Houston-based CORE Performance Company will put on three public performances in Arkansas of their new work, Gaman, a blend of contemporary dance, art and music based on the internment of American citizens of Japanese descent in two Arkansas camps, Rohwer and Jerome, during World War II:
• 7:30 p.m. Monday, Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. Admission by free ticket; call (501) 450-3265 or visit tickets.uca.edu.
• 7 p.m. Wednesday, Great Hall, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 600 Museum Way, Bentonville. Tickets: $10, free for museum members. Call (479) 418-5700 or visit crystalbridges.org/events. (Sponsored by Demara Tizer and the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation.)
• 10:30 a.m. Friday, McGehee High School Auditorium, 1902 E. Ash St. (Arkansas 1 North), McGehee. Free.
The company will also offer a free lecture/demonstration at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at the Hillary Rodham Clinton Children's Library and Learning Center, 4800 W. 10th St., Little Rock.
Visit coredance.org.
Pippin at Walton
The national tour of the musical Pippin (music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, book by Roger O. Hirson), will be onstage, 7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15, in Baum Walker Hall at Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. Tickets are $25-$80.50. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
The show will then head east to the Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main St., Memphis, for performances at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17-19, 8 p.m. Nov. 20, 2 and 8 p.m. Nov. 21 and 1 and 6:30 p.m. Nov. 22. Tickets are $25-$125. Call (901) 525-3000 or visit orpheum-memphis.com.
Folk group
Folk group Voxana -- Stephen Pruitt and Ashtyn Nilsen-Barbaree -- will cover songs from the 1960s to the present plus a few originals, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the McCuistion-Matthews Gallery, Arts Center of the Ozarks, 214 S. Main St., Springdale. Tickets are $18, $10 for students ($14 and $9 for members). Call (479) 751-5441 or visit acozarks.org.
Comedy and Cline
Murry's Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock, takes a week off from its regular theatrical performances for a pair of interstitial shows:
• Comedian (and Bald Knob native) Etta May, billed as "Minnie Pearl with a migraine" and "the reigning Queen of Southern Sass," 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday. (The theater rates her performance PG.)
• "Sweet Dreams: Mandy Barnett Sings Patsy Cline," 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 12:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Buffet opens 90 minutes before curtain. Tickets are $32-$36, $23 for children 15 and under; $25 and $15 show only. Call (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdp.com.
Jonesboro Messiah
The Arkansas State University Concert Choir, the University-Community Choir, the Arkansas Northeastern College Community Choir and players from the ASU Concert Orchestra and University of Memphis orchestra program will perform portions of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Riceland Hall, Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro. Soloists are Bethania Baray, soprano; Venus Hamilton, alto; John Peoples, tenor; and Matthew Carey, baritone. Dale Miller conducts. Tickets are $5, free to ASU students with ID. Call (870) 972-2781.
Memphis MythBusters
Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage of the Discovery series MythBusters will perform onstage experiments, show video, tell behind-the-scenes stories and involve the audience in the live stage show MythBusters Jamie & Adam Unleashed!, 8 p.m. Saturday at the Orpheum Theatre in Memphis. Tickets are $35-$80, $125 VIP. Call (901) 525-3000 or (901) 743-2787 or visit orpheum-memphis.com.
Prairie performances
The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra performs its "Holiday Pops" concert at 8 p.m. Dec. 8 in Riceland Auditorium, Grand Prairie Center, Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas' Stuttgart campus, 2709 U.S. 165 South, Stuttgart. Tickets are $35 and $25.
The College Foundation VIP Party will take place at 6 p.m. in the center's Salon B. Tickets are $75, sold separately from the orchestra's concert; proceeds support the Performance Series.
The rest of the lineup (all tickets, $35 and $25):
• 3 p.m. Dec. 13: Dancers from CenterStage Dance and Cheer's Christmas SpecTAPular 2015. Tickets are $10.
• 7 p.m. April 5: Presidio Brass, with Stuttgart High School band students
• 3 p.m. April 24: Monroe Powell's "A Salute to the Platters" with Powell, Kenni Jaye, Don Gloud'e and Genevieve Dew
Call (870) 673-4201, Extension 1895, or visit pccua.edu/GPC.
Heritage grants
The Department of Arkansas Heritage has set a deadline of 4:30 p.m. Dec. 7 for communities to apply for Heritage Month 2016 grants of up to $5,000 for Heritage Month events in May. The 2016 theme: "Arkansas Arts: Celebrating Our Creative Culture." Past Heritage Month grants have funded festivals, exhibits, educational programming and historic walking tours. The application packet is available online at arkansasheritage.com; guidelines and application forms are also available by writing to Heritage Month Grant Coordinator, DAH, 323 Center St., Suite 1500, Little Rock, Ark. 72201; by fax -- (501) 324-9154; or by email, randy@arkansasheritage.org.
Foothills films
The deadline is Jan. 15 to submit narrative and documentary films of all lengths, curated foreign language films and restored American classics for the 15th annual Ozark Foothills FilmFest, April 1-2 and 8-9 in Batesville.
Winners in the Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary Feature, Best Narrative Short and Best Documentary Short categories will receive cash prizes; a "Reel Rural" Award will go to a narrative or documentary film exploring an aspect of rural life. Submit entries digitally online via the Film Freeway website (filmfreeway.com/festival/OzarkFoothillsFilmFest); call (870) 251-1189, email ozarkfilm@wildblue.net or visit ozarkfoothillsfilmfest.org/submit2016.
Delta Flix
Jan. 15 is the deadline to submit films, photographs and multimedia content to the College of Media and Communication at Arkansas State University for the Delta Flix Film and Media Festival, April 13-16. The festival coincides with the annual Delta Symposium at the university in Jonesboro.
This year's theme is "Representing Cultural Heritage"; new this year is the Delta Flix Film and Media Festival Media Challenge, for which high school and middle school students can enter narrative films, documentaries and multimedia projects focusing on that and other themes and issues. Entry forms are available at tinyurl.com/deltaflix1; call (870) 972-3070 or email mbowman@AState.edu.
Style on 11/08/2015