What's Up - Your guide to what's happening in Fayetteville, AR this week!
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10 WHAT'S UP! MARCH 25-31, 2018 HIGHLIGHTS FYI MARCH 25 GODDESS FESTIVAL 2018 — With Jori Costello in concert, 1-3 p.m., Senior Activity Center on South College Avenue in Fayetteville. Donations accepted. goddessfestival.com. CLAYTON CONVERSATIONS — With filmmaker and Fort Smith native Phil- lip Person, 1:30 p.m., Clayton House museum in Fort Smith. Reservations at 783-3000. "VIETGONE" — Fresh from its acclaimed, sold-out New York debut, "Vietgone" is an energetic and winning take on one Arkansas family's origin story, 2 p.m. Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 2 & 7:30 p.m. Saturday, through April 8, TheatreSquared at the Nadine Baum Studios in Fayetteville. $17 & up. 443-5600. INCREDIBLE EDIBLE FOOD ART COMPETITION — Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Eureka Springs School of the Arts, 3-6 p.m., ESSA's Wood and Iron Studio complex at 15751 U.S. 62 west of Eureka Springs. Admission by donation. 253-5384. GODDESS FESTIVAL 2018 — Clos- ing ritual, 3-6 p.m., Omni Center in Fayetteville. Free. goddessfestival. com. MARCH 26 AMERICAN GIRL BOOK CLUB — "Menace at Mammoth Cave: A Kit Mystery," 4:30 p.m., Bentonville Public Library. For grades 3-6. Free. 271-6816. MARCH 27 JAZZY ASH & THE LEAPING LIZARDS — Music for kids born in New Orleans and influenced by Caribbean rhythms, 6 p.m., Walton Arts Center in Fayette- ville. $9-$15. 443-5600. ARTIST'S RECEPTION — For Charles Peer, pastel artist, 6-7:30 p.m. with a gallery talk at 6:30 p.m., Windgate Visual Arts West Gallery at John Brown University in Siloam Springs. Exhibit on show through May 3. Free. Email jabbott@jbu.edu. JBU CATHEDRAL CHOIR — Including a new work by Jeremy Allen, JBU assis- tant professor of music, titled "Hapo Mwanzo," an arrangement of John 1:1 in Swahili, 7:30 p.m., Berry Performing Arts Center at John Brown University in Siloam Springs. Free. 549-7268. MARCH 28 SPACE SCIENCE — Women in Astron- omy with Caitlin Ahrens, 6 p.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. faylib.org. ART TALK — With Richard Hiroyuki Yada, who was born in the Rohwer Japanese American internment camp that was located in the same town where artist John L Newman was born and that is the subject of much of Newman's art, 6-8 p.m., Art Ventures in Fayetteville. Free. 871-2722. STUDIO SAMPLER — Clay planters, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Community Creative Center at the Nadine Baum Studios in Fayetteville. $35. Age 16 & older. Register at 571-2706 or community creativecenter.org. MARCH 29 ARTIST'S RECEPTION — For abstract artist Eddie Love, 5-7 p.m., Crabby's Seafood in Rogers. Email demara. titzer@gmail.com. "DEVELOPMENT OF A HYBRID VISUAL LANGUAGE" — With Pouya Jahanshahi of Pasaj Cultural Collab- orative, 5:30 p.m., in the theater at Windgate Art & Design at the Univer- sity of Arkansas at Fort Smith. Free. Email Ting.Wang-Hedges@uafs.edu. DISH — With Judy Wick, founder of Phil- adelphia's landmark White Dog Cafe, 6 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. $50. Reservations at 657-2335. ARTISTS' RECEPTION — For "Homage to Femmage" artists Dani Godreau, Sam Mack, Katie McColgan, Anthony Kascak, Ashley Eyster, Cydnei Mallory, Rebecca Drolen, Hannah McBroom, Danny R.W. Baskin and Becky Posnak, 6:30-8:30 p.m., sUgAR: The Univer- sity of Arkansas Student Gallery, 1 E. Center St. in Fayetteville. Free. Email curator Abigail Grix at abigail.grix@ gmail.com. LISTENING SESSIONS — "A Love Supreme: Jazz and the Pursuit of Black Excellence" with Duke Univer- sity professor Mark Anthony Neal, 7 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. $15. 657-2335. MARCH 30 ART BY THE GLASS — "Precious Pearl" with educator Sally Ball, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. $55. Register at 657-2335. ARTISTS' RECEPTION — For photog- rapher Marsha Lane Foster — creator with writer Monica Hall of "My Unrav- eling: The Haircut" — and wood sculp- tor Suzannah Schreckhise, creator of "Recapitulate Placidity," 6:30-9:30 p.m., 211 W. Elm St. in Rogers. lanefos- terfineart.com. "SOUL OF A NATION" FILM SERIES — "Mo' Better Blues" with Duke Univer- sity professor Mark Anthony Neal, 7 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. 657-2335. "LIVING ON LOVE" — An opera diva discovers her larger-than-life maestro husband has become enamored with the lovely young lady hired to ghost write his largely fictional autobi- ography, 8 p.m. March 30-31, again April 6-8, Arkansas Public Theatre in Rogers. $23-$35. 631-8988. MARCH 31 SUPER SATURDAY — Young Meteorol- ogist Weather Festival with Dan Skoff and Darby Bybee, 10:30 a.m., Fayette- ville Public Library. Free. faylib.org. "ARKANSAS CHEROKEE: LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND REMOVAL" — With Justin Nolan, professor of anthropol- ogy at the University of Arkansas, 1 p.m., Shiloh Museum in Springdale. Sponsored by the Arkansas Chapter Trail of Tears Association. Free. 750-8165. EAST COAST SWING — Intermediate dancers learn 2 to 4 p.m., beginners 6-7 p.m., dance 7-11 p.m., University of Arkansas Union ballroom in Fayetteville. $8-$10. Hosted by NWA Swing Dance Society. 935-4186. "BREAKING BREAD" — "A Baker's Jour- ney Home in 75 Recipes" with King Arthur Flour head bread baker Martin Philip, 2:30 p.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. Books will be for sale. faylib.org. — BECCA MARTIN-BROWN BMARTIN@NWADG.COM GODDESS FESTIVAL 2018 — With Jori Costello in concert, 1-3 p.m. March 25, Senior Activity Center on South College Avenue in Fayetteville. goddessfestival. com. CELEBRATE ARCHEOLOGY DAY — With atlatl and spear throwing, basketry and weaving, flint knapping, artifact ID, ground penetrating radar demo and tour of the University of Arkansas Museum Collections, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. March 31, Arkansas Archeological Survey at 2475 N. Hatch Ave., Fayetteville. Free. 283-5720. ARTISTS' RECEPTION — For photogra- pher Marsha Lane Foster — creator with writer Monica Hall of "My Unraveling: The Haircut" — and wood sculptor Suzannah Schreckhise, creator of "Recapitulate Placidity," 6:30-9:30 p.m. March 30, 211 W. Elm St. in Rogers. lanefosterfineart.com.