THE WEEKEND TEN

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette goat illustration.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette goat illustration.

1 BLEAT

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Carolann M. Sanita stars as Lady of the Lake and James Lloyd Reynolds is King Arthur in Spamalot.

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Mangue Banzima

Organizers promise "goats, goats and more goats" at the Arkansas Goat Festival, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday at Perryville City Park, Perryville. The goat-related fun will include goat races, a goat parade, goat art and a celebrity goat-milking contest. Visit arkansasgoatfestival.com.

2 BITE

Fish and fixings will be doled out to eager eaters at the annual Camp Aldersgate Fish Fry, noon-3 p.m. Sunday. The food, carousel rides, games and merchants' pavilion will all be at the camp. Shuttle service provided from parking lots at Pediatrics Plus, 1900 Aldersgate Road, and OrthoArkansas, 10301 Kanis Road with drive-thru service offered at OrthoArkansas. Tickets are $15, free for children 6 and under. Call (501) 225-1444 or visit campaldersgate.net. See story on page 4E.

3 BOLKVADZE

Georgian-born pianist Elisso Bolkvadze joins the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and conductor Philip Mann for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 to open the orchestra's 2016-17 season, 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, Maumelle Performing Arts Center, Maumelle High School, 100 Victory Lane, Maumelle. Also on the program: Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 5 and ASO Composer of the Year Stephanie Berg's Ravish and Mayhem. Tickets are $14-$67, $10 for students and active-duty military, free to the Sunday matinee for K-12 students with a paying adult. Call (501) 666-1761, Extension 100, or visit ArkansasSymphony.org.

4 BALLARD, ETC.

Acoustic country musicians Gary Allan, Frankie Ballard, Michael Ray, Craig Campbell and American Idol winner Trent Harmon form the lineup for the KSSN Country Throwdown, 7 p.m. Friday at the Maumelle Event Center, 10910 Maumelle Blvd., North Little Rock. Doors open at 6. Tickets are $40; a portion of the proceeds benefits Project Zero, an Arkansas nonprofit that helps find families for foster children. Visit tinyurl.com/jot8n4x.

5 BANZIMA

Stylist Mangue Banzima, founder of Qui Style, a fashion and lifestyle blog that documents and forecasts trends on New York streets, will give a lecture titled "Street Denim" at 6 p.m. today in the lower-level Lecture Hall, Arkansas Arts Center in MacArthur Park, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. A 5:30 wine reception precedes the lecture; the Arts Center galleries, restaurant and shop will remain open for Art After Hours until 9 p.m. The lecture coincides with the "Cut, Pieced, and Stitched: Denim Drawings by Jim Arendt," on display through Oct. 23. Admission is $10, free for members. Call (501) 372-4000.

6 BRAVO

Theater seasons are entering full swing across the state this weekend, including:

• In Conway, Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre will perform its one-hour touring production of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, 7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday at The Lantern Theatre, 1021 Van Ronkle St., part of Conway's ArtsFest. Tickets are $15. Visit arkshakes.com. And Red Curtain Theatre will stage The Addams Family -- A New Musical Comedy (music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice; based on characters created by Charles Addams), 7 p.m. Friday, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday and 2.p.m. Sunday, Treischmann Fine Art Building, Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave. Tickets are $15. Call (501) 499-9776, email info@redcurtaintheatre.com or visit redcurtaintheatre.com.

• The theater programs at Ouachita Baptist University and Henderson State University are pairing up to stage To Kill a Mockingbird, adapted by Christopher Sergel from the novel by Harper Lee, for Arkadelphia performances 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in OBU's Verser Theatre and 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6-8 and 10 in Henderson's Arkansas Hall Studio Theatre. Tickets are $10; for OBU performances, call (870) 245-5555 or visit obu.edu/boxoffice; for HSU shows, call (870) 230-5037 or email theatre@hsu.edu.

• The Hot Springs Pocket Community Theatre, 170 Ravine St. at Ramble Street, just off Park Avenue, Hot Springs, will stage Exit Laughing by Paul Elliott, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and Oct. 7-8 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday and Oct. 9. Tickets are $10. Call (501) 623-8585 or visit pockettheatre.com.

• And in Little Rock, it's the final weekend for Monty Python's Spamalot, 7 p.m. today, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday, at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Sixth and Main streets. Tickets are $40-$50. Call (501) 378-0405 or visit therep.org/attend. And it's the closing weekend for Twelve Angry Men, adapted by Sherman L. Sergel from Reginald Rose's original teleplay, 7:30 p.m. today-Saturday at the Weekend Theater, West Seventh and Chester streets. Tickets are $16, $12 for students and senior citizens. Visit weekendtheater.org; call (501) 374-3761 for information.

7 BLADE

Celebrated magicians, illusionists, comedians, jugglers and balloon artists will take over downtown Hot Springs for the fourth annual Maxwell Blade Festival of Magic, Friday-Sunday, beginning and ending at the Maxwell Blade Theater, 121 Central Ave. Some shows are free; tickets for others range from $10 for one- and two-magician shows to $25 for the Masters of Magic Gala, 8 p.m. Saturday, Horner Hall, Hot Springs Convention Center, 134 Convention Center Blvd. Details and a complete schedule are available online at maxwellbladefestivalofmagic.com.

8 BAYOU

Modern families can try their hand at some old-fashioned farm work at High Cotton on the Bayou, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at the Scott Plantation Settlement, 15525 Alexander Road, Scott. Visitors can tour historic buildings, ride a hay wagon, play games and see demonstrations of blacksmithing, butter making and sorghum grinding. Admission is $3, $1 for children 6-17. Call (501) 351-5737.

9 BIRTHDAY

Celebrate 100 years of the National Park Service at the Ozark Folklife Festival, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday at the Tyler Bend Campground, Buffalo National River, near St. Joe. Re-enactors will be on hand giving demonstrations of early Arkansas life; there will be games, crafts and music from performers including Still on the Hill and The Rackensack Folklore Society. Admission is free. Call (870) 448-2557.

10 BASH

Activities for all ages are planned for the Hot Water Hills Music & Arts Festival, starting at 4 p.m. Friday and noon Saturday in Hill Wheatley Plaza, 629 Central Ave., Hot Springs. Performers for the music festival include Sad Daddy, Ronnie Heart and Sinkane. There will also be artists and children's craft activities. Admission is free until 4 p.m., $5 after. Children under 12 are free. Call (501) 463-6822 or visit hotwaterhills.com. See Music Scene on 5E.

Weekend on 09/29/2016

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