Exhibit spotlights art using pastels
A new exhibition, Arkansas Pastel Society: Reflections in Pastel, will open at the Butler Center Galleries at 401 President Clinton Ave. on Friday.
The opening coincides with Second Friday Art Night. It starts at 5 p.m. and will last through 8 p.m. The new exhibit promotes work of several pastel artists. It will run through Feb. 24. The Jim Nelson: Abstraction and Color exhibit and The Art of Injustice exhibit are also on display.
3-day library sale offers used books
The Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries plans a used-book sale Thursday through Saturday at the Main Library campus, 100 Rock St.
The sale will be in the basement. Paperbacks are 50 cents and hardbacks are $1. The sale will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday. On Thursday, guests can purchase a $5 wristband to enter for the pre-sale event from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Those with a wristband can also enter an hour early on Friday and Saturday.
Quapaw Quarter group will meet
The Quapaw Quarter Association's annual membership meeting is Thursday at the MacArthur Museum of Military History.
Jodi Morris, a National Park Service ranger, will share her illustrated presentation entitled "If These Buildings Could Talk: Places That Mattered in the Central High Crisis."
Victoria Price with KARK-TV, Channel 4, will emcee the event.
The association's annual awards will be given. The program starts at 5:30 p.m., preceded by a 5 p.m. reception.
Small-press books showcased at fair
Central Arkansas Library System is hosting a self-published and small-press book fair Saturday.
The event will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Main Library's Darragh Center downtown.
Genres and topics include art, sports, health, memoir, family, self-help, biography and children's books.
More than 30 authors will participate.
Theater to feature film on McNamara
The Academy Award-winning film, The Fog of War, will be shown Wednesday at the Ron Robinson Theater at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with humanities scholars and veterans Pat Hoy and Alex Vernon.
The film is a story of America through the eyes of former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara.
"As leader of the world's most powerful military force during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, McNamara offers insights into the 1945 bombing of Tokyo, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the effects of the Vietnam War. The film features conversations with Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson recorded in the Oval Office," a press release said.
Metro on 11/07/2017