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Shakespeare in Centennial Park Facilities: • 1 March production (3 days) Winter Shakespeare • Shakespeare in the Park: held at Centennial Park’s • Shakespeare’s Birthday Party (April) Nashville, TN www.nashvilleshakes.org open-air bandshell . • 1 April-May production (4 weeks) Distance from El Dorado: • Winter Shakespeare: held at the Belmont • Shakespeare In the Garden: An Afternoon Tea (1 463 miles (approximately 8 hours) University’s Troutt Theater, which seats 357 . day/May) Company: • 1 June-July production (2 weeks) Nashville Shakespeare Festival, a 501(c) 3 non-profit professional theater company celebrating 23 seasons Austin Shakespeare Productions: Austin, TX www.austinshakespeare.org in Nashville . • 1 production for their Shakespeare in Zilker Park Distance from El Dorado: Season: 418 miles (approximately 8 hours) • +8 other productions throughout the year Shakespeare in the Park: annual event held Thursday – Sunday evenings for 4 weeks each summer (August – Company: Facilities: September) . Each summer 10,000 to 15,000 audience Austin Shakespeare, a non-profit professional theater members attend . • Shakespeare in Zilker Park: held at the Sheffield company celebrating 25 seasons in Austin . Hillside Theater in Austin’s beautiful Zilker Park Winter Shakespeare: annual event held for 2 weeks Season: Year-round (outdoor venue) . each winter (January); Thursday – Saturday evenings • Other productions alternate between the and Sunday matinees . Shakespeare in Zilker Park: annual event held following area venues: Thursday – Sunday evenings for 5 weeks each spring Productions: (April – May) . This year’s production featured a four- o Rollins Studio Theatre: 229-seat indoor theater piece rock band live on stage . • 1 production for their Shakespeare in the Park o The Curtain: a 100-seat scaled-down replica • 1 production for their Winter Shakespeare Other productions include: of the original Globe Theatre in London, designed and built by Richard Garriott . • Also recently expanded its outreach in 2008 to • 1 September production (2 weeks) Nestled in the hills of Garriott’s West Austin include businesses and adult groups, providing • The 25th Anniversary Luminalia: a 17th century estate . workshops that exercise creative thinking, masque combining pageantry, poetry, dance, problem solving, and effective communication o The Sheffield Hillside Theater a 5,000-capacity music, spectacle and feasting, originated in the through working with Shakespeare’s language, lawn seating outdoor venue at Zilker Park . court of Charles I of England to celebrate “The characters, and themes . Triumph of Light” (1 day/November) . • 1 February production (2 weeks)
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FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS: Shakespeare Dallas • Shakespeare in the Park is held at two different Dallas, TX www.shakespearedallas.org locations each season: Is this part of a university program? Distance from El Dorado: o Samuell Grand Amphitheatre: an outdoor No 266 miles (approximately 5 hours) venue with large lawn area that seats up to 1,500 . Can we get photos of The Curtain, Sheffield Hillside Company: Theater in Zilker Park? o Addison Circle Park: Outdoor venue with Shakespeare Dallas, a non-profit professional theater covered pavilion seating for 200 . Yes, see below . company celebrating 39 seasons in Dallas . • Other productions alternate between the above Season: Year-round venue and: • Shakespeare in the Park: bi-annual event with a o The Bath House Cultural Center: Indoor venue summer season and a fall season that seats 116 . • The remainder of the year, other productions/ o Project X Studio, The Green Zone: a 150-seat programs include: indoor theater .
