Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
TODAY
'Brahms & Dvorak'
The Arkansas Symphony will offer its season-finale River Rhapsodies concert, "Brahms and Dvorak," 7 p.m. today in the Great Hall of the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. Geoffrey Robson, violin; Felice Farrell, cello; and Tim Smith, piano, will perform the Piano Trio No. 3 in c minor, op.101, by Johannes Brahms. The orchestra's Quapaw Quartet -- Eric Hayward and Meredith Maddox Hicks, violin; Ryan Mooney, viola; and Ethan Young, cello -- will play the String Quartet No. 4 by Bela Bartok and the String Quartet No. 14 in A-flat major, op.105, by Antonin Dvorak. Tickets are $23, $10 for students and active military. Call (501) 666-1761, Extension 100, or visit the website, arkansassymphony.org.
Spring Tea
Garvan Woodland Gardens, 550 Arkridge Road, Hot Springs, will host "Spring Tea at Garvan," 3 p.m. today in its Magnolia Room, a traditional English tea with scones, finger sandwiches and desserts. Tickets -- $32, $27 for members -- includes admission to the gardens. Reservations and pre-payment are required. Call (501) 262-9300 or (800) 366-4664.
WEDNESDAY
Film for the birds ...
Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E. Third St., Little Rock, will host the Arkansas premiere of Audubon: The Film, "the story of a rare man and the wild creatures he loved," at 6 p.m. Wednesday part of the museum's 75th anniversary event series. A reception sponsored by Audubon Arkansas will precede the screening at 5:30 p.m. Admission is free but seating is limited and reservations are required. Call (501) 324-9307 or visit the website, HistoricArkansas.org. The museum's connection with John James Audubon includes the scientist/artist's depiction in paper and ink of Traill's Flycatcher. The Early Arkansaw Reenactors, longtime museum partners, built the historically accurate keelboat used in the film.
Comedy documentary
Producer, comedian, writer and actor Darryl Littleton will attend a screening of his documentary Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Lecture Hall, Doc Bryan Student Services Center, Arkansas Tech University, 1605 Coliseum Drive, Russellville. The documentary features performances by and interviews with Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor and Chris Rock, among others. Admission is free. Call (479) 968-0265 or email dblanks@atu.edu.
Delta Flix
The second annual Delta Flix Film and Media Festival runs Wednesday-Saturday, concurrent with the 22nd annual Delta Symposium, at Arkansas State University's Reng Student Union, 101 N. Caraway Road, Jonesboro. The festival and symposium share a common theme: "Representing Cultural Heritage." Festival keynote speaker Marjorie Hunt, Academy Award-winner for the 1984 documentary short The Stone Carvers, will discuss her 1993 documentary short The Grand Generation, a portrait of "six elderly Americans whose vigor belies their age," in conjunction with a screening of the film at 7 p.m. Thursday. I'm Not There, about the career of Bob Dylan, will screen at 7 p.m. Wednesday. A complete festival schedule is available online at tinyurl.com/deltaflix2. Admission is free. Call (870) 972-3070 or email mbowman@astate.edu.
SATURDAY
El Dorado gala
The South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra commemorates and celebrates the military and the integral part the USO served during World War II in the 2016 "Moonlight Serenade" Gala, 7 p.m. Saturday in the new commercial hangar at South Arkansas Regional Airport, Goodwin Field, 418 Airport Drive, El Dorado. Partygoers dressed in 1940s fashions can feast on a dinner prepared by Kathy Gean's Catering and dance to Bill Causey's Big Band. The event will feature live and silent auctions, World War II memorabilia and contests for best '40s hairstyles and costumes, and will honor the oldest south Arkansas veterans. All proceeds benefit South Arkansas Symphony programming. The principal sponsor is GenWealth Financial Advisors. Tickets are $125. Call (870) 862-0251.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE
Poetry competitions
Friday is the deadline to enter a series of poetry competitions and events, May 6-8 in Hot Springs:
• The Spring Spa City Poetry Slam, 8 p.m. May 6, in the Quapaw Baths & Spa, 413 Central Ave., part of the Arts & the Park Celebration. The winner will get $200 cash, a bath and massage for two, dinner for two, a night in a historic house in the national park and a feature spot at a future Wednesday Night Poetry event. Second place wins a bottle of cheap champagne; the third-place poet will take home a loaf of white bread and a can of Spam. The competition, limited to the first 20 poets who sign up is open to all poets presenting their original works without accompaniment, musical instruments, props or costumes; there is a three-minute time limit. There is a $10 entry fee. Call (501) 520-7344 or email budonfoot@yahoo.com.
• The "Uptown Homegrown Music and Poetry Contest," May 7 at 315 Park Ave., part of Summer Fest. Poets must either live in or originally be from Arkansas. There's a 10-minute time limit; poems must be original. Competitors may use a band, dancers, actors, costumes or props. Winners receive cash prizes of $100; there is no entry fee. Register on the Facebook page or visit summerfestuptown.com. Call (501) 282-1872.
• Hot Springs Celebrities in Poetry contests, a writing competition commemorating the celebrities who visited Hot Springs (including Tony Bennett, Phyllis Diller, Babe Ruth and Bill Clinton), in two divisions: youth (poets 22 and younger) and adult (23 or older). First prize in each contest is $50, with smaller cash prizes for second, third and honorable mention. Poems may be any style but no longer than 30 lines. Register by email via docshakespeare@gmail.com, visit hotspringsarts.org or call (501) 802-0315. The winners and the poetry slam winner will appear May 7 on the Art Springs main stage in Hill Wheatley Plaza during the Arts & the Park Celebration.
AWARDS
Artmobile honored
The Arkansas Artmobile, the Arkansas Arts Center's 40-foot, climate-controlled "gallery on wheels," received the Arkansas Museums Association Outstanding Achievement in Education Award at the group's annual conference March 30 in Little Rock. The Artmobile, one of the nation's few mobile art museums, has been traveling across Arkansas since the early 1960s.
Style on 04/12/2016