STUDENT ART FESTIVAL: RAUSCHENBERG100

Opening Celebration of Student Art Festival: Rauschenberg100. Photo: Jessica Dalene Photography

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THE INNOVATORS TALK SHOW

BUSINESS NETWORKING EVENT

$20 | $15 for Members | Free for Community Pillars

The Innovators Talk Show at Guild Hall brings you an insightful series spotlighting the business and cultural leaders who are reshaping their industries and doing game-changing work.

Episode 1:
Guild Hall Executive Director Andrea Grover will sit down with Malcolm Carfrae, Founder and Principal of Carfrae Consulting, a global consultancy that provides hands-on, strategic counsel for brands in all areas of communications, and former Head of Communications at both Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren.

Reception to follow with drinks and light bites by Moby’s East Hampton.

The Innovators Talk Show is free to Community Pillars. Not a member? JOIN today!

EXHIBITION WALKTHROUGH & BOOK LAUNCH

Exhibition Walkthrough & Book Launch with Melanie Crader and Liane Thatcher

Please join Melanie Crader, Guild Hall museum director and curator of visual arts and Liane Thatcher, Mary Heilmann’s Studio Director of over 25 years, for an exhibition walkthrough of Heilmann’s exhibition Water Way. This conversation will coincide with the launch of Mary Heilmann: Works on Paper, 1973-2019, the first publication dedicated to Heilmann’s works on paper practice which feature many of the works included in the artist’s Guild Hall exhibition.

Books are available both signed and unsigned in advance as an add on to your ticket purchase, or unsigned in-person while supplies last. To add the book to your purchase, choose the “Products” tab before checking out. Books are $48 signed, and $38 unsigned, plus tax.

ART SOCIAL: HOLIDAY SWEATER FELTING WITH LAURIE LAMBRECHT—SOLD OUT

This workshop is sold out. Please email info@guildhall.org to be added to the standby list.

ART SOCIAL: HOLIDAY SWEATER FELTING WITH LAURIE LAMBRECHT

Back by popular demand!

Do you have a piece of clothing that could use a creative touch to bring it back into your wardrobe circulation – maybe something festive for the holidays? You don’t want to miss the return of this fun and easy approach to revitalizing an item of clothing a special way. With instruction by the master, artist Laurie Lambrecht, we will use needle felting to repair small holes or wear and tear and embellish the pieces with personalized motifs or other creative designs. In this way, you can give your garment a personal and sustainable touch.

Please bring a woven/knit item or items you wish to revitalize. All other materials will be provided.

Art Social admission includes complimentary wine (or a non-alcoholic beverage), and lite bites generously donated by Harbor Market & Kitchen in Sag Harbor.

Art Social is a monthly gathering where attendees enter into a supportive and judgment-free session of art/craftmaking and socializing. Bring your friends and expect to make new ones while tapping into your creative selves. Workshops will be led by experts in their practice, and the projects are designed to be easily and enjoyably accomplished by all skill levels.

 

ART SOCIAL: SHELL DECOUPAGE WITH HEIDI WRIGHT STEVENS – SOLD OUT

This program is sold out. Make sure to book early for future workshops because they sell out fast!

 

 

ART SOCIAL: SHELL DECOUPAGE WITH HEIDI WRIGHT STEVENS

Using nature found in our own backyard, join us for an evening of creativity as we transform your own sea shells with the art of decoupage.  Refined through the art of decoupage, each piece is layered with delicate papers and sealed to create a polished, lasting finish. A simple coastal treasure, reimagined as art for a bedside table, coffee table or a special spot in your home!

Art Social admission includes complimentary wine (or a non-alcoholic beverage), and lite bites generously donated by Harbor Market & Kitchen in Sag Harbor.

Art Social is a monthly gathering where attendees enter into a supportive and judgment-free session of art/craftmaking and socializing. Bring your friends and expect to make new ones while tapping into your creative selves. Workshops will be led by experts in their practice, and the projects are designed to be easily and enjoyably accomplished by all skill levels.