o Shakespeare on the Go: ongoing education FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS: programs for grades 3-12 They do 2 productions during the summer in June o Shakespeare Unplugged: ongoing programs and July . How many shows are there each week for individuals 18 and over during the performance season? Productions: Summer (June/July): Shakespeare in the Park: • Cymbeline (16 shows) • 2 productions during summer season (June-July). • Comedy of Errors (16 shows) • 1 production during fall season (September- October) . Fall season is also shown in two Fall (September/October): locations simultaneously (Dallas, TX and Addison, • Two Gentlemen of Verona (9 shows @Samuell TX) Grand Amphitheatre) + (10 shows @Addison Shakespeare on the Go: 2 traveling productions Circle Park) Shakespeare Unplugged: 3 productions Spring (April):
Facilities: • Boy (2 shows @ The Green Zone)
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• Venus & Adonis (2 shows @ The Green Zone) Texas Shakespeare Festival • She Stoops to Conquer (2 shows @ Bath House Kilgore, TX www.texasshakespeare.com Cultural Center) Distance from El Dorado: Is this part of a university program? 164 miles (approximately 3 hours)
No Company/ Funding: • Celebrating its 25th season, the festival is Can we get pictures of the Bath House Cultural Center, produced by theater professionals that come from Samuell Grand Amphitheater? across the nation and around the globe . Yes, see below • The festival is primarily funded by various local grants and Kilgore College . • Kilgore College provides the rehearsal facilities, office spaces, the Van Cliburn Auditorium, dormitory housing and meals for the entire company, scholarships for the apprentices, printing, publicity and public relations . Season:
• Annual event held Thursday - Sunday for 4 weeks each summer (July - August) . • Performances are 3x a day (Morning/ Matinee/ Evening) • More than 96 percent of available seats were sold during the 2009 season Productions: 5 productions
Facilities: In the indoor 350-seat Van Cliburn Auditorium at Kilgore College .
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Houston Shakespeare Festival • Seating is provided for 1,705 patrons and 20 Houston, TX www.houstonfestivalscompany.com wheelchair spaces, plus a sloping lawn that accommodates approximately 4,500 more on Distance from El Dorado: blankets or lawn chairs . 335 miles (approximately 6 hours) • Theatre structure – 64 x 41 foot stage; 54 line Company: sets for hanging lights, curtains and scenery; an orchestra pit which can be raised and lowered; • Celebrating its 36th season, the festival is a dressing rooms; offices; full complement of collaborative production between the University theatrical equipment; 110-ton air conditioning of Houston and the City of Houston (via the Miller system cools the performance area . Theatre) . • The festival is primarily funded by various local FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS: grants, the University of Houston and the City of Is this part of a university program? Houston . Yes, in addition to a budget appropriation, the • In addition to a budget appropriation, the University of Houston provides rehearsal space, University of Houston provides rehearsal space, offices, scenery and costume shops, as well as offices, scenery and costume shops, as well as personnel in the areas of administration and personnel in the areas of administration and development . development . Season: Can we get photos of the Miller Outdoor Theater? Annual event held Thursday - Sunday for 1 week each Yes, see images to the left . summer (July/ August) .
Productions: • 2 productions New Orleans’ Shakespeare Festival at Tulane • Are free of charge to the community New Orleans, LA www.neworleansshakespeare.com Facilities: Distance from El Dorado: • Miller Outdoor Theatre: an outdoor open-air theater 351 miles (approximately 6 hours) located on approximately 7 .5 acres of land in Company/ Funding: Hermann Park, site of the Houston Zoo, the Garden Celebrating its 17th season, the festival is produced Center and the Museum of Natural Science .
