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POETRY & THE AMERICAN CONVERSATION: PHILIP SCHULTZ & JILL BIALOSKY WITH DAVID RATTRAY

What role can poetry play in shaping how we understand, question, and participate in civic life?

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Schultz and acclaimed poet, novelist, and editor Jill Bialosky join David Rattray, editor-in-chief of The East Hampton Star, for an afternoon of readings and conversation exploring poetry as both a reflection of its time and an active form of civil discourse. Through their newly published collections, Schultz and Bialosky consider how poets respond to the social and political forces around them—and how writing can become an expression of conscience, resistance, empathy, and collective understanding.

The afternoon weaves live readings by Schultz and Bialosky with historic recordings of some of America’s most influential poetic voices—including Walt Whitman, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, and others—placing contemporary work in dialogue with generations of poets who have challenged, chronicled, and helped shape the American conversation.

Copies of Bialosky’s new collection, Mock Heart, and Schultz’s new collection, Enormous Morning will be available for purchase.

HARMONY IN MOTION: A MUSIC & MOVEMENT WORKSHOP

THIS PROGRAM IS HELD OFF-SITE AT MANDALA YOGA CENTER

Harmony in Motion is an immersive workshop exploring the connections between live music, movement, deep listening, and meditation. Silkroad artists Maeve Gilchrist, an Edinburgh-born harpist and composer rooted in Celtic traditions, and Kaoru Watanabe, a renowned practitioner of Japanese flutes and percussion, join Mandala Yoga Center to guide participants through listening, movement, and breath exercises. No previous yoga, movement, or musical experience is required.

Continue the journey the following evening at Guild Hall, where Gilchrist and Watanabe join clarinetist Kinan Azmeh for an intimate Silkroad Up Close concert on Saturday, November 7.

IN-PROCESS: J. BOUEY DANCE PROJECTS – THE LIVING ANCESTORS

Go behind the scenes of The Living Ancestors, a new multimedia dance-theater work conceived and directed by j. bouey, a 2026 Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence. Through performance excerpts and conversation, this In-Process presentation invites audiences into the development of bouey’s ambitious disco-funk space opera.

Guided by a poetic libretto by Junauda Petrus, The Living Ancestors imagines a future global society on the precipice of abolishing oppression, where a renowned band of griots reveals their origins as formerly enslaved clones from the Underground. Drawing on research into Punking and Waacking, bouey and the company connect these forms to the liberating underground club cultures from which they emerged.

Featuring Dane Deveraux’s sonic landscape of funk, disco, and house music and George Del Barrio’s Live Performance Camera Obscura projection design, the work brings movement, music, text, research, and live media together to build a bold speculative world.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: THE MISANTHROPE

by Martin Crimp after Molière
Directed by Indhu Rubasingham

Award-winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) plays the title role in this razor-sharp reimagining of Molière’s classic dark comedy.

Telling the truth isn’t always that simple. Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the carefully constructed lies of modern society. But the more she challenges those around her, the fiercer the backlash becomes. Soon, she must confront the price of speaking her truth in a world that would rather silence her.

Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Indhu Rubasingham directs Martin Crimp’s (Cyrano de Bergerac) highly anticipated play.

RUN TIME: 125 minutes, no intermission

RUSH TICKETS
A limited number of $25 Rush tickets may be available for Guild Hall-produced programs, 20 minutes before start time, in person only. Guests are instructed to line up outside in the rush line for the potential release of tickets.

ON THE SPOT: IMPROV, TAKE 2

Six-Week Course
Tuesdays, October 13, 20, & 27 and November 3, 10, & 17
6-7:30 PM

Take your improv skills to the next level in this dynamic six-week course focused on creating richer characters, stronger relationships, and compelling scenes. Through dramatic, comedic, and even musical improvisation, students will explore point of view, build longer-form scenes, and learn how to raise the stakes to create engaging, spontaneous stories. The course will revisit techniques from last season’s “Yes, And…,” and build on that foundation, culminating in a performance for family and friends.

Appropriate for all levels, including new and past participants, ages 18+.

Instructed by Kayla Matters and Amy Kirwin

FAMILY DAY

Gather your crew and spend the day getting creative at Guild Hall! Each month, Family Day brings hands-on art workshops, kid-friendly tours of our galleries led by the Teen Arts Council, and lively performances from local student artists in the Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan Theater.

It’s a fun, free day for families to make, explore, and celebrate art together—drop in and join the fun!

WE MET AT GROSSINGER’S

We Met at Grossinger’s is an immersive journey through the Jewish Catskills—once known as the Borscht Belt—reviving the iconic resort that inspired Dirty Dancing and defined an era of Jewish American life.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with producer, Robert Friedman, and Jennie Grossinger’s granddaughter, Susan Etess moderated by Emmy award winning co-host of The View and Guild Hall Academy of the Arts Member, Joy Behar.

