ENTERTAINMENT NOTES
Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
FRIDAY ‘Make It Merry’
Make holiday T-shirts, assemble laser-cut and image transfer ornaments and create personalized gift tags and Christmas cards at “Make It Merry,” 5-7:30 p.m. Friday, during Argenta’s during 3rd Friday Art Walk, Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, 201 E. Broadway, North Little Rock. There will also be a Christmas photo booth. Admission is $15, $10 for children over 6. Call (501) 907-6570 or email info@arhub.org.
SATURDAY Author-ized event
Author Nancy Allen will read her new children’s book, A Down-Home Twelve Days of
Christmas, 1-3 p.m. Saturday at the Central Arkansas Library System’s River Market Books & Gifts, 120 River Market Ave., Little Rock. Admission is free. Call (501) 918-3000 or visit cals. org.
Ship takes shape
USS Little Rock Namesake Committee will hold a watch party, 9 a.m. Saturday at the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock, to watch the live-stream broadcast of the U.S. Navy commissioning, in Buffalo, N.Y., of the new USS Little Rock. The ninth of 15 new Freedom-class littoral combat ships will be commissioned, alongside its namesake, decommissioned in 1976, now a museum ship at Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park. Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola and North Little Rock Mayor Joe Smith will be among the approximately 30 Arkansans representing the state. Doors open at 9 a.m.; the ceremony begins at 9:45. Admission is free. Call (501) 590-0720 or visit USSLittleRockLCS9.com.
SUNDAY Christmas band concert
The Natural State Brass Band will perform seasonal selections, 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 4106 John F. Kennedy Blvd., North Little Rock. The program includes Leroy Anderson’s Bugler’s Holiday; Rhapsody for Hanukkah, arranged by Stephen Bulla; Candlelight Carol by John Rutter; Nutcracker Sweet, arranged by
Mark Freeh; Russian Christmas Music by Alfred Reed (arranged for brass band by band member David Laubach) and an audience singalong. Gretchen Renshaw James conducts. Admission is free. Call (501) 920-2539 or visit nsbb.org.
TICKETS Mraz at Robinson
Tickets — $35-$89.50 plus service fees — go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for “An Evening With Jason Mraz, Solo Acoustic,” 8 p.m. March 31 at Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway, Little Rock. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster. com or jasonmraz.com/tour.
Mraz will also be performing at 8 p.m. March 30 at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. Tickets — $75-$149 — are for sale. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.