Directed by Bill Burford and featuring Trevor Vaughn and Michael Paul.
Inspired by the months before John Hinckley’s attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, “Falls for Jodie” is an imagined account of Hinckley’s strange partnership with a concierge at a hotel next to the Yale campus, who tries to help Hinckley win the affections of his child-star crush.
Headset Rental:
$15 ($13 for Members)
Get ready to kick off the summer with the return of everyone’s favorite Silent Disco Dance Party. Guild Hall’s Furman Garden will be lit up and ready to greet dancers for some uproariously quiet movin’ and groovin’. Wireless headsets will feature three different channels, including 70s disco and funk, 80s and 90s pop and hip-hop, and hits from the 2000s to today. Each station is represented by a color, so when you notice someone having a great time, you can just switch over to that color and join them!
Guest DJ’s to be announced.
Skip the lines and reserve your headphones in advance – which also guarantees you will get them on arrival! Headsets can be rented on site, but advance reservations are recommended.
Wine, beer, and snacks will be available at Louise & Howie’s Coffee Bar located in the front lobby.
Join East End farmer and author, Scott Chaskey, in conversation with writer Evan Harris, as they discuss his book Soil and Spirit, our reciprocal relationship with land and species, and share poetry. Soil and Spirit is filled with lively essays exploring Scott’s evolving perspective as a farmer and poet, describing his experiences in environments close to home and as far flung as Ireland, China and New Mexico.
“Enlivened by decades of work in open fields washed by the salt spray of the Atlantic”–words that describe his prose as well as his vision of connectedness, “Scott both expands our horizons and deepens our contemplative capacities with the astonishing connections he makes between soil, soul, and sustenance in these challenging and eloquent essays…” — Gary Paul Nabhan
This program is presented in conjunction with the current exhibition, Student Art Festival: Eco vs Ego.
SOIL AND SPIRIT WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THE PROGRAM THROUGH BOOKHAMPTON.
ABOUT SCOTT CHASKEY’s book SOIL and SPIRIT
As a farmer with decades spent working in fields, Scott Chaskey has been shaped by daily attention to the earth. A leader in the international Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, he has combined a longstanding commitment to food sovereignty and organic farming with a belief that humble attention to microbial life and diversity of species provides invaluable lessons for building healthy human communities.
Along the way, even while planning rotations of fields, ordering seeds, tending to crops and their ecosystems, Chaskey was writing. And in this lively collection of essays, he explores the evolution of his perspective—as a farmer and as a poet. Tracing the first stage in his development back to a homestead in Maine, on the ancestral lands of the Abenaki, he recalls learning to cultivate plants and nourish reciprocal relationships among species, even as he was reading Yeats and beginning to write poems. He describes cycling across Ireland, a surprise meeting with Seamus Heaney, and, later, farming in Cornwall’s ancient landscape of granite, bramble, and windswept trees. He travels to China for an international conference on Community Supported Agriculture, reading ancient wilderness poetry along the way, and then on to the pueblo of Santa Clara in New Mexico, where he joins a group of Indigenous women harvesting amaranth seeds. Closer to home on the Southfork of Long Island, he describes planting redwood saplings and writing verse under the canopy of an American beech.
Scott Chaskey has given us a book for our time. A seed of hope and regeneration.
https://milkweed.org/book/soil-and-spirit
Join landscape designer, Edwina von Gal, and her collaborators at PRFCT EARTH PROJECT for a Landscape Therapy Session. As a collective, we will share gardening woes and mishaps, followed by small-group consultations. Participants are encouraged to share specific questions, concerns, and even photographic proof (!) of their garden spaces, and will receive actionable tactics from each Guest Speaker to create a more nature-based garden.
This workshop, which will take place in Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center, is open to gardeners of all experiences & interest levels, and programmed in relation to the current exhibition, Student Art Festival: Eco vs Ego.
PRFCT Earth Project’s Nature-Based Gardening booklet will be available for purchase in advance for an additional $10 + tax, or can be purchased at the program, while supplies last.
ABOUT PRFCT EARTH PROJECT
Founded in 2013 by Edwina von Gal, Perfect Earth Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating, engaging, and inspiring individuals, land care professionals, and decision-makers to adopt toxic-free, nature-based, and climate-responsible landscaping practices necessary for a healthier, more sustainable—and beautiful—environment for all.
