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Nazli Sarpkaya, Rami Margarin, Max Samuels, Christopher Daftsios in Angry Young Man, 2017. Photo: David Rogers

Tag: Learning + New Works

CREATIVE LAB: Wunetu Wequai Tarrant

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 artists practice through both an open lecture, and participatory workshop.

This month’s LAB is led by Shinnecock Linguist and Guild Hall Community Artist-in-Resident (GH CAiR), Wunetu Wequai Tarrant.  As part of her GH CAiR, Tarrant and her collaborator, Christian Scheider, are advancing the work of The First Literature Project, and the formation of Ayím Kutoowonk (She Speaks), a collective of four Indigenous Shinnecock women working toward the reclamation and revitalization of the Shinnecock language. The project proposes to support the language reclamation efforts through the preservation of Indigenous stories, culture, and language by utilizing immersive 3D, virtual reality, and holographic technology to create two immersive orations to be exhibited at Guild Hall in Spring 2024.

CREATIVE LAB is held in Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center. Participants are asked to enter the building through the door on Pondview Lane.

TEEN TAKEOVER!

Come party with the Guild Hall Teen Arts Council (GHTAC) for a night of art, silent dancing, games, food, and more! For High School Students only. ID required on Entry.

Visit the GHTAC page, @guildhalltac on Instagram, or email asmith@guildhall.org for more info.

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.

The 2022-23 GHTAC will develop several public programs, including a bi-monthly Open Mic Night at The Clubhouse East Hampton and a Spring Fashion Show in collaboration with the Lieber Collection. Additionally, they will create a float for the 2023 East Hampton Pride Parade, produce their annual TEEN ZINE in the East Hampton Star, and work with resident artists at Guild Hall.

Leo Villareal in conversation with Kathleen Forde

Join artist Leo Villareal and Kathleen Forde, inaugural Senior Curator for Superblue, as they discuss Leo’s work and large-scale immersive installations, in conjunction with Guild Hall’s exhibition of Villareal’s Celestial Garden. This engaging conversation with take place in the Marks Family Gallery North, and seating is limited, so get your tickets today.

Leo Villareal’s Celestial Garden features a never-before-exhibited monumental LED artwork accompanied by a soundscape and artist-designed furniture. The new light sculpture is composed of an array of LEDs over ten feet high and twenty-eight feet wide that is encased in a vinyl membrane. The artwork comes alive with perpetually evolving forms created by using custom software that orchestrates the compositions. An audio soundscape accompanies the visual display.

Villareal’s abstract compositions, inspired by nature’s intricate patterns, unfold in real-time and envelop the viewer in a dynamic interplay of light and sound where space and time intertwine.

Summer Sing-Along

SUMMER SING-ALONG
Thursday, August 31, 4 PM

Bring the whole family and join us for a Summer Sing-Along in Guild Hall’s Minikes Garden! Led by musicians Saskia Lane, Emily Eagan, & Skye Soto Steele this hour-long program will engage children and their parents through musical play, singing, songwriting, dancing, and more.

Recommended for ages 3 – 7 and their parents/guardians.

Summer Sing-Along

Bring the whole family and join us for a Summer Sing-Along in Guild Hall’s Minikes Garden! Led by musicians Saskia Lane, Emily Eagan, & Skye Soto Steele this hour-long program will engage children and their parents through musical play, singing, songwriting, dancing, and more.

Recommended for ages 3 – 7 and their parents/guardians.

Click HERE for the 4 PM program.

GUILD HALL FAMILY DAY

Bring the whole family and join us for an afternoon of fun! Visit a new exhibition, Leo Villareal: Celestial Garden, then head to the Phanstiel Pavilion out front for a special project inspired by the vibrant installation, and a family-friendly Silent Dance Party, including hype dancers from Our Fabulous Variety Show. Music will be broadcast to three channels on wireless headphones featuring all your favorite tunes from a range of genres.

The Carvel Ice Cream Truck will be dishing up free soft serve in the parking lot courtesy of Urban Standard Capital, plus complimentary cookies from Citarella, Cocojune Kids Pouches, and JUST Water. Additional refreshments will be available for purchase from Louise & Howie’s Coffee Bar in the lobby.

Don’t miss out on the family fun!

Hamptons Pride Parade

Join Guild Hall and the GH Teen Arts Council as we march in the Second Annual Hamptons Pride Parade!

Following last year’s inaugural runaway success, Mayor Jerry Larsen has asked local nonprofit Hamptons Pride to continue organizing the parade, and the East Hampton Village Police to again expertly direct it. 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 with D.J. Karin Ward until 3 pm.

The Guild Hall Teen Arts Council (GHTAC) will participate in the parade with a “Pep Rally For Mental Health.” Facilitated by queer Latin X installation artist, MAGO, GHTAC has spent the last few months discussing the hardships the teen and LGBTQ+ community face in the Hamptons, and the resources available to us to speak and combat them. In this way, GHTAC has collaborated and coordinated to form a simple message; one of the most complex issues we face in our community can be surmounted as long as we are willing to speak about it – loud and proud.

 The “Pep Rally For Mental Health” will include a student-led marching band, choreographed audience participation, and bright stunt cards bearing messaging and keywords centered around mental health and inter-community support. Patrons who want to march with Guild Hall can contact Anthony Madonna at amadonna@guildhall.org.

 The celebration of PRIDE and community continues after the parade at GHTAC’s inaugural fashion show, Leibers Legacy: A Teen Fashion Show.

