Legacies talk features Pryor, Clinton School’s first dean
Skip Rutherford, dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, will interview former U.S. Sen. David Pryor, the school’s founding dean, as the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies and the Clinton School team up for the center’s monthly Legacies & Lunch program, noon-1 p.m. Wednesday in the Central Arkansas Library System’s Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock.
Pryor is the only person in Arkansas history to have served in the state Legislature, the U.S. House of Representatives, as governor of Arkansas and in the U.S. Senate.
Partial sponsorship comes from the Arkansas Humanities Council. Admission is free; take a sack lunch and the Butler Center will provide drinks and dessert. Reserve seats by calling (501) 683-5239 or emailing publicprograms@ clintonschool.uasys.edu. For more information, call (501) 918-3033.
Goldberg Variations
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein will play J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations at 8 p.m. Friday in Baum Walker Hall of Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., part of the center’s 10x10 Arts Series. Tickets are $10. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
Comedy at WAC
Also at Walton Arts Center this week, two comedy shows:
Brian Regan will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, part of the the center’s 2015-16 LOL@WAC Comedy Series. Tickets are $54.50 plus tax. The rest of the series: Paula Poundstone, Feb. 5, $20-$40, and Menopause the Musical: The Survivor Tour, April 10, $37-$47.
Bobby Bones & the Raging Idiots, a comedy duo including Bones, a Hot Springs native who hosts the nationally syndicated weekday country radio program The Bobby Bones Show and Producer Eddie, will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $27 (plus fees) and $52 (plus fees) for a limited number of VIP tickets (which include a meet and greet).
Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org
Small works on tour
The Arkansas Arts Council’s 2016 Small Works on Paper touring exhibition, featuring 40 works, no larger than 18-by-24 inches, by 37 Arkansas artists, opens Tuesday at the Batesville Area Arts Council’s Gallery on Main, 226 E. Main St., Batesville, before touring nine other Arkansas locations.
An opening reception and gallery talk, 5-7 p.m. Friday, is free and open to the public. The exhibit will remain on display through Jan. 29. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free. Call (870) 793-3382.
The rest of the touring schedule:
Feb. 4-26, Hendrix College in Conway
March 4-30, Arkansas Tech University at Russellville
April 1-30, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
May 6-27, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith
June 4- July 9, Searcy Art Gallery
July 19-Aug. 27, Delta Cultural Center, Helena
Sept. 1-29, Arts Center of the Grand Prairie, Stuttgart
Oct. 6-26, University of Arkansas at Monticello
Nov. 2-28, University of Arkansas Community College at Hope.
Juror Kati Toivanen, professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, selected 10 artists — Kathy Attwood of Eureka Springs; Margo Duvall, Amy Edgington and Robert Reep, all of Little Rock; Clarke Galusha of Norphlet; Matt Kaye of Camden; Penny Jo Pausch of Jonesboro; David Rackley and Rachel Trusty of Russellville; and Steven Vickers of Van Buren — for cash purchase awards equivalent to the value of the works, which will become part of the exhibition’s permanent collection.
For more information, visit arkansasarts.org, or email cheri@arkansasheritage.org.
Sherlock’s
Bride Benedict Cumberbatch plays Sherlock Holmes with Martin Freeman as Dr. John Watson in Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, the first theatrical screenings of which will be at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at the Breckenridge Village 12 in Little Rock and the Fiesta Square 16 in Fayetteville. The screening will also feature 20 minutes before the film of additional footage, including a guided set tour of 221B Baker Street with co-writer/executive producer Steven Moffat and a “making of” short film immediately following. Ticket information is available at FathomEvents. com.
Staples tickets
Tickets — $100 — are for sale for a performance by Memphis soul singer Mavis Staples, 8 p.m. Feb. 5, as part of a week-long grand-opening celebration for the theater of Pulaski Technical College’s new Center for the Humanities and Arts, 3000 W. Scenic Drive, North Little Rock. Doors open at 6 p.m. with cash bars available. Visit pulaskitech.edu/mavis.