THE MET: LIVE HD—ANDREA CHÉNIER

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A scene from Act III of Giordano's "Andrea Chénier." Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera

Tag: Performing Arts

Book Talk: Scott Chaskey in Conversation with Evan Harris

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

 

Landscape Therapy: Edwina von Gal + PRFCT Earth Project

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

 

SILENT DISCO DANCE PARTY

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

Swept Away: Love Letter to a Surrogate(s)

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.

Bring your own chairs!

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)

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.

Bring your own chairs!

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)

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!

9/24 Presenter Schedule:                         

Scott Bluedorn (in collaboration with Robby Herbst)                         
Circle  A – 8:15-8:45pm

Sabra Moon Elliot (in collaboration with Rochelle Fabb)                    
Circle  B – 9:15-9:45pm

Erica-Lynn Huberty (in collaboration with Sandeep Mukherjee)        
Circle  E  – 7- 7:30pm

Ruby Jackson (in collaboration with Alice Könitz)                                  
Circle  D – 8:30-9pm

Nishan Kazazian (in collaboration with Beatriz Cortez)                          
Circle  A – 7-7:30pm

Tanya Minhas (in collaboration with  Allison Wyper)                              
Circle  D –7:30-8pm

Will Ryan­ (in collaboration with Jody Zellen)                                          
Circle  E – 9:15-9:45pm

Matthew Satz (in collaboration with Katie Grinnan)                              
Circle  D – 9:30-10pm

Christine Sciulli (in collaboration with Karen Lofgren)                           
Circle  D –  7-7:30pm

Arlene Slavin (in collaboration with Jenny Yurshansky)                        
Circle  C – 7-7:30pm

Sara VanDerBeek (in collaboration with Alicia Serling)                       
Circle  D – 8:15-8:45pm

Allan Wexler (in collaboration with Dan Kwong)                                  
Circle  E – 8-8:30pm

Nina Yankowitz (in collaboration with Francesca Gabbiani)              
Circle  C – 7-7:30pm

Almond Zigmund (in collaboration with Marissa Mandler)
Circle B – 8-8:30pm

Bring your own chairs!

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)

SWEPT AWAY: Love Letter to a Surrogate(s)
by Warren Neidich

Join us at Main Beach for the finale in this series of unmissable happenings!

Aerial photo of Swept Away on Saturday, September 17. Photo: Sutton Lynch

10/30 Presenters:
Monica Banks in collaboration with Jamie Ross 
Dianne Blell in collaboration with Lisa Anne Auerbach 
Andrea Cote in collaboration with Nina Waisman
Ivana Dama in collaboration with Rodrigo Arruda
Jeremy Dennis + Beau Bree Rhee in collaboration with Debra Disman
Eva Faye in collaboration with Patty Chang and David Kelley    
Saskia Friedrich in collaboration with Fran Siegel 
Kimberly Goff in collaboration with Cheri Gaulke and Xochi Maberry-Gaulke 
Veronica Gonzalez Peña in collaboration with Cassandra Marketos 
Jeremy Grosvenor in collaboration with Vincent Johnson 
Jerelyn Hanrahan with Laura Ross White in collaboration with Andrew Berardini
Virva Hinnemo in collaboration with Sam Shoemaker  
Josephine Meckseper in collaboration with Jiayun Chen 
Michelle Murphy in collaboration with Sarah Beadle
Jill Musnicki in collaboration with Victoria Vesna 
Lois Nesbitt in collaboration with Lucia Santini Ribisi
Jaanika Peerna in collaboration with Marcus Kuiland Nazario
David Rothenberg in collaboration with May Sun
Barry Schwabsky in collaboration with David Schafer
Janice Stanton in collaboration with Kearra Gopee 
Carol Szymanski with David Adewomi in collaboration with Xiouping (Whitworth)

This event does not have chairs provided, please bring your own chairs.

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/

Swept Away is the brainchild of 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

Guild Hall & The Clubhouse Present Choir! Choir! Choir! in TRUE COLORS: An Epic Pride Sing-Along!

Choir! Choir! Choir! returns to the Hamptons! They couldn’t be more excited to be back in the Hamptons, this time in an OFFSITE collaboration between Guild Hall and The Clubhouse in a program titled, True Colors: An Epic Pride Sing-Along! The program will include hits from LGBTQ+ artists and icons like George Michael, Cher, Madonna, Queen, Dolly Parton, Elton John, Cyndi Lauper, Abba, and more. Get ready to fill the Clubhouse with over 200 voices singing along with Canada’s famed singing group.

The bar at The Clubhouse will be open for drinks only.

Choir! Choir! Choir! is a Toronto-based singing group led by creative directors Nobu Adilman and Daveed Goldman. The duo takes a non-traditional approach; there are no auditions, and the audience is the choir. Show up and they’ll teach you an original arrangement to a song you love. Founded in 2011, Choir! Choir! Choir! has amassed a dedicated and passionate community of singers and a thriving international fan base on YouTube amassing 10s of millions of views on some of their videos.

