In Back to the Future, Part II, Marty McFly visits October 21, 2015. So hop on your hoverboard and go to the CALS Ron Robinson Theatre tonight to see the 1989 film.
Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Thomas F. Wilson all recreate their roles from the 1985 first film. Elisabeth Shue, Billy Zane and Casey Siemaszko join in the time travel fun for this film.
The future will arrive at 7pm. Admission is $5 (which is $2.24 in 1985 dollars).
Geoffrey Robson has been the Associate Conductor of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra since 2008, and the Music Director of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Youth Ensembles since 2012. In the latter capacity, he has collaborated with the Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theatre and Ballet Arkansas’ Preparatory Program.
He also performs as a violinist, frequently appearing in the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s popular River Rhapsodies chamber series, performing with principal members of the ASO. He has also performed with The Wildflowers and other music acts in Central Arkansas. As a conductor, works with guest artists such as Midori, the Beach Boys, Vadym Kholodenko, Rachel Barton Pine, Lawrence Hamilton, Timothy Jones, Henrietta Davis, Christiane Noll, and Calvin Lee. In addition, Robson writes and produces “At the Symphony, a concert preview radio series on KLRE Classical 90.5.
He completed his M.M. at Yale University in 2004, studying violin performance with Erick Friedman. In Connecticut, he served as co-concertmaster of the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, and assistant concertmaster of the Waterbury Symphony. Robson also worked as a public schoolteacher in New Haven, CT, and has taught violin, piano, viola, and music theory extensively as a private instructor.
Robson studied orchestral conducting at the Mannes College of Music in New York City under the tutelage of David Hayes. He has twice attended the London Conducting Workshop, an annual course at the Royal College of Music in London, and the International Conducting Festival and Workshop in Zlin, Czech Republic. Robson graduated from the honors college at Michigan State University in 2002, where he studied violin performance with Dmitri Berlinsky and I-fu Wang, and conducting with Leon Gregorian.
Tonight at 6pm at the Arkansas Arts Center, the Architecture and Design Network, in collaboration with the Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN), will present an American Masters Series film “Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer’s Journey.”
Tonight at 6pm at the Ron Robinson Theater, the Clinton School will screen the new documentary The First Boys of Spring.
Beginning in 1886, baseball spring training was held for the first time, not in Florida or Arizona, but in the Arkansas resort town of Hot Springs, and that’s where the annual rite caught on. For parts of eight decades, many of the best who ever played the game, came to Hot Springs to shake off the rust from winters to prepare for long seasons ahead, with such teams as the Red Sox, Dodgers, and Pirates—and the Negro League’s Monarchs, Crawfords, and Grays.
The First Boys of Spring is a one-hour documentary by award-winning filmmaker Larry Foley, narrated by Academy Award-winner Billy Bob Thornton. The film tells stories of baseball Hall of Famers who worked out, gambled and partied in Hot Springs, including Cy Young, Satchel Paige, Honus Wagner and baseball’s first superstar, Mike “King” Kelly. A central figure is a young Babe Ruth, who belted a 573-foot home run into the Arkansas Alligator Farm in March of 1918, while trying to convince Boston Red Sox management to play him every day, even though he was already the game’s dominant pitcher.
The First Boys of Spring is made possible by Visit Hot Springs, Arkansas Humanities Council, University of Arkansas, Munro Foundation, Morris Foundation, The Arlington Hotel Resort Hotel and Spa and the Department of Arkansas Heritage.
Director, actor, theatre-man-about-town Justin A. Pike has worked with just about every theatrical organization in Central Arkansas. When he is not director, choreographing, designing, producing, and/or acting in a show, he can generally be found in the audience watching one.
Currently, a production of The Rocky Horror Show, which he directed, is being performed at the Lantern Theatre in Conway. Later this week, Reefer Madness opens at The Studio Theatre in downtown Little Rock. Pike serves as the Artistic Director of that theatre.
Listing all of his roles at various Central Arkansas theatres would take much space. Among some of his more recent efforts are directing Xanadu at The Studio Theatre, starring in The Music Man for the Royal Players, directing Legally Blonde for the Royal Theatre, acting in Baby for Community Theatre of Little Rock, and directing Footloose for the Royal Players. He is equally at home working with comedies, dramas and musicals.
What do a potter, a wood sculptor, a basket maker, an egg artist, a stained glass artist, a fiddle maker, a log cabin maker, a handmade wooden plane maker, a chair maker, a quilt maker, and a bladesmith have in common?
They are all past recipients of our Arkansas Living Treasure award.
The Arkansas Arts Council is currently searching for a new artist to take his or her reign as the 2016 Arkansas Living Treasure. They are seeking an Arkansas artist who excels in the creation of a traditional craft and who actively preserves and advances his or her craft through community outreach and educating others.
Nominations are due Friday, November 6. #AuthenticArkansas#SupportCraftArt #ArkansasArts
http://www.arkansasarts.org/…/Arkansas-Living-Treasure…/home
Now in its 14th year, the Arkansas Living Treasure program annually recognizes an Arkansas artist who excels in the creation of a traditional craft and who actively preserves and advances his or her craft through community outreach and educating others.
An independent panel of practicing craft artists and professionals in the fields of craft and folk art selects the recipient based on the following criteria: quality of work, community outreach and total contribution to the field of traditional crafts. The awardee is honored at a ceremony in May during Arkansas Heritage Month.
In 2013, the Arkansas Arts Council and Historic Arkansas Museum collaborated to produce a series of short films that celebrate the lives and work of each Arkansas Living Treasure recipient. Click HERE to view the documentaries featured in the Arkansas Living Treasure Film Project.
When Jay Clark is not on stage at the Arkansas Rep or other local theatres, you will might find him in a pulpit or leading a youth outing at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church. His “day job” is Pastor with Youth and Their Families at PHUMC. He is currently an understudy for Vice-Principal Panch in the Arkansas Rep production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. He is set to perform on the 22nd and 23rd this week (Thursday and Friday). If you saw him in multiple roles in the Rep’s production of Hairspray, you know you’re in for a good show!Maybe watching Aloha from Hawaii. I was only a few years old, but I remember sitting in front of the tv on the bean-bag and watching. It was either this or dancing with a stuffed animal fox.
-When I was in high school and imagined my adulthood, I thought I would be…
An actor, no doubt. Plus I wanted a fulfilling life.
Battle of the Network Stars.
Tigger…although I have my Christopher Robin moments.
Dead or alive? George Burns, Jack Benny, Don Rickles, The Rat Pack – I tend to be old school.
digging ditches and house footings for my grandpa. Then as a radio dj for KRLW in Walnut Ridge
anything by Dostoevsky
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