Event Calendar

ArkansasStaged presents a staged reading of Dear Elizabeth by Sarah Ruhl at 21c Bentonville. The innovative and moving play is based on the 30-year friendship between two of the most celebrated poets of the 20th century: Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. They were rarely in the same place at the same time, but from 1947 …
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In partnership with NorthWest Arkansas Community College's 2018 Spring Arts & Culture Festival, please join us for a special lecture by artist Purdy Eaton, with a brief introduction to 21c Bentonville’s newest exhibition, Labor&Materials, by 21c Assistant Curator Amethyst Rey Beaver. Eaton’s digital print, American Habitat 2, is currently featured in Labor&Materials. > RSVP and invite …
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Inverse Performance Art Festival returns for a four-day performance art tour of Northwest Arkansas April 12-15. Each day the festival will present work in a different city within NWA, with venues ranging anywhere from inside homes, to galleries, storefronts, alleyways, and even out in the streets. Artists from around the world will present new work …
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Experience a critically acclaimed contemporary play with a staged reading of White Rabbit Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour. Presented by ArkansasStaged, in association with Aurora Nova Productions and Boat Rocker Entertainment, the play is a playful, fascinating, and utterly unique theater-going experience. Denied a passport to leave his home in Iran, playwright Nassim Soleimanpour defied the cultural blockade …
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Take in an evening of contemporary theater with a staged reading of Field Notes From Mother Earth by Ashley Edwards, directed by Jenny Guy, presented by ArkansasStaged. A work in progress, Field Notes from Mother Earth is the story of two cultural anthropologists—a teacher and her student—who are sifting through the field notes they’ve collected …
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