Arts

The 12th Annual Teeny Awards winners were recently announced at the Awards Ceremony held at Longwood High School.

The trendy summer festival will include three world premieres, and four U.S. Premieres, among the seventeen features and twenty shorts. They will also host question and answers with filmmakers, as well as receptions for the opening and closing nights.

"This album was really about a place like kind of a dreamland that you go when you put your headphones on - like that's what I wanted it to be," Vanessa Carlton told Hamptons.com.

"I think they can expect to be moved, and expect to shake their butt a little bit," Liz Hopkins of the band Delta Rae told Hamptons.com about their upcoming performance at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center.

The Southampton Arts Center's summer schedule of children's programming will be filled with free, family-friendly events including concerts, films, puppet shows and much more.

Alan Alda recently announced the winners of Stony Brook University's Flame Challenge, a contest where scientists were asked to explain "What is color?" in a way that interests 11-year-olds.

The Parrish Art Museum is inviting emerging and established local filmmakers to submit short, ten-minute surf films, which will considered for Atlantic Vibrations, Vol. 2, an outdoor screaming of noncommercial surf films.

The LongHouse Reserve opened a new exhibit in its sculpture garden called Nawa Axis for Peace, a rope sculpture by Japanese environmental artist Mariyo Yagi that was collaboratively created and installed by over 100 people.

Southampton Town is holding their 12th Annual Battle of the Bands competition at Ponquogue Beach in Hampton Bays.

Over eighty artists from Manhattan to Montauk submitted their work to the museum for display. This year, 118 pieces were submitted, which is thirteen more than the Museum has ever had.