Film Critic, Producer to be in Residence March 1
Film critic Gerald Peary and film producer Amy Geller will be artists in residence for a screening of their documentary film, For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 1 at Reynolds Performance Hall.
The screening is free and open to the public. Peary wrote and directed the film; his wife, Geller, produced it. It follows the history of American film criticism. For the Love of Movies offers viewers an inside glimpse at the life of a film critic as well as commentaries from popular film reviewers such as Roger Ebert and A.O. Scott.
For more information about the residency, contact Greg Brown at (501) 450-3162 or gbrown@uca.edu.
Job Fair Scheduled for March 2
UCA Career Services will be hosting the 2011 Spring Job Fair March 2 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Student Center Ballroom. Individuals participating in the job fair are encouraged to bring plenty of resumes. For more information, call 450-3134
Arkatext Literary Festival set for March 1-4
UCA Department of Writing will host the annual literary festival ArkaText March 1-4. The festival celebrates Arkansas’s literary voice as well as student writers from UCA. All ArkaText events are free and open to the public. The festival will kick off on Tuesday, March 1 with a UCA faculty reading from 1:40 to 2:40 p.m. in Thompson Hall’s Grand Foyer. The reading will feature Shelle Stormoe, Sandy Rankin, John Vanderslice and Deb Moore.
On March 2 at 11 a.m. in Thompson Hall’s Grand Foyer, Hendrix College Writer in Residence Tyrone Jaeger will speak about the art of capitalizing on writing residencies, profiting from literary awards and being a 21st-century hipster committed to fiction. At 2 p.m., Jaeger will read prose.
On March 3 at 3 p.m. in the Grand Foyer, creative writing majors from UCA will join forces with undergraduates from the University of Kansas for a student exchange of poetry, fiction, and innovative discourse. Also on March 3 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Conway Country Club, faculty from the Department of Writing at UCA will team up with faculty from the Department of English at KU. Authors include fiction writer Adam Desnoyers from KU, poet Megan Kaminski from KU, and UCA’s poet/digital artist Terry Wright.
The festival will conclude March 4 at 8 p.m. on the Michelangelo’s rooftop with a launch party for the Toad Suck Review. Featured readers at the Michelangelo’s celebration include novelist Kevin Brockmeier, poet Marck Beggs and Arkansas Times journalist Bernard Reed. For more information about the ArkaText festival, contact Terry Wright at (501) 450-5108 or terryw@uca.edu.
Blood, Sweat & Tears and The Buckinghams to Perform March 4
The Buckinghams and Blood, Sweat & Tears will perform at the Reynolds Peformance Hall at 7:30 p.m. , March 4. Blood, Sweat & Tears, formed in New York City in 1967, is known for such 1960s and ‘70s hits as “And When I Die,” “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy,” and “Spinning Wheel,” all of which reached No. 2 on the charts in 1969. In the ‘70s, the group also had hits with “Hi-De-Ho,” “Lucretia MacEvil,” “So Long Dixie,” and “Got To Get You Into My Life.” The Buckinghams will also perform, and fans of the group will surely remember their No. 1 hit from 1967, “Kind Of A Drag,” as well as other ‘60s favorites “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Don’t You Care,” and “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy.”
Tickets, available at the UCA Ticket Central Box Office, are $30-$40 for adults, $27-$37 for senior citizens, $25-$35 for UCA alumni, $23-$33 for UCA faculty and staff, and $10 for UCA students with a current student I.D. For tickets, call (501) 450-3265 or go to www.uca.edu/tickets.
Grammy-Winning Composer to be in Residence
Grammy-winning composer Libby Larsen will be on the University of Central Arkansas campus as artist in residence with the College of Fine Arts and Communication the week of March 7. Larsen’s appearance is part of the “Songs Across the Americas Festival: Songs of the American West” at UCA, which will run March 9-12, with pre-festival activities for guest composers March 7 and 8.
Performances of Larsen’s music will be scattered throughout the four-day festival in both daytime and March 9 and 12 evening concerts, said Dr. Kay Kraeft, president of Songs Unlimited, Inc., which sponsors the Songs Across the Americas Festival.
The CFAC residency will include an open dress rehearsal for a Faculty Chamber Concert on Wednesday, March 9, at 6:30 p.m. in the Snow Fine Arts Center Recital Hall; a lecture for students on Thursday, March 10, at 1:40 p.m., in Snow’s Bridges/Larson Theatre; an open rehearsal with the Conway Symphony Orchestra at 2:40 p.m. on Thursday, March 10 in Snow 120; the Faculty Chamber Concert (The Music of Libby Larsen) at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 10 in the Snow Recital Hall; a composition seminar with UCA composition students at 10 a.m. on Friday, March 11 in Snow 312; and a performance of Deep Summer Music on the Conway Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Songs of the American West: Myths, Romance and Reality, on Saturday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Reynolds Performance Hall.
All Larsen residency events listed above except for the CSO concert are free and open to the public. Those tickets range from $20-$38 and may be purchased at the UCA Box Office at www.uca.edu/tickets or by calling (501) 450-3265. For more information about the CFAC residency, contact Paul Dickinson at (501) 450-3242 or pauld@uca.edu.
