Blood Center
seeks donors
Community Blood Center of the Ozarks, the area's exclusive provider of blood products to over forty area hospitals, is experiencing a shortage of O positive and B positive blood types. Donations are needed immediately to ensure that adequate reserve levels are maintained.
Participants at CBCO mobile blood drives through Aug. 31 will receive a free "Super Hero" t-shirt, colorful reminders of the gift that means so much for local patients.
Help save lives by giving blood at these upcoming blood drives:
•Fayetteville: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sept. 4, City of Fayetteville, 15 W. Mountain St.
•Springdale: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sept. 4, Arkansas Children's Northwest, 2601 Gene George Blvd.
Information: (800) 280-5337 or cbco.org.
Red Cross
needs blood
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and the American Red Cross encourages eligible donors to give blood to support kids, teens and young adults battling cancer, as well as others in need of transfusions.
Donors can do good and look good this September when they donate blood or platelets with the Red Cross and get a free haircut coupon from Sport Clips Haircuts during the annual Saving Lives Never Looked So Good campaign.
Those who come out to give blood or platelets Sept. 1-30 will receive a coupon for a free haircut via email several days after their donation. The coupon is valid through Nov. 11 at participating Sport Clips locations. Donors must have a valid email address on record to receive the coupon.
Upcoming blood donation opportunities include:
•Bentonville: 2-6 p.m. Sept. 12, Walmart, 406 S. Walton Blvd.
•Cave Springs: Noon-4 p.m. Sept. 3, Absolute Heat & Air, 1083 E. Lowell Ave.
•Gentry: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sept. 10, Mckee Foods Bakery Store, 105 AR-59
•Jasper: 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Jasper High School, 600 School St.
•Fayetteville: 3-7 p.m. Sept. 9, Colton's Restaurant, 642 E. Millsap Drive; 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 11, Fayetteville Auto Park, 1418 W. Showroom Drive; 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Sept. 13, Medical Arts Pharmacy, 2515 E. Huntsville Road
Information: redcross.org.
Woodcarving
festival set
The second annual Woodcarving Rendezvous will be held Sept. 8-12 at the Eureka Springs School of the Arts, 15751 US-62 in Eureka Springs. Five of the best woodcarving artists in America will be instructing nearly 50 students from all over the United States. Guests are invited to view the carvers work, which ranges from several different styles; caricature, chip, wood burning, bust sculpture, relief and animal carving at the Big Studio Stroll.
The Studio Stroll, hosted by ESSA's board of directors, will be from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Sept. 12 in ESSA's Wood/Iron Studio complex.
Information: (479) 253-5384 or email hilka@essa-art.org.
Actors
sought
Five and Dime Drama collective is calling all actors. Auditions for the upcoming series of one-act plays will take place at the Eureka Springs Carnegie Library Annex from 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 9 and 10 with call backs on Sept. 12 and 13. No experience necessary. Actors will be asked to read from the plays that were selected this year.
Information: (479) 244-6253.
Luoni
to speak
Stephen Luoni will present a lecture at 4 p.m. Sept. 9 in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall, on the University of Arkansas campus, as part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design lecture series.
Luoni is the director of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center. He is also the Steven L. Anderson chairperson in architecture and urban studies and a distinguished professor of architecture in the Fay Jones School.
During his lecture, "Reinventing the Commons," Luoni will develop an overall approach to public-interest design and its role in producing public goods. He will focus on formulation of the placemaking platforms and design projects demonstrating these platforms.
The U of A Community Design Center is an outreach center of the Fay Jones School, with work that specializes in interdisciplinary public-interest design, combining ecological, urban and architectural design.
The public is invited to attend. Admission is free, with limited seating.
Information: (479) 575-4704 or fayjones.uark.edu.
Western Ballet
has auditions
Western Arkansas Ballet, a nonprofit performing arts organization, will hold open auditions for the 34th annual production of The Nutcracker. Candidates should be at least 6 years of age with at least two year's experience in dance and/or gymnastics; however, there are also parts available for adults and boys with little or no dance experience.
The auditions are Sept. 14 during the following times:
• Girls -- ages 6-8 registration 10-10:30 a.m., audition 10:30 a.m.-noon; ages 9-10 registration 12:15-12:45 p.m., audition 12:45-2:15 p.m.; and ages 11 and older registration 2:30-3 p.m., audition 3-4 p.m.
• Boys -- ages 6-8 registration 10-10:30 a.m., audition 10:30-11:30 a.m.; ages 9-10 registration 12:15-12:45 p.m., audition 12:45-1:45 p.m.; and ages 11 and older registration 2:30-3 p.m., audition 3-3:30 p.m.
Auditions are at the Western Arkansas Ballet Studio, 4701 Grand Ave. in Fort Smith. Wear appropriate dance clothing. The cost to audition for The Nutcracker is $40 ($25 is refundable if not cast).
Western Arkansas Ballet's annual production of The Nutcracker presents WAB's Academy students and Pre-Professional Company members, as well as the community, an opportunity to perform Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. The production features over 100 local children and adults as well as professional artists. Performances will be at 7 p.m. Nov. 30 at University of the Ozarks in Clarksville and at 7 p.m. Dec. 14 and 2 p.m. Dec. 15 at the ArcBest Corporation Performing Arts Center, 55 S. Seventh St. in Fort Smith.
Information: (479) 785-0152 or waballet.org.
Museum sets
piano event
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will host a free piano workshop by Van Cliburn pianist Lara Downes from 10 to 11 a.m. Sept. 16. The workshop group will have a chance to work with Downes on the famed Van Cliburn grand piano. Register at crystalbridges.org/calendar/piano-workshop-lara-downes.
Downes will perform in the Van Cliburn Concert Series at 3 p.m. Sept. 15 and will feature renowned singer Alicia Hall Moran and harpist Bridget Kibbey.
There is a student ticket rate of $10 for this concert in the Great Hall. Register at crystalbridges.org/calendar/van-cliburn-concert-series-lara-downes-holes-in-the-sky.
Information: (479) 418-5700 or crystalbridges.org.
FSRAM seeks
volunteers
The Fort Smith Regional Art Museum is looking for volunteers with various skills for a variety of opportunities. From working with little ones during Toddler Tuesday class, running the front desk or greeting guests during opening receptions and parties, to bartending, clerical work or assisting with marketing research, RAM has something for you.
Information: (479) 784-2787 or email education@fsram.org.
Professors
will visit
Acclaimed authors John Yau and Jonathan Lethem will be the 2019-20 McIlroy Family Visiting Professors in the Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Arkansas.
Yau is an award-winning poet, art critic and curator that has published over 50 books of poetry, fiction and art criticism. He will give a free public lecture at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 5 in Hillside Auditorium sponsored by the School of Art.
He will also participate in the nonprofit community-based Open Mouth Reading Series' Harvest Poetry Reading at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 6 at the Fayetteville Public Library. Additional participating poets include Ross Gay, Geffrey Davis and Gwendolyn Ann Hill. Sponsors of the event include the School of Art, the Department of English and the University of Arkansas Press.
Lethem is an award-winning, genre-defying fiction and nonfiction writer who is the author of more than a dozen books and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. He will hold a free public lecture on Oct. 3. Details will be announced at a later date.
Information: (479) 575-3583.
NAN Profiles on 09/01/2019