Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts: Folk Center opens
The Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View opens for the season today. Blacksmithing, pottery-making and more than 18 other pioneer skills and crafts will be on display at the Craft Village, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday -Saturday; admission is $12, $7.50 for children 6-12, free for children under 6.
A full schedule of musical performances gets underway today, with evening concerts starting April 18. The center offers classes ranging from learning to play the dulcimer or autoharp to jig dancing to growing an organic herb garden.
Call (870) 269-3851 or visit ozarkfolkcenter.com.
Intergalactic Nemesis
In 1933, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, her intrepid research assistant team and a mysterious librarian travel across this globe, the Robot Planet and finally to ImperialZygon to defeat a terrible threat to the future of humanity in The Intergalactic Nemesis, Jason Neulander’s adaptation of his graphic novel into a comic-meets-radio production, which will be onstage at 6:30 p.m. today at the Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main St., Memphis. Three actors, a Foley artist and a musician perform all the voices and sound effects as an illustrated graphic novel unfolds on a giant overhead screen. Tickets are $15-$20. Call (901) 525-3000 or (901) 743-2781 (ARTS) or visit orpheum-memphis.com.
Salty old editor
David Stricklin, manager of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, will interview Charlotte Tillar Schexnayder, former editor and publisher of the Dumas Clarion, a former state legislator and author of a 2012 memoir titled Salty Old Editor, about her life and work in the Arkansas Delta, at the Butler Center’s “Legacies & Lunch” program, noon Wednesday in the Darragh Center at Central Arkansas Library System’s Main Library, 100 Rock St., Little Rock. Schexnayder will sign copies of her book afterward.Partial support comes from the Arkansas Humanities Council. Admission is free. Take a sack lunch; the Butler Center provides drinks and dessert. Call (501) 918-3033.
Premiere fundraiser
Soprano Laura Aikin and pianist Donald Sulzen will give a benefit concert for the John Harrison Opera Foundation at 8:15 p.m. Thursday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
Aikin, who has a three-octave range, will give the Arkansas premiere of Ned Rorem’s Ariel, settings of five poems by Sylvia Plath, and Franz Schubert’s “Der Hirt auf dem Felsen” with clarinetist Nophachai Cholthitchanta, plus an aria from Giulio Cesare by George Frideric Handel, the “Csardas” from Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss Jr. and song cycles by Robert Schumann and Richard Strauss.
Tickets are $75; proceeds go toward funding the association’s biennial scholarships. Call (479) 443-5600 or (479) 443-4403 or visit JohnHarrisonOpera.com.
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