Correction: An item in the Weekend Ten feature in Thursday’s Weekend section about the performance of the The Bremen Town Musicians Sunday at Wildwood Park for the Arts, 20919 Denny Road, Little Rock, was based on a press release that misspelled the last name of librettist John Davies.
1 FALAFEL
Load up on baklava and other Mediterranean delights at the annual International Greek Food Festival, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, 1100 Napa Valley Drive. The festival will offer its usual Old World Market, church tours, children's activities, music and dancing as well as a full menu of treats including gyros, calamari and soutzoukakia. There's also a drive-thru menu. General admission is free and trolley service is offered. Call (501) 221-5300 or visit greekfoodfest.com. See story on Page 4E.
2 FILM
The Little Rock Film Festival is already underway and continues through Sunday with a full lineup of panels, parties and, of course, film screenings at the Central Arkansas Library System's Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., and other venues. Still to come are the Junction Bridge Party at 9 p.m. Friday and screenings of films including White God and Turbo Kid. Tickets are $10 per screening, $60-$300 for festival passes. (501) 205-0400 or littlerockfilmfestival.org.
3 FUSION
Modern and progressive jazz acts, including Jonathan Butler and Rodney Block & the Real Music Lovers, will liven things up by the Arkansas River during Jazzlights in the Park, a benefit for the Boys and Girls Club of Central Arkansas. The festival is 1-9 p.m. Saturday on the Clinton Presidential Center lawn. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 the day of the show, free for children 10 and under. Ticketmaster tickets are $28 in advance, $33 the day of the show. Call (501) 666-8816 or (501) 372-8341 or visit jazzlights.com. See story on Page 5E.
4 FAIRY TALE/FOLKTALE
Audiences can take a fanciful trip into the woods as the Arkansas Festival Ballet presents Hansel & Gretel, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday at the Arkansas Arts Center Children's Theatre, 601 E. Ninth St. Original choreography is by Rebecca M. Stalcup and the music has been chosen from a range of composers including Franz Joseph Haydn and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Tickets are $20, $15 for students and children. Call (501) 227-5320 or visit arkansasdance.org.
• A four-member cast will perform The Bremen Town Musicians, a children's operetta featuring music by Jacque Offenbach, Gioacchino Rossini and Giuseppe Verdi, among others, with a libretto by John Davis based on the Brothers Grimm folktale, at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Cabe Festival Theatre, Wildwood Park for the Arts, 20919 Denny Road, Little Rock. The show is touring Arkansas elementary schools. Admission is by donation to Wildwood's 2016 Art To Go! touring production. Call (501) 821-7275 or visit wildwoodpark.org.
5 (CRAW)FISH
Crawfish won't just be dinner, they'll be the entertainment at the annual Hat Club Crawfish Salute, 5-9 p.m. Friday in the River Market pavilions. In addition to all-you-can-eat crawfish, music and a silent auction, the event will feature the Crawtucky Derby with crawfish races. Tickets are $40 and benefit University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Call (501) 766-3967 or visit hatclublr.com.
6 FLICKER
Members of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra will play Baroque by Candlelight at 7 p.m. today at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 310 W. 17th St., Little Rock, the finale for this season's Intimate Neighborhood Concerts series, sponsored by the Stella Boyle Smith Foundation. Gabriel Vega will be the soloist in Antonio Vivaldi's Piccolo Concerto in C major; the program will also include the "Entrance of the Queen of Sheba" from Solomon and the second suite from The Water Music by George Frideric Handel and the Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068, by Johann Sebastian Bach. Philip Mann conducts. Tickets are $25, $10 for students and active duty military. Call (501) 666-1761, Extension 100, or visit ArkansasSymphony.org.
7 FRANKIE
The Weekend Theater shares the story of Frankie Addams, a World War II-era tomboy struggling to find her place in the world, as it presents The Member of the Wedding. The award-winning play by Carson McCullers will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday through May 30 at the theater, 1001 W. Seventh St. Tickets are $16, $12 for ages 65 and older and students. Call (501) 374-3761 or visit weekendtheater.org.
8 FRETS
Composer-electric violinist Mark Wood, an original member of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, will help transform the Arkansas Youth Orchestra into a full-fledged rock orchestra via his Electrify Your Strings! program. Wood and his wife, singer Laura Kaye, working with the Arkansas Youth Choir, will perform arrangements of music by Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and more at 7 p.m. Sunday at Connor Performing Arts Center, Pulaski Academy, 12701 Hinson Road, Little Rock. Tickets are $10, free for K-12 students. Call (501) 666-1761 or visit ArkansasSymphony.org.
9 FASHION
Oxford American magazine, Esse Purse Museum, designer Linda Rowe Thoma and the Capital Hotel bring you Fashion Footprints: Fashion in Words and Pictures, a video compilation of fashion confessionals involving personal ties among moms, daughters, sisters and friends via clothing and accessories, 6 p.m. today at the Oxford American Annex, 1300 Main St., Little Rock. Wear or take fashion items "with a family or emotional tangent." Wine and a signature cocktail will be available with light bar fare. It's the third and final Fashion Footprints event; tickets are $35. Visit CapitalHotel.com
10 FAIRFIELD FOUR, ETC.
The Fairfield Four and the McCrary Sisters will headline the 15th annual Arkansas Delta Family Gospel Fest, 11 a.m. Saturday in the Cherry Street Pavilion, 141 Cherry St., Helena-West Helena. Also on the bill: George Dean & the Gospel Four, The Bell Singers and The Appointed from Memphis; Spiritual Highlights from Ruleville, Miss.; Selvy Singers from Earle; and Helena-West Helena's Angelic Hearts. Sponsor is the Delta Cultural Center. Admission is free. Call (870) 338-4350 or (800) 358-0972 or visit deltaculturalcenter.com.
Weekend on 05/14/2015