Concert to get Looney, Merrie with music from old TV shows
The Symphony of Northwest Arkansas will close out its pops season with “Pops: Music and Animation,” a program of classical music made famous via comic book-related shows and cartoons of yesteryear, 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Baum Walker Hall, Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St.
Conductor Paul Haas explains that the orchestra will play “selections made famous as soundtracks from Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies, DC Comics and more.” Fayetteville theater company TheatreSquared will join the orchestra to perform Green Lama, a musical action story involving a 1940s pulp fiction hero.
The concert is also in collaboration with Elliott Forrest from New York public radio station WNYC. A pre-concert Creative Conversation with the orchestra and TheatreSquared creative team will precede the concert at 6:30 in the hall.
Concert sponsor is Slim Chickens. Sponsor for TheatreSquared’s appearance is Bank of America. Tickets are $30-$52, $10 for college students with a valid student ID. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit sonamusic.org.
Rep preview benefit
“Night at the Rep,” the 21st annual benefit for the Wolfe Street Foundation, will include a special preview of the Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s production of Godspell, 7 p.m. Tuesday at the theater, Sixth and Main streets, Little Rock. A pre-show resource fair, 6-7 p.m., will highlight central Arkansas organizations (including Bradford Health, Oasis Renewal Center, Quapaw House and several nonprofits and transitional homes) working for substance abuse education, prevention and recovery. “Hidden in Plain Sight,” a touring national youth prevention exhibit consisting of a mock bedroom that demonstrates 31 ways teens are hiding signs of abuse in their homes, will be on display. Admission to the pre-show event is free; if you’re staying to see the show, tickets are $25. There will be a question-and-answer session at intermission. Call (501) 372-5662 or visit the website, tinyurl.com/NightattheRep.
Rogers auditions
Arkansas Public Theatre will hold auditions at 7 p.m. June 5 for The Wedding Singer (music by Matthew Sklar, lyrics by Chad Beguelin, book by Beguelin and Tim Herlihy) at the Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St., Rogers.
Auditions will be based upon readings from the script, singing music from the show and a dance combination. The audition packet — including the audition times, audition scenes, character descriptions, music and rehearsal schedule — is available for download at arkansaspublictheatre.org. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Callbacks, if necessary, will be 7 p.m. June 20 at the same location. Production dates are July 28-30, Aug. 3-6 and 10-13. Call (479) 631-8988.
Educational artists
July 7 is the deadline for performing, literary and visual artists interested in working in schools or after-school/ summer programs to apply for the Arkansas Arts Council’s Arts in Education Artist Roster. The program places professional artists in Arkansas schools and nonprofit community organizations to work directly with teachers and students to demonstrate their art forms and share their ideas, creativity and talents. Applications are available online at arkansasarts.org; call (501) 324-9769 or email cynthia.haas@arkansas.gov.
‘Cash’ vendors
July 31 is the deadline for food and arts and crafts vendors interested in setting up stations at the inaugural Johnny Cash Heritage Festival, Oct. 19-21, in Dyess.
Food vendors will be selected based on suitability of menus that focus on the heritage of the region as well as popular item selections. Regarding potential arts and crafts vendors, the festival committee is searching for original, handmade works from regional artists and crafters to be offered at the Colony Center and the Cash Field stage. Prints of two-dimensional work also are appropriate. Demonstrations of early 20th-century arts and crafts and rural lifestyles are encouraged.
Preference is given to arts and crafts that have relevance to the heritage of the region and/or to the heritage of the 1930s or 1940s eras. All vendors must adhere to Arkansas State University regulations and requirements, along with Arkansas Health Department regulations for food vendors.
Application forms are available at johnnycashheritagefestival.com; by mail — Paula Miles, A-State Heritage Sites, P.O. Box 2050, State University, Ark. 72467; or via email, pmiles@AState.edu. Call (870) 972-2803.
Movie camp
June 30 is the deadline to register for the T Tauri Movie Camp’s 13th annual video production workshops for aspiring filmmakers 18 and younger, July 17-29 at Fellowship Bible Church, 332 E. Main St., Batesville (week one), and the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville, 2005 White Drive (week two).
The camp, the youth division of Ozark Foothills FilmFest Inc. offers four 2- to 3 ½-day workshops: “Script to Screen Narrative Filmmaking,” “Home Town Documentary,” “Poetry in Motion” and “BrickFilms” (stop-motion animation using Lego characters). It culminates in a July 29 finale screening.
Fees — $60-$110, based on workshop length — include all supplies and equipment and an official T Tauri T-shirt. Workshop descriptions and other details and registration and consent forms are available at the website, ttauri.org; call (870) 251-1189.