ENTERTAINMENT NOTES
Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
TODAY String trio
Geoffrey Robson, violin; Tze-ying Wu, viola; and Felice Farrell, cello; will perform solo, duo and trio chamber works, 7:30 p.m. today at the New Deal Salon and Galleries, 2003 Louisiana St., Little Rock. Farrell will play Suite
No. 6 in D major for unaccompanied cello by J.S. Bach. She and Robson will play Duo for violin and cello, op.7, by Zoltan Kodaly. And the program will also include Franz Schubert’s unfinished String
Trio No. 3 in B-flat major, D.471. There will be refreshments. Admission is free but donations will be accepted. Call (501) 529-1635.
‘The Little Rock Help’
Skip Rutherford, dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, who coordinated the 40th anniversary commemoration of the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in 1997 and who is serving on the city’s 60th anniversary commission this year, will give a talk titled “The Little Rock Help,” noon today in Sturgis Hall at the school, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. Rutherford will cover the previously untold story of a silent protest in Little Rock relating to then-Gov. Orval Faubus, his Little Rock friends and supporters at a white members-only Little Rock club during the midto-late 1950s that parallels the Jackson, Miss., protest that Kathryn Stockett detailed in her New York Times best-seller The Help. Admission is free. Reserve a seat by calling or (501) 683-5239 or by emailing publicprograms@ clintonschool.uasys.edu.
FRIDAY History sandwich
The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program’s “Sandwiching in History” tour will visit the Park Hill Fire Station and Water Company Complex, 3417-3421 Magnolia St., North Little Rock, at noon Friday. The complex consists of a fire station, a water company office, two concrete reservoirs, and two stone pump houses, all built in 1938 with funding support from the Works Progress Administration. Admission is free. Call (501) 324-9880, email info@ arkansaspreservation.org or visit arkansaspreservation. org.
‘Traces Remain’
“Traces Remain,” the September exhibit at Justus Fine Art Gallery, 827A Central Ave., Hot Springs, is a solo exhibition of work, primarily cyanotype prints, by photographer Beverly Buys, focusing on the remnants of communities and a way of life. It opens with a reception, 5-9 p.m. Friday, in conjunction with the monthly Hot Springs Gallery Walk. Buys will give a gallery talk at 10 a.m. Saturday. The exhibit will be on display through Sept. 30. Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Wednesday-Saturday or by appointment. Call (501) 321-2335 or visit justusfineart.com.