THEATER
“ Gypsy ” in argenta
Argenta Contemporary Theater, 405 Main St., North Little Rock, scenes “Gypsy: a musical fable” (Jule Styne music, Stephen Sondheim’s words, Arthur Laurent’s book), with preview performances at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Thursday and “official” shows at 7 p.m. Friday-in Saturday and April 15 to April 19; and 2 p.m. on April 13.
This is the story, which takes place during the decreasing years (the 1920s and the 1930s) of Vaudeville and the birth of Burlesque, of an ambitious mother (Kathryn Pryor) fighting for the success on stage of her daughters while secretly sucking to herself. (Spoiler Alert: one of the girls, “baby” June, grew up to be the actress of June Havoc; the other, Louise, becomes pink gypsy.)
Justin Pike directs the casting of the distribution of 27 with the vocal direction of Satia Spencer and Music Direction (and director a live group on stage) of Christian Waldron. Tickets are $ 10 to $ 88. Visit Argentacaconemporemorarytheatre.org.
On the podium
Visiting poet
Poet, essayist, translator and defender of immigration Marcelo Hernandez CastilloA Hendrix-Murphy Murphy visiting poet, bed and discuss work by exploring migration, membership and identity, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Reci Hall, Trieschmann Fine Arts Building, Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. A reception and a book signature in the neighboring Trieschmann gallery will follow. Entrance is free.
Castillo is the author of “Children of the Land: A Memoir”; “Cenzontle”, winner of the poetry prize A. Poulin Jr.; And “Dulce”, winner of the poetry prize for drinking gourd. More recently, he co-edited anthology “here to stay: poetry and prose of the undocumented diaspora”. In 2015, he co -founded the Undocupoets to protest against practices based on immigration status of numerous competitions of poetry books. He teaches creative writing at St. Mary University in San Antonio.
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Delta symposium
Arkansas State University has its annual Delta symposium, focusing on the History and culture of the deltaFrom Wednesday to Friday to A-State, with the theme “It is time”.
The symposium starts at 12:30 pm Wednesday in the Mockingbird room of the Carl R. Reng Student Union, 101 N. Caraway Road, Jonesboro, with a session on “Middle East Connections”, including the talks of the members of the Faculty of State A Dua Faouri on “A trip from Jordan to Jonesboro” and Saba Jamshed on “The role of the media promotion.”
At 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the same place, the members of the faculty of A-State Darren Bell and Lillie Mr. Fears will offer research presentations on “Rendering the relevant news: The Arkansas Digital News Project and The Arkansas Delta” and “Newspapers and the evolution of the digital landscape: will they survive this time?”
And at 3 pm in the Mockingbird room, the member of the faculty Adam Long will discuss “a few months in the Delta: the heritage sites of the State University of Arkansas as a window on the fast changes of the New Deal” and Abe Hudson of the Walton Family Foundation will cover “Bridging Barriers: the role of philanthropy in economic empowerment.”
The physicist, novelist and social entrepreneur Alan Lightman reads his book “The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the wonders of nature” at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Bradbury Art Museum at the Fowler Center in A-State, 201 Blvd Olympique, Jonesboro. He will also give the opening speech of the symposium, entitled “Einstein and his theory of time”, at 12:30 p.m. Friday in the Auditorium of the Student Union.
Lightman, originally from Memphis, has conducted fundamental research on the astrophysics of black holes, astrophysical radiation processes and stellar dynamics. He was part of the Harvard faculty and is currently part of the Faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Facet Dance Collective of Arkansas will stage the first world representation of “Movement in Time” at 7 p.m. Friday at the Simpson Theater at the Fowler Center.
Between: presentations by researchers, writers, poets, photographers and academics examining regional history and culture. The complete calendar is available on astate.edu/delta-tymposium. Entrance to all sessions is free. For more information, call the State Department of the State, the languages of the world, which coordinates the symposium, at (870) 972-3043. This year’s event is co-organized by Black River Technical College.
Transformer advantage
Jane CHUThe former director of the National Endowment for the Arts, will be the main lecturer of this year Arkansas Learning through the dinner of artistic advantages, with the theme “Art Transform Lives”, on April 15 in the Oaklawn Foundation Community Center of Arkansas School for Math, Science and the Arts’ Creativity and Innovation Complex, 220 Whittington AV. Hot Springs. The 6 -year dinner follows a reception at 5:15 p.m. Tickets cost $ 75; Visit Altta.org.
CHU, who grew up in Arkadelphia, directed the 2014-18 NEA. Altta, a non-profit organization with a mission to improve the learning and success of students through the arts, strives to place teaching artists in classrooms in the center of Arkansas K-12.
South authors
The former students of Little Rock, the former students of the center of Arkansas, the Gamma Gamma, Lambda Upsilon and Mu Kappa chapters of Delta Theta Sorority Inc. Delta authors on the Tour eventRepresenting the Southwest Region, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at Philander Smith University, 900 W. Daisy L. Gatson Bates Drive, Little Rock.
The session has a particular accent on children’s literature. Should participate: Jocelyn R. Barnett, author of “Walking in your purposes”; Marcia Butler Holt, author of “Mommy Sing Me a Bernlaby”; Victoria Christopher Murray, author of “Harlem Rhapsody”; Ronnie Cyrus-Jackson, author of “Unmasking the Hurt”; T’Keyah Crystal Cayman, author of “Cycle of Love”; Latonya Richardson, author of “Going on has Bear Hunt”; Teresa Ridgeway, author of “Think Like A Computer”; Antoinette Simmons, author of “The Cheese Chase”; And Brenda A. White, author of “Why not follow the Jones”. Entrance is free. Visit lralumnaedst.org.
Rogers garden towers
Rogers Historical Museum is organizing a monthly visit to the garden of Victorian garden of VeraPresented by the master gardeners of the county of Benton, on the southern lawn of the Hawkins house of the museum, Streets Second and Cherry, Rogers, from 10 a.m. on Saturday and continuing on the second Saturday from each month to October, rain or good weather. The one hour public tour of each month will highlight different seasonal flower plants. The museum created the garden in 1989 in memory of Vera Key, co-founder of the museum and first president of the museum commission. Entrance is free. Call (479) 621-1154, email (Protected by e-mail) Or visit Rogershistoricalmuseum.org or bentoncountymastergardeners.com.
