What's Up - Your guide to what's happening in Fayetteville, AR this week!
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August 15-21, 2021 WhAt's up! 9 Faq Mosaix Walton Arts Center 2021-22 season • West Street Live and Star- rlight Jazz Club subscrip- tions are on sale. • Create-your-own subscrip- tions are on sale now and will continue through the season. This covers all available shows except WSL, Starrlight Jazz, "Hamilton" and Joe Bonamassa. • Broadway subscriptions are off sale. The only way to purchase tickets for multiple shows is through the CYO subscription. • Individual tickets for most shows are on sale Aug. 17. • "Hamilton" tickets will go on sale later this fall. WHERE — 495 W. Dickson St. iNFo — 443-5600, waltonartscenter.org Last year was supposed to be the debut of the WAC's new Mosaix Festival — celebrating the intersection (hence the "x") of arts and the rich cultures that make up the mosaic of Northwest Arkansas. The festival's inau- gural event was scheduled for April 20-25, 2020. "From the beginning, one of Mosaix's long-term goals was to 'main-stream' culturally immersive programming by integrating it into our existing series," explains Scott Galbraith, executive producer and vice president of programming. In lieu of the standalone festival model, Mosaix's programming has been integrated in series throughout the 2021-22 season. "It's happening sooner than our original time- line, and we couldn't be more excited. More importantly, our Mosaix programming is being curated in collaboration with Northwest Arkansas' cultural communities, which helps us ensure authenticity." "We're at a point now where things are starting to settle in and settle down. But I think there's also going to be a bit of a dearth of work, perhaps, over the next couple of years, as agents and agencies start back to work, get back on their feet, find the artists again," Ross explains. "I think we may be missing a little bit over the next year and a half or two years until everything starts rolling again." Ross and Galbraith already have eyes out to the 2023-24 season as they sketch out the coming few years, but they also know large touring productions will be one of the first things to shut down if the fallout from the spread of viral variants continues on its current trajectory. "Here we are again," Ross says with disappointment. The full 2021-22 season has been announced, and build-your- own subscription packages are on sale, but organizers are beginning to worry over how many of these shows and performances Northwest Arkansas will actually get to see. "Tell people to vaccinate themselves," Ross pleads. "That's how we get out of this mess. And it's so important — not only for Walton Arts Center, but for restaurants on Dickson Street, for our town that people say they love. If you love our town, go get the vaccine." A tentative hope wins out, though, that the WAC's 30th anniversary season (official date is April 26, 2022) will happen in its entirety and that Fayetteville will once again welcome musicians, dancers, acrobats, comedians and storytellers from around the world to share the joy of live performance with audiences. Here, we break down the full schedule of the WAC's seven resident series, in addition to the already-announced Proctor & Gamble Broadway Series. Several ticket packages for individual series are available for purchase already at 443-5600 or waltonartscenter.org. Create-your-own subscriptions are also available. Individual tickets for most performances go on sale Aug. 17, with the exception of "Hamilton." Unilever Starrlight Jazz Club sept. 19 — Huntertones oct. 22 — Jane Bunnett and Maqueque "Jane Bunnett is a five-time Juno Award winner and three-time Grammy Award nominee," shares Robert Gins- burg, WAC jazz curator. "Her ability to embrace and showcase the rhythms and culture of Cuba is groundbreak- ing, including her work with the group Maqueque, which evolved from a project to mentor and record young Cuban female musicians into one of the top groups on the Afro-Cuban jazz scene." Dec. 10 — Samara Joy Feb. 18, 2022 — Sullivan Fortner Trio March 5, 2022 — Clark Gibson Quintet This "super group" as Ginsburg puts its, is made up of Clark Gibson on alto sax, Sean Jones on trumpet, Michael Dease on trombone, Pat Bianchi on Hammond B3 and Lewis Nash on drums. 10x10 Series The 10x10 Arts Series has become an established and beloved tradition at the WAC. The series offers arts lovers the Glass Half Full Theatre brings "Cenicienta: A Bilingual Cinderella" to the WAC April 25-26 as part of the Kids series. In this one-woman, modern retelling of the Cinderella fairy tale, "she has to learn how to stand up for herself and work to create the future she wants to see for herself because her dreams are so big," explains sallie Zazal, director of learning and engagement. the show is aimed at lower-to-upper elementary-aged children, so audiences who are not bilingual can still pick up on the story very easily, Zazal promises. (Courtesy photo) See WaC Page 10