Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
WEDNESDAY
Berry documentary
The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies’ Legacies & Lunch program, noon Wednesday, Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock, will feature a screening of the documentary The Favored Strawberry.
The hourlong film, produced by University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, faculty members Larry Foley and Dale Carpenter, focuses on the strawberry industry in Arkansas and elsewhere. It is the culmination of a national project led by the UA System Division of Agriculture and its Center for Agricultural and Rural Sustainability. Foley will introduce the film and take part in a post-screening question-and-answer session.
Co-sponsors are the Clinton School of Public Service and the Arkansas Humanities Council. Admission is free; patrons should pack their own lunches — the Butler Center will provide beverages and desserts. Call (501) 683-5239 or email publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys. edu.
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Preservation entries
Preserve Arkansas is taking nominations for buildings, structures, sites, and other places to be considered for inclusion in its 2018 Most Endangered Places List, highlighting historically and architecturally significant properties throughout the state that are worthy of preservation. Make nominations by March 26, online at PreserveArkansas.org . Call (501) 372-4757 or email rpatton@preservearkansas.org.
Poetry prizes
The Hot Springs Cultural Alliance is seeking poems about Arkansas for its Arts & The Park collaborative arts festival. The first-place winner of the third annual Paul Tucker Poetry Prize will receive $1,000 cash at the event, April 27-May 6 in Hot Springs.
Poems must be unpublished, in any style, 30 lines or less with Arkansas as its theme; authors must be a current or former resident of Arkansas. The Hot Springs chapter of the Poets Round-table of Arkansas will also award $400 for second place and $200 for third. The contest is named after the late Dr. Paul Tucker, a Hot Springs neurologist, poet and arts patron who died in September after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
Submit one or two poems without the author’s name on them; include a cover sheet that includes the names of the poems, author’s name, address, phone number and email address, either by email, by midnight, April 15 — attach the poems in separate Word documents and include the cover sheet information in the body of the email — to docshakespeare@gmail.com; or by U.S. mail, postmarked by midnight, April 14, to Dr. John Crawford, 116 Patton, Hot Springs, Ark. 71913. Authors will retain all rights but winners will grant first-time publication rights to the contest sponsors. Visit hotspringsarts.org .
Jazz in the Park
Jazz pianist Louis Heard and his trio, going by Louis Heard & Co., will open the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau’s sixth season of Little Rock Jazz in the Park, 6-8 p.m. April 4 at the History Pavilion, just west of the First Security Amphitheater, Riverfront Park, access via Ottenheimer Plaza, 400 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.
The bureau is for the fourth year partnering with Art Porter Music Education Inc. Admission is free; there is some seating in the pavilion’s natural stone amphitheater and lawn chairs and blankets are welcome. Beer, wine, soft drinks, water and new Jazz in the Park koozies will be available for sale, with a portion of the proceeds going to benefit APME’s scholarship fund. In case of rain, performances will move to the River Market West Pavilion.
The rest of the lineup (6-8 p.m. Wednesdays in April):
April 11: A+B (singer Adrienne Collins and guitarist Bonnie Earleywine)
April 18: Off the Cuff
April 25: MarQuis Hunt
Call (501) 375-2552 or visit the website, rivermarket.info.