FREE
Advance registration is recommended but not required
Join Guild Hall & OLA for an afternoon of art, workshops, and more.
Inspired by Guild Hall’s current exhibition, Spin A Yarn, the afternoon will consist of drop-in workshops, where families can create their own cardboard Looms, self-guided gallery tours, and an Open Studio with artist, Raul Martinez.
Join Guild Hall and the GH Teen Arts Council as we march in the Third Annual Hamptons Pride Parade!
Following the first two years of success, Hamptons Pride continues organizing the parade. The lineup starts at 11 am on Main Street near Pondview Lane and Guild Hall, and the parade kicks off at noon. Registered participants will march east on Main Street to Newtown Lane, Railroad Avenue, and Lumber Lane, ending in Herrick Park, where there will be music and celebration.
The Guild Hall Teen Arts Council (GHTAC) will participate in the parade with project facilitated by queer Latin X installation artist, MAGO. Patrons who want to march with Guild Hall can contact Anthony Madonna at amadonna@guildhall.org.
ABOUT GUILD HALL TEEN ARTS COUNCIL
The Guild Hall Teen Arts Council (GHTAC) is the region’s first paid teen arts program. As employees of Guild Hall, GHTAC members work to curate public programming, advance their creativity, increase Guild Hall’s outreach to local teens, and learn through collaboration with Guild Hall staff.
ABOUT HAMPTONS PRIDE
Hamptons Pride, Inc. is a not-for-profit public charity (tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code – EIN 86-3600121) that celebrates and commemorates the LGBTQ+ people and their allies on the East End of Long Island. Established by locals for the benefit of locals, the organization’s founding goal is the creation of an historical marker and outdoor social area on the footprint of The Swamp (the last and longest-running gay club in the Hamptons) in what is now Wainscott Green, a park in the Town of East Hampton. Hamptons Pride’s services, including the annual Hamptons Pride Parade on the first Saturday in June, are made possible by the generosity of individuals, foundations, and corporations. https://hamptonspride.org/
$15 ($10 Members)
Creative Lab is a series of interdisciplinary workshops designed and led by Guild Hall’s Visiting, Exhibiting, and Resident artists. Each Creative Lab invites participants to learn about an artist’s practice through an open lecture and a participatory workshop.
This Lab will be led by artist & lawyer Raúl Martinez. Martinez’s work examines the intersections between art and language and, more specifically, the possibilities of using legal language (i.e., employment contracts, traffic rules and regulations, military training codes, etc.) as material for art, dance, and performance.
The Lab will focus on Martinez’s work as part of the collective DETEXT and his current work in the Guild Hall exhibition, Spin A Yarn.
Join Guild Hall for a weekly Stitch ‘N Bitch!
Thursdays, June 6, 13, 20, & 27 from 6-7:30 PM
Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center
FREE
Advance reservations are encouraged but not required.
The name Stitch ‘N Bitch has been used by many social knitting communities as far back as World War II. For many, a Stich ‘N Bitch was a forum for political action, social inclusion, and silent but collective gatherings of like-minded people. As time went on, it grew in popularity, with a major resurgence in the early 2000’s due to Debbie Stoller & BUST Magazine, and has been bringing crafters together for decades.
This weekly program is open to all who knit, crochet, embroider, sew and more. Sessions are collectively led by those in attendance.
All participants are encouraged to bring their own materials.
Stitch ‘N Bitch is programmed in-tandem with the Guild Hall exhibition, Spin A Yarn.
Join Guild Hall for a weekly Stitch ‘N Bitch!
Thursdays, June 6, 13, 20, & 27 from 6-7:30 PM
Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center
FREE – Advance reservations are encouraged but not required.
The name Stitch ‘N Bitch has been used by many social knitting communities as far back as World War II. For many, a Stich ‘N Bitch was a forum for political action, social inclusion, and silent but collective gatherings of like-minded people. As time went on, it grew in popularity, with a major resurgence in the early 2000’s due to Debbie Stoller & BUST Magazine, and has been bringing crafters together for decades.
This weekly program is open to all who knit, crochet, embroider, sew and more. Sessions are collectively led by those in attendance.
All participants are encouraged to bring their own materials.
Stitch ‘N Bitch is programmed in-tandem with the Guild Hall exhibition, Spin A Yarn.
Join Guild Hall for a weekly Stitch ‘N Bitch!
Thursdays, June 6, 13, 20, & 27 from 6-7:30 PM
Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center
FREE – Advance reservations are encouraged but not required.
