FILM
‘Strangelove’ screening
The Clinton Presidential Center and the Central Arkansas Library System will host a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 very dark comedy “Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” 7 p.m. Saturday at the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock. It’s the final screening in the Clinton Center’s “Commanding the Screen” Watch Party series, in conjunction with the center’s current exhibition, “Commanding the Screen: The American Presidency in Film and Television.”
An unhinged Air Force general (Sterling Hayden) unleashes a pre-emptive nuclear attack on the Soviet Union; U.S. President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers) and his advisers and generals are caught up in a desperate effort to save the world. (Sellers also plays Royal Air Force Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake, assigned through a military exchange as an aide to the mad general, and the title character, an ex-Nazi scientist who is an expert in nuclear weaponry.) The film also features George C. Scott, Keenan Wynn and Slim Pickens, and was the first film appearance for James Earl Jones.
Admission is free; concessions will be for sale. Register and reserve a seat via tinyurl.com/2svxz4ak or visit clintonpresidentialcenter.org/events. The theater will validate parking tickets from the Main Library parking lot and the parking deck at President Clinton Avenue and Rock Street next door to the Main Library.
ART
‘Rooted Visions’
“Rooted Visions,” works by 25 self-taught Black Southern artists “who have redefined artistic expression with their innovative use of found objects and everyday materials,” according to a news release, goes on display Tuesday at the Rogers Historical Museum, 313 S. Second St. at Cherry Street, Rogers. The exhibition, on tour through ExhibitsUSA and up through April 12, includes works by Mose Tolliver, Hawkins Bolden, Bessie Harvey, Leroy Almon Sr. and Mary T. Smith. Museum hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Admission is free. Call (479) 621-1154 or visit rogershistoricalmuseum.org.
“Preservation Hall: Street Scene, 1992” by Ruth Mae McCrane and “Missionary” by Mary Proctor are part of “Rooted Visions,” on display Tuesday-April 12 at the Rogers Historical Museum. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Courtesy of CJ Williams Collection)
MUSIC
American rhythms
The PUBLIQuartet — Jannina Norpoth and Curtis Stewart, violins; Nick Revel, viola; and Hamilton Berry, cello — offers a follow-up to its Grammy-nominated project “What Is American,” called “What Is American: Rhythm Nation,” 7:30 p.m. Friday at the University of Arkansas’ Jim and Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center, 453 Garland Ave., Fayetteville.
The program of music by living American composers, which a news release describes as “(celebrating) American rhythmic traditions as expressions of bodily autonomy and tacit history keeping,” includes “Voodoo Dolls” by Jessie Montgomery; the quartet’s 2019 improvisations on Fats Waller’s “Honeysuckle Rose,” titled “MIND — THE — GAP: Pavement Pounding Rose”; excerpts from “Hip Hop Studies and Etudes, Book I” by Daniel Bernard Roumain; “Sixfivetwo” by Henry Threadgill; “Blues for Buddy” by Jeff Scott; “Dig the Say” for string quartet by Vijay Iyer; “Sunjata’s Time” by Fodé Lassana Diabaté, arranged by Jacob Garchik; and another “MIND — THE — GAP” segment, titled “Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues,” improvisations on Tina Turner’s “Black Coffee,” Betty Davis’ “They Say I’m Different,” Alice Coltrane’s “Er Ra” and Ida Cox’s “Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues.”
Admission is free. Visit calendars.uark.edu/event/publiquartet.
PUBLIQuartet performs Jan. 31 at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s Jim and Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette /Lelanie Foster)‘ The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties ’
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