FUN<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Winging it this weekend<\/strong><\/p>\nArea restaurants and vendors will compete for People\u2019s Choice and Golden Wing awards at the all-you-can-eat chicken-wing extravaganza Wingstock<\/strong>, noon-2 p.m. Saturday at North Little Rock\u2019s Simmons Bank Arena. A variety of domestic and craft beers will be available (for purchase) to wash down the wings. Presenter is the Poultry Federation. Tickets are $31.95 and $63.45 (including fees), the latter for \u201cWing-I-Ps\u201d that includes early entry at 11 a.m., access to an \u201cexclusive lounge,\u201d private bar and restrooms \u201cand more than you can handle.\u201d Visit Ticketmaster.com. A complete list of participating restaurants and vendors is available at tinyurl.com\/3bp8d7hz.<\/p>\nMUSIC<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n British band music<\/strong><\/p>\nThe North Little Rock Community Concert Band\u00a0performs at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Patrick Henry Hays Center, 401 W. Pershing Blvd., North Little Rock. Music Director Rico Belotti conducts the 100-plus musicians in a program he calls \u201cSounds of the British Isles,\u201d including two pieces from Ralph Vaughan Williams \u2014 \u201cSeventeen Come Sunday\u201d from his \u201cEnglish Folk Song Suite\u201d and \u201cFlourish For Wind Band\u201d; \u201cIrish Tune From County Derry\u201d (aka \u201cDanny Boy\u201d) and \u201cYe Banks And Braes O\u2019 Bonnie Doon\u201d by Percy Aldridge Grainger, the latter featuring the band\u2019s woodwind and brass choirs; and Kenneth J. Alford\u2019s march \u201cOn the Quarter Deck.\u201d Associate Music Director Bill Spainhour will conduct Alford\u2019s \u201cColonel Bogey\u201d March and Patrick Glenn Harper\u2019s ode to the Scottish Highlands, \u201cHighland Castle Echoes.\u201d Admission is free. Call (501) 920-2539 or visit nlrcommunityband.com.<\/p>\n
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“Chicken House in Orange and Blue” by Cynthia Kresse is part of the \u201cChicken Houses of Arkansas” exhibition, opening Saturday at Boswell Mourot Fine Art in Little Rock’s SoMa neighborhood. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/figcaption><\/div>\nART<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Playing fowl<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cChicken Houses of Arkansas,\u201d\u00a0a series of large pastels by Eureka Springs artist Cynthia Kresse, goes on display with a 6-9 p.m. reception Saturday at Boswell Mourot Fine Art, 1501 Main St., Little Rock. The series earned Kresse an Artists 360 Practicing Artist Grant in 2024 from the Mid-America Art Alliance and the Walton Foundation. The exhibition, accompanied by other large Kresse pastels, remains on display through Sept. 6. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday and by appointment. Admission to the reception and gallery is free. Call (501) 454-6969 or visit boswellmourotfineart.com.<\/p>\n
Library exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\n\u25fc\ufe0f The Arkansas League of Artists\u2019 Opportunity Show opens with a 5-7 p.m. reception Friday at the William F. Laman Public Library, 2801 Orange St., North Little Rock. The league is a nonprofit organization \u201cdedicated to supporting and promoting individual artists and their right to free expression,\u201d according to a news release. The exhibition will be up through Sept. 30 during regular library hours: 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Admission to the reception and the exhibition is free. Call (501) 758-1720 or visit NLRlibrary.org.<\/p>\n
\u25fc\ufe0f \u201cConnected Through Color: Parts of a Whole,\u201d explorations of how color can be reimagined and transformed across several media, including animation, digital illustration and collage, by Adrianna Kimble-Ray, opens with a 5-8 p.m. Argenta Art District Third Friday Art Walk reception Friday at the Argenta Library Gallery, 420 Main St., North Little Rock. The show will be on display through Sept. 5. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday. Admission to the reception and the library is free. Call (501) 687-1061 or visit NLRlibrary.org.<\/p>\n
\u25fc\ufe0f Also opening with a 5-8 p.m. Argenta Art District Third Friday Art Walk reception Friday: \u201cCreatures of Play,\u201d an exhibition of mixed-media works by Central Arkansas artist Carol McCreight at the Innovation Hub Gallery, 204 E. Fourth St., North Little Rock. \u201cMcCreight\u2019s work invites viewers to reconnect with their innate sense of joy and wonder,\u201d according to a news release. The show stays up through Sept. 26. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday; 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday; and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. the third Saturday of each month. Admission is free. Call (501) 907-6570 or visit hub.nlrlibrary.org.<\/p>\n
ETC.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Living Craft Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\nLittle Rock\u2019s Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E. Third St., hosts\u00a0Living Craft Saturday and Summer Scout Day, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday on the museum\u2019s historic grounds. Students can print an ad for schoolbooks in the print shop, test their knowledge with historic education trivia \u201cand solve our teacher\u2019s problems,\u201d according to a news release. Girl Scouts and Scouting America members can work toward multiple merit badges. Admission is $2.50, $1.50 for senior citizens 65 and older, $1 for youngsters under 18, free for museum members, veterans, first responders, teachers and active military. Scouts and groups can register at tinyurl.com\/HistoricArkansas. Call (501) 324-9351.<\/p>\n