Percussion Festival Set for March 5
The UCA Percussion Studio will host the UCA Percussion festival on Saturday, March 5 at the Snow Fine Arts Recital Hall. Events ranging from clinics to distinguished performances will be held all day. Events are free and open to the public. The festival will feature guest artist and virtuoso percussionist Payton MacDonald, as well as a lineup of UCA percussion alumni. The alumni who will be returning are currently respected band directors, university professors, soloists, composers, orchestral musicians and recording artists. It will also include performances by several high school percussion bands across the state.For more information, contact Blake Tyson, assistant professor of music and the studio’s director, at (501) 450-5263 or blake@blaketyson.com.
Concert Choir to Celebrate “Season of Light”
The University of Central Arkansas Concert Choir will sing various pieces relating to the “Season of Light” on Monday, March 7, in Reynolds Performance Hall. The Chamber Singers will sing on the program as well. The 7:30 p.m. concert is free and open to the public. This year’s concert choir consists of 58 singers, including 30 Chamber Singers. For more information, call (501) 450-5751 or e-mail John Erwin at johne@uca.edu.
Student Competitive Art Exhibition Opens March 10
The Annual Student Competitive Art Exhibition will open at the University of Central Arkansas’s Baum Gallery in McCastlain Hall on Thursday, March 10. Opening receptions will be March 10 from 4-6 p.m. and Sunday, March 13, from 2-4 p.m. Both the exhibition and receptions are free and open to the public. The competitive, sponsored by the UCA Department of Art, will be on display until March 31. Hours for the Baum Gallery are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Thursdays from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. For more information, contact Barbara Satterfield at (501) 450-5793 or e-mail barbaras@uca.edu.
Great Bear Writing Project to Host National Writing Project 2011 Rural Sites Network Conference in March
The Great Bear Writing Project at UCA will host the National Writing Project 2011 Rural Sites Network Conference March 11-12 at the Peabody Hotel in Little Rock. Titled, “Overcoming Inequity: Creating Opportunities for All Rural Students,” the Conference will feature workshops and sessions on literacy and rural education, as well as a daylong pre-conference event focusing on rural English Language Learners. Over two hundred education leaders from across the US and as far as Hawaii are expected to attend. Speakers include Spirit Trickey and Barnard professor and author of Storytelling for Social Justice, Lee Anne Bell. For more information, see http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/417.
Bus Stop to Continue Broadway Series
The Montana Repertory Theatre’s production of William Inge’s Tony-nominated play Bus Stop will continue the University of Central Arkansas’s Broadway Series with a 7:30 p.m. performance on Monday, March 14 in the Reynolds Performance Hall.
Bus Stop tells the comedic story of eight characters who find themselves in a weather-enforced layover in a Kansas street corner diner. During the course of the night, extraordinary qualities are revealed in seemingly ordinary people. Tickets, available at the UCA Ticket Central Box Office, are $30-$40 for adults, $27-$37 for senior citizens, $25-35 for UCA alumni, $28-$33 for UCA faculty and staff, and $10 for all students. For tickets, call (501) 450-3265 or visit www.uca.edu/tickets.
An Evening with Holocaust Survivor Martin Weiss Slated March 9
Conway Senior High School, UCA Department of Philosophy and Religion, UCA Department of History, UCA College of Liberal Arts, University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum are sponsoring “An Evening with Holocaust Survivor Martin Weiss.” Marty Weiss will share his heroic story of survival in Conway Senior High School’s James H. Clark Auditorium on Wednesday, March 9 at 7 p.m. This event is open to the public.
“Martin (Marty) was one of nine children born to orthodox Jewish parents in Polana, a rural village in the Carpathian Mountains. His father owned a farm and a meat business, and his mother attended to the children and the home. Everyone in the family helped take care of the horses and cows.
Martin was liberated from Gunskirchen, a subcamp of Mauthausen, by the 71st Infantry Division in May 1945. He returned to Czechoslovakia, where he found some surviving family members. In 1946 they immigrated to the United States.
Nicholas Sparks to Continue Distinguished Lecture Series
The University of Central Arkansas’s Distinguished Lecture Series will continue with literary sensation Nicholas Sparks at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 15 in the Reynolds Performance Hall. The evening will include a lecture followed by a question and answer session and a book signing.
Sparks has landed at the top of the New York Times Best Sellers List with more than 50 million copies sold of his 14 books. Among those, six were made into Hollywood motion pictures. They include The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John and The Last Song. These movies grossed more than $360 million and have been translated to more than 30 different languages.
Tickets, available at the UCA Ticket Central Box Office, are $10 for general public, $5 for University staff and faculty, $5 for students from other colleges, and free for students from UCA. For tickets, call (501) 450-3265 or visit www.uca.edu/tickets.
Educational Seminars and Professional Development
Sexual Harassment
March 7, 2 – 3 p.m., Student Center #215
Diversity
This year’s topic of discussion – Sexual Orientation
Feb. 17, 2:30-4 p.m., Student Center #215
March 9, 9 -10:30 a.m., Student Center #215
March 16, 2- 3:30 p.m., Student Center #215
Professional Development
March 10, 12 -1:30 p.m. SC #215
Criticism & Discipline Skills for Managers — Charlotte Strickland, education seminar coordinator
The problem employee is a person who consistently performs below the established standards of quality, quantity and time, or fails to maintain the expected record of attendance, or whose behavior is detrimental to accomplishing the organization’s goals. This seminar will discuss professional methods of approaching and dealing with a problem employee.