Faulkner Center Hosts Free 'Elf' Movie Screening and Canned Food Drive on Dec. 10

The Jim and Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center will host a free, family-friendly screening of the holiday film Elf, starring Will Ferrell, from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10.

The screening also serves as a canned food drive benefiting the Jane B. Gearhart Full Circle Food Pantry.

Attendees are encouraged to bring non-perishable canned goods, and to get into the holiday spirit by coming dressed as their favorite holiday characters to enjoy the movie.

For more information or to reserve tickets, please click here.

The screening is part of the Faulkner Center's 2016-17 "FPAC Presents Series," which culminates with a performance by the St. Lawrence String Quartet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 16. Tickets for this performance are on sale now. For more information, please click here.

About the Jim and Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center: The new performing arts center at the University of Arkansas — a renovation of the old Field House — is named the Jim and Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center, in honor of the couple's major gift to the project. Completed in September 2015, this world-class performance venue is 39,400 square feet, with seating for 587, and a stage that can accommodate as many as 250 performers. The center is the main performance venue for the university's J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences Department of Music and hosts guest musical activities for the university and Northwest Arkansas community.

About the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences: The J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences is the largest and most academically diverse unit on campus with 19 departments and 43 academic programs and research centers. The college provides the core curriculum for all University of Arkansas students and is named for J. William Fulbright, former university president and longtime U.S. senator.