Elsewhere in entertainment, events and the arts:
TODAY
'Piece of My Soul'
"A Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansans," a selection from the museum's collection of more 100 quilts from the post-Reconstruction era to the present, opens with a reception, 6-8 p.m. today at the Old State House Museum, 300 W. Markham St., Little Rock. The exhibit will be up through fall 2019; museum hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission to the reception and museum is free. Call (501) 324-9685 or visit oldstatehouse.com.
Choose-a your Sousa
The audience will choose the John Philip Sousa march for the Little Rock Wind Symphony and conductor Israel Getzov to perform (from a ballot of three or four marches out of the more than 135 marches Sousa composed) to close a concert titled "Forward March!" at 7:30 p.m. today, Second Presbyterian Church, 600 Pleasant Valley Drive, Little Rock. The program also includes the National Emblem March by E.E. Bagley; Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Gounod; March, op.99, by Sergei Prokofiev; Silence Overwhelmed by Brian Balmages; Patton by Jerry Goldsmith; Coronation March: Crown Imperial by William Walton; "Marches" from the Symphony No. 4 by Morton Gould; the Radetzky March by Johann Strauss Sr.; "Waltz No. 2" from Jazz Suite No. 2 by Dmitri Shostakovich; Barnum & Bailey's Favorite by Karl L. King; and Eagle Squadron March by Kenneth J. Alford. Tickets are $15, $12 for senior citizens 65 and older, free for students. Call (501) 666-0777 or visit tickets.lrws.net or lrwindsymphony.org.
Writing Life
Authors Molly McCully Brown (The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded; Oxford American magazine's 2017-18 Jeff Baskin Writers Fellow) and Seth Pennington (Tertulia; editor-in-chief at Little Rock-based Sibling Rivalry Press) tell stories about writing, life, and the intersection of the two for Potluck & Poison Ivy, 7 p.m. today at The Joint, 301 Main St., North Little Rock. John Burnette provides musical entertainment. Tickets are $35. Email info@potluckandpoisonivy.org or visit potluckandpoisonivy.org.
UCA bands
The University of Central Arkansas Symphonic and University Bands will perform at 7:30 p.m. today in the Recital Hall, Snow Fine Arts Center, UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway.
The University Band will play Flourish for Wind Band by Ralph Vaughan Williams, conducted by Davis Norton; American Jubilee by Charles Booker, conducted by Mykala Parker; The Wayfaring Stranger by Steve Rouse, conducted by Justin Gavito; Overture in B Flat by Caesar Giovannini, conducted by Cody Ford; and Imaginarium by Randall D.Standridge, conducted by McKenzie Vivianno.
The Symphonic Band program includes Gavorkna Fanfare by Jack Stamp, conducted by Vivianno; Symphonic Prelude on "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" by Alfred Reed, conducted by Gavito; and The Divine Comedy by Robert W. Smith, conducted by Associate Director of Bands Brantley Douglas.
Admission is free. Call (501) 450-5022 or email bdouglas@uca.edu.
Beebe Mousetrap
The Arkansas State University-Beebe theater department will stage The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie, 7 p.m. today-Saturday in the Owen Center Auditorium, 910 N. Pecan St., Beebe. Admission is free. Call (501) 882-3600 or visit asub.edu.
FRIDAY
Walpurgisnacht recital
Jason Pennington-Saugey, associate director of music and organist at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, will play the third in a series of four dedicatory organ programs celebrating the completion of the cathedral organ's year-long renovation and tonal reconfiguration, 7 p.m. Friday at the cathedral, 310 W. 17th St., Little Rock. The program, also timed toward Walpurgisnacht, an annual convention of dark spirits on a mountain in central Germany, includes the tone poem Walpurgisnacht from incidental music Petr Eben composed for a 1976 production of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust; it also includes the Fantasia in f minor, K.594, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Sonate II (1937) by Paul Hindemith; Praludium und Fuge by Alexander Schawersaschwili; an arrangement of the "Adagietto" from the Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler; and Benedictus, op.59 No. 9, by Max Reger. A reception will follow in the cathedral's Morrison Hall. Admission is free. Call (501) 372-0294 or email Victoria@trinitylittlerock.org.
SATURDAY
Food festival
The International Food Festival, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, 3221 Anna St., Little Rock, will focus on food, culture and music from Jamaica, Africa, Jordan, Palestine, China, Greece, the Mediterranean, Bangladesh and India. There will also be a shopping bazaar, dance, entertainment and kids activities including train rides, a bounce house and a magician. Admission is free. Visit the Facebook page, facebook.com/LRinternationalfoodfest.
Garden market
The first 2018 Bernice Garden Vintage and Craft Market, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at the garden, 1401 Main St., Little Rock, showcasing, for the fifth year, vintage collectibles and handmade items from local crafters. Marketgoers can also expect to find antique paper products, jewelry, knitted accessories and early-edition books, plus musicians and food trucks. Call (501) 410-3938, email bernicegarden@gmail.com or visit thebernicegarden.org or the Facebook event page, facebook.com/events/506028213127387.
Steampunk Festival
More than 100 vendors will be on hand for the Old Timers Day Steampunk Festival, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday in downtown Van Buren. Entertainment will include stilt walkers, jugglers and hula hoop artists roaming up and down Main Street, as well as performers including Irish dancers, fire dancers and American Indian dancers at every Main Street intersection. The event also features sword-swallowing and fire-breathing, a magician, a costume contest, dog costume contest, $12 hot air balloon rides and food trucks.
Admission is free. Festivalgoers are encouraged to come in Steampunk attire. Visit oldtownvanburen.com.
SUNDAY
Love & Murder
A distant heir to a family fortune sets out to jump the line of succession by eliminating the eight pesky relatives in the touring production of musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder (music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman, book by Freedman), 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. Tickets are $30-$40, $10 for children, free for UCA students with valid student ID. Call (501) 450-3265 or (866) 810-0012 or visit uca.edu/reynolds.
Weekend on 04/26/2018