March 25 (Sunday)
Goddess Festival 2018 -- With Jori Costello in concert, 1-3 p.m., Senior Activity Center on South College Avenue in Fayetteville. Donations accepted. goddessfestival.com.
Clayton Conversations -- With filmmaker and Fort Smith native Phillip Person, 1:30 p.m., Clayton House museum in Fort Smith. Reservations at 783-3000.
"Vietgone" -- Fresh from its acclaimed, sold-out New York debut, "Vietgone" is an energetic and winning take on one Arkansas family's origin story, 2 p.m. Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 2 & 7:30 p.m. Saturday, through April 8, TheatreSquared at the Nadine Baum Studios in Fayetteville. $17 & up. 443-5600.
Incredible Edible Food Art Competition -- Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Eureka Springs School of the Arts, 3-6 p.m., ESSA's Wood and Iron Studio complex at 15751 U.S. 62 west of Eureka Springs. Admission by donation. 253-5384.
Goddess Festival 2018 -- Closing ritual, 3-6 p.m., Omni Center in Fayetteville. Free. goddessfestival.com.
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March 26 (Monday)
American Girl Book Club -- "Menace at Mammoth Cave: A Kit Mystery," 4:30 p.m., Bentonville Public Library. For grades 3-6. Free. 271-6816.
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March 27 (Tuesday)
Jazzy Ash & the Leaping Lizards -- Music for kids born in New Orleans and influenced by Caribbean rhythms, 6 p.m., Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville. $9-$15. 443-5600.
Artist's Reception -- For Charles Peer, pastel artist, 6-7:30 p.m. with a gallery talk at 6:30 p.m., Windgate Visual Arts West Gallery at John Brown University in Siloam Springs. Exhibit on show through May 3. Free. Email jabbott@jbu.edu.
JBU Cathedral Choir -- Including a new work by Jeremy Allen, JBU assistant professor of music, titled "Hapo Mwanzo," an arrangement of John 1:1 in Swahili, 7:30 p.m., Berry Performing Arts Center at John Brown University in Siloam Springs. Free. 549-7268.
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March 28 (Wednesday)
Space Science -- Women in Astronomy with Caitlin Ahrens, 6 p.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. faylib.org.
Art Talk -- With Richard Hiroyuki Yada, who was born in the Rohwer Japanese American internment camp that was located in the same town where artist John L Newman was born and that is the subject of much of Newman's art, 6-8 p.m., Art Ventures in Fayetteville. Free. 871-2722.
Studio Sampler -- Clay planters, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Community Creative Center at the Nadine Baum Studios in Fayetteville. $35. Age 16 & up. Register at 571-2706 or communitycreativecenter.org.
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March 29 (Thursday)
Artist's Reception -- For abstract artist Eddie Love, 5-7 p.m., Crabby's Seafood in Rogers. Email demara.titzer@gmail.com.
"Development of a Hybrid Visual Language" -- With Pouya Jahanshahi of Pasaj Cultural Collaborative, 5:30 p.m., in the theater at Windgate Art & Design at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith. Free. Email Ting.Wang-Hedges@uafs.edu.
DISH -- With Judy Wick, founder of Philadelphia's landmark White Dog Cafe, 6 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. $50. Reservations at 657-2335.
Artists' Reception -- For "Homage to Femmage" artists Dani Godreau, Sam Mack, Katie McColgan, Anthony Kascak, Ashley Eyster, Cydnei Mallory, Rebecca Drolen, Hannah McBroom, Danny R.W. Baskin and Becky Posnak, 6:30-8:30 p.m., sUgAR: The University of Arkansas Student Gallery, 1 E. Center St. in Fayetteville. Free. Email curator Abigail Grix at abigail.grix@gmail.com.
Listening Sessions -- "A Love Supreme: Jazz and the Pursuit of Black Excellence" with Duke University professor Mark Anthony Neal, 7 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. $15. 657-2335.
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March 30 (Friday)
Art By the Glass -- "Precious Pearl" with educator Sally Ball, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. $55. Register at 657-2335.
Artists' Reception -- For photographer Marsha Lane Foster -- creator with writer Monica Hall of "My Unraveling: The Haircut" -- and wood sculptor Suzannah Schreckhise, creator of Recapitulate Placidity," 6:30-9:30 p.m., 211 W. Elm St. in Rogers. lanefosterfineart.com.
"Soul of a Nation" Film Series -- "Mo' Better Blues" with Duke University professor Mark Anthony Neal, 7 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. 657-2335.
"Living on Love" -- An opera diva discovers her larger-than-life maestro husband has become enamored with the lovely young lady hired to ghost write his largely fictional autobiography, 8 p.m. March 30-31, again April 6-8, Arkansas Public Theatre in Rogers. $23-$35. 631-8988.
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March 31 (Saturday)
Super Saturday -- Young Meteorologist Weather Festival with Dan Skoff and Darby Bybee, 10:30 a.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. faylib.org.
"Arkansas Cherokee: Language, Culture, and Removal" -- With Justin Nolan, professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas, 1 p.m., Shiloh Museum in Springdale. Sponsored by the Arkansas Chapter Trail of Tears Association. Free. 750-8165.
East Coast Swing -- Intermediate dancers learn 2 to 4 p.m., beginners 6-7 p.m., dance 7-11 p.m., University of Arkansas Union ballroom in Fayetteville. $8-$10. Hosted by NWA Swing Dance Society. 935-4186.
"Breaking Bread" -- "A Baker's Journey Home in 75 Recipes" with King Arthur Flour head bread baker Martin Philip, 2:30 p.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. Books will be for sale. faylib.org.
-- Becca Martin-Brown
bmartin@nwadg.com
NAN What's Up on 03/25/2018