Arts-Music

Tickets are now on sale for the fifth annual El Dorado Film Festival. The multi-day event, from Aug. 2-5, has entertainment offerings – ranging from screenings to workshops and Q&A with filmmakers.

Arkansas Arts Center’s 57th Annual Young Arkansas Artists Exhibition has grown to be one of the center’s most popular exhibitions. The YAA features more than 600 works created by Arkansas K-12 students.

If you missed the inagurual Art in its Natural State event, fret not. The outdoor exhibit, which features nine site-specific art installations, is free and open to the public through March of next year. This collaboration with artists across the South displayed artworks among the natural beauty at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute and Petit Jean Park in central Arkansas.

Getty Images, Oath and the National Disability Leadership Alliance have partnered to launch a new album called The Disability Collection.

“Shelter” is a site-specific play created to explore community issues in Fayetteville. Developed and written from interviews with people who live in the 7hills Homeless Center and other low-income housing developments, this immersive experience takes theater – and participants – on the bus.

Tickets are on sale for the inaugural East Village Street Food Jam, a new food truck and live music event in downtown Little Rock. Held on the lawns of the Clinton Presidential Center, the event will feature a picnic seating area, a beer garden and a Kid’s Zone.

In a place, not so far away, The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra will present the music of “Star Wars” this fall.

Downtown El Dorado’s Murphy Arts District (MAD) invites you to the grand opening of MAD Playscape on Saturday, May 19 at 9 a.m.

The Argenta Reading Series connects writers with audiences. Hear April’s writers Lee Conell and Lisa Dordal on April 28, 6:30 p.m. at Argenta United Methodist Church.

The 2018 “Delta des Refusés” kicks off at the Butler Center and the Cox Creative Center June 8 for 2nd Friday Art Night. It will continue through August and runs from 5-8 p.m.

From nurse to gallery owner, Garbo Hearne is on a mission rooted in education. Hearne Fine Art, located in Little Rock, is devoted to promoting the power of African-American art and artists, with the goal of sustaining generational wealth. In this latest episode of The Arkansas 100 Podcast, host Natalie Ghidotti talks to the community leader about the importance of accessible art and why she and her husband moved their businesses to the historic Dunbar neighborhood eight years ago.

The kickoff event for the “Art in its Natural State” exhibition is almost here. Beginning April 28 – and continuing through the year – you can view ten temporary, outdoor art installations at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute and Petit Jean State Park.

Time’s running out to see “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” at Crystal Bridges. The exhibit closes Monday, April 23, so get your tickets today.

“Art in its Natural State,” a temporary outdoor art exhibition, will take place on Saturday, April 28, at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute and Petit Jean State Park.

Arkansas Arts Center’s new beacon program brings interactive technology inside the galleries, to build deeper connections to the work of modernist John Marin. Equipped with only their smartphones, visitors to “Becoming John Marin: Modernist at Work” can access interactive content that encourages engagement with Marin’s artistic process.

At Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, we use donations to transform generations through music. We aspire to create lifelong memories of amazing concerts for children, parents and grandparents to experience together. We aspire to make school fun and interesting for kids, to improve the high school graduation rate. We aspire to create the next generation of doctors, musicians and leaders for our community.

Three original Louisiana Purchase Treaty documents from the National Archives and Records Administration are on display at the Clinton Presidential Center. “The Great Expedition: Exploring the Louisiana Purchase and its Impact on Arkansas” will tell the remarkable story of the most important land deal in American history – one that ultimately created the state of Arkansas.

Developed by the Tate Modern in London, “Soul of a Nation” examines the influences, including the civil rights movements, on artists such as Romare Bearden, Faith Ringgold, Alma Thomas and William T. Williams.

Ready to get in the holiday spirit? For Christmas lovers of all ages, Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s “Home for the Holidays” concert is a must.

“I feel like I have moved to the closest version of home that exists in this country,” said Louise Kenga Lorata Mandumbwa. “Southern hospitality is similar to African hospitality.”

In partnership with Arkansas Cinema Society, Jeff Nichols, writer and director of “Loving” and ACS chairman, will lead a “Writing for Film” seminar on Nov. 12 at Ron Robinson Theater.

The corner of Capitol and Main is getting festive. The Downtown Little Rock Partnership is bringing a 55-foot Christmas tree to the Creative Corridor. Shipped from Oregon, the tree will be up before Thanksgiving Day and celebrated with a lighting ceremony.

The Arkansas Youth Symphony Orchestra’s annual fall concert, Symphonie Fantastique, will be held on Nov. 12 at the Albert Pike Masonic Center. In addition to performances by the orchestra, the Little Rock Parkview High School Madrigals and Lab Singers will join for a grand finale featuring highlights from Joseph Haydn’s “Mass for Troubled Times.”

The latest exhibit at the Clinton Presidential Library tells the story of South African President Nelson Mandela. “Mandela: The Journey to Ubuntu” features Mandela’s life through the lens of photographer Matthew Willman, along with artifacts from the Library’s collection, President Clinton’s personal collection, and on loan from the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

The Johnny Cash Heritage Festival kicks off Oct. 19 at the historic Dyess colony, the boyhood home of the Man in Black.

Philanthropist and arts patron Alice Walton recently announced the formation of a new nonprofit focused on sharing outstanding works of American art.

In celebration of Rodney Block’s sixth album, “Trumphouse,” a lively launch party took place at South on Main this past weekend. The Arkansas 100 sponsored the event, which featured performances by a number of local artists.

Arkansas Arts Center is continuing its popular Art of Fashion lecture series showcasing iconic brand Chanel and fashion historian, Raissa Bretaña.

The Women’s Foundation of Arkansas annual Power of the Purse luncheon is quickly approaching. On October 3, women making strides in their fields will be honored as guests learn more about the WFA’s mission and will hear from keynote speaker, Krista Bourne.

HBO’s “True Detective” is returning for a third season. After a prosperous first season and disappointing second, fans are hoping the third season returns to its former glory. For some, it’s sure to hit home in more ways than one. The season has multiple ties to Arkansas:

• Season three will star Mahershala Ali, recent Oscar winner for his role in “Moonlight,” as a police detective from Northwest Arkansas.

• Local Graham Gordy, co-creator and writer of Cinemax’s “Quarry,” will work on the season.

• “True Detective” creator, writer and director, Nic Pizzolatto, attended University of Arkansas at Fayetteville for graduate school.