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by Tulane University . The university also collaborates • Dixon Hall: a 1,000-seat proscenium theater at Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park with a few other local theatrical companies for one Tulane University . Oklahoma City, OK www.oklahomashakespeare.com production . FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS: Distance from El Dorado: Season: Year-round 400 miles (approximately 7 hours) The notes say they do five productions, yet the festival • Shakespeare Festival: annual event held Thursday only lasts nine weeks and there is only one venue. How Company/ Funding: – Sunday evenings for 9 week each summer (May- do they do this? July) . • The Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park, a non- profit professional theater company celebrating • The remainder of the year, other productions/ 5 productions with a total of 44 performances from 26 seasons in Oklahoma City . programs include: May 27-July 25, 2010: • Has partnered with Oklahoma City University for o Shakespeare Alive! • Love’s Labor’s Lost (12 shows) – final 2 weeks rehearsal space and facilities for set and costume overlapping . o Performances for the Schools construction . • The Everlasting Bonfire (12 shows) – first 2 weeks o Shakespeare on the Road • The organization is supported in part by overlapping o The ESU/ National Shakespeare Competition Oklahoma Arts Council and National Endowment • Macbeth (12 shows) for the Arts, Allied Arts, Devon Energy, Chesapeake o The Institute on Teaching Shakespeare • A Streetcar Named Desire (3 shows) Energy, OGE Energy Corp ., Kirkpatrick Family Fund, o All Things Shakespeare Training Program . Kirkpatrick Foundation, Inasmuch Foundation and • The Tempest (5 shows) Oklahoma City University . Each of these programs addresses a particular Yes, just one stage; the shows rotate; 44 performances educational need that ranges from exposing students in all . See below schedule for 2010 . Season: Year-round to professional Shakespeare to providing teachers • Summer Season: held Thursday – Saturday with the tools to reach their students How many tickets do they sell? evenings for 12 week each summer (June- Productions: N/A, I cannot find any attendance info . September) . Shakespeare Festival: 5 productions Is this part of a university program? • Fall/ Winter Season: held Thursday – Saturday evenings ( with a few matinees) for a 2-3 weeks Facilities: It’s a partnership of sorts . From late May through mid- August, Tulane University’s Theatre Program hosts per production each winter (December-February) . • The Albert Lupin Experimental Theater: an indoor the repertory season of The Shakespeare Festival at Productions: fully equipped flexible “black-box” theater at Tulane, an Actor’s Equity Company, with an intern Tulane University . Seating capacity varies from program offering college students from around the • Summer: 3-5 productions + summer theater camp year to year depending on the stage configuration country the opportunity to work and perform with for children (typically anywhere from 110-130 seats) . seasoned professional actors, directors, and designers . • Fall/ Winter: 1-3 productions
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• Year-round: touring school/ educational Oklahoma City University’s Kirkpatrick Fine Art Facilities: productions and workshops Center . • Performance venues vary between the following: Facilities: o Mitchell Hall: o Meek Hall Auditorium: • Typically during the summer season performances An indoor 613-seat venue located at the An indoor 230-seat venue located at the are at the Water Stage in Myriad Botanical University of Central Oklahoma . University of Mississippi . Gardens . However, Myriad Gardens is currently o Ford Center Main Hall: getting a massive renovation, so this year’s summer season is taking place at Oklahoma City‘s An indoor 1167-seat venue located at the Oxford Shakespeare Festival University of Mississippi . Bicentennial Park . Oxford, MS www.shakespeare.olemiss.edu/ o Bicentennial Park: o The Oxford Depot: Distance from El Dorado: An intimate indoor 60-seat venue . A temporary outdoor open-air park space set 245 miles (approximately 5 hours) along the front lawn of Oklahoma City’s Civic FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS: Center Music Hall . Company/ Funding: o Water Stage: • Celebrating its 7th season, the festival is produced They do three productions over four weeks. They have three venues, how do they do this? An outdoor, open-air venue located on the by University of Mississippi . grounds of Myriad Botanical Gardens . Seating • The organization is supported in part by the 3 productions with a total of 14 performances from capacities are not listed . Renovations include Division of Outreach and Continuing Education, June 11-July 2, 2010: adding a retractable roof for Water Stage the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, the • Merry Wives of Windsor (7 shows) - in Meek Hall seating as well as a new Amphitheater and Department of Theatre Arts, the Department Auditorium grand lawn on the northwest corner of the of Music, the Oxford Convention & Visitors grounds . Bureau, the Mississippi Arts Commission, the • Hamlet (4 shows) - in the Ford Center Main Hall • In the fall and winter seasons, Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, the UM Associated • The King and I (3 shows) - in the Ford Center Main performance venues vary between the Study Body and the Gertrude Castellow Ford Hall following: Foundation . 2 stages used, with rotating performances shown at alternating days . o Tolbert Theater: Season: Summer Oxford Shakespeare Festival: an annual event held Is this part of a university program? An indoor 580-seat venue located at the Arts Thursday – Sunday evenings for 4 week each summer Council of Oklahoma City’s Stage Center . Yes, productions are put on by students and faculty (May-July) . from The University of Mississippi and in Oxford . o Kirkpatrick Auditorium: Productions: An indoor 1095-seat venue located in 3 productions