The core of our mission is nature-based land care, which means working with nature and its beauty, not against it. When we use these simple methods, our gardens become a feast for the senses, hosting a healthy and vibrant ecosystem that is safe for us, our kids, and our pets.
https://perfectearthproject.org
Advance Reservations Are Now Closed – Admission Can be Paid in Person
Everyone’s favorite night of fun returns this Saturday when Guild Hall’s Furman Garden will be lit up and ready to greet dancers for some uproariously quiet movin’ and groovin’. Wireless headsets will feature three different channels, including 70s disco and funk, 80s and 90s pop and hip-hop, and hits from the 2000s to today. Each station is represented by a color, so when you notice someone having a great time, you can just switch over to that color and join them!
Skip the lines and reserve your headphones in advance – which also guarantees you will get them on arrival! Headsets can be rented on site, but advance reservations are recommended.
Wine, beer, and snacks will be available at our Coffee Bar located in the front lobby.
RAIN DATE: Sunday, 9/3
THIS PERFORMANCE IS SOLD OUT. You may email info@guildhall.org to be placed on the waiting list.
Friday-Sunday, August 18-20
5 PM Pre-Show Reception + 6 PM Performance: $200.00 ($180.00 for Members)
6 PM Performance Only: $125.00 ($112.00 for Members)
RAIN DATE: Monday, August 21
Jose Sebastian and Hamptons Dance Project (HDP) returns in a co-presentation with Guild Hall for their fifth summer season. Set on a stunning 20-acre farm overlooking Gardiner’s Bay.
Hamptons Dance Project V will feature the work of choreographers Justin Peck, Gemma Bond, Gregory Dolbashian, Jorma Elo, Melanie Hamrick, Adriana Pierce and others, along with ABT dancers Joo Won Ahn, Sierra Armstrong, Aran Bell, Lauren Bonfiglio, Carlos Gonzalez, Catherine Hurlin, Erica Lall, Tyler Maloney, Chloe Misseldine, Kento Sumitani, Jose Sebastian.* The program will also feature performances from the tap dance and live music company, Music From The Sole, Leonardo Sandoval choreographer, and acclaimed singer-songwriter, Toby Lightman.
Hamptons Dance Project Season V will premiere “Glow By Glow” by the choreographer Jorma Elo, commissioned by the Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence program.
The private address for the performance will be provided to ticket buyers upon confirmation of ticket purchase and again 24 hours prior to the performance date.
It is recommended to bring sunscreen and insect repellent, and wear comfortable shoes, as guests will walk through the natural landscapes from the parking area to the stage. Transport will be available from the parking area to the stage for those who need assistance. Restrooms will be available.
Hamptons Dance Project are 2023 Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artists-in-Residence.
*Program and dancers subject to change.
Hamptons Dance Project (HDP) pairs dancers from American Ballet Theatre and beyond with master choreographers in fresh, dynamic works—including world premieres—that explore a wide spectrum of dance from contemporary to classical.
This performance is sold out. Please email info@guildhall.org to be placed on the waiting list.
Friday-Sunday, August 18-20
5 PM Pre-Show Reception + 6 PM Performance: $200.00 ($180.00 for Members)
6 PM Performance Only: $125.00 ($112.00 for Members)
Jose Sebastian and Hamptons Dance Project (HDP) returns in a co-presentation with Guild Hall for their fifth summer season. Set on a stunning 20-acre farm overlooking Gardiner’s Bay.
Hamptons Dance Project V will feature the work of choreographers Justin Peck, Gemma Bond, Gregory Dolbashian, Jorma Elo, Melanie Hamrick, Adriana Pierce and others, along with ABT dancers Joo Won Ahn, Sierra Armstrong, Aran Bell, Lauren Bonfiglio, Carlos Gonzalez, Catherine Hurlin, Erica Lall, Tyler Maloney, Chloe Misseldine, Kento Sumitani, Jose Sebastian.* The program will also feature performances from the tap dance and live music company, Music From The Sole, Leonardo Sandoval choreographer, and acclaimed singer-songwriter, Toby Lightman.
Hamptons Dance Project Season V will premiere “Glow By Glow” by the choreographer Jorma Elo, commissioned by the Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence program.
The private address for the performance will be provided to ticket buyers upon confirmation of ticket purchase and again 24 hours prior to the performance date.
It is recommended to bring sunscreen and insect repellent, and wear comfortable shoes, as guests will walk through the natural landscapes from the parking area to the stage. Transport will be available from the parking area to the stage for those who need assistance. Restrooms will be available.
Hamptons Dance Project are 2023 Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artists-in-Residence.
*Program and dancers subject to change.
Hamptons Dance Project (HDP) pairs dancers from American Ballet Theatre and beyond with master choreographers in fresh, dynamic works—including world premieres—that explore a wide spectrum of dance from contemporary to classical.
