Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas announces upcoming events

The Arts & Science Center’s Curator Chaney Jewell will host a video Q&A with concept and portrait photographer Catherine Elizabeth Patton. Visitors can watch the Q&A at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 25, on ASC’s Facebook page, facebook.com/asc701.

Patton’s portraiture can be viewed in ASC’s International Paper Gallery in her exhibition “Feeling Through: Examining Emotion in The Midst of Unrest.” This exhibition is a self-reflection of the Memphis artist’s desires to examine her emotions during COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement. “Feeling Through” is sponsored by Simmons Bank and is on view through Saturday, April 10. The virtual exhibition is viewable at asc701.org/virtual-exhibitions.

A Performance of “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: A Virtual Fractured Fairy Tale” will be stream at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 1 through Sunday, April 4. The production will feature a full cast of Southeast Arkansas youth ages 21 and younger. Tickets are on sale.

Tickets are $7 for ASC members and $10 for nonmembers. Purchased at asc701.org/. This production is directed by Kayla Lake and written by Brian D. Taylor.

Inspired by classic fairy tales, “Mirror, Mirror” begins with the Evil Queen who wishes to be fairest of them all. When her Magic Mirror informs her that runaway Snow White is the most fair, the queen is livid. She summons great magic in hopes of finding Snow White and can now see out of all mirrors throughout the kingdom. There’s a catch ... the magic also allows everyone else’s mirrors to show their deepest desires.

The Arts & Science Center is also calling community members ages 16 and older to audition for its next theatrical production, “9 to 5 The Musical.” Audition dates are Sunday, April 18 through Tuesday, April 20. To sign up, visit asc701.org/auditions.

Performances will be 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Aug. 6-7, 13-14, and Aug. 20-21; and 2 p.m. Sundays, Aug. 8, 15, and 22. Cast must be available for all performances.

Pushed to the boiling point, three coworkers Violet, Judy and Doralee concoct a plan to get even with their sexist and egotistical boss. In a hilarious turn of events, they live out their wildest fantasy — giving their boss the boot. While their boss remains “otherwise engaged,” the women give their workplace a dream makeover, taking control of the company that had always kept them down. Hey, a girl can scheme, can’t she?

This production was written by Patricia Resnick, who cowrote the 1980 hit movie of the same name. Music and lyrics are by Dolly Parton and sponsored by Simmons Bank.

The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, 701 S. Main St. in Pine Bluff, is open Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Gallery admission is free.

Support for ASC is provided in part by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pine Bluff Advertising & Promotion Commission, & the City of Pine Bluff. ASC is a member of the Discovery Network, a statewide program of the Museum of Discovery.

For more information and to sign up for upcoming event announcements, visit asc701.org.