IN-PROCESS: LOVE LETTERS—CAGE TO CUNNINGHAM

Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artists-in-Residence, Site-Specific Dances (artistic directors: Michael Spencer Phillips and Dino Kiratzidis) share an in-process presentation of their new dance-theater work, Love Letters: Cage to Cunningham.

LOVE LETTERS: CAGE TO CUNNINGHAM is a dance/media-performance work by Site-Specific Dances, based on selected letters from Love, Icebox. These letters reveal the interwoven nature of John and Merce’s artistic and personal lives. They contain moments of flirtation, humor, insecurity, joy, longing, arousal, and jealousy, emotions specific to the letters but also universal to human experiences of love and longing.

The piece unfolds as a series of vignettes that follow the emotional arc of the letters, combining media and live music with a new ensemble dance suite by Michael Spencer Phillips. The set design is an assemblage of various media elements drawn from the text of the letters and curated by Dino Kiratzidis in collaboration with videographer Emma Kazaryan and graphic designer Riley Hooker. Adam Tendler joins the team as a John Cage specialist, performer and adviser, alongside collaborating composers Warren Hildebrand and Matthew Ricketts.

The in-process presentation will be followed by a conversation between the creative team and Executive Director of the John Cage Trust, Jeffrey Lependorf.

THE MET: LIVE IN HD—EL ÚLTIMO SUEÑO DE FRIDA Y DIEGO

Estimated Run Time: 2 hours and 50 minutes with one intermission

On May 30, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met-premiere staging of Frank’s opera, a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times). The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker.

This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

THE MET: LIVE IN HD—EUGENE ONEGIN

Estimated Run Time: 4 hours and 5 minutes with two intermissions

Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide on May 2. Baritone Igor Golovatenko is the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance” (The Telegraph).

Read synopsis here.

This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

THE MET: LIVE IN HD—TRISTAN UND ISOLDE

Estimated Run Time: 5 hours 10 minutes with two intermissions

After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives in cinemas worldwide on March 21 as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love-drunk Tristan. The momentous occasion also marks the advent of a new, Met-debut staging by Yuval Sharon—hailed by The New York Times as “the most visionary opera director of his generation” and the first American to direct an opera at the famed Wagner festival in Bayreuth—as well as Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s first time leading Tristan und Isolde at the Met. Mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova reprises her signature portrayal of Brangäne, alongside bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny, who sings Kurwenal after celebrated Met appearances in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer and Ring cycle. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green makes an important role debut as King Marke.

Read synopsis here.

This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

THE MET: LIVE IN HD—I PURITANI

Estimated Run Time: 3 hours and 45 minutes with one intermission

For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. On January 10, the first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece in nearly 50 years—a striking staging by Charles Edwards, who makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer—arrives in cinemas worldwide. The Met has assembled a world-beating quartet of stars, conducted by Marco Armiliato, for the demanding principal roles. Soprano Lisette Oropesa and tenor Lawrence Brownlee are Elvira and Arturo, brought together by love and torn apart by the political rifts of the English Civil War, with baritone Artur Ruciński as Riccardo, betrothed to Elvira against her will, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Elvira’s sympathetic uncle, Giorgio.

Read synopsis here.

This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

THE MET: LIVE HD—ANDREA CHÉNIER

Estimated Run Time: 3 hours and 30 minutes with two intermissions

Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Following their celebrated recent partnership in Giordano’s Fedora in the 2022–23 Live in HD season, Beczała reunites with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Chénier’s aristocratic lover, Maddalena di Coigny, with baritone Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard, the agent of the Reign of Terror who seals their fates. Met Principal Guest Conductor Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to lead Nicolas Joël’s gripping staging, which will be transmitted live from the Met stage to cinemas on December 13.

Read synopsis here.

This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.