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Amphitheaters & Theaters Near El Dorado, Arkansas
CenturyTel Center Arena Riverfest Amphitheatre Marshall Civic Center Bossier City, LA www.centurytelcenter.com Little Rock, AR www.rivermarket.info Marshall, TX www.marshallciviccenter.com
• 92 miles from El Dorado • 118 miles from El Dorado • 132 miles from El Dorado • Venue capacity: 14,000 • Venue capacity: 1,375 seats + seating for 5,625 on • Venue capacity: 1,608 the lawn • This all-purpose arena is located in the northwest • The 20,000 square foot theater has excellent portion of Louisiana, directly across the Red River • Set on 7-acres, this outdoor, open-air venue plays acoustics, sightlines, plus deep-cushioned seats from Shreveport . host to multiple concerts & events each year, from and fabulous legroom for long, tall Texans . Riverfest to the 4th of July special, national tours, • The venue hosts hockey, af2 football, concerts, • The auditorium is complete with an orchestra pit, and local celebrations . ice skating, rodeos, family shows, and more! This loading dock, ample curtains, intercom system, facility seats up to 14,000 and offers comfortable • The stage has a magnificent view located right dressing rooms, green room, and state-of-the-art cushioned seating and free parking. along the Arkansas River and set within one of sound and lighting . Little Rock’s largest and most popular public parks .
Shreveport Convention Center Robinson Center Music Hall and De Queen Amphitheater Shreveport, LA www.shreveportcenter.com De Queen, AR www.dequeen-ark.com Performance Theater • 95 miles from El Dorado Little Rock, AR www .littlerockmeetings .com • 143 miles from El Dorado
• Venue capacity: 2,000 • 118 miles from El Dorado • Venue capacity: 3,000+ • Located in the heart of downtown, the Shreveport • Venue capacity: 2,609 • Newly built (2010) outdoor facility located next Convention Center is 350,000 square feet . It to the DeQueen Sportsplex; seats over 3,000; provides innovative meeting solutions with state- • This theater is the primary performance space elevated stage with meeting facility, dressing of-the-art technology and meeting and exhibit for the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, traveling rooms, storage . space designed to meet the needs of today’s productions of popular Broadway plays and meeting and event professionals . musicals, and various concerts throughout the year, while the adjoining exhibition hall and • As the second largest convention center in meeting areas host conventions for a wide variety Louisiana and the largest in the tri-state area known of organizations . as the Ark-La-Tex, the Shreveport Convention Center is used for tradeshows, conventions, • The Robinson Center is located at the west end meetings and special events . of Statehouse Plaza, and is physically attached to a DoubleTree Hotel and underground parking facility .
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S.E. Belcher Jr. Chapel and and regular outdoor concerts in the Crater • This multi-purpose facility includes an air- Performance Center Amphitheater make Durango’s Canyon a great conditioned coliseum (indoor arena), a 40,000 choice for a getaway . square feet livestock pavilion, a 1,500 seat theatre, Longview, TX www.belchercenter.com an exhibition hall and the new Equine Pavilion . • 154 miles from El Dorado The Cannon Center • Venue capacity: 2,000 Oil Palace Center Memphis, TN www.thecannoncenter.com Tyler, TX www.oilpalace.com • Opened in Fall 2007, the theater was designed by • 251 miles from El Dorado professionals in architecture and theater design, • 189 miles from El Dorado • Venue capacity: 2,100 the center features 1,400 seats on the ground • Venue capacity: 8,600 level and another 600 seats in two, opera-style • The world-class Cannon Center for the Performing • The Oil Palace is a multi-purpose arena located on balconies . Arts officially opened to rave reviews in January Texas State Highway 64, just outside the eastern 2003 . The 2,100-seat multi-purpose facility is the • The building features a full working stage and city limits of Tyler, Texas . orchestra lift, as well as prop and staging areas, home of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and dressing rooms, soundproofed rehearsal rooms, • The arena hosts concerts, sporting events, touring hosts a multitude of other events including ballet, classrooms and offices . shows such as a circus, and civic events of a local opera, pop and jazz concerts, touring theatrical nature such as high school graduations . It is productions, children’s theater and general • Located at LeTourneau University, the center also also used for conventions and trade shows, with sessions for conventions in the Memphis Cook functions as the university’s chapel . 60,000 square feet of floor space . Convention Center .
