore high school history class. While it was mentioned only in the student newspaper at the time, it has since become the subject of a short story, a TV movie, a novelization, and a German feature film screened at Sundance, a musical, a documentary, and a full-length play.

Although Mario Cuomo famously said, “Campaign in poetry, govern in prose,” the reverse is more often true, especially in times of political upheaval, when stark divisions are exposed and disquieting questions about a nation’s character are raised. Throughout history, calamitous times often have us seeking solace — and wisdom — in verse.

Katherine Addleman, a classical pianist, will perform a concert of works by Franz Schubert at the Montauk Library on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. Schubert, who died in 1828 at the age of 31, bridged the gap between music’s classical and romantic periods. Known as an extremely prolific composer, he produced symphonies, chamber music, piano works, and art songs, many of which are regarded as masterpieces.

Ille Arts in Amagansett will open “Eleven Under Thirty,” a group show featuring young artists, with a reception Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. “Bent,” a show of work by three artist-illustrators, will open at the White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton tomorrow and continue through April 23. A reception with live music by the Benders will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

It started when Sawyer Spielberg was looking for a scene to perform in Lyle Kessler’s Master Class for Actors in New York City. One of his classmates, Brynne Kraynak, knew the playwright Gabe McKinley and had seen his play “Extinction” workshopped in graduate school. She thought one of the roles would be right for Mr. Spielberg.

The Parrish Art Museum will mark five years at its current site in Water Mill this fall, and is already in a celebratory frame of mind. The museum, designed by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog and de Meuron and completed in 2012, has launched a show looking back on 70 of the 300 works it has acquired since then.