Happy birthday, Bill<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., is offering free admission in honor of\u00a0former President Bill Clinton\u2019s 79th birthday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. Visit clintonfoundation.org.<\/p>\n
In conjunction with the center\u2019s current \u201cPortraits From a Presidency\u201d exhibit, artist Virmarie DePoyster will lead three 90-minute lessons \u2014 10 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. \u2014 teaching visitors \u201cto see themselves leading and serving with an eye-drawing activity,\u201d according to a news release. Using colored pencils, participants will learn how to build layers of color, how to draw an eye from the frontal view and what makes our eyes come to life on paper. It\u2019s free and art supplies will be provided. Spots are limited \u2014 reserve one at clintonfoundation.org\/events\/clinton-presidential-center\/free-art-lessons.<\/p>\n
Garden talk<\/strong><\/p>\nArkansas Master Naturalist Lynn Foster will discuss\u00a0\u201cWhat Not To Do With Native Plants (Cultivars and Pesticides)\u201d\u00a0for the the August meeting of the Mt. Holly Garden Series, 9 a.m. Saturday at the Bell House, in the center of Mt. Holly Cemetery, 1200 Broadway, Little Rock. Take along a lawn chair; there will be door prizes. Admission is by suggested donation of $10 (or more), benefiting the cemetery. For more information, email mewtfrontporchlady@gmail.com.<\/p>\n
Blood, sweat & Trail of Tears<\/strong><\/p>\nHistorian David Ware, director of the Arkansas State Archives, is the keynote speaker for the presentation of \u201cWater Route for the Drops That Filled the River: Blood, Sweat and the Trail of Tears,\u201d a project highlighting the resilience of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee, Seminole and enslaved people of each tribal nation that was forced along the Water Route of the Trail of Tears across Arkansas, 1 p.m. Saturday in the Riverfront Room of the Old State House Museum, 300 W. Markham St., Little Rock. Admission is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s part of the Arkansas chapter Trail of Tears Association\u2019s annual meeting. The project includes custom artwork, wayside exhibits, rack cards and digital content to interpret the Water Route of the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail through Arkansas, which covered more than 400 miles from Arkansas Post National Memorial to Fort Smith National Historic Site. For more information, email jayirby@webtv.net or carolke5@aol.com.<\/p>\n
TICKETS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Candlelight concerts<\/strong><\/p>\nPromoter FeverUp is bringing its\u00a0Candlelight concert series\u00a0\u2014 the revolving-membership Listeso String Quartet performing classical music and pop tunes in the glow of thousands of candles \u2014 back to Little Rock, starting with a Halloween program \u201ccarefully curated to pay tribute to the spooky, the fantastical, and the supernatural,\u201d according to a news release, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 18 at the Albert Pike Memorial Center, 712 Scott St.<\/p>\n
The \u201cCandlelight: A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics\u201d program includes \u201cDanse Macabre\u201d by Camille Saint-Sa\u00ebns, \u201cFuneral March of a Marionette\u201d (better known as the theme for TV\u2019s \u201cAlfred Hitchcock Presents\u201d) by Charles Gounod, and the second movement of Dmitri Shostakovich\u2019s String Quartet No. 8, plus Mike Oldfield\u2019s \u201cTubular Bells\u201d (the theme from \u201cThe Exorcist\u201d), \u201cNight on Bald Mountain\u201d by Modest Mussorgsky (featured in Disney\u2019s \u201cFantasia\u201d), \u201cPrelude\u201d from \u201cPsycho\u201d by Bernard Herrmann, Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201cThriller\u201d (arranged for string quartet), \u201cTime Warp\u201d from \u201cThe Rocky Horror Picture Show\u201d and the main themes from \u201cBeetlejuice,\u201d \u201cThe Addams Family,\u201d \u201cGhostbusters,\u201d \u201cHalloween,\u201d TV\u2019s \u201cStranger Things\u201d and \u201cThe Nightmare Before Christmas.\u201d Tickets are $26-$47.50. Visit feverup.com\/m\/192221.<\/p>\n
That same evening, at 8:45, and at the same venue, using (presumably) the same candles: \u201cCandlelight: Neo-Soul Favorites,\u201d the quartet performing a program that tentatively includes SZA\u2019s \u201cGood Days,\u201d Lauryn Hill\u2019s \u201cEx-Factor,\u201d Solange\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Touch My Hair,\u201d Miguel\u2019s \u201cAdorn,\u201d Frank Ocean\u2019s \u201cThinkin Bout You,\u201d Prince\u2019s \u201cPurple Rain,\u201d Sade\u2019s \u201cSmooth Operator,\u201d Childish Gambino\u2019s \u201cRedbone,\u201d Alicia Keys\u2019 \u201cYou Don\u2019t Know My Name\u201d and Boyz II Men\u2019s \u201cEnd of the Road.\u201d That program will repeat at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 17. Tickets are $26-$47. Visit feverup.com\/m\/395889.<\/p>\n
The rest of the lineup (except as noted, all performances at the Albert Pike Memorial Center):<\/p>\n
\u25fc\ufe0f Dec. 20: \u201cCandlelight: Christmas Classics,\u201d 6:30 p.m., feverup.com\/m\/395890, and \u201cCandlelight: Tribute to Adele,\u201d 8:45 p.m., repeated at 8:45 p.m. Jan. 17, feverup.com\/m\/255272<\/p>\n
Visit candlelightexperience.com.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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