Arts & Leisure

This week, Hamptons DocFest adds another “Fest Favorite” documentary to its website. This time, it’s “Free Solo,” the 2018 National Geographic documentary about free solo (that means without a rope) climber Alex Honnold.

The Southampton History Museum is hosting a live monthly Zoom cooking show that will take place in the kitchen of the Port of Missing Men, the last, private Gilded Age estate in Southampton.

Keyes Gallery in Sag Harbor in collaboration with the Bert Stern Estate is releasing a series of new, limited edition prints from “The Last Sitting” with Marilyn Monroe that took place at the legendary Bel-Air Hotel in Beverly Hills in 1962.

Attention all fans of great literature and superb acting – Bloomsday approaches! Join Guild Hall on Tuesday, June 16, from 8 to 10 p.m. to celebrate one of Ireland (and the world’s) finest writers, James Joyce, and his novel “Ulysses” as read and performed by a legend of the American stage, Austin Pendleton.

Artists don’t stop working just because they’re socially distancing. On Friday, June 5, at 5 p.m. Alicia G. Longwell, Ph.D., chief curator at the Parrish Art Museum, will lead a live-stream illustrated conversation with Sag Harbor-based photographer and Parrish collection artist Mary Ellen Bartley, who recently completed a 30-day photography project in quarantine.

On a recent rainy Sunday visit to Sagg Swamp, it wasn’t the newly emerged patch of skunk cabbage or the flowing spring waters beneath the boardwalk that attracted notice, but rather, a microphone and a small green box attached to a tree just off the path. A sign on the box indicated it was the property of the New York State Department of Conservation (NYSDEC) and that it should not be disturbed.

Tom Clavin’s most recent book, “Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday and the Vendetta Ride from Hell,” was published by St. Martin’s Press on April 21. One impact of the coronavirus on all authors has been the inability to go out on tour. Fortunately, Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor has devised a way for Clavin to talk about his book virtually, via Zoom, and he will do exactly that on Saturday, May 30, at 5 p.m.

Due to Governor Cuomo’s pause restrictions for Suffolk County, and out of consideration for the safety of audiences, volunteers, staff and cast and crew, the Hampton Theatre Company (HTC) has canceled its production of A.R. Gurney’s “Sylvia” which had been tentatively scheduled to open in Quogue on May 21.

The Heckscher Museum of Art is now accepting entries for the 2020 Long Island Biennial, a juried exhibition featuring works by visual artists from Suffolk and Nassau counties.

Beginning June 9, Bay Street Theater will offer two online workshops as part of its new online programming platform Bay Street To-Go.

Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman and members of the Southampton Town Board are pleased to announce the purchase of a Historic Preservation and Conservation Easement to protect the architectural and aesthetic features of the Sag Harbor Cinema, including its façade and memorable neon sign.

The Jewish Center of the Hamptons (JCOH) is hosting a six-session virtual group discussion series based on HBO’s acclaimed new mini-series “The Plot Against America.”

The newest online “Fest Favorite” documentary offering from Hamptons DocFest is the 2015 film “Very Semi-Serious” which will be added to the website on Wednesday, May 27.

The North Fork TV Festival announces the second annual Alfred P. Sloan Science + Tech Pilot Script Competition, which aims to encourage screenwriters to create more realistic and compelling stories about science and technology and to challenge existing stereotypes about scientists and engineers in the popular imagination.

After being pushed around for over 200 years, the famous hand puppet heroine Judy has had enough! On Saturday, May 30, at 3 p.m. Goat on a Boat Puppet Theater presents Puppet Showplace Theater's Sarah Nolen performing her show “Judy Saves the Day!”