The group has performed with renowned artists such as Patti Smith, David Byrne, Rick Astley, Tegan and Sara, and Rufus Wainwright, and onstage at New York’s Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall with the likes of Debbie Harry and The Flaming Lips. They’ve created content for NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar with Hamilton’s Brandon Victor Dixon. And they they’ve performed at the MET in New York for New York Pride and hosted their own float in Toronto Pride. They remembered Canadian music hero, Gord Downie, by performing Grace Too with the surviving members of the Tragically Hip to 10,000 fans in Toronto.

Choir! Choir! Choir! exists to celebrate music and push the boundaries between practice and performance, artist and audience, offering therapeutic benefits with the ultimate side effect: a powerful community

“Choir! Choir! Choir! has fashioned a profound way for people to connect and interact” – The New Yorker

“Choir! Choir! Choir! has grown into a national phenomenon by tapping into a need that people share – and have few opportunities to actually do – joining together, opening their hearts and raising their voices in song.”  – CBC

COVID-19 Protocol: For indoor programs, all guests over the age of 12 must provide proof of full vaccination.

KidFEST OUTDOORS @CMEE: Charlotte Blake Alston – Stories & Songs in the Oral Tradition

Recommended for ages 4+

4:30PM: Pre-show workshop
5-6:15PM: Performance

This program will take place outdoors.
RAIN DATE: Thursday, July 7

Whether or not she accompanies a story with a thumb piano, djembe, or 21-string kora, Charlotte Blake Alston’s most powerful instrument is her melodic and mesmerizing voice. It is with that primary instrument that she breathes life into ancient and contemporary tales. In this electronic age, Charlotte does what stories have achieved for thousands of years and engage the imagination, underscore human commonalities, and reiterate life lessons gained from centuries of human experience.

In her one-women production, Stories & Songs in the Oral Tradition, Charlotte weaves together stories from the West African countries of Senegal, Gambia, Guinea and Mali for our youngest audiences. Exploring the lessons learned from and relationships between humans, animals, and our natural environments, Stories & Songs in the Oral Tradition is filled with moments of audience participation. Come ready to clap, sing, and help tell the stories! 

A ticket to Guild Hall’s KidFEST @CMEE provides entry into a free pre-show workshop beginning at 4:30pm. Designed and led by educators at both Guild Hall & CMEE, this workshop will have audience members create hand puppets of the characters and symbols explored in Charlotte Blake Alston’s, Stories & Songs in the Oral Tradition. A pre-show workshop designed and led by educators from both Guild Hall & CMEE will have participants creating hand puppets of the characters and symbols explored in Charlotte Blake Alston’s Stories & Songs in the Oral Tradition. Audience members will also receive a take-home kit with activities, reading recommendations, and an event-themed cookie from Citarella to continue and strengthen the lessons shared in Charlotte’s stories.

Click HERE for CMEE COVID-19 protocol.

ABOUT KidFEST

Guild Hall’s KidFEST returns for the 2022 Summer Season. Designed specifically for our youngest audiences and their families, KidFEST connects our Hamptons communities to new cultures, new artists, and new stories through playful, participatory, and tailor-made performances.

The Summer 2022 KidFEST series is in collaboration with our sister organization, the Children’s Museum of the East End (CMEE). All performances will be held outdoors in the CMEE Amphitheater, 376 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton.

Guild Hall & Calvary Baptist Church Present Resistance Revival Chorus

SOLD OUT: IN-PERSON WAITING LIST WILL BE TAKEN STARTING AT 6PM

Guild Hall & Calvary Baptist Church Present Resistance Revival Chorus
Friday, June 3, 7-8:30PM
$55 ($49.50 for Members)
Calvary Baptist Church, 60 Spinner Lane, East Hampton

The Resistance Revival Chorus is a collective of more than 60 womxn who join together to breathe joy and song into the resistance, and to uplift and center women’s voices. The great artist and activist Harry Belafonte once said, “when the movement is strong, the music is strong” and the RRC attempts to live up to that call. Chorus members are touring musicians, film and television actors, Broadway performers, solo recording artists, gospel singers, political activists, educators, filmmakers, artists, and more, representing a multitude of identities, professions, creative backgrounds, and activist causes. The RRC centers women in music and addresses how historically marginalized women have been in the music industry.

As part of their 2022 Tour, the Resistance Revival Chorus will present a concert featuring original anthems from their 2020 album, This Joy. The album features original compositions along with protest classics and was recorded in New York City with GRAMMY-nominated producer Tiffany Gouché. The album is 100% created by women, non-binary artists and features special guests Rhiannon Giddens, Valerie June, and Deva Mahal. Righteous Babe’s Ani DiFranco says of the Chorus “The RRC is like an antidote to silence and submission. In this age of division and hopelessness, let us listen to their collective voice and get lifted. Let us remember who we really are.”

A unique feature to the Resistance Revival Chorus’ program in East Hampton is a week-long residency with East Hampton High School (EHHS). During the week leading up to the concert, singer, songwriter, activist, and Resistance Revival Chorus Member, Meah Pace, will work with students from the EHHS Choir. Pace will lead the choir in the composition of their own original anthem and teach them repertoire from the Resistance Revival Chorus to be performed as part of the June 3 concert.