Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
Argenta guitarist
Little Rock-based acoustic guitarist Vicki Genfan will perform at 7:30 p.m. today at The Joint, 301 Main St., in North Little Rock’s Argenta Arts District. The concert is part of the Argenta Arts Acoustic Music Series, produced in partnership with Steve Davison and the Argenta Arts Foundation. Tickets are $20. Call (501) 425-1528, email steve@stevedavison.com or visit argentaartsacousticmusic.com.
The rest of the lineup (every third Thursday except for December):
June 18: Tim and Myles Thompson
July 16: Roy Book Binder
Aug. 20: Bill Mize
Sept. 17 : Stevie Coyle
Oct. 15: Teja Gerken
Nov. 19: Muriel Anderson.
New release party
Butler Center Books, the publishing division of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, will host a new release party for They’ll Do to Tie To! The Story of Hood’s Arkansas Toothpicks by Maj. Calvin L. Collier, with a preface by Mark K. Christ; Arky: The Saga of the USS Arkansas by Ray Hanley and Steven Hanley; and To Can the Kaiser: Arkansas and the Great War, edited by Guy Lancaster and Michael D. Polston, at 6 p.m. today in the Darragh Center, Central Arkansas Library System Main Library, 100 Rock St., Little Rock. The authors will speak briefly about their work and sign copies, which will be available for sale at the event and at River Market Books & Gifts, 120 River Market Ave. Admission is free. Call (501) 918-3033.
Sibelius celebration
Kiril Laskarov, co-concertmaster of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, solos in the first movement of Jean Sibelius’ Violin Concerto with the Saline County Community Orchestra and conductor Aaron Rice in a concert marking the 150th birth date of the Finnish composer, at 6 p.m. Saturday at First United Methodist Church in Bryant, 518 N. Reynolds Road, and 3 p.m. Sunday at First United Methodist Church, 200 N. Market St., Benton. The program will also include selections from Georges Bizet’s Carmen Suites. Admission is free. Call (870) 405-6856 or (256) 201-1106 or visit DimensionsFineArts.org.
Tony and Cleo
The Tinseltown in Benton and the Conway Towne Center in Conway will screen the Stratford Festival HD’s production of William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra (with Geraint Wyn Davies and Yanna McIntosh in the title roles) at 7 p.m. today. Tickets and additional information are available at stratfordfestivalHD.com.
Circus tickets
Tickets — $21-$51, as low as $10 for kids, plus fees, and subject to change without notice — go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Presents Built to Amaze!, billed as “a Circus Spectacular Extraordinarily Engineered by the Greatest Show on Earth,” 7 p.m. Aug. 20-21; 11 a.m., 3 and 7 p.m. Aug. 22; and 2 p.m. Aug. 23 at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena. Call (501) 975-9000 or (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.
Conductor named
The Little Rock Wind Symphony has named Israel Getzov, music director of the Conway Symphony and a faculty member at the University of Central Arkansas, as its third music director, replacing Karen Fannin. Getzov, one of three candidates who conducted Wind Symphony concerts in the 2014-15 season, will take over officially July 1.