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/

Paul Goldberger & Charles Renfro Discuss the Blue Dream House

This program is sold out. 
 
Join leading architecture critic Paul Goldberger and renowned architect Charles Renfro of Diller Scofidio + Renfro and in the intimacy of Guild Hall’s Furman Garden as they discuss Goldberger’s new book, Blue Dream and the Legacy of Modernism in the Hamptons, on the creation of the extraordinary Blue Dream House in East Hampton.
 
BookHampton will be on-site at the program to sell copies of the newly released Blue Dream and the Legacy of Modernism in the Hamptons ($85 + tax), which can be signed by Paul Goldberger after the talk.
 
 
ABOUT THE BOOK

Blue Dream and the Legacy of Modernism in the Hamptons
By Paul Goldberger
Photographs by Iwan Baan

This is the story of the creation of an astonishing house that renews and reinvigorates the spirit of the avant-garde in the Hamptons. Architecture critic Paul Goldberger tells the story of an extraordinary house on the Atlantic Double Dunes in East Hampton—Blue Dream, the result of a remarkable collaboration between collectors Julie Reyes Taubman and Robert Taubman, who together with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, builder Ed Bulgin, landscape architect Michael Boucher, and designer Michael Lewis, sought to renew the legacy of modernist architecture and art in the Hamptons.

Goldberger offers insight into the complex process by which an architectural idea generated a work that stands as the most striking addition of our time to the roster of architecturally ambitious modernist houses on Long Island. As he notes, “There are relatively few books devoted to the architecture of a single house, but what is clear if you read any of them is that they are stories about clients as much as about architects.” So it is with Blue Dream, where the Taubmans were inspired by the avant-garde spirit of artists and architects who settled and worked in the Hamptons and set out to create a house like no other, a house whose complex curving forms could only be built using the composite material used to make fighter jets.

Iwan Baan’s photographic portfolio documents Blue Dream across four seasons. Goldberger’s text is illustrated with images of earlier modernist houses that inspired the project, as well as documentation of the design process involved in the making of Blue Dream itself.

 

BOOK TALK: Carmela Ciuraru in Conversation with Katie Couric

Join Carmela Ciuraru, author of the critically acclaimed Lives of the Wives (selected as one of the “Best Books of 2023 so far” by The New York Times) for an insightful and humorous conversation with her longtime friend, the renowned journalist Katie Couric.

The history of wives is largely one of silence, resilience, and forbearance. Toss in celebrity, male privilege, ruthless ambition, narcissism, misogyny, infidelity, alcoholism, and a mood disorder or two, and it’s easy to understand why the marriages of so many famous writers have been stormy, short-lived, and mutually destructive. “It’s been my experience,” as the critic and novelist Elizabeth Hardwick once wrote, “that nobody holds a man’s brutality to his wife against him.” Literary wives are a unique breed, requiring a particular kind of fortitude.

Lives of the Wives is a witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five writers, illuminating the creative process and the role of money, power, and fame in these complex and fascinating relationships. The book pays tribute to these women, and the price they paid for their own creative ambition, success, and freedom. The Washington Post praises Lives of the Wives as “a tour de force….the stories Ciuraru tells are gripping, horrific, and sometimes even funny—but most of all they are important.”

A limited number of copies of Lives of the Wives will be available for purchase and signing, or the book can be purchased in advance with the ticket + book price.

This program will take place in Guild Hall’s Marks Family Gallery South.

THIS PROGRAM IS SOLD OUT. A waiting list will be taken IN PERSON ONLY at 6:30 PM on Monday, July 17.

 

LEIBER’S LEGACY: A Teen Fashion Show

Join us at The Leiber Collection for Guild Hall Teen Arts Council’s inaugural fashion show, Leiber’s Legacy.

Inspired by the Judith Leiber Collection and in partnership with the Ladies Village Improvement Society, the Guild Hall Teen Arts Council has designed and curated a line of repurposed fashion. The evening will begin with a runway show hosted by stylist, dancer, and drag performer, Danny Ximo, where each Guild Hall Teen Arts Council member will walk the runway in their very own design, and conclude with a reception in The Leiber Collection’s Garden.

Audiences are encouraged to bring their own chairs, blankets, etc., and to arrive early to explore The Leiber Collection.

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.
Click HERE for more info.

ABOUT THE LEIBER COLLECTION

The Leiber Collection is a beautiful jewel of a museum surrounded by a sublime sculpture garden located on Long Island in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs. Created as a nexus of Art, Fashion and Culture by its founders, famed Artful Handbag Designer Judith Leiber and celebrated Modernist Artist Gerson Leiber, it is a rare treat located in The Springs. leibermuseum.org

ABOUT THE LADIES VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY
Since their founding in 1895, the Ladies’ Village Improvement Society has been dedicated to keeping East Hampton one of the most beautiful villages in America. They maintain our wonderful trees and greens, provide scholarships to local high school students, preserve local landmarks, and host community events and programs for all ages, including their annual summer fair, Halloween and holiday open houses, Easter egg hunt, visits with seniors, and so much more. Community outreach is vital to the LVIS mission, and their partnerships with local schools and not-for profit organizations continue to expand. For nearly 70 years, the LVIS has awarded college scholarships to East Hampton High School seniors and adult women seeking a college degree to enhance their long-term career prospects. This year they awarded over $190,000 in scholarship monies to 24 students and 2 adult women. 
lvis.org