ENTERTAINMENT NOTES
Band anniversary
Elsewhere in entertainment, events and the arts:
TODAY Dance Collision!
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Ballet Arkansas collaborate to create Collision! BodyWorks 2019, a joint concert, 7:30 p.m. today-Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the University Theatre, Center for Performing Arts, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 5900 University Drive, Little Rock. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, senior citizens, military and UALR faculty and staff. Call (501) 569-3456 or visit tinyurl.com/ y6c47hhz. The Little Rock Winds and conductor Israel Getzov mark the band’s 25th anniversary with a program of musical connections and milestones, 7:30 p.m. today at Second Presbyterian Church, 600 Pleasant Valley Drive, Little Rock. Pieces from the ensemble’s first concert, Feb. 8, 1994, include Camille Saint-Saens’ Marche Militaire Francaise and John
Philip Sousa’s Foshay Tower Washington Memorial March. Saxophonist Jackie Lamar will perform a movement from Radiant Blues, an alto saxophone concerto by former Arkansan Charles Booker Jr. and dedicated to Lamar. Also on the program: Percy Grainger’s Lincolnshire Posy and West Mountain Fantasy by Arkansas composer William Randall Jr., dedicated to the Little Rock Winds and former conductor Wendell Evanson, which the band premiered in February 1999. Tickets are $15, $12 for adults 65 and older, free for students. Call (501) 666-0777 or visit lrwinds.org.
‘Our Front Porch’
“Our Front Porch,” a “multi-sensory” exhibit from Traveling Arts Fiesta, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing cultures together and celebrating Hispanic art, will be on display starting at 10 a.m. today at the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, 701 S. Main St., Pine Bluff. The center hosts a connected event, noon-3 p.m. Saturday with the Jefferson County Library, featuring stop-motion and shadow puppetry, mixed-media sculptures and jewelry, mask-making, music, readings, “family fun activities” and a chicken cook-off. Admission is free. The exhibit will remain on display, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, through July 27; admission is free. Call (870) 536-3375 or visit asc701. org..
Also at the Pine Bluff center: The 2019 “Arkansas Women to Watch: Heavy Metal” touring exhibition debuts with a reception, 5-7 p.m. today. The exhibition, on display through June 22, includes works by Arkansas artists Holly Laws, Michele Cottler-Fox, Amanda
Special to the Democrat-Gazette/ JAMISON MOSLEY
Collision!
BodyWorks 2019, a joint concert by the The University of Arkansas at Little Rock theater arts and dance department and Ballet Arkansas, is onstage today-Sunday in the University Theatre at UALR. Heinbockel and Robyn Horn. Organized by the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts — an affiliate of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington — it derives from a biennial international competition of the same name; the 2018 national exhibit focused on the use of metal as an artistic medium. The tour includes eight community and educational institutions through November; it heads to the ArtVentures Gallery in Fayetteville from Aug. 3-31.
‘City Within a City’
Houston-based writer Micah Fields, recipient of the Oxford American’s 2018-19
Jeff Baskin Fellowship, discusses “A City Within a City: The Life of Sharpston” for Potluck & Poison Ivy, Fields
the Southern storytelling and dinner series, 7 p.m. today at The Joint, 301 Main St., in North Little Rock’s Argenta Arts District. Doors open at 6. Tickets are $35; visit potluckandpoisonivy.org.
FRIDAY Steinway showroom
Steinway & Sons’ new Arkansas dealership and gallery, 657 Arkansas 365, Mayflower, opens with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, refreshments and a special performance by pianist Bob Boyd, 2 p.m. Friday. The gallery, in addition to offering a full line of Steinway and Steinway-designed Boston and Essex pianos, plus full-service piano tuning, repairs, moving and rentals, is acoustically designed for chamber music and recitals. Call (501) 258-8637 or visit steinwaylr.com.
