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19TH ANNUAL Winemaker's Dinner Thursday, May 16 Wines provided by E&J Gallo paired with a six-course meal by Bordinos. Tickets $225 Uncorked! Friday, May 17 Wine, beer, spirits, bubbles, food from 20+ area restaurants and more! Regular tickets $75 VIP tickets $150 > Early access to the event > Access to reserve tasting room with premier wines & restaurants Must be 21 or older to purchase APRIL 28-MAY 4, 2019 WHAT'S UP! 11 FAQ 'Turning Red: Learning to Choose Love' WHEN & WHERE — 3 p.m. & 4:30 p.m. April 27 and May 4; 9:30 a.m. & 11 a.m. May 1-3 at Trike Theatre in Bentonville; 9:30 a.m. & 11 a.m. May 11 and May 16-18, Arts Center of the Ozarks in Springdale COST — $6 INFO — 464-5084 'Choose Love' LARA JO HIGHTOWER NWA Democrat-Gazette I t is difficult to imagine a better model for forgiveness and compassion than Fayetteville native Scarlett Lewis, founder of the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement, a social and emotional education program for elementary schools. When her son, Jesse, was killed in the Sandy Hook school shootings in December 2012, she turned her grief and anger into a positive social crusade to prevent similar tragedies in the future. "I pictured the shooter as a young boy having angry thoughts without the nurturing and tools to deal with them. … but the most amazing thing is — a thought can be changed," she said in a recent TedX Talk. Bentonville's Trike Theatre has taken the inspirational program and transferred its lessons to the stage in its production of "Turning Red: Learning to Choose Love" by Bethany Corey-Ekin. "When we heard about the Choose Love Movement from our friends at the Springdale Early Childhood Center, we were intrigued," says Kassie Misiewicz, artistic director and founder of Trike and director of "Turning Red." "Our two organizations both believe in nurturing socioemotional learning skills, and, through theater, we get to invite the young audience to tell a story with us and empathize with [the main character] Reed as he goes along his fantastical journey — learning to choose love." Misiewicz says that theater is an ideal way to introduce the concepts of the Choose Love program to young audiences. "Theater provides a story that young people will remember and retell later on," she says. "We want them to see parts of themselves, so that when Reed is having a tantrum or making a decision to be kind, the Trike translates compassion into theatrical action kids will say, 'Oh, that's me!' The Choose Love curriculum is extremely effective, so our job is to create a compelling story with a hero's journey that a 3- to 5-year -old can relate to and that illuminates the power of the Choose Love formula: 'Courage plus Gratitude plus Forgiveness plus Compassion in Action equals Choosing Love.'" "Letting them see this conversation play out in a live theater setting — especially when they can engage with the story — is beneficial in a way that passively watching something on a screen is not," says actor Jaddy Ciucci, who plays the character of Reed in the show. "It allows them to participate in conflict resolution and be the teacher." Courtesy photo SPRINGDALE