We preview a special three day festival to be held in Eureka Springs June 8th through the 10th to celebrate the village’s more than two hundred cold water springs.
More information is available at www.celebratethesprings.org.Ozarks At Large
We preview a special three day festival to be held in Eureka Springs June 8th through the 10th to celebrate the village’s more than two hundred cold water springs.
More information is available at www.celebratethesprings.org.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, a conversation with “stick-work artist” Patrick Dougherty; and a new organization in Fayetteville hopes to do something different than the traditional canned food drive. Also on the show today, a preview of this year’s Artosphere Festival Orchestra.Jason Smith from Walton Arts Center discusses this year’s Artosphere Festival Orchestra.
To listen to more from this conversation, click here.
Jodi Beznoska from Walton Arts Center tells us more about the upcoming events at this year’s Artosphere Festival and the AMP.
An experimental theatre project by Artists Laboratory Theatre will launch today as part of the 2012 Artosphere Festival. Becca Martin-Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has other suggestions for things to do as well.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, we take a look at the classics. A new theatre company called The Classical Edge works to bring Shakespeare to the Park each summer. And, the KUAF/Fulbright Summer Chamber Music Festival returns for a fourth year.The 4th annual KUAF/Fulbright Summer Chamber Music Festival returns Thursday with a free performance at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall on the University of Arkansas campus.
For more information: FulbrightSummerMusic.uark.edu.
One of the plays at the Arkansas New Play Festival that is still a work-in-progress is The Football Project. It will be read Sunday at 3:30 p.m. More information is available at Theatre2.org.
Two installations associated with the Artosphere Festival are taking shape and Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas recently visited with the artist of the structure located near Nadine Baum Studios in Fayetteville. Details are available at ArtosphereFestival.org
As part of the the Arkansas New Play Festival, Janelle and Troy Schemmer will share their play about siblings who grew up in Texas, but now both live in New York. More information is available at Theatre2.org.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, the National Veterans Golden Age Games are set to take over Fayetteville and the region this weekend; we speak with one 79-year-old Vietnam veteran who hopes to win in his competitions, and we speak with an Arkansas elder who decided to obtain his GED many, many years after his high school years had passed. Plus, while many eyes are on the happenings at the World Cup, we attend a sports match of a different nature, polo, in Bentonville.
Roby Brock leads a roundtable discussion on workforce education.
Planners for Pea Ridge National Military Park in northwest Arkansas in Garfield seek to return the American Civil War battlefield back to its original ecological nature. Chief Resources Manager, Kevin Eads takes us on a tour.
Becca says Creed's former lead singer will perform at Neumeier's Rib Room tonight.
Eleven acres adjacent to Gulley Park were recently put on the market. Friends of Gulley Park hope to raise the funds necessary to buy the property, expand the park and maintain the atmosphere of the current public space.
Local grocery shelves have a new local item on them. Bernice's Hellacious Hummus is make in northwest Arkansas.