The name Stitch ‘N Bitch has been used by many social knitting communities as far back as World War II. For many, a Stich ‘N Bitch was a forum for political action, social inclusion, and silent but collective gatherings of like-minded people. As time went on, it grew in popularity, with a major resurgence in the early 2000’s due to Debbie Stoller & BUST Magazine, and has been bringing crafters together for decades.
This weekly program is open to all who knit, crochet, embroider, sew and more. Sessions are collectively led by those in attendance.
All participants are encouraged to bring their own materials.
Stitch ‘N Bitch is programmed in-tandem with the Guild Hall exhibition, Spin A Yarn.
Join Guild Hall for a weekly Stitch ‘N Bitch!
Thursdays, June 6, 13, 20, & 27 from 6-7:30 PM
Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center
FREE
Advance reservations are encouraged but not required.
The name Stitch ‘N Bitch has been used by many social knitting communities as far back as World War II. For many, a Stich ‘N Bitch was a forum for political action, social inclusion, and silent but collective gatherings of like-minded people. As time went on, it grew in popularity, with a major resurgence in the early 2000’s due to Debbie Stoller & BUST Magazine, and has been bringing crafters together for decades.
This weekly program is open to all who knit, crochet, embroider, sew and more. Sessions are collectively led by those in attendance.
All participants are encouraged to bring their own materials.
Stitch ‘N Bitch is programmed in-tandem with the Guild Hall exhibition, Spin A Yarn.
Open Studio invites audiences to ask questions, view works in-process, and gain hands-on experience with the creative process of artists currently working or exhibiting at Guild Hall.
This Open Studio, which will take place for three days—Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, May 18-20 from 12-5 PM—will be led by cross-disciplinary artist Raúl Martinez. Martinez’s work examines the intersections between art and language, and more specifically, the possibilities of using legal language (i.e., employment contracts, traffic rules and regulations, military training codes, etc.) as material for art, dance, and performance. Audiences are invited to join Martinez in a new collaborative in-process piece or begin an individual piece of their own with the materials on-site.
This Open Studio is programmed in tandem with the Guild Hall exhibition Spin A Yarn, where Martinez’s work is on view.
This program is open to members only for Members Preview Day on Saturday, May 18, and open to the public Sunday, May 19, and Monday, May 20. Open Studio is free of charge. Advance reservations are not required.
$35 ($30 for Members)
$56.73 with Book ($51.73 for Members)
Join mother, scientist, decorated professor, and author, Robin Wall Kimmerer for a conversation on her collection of essays, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants.
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plans and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings -asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass – offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world.
Braiding Sweetgrass was named a New York Times Best Seller, a Washington Post Best Seller, a Los Angeles Times Best Seller, a “Best Essay Collection of the Decade” by Literary Hub, A Book Riot “Favorite Summer Read of 2020,” and a Food Tank Fall 2020 Reading Recommendation.
Copies of Braiding Sweetgrass can be purchased in advance with tickets or on the day of the program, while supplies last.
GATHER is an ongoing series that spotlights the voices of BIPOC scholars, artists, and leaders, providing lessons on Black & Indigenous histories & traditions, and strategies for moving forward together. The program is co-produced by Guild Hall and Ma’s House & BIPOC Studio. Founded by Jeremy Dennis, an artist and tribal member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, Ma’s House is a communal art space that includes a residency program for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), an art studio, and a library.
In conjunction with the exhibition, A Creative Retreat: Portraits of Artists, Guild Hall collection artist Laurie Lambrecht joins Director of Visual Arts Melanie Crader in conversation about Laurie’s career and her ongoing project included in the exhibition entitled Inspirations All.
In anticipation of the reopening of the John Drew Theater, the final stage of Guild Hall’s facility-wide renovation, A Creative Retreat: Portraits of Artists celebrates artists who were and are the fabric of the East End artist community and integral to Guild Hall.
The East End has a history of providing an environment for artists to gather and a place of respite and contemplation where many artists work quietly and diligently seasonally and year-round, forming a vibrant creative community. This exhibition of photographic portraits of visual, literary, and performing artists is drawn largely from Guild Hall’s permanent collection, supplemented by projects by Linda K. Alpern, Laurie Lambrecht, and Mark Mann.
Guild Hall was established in 1931 as a gathering place for the community where an appreciation for the arts would “promote a finer type of citizenship.” The institution was the first arts town hall of its kind, encompassing a museum, theater, education center, and meeting space under one roof. Guild Hall’s history parallels that of the American theater and art worlds, with many landmark performances and exhibitions documented in the publication Guild Hall for All (2021).
This exhibition is organized by director of visual arts Melanie Crader.
