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Sounds in the Stacks series starts tonight courtesy of Arkansas Sounds and CALS

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arkansas_sounds_2013Three Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) branches will host Sounds in the Stacks, a Fall Concert series, as part of Arkansas Sounds and CALS Adult Programming. The concerts are free and open to the public.

Local keyboardists with different musical backgrounds will play different types of music on the Yamaha C6 7-foot semi concert grand piano provided by Piano Kraft for this series. Piano Kraft is the exclusive piano provider for Arkansas Sounds.

 

Dee Brown Library, 6325 Baseline Rd.

Thursday, September 17 – 6:30 p.m.

Sam Carroll, keyboardist for Rodney Block & The Real Music Lovers

Thompson Library, 38 Rahling Circle

Thursday, October 8 – 7 p.m.

Chris Parker, keyboardist with Walter Henderson and John Bush Quintet

Rooker Library, 11 Otter Creek Ct.

Thursday, November 12 – 6:30 p.m.

Carl Mouton, keyboardist and Director of Bands at Maumelle High School

 

Arkansas Sounds is a project of the Butler Center focusing on Arkansas music and musicians past and present. For more information, visit www.arkansassounds.org or call 501-918-3033.

Runaway Planet at Ron Robinson Theater tonight at 7 with Arkansas Sounds

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arksounds runaway_planetTonight at 7pm, the Arkansas Sounds Music Series features Runaway Planet.

Traditional string band Runaway Planet performs hard-driving bluegrass, three-part harmonies, complex arrangements, and original songs. Runaway Planet is an Arkansas four-piece bluegrass group that has performed nearly 15 years. The band’s original music features traditional bluegrass instrumentation with modern lyrics, three-part harmonies, and highly skilled playing showing their rock, folk, and jazz influences.

The concert will take place at the CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Avenue.  General Admission: $10.  Refreshments will be available for purchase.

Founded in 2001, Little Rock bluegrass band Runaway Planet evolved out of a long-time friendship between members and a mutual love for traditional string-band music. Their music is a mix of hard-driving bluegrass, three-part harmonies, complex arrangements and original songs.  The musicians are Greg Alexander, guitar and vocals; Steve Brauer, banjo, guitar, vocals; Matthew Stone, mandolin, dobro; Michael Proveaux, bass, vocals.

Drawing from traditional influences like Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs and the Stanley Brothers, they are also inspired by more progressive bluegrass bands like The Country Gentlemen, The Seldom Scene and New Grass Revival.

Arkansas Sounds is a project of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, a department of the Central Arkansas Library System. Focused on Arkansas music and musicians both past and present, Arkansas Sounds presents concerts, workshops, and other events to showcase Arkansas’s musical culture.

Artist David Bailin at today’s Legacies & Lunch

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Legacies & Lunch: David Bailin 
Wednesday, September 2, noon – 1:00 p.m. 
CALS Main Library’s Darragh Center, 100 Rock Street
David Bailin (work pictured above) is an artist who currently works primarily in drawing, but has worked previously in painting, writing, theater, and performance. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Arkansas Arts Council.

At Legacies & Lunch, Bailin will discuss the artistic community he has found in Arkansas with artists Warren Criswell and Sammy Peters over the past thirty years. Their work has evolved, changed focus, and acquired new media and techniques, but has remained a central part of their lives, both individually and collectively.

Some results of those years of companionship are featured in the exhibition, Disparate Acts Redux: Bailin, Criswell, Peters, on view through Saturday, October 31 at Butler Center Galleries, 401 President Clinton Ave.

 Legacies & Lunch is free, open to the public, and sponsored in part by the Arkansas Humanities Council.  Bring a sack lunch; drinks and dessert are provided.

Go GOOD WILL HUNTING at 10pm tonight at the CALS Ron Robinson Theater

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RRT Good WillThe 1997 Oscar winning GOOD WILL HUNTING will be shown at 10pm tonight at the Ron Robinson Theater.  Robin Williams (Best Supporting Actor), Matt Damon & Ben Affleck (Original Screenplay) took home the golden statuettes for their work on this film.

The movie also stars Minnie Driver, Stellan Skarsgård, Casey Affleck, and Cole Hauser. Directed by Gus Van Sant, it tells the story of a janitor at MIT who is a math savant.  As he tries to embrace his genius, he must also grapple with the impact this has on his own self-value and his relationships.

Filmed for an estimated $10 million, it grossed over $138 million in its initial release.

Admission is $5, with refreshments available for purchase.

 

 

DR. STRANGELOVE tonight at the CALS Ron Robinson Theater at 7pm

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RRT Dr StrangeStop worrying and learn to love the bomb with Stanley Kubrick’s black (& white) comedy Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. It will be shown this evening at 7pm at the CALS Ron Robinson Theater.

This 1964 film both satirizes and foreshadows Cold War mentality and decisions.  It stars George C. Scott and Peter Sellers (who essays three roles including the title Edward Teller-inspired character).  Others in the cast include Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynne, Peter Bull, James Earl Jones and Slim Pickens – who has the ride of his life.

The film was produced and directed by Kubrick from a script he wrote with Terry Southern and Peter George.  Kubrick was nominated for three Oscars (producer, director and adapted screenplay).  The film’s fourth Oscar nomination went to Sellers as Best Actor.

In 1989, the United States Library of Congress included it in the first group of films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Admission is $5, with refreshments available for purchase.

 

Have late night fun with BEETLEJUICE at 10pm tonight at the Ron Robinson Theater

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RRT BeetleBefore he was Birdman, Michael Keaton was Beetlejuice (or technically Betelgeuse).  Tonight the CALS Ron Robinson Theater gives you the opportunity to again experience this film on the big screen.

In the 1988 Tim Burton comedy, Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis star as a pair of recently deceased homeowners who contract the services of a “bio-exorcist” played by Keaton in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house.  Jeffery Jones and Catherine O’Hara play the homeowners and Wynona Ryder stars as their sympathetic daughter.  The cast also includes Glenn Shadix, Robert Goulet, Susan Kellerman and Dick Cavett.

Earlier this week, plans for a sequel with Ryder were confirmed.

Beetlejuice starts at 10pm.  Admission is $5, and refreshments will be available for purchase.

Youth Artists on display at Butler Center Galleries

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cals youth_art_2015School will be starting back soon in Arkansas.  Through the end of this month, there is a chance to see artwork produced by students prior to this school year.

The Butler Center Galleries are showcasing the State Youth Art Show 2015: An Exhibition by the Arkansas Art Educators.  The exhibit is on display through August 29 in the Butler Center Underground Gallery.

This show features dynamic works of art by talented students across Arkansas, from kindergarten through twelfth grade. The works featured are the Best of Show winners from seven regions of the state. The Arkansas Art Educators is a group of art teachers from around the state who work with the Arkansas Department of Education to provide high quality in-service training and to promote student art.