Durango’s Canyon Hopkins County Regional Civic Center Mud Island Amphitheater Mount Enterprise, TX www.durangoscanyon.com Sulphur Springs, TX www.civiccenteronline.com Memphis, TN www.mudisland.com
• 167 miles from El Dorado • 191 miles from El Dorado • 253 miles from El Dorado • Venue capacity: 28,000 (lawn seating) • Venue capacity: 1,500 • Venue capacity: 5,000 (lawn seating) • This outdoor country venue is centrally located • The indoor theater is fully equipped to handle • The outdoor, open-air venue allows attendees to in East Texas and provides a great place for both most any stage production from high school enjoy performances while seated on the bank of vacations and extended stays . plays to top name entertainers . Professionally the the Island, facing the stage and it’s backdrop of • Amenities such as full RV hookups, cabins, center has hosted American Family Theatre, Living the Mississippi River . camping, golf cart & ATV trails, fish ponds, Arts for Students, Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Tracy Lawrence, Tanya Tucker, Lee Greenwood, etc .
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• Opened to public in 1982 with the Mississippi Dierks Bentley, Boys Like Girls, Metro Station, and • Situated 22.5 miles from the Dickson Street River Park, Mississippi River Museum and Mud Jesse McCartney . entertainment district this new “Green” facility will Island Amphitheater as the major entertainment be offering 25-30 major concerts and festivals per and recreational attractions . year . • Mud Island is a small peninsula of land surrounded The Arkansas Music Pavilion by the Mississippi River to the west while the Wolf (The AMP) River was diverted so that it can run on the north Fayetteville, AR www.arkansasmusicpavilion.com Civic Center Music Hall side . The island is easily accessible by monorail, Oklahoma City, OK www.okcciviccenter.org • 304 miles from El Dorado ferry or automobile . • 400 miles from El Dorado • Venue capacity: 2,500 (lawn seating) • Venue capacity: • A 2500 seat amphitheater that provides the Snowden Grove Amphitheater community with added arts, entertainment and o Thelma Gaylord Performing Arts Theatre 2,481 Snowden, MS culture . o Freede Little Theatre 286 www.snowdengroveamphitheater.com o CitySpace 100 • 264 miles from El Dorado Osage Creek Performing Arts Center • This performing arts center includes the Thelma • Venue capacity: 4,000 seats +seating for 8,000 on Gaylord Performing Arts Theatre, the Freede Little the lawn –OPENING SUMMER 2011 Theatre, CitySpace, the Meinders Hall of Mirrors Tontitown, AR www.osagecreeklive.com and the Joel Levine Rehearsal Hall . • This outdoor, open-air venue opened in 2006 and has already hosted some of the biggest acts in • 315miles from El Dorado • The Civic Center Music Hall is managed and music; The White Stripes, ZZ Top, Velvet Revolver, • Venue capacity: is expected to hold up to 20,000 operated in conjunction with Stage Center and Alice in Chains, Trace Adkins, Poison, Wilco, Lynyrd the Rose State Performing Arts Theatre . Together Skynyrd, Blues Traveler, Jason Aldean, Staind, • The property sits on more than 800 privately- they serve more than 300,00 patrons at around Seether, Blind Melon, Cross Canadian Ragweed, owned acres, and is shaped like a natural 250 performances at six different stages each year . Kansas, Joe Nichols, Candlebox, BuckCherry, Taylor amphitheater . • The center is home to eight professional arts Hicks, Collective Soul, Eric Church, Chris Cagle, • The venue will have fixed chairs in the front near organizations: Black Liberated Arts Center, the stage, and large areas of land for people to Canterbury Choral Society, Celebrity Attractions, sit on the lawn behind them . The shows would Lyric Theatre and Academy, Oklahoma City Ballet, be displayed on big screens near the stage, so Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Oklahoma City everyone will be able to see the concerts . Repertory Theatre, and Oklahoma City Theatre • The amphitheater will be the newest state of the Company . art concert venue in NW Arkansas .
