MOVIE
Projection “strange love”
The Clinton Presidential Center and the Central Arkansas Library System will host a projection of the very black comedy by Stanley Kubrick from 1964. “Dr Foot, or: How I learned to stop worrying and like the bomb”, 7 p.m. Saturday at Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock. This is the latest screening of the Watch Party series “Commanding the Screen” by the Clinton Center, in conjunction with the current exhibition of the Center, “Commanding the Screen: The American Presidency in Film and Television”.
A unbalanced general of the Air Force (Sterling Hayden) triggers a preventive nuclear attack against the Soviet Union; The American president Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers) and his advisers and generals are trained in a desperate effort to save the world. (Sellers also embodies the captain of the Royal Air Force group, Lionel Mandrake, assigned during a military exchange as an assistant of the crazy general, and the main character, a former Nazi scientist expert in nuclear arms.) The film also presents George. C. Scott, Keenan Wynn and Slim Pickens, and was the first appearance in the cinema of James Earl Jones.
Entrance is free; Concessions will be for sale. Register and book a place via Tinyurl.com/2SVXZ4AK or visit clintonpresidentialcenter.org/events. The theater will validate parking tickets from the main library car park and the avenue President Clinton and Rock Street car park, next to the main library.
ART
“Rooted visions”
“Rooted visions”, Works by 25 black self -taught artists from the South “Who redefined artistic expression with their innovative use of found objects and daily materials”, according to a press release, exposed Tuesday at Rogers Historical Museum, 313 S. Second St. to Cherry Street, Rogers. The exhibition, on tour via exhibitsusa until April 12, includes works by Mose Tolliver, Hawkins Bolden, Bessie Harvey, Leroy Almon Sr. and Mary T. Smith. The museum’s opening hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday. Entrance is free. Call (479) 621-1154 or visit Rogershistoricalmuseum.org.
“Prevail Hall: Street Scene, 1992” by Ruth Mae McCrane and “Missionary” by Mary Proctor are part of “Rooted Visions”, on Tuesday April 12 at the Rogers Historical Museum. (Special for Democra-Gazette/with the kind permission of CJ Williams Collection)
MUSIC
American rhythms
The publishing quartet – Jannina Norpoth and Curtis Stewart, violins; Nick Revel, Alto; And Hamilton Berry, cello – offers a continuation to his project nominated at the Grammy Awards “What is American”, entitled “What is American: Rhythm Nation”, Friday at 7:30 pm at the Jim and Joyce Faulkner of the University of Arkansas. Arts Center, 453 Garland Ave., Fayetteville.
The music program of living American composers, which a press release describes as “(celebrating) American rhythm traditions as expression of bodily autonomy and tacit conservation of history”, understands “Voodoo Dolls »By Jessie Montgomery; The improvisations of the quartet in 2019 on “Honeysuckle Rose” by Fats Waller, entitled “Mind – The – Gap: pavement Pounding Rose”; Extracts from “Hip Hop Studies and Studies, Book I” by Daniel Bernard Roumain; “Sixfivetwo” by Henry Threadgill; “Blues for friends” by Jeff Scott; “DIG The Say” for Vijay Iyer string quartet; “Sunjata’s Time” by Fodé Lassana Diabaté, arrangement of Jacob Garchik; And another segment “Mind – The – Gap”, entitled “Wild Women Get Get The Blues”, improvisations on “Black Coffee” by Tina Turner, “They say I’m” by Betty Davis, ” Er »by Alice Coltrane. Ra “and” Wild Women Don’t Have The Blues “by Ida Cox.
Entrance is free. Visit calendars.uark.edu/event/publiquartet.
Publiquartet will perform on January 31 at the University of Arkansas at the Jim and Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center in Fayetteville. (Special at the Democra-Gazette /Lelanie Foster)