LITTLE ROCK — Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts this week: Maniacally musical
Trombone quartet Maniacal 4 - Matt Jefferson, bass trombone, and Nick Laufer, Carl Lundgren and Alex Dubrov, tenor trombone - will give two Arkansas performances this week:
7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Riceland Hall of Arkansas State University’s Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro, part of the university’s Lecture-Concert Series. Admission is free. Call (870) 680-8028 or e-mail nbartee@astate.edu.
7 p.m. Saturday, Fine Arts Center Auditorium, University of Arkansas at Monticello. Admission is free. Call (870) 460-1060.
The quartet will choose its program from a set list that includes arrangements (many of them by Lundgren) of works by Bela Bartok and Antonio Vivaldi and pieces by contemporary composers Kevin Swaim, Owen Pallett, Kerry Livgren and David Paich.
Poetical anniversary
Bud Kenny, who founded the Spa City’s Wednesday Night Poetry Readings, will be the featured poet for the series’ 24th anniversary show, 7 p.m. Wednesday at Maxine’s, 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs. A karaoke session at approximately 9 p.m. will follow his performance and an open mic. Admission is free; you must be 21 to participate. Call (501) 321-0909 or e-mail dodsonchuck@gmail.com.
Film screening
Community Cinema, a joint project of the Arkansas Educational Television Network, public radio station KUAR-FM, 89.1, and North Little Rock’s William F. Laman Library, will screen The Powerbroker: Whitney Young’s Fight for Civil Rights, a portrait of the executive director of the National Urban League during the 1960s, at 6:30 p.m. today in the main library auditorium, 2801 Orange St., North Little Rock.
University of Arkansas at Little Rock history faculty member Barclay Key will lead a post-screening community discussion; attendees can also visit the library’s civil rights exhibit, “For All the World to See: Visual Culture and Struggle for Civil Rights.”
Admission is free. Call (800) 662-2386 or visit the website, aetn.org/communitycinema. The documentary will air at 9 p.m. Feb. 18 on AETN.
Legacies and Lunch
Linda McDowell, archival assistant at the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, will discuss the lives of several prominent and notable black Arkansans for the center’s Legacies and Lunch program, noon Wednesday in the Darragh Center, Central Arkansas Library System Main Library, 100 Rock St., Little Rock. Admission is free. Take a sack lunch; the center will provide drinks and dessert. Call (501) 918-3033 or visit the website, cals.org.
‘Yarn Harlot’
Author, blogger and humorist Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, aka “The Yarn Harlot,” will participate in a retreat and give a public lecture May 4-5 during the Arkansas Fiber Arts Extravaganza at the Lodge at Mount Magazine State Park, 16878 Arkansas 309 South, Paris.
She’ll give the lecture, titled “This Is Your Brain on Knitting,” and sign books at 1 p.m. May 4. Admission is $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Registration begins March 15 at arfiberartsextravaganza.com.
She will also teach three classes over two days, May 4-5, for 18 winners of a ticket lottery; sign up before Feb. 10 at the website. Cost is $500, including admission to Pearl-McPhee’s lecture but not including travel, lodging or meals. E-mail arextrav@gmail.com.
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