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Arkansas Destinations
TOP 7 DESTINATIONS: • Lake Ouachita (1 mil visitors annually) named Eureka Springs, AR as one of its “Dozen Based on 2009 Welcome Centers Survey and Tourism • Lake Hamilton Distinctive Destinations ”. Streets are lined with Economic Report Victorian homes hugging cliff sides, and its entire 3. Ozark Region www.ozarkmountainregion.com downtown area is on the National Register of 1 . Little Rock, AR www .littlerock .com • Buffalo River (1.5 mil visitors annually) Historic Places . 2 . Hot Springs, AR www hotsprings. .org • Eureka Springs • For the second time, Eureka has been selected one of 100 towns to be in “Great Towns of 3 . Fort Smith, AR www .fortsmith .org • Mountain View America” book by David & Joan Vokac; the first 4 . Fayetteville, AR www experiencefayetteville. com. ART DESTINATIONS: time was 1998, and then in 2009 . 5 . Bentonville, AR www .bentonvilleusa org. 1. Eureka Springs, AR www.eurekasprings.org • Other noteworthy art advocates include: the • Distance from El Dorado: 296 miles Eureka School of the Arts, the Eureka Springs Arts 6 . Eureka Springs, AR www eurekasprings. .org Council, the Eureka Springs Gallery Association, • Is home to more than 30 fine art and fine craft 7 . Mammoth Spring, AR the Eureka Springs Artists Registry, etc . galleries plus more than 300 working artists in the www .mammothspringarkansas .com visual and performing arts . And that’s not tallying Events: the countless creatives in the areas of music, TOP 3 DESTINATIONS: literary, and entertainment – think chefs, poets, • Annual Studio Tour www. Based on response from Arkansas Dept . of Tourism filmmakers, and the list goes on . eurekaspringsstudiotour .com Representative • Local art galleries represent more than 900 local, - An annual, three-day, self-guided art tour where participants explore studios of local artists to see 1. Little Rock, AR www.littlerock.com regional, national, and international artists . demonstrations and artists at work . Artworks are • Clinton Library (275,000 visitors annually) • Annual art shows include a representation of on exhibit and for sale including original paintings every medium imaginable (i .e . blown and fused • River Market District and prints, pottery, fiber art, jewelry and other fine glass, sculpture, photography, paintings and crafts . • Arkansas Arts Center (280,000 visitors annually) prints, fine jewelry, pottery, etc ). . • May Festival of the Arts • Arkansas Repertory Theatre • For the past two years, “American Style” magazine www .mayfestivalofthearts .com • Heifer International named Eureka Springs as a “Top Twenty-five Arts Destination” and for 2010, Eureka Springs is listed - An annual month-long celebration of the Arts • Capital Hotel & Historic Arkansas Museum as #10 in their Small Cities category . beginning May 1st with the ARTrageous Parade and continuing through Memorial Day Weekend . 2. Hot Springs, AR www.hotsprings.org • Additionally, Eureka Springs has been described • Annual White Street Studio Walk • Hot Springs National Park (1.4 mil visitors annually) in every edition of Jim Villani’s book, “The 100 Best Small Art Towns in America ”. www .mayfestivalofthearts .com • Oaklawn (700,000 annually) • The National Trust for Historic Preservation - Artists open their studios to the public along
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White Street plus outdoor exhibits and o Each year the Annual Toys Designed by Artists o In-School Residency Program: Arts in entertainment make this a highlight of the month exhibit is held . Education artist are in residence at local of May Festival of the Arts . o A competitive show of works from local schools throughout the year and work • Second Saturday Gallery Strolls www. school children is held annually as well . alongside teachers to incorporate the arts artofeureka .com The Young Arkansas Artists show displays and sciences through a cross curricular works from grades K-12 and awards prizes approach, expanding the school’s campus - From April to December, on the second Saturday into outdoor classes at Wildwood Park . of each month (and every Saturday in May) the and honorable mentions for outstanding galleries open their doors from 6-9 p .m . with work . Schools with winning entries receive o Children’s Festival Programming special shows and artist receptions . monetary awards to help promote their art o Children’s Summer Camps programs . • Arkansas Repertory Theatre www.therep.org • Wildwood Park for the Arts 3. Little Rock, AR www.littlerock.com www.wildwoodpark.org - Founded in 1976 and enjoying its 34th season, the theater is located in a historic building in • Distance from El Dorado: 118 miles - Is