WEEKEND TEN
1 CHAIRS
The Arkansas Arts Center, East Ninth and Commerce streets, Little Rock, takes the deceptively simple chair to new heights in “The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design,” Friday-Dec. 31. The exhibit features 43 chairs illustrating the evolution in style, taste and materials. Members can preview the show at 5:30 p.m. today with a lecture at 6. Admission is $15 for nonmembers. Regular exhibit admission is free; gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Call (501) 3724000 or visit arkarts.com.
2 CRAFTS
Rugs, Razorback banks, birdhouses and other crafts by artists will be for sale and auctioned at the Fall
Food & Crafts Fair, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday on Main Street between Seventh and Eighth streets, Little Rock. Presented by the state Department of Human Services’ Division of Developmental Disabilities, the pieces for sale were made and will be sold by Human Development Center clients. Food trucks will be on site. Admission is free. Call (501) 683-0571 or (501) 320-6028. See story on Page 8E.
3 CONCERTO
Violinist Jennifer Frautschi will solo in the Violin Concerto by Jean Sibelius with the Arkansas
Symphony Orchestra and conductor Philip Mann, 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. (at Broadway), Little Rock. Tickets are $15-$65, $10 for active-duty military and students, free to the Sunday matinee for K-12 students with a paying adult. Call (501) 666-1761, Extension 100, or visit ArkansasSymphony.org. See story on Page 4E.
4 CARNIVAL
Welcome fall at the Festival in the Park at Two
Rivers, noon-7 p.m. Saturday at 6900 Two Rivers Park Road, Little Rock. The family-friendly festival includes food, music by the Ted Ludwig Trio and the Gloryland Pastor’s Choir, and activities (bounce houses, a pumpkin patch and hay rides). Admission is free. Call (501) 340-6800 or visit festivalintheparkattworivers.com.
5 COWTOWN
Western swing-gypsy jazz trio Hot Club of Cowtown performs at 7 p.m. Friday at Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock, part of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies’ Arkansas Sounds series. Doors open at 6. Tickets are $20. Call (501) 320-5728 or visit arkansassounds.org. See story on page 5E.
6 CONNECT
Wordsmiths will gather to read, listen and connect at 100 Thousand Poets for Change, 6 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday in the River Market pavilions, 400 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. The “interactive poetry event” is part of an international movement. Admission and participation are free. Call (501) 749-6332 or visit facebook.com/100ThousandPoetsForChangePage.
7 CURTAIN
On area stages this weekend:
Four Southern women stuck in a rut decide during an unplanned happy hour to reclaim their passion for life in The Savannah Sipping Society, through Oct. 21 at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock. Curtain times: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 12:40 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday, with matinees only Wednesdays through Oct. 11. Doors and buffet open 90 minutes before curtain. Tickets are $35-$37, $23 for children 15 and younger; show only, $25 and $15. Call (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdp.com.
Little Brother, about a group of truant San Francisco teens whose alternate reality game embroils them in a terrorist attack and puts them on the wrong side of the federal government, wraps up this weekend, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Weekend Theater, West Seventh and Chester streets, Little Rock. Tickets are $16, $12 for students and senior citizens; visit weekendtheater.org/little-brother.
The Ouachita Baptist University theater arts department is staging The Secret Garden, the
Spring Version, a shortened adaptation of the musical, 7 p.m. today-Saturday and Oct. 1-2, 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Verser Theatre, Jones Performing Arts Center, OBU, Arkadelphia. Tickets are $10. Call (870) 245-5555 or visit obu.edu/boxoffice.
8 CONCERTS
Plenty of fanfare — musical and otherwise — accompanies the opening this weekend of the
Murphy Arts District, a music/entertainment/ restaurant complex in downtown El Dorado. Festivities marking the opening of the project’s $54 million Phase I continue today-Sunday, incorporating the 30th Musicfest El Dorado. Ticket information is available at ElDoMAD.com or MusicFestElDorado.com. The lineup:
Today, Griffin Music Hall, 217 S. Jefferson Ave.: 8 p.m., Natasha Bedingfield; 9 p.m., Train (sold out)
Friday, Murphy Amphitheater: 6 p.m., Robert Randolph & the Family Band; 7:30 p.m., X Ambassadors, 9 p.m., ZZ Top. Griffin Music Hall: 11:30 p.m., Ludacris
Saturday, Amphitheater: 4:30 p.m., Ashley McBryde; 6 p.m., Chase Bryant; 7:30 p.m., Hunter Hayes; 9 p.m., Brad Paisley; Music Hall: 11:30 p.m., Migos
Sunday, Amphitheater: 4 p.m., Smokey Robinson with the South Arkansas Symphony (free).
9 CUT TIME
The Glenn Miller Orchestra performs at 6 p.m. Saturday in Horner Hall at the Hot Springs Convention Center, 134 Convention Blvd., Hot Springs. Admission is $25, $35 for a reserved VIP table. Call (501) 321-2027 or visit prekindle.com/ event/39169-gmo-hot-springs.
10 CAMDEN
Camden hosts an arts and crafts extravaganza with the 49th annual BPW Barn Sale, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday, Oakland and Monticello streets. Visitors will also find an antique and classic car show, kids zone, music, food and a 5K run. General admission is free. Call (870) 574-4560 or visit bpwbarnsale.com.