Throughout decades of prejudice stifling the integration of Jewish immigrants in America, the Borscht Belt in the Catskills provided an oasis of belonging, and Grossinger’s Resort and Hotel was the crown jewel. The real-life inspiration for the setting of the 1987 classic film Dirty Dancing, Grossinger’s provided both a physical and mental getaway where Jews—and others from marginalized communities—needing a break from NYC could relax.

The resort’s growing reputation attracted a wide variety of comedians, athletes, and political figures, including Mel Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld, Jackie Robinson and Eleanor Roosevelt. Award-winning filmmaker Paula Eiselt (Aftershock, 93Queen) resurrects this vanished world with an immersive warmth, providing a timely reminder of the historic richness of Jewish culture and its immeasurable contributions to American life.

CANCELED—EMERGENCY EYEWASH ABC: CAROL SZYMANSKI, BARRY SCHWABSKY & WADADA LEO SMITH

Due to inclement weather impacting artist travel, we regret to announce that Emergency Eyewash ABC has been canceled. Ticket holders will be contacted directly with refund information.

Artist Carol Szymanski and poet and art critic Barry Schwabsky present Emergency Eyewash ABC, a live performance bringing together poetry, visual art, and music.

Moving between poetry, art, and music, the performance features a series of live readings from a new alphabet book for grown-ups written by 28 contemporary American poets alongside projections of Szymanski’s video fantasia on the alphabet and musical improvisation by legendary trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith. Performing on Szymanski’s sculptural horns—playable brass instruments developed from the forms of an eccentric alphabet font of Szymanski’s design—Smith responds in real time to the spoken word and projected imagery.

Together, the artists transform the stage into a meeting place for poetry, imagery, sculpture, and music.

The limited-edition book Emergency Eyewash ABC will be available for purchase the night of the event.

Featured readers: Susan Bee, Charles Bernstein, Ama Birch, Ross Bleckner, Lee Ann Brown, Daniel Cabrera, Biddle Duke, Edwin Frank, Ed German, Andrea Glimcher, Joan Jonas, Sam Jones, Simone Kearney, Malerie Marder, Suzanne McClelland, Eileen Myles, Geoffrey O’Brien, Julie Patton, Veronica Gonzalez Peña, Sarah Riggs, Canning Robb, Robert Rubin, Barry Schwabsky, Eleni Sikelianos, Mónica de la Torre, Catherine Wagner, Matthew Ward, Cynthia Zarin. More to be announced.

Featured poets: Andrea Applebee, Molly Bendall, Jill Bialosky, Ama Birch, Charles Bernstein, Lee Ann Brown, Peter Cole, Edwin Frank, Judith Goldman, Richard Hell, Simone Kearney, Vincent Katz, Joyelle McSweeney, Eileen Myles, Geoffrey O’Brien, George Quasha, Julie Patton, Sarah Riggs, Aram Saroyan, Barry Schwabsky, Steven Seidenberg, Eleni Sikelianos, Eileen Tabios, Daniel Tiffany, Mónica de la Torre, Catherine Wagner, Matvei Yankelevich, and John Yau.

BHCCRC BLACK FILM FESTIVAL: WE WANT THE FUNK

Kick off The Center’s Black Film Festival with an evening of film, music, celebration, and plenty of funk. Guests are encouraged to come dressed to impress in their best 1970s style, funk & flair!

WE WANT THE FUNK! is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from its African, soul, and early jazz roots to the explosion of 1970s urban funk and its lasting influence on music and culture.

Featuring the dynamism of James Brown, the extraterrestrial sounds of George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic, the transformation of Labelle, and Fela Kuti’s groundbreaking Afrobeat, the film celebrates the artists and movements that made funk a cultural force while tracing its influence on new wave, hip-hop, and generations of music that followed.

Following the screening, keep the funk going at a special post-screening party celebrating the birthday of The Center’s Executive Director, Bonnie Michelle Cannon. Come ready to dance, celebrate, and get funky!

RUN TIME: 84 minutes

COLLECTING CONTEMPORARIES: GLENN FUHRMAN & JEFF KOONS

Presented by BookHampton & Guild Hall

Join collector and philanthropist Glenn Fuhrmanand artist Jeff Koons for a conversation exploring their distinguished careers and the ideas, relationships, and experiences that have shaped their engagement with contemporary art.

Taking Fuhrman’s recent book,  Collecting Contemporaries: The Fuhrman Collection, as a point of departure, Koons and Fuhrman reflect on defining moments in their respective journeys as artist and collector. Together, they consider the evolution of artistic practice and collecting, the personal impulses behind building a collection, and the dynamic relationship that develops between artists, collectors, and their work.

Book sale & signing to follow.

$25 Rush tickets are subject to availability, 20 minutes before start time of the program, in person only. Guests are instructed to line up outside in the rush line for the potential release of tickets.

ROSS BLECKNER: NEVER THE LESS

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