A wet Friday gives way to a showery Saturday and a brighter Sunday. Expect afternoon showers on Saturday with a high near 62 and a low near 46, then partly cloudy skies on Sunday with a high near 59, a low near 45 and a brisk west wind. Sunset is 4:37 PM on Saturday and 4:36 PM on Sunday, so the weekend's best plans are indoors and early. Here is where we would spend it.
Festival of Preservation at Sag Harbor Cinema. Friday, November 6 to Monday, November 9. The sixth annual Martin Scorsese Presents festival opens Friday at 90 Main Street, Sag Harbor, with restorations, rarities and rediscoveries spanning more than 100 years of film. Highlights include Powell and Pressburger's Gone to Earth, Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death, Brian De Palma's Obsession, Elvira Notari's 1922 silent 'A Santanotte, George Pal's Puppetoons shorts, and Citizen Ruth, introduced by Alexander Payne over Zoom. The Preservation Panel brings together archivists from Sony Pictures, Disney, the Library of Congress and NBCUniversal. All Access Passes are sold out, standard tickets are $18.55, and the full schedule and tickets are on the cinema's site.
Half Moon screening at East Hampton Library. Friday, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM. A free screening of the documentary following Silkroad clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, at 159 Main Street, with a Q&A after with documentarian Nigel Noble. Registration is required, and it is the perfect lead-in to Saturday night's Silkroad concert at Guild Hall.
Will Ryman talk at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill. Saturday, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Artist Will Ryman launches his Rizzoli monograph in conversation with Courtney J. Martin of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and critic Eleanor Heartney, moderated by chief curator Corinne Erni, alongside his exhibition Shanghai 6 in the Parrish Meadow. Tickets are $30 for adults and free for members, students and children.
Guild Hall Member Preview Day, East Hampton. Saturday, galleries 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM, reception 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM. Two exhibitions open at 158 Main Street: the 86th Artist Members Exhibition, with more than 300 works in the oldest non-juried museum exhibition on Long Island, running since 1938, and Michael A. Butler: Somewhere in Time, the solo show Butler earned as Top Honors recipient of the 85th exhibition. Saturday is members' preview day, with member RSVPs for the reception, and both shows open to everyone from Sunday through January 10, 2027.
Pitch Your Peers Annual Pitch Day at LTV Studios, Wainscott. Saturday, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Eight East End nonprofits make their case at 75 Industrial Road, including the Sag Harbor Community Food Pantry, Share the Harvest Farm, i-tri and the Southampton Fresh Air Home, and a member vote decides a $75,000 People's Choice grant. The afternoon is open to the public and all are welcome, though only members vote. RSVP to info@pypthehamptons.org.
Aperitivo Sunset Cocktails at The Baker House 1650, East Hampton. Saturday, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Mixologist cocktails, wine and beer in the gardens at 181 Main Street. Sunset comes at 4:37 PM now, so think of it as a dusk garden evening at the historic inn rather than a golden-hour session.
Deep Down in Brooklyn at Southampton Cultural Center. Saturday and Sunday, 6:00 PM. Ed German's one-man show returns to 25 Pond Lane, Southampton, built on his memoir of growing up in Brooklyn, the music of the era and his service as a Marine in Vietnam. Adults only. Tickets are $28.22.
Concert Reflections in Music at The Church, Sag Harbor. Saturday, 6:00 PM. Artistic director Bruce Wolosoff leads Time Remembered at 48 Madison Street, with works by Bach, Ravel, Debussy, Poulenc and Dutilleux alongside Stravinsky, Ligeti and a world premiere by Wolosoff himself. Tickets are $30.
Silkroad Up Close at Guild Hall, East Hampton. Saturday, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM. Kaoru Watanabe, Kinan Azmeh and Maeve Gilchrist bring Japanese, Syrian and Celtic traditions together on one stage at 158 Main Street, three genre-bending players reshaping their instruments. Tickets start at $61, with a limited number of $25 rush tickets possibly available in person 20 minutes before the start.
All Time High at Stephen Talkhouse, Amagansett. Saturday, 8:00 PM. Dawnette Darden fronts a night of rock and soul at 161 Main Street, channeling Aretha, Stevie and Etta James and tackling Led Zeppelin. Tickets are $22.53 on the venue's site.
Jessica Kirson at Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center. Saturday, 8:00 PM. The comedian's comeback run stops at 76 Main Street, Westhampton Beach. Tickets start at $55.
The Cultured Collector at Guild Hall, East Hampton. Sunday, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM. CULTURED founder and editor-in-chief Sarah Harrelson and gallerist and collector Gordon Veneklasen talk through 30 distinctive private collections, moderated by Museum Director Melanie Crader, with a book sale and signing after. It pairs naturally with the two exhibitions that opened the day before.
Last day of Fall Long Island Restaurant Week. Sunday, November 8. The 20th anniversary run closes Sunday: three-course dinners at $30, $40 and $48, with some $25 two-course lunches. Our South Fork picks are Nick & Toni's in East Hampton at $48 and R.AIRE at The Hampton Maid in Hampton Bays at $48. Sunday is the clean day to use the menus, since the prix fixe often ends early on Saturday night.
Last day of Until the Moon Comes Over the Mountain at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill. Sunday. The land-art and material-driven landscape exhibition with The FLAG Art Foundation closes at 279 Montauk Highway. Andy Goldsworthy, Richard Long, Martin Puryear, Dan Colen, Meg Webster and others, on view since August 1, gone after Sunday.
Last day of Land, Sea, & Light at Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor. Sunday. Viktor Butko, Terry Elkins and Melissa Franklin Sanchez close their run at 26 Main Street, a show about land, water and changing light that has been up since October 17.
Whistlejacket staged reading at LTV Studios, Wainscott. Sunday, 4:00 PM. The Playwrights' Theatre of East Hampton presents a work-in-progress reading of Charles Z. Bornstein's play about Kick Kennedy, JFK's favorite sister, in London from 1943 to 1948, at 75 Industrial Road. Free to attend, with registration suggested.
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