Friday-Sunday, August 18-20
5 PM Pre-Show Reception + 6 PM Performance: $200.00 ($180.00 for Members)
6 PM Performance Only: $125.00 ($112.00 for Members)
Jose Sebastian and Hamptons Dance Project (HDP) returns in a co-presentation with Guild Hall for their fifth summer season. Set on a stunning 20-acre farm overlooking Gardiner’s Bay, this annual event honors the East End’s legacy as a creative hotbed and artistic haven to promote dance as a pillar of the area’s rich cultural landscape.
Hamptons Dance Project V will feature the work of choreographers Justin Peck, Gemma Bond, Gregory Dolbashian, Jorma Elo, Melanie Hamrick, Adriana Pierce and others, along with ABT dancers Joo Won Ahn, Sierra Armstrong, Aran Bell, Lauren Bonfiglio, Carlos Gonzalez, Catherine Hurlin, Erica Lall, Tyler Maloney, Chloe Misseldine, Kento Sumitani, Jose Sebastian.* The program will also feature performances from the tap dance and live music company, Music From The Sole, Leonardo Sandoval choreographer, and acclaimed singer-songwriter, Toby Lightman.
Hamptons Dance Project Season V will premiere “Glow By Glow” by the choreographer Jorma Elo, commissioned by the Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence program.
The private address for the performance will be provided to ticket buyers upon confirmation of ticket purchase and again 24 hours prior to the performance date.
It is recommended to bring sunscreen and insect repellent, and wear comfortable shoes, as guests will walk through the natural landscapes from the parking area to the stage. Transport will be available from the parking area to the stage for those who need assistance. Restrooms will be available.
Hamptons Dance Project are 2023 Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artists-in-Residence.
*Program and dancers subject to change.
Hamptons Dance Project (HDP) pairs dancers from American Ballet Theatre and beyond with master choreographers in fresh, dynamic works—including world premieres—that explore a wide spectrum of dance from contemporary to classical.
SWEPT AWAY: Love Letter to a Surrogate(s)
by Warren Neidich
Join us at Main Beach on September 10, 17, 24 from 7-10PM and October 30 from 6-9PM for a series of unmissable happenings!
September 10 presentations will include Elena Bajo, Lillian Ball, Megan Chaskey, Scott Chaskey, Philippe Cheng, Peter Dayton, Katrina del Mar with Chris Jones, Carol Edwards, Margaret Garrett, Sutton Lynch, Eileen O’Kane Kornreich, Bastienne Schmidt, Christina Sun, and Darius Yektai.
Swept Away: Love Letter to a Surrogate(s) will take place at the water’s edge in front of the Pavilion at Main Beach in East Hampton. Attendees can watch or be an active participant and enjoy the evening’s festivities.
Warren Neidich notes “Swept Away: Love Letter to a Surrogate is a community oriented artistic project that aims to create a transcontinental heartbeat across America. It is hoped that through its combined gestures and performances, a sense of solidarity, so desperately missing today, will emerge with which to confront the ecological catastrophe at our doorstep.”
The syncopated sound of the surf will provide the background acousmatic. This poetic project in some ways harkens back to the Happenings staged by Allan Kaprow in 1966 all through the South Fork: https://alastairgordonwalltowall.com/2018/02/07/gas-i-am-a-happener-1966-east-hampton/
Artist Warren Neidich who created the successful Drive by Art event in 2020. The project is co-curated and co-coordinated by Christina Strassfield, Museum Director/Chief Curator of Guild Hall, Anuradha Vikram, Los Angeles based independent curator, and Los Angeles based conceptual artist Renee Petropoulos, plus administrative coordination by Julie McKim. 65 artists living in on the East End and 65 west coast artists are participating in this community and family-based Art Happening. In the spring the reverse will occur; with East End artists writing love letters to LA artists to be executed at Will Rogers State Beach, Santa Monica in conjunction with the 18th Street Arts Center.
At Main Beach, artists will create ephemeral performative gestures of immateriality or time-based works on the beach. This could be making a sandcastle, singing a song, reciting poetry, dancing, make a sculpture that interacts with the tide, collecting shells, doing a light projection on Main Beach pavilion, picking up garbage on the beach, etc. The works could be political and deal with global warming and its effects on the water level or could be apolitical and talk about the natural beauty of the real in opposition to the digital and virtual.
The importance of biodegradable, non-toxic materials will be essential as well as leaving the beach pristine after the work. Each artist has been linked up to a west coast artist who will email instructions – a love letter – for a work of art that the local artist will incorporate into their performative piece, acting as a surrogate.
