The Avett Brothers -- banjoist Scott Avett and guitarist Seth Avett with standup bass player Bob Crawford -- will perform at 8 p.m. Friday at the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers.
Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $32-$53.50. Call (479) 443-5600 or visiting the website, amptickets.com.
Author appears
Camden native Beth Brickell, Los Angeles-based author, filmmaker and former actress, will give four talks and sign copies of her book, The Disappearance of Maud Crawford, a reprint of an investigative series she did in 1986 for the Arkansas Gazette about the still-unsolved case of prominent Camden lawyer Maud Crawford's March 1957 disappearance:
• 6 p.m. Friday, Allen's Restaurant, 107 E. Washington St., Camden
• 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, BPW Barn Sale, Oakland and Monticello streets, Camden (signing only)
• 2 p.m. Sept. 28, Garland County Library, 1427 Malvern Ave., Hot Springs
• 5 p.m. Sept. 29, WordsWorth Book Store, 5920 R St., Little Rock
• 3 p.m. Sept. 30, That Bookstore, 316 W. Main St., Blytheville
Teddy on stage
Actor and scholar Derek Evans will present Theodore Roosevelt: The Man in the Arena at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Ed Coulter Performing Arts Center, Vada Sheid Community Development Center, Arkansas State University-Mountain Home, 1600 S. College St., Mountain Home. The program kicks off the university's 2014-15 Gaston Lecture Series. Admission is free. Call (870) 508-6019 or visit the website, asumh.edu.
SoNA season
The Symphony of Northwest Arkansas begins its six-concert 2014-15 season with a Masterworks program at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8 at Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St.
Bulgarian clarinetist Ilian Iliev will join the orchestra and Music Director Paul Haas for the Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-flat major by Carl Maria von Weber. The concert will also include the suite from the ballet Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland and the Symphony No. 7 by Ludwig van Beethoven.
The rest of the lineup (except as noted, all concerts 7:30 p.m. at Walton Arts Center):
• Dec. 13: "A Very SoNA Christmas," sacred and secular music featuring the SoNA Singers
• Dec. 14: "The Snowman: A Family Concert," screening of the film The Snowman, with the orchestra performing the musical soundtrack. 3 p.m.
• Jan. 3: Masterworks II -- Scheherazade by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov; "Adagio" from Spartacus by Aram Khachaturian; Suite (1919) from The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky
• March 7: Masterworks III -- "The Moldau" from Ma Vlast by Bedrich Smetana; La Mer by Claude Debussy; The Pines of Rome by Ottorino Respighi
• March 8: Masterworks III encore, time TBA, Berry Performing Arts Center, John Brown University, 2000 W. University St., Siloam Springs
• April 25: "A Night at the Movies," with pianist Michael Chertock
Season subscriptions, $115-$225 include the five mainstage concerts (but not The Snowman). Single tickets are $28-$50; for The Snowman, $25-$40; $10 for students with valid ID; $5 for children with the purchase of an adult ticket. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, sonamusic.org.
Poetry I
Monticello artist Alice Guffy Miller is seeking haiku for a sculpture she has been commissioned to do for the Hillary Rodham Clinton Children's Library and Learning Center in Little Rock.
The name of the 9-foot metal tree she is fabricating for installation at the library later this fall is Imagine Peace; each of the tree's 14 leaves will have a different haiku with that as its theme.
A haiku is a three-line, 17-syllable poem, five syllables in the first line, seven in the second and five syllables in the third line.
Email all submissions by Saturday to imaginationsatlarge@gmail.com or send by U.S. mail to Alice Guffy Miller, 594 W. Conrad Ave., Monticello, Ark., 71655. Call (870) 367-1036.
Poetry II
Oct. 31 is the deadline for Arkansas high schools to enter the Arkansas Arts Council's 2015 Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest for students in grades nine through 12, March 14 at Pulaski Technical College in North Little Rock.
The competition, created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, encourages high school students to memorize and perform great poems. The winner and his teacher will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., to compete in the national finals. For more information and to receive an entry form, call (501) 324-9769 or email cynthia@arkansasheritage.org.
The Arts Council is also seeking performing artists, visual artists and art groups to apply for the 2015-16 Arts on Tour roster, which provides a list of the state's performers, visual artists and prepared art exhibitions available for touring within the state. The program reimburses 40 percent of the contract costs for nonprofit presenters -- to arts organizations, festival and event planners, schools, civic organizations and government entities. Deadline to apply Oct. 24. To download an artist application, visit the website, arkansasarts.org (click on the Arts on Tour page) or call (501) 324-9766.
Preservation films
Arkansas students can create short documentaries focusing on historic properties throughout the state for a new film competition, the Arkansas Historic Film Prize, sponsored by the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program and the Arkansas Humanities Council in partnership with the Arkansas Educational Television Network's "Student Selects: A Young Filmmakers Showcase."
The documentaries must be five to 15 minutes long and can be based on any historic Arkansas property at least 50 years old. Submit films by March 27 via the website, aetn.org/studentselects.
Competition winners will screen May 22 at the Ron Robinson Theater in Little Rock; winning filmmakers will receive cash prizes. Call (501) 324-9786, email shelle@arkansasheritage.org or visit the website, tinyurl.com/mrhxmzg.
Style on 09/21/2014