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Elsewhere in entertainment, events and the arts this weekend:
pleasure: Christmas circus
“A Magical Circus Christmas” Circus, comedy, music and magic combined in two shows in Arkansas: Tonight at 7:30pm at Robinson Center Performance Hall in Little Rock, 426 W. Markham St. – Tickets 45-67.50 USD; call (501) 244-8800 or visit ticketmaster.com; Friday at 7 p.m. at First Financial Music Hall, 101 E. Locust Street, El Dorado. — Tickets are $39-$84; call (870) 444-3007 or visit eldomad.com.
“Madness on Ice”
El Dorado’s Murphy Arts District is turning the stage of its outdoor amphitheater into an ice rink and bringing back “Madness on Ice” Saturday to January. 2. Tickets are $14, unlimited skating per day. Skate rentals are $3, children’s sizes 8 through men’s sizes 15. Season passes, which offer unlimited skate time and skate rentals, are $85, or $145 for two. The pay-as-you-go punch card offers a free 10th skate after nine paid skates. Skate helpers/”helpers” Bobby the Seal and Tommy the Reindeer are $5 per 90 minutes. Helmets will be provided free of charge on a first-come, first-served basis.
Each skater and spectator must complete a waiver, which is available in advance online, along with skating hours of operation, at eldomad.com/madonice.
Argenta Plaza in downtown North Little Rock is home to the fifth Northern Lights Holiday Celebration on Saturday. (Democrat Gazette/North Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau special issue)
lamp: silver display
A holiday market of food trucks and local vendors will be located in the heart of the North Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau, the fifth of the North Little Rock and Argenta Downtown Council Northern Lights Festival Celebration, Saturday 4-8:30 pm at Argenta Plaza, 510 Main Street, North Little Rock. Chris Kennedy, owner of Black Santa ARK LLC, plays Santa; “Santa’s Workshop” has free children’s holiday activities from 4-7:30 pm; families can take photos with Santa and the 38-foot-tall Christmas tree. Fireworks show starts at 7:30 followed by live music. Visit tinyurl.com/24rm8bjf.
sherwood trail
Local musicians and Santa will perform live at 5:30 p.m. lighting ceremony and Sherwood’s 2022 Trail of Light in the Magic Forest Doors open at 6pm on Fridays. Entrance is at the Sherwood Sports Complex parking lot, just past the Henson Tennis Center Drive, 420 Dee Jay Hudson Drive at Arkansas 107. The drive-in trail will be open from 6pm to 9:30pm until December 30th. Admission is free; cash donations will help provide new displays and upgrades each year.Call (501) 835-6893 or visit www.cityofsherwood.net.
night lights
Gavin Woodland Gardens, 550 Arkridge Road, Hot Springs, will have a nightly holiday light show Saturday through December 4th to 9pm. 31 (closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas). Tickets must be purchased in advance—$20, $5 for kids 4-12, free for kids 3 and under and members. No dogs, buggies or alcohol allowed.access www.garvangardens.org or tinyurl.com/y2suc86t.
light up, eldorado
El Dorado’s Annual Holiday Lighting Ceremony Today at 5:30 p.m. East of the Union County Courthouse, 101 N. Washington Ave., with dance and music, and Santa, who will be the honorary switch thrower and will provide photos. The Salvation Army will be handing out free cookies and hot chocolate.Call (870) 862-4747 or visit MainStreetElDorado.org.
theater: Tour “Anastasia”
a tour company brings the musical “Anastasia” (Music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, book by Terrence McNally, inspired by the animated film) Sat 7:30 p.m. Head to Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, 201 Donaghey Ave. Tickets are $30-40, $10 for students.Call (501) 450-3265 or (866) 810-0012 or visit uca.edu/reynolds.
music: UALR Ensemble
University of Arkansas Little Rock Orchestra, with the UALR Jazz Orchestra and Concert Choir, will perform today at 6:30 pm in Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, UALR Fine Arts Building, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. The Wind Ensemble will perform “English Folk Song Suite” by Ralph Vaughn Williams. The Jazz Ensemble will play Charles Mingus’ “Nostalgia for Times Square”; student Christian Waldren will perform solo with the band on “Sway.” The concert choir joins the wind ensemble to perform conductor Michael Underwood’s adaptation of Gustav Holst’s “Planet” of “Jupiter.” Free admission.Call (501) 916-3291 or Email [email protected]
“Sunshine on the Snake River” by Jenni Duncan is part of the Arkansas Pastel Society jury member exhibit at the Argenta Library in North Little Rock. (Democrat Gazette special issue)
Art: pastel exhibition
Pastels by more than two dozen regional artists serve as Arkansas Pastel Society Jury Member Exhibit, Third Friday Art Walk Reception Friday from 5-8 p.m. in the galleries of the Argenta Library, 420 Main Street, North Little Rock. The exhibition runs until December 9th. The gallery is open Monday to Friday from 9am to 6pm. Admission to the gallery and reception is free.Call (501) 687-1061 or visit NLRLibrary.org website.
“Therapy” Works
Agency gallery, 413A Main St., North Little Rock, featuring artists from Birch Tree community members with serious mental illness across the state at the Argenta Third Friday Art Walk reception, 5-8 p.m. The exhibition will run until December 10th. All proceeds from the sale of the artwork will go directly to the artist. Birch Tree Communities use drawing, sketching, creative writing and music during recovery to help members build confidence and self-esteem, and to provide an outlet for expressing and communicating emotions “in a safe and powerful way.” Press Releases.Call (501) 529-7390 or (501) 315-3344 or email [email protected] or [email protected]
dance: Jonesborough’s The Nutcracker
Jonesboro Art Foundation Presents Works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky “nutcracker,” Fridays at 7:30pm, Saturdays, Mondays and Tuesdays at 6pm and Sundays at 2pm at the Forum Theater, 115 East Monroe Street, Jonesboro. Sponsor is NEA Baptist Church. Tickets are $16-20 and $15-19 for seniors, children, military and Arkansas State University students, faculty and staff. Sunday’s matinee is “Do Your Best.”Call (870) 935-2726 or visit foajonesboro.org.
ETC. : used book sales
The Arkansas Central Library System holds its final 2022 Friends of CALS Used Book Sale, Friday 10am-6pm and Saturday 10am-4pm in the basement of the system’s main library, 100 Rock St., Little Rock. Friends of CALS members can shop early. There’s also 50% off “lightly read” books today from 5pm to 7pm and today from 10am to 5pm at the Gallery and Bookstore in Library Square. Buy Friends membership online at cals.org/about-friends, during book sales or in person at any CALS branch.
Most books cost $1 in paperback and $2 in hardcover. School bags will be available for sale. Proceeds from book sales support library programs including the Six Bridges Book Festival, Book Club Toolkit, Arkansas Sound Concert, Branch Programs, Summer Reading Club and Youth Programs.Call (501) 918-3000 or visit cals.org.
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