ENTERTAINMENT NOTES

West African Crowned Crane by Miller B. "Eddie" Smith Jr., going on display Friday at the Laman Library Argenta Branch in North Little Rock.
West African Crowned Crane by Miller B. "Eddie" Smith Jr., going on display Friday at the Laman Library Argenta Branch in North Little Rock.

Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:

FRIDAY

Argenta exhibition

"Paints, Pastels, Pencils & Pixels," works by Little Rock painter Miller B. "Eddie" Smith Jr. and Jacksonville painter and graphic artist Ed Rhodes, go on display with a Third Friday ArtWalk artists' reception, 5-8 p.m. Friday at the William F. Laman Library Argenta Branch, 420 Main St., North Little Rock. The exhibit remains up in the library's gallery, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, through Sept. 9. Call (501) 687-1061 or visit lamanlibrary.org.

Musical Little Women

The Foundation of Arts will open its 2017-2018 season with Little Women (music by Jason Howland, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, book by Allan Knee, based on the Louisa May Alcott classic), 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and Aug. 25-26 at Stage Too, 328 S. Main St., Jonesboro. Tickets are $10. Call (870) 935-2726 or visit foajonesboro.org.

SATURDAY

Lily lecture

Pulaski County Master Gardener Susan Rose will give a presentation titled "Lilies A to Z," 9 a.m. Saturday at Mount Holly Cemetery, 1200 Broadway, Little Rock. The talk is part of the Downtown Dames' monthly (April-October) Mount Holly Garden Series. Take a lawn chair; admission is by suggested donation of $5, which benefits projects at Mount Holly Cemetery and includes refreshments and door prizes. Recent damage to the cemetery's front gate may make it necessary to enter through the 13th Street gate; parking is ample along 13th Street. Call (501) 372-3372.

SUNDAY

Ballet benefit

Arkansas Festival Ballet will hold its "Midsummer Night's Dream" fundraiser, featuring signature cocktails, light hors d'oeuvres and Festival Ballet dancers performing excerpts from A Midsummer Night's Dream, choreographed by Rebecca Miller Stalcup to music by Felix Mendelssohn, 5-7 p.m. Sunday at South on Main, 1304 Main St., Little Rock.

Items available in the "All the World's a Stage" raffle include a pointe shoe signed by Prima Ballerina Wendy Whelan of the New York City Ballet; a sports package (Dallas Cowboys, Arkansas Travelers and Arkansas Razorbacks tickets); a theater package (tickets to the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Argenta Community Theater and Celebrity Attractions); group aerial arts lessons with Arkansas Circus Arts for up to five people; and a character role in the Festival Ballet's May 2018 production of Beauty and the Beast.

Tickets are $35; raffle tickets are $5 apiece. Visit tinyurl.com/festballetMSN. For more information, call (501) 227-5320, email info@arkansasdance.org or visit arkansasdance.org.

TICKETS

Buckingham & McVie

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White-throated sparrow, painting by Miller B. “Eddie” Smith Jr., going on display Aug. 18 at the Laman Library Argenta Branch in North Little Rock.

Tickets -- $69.50-$140 plus fees -- go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for Fleetwood Mac members Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie's 8 p.m. Oct. 25 concert at Robinson Center Performance Hall, West Markham Street and Broadway, Little Rock. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit Ticketmaster.com.

Weekend on 08/17/2017

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