LITTLE ROCK — Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts this weekend: Papering the room
Twin artists Veda and Meda Rives will be setting up an exhibit titled “Confluence, Divergence, Concurrence,” an installation of handmade paper arranged throughout the gallery space, today and Wednesday in the Hammons Gallery, Mabee Fine Arts Center at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia.
The installation process will be open and visitors can observe and discuss the installation with the artists while they work. The Rives sisters will give a presentation as part of an opening reception at 7 p.m. today in the gallery.
The exhibit, which will remain on display through April 13, started with the concept, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful to create a book that is large enough to walk into?” It continues a series the artists have produced throughout the United States and as far away as South Korea and Japan.
Admission to the exhibit and reception is free. Gallery hours are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and while other School of Fine Arts events take place in the fine arts center. Call (870) 245-5559 or e-mail copelandd@obu.edu.
Cabaret show
St. Louis-based cabaret act Sweet Harmony - singers Jenni Moser and Carrie Priesmeyer and singer/instrumentalist Dennis P. Moser II - will offer a “Sentimental Journey” featuring music from World War II through the disco era, at 7 p.m. today in the McClure Convention Center, Vada Sheid Community Development Center, Arkansas State University-Mountain Home, 1600 S. College St., Mountain Home.
Admission is free. The show is part of the Arvest Concert Series. Call (870) 508-6105.
Festival preview
The Faulkner Chamber Music Festival will hold its 2012 preview recital, titled “What Fun, It’s April Fool’s,” featuring members of Trio Arkansas, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and the festival faculty, at 5:15 p.m. Sunday in Reves Recital Hall, Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway.
Joo Yun H. Preece and Geoffrey Robson, violins; Ryan Mooney, viola; and David Gerstein, cello, will accompany the silent movie April Fool with portions of Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet; Robson, Mooney, David Gerstein, bass player Barron Weir and pianist Louis Menendez will play sections of Franz Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet along with the silent film His Musical Career. In between, Weir and Menendez will play the Elegy for double bass and piano by Giovanni Bottesini.
Admission is $5. Doors open at 4 p.m. for a silent auction and “general mingling.” Call (773) 251-4719 or visitFaulknerChamberMusicFestival.com. The full festival runs July 30-Aug. 11 in Conway at Hendrix and the University of Central Arkansas.
Wintry Schubert
Baritone Matthew Carey, a member of the Arkansas State University voice faculty, and pianist Sean Pollock will perform Franz Schubert’s song cycle Die Winterreise (Winter’s Journey) at 7:30 p.m. today in ASU’s Fine Arts Recital Hall, 2412 Quapaw Way, Jonesboro. Admission is free. Call (870) 972-2094.
Beastly breakfast
There will be no snake in the glass (or at least we hope not) for Breakfast With Reptiles, a breakfast buffet and keeper chat, 8-9:30 a.m. Saturday in Cafe Africa at the Little Rock Zoo, 1 Jonesboro Drive, Little Rock.
Cost is $21.95, $16.95 for children ($16.95 and $12.95 for zoo members). Space is scarce and the event may have sold out; to see if any seats remain and to make required reservations (with a Visa, Discover or Master-Card), call (501) 661-7218 or (501) 666-2406 or visit littlerockzoo.com.
Amphitheater tickets
Tickets - $40 pit, $30 and $25 reserved, $22 lawn - go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for a 7:30 p.m. May 12 concert by country singer Dierks Bentley - part of his 2012 Country & Cold Cans tour - at Little Rock’s Riverfest Amphitheatre. Eli Young Band and The Cadillac Black will be the “special guests.” Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.
Horn weekend
The University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway, will host the annual Mid-South Horn Workshop Friday-Sunday in the Snow Fine Arts Center Recital Hall.
Frank Lloyd, current president of the International Horn Society, will give a recital at 7:30 p.m. Friday; tickets are $15 in advance at midsouth.hornworkshop.org, where you’ll also find a complete schedule. The Meridian Arts Ensemble, which has a public concert Tuesday at UCA, will also participate inthe workshop.
Fee for the three-day event, which is open to the public, is $65. Non-horn players may register for $30. On-site registration begins at noon Friday. Call (501)-472-3350 or e-mail bshires@uca.edu.
Weekend, Pages 29 on 03/29/2012