FUN A screening of “Don’t Look Back,” D.A. Pennebaker’s 1967 documentary about Bob Dylan’s 1965 United Kingdom tour, kicks off University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College’s CHARTS Live 2025-26 performing arts series, 7 p.m. Friday in the Center for Humanities and Arts Theater on the college’s main campus, 3000 W. Scenic Drive, North Little Rock. The evening also includes a live performance by singer-songwriter Justin Bank and the Bijou Boogie Boys. uaptc.edu/charts. MUSIC The 10th Acansa Arts Festival of the South gets under way with a performance by Little Rock-based Afrobeat-soul-funk octet Funkanites, 7:30 p.m. todayThursday at The Hall, 721 W. Ninth St., Little Rock. The festival runs through Sept. 20 at venues on both sides of the Arkansas River. This weekend’s performances include classical ensemble Frisson, 7:30 p.m. at the Arkansas Symphony Stella Boyle Smith Music Center, 1101 E. Third St., Little Rock, and the Koresh Dance Company, 2 p.m. Sunday, at UA-Pulaski Tech’s CHARTS Theater, North Little Rock. Acansa.org. Orchestra Noir celebrates the cultural achievements of African-American music pioneers across all genres, including classical, jazz, blues, hip-hop and R&B, 8 p.m. Saturday at Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway. (501) 244-8800, Ticketmaster.com. WakaFlockaFlame, with DJ Holiday, GK Leonitis and DJ Nick Hud, perform for Rock City Live, 4-9 p.m. Sunday at First Security Amphitheater, 400 President Clinton Ave. (501) 375-2552, Ticketmaster.com. Big concert Tuesday: Gin Blossoms and Spin Doctors perform at 7 p.m. at Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave. (501) 450-3265 or (866) 810-0012, uca.edu/publicappearances. COMEDY Comedian Leanne Morgan brings her “Just Getting Started” tour to North Little Rock, at 7 p.m. Friday at Simmons Bank Arena. Ticketmaster.com. THEATER The Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 601 Main St., Little Rock, opens its production of Tennessee Williams’s classic “The Glass Menagerie,” with Tuesday-Thursday preview performances ; the show runs 7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday thorough Sept. 14. (501) 378-0405; TheRep.org. Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock, closes out its run of “The Bunco Squad” by Jim Hesselman, 7:30 p.m. today-Saturday. The buffet opens 90 minutes before curtain. (501) 562-3131; murrysdp.com. Opening Wednesday: Actors Theatre of Little Rock stages “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday through Sept. 20 at Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church, 1601 S. Louisiana St., Little Rock. actorstheatrelr.org/tickets. ART AND EXHIBITS The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock, hosts its inaugural Art Market, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.- 4 p.m. Sunday with talks by area gallery owners and collectors. arkmfa.org/amfa-art-market. CONTINUING On display at the Windgate Center of Art + Design at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock: - “Drawing Is Magic: The Books and Illustrations of John Hendrix,” work by The New York Times’ bestselling author and illustrator, in the Brad Cushman Gallery through Oct. 3. - “Hans Weissflog: Klein und Fein,” hand-processed wood sculptures in “highly precise, technical, and expertly engineered forms,” according to a news release, by German artist Weissflog (“Klein und Fein” is German for “small and fine”), in the North and South Galleries through Sept. 28. - “Chris Revelle: What Remains,” color photography and mixed-media works on commercial prints (postcards and newspaper pages) by Revelle, the director of community engagement at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, up through Oct. 17 in the Focus Gallery. - “Amanda McFarland: Weather Through Portraiture,” drawings by the recipient of the Linda Blaine Flake Endowed Art Scholarship, up through Oct. 3 in the Ann Maners and Alex Pappas Gallery. A reception, 5-7 p.m. Sept. 24, covers all four exhibitions. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The Arkansas League of Artists’ Opportunity Show remains up through Sept. 30 at the William F. Laman Public Library, 2801 Orange St., North Little Rock, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday-Saturday. (501) 758-1720; NLRlibrary.org. “Creatures of Play,” mixed-media works by Central Arkansas artist Carol McCreight at the Innovation Hub Gallery, 204 E. Fourth St., North Little Rock, up through Sept. 26, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday; 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. the third Saturday of each month. (501) 907-6570; hub.nlrlibrary.org. “Under A Restless Sky,” a new site-specific installation by Boston-based artist Nathalie Miebach, on display through April 4 in the Jackson T. Stephens Gallery of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. The three-dimensional art installation, created with paint, paper, wood, ropes and other materials that explores how various species — birds and humans — move and adapt due to environmental and climate changes, (501) 372-4000; arkmfa.org. “Edwin Brewer, A Retrospective of His Art,” landscape and still-life paintings in oils and watercolors by the Little Rock native (1927-2002), on display through Oct. 18 at Cantrell Gallery, 8202 Cantrell Road, Little Rock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m Tuesday-Saturday. (501) 224-1335; cantrellgallery.com. “Portraits From a Presidency,” the exhibition of more than 50 paintings, sculptures, engravings and photographic portraits of members of the Clinton family, up through Dec. 7 at the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. clintonpresidentialcenter.org/exhibits. “Small Works on Paper: From the Permanent Collection,” 40 pieces from the Arkansas Arts Council’s 2006-2023 annual “Small Works on Paper” touring exhibitions, on display through Sept. 21 at the Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E. Third St., Little Rock, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. (501) 324-9351. And “Enid Collins Handbags: Thinking Outside the Bejeweled Box,” a collection of handbags by Texas designer Enid Collins, is on display through Sept. 28 at ESSE Museum and Store, 1510 Main St., Little Rock. (501) 916-9022; essepursemuseum.com.
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