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F E S T I V A L O R C H E S T R A Corrado Rovaris, Music Director ARKANSAS' ARTS + NATURE FESTIVAL PRESENTED BY WALTON ARTS CENTER Support for Maestro Corrado Rovaris and Dover Quartet provided by Mary Ann & Reed Greenwood. 10x10 concert support provided by 3M/Post-it. AFO concertmaster support provided by Hannah & Greg Lee. More than 90 premier musicians from around the world come together for out-of-this-world orchestral performances. Visit artospherefestival.org for tickets and complete event listing. THE ARTOSPHERE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA RETURNS JUNE 26 & 29 Tickets On Sale Now! DOWNLOAD THE ARTOSPHERE APP! Available on Google Play™ or in the Apple® App Store• artospherefestival.org | 479.443.5600 Romantic Masterworks of Mendelssohn & Brahms JUNE 26 | 7pm Walton Arts Center | $10 Presenting Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor featuring violinist Benjamin Beilman and Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 3 in F major. Artosphere Festival Orchestra Celebrates: The Moon JUNE 29 | 8pm Walton Arts Center | $15-49 Featuring the 1902 fi lm A Trip to the Moon by Georges Méliès and a diverse program celebrating our closest celestial neighbor, the Moon, including works by composers ranging from Strauss, Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, Debussy and Puccini, to the modern likes of John Williams. 4 WHAT'S UP! JUNE 23-29, 2019 Artists talk identity, history W hen Mauricio Salgado was in graduate school and took a look at the Equal Justice Initiative's report on Lynching in America, he found that Phillips County in the Arkansas Delta had the most recorded lynchings of any county in the U.S. In 1919, perhaps the largest mass lynching in American history took place in the southern region of the county. As an artist, educator and activist, Salgado was moved to collaborate with his peers and with the community of Phillips County to reframe the narrative in remembering the history of mass terror in the United States. "Policy is informed by culture and by bias," Salgado says. "And if we want to address policies that are inequitable and unjust, we have to address the cultural narrative as well, and the longstanding cultural narrative which erases the histories of terror in this country." As the centennial of the massacre approached, Salgado, his team and the community worked to grow the conversation around memory and identity through artist residencies and partnerships with local organizations. The Remember2019 Collective was established to continue the tradition of moving through trauma and recognize how communities endure. "The piece is about the longstanding tradition within African American culture to thrive in the face of suffering, of oppression, of terror," Salgado says of one piece of that commemoration. Black n'Da Blues is a performance bringing together Delta musicians spanning generations who will use music to examine African American culture and how it has been shaped by and overcome tragedy that occurred in our own backyard. The free concert and conversation takes place at Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville at 4 p.m. June 23. The story continues: visit nwadg. com/whatsup to read more on the vision for Remember2019. — JOCELYN MURPHY JMURPHY@NWADG.COM BENTONVILLE