All for the Hogs
NBA Hall of Famer Sidney Moncrief hosts a screening of All for the Hogs, a documentary detailing how Moncrief and his mixed-race Arkansas Razorbacks team’s success brought fans of different ethnicities together while also paving the way for the re-establishment of men’s basketball as a force in the state, 6:15 p.m. Friday at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Sam M. Walton College of Business, 119 Main St., Little Rock. A 5:30 p.m. meet-andgreet precedes the half-hour screening; Moncrief will take part in a question-and-answer session afterward. It’s a benefit for Moncrief ’s We Are One Diversity and Inclusion Initiative for Arkansas students. Tickets are $100. Visit tinyurl.com/ y2nnthqp.
‘Family’ band
Mac Powell of the Contemporary Christian band Third Day and his band, The Family Reunion, perform at 8 p.m. Friday at Horner Hall, Hot Springs Convention Center, 134 Convention Blvd,
Hot Springs. Tickets are
Powell $16.68-$69.50.
Visit ticketfly.com/purchase/ event/1835274.
SATURDAY Car & Truck Show
Cars and trucks of all makes, models and colors will line up for the Wheelin’ and Healin’ Car & Truck Show, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday at Goodsell Truck Accessories, 401 Municipal Drive, Jacksonville. Admission is free for spectators; there’s a $10 fee to have a car in the show and it costs $25 to enter the contests. Call (501) 982-2245.
Short-story reading
Author Erin McGraw will read from, discuss and sign copies of her new collection, Joy and 52 Other Very Short Stories, 1-2:30 p.m. Saturday at Christ Episcopal Church, 509 Scott St., Little Rock, part of the Arkansas Literary Festival. McGraw will also take part in a conversation about “faith, fiction, and the writing life” at 9:15 a.m. Sunday at the church. Call (501) 375-2342 or email rsutterfield@christchurchlr.org.
SUNDAY Pilgrimage for Peace
A coalition of ecumenical faith and community organizations will hold the sixth annual Pilgrimage for Peace, 2 p.m. Sunday, starting in the circle outside Heifer International, 1 World Ave., Little Rock, passing the Clinton Presidential Library and the River Market and crossing the Junction Bridge to the Beacon of Peace and Hope, 120 Riverfront Drive, North Little Rock. An ecumenical remembrance service at 3 p.m. “[mourns] the violence committed in our community, nation and world” includes prayers, reflections from literature and scriptures, songs and the reading of names of homicide victims in Pulaski County over the past year. There’s no charge to participate; bottled water will be provided. Call (501) 2327283 or (423) 416-3128, email devin.w.hancock@gmail.com or visit pilgrim age for peace. com or the Facebook page, facebook.com/PilgrimageforPeaceLR.
Mount Holly picnic
The Mount Holly Cemetery Association holds its 15th annual fundraiser, “Restore in Perpetuity: A Picnic on the Grounds of Mount Holly,” 5-7 p.m. Sunday on the cemetery grounds, 1200 Broadway, Little Rock. It commemorates the first such picnic in 1843. Cemetery tours will feature costumed re-enactors portraying prominent cemetery “residents”; there will be music and a silent auction. Admission is $75, $25 for those 8 and younger; proceeds maintain the historic landmark. In case of rain, the picnic will take place in Morrison Hall at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 310 W. 17th St., Little Rock. Call (501) 680-1986 or visit mountholly cemetery. org.
Cabbagehead concert
Fort Smith-based rootsrock band Mr. Cabbagehead and the Screaming Radishes perform at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Ed Coulter Performing Arts Center, Vada Sheid Community Development Center, Arkansas State University-Mountain Home, 1600 S. College St., Mountain Home. It’s part of the university’s Arvest Concert Series. Admission is free. Call (870) 508-6280 or (800) 965-9324 or visit thesheid.com.
TICKETS Hall & Oates @ Verizon
Tickets — $35-$229.50 plus service charges — go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for a 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26 concert by Daryl Hall and John Oates at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena. There is a limit of eight tickets per household. Call (501) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com or livenation.com.