Southampton Arts Center Announces April Programming Celebrating Earth Month, Films, Jazz, and More
(Southampton, New York… March 2023) April promises to be an exciting month at Southampton Arts Center [SAC – southamptonartscenter.org]. In addition to the current exhibition, EAST END COLLECTED7, curated by Paton Miller, SAC will offer new programming complementing the exhibition, including films, talks, and studio workshops. April will include the return of curator-led tours, an Earth Month collaboration with Hamptons Doc Fest, Hamptons Jazz Fest, and more. Here’s what’s on deck in April…
Talk: Curator-led Exhibition Tour – Saturday, April 1 @ 11 AM
Join us for a live tour with EAST END COLLECTED7 curator Paton Miller as he highlights specific artists and critical works to give visitors an in-depth understanding of themes and ideas addressed in the exhibition.
southamptonartscenter.org/talks
Studio: @ SAC: Drawing Workshop – Fridays, April 7, 14, 21 & 28 @ 1 PM
Working from a live model, artist Linda Capello’s figure drawing workshop will explore techniques of line, mass, gesture, proportion, and foreshortening, starting with short poses and working towards one long pose. Limited availability – registration is required.
southamptonartscenter.org/studio
Film: Docs Equinox – Invisible Hand – Friday, April 14 @ 5:30 PM
In collaboration with Hamptons Doc Fest, SAC will present Docs Equinox, a three-film series in celebration of Earth Month with a theme of “All in for the Aquifer.” The evening will begin with a cocktail reception and “Water Central Hub” of five environmental groups, including Group for the East End, The Nature Conservancy, Peconic Estuary Partnership, Surfrider Foundation, and Peconic Baykeeper. Keynote speaker Maya van Rossum will discuss the NYS Green Amendment, followed by a screening of Invisible Hand, produced by Mark Ruffalo and directed by Joshua Pribanic and Melissa Troutman. Following the film, Pribanic and Troutman will do a Q&A via Zoom.
About the film: In the fall of 2014, for the first time in United States history, an ecosystem filed to defend itself in a lawsuit claiming its ‘right to exist’ in Grant Township, Pennsylvania. For attempting such a radical act, Grant’s rural community of 700 people were sued by a corporation, then by the state government, and also locked in a battle to defend the watershed they call home through civil disobedience. The water they drink, the Rights to Nature laws they’ve passed are all on the line in this exclusive story.
southamptonartscenter.org/film
Film: Docs Equinox – The Grab – Saturday, April 15 @ 5:30 PM
In collaboration with Hamptons Doc Fest, SAC will present Docs Equinox, a three-film series in celebration of Earth Month with a theme of “All in for the Aquifer.” The evening will begin with a cocktail reception and “Water Central Hub” of five environmental groups, including Group for the East End, The Nature Conservancy, Peconic Estuary Partnership, Surfrider Foundation, and Peconic Baykeeper. A screening of The Grab, produced by Nate Halverson and directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, will follow. Following the film, Halverson and Cowperthwaite will do a Q&A via Zoom.
About the film: Gabriela Cowperthwaite's newest documentary is an investigative thriller that offers a great deal of insight into the truth behind the colonization of our world's most precious nature resource WATER. It follows journalist Nathan Halverson of the Center for Investigative Reporting and his team as they track leaked documents. The title refers to the land GRAB done by governments in China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and other powerful entities around the world as they try to gain control of food and water outside their borders.
southamptonartscenter.org/film
Film: Docs Equinox – Patrick and the Whale – Sunday, April 16 @ 2 PM
In collaboration with Hamptons Doc Fest, SAC will present Docs Equinox, a three-film series in celebration of Earth Month with a theme of “All in for the Aquifer.” The afternoon will begin with a screening of Patrick and the Whale, directed by Mark Fletcher with cinematographer Patrick Dykstra. Following the film, Fletcher and Dykstra will do a Q&A via Zoom.
About the film: For twenty years, Patrick Dykstra has dedicated his life to traveling the globe, following, and diving with whales. Over the years, he has learned how whales see and hear, how they perceive other creatures in the water, and how they behave at close quarters. In Dominica in 2019, Patrick had a close encounter with a female sperm whale. Patrick felt an overwhelming sense that she was genuinely trying to communicate. Employing stunning cinematography, and with a keen ear tuned to the whale's song of clicks and whistles, the film follows Patrick as he takes us under the seas again to search for the special whale he named "Dolores," so she can help him show us the hidden world of her species.
southamptonartscenter.org/film
Live: Hamptons Jazz Fest: Fabian Almazan Quinet – Saturday, April 22 @ 7 PM
Join Southampton Arts Center and Hamptons Jazz Fest as we present Fabian Almazan Quintet for an evening of jazz. Cuban-American pianist/composer Fabian Almazan found his musical roots as a child in Havana where he first became involved in the classical piano tradition. Most recently, Almazan can be heard in such films as Harriet, Chi-Raq, Red Tails and Miracle at St. Anna.
southamptonartscenter.org/live
Film: The Way it Goes – Saturday, April 29 @ 4:30 PM
Prior to the closing reception of EAST END COLLECTED7, SAC will screen the documentary film on the artist Nathan Slate Joseph, The Way it Goes, by filmmaker Lana Jokel. The artist’s work is about expansion and contraction, statements of destruction and reconstruction, comprised of rusted sheets of steel and chosen objects. The works, vibrant in color, are cut, bent and welded into shapes and wall reliefs. The film shows the creative process. Interweaved with the art are scenes through the decades; of family life, art world events and figures, and the artist himself, intense, creative, outspoken, funny, and real.
southamptonartscenter.org/film
Art: EAST END COLLECTED7 Closing Reception – Saturday April 29 @ 5 PM
Celebrate EAST END COLLECTED7 with a special closing reception with curator Paton Miller.
southamptonartscenter.org/live
SAC’s galleries are open Friday through Sunday from 12 to 5 PM. Learn more and register for events at southamptonartscenter.org/events.
General Operating Support is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. EAST END COLLECTED7 is sponsored by Plesser’s Appliance with media support from James Lane Post. FILM @ SAC is sponsored by Brown Harris Stevens with media support from The Southampton Press. Financial Literacy Partner: J.P. Morgan Private Bank. General operating support is provided by Bank of America.
ABOUT SOUTHAMPTON ARTS CENTER
Southampton Arts Center is committed to community building through the arts. We present and produce inspiring, inclusive, socially and regionally relevant programs across all disciplines – welcoming, connecting, and collaborating with the diverse members of New York’s East End community and beyond. SAC is a not for profit 501(c)(3) organization.
For more information about Southampton Arts Center, located at 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, New York 11968, visit southamptonartscenter.org or call 631.283.0967. Follow SAC on Facebook and Instagram @southamptonartscenter. For press inquiries, contact Rachel Bosworth via email at rachel@rachelbosworth.com or by phone at 631.220.1220.
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