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music: 75 Folklore
Eureka Springs City Auditorium at 36 Main Street in Eureka Springs 75th Original Ozark Folk Festival Thursday through Saturday, including free folk circus performances during the day and ticketed headlines every night.
Thursday’s Folk Circus Lineup: Skye Pollard and Family Holler at 11:00am; Spring Blooms at 12:30pm; Willi Carlisle at 2pm; 5:30pm Carlisle and Chucky Waggs and Hedgehoppers perform for the 7:30pm Barefoot Ball ; Tickets are $15.
Friday’s folk circus lineup: Jesse Dean at 11am, Front Porch at 12:30pm and Shannon Wurst at 2pm 7:30pm Shinyribs opens for Rachel Ammons. Tickets are $30.
Saturday’s Folk Faire lineup includes Dandelion Heart at 11am, Brian Martin at 12:30pm and Ozark Mountain Rhombus at 2pm Pokey LaFarge will open at Hot Club Town in Cowtown at 7:30pm. Tickets are $39.
Call (479) 253-7333 or visit eurekasprings.org/ozarkfolkfestival.
television: Kenya’s “wife”
Little Rock actor and producer HG Wells screened his Kenyan TV series, “Wives” Wednesdays at 6:30 pm at the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 Market Drive, Little Rock River. Titled “Africa Comes to Little Rock,” the event will also include a special presentation on Kenya by Sandy S. McMath, a Little Rock attorney and author of “Africa Alone.” The host is Essence Simone, a University of Arkansas Little Rock alumnus. Doors open at 5:30.Tickets $20; visit eventbrite.com/e/the-wives-tickets-411505482977.
Kenyan-American actor Benjamin Onyango, who appeared on the show, described the idea he proposed to Wells as “a traditional African who married five wives and brought back a sixth and final wife. The Drama and Dilemma of Men”. Episodes of the show will be broadcast on Kenya’s largest television network, Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, for one year, starting in May 2019. The second season is in preparation.
Movie: “Dollhouse” director
filmmaker todd solonzResidency at the University of Central Arkansas today with a screening of his 1995 feature film “Welcome to the Dollhouse” at the University’s Reynolds Performance Hall at 201 Donaga Avenue, Conway at 6:30 pm. UCA faculty Keith Corson and Emily Railsback will host a post-screening Q&A with Solondz. Admission is free and open to the public.
Solonz currently teaches film writing and directing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Call (501) 450-3293 or email [email protected]
Art: ‘Catalyst’ grant
The Central American Art Alliance will adopt its new Promote the initiative. The money will come from the Little Rock Wind Gate Foundation. The Arkansas Arts Council is a member of the alliance. Twenty-five grants each in 2023 and 2024 will combine funding, mentoring and management, allowing artists to choose how best to use funding to support their creative practice, including equipment, travel, studio space and childcare.
The grant requires Catalyst Fellows to attend a professional development meeting in June, where they will work with small peer groups and artist facilitators to develop a strategic plan for how best to use grant funds, and provide a pair over the next year A tutoring course.
Apply between January 9 and February 24.Grants are available to artists of all creative disciplines residing in Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Lonoke, Perry, Pope, Prairie, Pulaski, Saline, Van in Bren, White and Yere counties; Criteria and application form are in maaa.org/professional-development/catalyze.
seek an instructor
The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts is expanding Volunteer Explaining Program Get ready for the grand opening on April 22nd. Docents will welcome the community to tour the museum’s art and architecture through tours and discussions with K-12 school groups and adult visitors. The collaborative training program lasts 10 weeks; the instructor requires a one-year commitment. Participants will receive a family-level membership, exclusive access to current artists and exhibitions directly from museum staff, access to museum programming and discounts in the museum store.apply at arkmfa.formstack.com/forms/docent_app.
Poet, essayist and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib will read and discuss his Thursdays at Hendrix College in Conway. (Democratic Gazette/Kate Sweeney Special)
ETC. : “Genius” on campus
Poet, Essayist and Cultural Critic Hanif Abdullaqib Read and discuss his work at Reves Recital Hall at Hendricks College, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway, on Thursdays at 7:30 pm. A reception and book signing will follow at the nearby Trieschmann Gallery (WordsWorth Books in Little Rock will sell a selection of books). The event is sponsored by the College’s Hendrix-Murphy Literary and Language Foundation program. Admission is free.e-mail [email protected] Abdurraqib’s latest book, America’s Little Devils: A Celebration of Black Performance, won the Andrew Carnagie Award for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Gordon Byrne Award. Abdurraqib was named a MacArthur Genius Fellow in 2021.
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