Local notes

CINEMA SOCIETY

ACS has opened applications for the Filmmaking Lab for Teen Girls (FL4TG) now through March 10 for junior and senior high schoolers.

Taking place this summer in Little Rock, FL4TG gives young women a chance to experience screenwriting, directing, cinematography, editing, production design, lighting, sound recording and to ask questions about careers in the male-dominated world of cinema. ACS is taking one small step to help correct this inequity of women in the film workforce by giving young women the opportunity to take on leadership roles while learning the craft of this visual art.

The Lab is taught by working film professionals from all over the country and it begins with the students developing a short story rooted in women’s empowerment and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) followed by filming and editing a five-minute short.

The Lab is free to participants, thanks to sponsors. The 2023 Lab will take place in July at the newly renovated Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts.

Information at arkansascinemasociety.org/educational/ (501) 503-0856; info@arkansascinemasociety.

LECTURE SERIES

The School of Art in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences will present the spring 2023 Visiting Lecture Series. The series features worldclass artists, scholars and designers that will share their work, practice and expertise.

All of the lectures will be held in-person on the University of Arkansas campus at Hillside Auditorium. The lectures are free to attend and are open to the public.

Carmen Winant, 5:30 p.m. March 9; Dr. J.T. Eisenhauer

This photo by Andrew Kilgore, part of the retrospective of his work currently on show at the Walton Arts Center, comes from a project titled “Community Meals (A Reluctance to Engage),” photographs of the homeless/jobless in which Kilgore exchanged a $20 bill for the right to take a subject’s photograph. The exhibit, “Andrew Kilgore: 100 Photographs,” remains open through March 19. Information: waltonartscenter.org. (Courtesy Image/Andrew Kilgore) also parents of dependent children under the age of 18 are invited to apply. Work may be any literary genre: poetry, fiction, plays, memoir, screenplays or nonfiction. Two fellowship winners will receive a one-week residency to allow the recipient to focus completely on their work, at least one to be awarded to a person of color. A $500 stipend will be provided to cover childcare and/or travel costs.

Information: writerscolony.org/fellowships.

RED CROSS

Spring is close, but February often brings unpredictable winter weather that can cause blood drive cancellations and make it difficult for donors to make it to their appointments safely. Donors of all blood types, particularly type O blood donors, the most needed blood group by hospitals are needed daily to meet demand.

Upcoming blood donation opportunities include:

Bentonville: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Feb. 11, Indian Cultural Association of Northwest Arkansas, 2500 S.W. Regional Airport Blvd.; and 12:30-5:30 p.m. Feb. 13, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1101 McCollum Road.

Rogers: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Feb. 8, Kellogg, 5111 W. JB Hunt Drive, Suite 100; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Feb. 8, Fellowship Bible Church of Northwest Arkansas, 1051 W. Pleasant

Grove Road.

Siloam Springs: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Feb. 14, John Brown University-Siloam Springs, 1237 W. Valley Drive, Walton Lifetime Health Complex, Court 2.

Farmington: 11:30 a.m.4:30 p.m. Feb. 14, Bob Folsom Elementary, 230 S. Grace Lane.

Springdale: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Feb. 9, Knights of Columbus Hall, 267 N. Barrington Road.

Information: redcrossblood.org or (800) 733-2767. Send news about local events, charity fundraisers and family or class reunions to ourtown@ nwadg.com. Deadline is 4 p.m. Tuesday for Sunday publication. Please include a phone number or email address for publication.