Noncredit classes go online for free
The Central Arkansas Library System is offering free online continuing education courses to the public.
The noncredit classes include fields such as accounting, psychology, real estate, teaching and history. There are more than 500 classes to choose from.
A person with a library card can enroll in up to five courses. Six months are given to finish each course.
“Attend class and do assignments on your schedule. Each course has a real instructor who you may communicate with using email,” the library’s website says.
More information is available at centralarkansas.universalclass.com.
Training planned for entrepreneurs
Little Rock’s Small Business Development Office is taking applications for a new 10-week entrepreneurial training course that begins next week.
The course starts Feb. 20 and continues once a week on Monday evenings from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. for 10 weeks. It takes place at the Willie Hinton Neighborhood Resource Center, 3805 W. 12th St.
Tuition is $100 for the course. It includes a textbook, business plan preparation and ongoing counseling.
More information is available by contacting Chauncey Holloman Pettis at cpettis@littlerock.gov or at (501) 379-1505.
School will host blues musician
The Clinton School of Public Service will host a discussion with a blues musician Wednesday in Little Rock.
Adia Victoria, one of three musicians featured on the cover of Oxford American’s annual Southern Music Issue and CD in December, will speak at 5:30 p.m. at Sturgis Hall, 1200 President Clinton Ave.
“Victoria might not be a household name (yet), but give one listen to her 2016 debut album, Beyond the Bloodhounds, and you’ll understand why the Oxford American hails her as the future of the blues,” a news release said.
Victoria was raised in South Carolina and later moved to New York, Atlanta and Paris, before settling in Nashville.
“A collection of scorching blues-inflected rock songs steeped in her personal experience as a Southern black woman, the album hinges on the vengeful single ‘Stuck in the South,’ on which she sings: ‘I don’t know nothin’ ’bout Southern belles / But I can tell you something ’bout Southern hell,’” the news release said.
NPR bureau chief to speak at library
National Public Radio’s Southern Bureau chief, Russell Lewis, will speak in Little Rock on Thursday.
Lewis, who covers the southeastern United States for National Public Radio, will speak at the Darragh Center on the main campus of the Central Arkansas Library System at 6 p.m. The center is at 100 Rock St.
Lewis’ work includes stories on immigration, transportation, and oil and gas drilling. He’s part of National Public Radio’s “Go Team” that responds to disasters worldwide.