The list of East End and West Coast artist pairings is as follows:
EAST END ARTISTS >> LOS ANGELES ARTISTS
Suzanne Anker > > Margarethe Drexel
Elena Bajo > > Jasmine Orpilla
Lillian Ball > > Dana Berman Duff
Monica Banks > > Jamie Ross
Dianne Blell > > Lisa Anne Auerbach
Scott Bluedorn > > Robby Herbst
Megan Chaskey > > Lionel Popkin
Scott Chaskey > > Kathryn Andrews
Philippe Cheng > > David Horvitz
Andrea Cote > > Nina Waisman
Ivana Dama > > Rodrigo Arruda
Peter Dayton > > Anita Pace
Katrina Del Mar + Chris Jones > > Taisha Paggett + Meital Yaniv
Jeremy Dennis + Beau Bree Rhee > > Debra Disman
Sabra Moon Elliot > > Rochelle Fabb
Carol Edwards > > Pamela Hudson
Eva Faye > > Patty Chang + David Kelley
Saskia Friedrich > > Fran Siegel
Margaret Garrett > > Susan Kleinberg
Veronica Gonzalez Peña > > Cassandra Marketo
Kimberly Goff > > Cheri Gaulke + Xochi Maberry-Gaulke
Jeremy Grosvenor > > Vincent Johnson
Jerelyn Hanrahan + Laura Ross White > > Andrew Berardini
Candace Hill Montgomery > > Anna Joy Springer
Virva Hinnemo > > Sam Shoemaker
Alice Hope > > Krysten Cunningham
Erica-Lynn Huberty > > Sandeep Mukherjee
Terri Hyland > > Joseph Mosconi
Ruby Jackson > > Alice Könit
No Partner > > Carolyn Castano
Nishan Kazazian > > Beatriz Cortez
Carlos Lama >> No Partner
No Partner > > Badly Licked Bear
Christine Lidrbauch > > Sterling Wells
Donald Lipski > > Raul Baltazar
Sutton Lynch > > Yrneh Gabon Brown
No Partner > > Jiayun Chen
Tanya Minhas > > Allison Wyper
Richard Mothes > > Kristin Calabrese
Michelle Murphy > > Sarah Beadle
Jill Musnicki > > Victoria Vesna
Lois Nesbitt > > Lucia Santini Ribisi
Eileen O’Kane Kornreich > > Iman Person
Jaanika Peerna > > Marcus Kuiland Nazario
Dalton Portella > > Ryat Yezbick
Toni Ross > > Sharon Barnes
David Rothenberg > > May Sun
Will Ryan > > Jody Zellen
Sara Salaway > > Melinda Altshuler
Matthew Satz > > Katie Grinnan
Bastienne Schmidt > > Jisoo Chung
Barry Schwabsky > > David Schafer
Christine Sciulli > > Karen Lofgren
Arlene Slavin > > Jenny Yurshansky
Janice Stanton > > Kearra Gopee
Christina Sun > > Catherine Scott
Carol Szymanski with David Adewomi > > Xiouping (Whitworth)
Sara VanDerBeek > > Alicia Serling
Ryan Wallace > > Joshua Aster
Ross Watts > > Justine Harari
Allan Wexler > > Dan Kwong
Nina Yankowitz > > Francesca Gabbiani
Darius Yektai > > Barbara McCarren + Jud Fine
Almond Zigmund > > Marissa Mandler
SWEPT AWAY: Love Letter to a Surrogate(s)
by Warren Neidich
Join us at Main Beach on September 10, 17, 24 from 7-10PM and October 30 from 6-9PM for a series of unmissable happenings!
September 17 artists include Toni Ross, Dalton Portella, Candace Hill Montgomery, Carlos Lama, Alice Hope, Katrina Del Mar with Chris Jones, and more.
Swept Away: Love Letter to a Surrogate(s) will take place at the water’s edge in front of the Pavilion at Main Beach in East Hampton. Attendees can watch or be an active participant and enjoy the evening’s festivities.
Warren Neidich notes “Swept Away: Love Letter to a Surrogate is a community oriented artistic project that aims to create a transcontinental heartbeat across America. It is hoped that through its combined gestures and performances, a sense of solidarity, so desperately missing today, will emerge with which to confront the ecological catastrophe at our doorstep.”
