ENTERTAINMENT NOTES

LITTLE ROCK — Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts this weekend:

The Martha Graham Dance Company will perform at 7 p.m. today in Baum Walker Hall at Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville, and with the Conway Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. The program includes Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring and a new piece titled Lamentation Variations, reflections by current choreographers on Graham’s classic “Lamentation” solo. Tickets for the Fayetteville show are $25-$45; call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter. org. In Conway, tickets are $30-$40 with discounts for students and senior citizens. Call (501) 450-3265 or (866) 810-0012, or visit the website, uca.edu/reynolds.

Ballet Arkansas will premiere its touring concert program, “Beyond Category,” at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Grand Prairie Center, Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas, 2807 U.S. 165 S., Stuttgart. Ten dancers — seven women and three men — will perform works set to music by the Beatles, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Enrique Granados, Edith Piaf, Duke Ellington, Booker T. and the M.G.’s, Norman Greenbaum and Z.Z. Top. Tickets are $27, $18 and $12. Call (870) 673-4201, Extension 1895, or visit pccua.edu. Dancers will also conduct two ballet master classes at the studios of Center Stage Dance.

Tickets — $31, $43, $53 and $63 plus handling fees — for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s performances at 4 and 8 p.m. Dec. 9 at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at the arena box office and all Ticketmaster outlets. The ticket price includes a $1 charitable donation. The arena is using its paperless ticket process for this concert. There is an eight-ticket limit. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com or stonecityattractions.com.

Folk/country musician Kevin Kerby kicks off the fall “Music in the Garden” series at 5:30 p.m. today at the Dunbar Community Garden, 1800 S. Chester St., Little Rock. Admission is $5, $3 for children 6 and older. Call (501) 529-8520. Bring a picnic supper and a blanket; beverages will be available for a donation, and food items will be available for sale from the Root Cafe and from the garden, including cucumbers, okra and zucchini as well as nonfood items (bags of compost, fresh eggs, honey and chicks); proceeds benefit the garden. The lineup for the rest of the series: Oct. 13, pop group Whale Fire; Oct. 20, pianist John Willis; Oct. 27, acoustic duo Megan Perochka and Devon Krenshaw.

The Natural State Brass Band will premiere Ozark Point by Raymond David Burkhart, a piece the band commissioned, in a concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at Immanuel Baptist Church, 501 N. Shackleford Road, Little Rock. The program will also include arrangements for band of the “March” from The Pines of Rome by Ottorino Respighi; Irish Tune From County Derry by Percy Grainger; Emblem of Freedom by K.L. King; the aria “Nessun Dorma” from Giacomo Puccini’s opera Turandot, with cornet soloist David Laubach; and Festival Arrangement — Light Walk by Barrie Gott. Russell Morris conducts. Call (501) 217-8785 or visit nsbb.org.

Crime novelist John Edgar Wideman will give a talk at 7:30 p.m. today in Staples Auditorium at Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. A book signing and reception will follow in the college’s Mills Center. The “Evening With John Edgar Wideman” is part of the college’s Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language series, co-sponsored by the Robert and Lillian Drake Endowed Lectureship. Admission is free. Call (501) 450-4597, email vanaman@hendrix.edu or visit hendrix.edu/Hendrix-Murphy.

Guy Hovis, for 38 years part of the Guy and Ralna duo on The Lawrence Welk Show, will give a concert at 7 p.m. today in the Vada Sheid Community Development Center, Arkansas State University-Mountain Home, 1600 S. College St., Mountain Home. The show is part of the university’s Arvest Concert Series. Admission is free. Call (870) 508-6105 or visit asumh.edu.

The University of Central Arkansas’ Baum Gallery will celebrate its 15th birthday with an Artist Reception and 15th Anniversary Celebration, 4:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, in Mc-Castlain Hall, UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. The event will feature wine and cheese, music, prizes (including one for the most creative party hat) and four gallery exhibits — “More Than a Mold,” a show of slip-cast ceramics; “Connections: The 15th Year,” featuring works by 27 Arkansas artists; “Cloud Control: The Devastation of an Anchor,” multimedia installation by Carrie Dyer; and the annual Alumni Exhibition, featuring work by Keith Melton, class of 1996 — on display through Oct. 27. Admission is free. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday. Call (501) 450-5793 or e-mail barclaym@uca.edu.

Mary Wilson of the Supremes and blues singer Paula West will be onstage for James Gavin’s “Stormy Weather: The Lena Horne Project,” 2 p.m. Sunday in Riceland Hall of Arkansas State University’s Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro. The show is, according to a news release, a “living, breathing biography” combining story, song and visual images drawn from Gavin’s collection and interviews, including several with Horne. The event is part of the university’s Fowler Center Series. Tickets are $30 and $20, $23 and $15 for students and senior citizens, with discounts for ASU faculty, staff and students. Call (870) 972-2781 or (888) 278-3267 or visit www2.astate.edu/tickets or yourfowlercenter.com.