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 Raul 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.
FREE
Suitable for All Ages
Join the Guild Hall Teen Arts Council and Sag Harbor based architect, Nilay Oza at Kidd Squid for a sharing of their collaboration, The Sag Harbor Backyard Bathtub Project.
Like any coastal community, the effects of a changing climate are tangible to our lived reality on the East End. Our current means of dealing with these changes – planning, zoning, and private development – need to be supplemented to meet these challenges. The Sag Harbor Backyard Bathtub Project is an ongoing initiative to publicize and deal with these issues of local climate resilience through the eyes of young people.
Over the past few months Oza has worked with the Guild Hall Teen Arts Council (GHTAC) to investigate their personal connections to the issue, resulting in the creation of several public art works ranging from video projections and designed buttons to site-specific installations. With an emphasis on the term “bathtub,” GHTAC’s works bring awareness to the issue through humor and play – inviting participants to enter a serious and pressured issue with ease.
The evening will feature GHTAC’s public works alongside the research, video pieces, and topographic maps gathered throughout the project by Nilay Oza and his collaborators. Food & Drink will be available for purchase at Kidd Squid Brewery.
$15.00 ($10.00 Members)
$80.18 with book ($75.18 for Members) – tax included
In conjunction with the exhibition A Creative Retreat – Portraits of Artists, Guild Hall exhibiting artist Mark Mann will join Anthony Madonna, Guild Hall Director of Learning + New Works, Klassic Carella, Flexn Dancer, and Jose Sebastian, founder & artistic director of Hamptons Dance Project, for a conversation on Mann’s project, Movement At The Still Point and their experience creating & working on the East End of Long Island.
Movement At The Still Point is a collection of images that captures the dynamism and energy of the mediums of both dance and photography. In homage to his hero Irving Penn, Mann installed a backdrop of painterly muslin in vast West Side studio. Dancers from many genres – including ballet, jazz, African, tap, Broadway theater, hip-hop, and ballroom – perform and discuss their passions about the art form in this stark environment. The project is a testament to the emotional and physical power of each dancer, in stillness and in motion.
The collection has been published by Rizzoli International Publications. Books will be available for purchase in advance or on the day, subject to availability, with a signing by Mark Mann and the artists directly after the program.
$15.00 per family ($10.00 Members)
Join us for a forty-five-minute, interactive family tour in the Guild Hall galleries. Learn about art together through lively discussion, storytelling, and hands-on activities.
This Family Tour + Workshop will focus on the current exhibition, Spin a Yarn. Please enter Guild Hall through the Boots Lamb Education Center facing Pondview Lane.
Age recommendation: 4 – 7 + Parents/Guardians
Lunch Break is a series of open, participatory, and short discussions about art. Each Lunch Break is led by Guild Hall’s Patti Kenner Director of Learning + New Works, Anthony Madonna and focuses on various ways to absorb and interpret the work on exhibit.
Participants are welcome to join staff for lunch in the Guild Hall Pantzer Gallery or Minikes Garden after the program. Attendees may bring their own lunch or purchase small bites from Louise & Howie’s Coffee Bar in the lobby.
This Lunch Break will focus on the themes of the current exhibition, Ted Carey: Queer As Folk.
$15.00 ($10.00 Members)
Lunch Break is a series of open, participatory, and short discussions about art. Each Lunch Break is led by Guild Hall’s Patti Kenner Director of Learning + New Works, Anthony Madonna and focuses on various ways to absorb and interpret the work on exhibit.
Participants are welcome to join staff for lunch in the Guild Hall Pantzer Gallery or Minikes Garden after the program. Attendees may bring their own lunch or purchase small bites from Louise & Howie’s Coffee Bar in the lobby.
This Lunch Break will focus on the themes of the current exhibition, Spin A Yarn.
