What's Up - Your guide to what's happening in Fayetteville, AR this week!
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April 30-MAy 6, 2023 WhAt's up! 9 Rap, C4 Clarinet Quartet and reggae band Irie Lions perform in Fayetteville on Thursday. Papa Rap performs again in Bentonville the next day with Coloring Twelve. That performance is also presented by The Music Education Initiative. Artosphere partnered with the Railyard Live series in Rogers for the Cinco de Mayo Fiesta with Proyetco Tumbado and DJ Susie Q on May 5, and then it's a jazzy and R&B Saturday on May 6 with Rodney Block Collective and Pura Coco on the Butterfield Stage downtown. Artosphere Festival Orchestra's AFO: Off the Grid — where members of the orchestra perform in bars, coffee shops and restaurants — happens on May 18 in downtown Fayetteville. Then there's Trail Mix, Artosphere's signature event that includes live art, music and activities for families and kids on May 12. "Trail Mix this year is on the Lower Ramble in Fayetteville. It's just south of the library, and it kind of winds down [to] a beautiful new spot in Fayetteville, so we wanted to showcase the work that they've done there," Broome Jones says. In addition to Trail Mix, there's a series of puppet shows for kids at three of the libraries in Northwest Arkansas. "Little Red Hen's Garden," performed by StoneLion Puppet Theatre, will be at the Fayetteville Public Library at 10:30 a.m. May 9, 4 p.m. May 10 at Springdale Public Library and at 2 and 5 p.m. May 11 at the Bentonville Public Library. Registration is required for Bentonville. There's also a "Humongous Fungus" outside of Nadine Baum Studios at 505 W. Spring St. in Fayetteville for the whole family to enjoy. "Artist Gina Gallina has created a giant mushroom with flowers surrounding it. And when I say giant, I mean this is a mushroom you can walk through, bike through, push a stroller through," Broome Jones says. "We have so much fun with the public art pieces." Also at Nadine Baum is the Arkansas Pottery Festival, featuring more than 50 potters from around the state that will include an exhibition, a pottery sale, demonstrations and lectures as well as live music by Los Veleros starting at 6:30 p.m. May 6. The festival will also include movies. A free outdoor screening of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" is set for 8:30 p.m. May 10 at Prairie Street Live. "I'm really excited about the film screening that we have for a brand new documentary called, 'The Artist and The Astronaut," Ross adds. "That film is about artists Pat Musick, and her husband, astronaut Jerry Carr. And we're thrilled to be able to screen that here in Northwest Arkansas. Pat Musick is very closely related to Walton Arts Center, we've had a couple of her pieces hanging in the Arts Center. Crystal Bridges also has some of her work. "Her husband Jerry Carr was the commander of Skylab. … It's a really exciting piece about their life together and about how they met and how art and science really work together. In the end, I thought it was a beautiful piece I can't wait to share with the community. It is free, [but] we do ask that people register for it." She adds that some of Carr and Musick's family will be here for the screening and that there will be a talk with the filmmakers. Finally, free yoga kicks off at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks at 9:30 a.m. May 6, and Yoga in the Atrium at Walton Arts Center is at 2 p.m. on May 21. Registration is required. There's also Fashion Machine at Yvonne Richardson Center in Fayetteville on May 13 where five textile artists will work with 28 local children to remake outfits from volunteers in the audience. This event is free, See Artosphere Page 14 Papa Rap Lopez performs along the trail during trail Mix, part of the 2019 Artosphere Festival. he performs again this year during a partner event for First Friday featuring with Coloring twelve, presented by the Music Education initiative, sponsored by Artosphere, from 5-9 p.m. May 5 in downtown Bentonville. this is one of many free events offered during the monthlong festival. (NWA Democrat-Gazette File photo/Andy shupe) Trout Fishing in America will perform a free concert at 6:30 p.m. May 9 at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks in Fayetteville as part of the annual Artosphere festival happening all over Northwest Arkansas this May. this is a free but ticketed event. see waltonartscenter.org/artosphere for more details. (Courtesy photo)