FUN
The Hot Springs National Park Sister City Foundation’s Arkansas Cherry Blossom Festival, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday at the Hot Springs Convention Center, 134 Convention Blvd., Hot Springs, features Samurai sword demonstrations, performances and demonstrations highlighting martial arts, traditional Japanese music and cultural storytelling. hotspringssistercity.org.
The William F. Laman Public Library, 2801 Orange St., North Little Rock, hosts Garden Fest, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, with poetry walks, plant swaps, hands-on crafts and scavenger hunts, plus expert-led lectures on foraging, beekeeping and birding. (501) 758-1720; NLRlibrary.org.
MUSIC
Folk, bluegrass and jazz singer-songwriter and banjo player Kaia Kater performs at 7:30 p.m. at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. (501) 372-4000; arkmfa.org.
Jazz saxophonist Seleno “Sal” Crocker joins the Ted Ludwig Trio at 7:30 p.m. Friday for Jazz at the Joint at the Sharon Heflin Performing Arts Center, 315 Main St., Suite A, in North Little Rock’s Argenta Arts District. Jazzatthejoint.com.
Blues guitarist and singer-songwriter Tab Benoit performs at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Rev Room, 300 President Clinton Ave. (501) 823-0090; revroom.com.
Also on Saturday, finger-style guitarist and singer Kray Van Kirk performs at 6 p.m. under the auspices of the Little Rock Folk Club at Hibernia Irish Tavern, ,9700 N. Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock. (501) 246-4340; hiberniairishtavern.com.
THEATER
The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Children’s Theatre closes out its run of “Elephant & Piggie’s ‘We Are in a Play!’,” 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in the Performing Arts Theater at the museum, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. arkmfa.org.
And at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” is onstage, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 12:45 and 6:45 Sunday through April 18. Buffet opens 30 minutes before curtain time. (501) 562-3131; murrysdp.com.
ART AND EXHIBITS
“Under A Restless Sky,” a site-specific installation by Boston-based artist Nathalie Miebach, on display through Saturday April 4 in the Jackson T. Stephens Gallery of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. (501) 372-4000; arkmfa.org.
“Architecture, Rust, Treasures,” works in pastel, pencil, ink and acrylic by mother and daughter Caprise Cooper and Evelyn Laurence, on display through April 10 at the Argenta Public Library, 420 Main St., North Little Rock, “celebrates the beauty of overlooked places, weathered objects and natural landscapes,” and also features work by 7-year-old Bearrett Laurence, representing a third generation of artists in the Cooper family. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday. Admission is free. Call (501) 687-1061 or visit NLRlibrary.org.
Arkansas Women to Watch 2026: Words Become Matter” is up through April 18 in the Underground Gallery at the CALS Roberts Library, 401 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, noon-4 p.m. Saturday. robertslibrary.org/current-exhibitions.
Cantrell Gallery, 8202 Cantrell Road, Little Rock, is showing Daniel Coston’s “My Creeks” exhibition through April 18. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. (501) 224-1335; cantrellgallery.com.
The Mid-Southern Watercolorists’ 56th annual juried exhibition is on display through May 1 at the William F. Laman Public Library, 2801 Orange St., North Little Rock. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday-Saturday. (501) 758-1720; NLRlibrary.org.
“Disfarmer: Portraits of Rural Arkansas,” early 20th-century black-and-white portraits of Arkansans by Mike Disfarmer, is up through June, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday, at the Old State House Museum in Little Rock. (501) 324-9685.
“Thomas Hart Benton,” a traveling exhibition of original artwork created by the artist during World War II, is up through July 31 at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. (501) 376-4602; littlerock.gov/macarthur.
And “Kuimeaux’s World,” drawings and paintings by late Little Rock native Dwight “Kuimeaux” Drennan, is on display through spring 2027 at Little Rock’s Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E. Third St. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. (501) 324-9351.