ENTERTAINMENT NOTES
Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
Sanders’ legacy
James Moses, professor of history at Arkansas Tech University at Russellville, will discuss the life of Ira E. Sanders, who served as rabbi at Little Rock’s Congregation B’nai Israel for 38 years and was a legendary champion of social justice in Arkansas and around the nation, for the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies’ Legacies & Lunch program, noon-1 p.m. Wednesday at the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock.
The program — in partnership with the Clinton School of Public Service and sponsored in part by the Arkansas Humanities Council — is a preview to a year-long commemoration of the synagogue’s sesquicentennial.
Moses is writing a book about Sanders, titled Like Fire Shut Up in My Bones. Sanders, who died in 1985, was also a founder of Arkansas Lighthouse for the Blind, the Arkansas Eugenics Association and the Urban League of Greater Little Rock and also served for 40 years on the Central Arkansas Library System’s board of trustees.
Admission is free. Attendees should provide their own sack lunch; the Butler Center will provide drinks and dessert. Call (501) 918-3033.
TICKETS
Frozen ice
Tickets — $16-$76 plus service charges — are now on sale for Disney on Ice Presents Frozen, 7 p.m. May 4-6; 11 a.m., 3 and 7 p.m. May 7 and 3 and 7 p.m. May 8 at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena. The tour is sponsored by Stonyfield YoKids Organic Yogurt. Call (501) 975-9000 or visit the website, Ticketmaster.com.
NEWS
Fundraising campaign
The ‘Orchestrating the Future’ comprehensive campaign has already raised $4.9 million in support of key initiatives for the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, including building endowment and expanding programs to serve the community.
The goal is $7 million and will support present and future professional music and educational programs. The campaign officially began in 2014.
The list of donors includes Julie and Chris Keller III, the Philip R. Jonsson Family Foundation, Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable Trust, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Beth and Dr. Richard Wheeler, Jan and Dr. Randal Hundley, Terri and Chuck Erwin and Ellen Gray.
The money goes toward building the orchestra’s endowment; supporting it during the renovation of Robinson Center Music Hall, due to reopen in November 2016; expanding music education programs to include, with gifts from the Sturgis Foundation, establishing a new Sturgis Music Academy for children to learn and play an instrument; and “achieving financial freedom to continue creative innovations,” according to a news release.
Call (501) 666-1761 or visit the website, arkansassymphony.org.
SCULPTURE PLANS
The Louisiana Purchase Sculpture Committee will install, sometime in 2016 in front of the Statehouse Convention Center, Markham and Main Streets, Little Rock, Straight Lines on a Round World, a 20-foot-tall glass, stainless steel and bronze sculpture by Michael Warrick, a faculty member at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Aaron Hussey, a UALR graduate who has worked with Warrick on outdoor sculpture installations.
The sculpture marks the 200th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase survey. The committee chose Warrick’s design from 30 entries in a national competition to commemorate the early survey of the Louisiana Purchase that resulted in the division into parcels for private ownership that began in Arkansas on Oct. 27, 1815.
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