Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts: Documentary screening
The Arkansas Educational Television Network, public radio station KUAR-FM, 89.1, and North Little Rock’s William F. Laman Public Library will screen The New Black, a documentary about race, religion and the battle for same-sex marriage, 6:30 p.m. today in Room 126 of the main library, 2801 Orange St., North Little Rock. It’s part of the Community Cinema series. Cornelius Mabin Jr., community co-chairman of the Arkansas HIV Prevention Group, will lead a post-screening community discussion. Admission is free. Call (800) 662-2386 or visit the website, aetn.org/communitycinema.
Author talk
Philip Howard, author of The Rule of Nobody, which he calls a guide to liberating human ingenuity to meet the challenges of this century, will give a talk at noon today in Sturgis Hall, Clinton School of Public Service, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. Admission is free; to reserve a seat, call (501) 683-5239 or email publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu.
Civil War talk
Mark Christ, outreach coordinator for the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program at the Department of Arkansas Heritage and editor of the diary of Jacob Haas, a German immigrant who fought for the Union army in the Civil War (published by Butler Center Books), will give a talk titled “This Day We Marched Again: A Union Soldier’s Account of War in Arkansas and the Trans-Mississippi” (also the title of the book) at the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies’ monthly Legacies & Lunch, noon Wednesday in the Darragh Center, Central Arkansas Library System Main Library, 100 Rock St., Little Rock. A book signing will follow. Admission is free; take a sack lunch (the Butler Center will provide drinks and dessert). Call (501) 918-3033.
Festival volunteers
The Little Rock Film Festival is seeking volunteers - drivers, runners and attendants and others to help with ticketing, set-up and breakdown, sales, bartending, marketing “and more” - for its eighth annual event, May 12-18 at seven screening venues and eight party venues around the area. There is a mandatory registration meeting at the Ron Robinson Theater at 7 p.m. Wednesday. For an application, email volunteer@littlerockfilmfestival.org. Artistic fundraiser
Artists and would-bes can help the Top of the Rock Chorus raise money to compete in the annual Sweet Adeline International Harmony Classic Competition in Baltimore via Painting With a Purpose, 2-4 p.m. May 18 at 4178 E. McCain Blvd., North Little Rock. Materials and instructions are provided. Cost is $35. Call (501) 758-3291 or visit the website, paintingwithatwist.com.
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