Actor William Shatner will put on his 90-minute one-man show, Shatner’s World: We Just Live in It, at 8 p.m. Saturday at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St.
The show, using “live theater, archival photographs, video clips, signature storytelling and select musical selections,” covers Shatner’s life and career, from his classical training as a Shakespearean stage actor in his native Canada through his Star Trek and other TV roles, and his side careers as author and progressive rocker.
The show is part of the center’s Coca-Cola Night Out Series. Tickets are $50 to $125. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website waltonartscenter.org.
Also at the WAC this week: Sing-a-long Sound of Music, rescheduled from Dec. 6 to 7 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $17; tickets issued for the original date will be good for the new one. Otherwise, donations or exchanges can be arranged via the Walton box office, (479) 443-5600.
‘Small Works on Paper’
“Small Works on Paper,” an annual touring visual art exhibition coordinated by the Arkansas Arts Council, kicks off its 2014 statewide tour Thursday-Jan. 30 at the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, 701 Main St., Pine Bluff.
The center will host a public reception, with talks by the artists, 5-7 p.m. Jan. 16. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 1-4 p.m. Saturday. Admission to the reception and the exhibition is free.
The exhibition, featuring 40 works by 39 Arkansas artists, will travel to 10 Arkansas galleries during the year. A schedule and the list of artists is available online at arkansasarts.com.
Juror Mary Kennedy, CEO of the Mid-America Arts Alliance, also selected 10 artists for cash purchase awards: Cindy Arsaga and Cindy Wiseman of Fayetteville; Claire Cade of Arkadelphia; Houston Fryer and Richard Stephens of Hot Springs; Lisa Kindrick and Miranda Young of Little Rock; Tom Richard of Monticello; Carrie Waller of Cabot; and Cathy Wester of Conway.
The works will become part of the exhibition’s permanent collection.
Slavery subject
Kelly Houston Jones, a doctoral candidate at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, will discuss her research on slavery in Arkansas in “A Rough, Saucy Set of Hands to Manage,” a lecture for the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies’ monthly “Legacies & Lunch” series, noon Wednesday in the Darragh Center, Central Arkansas Library System’s Main Library, 100 Rock St., Little Rock.
Admission is free; take a sack lunch and the Butler Center will provide drinks and dessert. Partial support comes from the Arkansas Humanities Council. Call (501) 918-3033.
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