ENTERTAINMENT NOTES
Elsewhere in entertainment, events and the arts:
TODAY Traveling exhibit
A traveling exhibit, “Electrify: VSA Emerging Young Artists, Kennedy Center Touring Exhibition,” featuring the work of 15 young emerging artists ages 21 to 25 with disabilities, is on display through Dec. 2 in the Small Gallery, Windgate Center of Art and Design, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. A reception will be held from 5-7 p.m. Friday in the Windgate Center.
The exhibit — organized by VSA Visual Arts Program for the Kennedy Center in Washington — includes work by Trinity Kai, a 2017 UALR graduate born with oculocutaneous albinism, a genetic condition that results in poor vision and oversensitivity to light. Her photograph Insight won the $20,000 grand prize in the Kennedy Center’s 2017 VSA Emerging Young Artists Competition. (The program was founded in 1974 as the National Committee — Arts for the Handicapped. In 1985 the name was changed to Very Special Arts. It became VSA in 2010.)
Admission to the exhibit and the reception are free. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.1 p.m. Saturday, 2-5 p.m. Sunday. Call (501) 569-8977 or email becushman@ualr.edu.
UCA Octubafest
of Central Arkansas Tuba and Euphonium Studio will perform for Octubafest, 7:30 p.m. today in the Recital Hall, Snow Fine Arts Center, UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. Student composers Sam Revis and Jacob Straub will perform their original compositions for tuba.
And Gail Robertson, associate professor of tuba and euphonium/jazz, will conduct her new annual piece named for an Arkansas town, The Seed Tick Polka, for Toad Suck Buck’s fifth annual Octubafest, 3-5 p.m. Saturday at 11 Roaring River Loop, Houston (Perry County).
And Tubaween, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 30 in the Snow Fine Arts Recital Hall, will feature the Tuba and Euphonium Ensemble as well as the studio’s upperclassmen and graduate students, performing arrangements of Richard Wagner’s “Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral” from Lohengrin; the Colonel Bogey March by Kenneth J. Alford; and On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss by David Holsinger.
Admission to all three events is free. Call (501) 4505760 or email grobertson@ uca.edu.
Orbison ‘project’
Rock ’n’ roll legend Roy Orbison — at least a holographic version — returns to the stage in In Dreams: Roy Orbison in Concert — The Hologram Tour, 7:30 p.m. today at the Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main St., Memphis. “Orbison,” brought to life via digital and laser technology and theatrical stagecraft, performs classic tracks as well as newly recorded and never-before-heard arrangements of his originals, accompanied by a live orchestra. Tickets are $45-$65. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit livenation.com.
WEDNESDAY Chancellor’s Concert
The Paul Brock Band — Irish musicians Paul Brock on accordion, Denis Carey on piano; Eimear Arkins on fiddle, vocals and dance; and Shane Farrell on banjo, fiddle, bodhran, guitar, mandolin and vocals — performs at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, part of the university’s Chancellor’s Concert Series. A reception, with beverages provided by Flyway Brewery and sponsored by Friends of the Arts, precedes the concert at 6:30. Tickets are $10, free for UALR faculty, staff and students. Call (501) 569-8993 or (501) 569-3294 or email music@ualr.edu.
ETC. Arts marketing
Jaquita Ball of Red Cat Art in Bentonville will teach visual artists how to develop a marketing plan in a workshop, “Marketing for Visual Artists: Tips, Tricks and Tactics,” 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Nov. 17 in the Diamond Conference Room, Department of Arkansas Heritage, 1100 North St., Little Rock. The workshop is part of the Arkansas Arts Council’s GetSmART! learning series.
Participants will engage in an analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for marketing artwork; learn social media planning, including how to develop online posts and content for websites, emails, blogs and newsletter copy; and review strategies for pricing. Performing and literary artists may also participate.
Cost, $15, includes lunch and snacks. Space is limited; registration cuts off after 30 people sign up. Call (501) 3249348 or email robin.mcclea@ arkansas.gov.