What's Up - Your guide to what's happening in Fayetteville, AR this week!
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MAY 9-15, 2021 WHAT'S UP! 9 FYI Artosphere Schedule May 9 "Art Heist" Performances begin every half hour during dedicated window. Fayetteville Town Center. $25-$30. May 11 Off the Grid • 7-8:30 p.m. — Willi Carlisle, Maxine's Tap Room • 7:30-9 p.m. — Christian Serrano, The Vault • 8-9:30 p.m. — Route 358, The Experi- ence Fayetteville Stage at the Fayette- ville Town Center May 13-16 "Art Heist" Performances begin every half hour during dedicated window. Rogers Historical Museum. $25-$30 May 15 Artosphere Film Series • 2 p.m. — "FernGully: The Last Rainfor- est" • 7 p.m. — "Boy and the World" May 16 Artosphere Film Series • 2 p.m. — "Mia and the Migoo" • 7 p.m. — "Welcome to the Space Show" May 18 Dover Quartet: Live from Walton Arts Center • 7 p.m. — Baum Walker Hall at the Walton Arts Center. $20 KUAF, 91.3FM, will also air Dover's performance live. May 19 "Strings Attached" screening • 7 p.m. — Walton Arts Center. Free with reservation New documentary on the four superb musicians who have become one of the world's most in-demand ensembles as the Dover Quartet. May 20 Jayme Stone's "Folklife" • 7:30 p.m. — Walton Arts Center. $32-$52 May 20-23 "Art Heist" Performances begin every half hour during dedicated window. 21c Hotel, Bentonville. $25-$30. May 21 Trail Mix • 5-7 p.m. — Downtown Fayetteville and the Frisco Trail System. Free more impactful, he says. "The personal is the political when you can talk directly to someone." "There's only one time when I feel like a full animal, like a tame, soft, somewhat domesticated animal, like a neighborhood possum or a chicken that tolerates being held, and that is when I am singing with people, dancing, laughing," he shares. "I look forward to returning to that because nothing else really makes any sense to me." Though he admits covid and isolation have had him feeling defeated, you wouldn't know it to look at the volume of work Carlisle has completed in the last year. "But I'm not satisfied. I'm mad," he reveals. "Every day, even in antediluvian times, I felt as if the work I made was not good enough, didn't do enough. I still feel compromised a fair bit by being an artist at all: I want to be a public servant, but 'public' isn't the same as it used to be in the folksinging profession. There's work to do, eh?" Plenty of work to do, too, to better love our habitat, he says. In an age of climate crisis and mega corporations, it's important to maintain a human scale, Carlisle goes on. "A scale where we can look people in the eye and tell them that we love them, that we care for them, that we see them, even that we expect more from them." But Arkansas is a blessing, he says. "It is full of critters. Nature is slow. Nature knows the fundaments: the mating ritual, the hunt, the nest," Carlisle offers. "These things are easy to forget on your phone on the couch. I certainly want things like Artosphere to bring people to each other and to make uncurated encounters with something wild." Artosphere Film Series The Artosphere tradition of screening family-friendly films with a strong Earth or sustainability theme continues in the festival's 11th "Growing up and living in a very metropolitan area most of my life really makes me hyper aware and appreciative of the beauty of untouched nature," shares Lilly Hill, a dancer with Northwest Arkansas Ballet Theatre. "Getting to move to the Natural State and live amongst the stunning Ozark mountains, with trails around every corner, is such a luxury! It makes me so happy to walk amongst the trees, creeks and mountains here. I draw inspiration from this scenic place for my dancing and often pull out a camera and my pointe shoes for a spontaneous dance photo shoot." (Courtesy Photo) See Artosphere Page 10