FUN
The sixth annual Pulaski County Fair opens 5-11 p.m. Friday in North Little Rock’s Riverfront Park and runs through May 24, featuring rides via the P.B.J. Happee Days Shows carnival midway, games, novelties, vendors, a petting zoo with camel and pony rides, food, a beer garden and live music. thepulaskicountyfair.net
North Little Rock marks the 50th anniversary of the Old Mill, in T.R. Pugh Memorial Park, 3800 Lakeshore Drive, as a North Little Rock park, with a “party like it’s 1976,” 1-4 p.m. Saturday. Visitors, who are encouraged to dress in 1976-era attire, can expect refreshments, giveaways, children’s activities, tours and talks throughout the afternoon and have the opportunity to learn what the Old Mill was like in 1976 and how it has changed in the 50 years since. Street parking is available near the park; additional parking, with a shuttle, is available at the Lakewood Property nlr.ar.gov. The Old Mill, a historic re-creation of an early 1830s water-powered grist mill, is best known for its appearance in the opening credits of the 1939 movie “Gone With the Wind.”
The Little Rock Farmers Market returns to the River Market pavilions, 400 President Clinton Ave., 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday and open Saturdays through Aug. 1. littlerock.com/river-market/farmers-market.
MUSIC
The Arkansas Symphony Community Orchestra performs “Sounds of the New World,” 7 p.m. Sunday at Calvary Baptist Church. 5700 Cantrell Road, Little Rock. The program includes works by Aaron Copland, William Grant Still, Florence Price, Kenneth Abeling, Antonin Dvorák and George Gershwin. Valery Saul conducts. (501) 666-1761; arkansassymphony.org.
And the Arkansas Symphony will be onstage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway, playing the John Williams score while “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” plays on the screen above and behind them. arkansassymphony.org
And saxophonist Merlon Devine headlines the Lupus Jazz Concert, benefiting Lupus Foundation of Arkansas Inc., 4-6 p.m. Saturday at the Space With Grace Venue, 2005 Main St., North Little Rock. Doors open at 3:30 p.m. lupus4arkansas.com.
THEATER
“Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville,” Ludwig’s comedy-thriller adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes mystery “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” is onstage through May 23 at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock. Buffet opens 30 minutes before curtain time — 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 12:45 and 6:45 Sunday. (501) 562-3131; murrysdp.com.
ART AND EXHIBITS
New this week:
“The Art of Friendship,” watercolors by Kim Perkins and Laura Powers, opens with a 6-8 p.m. reception Friday in the Gallery at the William F. Laman Library, 2801 Orange St., North Little Rock. The show remains on display through July 25. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday and Saturday. (501) 758-1720 or visit NLRlibrary.org.
“From the Loft,” mixed-media works by Little Rock artist Ally Cantrell, opens with an Argenta Arts District Third Friday Art Walk reception, 5-8 p.m. Friday at the Argenta Library Gallery, 420 Main St., North Little Rock, and remains on display through June 5. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday. Admission to the reception and the gallery is free. Call (501) 687-1061 or visit NLRlibrary.org.
Continuing:
“Will Barnet: Seasons of Life,” works on paper by Barnet from the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation Collection, is on display through Oct. 11 at the museum 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday. amfa.org.
“Remote Wonder: Richland Creek Wilderness,” recent photographs by Paul Caldwell centering on Richland Creek, a tributary of the Buffalo River, up through July 18 at Cantrell Gallery, 8202 Cantrell Road, Little Rock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. (501) 224-1335; cantrellgallery.com.
“The Three SoMa Sisters: History, Nature, Wellness, and Anita Davis’ Mission to Thrive in SoMa” is on display through Aug. 30 at ESSE Museum & Store, 1510 Main St. in Little Rock’s SoMa neighborhood. The exhibit explores how Davis has created a community focused on her three SoMa enterprises: the museum, the Bernice Garden and The Authentic Self Collective. (501) 916-9022; essepursemuseum.com.
Hearne Fine Art, 1001 Wright Ave., Little Rock, is showing “Women Create Space. Grace. Power: A Multimedia Survey of Thirteen Black Women Artists,” through June 13. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday. (501) 372-6822; hearnefineart.com.
“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.