Celebrating their sixth year as a festival and their first year as a multi-week event, the 2019 ACANSA Arts Festival of the South events will take place from Sept. 13 to Sept. 28. A visual and performing arts festival, ACANSA is full of performances featuring world-class shows that are the product of collaborations between…
Studios are places of experimentation and creation, where artists can go to practice and hone their craft and produce the work that they will then carry out into the world to be seen by patrons, critics, museum visitors and more. It’s a private space by design that is rarely seen by outsiders. To some, an…
Nine Arkansas artists have been chosen for the Arkansas Arts Council’s annual Individual Artist Fellowship Awards. The artists have been chosen for three categories: sculpture and installation art, dance choreography and writing of novels. The winners of this year’s fellowships include Holly Laws, Linda Nguyen Lopez and Greely Myatt for sculpture and installation art;…
AY About You Magazine has your complete guide to Arkansas’ music scene. This weekend, go see the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Justin Furstenfeld, Charlotte Taylor and Gypsy Rain and more. Around Little Rock Friday 9/6 Little Rock Night Market/ Little Rock River Market 400 President Clinton Ave./ 5-11 Come join the Central Arkansas community for a…
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s Arkansas Comic Con. The annual fest of fandom is again touching down at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock this weekend, with a number of vendors, high-profile guests and activities for all to enjoy. In fact, the guest list at this year’s iteration may be…
American country music superstar Brantley Gilbert will get Little Rock fired up in 2020. Gilbert is bringing his “Fire’t Up Tour” to Verizon Arena on Friday, February 21, 2020. He will be accompanied by Dylan Scott and Brandon Lay. Since releasing his first album in 2009, he has released a total of four albums, with…
Stay “in the know” about all the great events going on around Arkansas. AY’s Publisher, Heather Baker, will tell you what the hot spots are this weekend. Thursday, Sept. 5 What: 16thAnnual Runway for the Cure Where: Clear Channel Metroplex When: 11am Today, AY Magazine and Komen Arkansas are presenting Runway for the Cure. The…
Stay “in the know” about all the great events going on around Arkansas. AY’s Publisher, Heather Baker, will tell you what the hot spots are this weekend. Thursday, August 29 What: Science After Dark: Tinkering and Drinking Where: Museum of Discovery When: 6 pm The Museum of Discovery is getting a head start on…
It’s 2019 and the 200th anniversary of Arkansas Territory. Has your family’s story been fully appreciated and told as part of the reweaving of the American family history tapestry? If not, it’s time to tell it, and interesting new resources are available. A wonderful development is that genealogy now embraces telling everyone’s family story, as…
Another summer draws to a close, and with it, all those camps, workshops, events, cookouts, exhibits and other summertime activities our children love attending. by Ryan Nix | Photography courtesy of each organization We’ve included kid-friendly plays, library workshops, STEM and tinkering labs and so much more. Take some time to browse the…
