The 1925 silent film The Lost World will screen, with Taylor Hartwig, Raygan Adamson and Charlie Fancyboy, members of the Lyon College Jazz Band, performing an original score they created with band director Montgomery Hill, at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Melba Theater, 115 W. Main St., Batesville.
The film and music open the 17th annual Ozark Foothills FilmFest. Tickets are $7, $6 students and senior citizens over 54, $5 Foothills Film Society Members. Call (870) 251-1189 or visit ozarkfoothillsfilmfest.org.
The festival continues Friday-April 21 and April 27-28 in Independence Hall, University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville, 2005 White Drive. Most of the 45 films on the schedule are Arkansas premieres; several of the filmmakers will attend and conduct post-screening question-and-answer sessions. Admission for screenings is $5, $4 for students and senior citizens, $3 for members. A "Red Eye" all-movie pass is $30, $25 for students and senior citizens, $20 members.
Laura Bush lecture
Former first lady Laura Bush will speak at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Benson Auditorium, Harding University, 915 E. Market Ave., Searcy, part of the university's American Studies Institute's 2017-18 Distinguished Lecture Series. Admission is free. Call (501) 279-4497 or visit harding.edu/asi.
I'm With Her
I'm With Her -- Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O'Donovan -- performs at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., in association with the Fayetteville Roots Festival. Tickets are $32.50 plus fees. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
Pen to Podium
Journalist Evin Demirel will discuss his 2017 book, African-American Athletes in Arkansas: Muhammad Ali's Tour, Black Razorbacks, and Other Forgotten Stories, 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Diamond Room, Department of Arkansas Heritage, 1100 North St, Little Rock. The lecture is part of the Arkansas State Archives' Pen to Podium series. Friends of the Arkansas State Archives will host a reception at 6:30 in the Heritage Department lobby. Admission is free. Call (501) 682-6900 or visit archives.arkansas.gov.
UAFS jazz
The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith Jazz Catz and Jazz Band will cover 100 years of music, including songs and pieces by Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra and Katy Perry, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the ArcBest Corp. Performing Arts Center, Fort Smith Convention Center, 55 S. Seventh St., Fort Smith. Saxophonist Chris Vadala will solo. The concert is part of the university's Season of Entertainment 37. Tickets are $8, free for UAFS students and employees. Call (479) 788-7300 or visit tickets.uafs.edu.
Hamilton Experience
The Jodie Mahony Center for Gifted Education at the University for Arkansas at Little Rock will offer "MT Stage: The Hamilton Experience," a musical theater program inspired by Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway hit musical, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 25-29 in the University Theater, Center for Performing Arts, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock.
The program will accept 30 students from across the state enrolled in grades 7-9 during the 2017-18 school year to explore "the historical, societal, and cultural themes behind the musical and choose a focus area of musical theater: stagecraft or performance," according to a news release. It will culminate with students performing selected scenes from the musical and engaging in an audience talk-back session.
Application deadline is May 15. Applications and more information can be found online at ualr.edu/gifted. There is no charge to participate -- the center received, for the second year, an Academic Enrichment for the Gifted and Talented in the Summer grant from the state Department of Education to fund the program. Call (501) 569-3410.
Discovery Camp
Arkansas State University-Beebe will hold its Vanguard Discovery Camp, a series of STEM-related courses for students entering grades 4-8, in two-week sessions, 8 a.m.-noon and 1-5 p.m. weekdays, at three colleges over the course of the summer:
• ASU-Beebe Heber Springs campus, 101 River Crest Drive, Heber Springs. June 4-8: morning, forensics; afternoon, "Black Rocket: Code Breakers." June 11-15: Morning, Junior Naturalist; afternoon, Black Rocket: Minecraft Modders.
• ASU-Beebe Searcy campus, 1800 E. Moore Ave., Searcy. June 18-22: Morning, PULSE Medical Week, introducing students to technology and skills in a variety of medical professions; afternoon, Black Rocket: App Attack. July 9-13: Morning, Lego Robotics; afternoon, Black Rocket: Minecraft Designers.
• Arkansas State University-Beebe, 1000 Iowa St., Beebe. July 16-20: morning, separate sessions of Lego Robotics and Drone Technology (in partnership with Beebe High School); afternoon, Black Rocket: Code Breakers. July 23-27: Morning, Junior Naturalist; afternoon, Minecraft Modders.
Cost for each class is $80, except for Drone Technology, which is $100. Register online at asub.ticketleap.com. Call (501) 362-1273 or visit asub.edu.
Style on 04/15/2018