This Week in the Visual and Performing Arts: Oct. 11-18
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Theatre, concerts, film screenings and art exhibitions continue to fill October with opportunities to experience the visual and performing arts. The entire community is encouraged to attend these on-campus and off-campus events featuring student, faculty and guest artists in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.
Resplendent, an exhibition in the Fine Arts Center Gallery, will close Friday, Oct. 11. The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Also on Friday, Kathleen Maurer and Moon-Sook Park will give a faculty voice recital at 7:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center’s Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. They will be joined by Johan Botes on piano.
The Clean House continues Friday, Oct. 11, until Sunday, Oct. 13, in the University Theatre. Performances are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $16 for adults, $14 for faculty, staff and seniors and $7 for children under 18.
The Razorback Marching Band will give an encore performance of its Bond Show during half time of the Arkansas Razorbacks football game against the University of South Carolina at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium Saturday, Oct. 12. They will also feature the Razorback Alumni Band during their pre game performance.
Benjamin Pierce, associate professor of music, and Tomoko Kashiwagi, visiting instructor, will give a faculty recital at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.
Also on Sunday in Stella Boyle Smith, guest artist Thomas Pool will give a saxophone concert at 7:30 p.m.
The department of music will present the first installment of its Brown Bag Lunchtime Concerts series at noon Monday, Oct. 14, in the chapel at Central United Methodist Church on Dickson St.
Also on Monday, guest artist Yoonie Han will give a piano concert at 8 p.m. in Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.
The University of Arkansas Symphony Orchestra will present “Masters of Fate” conducted by Robert Mueller at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, at Walton Arts Center. Tickets are $1 for students with a valid University of Arkansas ID and $5 for general admission.
Nadi Cinema will host a screening of The Fifth Heaven (dir. Dana Zvi Riklis, Israel 2011) at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, in Mullins Library, room 104.
The gender studies program and the Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society will present a screening of Breaking Through at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, in Ozark Hall, room 119. Cindy Abel, the documentary’s director, producer and writer, and Michael Bruno, director of photography and editor, will participate in a discussion following the screening.
Also on Thursday, guest artist Tom Bacon will give a French horn recital at 7:30 p.m. in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.
Paint, Pixels and Process, an invitational group exhibition showcasing work by adjunct and visiting faculty in the department of art, continues in the sUgAR Gallery on the basement level of One East Square Plaza. The gallery is open from 1 p.m. until 6 p.m. Thursday through Saturday.
A printmaking exhibit by Anna Tsantir may be seen in the Fine Arts Center hallway exhibition cases until Friday, Oct. 18. The display also features books created by students who participated in the 2013 Art in Rome program
This is not a comprehensive list. Please refer to the University of Arkansas events calendar for more information. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Contacts
Darinda Sharp, director of communications
J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
479-575-4393,
dsharp@uark.edu