ENTERTAINMENT: Arkansas League of Artists Show Opens Friday at Argenta Library | The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

THEATER

‘Peanut’ on stage

The University of Central Arkansas Summer Theater, UCA’s new professional theater, presents its inaugural production “You are a good man Charlie Brown” (music, lyrics and book by Clark Gesner, based on Charles M. Schulz’s comic strip Peanuts, with additional dialogue by Michael Mayer and additional music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa), 7:30 p.m. Friday and June 28, 2 and 7:30 a.m. Saturday and June 29 at 2 p.m. and Sunday and June 30 at 2 p.m. in the James M. Bridges Black Box Theater at the university’s Windgate Center for the Fine and Performing Arts, Donaghey and Bruce streets, Conway. Tickets are $15 to $20. Call (501) 450-3265 or (866) 810-0012 or visit ovationtix.com/36631.

MUSIC

Organ concert

Celina Kobetitsch, associate director of music at Little Rock’s Trinity Cathedral, will give an organ concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 228 Spring St., Hot Springs, marking the 40th anniversary of the church’s Nichols & Simpson organ. Your program will include Johann Sebastian Bach’s Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542; Felix Mendelssohn’s Sonata No. 4 and original transcriptions of Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without Words”; an original choral prelude in “Herz und Herz vereint zusammen”; the Prelude in minor, BuxWV 158, by Dietrich Buxtehude; “You are Petra” by Henri Mulet; and Variations on “Veni creator” by Maurice Durufle. Entry is free.

ART

Members’ show

Arkansas League of Artists 2024 Membership Program opens with an Argenta Art District Third Friday Art Walk reception, 5-8 p.m., at the Argenta Library, 420 Main St., North Little Rock. The exhibition remains until July 5th. Library hours are 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday. Entrance to the library and reception is free. Call (501) 687-1061 or visit NLRlibrary.org.

“The Old Mill,” oil on canvas by Stacy Jones, and “War Stories,” oil on linen by Patrick Edwards, are part of the Arkansas League of Artists’ 2024 Members Show, opening Friday at the Argenta Library in North Little Rock . (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)

“The Old Mill,” oil on canvas by Stacy Jones, and “War Stories,” oil on linen by Patrick Edwards, are part of the Arkansas League of Artists’ 2024 Members Show, opening Friday at the Argenta Library in North Little Rock . (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)

Alumna Ceramics

A ceramics exhibit by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock alumna Gina Sims is on view through July 14 at the Ann Maners and Alex Pappas Gallery in the university’s Windgate Center of Art and Design, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. The center will host a reception from 5pm to 7pm on June 27th. Sims, a Little Rock native, now lives in Minneapolis. His ceramics and functional sculptures “are whimsical and visually informed by 18th-century ceramic surface designs and motifs,” according to a press release. The gallery’s opening hours are from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, and from 11am to 2pm, Saturday to Sunday. Entry to the gallery and reception are free. Call (501) 916-5117 or email byoung2@ualr.edu.

Ginny Sims’ “Coffee Cup No. 1,” “Female Bust” and “Pitcher and Candle Stick” are on display through July 14 at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Windgate Center of Art and Design. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette )

Ginny Sims’ “Coffee Cup No. 1,” “Female Bust” and “Pitcher and Candle Stick” are on display through July 14 at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Windgate Center of Art and Design. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette )

Ginny Sims’ “Coffee Cup No. 1,” “Female Bust” and “Pitcher and Candle Stick” are on display through July 14 at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Windgate Center of Art and Design. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette )

ETC.

Pulaski Tech Season

A famous scientist with magical powers brings a friendly dinosaur to life in “Dino-Light,” 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18, kickoff of the University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College’s 2024-25 CHARTS Live season at the Center for Humanities and Arts on the college’s main campus, 3000 W. Scenic Drive, North Little Rock. The glow-in-the-dark adventure features a mix of puppetry, technology and dance. Tickets cost R$15 and R$25.

The rest of the schedule (except as noted, all shows at 7:30 p.m.):

◼️ October 26: Bluegrass band Arkansauce. $25 and $35.

◼️ November 17: US Army Field Band Jazz Ambassadors, 2pm free.

◼️ January 25: Daredevils of Ozark Mountain. $70 and $85.

◼️ February 21: No Tears Project, jazz and community outreach, led by singer-songwriter Kelley Hurt and pianist-songwriter Christopher Parker. $20 and $30.

◼️ March 6: Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Cello Ensemble. $15 and $30.

Call (501) 812-2387 or visit uaptc.edu/charts.