The syncopated sound of the surf will provide the background acousmatic. This poetic project in some ways harkens back to the Happenings staged by Allan Kaprow in 1966 all through the South Fork: https://alastairgordonwalltowall.com/2018/02/07/gas-i-am-a-happener-1966-east-hampton/
Artist Warren Neidich who created the successful Drive by Art event in 2020. The project is co-curated and co-coordinated by Christina Strassfield, Museum Director/Chief Curator of Guild Hall, Anuradha Vikram, Los Angeles based independent curator, and Los Angeles based conceptual artist Renee Petropoulos, plus administrative coordination by Julie McKim. 65 artists living in on the East End and 65 west coast artists are participating in this community and family-based Art Happening. In the spring the reverse will occur; with East End artists writing love letters to LA artists to be executed at Will Rogers State Beach, Santa Monica in conjunction with the 18th Street Arts Center.
At Main Beach, artists will create ephemeral performative gestures of immateriality or time-based works on the beach. This could be making a sandcastle, singing a song, reciting poetry, dancing, make a sculpture that interacts with the tide, collecting shells, doing a light projection on Main Beach pavilion, picking up garbage on the beach, etc. The works could be political and deal with global warming and its effects on the water level or could be apolitical and talk about the natural beauty of the real in opposition to the digital and virtual.
The importance of biodegradable, non-toxic materials will be essential as well as leaving the beach pristine after the work. Each artist has been linked up to a west coast artist who will email instructions – a love letter – for a work of art that the local artist will incorporate into their performative piece, acting as a surrogate.
The list of East End and West Coast artist pairings is as follows:
EAST END ARTISTS >> LOS ANGELES ARTISTS
Suzanne Anker > > Margarethe Drexel
Elena Bajo > > Jasmine Orpilla
Lillian Ball > > Dana Berman Duff
Monica Banks > > Jamie Ross
Dianne Blell > > Lisa Anne Auerbach
Scott Bluedorn > > Robby Herbst
Megan Chaskey > > Lionel Popkin
Scott Chaskey > > Kathryn Andrews
Philippe Cheng > > David Horvitz
Andrea Cote > > Nina Waisman
Ivana Dama > > Rodrigo Arruda
Peter Dayton > > Anita Pace
Katrina Del Mar + Chris Jones > > Taisha Paggett + Meital Yaniv
Jeremy Dennis + Beau Bree Rhee > > Debra Disman
Sabra Moon Elliot > > Rochelle Fabb
Carol Edwards > > Pamela Hudson
Eva Faye > > Patty Chang + David Kelley
Saskia Friedrich > > Fran Siegel
Margaret Garrett > > Susan Kleinberg
Veronica Gonzalez Peña > > Cassandra Marketo
Kimberly Goff > > Cheri Gaulke + Xochi Maberry-Gaulke
Jeremy Grosvenor > > Vincent Johnson
Jerelyn Hanrahan + Laura Ross White > > Andrew Berardini
Candace Hill Montgomery > > Anna Joy Springer
Virva Hinnemo > > Sam Shoemaker
Alice Hope > > Krysten Cunningham
Erica-Lynn Huberty > > Sandeep Mukherjee
Terri Hyland > > Joseph Mosconi
Ruby Jackson > > Alice Könit
No Partner > > Carolyn Castano
Nishan Kazazian > > Beatriz Cortez
Carlos Lama >> No Partner
No Partner > > Badly Licked Bear
Christine Lidrbauch > > Sterling Wells
Donald Lipski > > Raul Baltazar
Sutton Lynch > > Yrneh Gabon Brown
No Partner > > Jiayun Chen
Tanya Minhas > > Allison Wyper
Richard Mothes > > Kristin Calabrese
Michelle Murphy > > Sarah Beadle
Jill Musnicki > > Victoria Vesna
Lois Nesbitt > > Lucia Santini Ribisi
Eileen O’Kane Kornreich > > Iman Person
Jaanika Peerna > > Marcus Kuiland Nazario
Dalton Portella > > Ryat Yezbick
Toni Ross > > Sharon Barnes
David Rothenberg > > May Sun
Will Ryan > > Jody Zellen
Sara Salaway > > Melinda Altshuler
Matthew Satz > > Katie Grinnan
Bastienne Schmidt > > Jisoo Chung
Barry Schwabsky > > David Schafer
Christine Sciulli > > Karen Lofgren
Arlene Slavin > > Jenny Yurshansky
Janice Stanton > > Kearra Gopee
Christina Sun > > Catherine Scott
Carol Szymanski with David Adewomi > > Xiouping (Whitworth)
Sara VanDerBeek > > Alicia Serling
Ryan Wallace > > Joshua Aster
Ross Watts > > Justine Harari
Allan Wexler > > Dan Kwong
Nina Yankowitz > > Francesca Gabbiani
Darius Yektai > > Barbara McCarren + Jud Fine
Almond Zigmund > > Marissa Mandler