LITTLE ROCK — In entertainment and the arts this week: Spa City poetry
Tampa Bay, Fla.-area performance poets Ben Beelman and Angelique Pereze, members of the Sacred Sounds Slam Team that placed second at the 2011 Southern Fried Slam, will be the featured performers in the Hot Springs Wednesday Night Poetry Readings, 7-9 p.m. Wednesday at Maxine’s, 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs.
Chuck Dodson is the series’ new host. The readings involve a 20-minute presentation by a featured poet, followed by open mic sessions and karaoke. Admission is free. Call (501) 321-0909 or e-mail budonfoot@yahoo.com.
Season opener
Northwest Arkansas regional theater Theatre Squared will open its 2012-13 season with Noises Off by Michael Frayn, with a preview performance at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and continuing at 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday through Sept. 23 in the Studio Theatre at Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios, 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville.
Tickets are $22-$34 ($10 for a limited number of seats for patrons under 30). Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, theatre2.org.
There will be a a free audience forum with the director and cast at 4 p.m. Sunday after the matinee. Call (479) 445-6333.
Ceramic garden
Nichole Howard, a graduate student at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville,will display her work, including slip-cast terra cotta objects and found material installations, in “64 Oz. Garden,” a one-night reception and exhibition, 6-8 p.m. Friday at Leflar Studio, 2650 S. School St., Fayetteville. Admission is free. Call (479) 273-5305 or visit the Facebook page, tinyurl.com/annekittrell.
Feeding billions
Robert L. Thompson, visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington and a senior fellow on global agriculture development and food security with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, will give a lecture titled “The Challenge of Feeding 9.6 Billion by Mid-Century,” 6-7 p.m. today in Sturgis Hall, University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.
Admission is free but reservations are encouraged. Call (501) 683-5239 or e-mail publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu .
Hemingway talk
Ruth Hawkins, executive director of Arkansas Heritage Sites at Arkansas State University, will discuss her new book, Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow, on the marriage between Ernest Hemingway and his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, at 3:30 p.m. today at ASU’s Cooper Alumni Center, 2600 Alumni Blvd., Jonesboro.
A book signing will follow. Proceeds from book sales support educational programs at the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center in Piggott. Sponsors are the Arkansas State Heritage Studies Ph.D. Program and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Admission is free. Call (870) 972-2803.
Literary judges
North Little Rock’s William F. Laman Public Library System has named the judges for its 2013 Laman Library Writers Fellowship:
Leslie Newell Peacock, managing editor, Arkansas Times
Paula Martin Morell, executive producer of Tales From the South
Mara Leveritt, author, journalist and the current Laman fellow
Toran Isom, instructor in the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s department of rhetoric and writing
Eric Francis, freelance journalist
The $10,000 grant program assists Arkansas authors in the writing and publishing process as part of its mission to help encourage the creation of Arkansas literature. The library is taking applications through its website, LamanLibrary.org, through Nov. 16.
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