Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
TODAY
Red Lines screening
In conjunction with Arkansas Peace Week, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Middle Eastern Studies Program will host a screening of the documentary Red Lines, 5:30 p.m. today in Room 104 of the Student Services Center at UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock.
The film follows two Syrians -- Mouaz Moustafa, who grew up in Arkansas and graduated from the University of Central Arkansas, and Razan Shahab-al-Sham -- seeking to bring democracy to their country and discusses the growth of the Syrian Emergency Task Force during the early years of the civil war.
Moustafa, now executive director of the task force, political director for United for a Free Syria and a board member of the Coalition for a Democratic Syria, will discuss the course of the civil war since the film's 2014 release. Admission is free; refreshments will be served. Call (501) 683-7029 or email ejwiebelhaus@ualr.edu.
Big Read at UALR
Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Into the Beautiful North, which the National Endowment for the Arts has selected for this year's Big Read program, will read from and discuss the book for "Into the Beautiful North: With the Author Luis Alberto Urrea," 4:30 p.m. today in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Admission is free.
The book, aimed at young adults, focuses on a 19-year-old who, when drug dealers threaten her small Mexican village and inspired by the film The Magnificent Seven, journeys to the United States to bring back her father and six other men to defend them.
New York-based musical trio 9 Horses will perform music inspired by the novel, 6 p.m. Saturday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. Admission is free.
A calendar of Big Read events is available online at ualr.at/bigread. Call (501) 569-8809 or email cimacheak@ualr.edu.
Prison poetry
DecARcerate, a grassroots coalition "focused on reducing the prison population in Arkansas through smart legislation and community action," hosts "Inside Out: A Poetry Reading," 7:30 p.m. today at White Water Tavern, 2500 W. Seventh St., Little Rock. Music by Nick Devlin and Brian Nahlen precedes the poetry reading, which begins at 8:30. DecARcerate invited imprisoned men and women across the state to submit poems highlighting their experiences behind bars. A panel of local poets will read the poems they helped to choose out of more than 100 submissions. The event is part of Peace Week. Admission is free. Email decarceratearkansas@gmail.com.
TICKETS
Hiatt et al.
Tickets -- $69 and $89 reserved seating, $39 standing room, $125 VIP (includes premium reserved seating, entry to the Ben E. Keith Foods VIP Room featuring food and libations, VIP parking and a separate private entrance to the theater) -- go on sale at 10 a.m. today for a 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 13 concert by John Hiatt & The Goners, featuring Sonny Landreth, Center for Humanities and Arts, University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College main campus, 3000 W. Scenic Drive, North Little Rock. Local singer-songwriter Trey Johnson will open the show. Visit the website, uaptc.edu/charts.
ETC.
Theater tryouts
The Weekend Theater, West Seventh and Chester streets, Little Rock, will hold auditions, via cold readings from the script, 10 a.m. Saturday and 6 p.m. Sunday, for two plays:
• Almost, Maine by John Cariani. Brian Chambers will cast an ensemble of actors who look between 18-60. Production dates are Dec. 1-2, 8-10 and 14-16.
• As Bees in Honey Drown by Douglas Carter Beane. Director Kayla Esmond will cast three men and three women. Production dates are Jan. 12-13, 19-21 and 25-27.
Auditioners need to attend only one session and provide a head shot (maximum 3 inches square). Call (501) 374-3761, email info@weekendtheater.org or visit weekendtheater.org/news-events/auditions.
Movie memorabilia
Mary Jean Hall, a patron of the Arkansas State Archives, has donated her four-decades-in-the-making collection of memorabilia from the movie Terror at Black Falls, filmed in Scotland, Ark., in 1959. The collection includes the original film reel, a signed script, lobby cards, posters, publicity photos and letters, including correspondence between Hall and House Peters, who played the sheriff in the Western, that lasted until his death in 2008.
Style on 09/19/2017