a developing botanical garden and center downtown Little Rock . for the arts . Its focus is providing encounters • Arkansas Arts Center www.arkarts.com with nature and the full spectrum of cultural - Is the state’s largest non-profit professional One of the leading cultural institutions in the arts: visual, performing, literary, horticultural, theatre company . state, the center features a permanent collection culinary and more . - The theater has produced more than 280 of various works of art along with occasional - The 104-acre woodland site includes paved productions including 40 world premieres on special exhibitions . Other parts of the center walking trails, a variety of gardens, a gazebo, its 354-seat MainStage and 99-seat black box include a research library, children’s theater and an arboretum and an 8-acre swan lake . SecondStage . studio school with art education classes for a Additionally there is a 625-seat theatre, a - Each year the theater averages eight to variety of age groups . studio theatre complex, production facilities, ten productions, for an annual audience of o Hosts the Delta Show, an annual competitive and the park’s administrative offices . 70,000+ people . exhibition of artist from Arkansas and adjacent - Wildwood is a leader in arts education, with states . Events: more than three year-round education o Hosts an Annual Collectors Show & Sale . The programs reaching more than 35,000 annually • Riverfest www.riverfestarkansas.com curators of the museum bring in works from a statewide . Programs include an array of - A celebration of visual and performing variety of galleries from New York and around activities such as: arts that is held annually (since 1978) over the country . This gives local collectors access o Art-to-Go School Tour: a fully staged Memorial Day weekend on the banks of the to works they wouldn’t normally see and the professional play with entertaining and Arkansas River . general public to see the works of a number distinct arts education content performed - Approximately 250,000 festival-goers of contemporary artists . for elementary schools across the state . attended the 2009 event, despite a full day of
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rain on Sunday, with an estimated economic o Sculpture and walking trails will link the • The heart of Little Rock’s nightlife scene has impact of $33 million on the community . museum’s 100-acre park and gardens to become the River Market District, which is home - Offers a variety of art activities (in addition to downtown Bentonville, Arkansas . to bars that feature live music, restaurants and musical entertainment – see details under shops . The district is also located next to a large music) such as: outdoor amphitheater at Riverfront Park, where 5. Hot Springs, AR www.hotsprings.org concerts, movie nights and festivals with well- o A children’s and your teens area where • Distance from El Dorado: 120 miles known performers are often held . every activity is free • Is home to the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra o The ArtZone where art classes are offered Events and Ballet Arkansas, both of whom perform • Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival at Robinson Center Music Hall, the Arkansas www .hsdff .org Repertory Theatre and several theaters, comedy 4. Bentonville, AR www.bentonvilleusa.org - Held annually for 10 days in October, the clubs, jazz and blues bars, and energetic dance • Distance from El Dorado: 330 miles film festival is one of the country’s premiere clubs . documentary showcases . • Crystal Bridges www.crystalbridges.org • Just across the river in North Little Rock is - The festival began in 1992, with a screening Verizon Arena, where major sporting events and - An American art museum project, headed by of 10 Academy Award nominated performances by top-notch entertainers regularly Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, Crystal Bridges documentaries . take place . is a planned museum that is expected to - The festival screens 100 documentaries each house one of the world’s greatest collections Events: year . of American art . - Is recognized by the International • Riverfest www.riverfestarkansas.com - Is currently scheduled to open in 2011 and, Documentary Association and the Academy - A celebration of visual and performing once open, hopes to see 250,000 visitors per of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as 1 of 7 arts that is held annually (since 1978) over year . national Academy Award qualifying venues . Memorial Day weekend on the banks of the - The up-and-coming museum takes its Arkansas River . name from a nearby natural spring and the - Approximately 250,000 festival-goers glass-and-wood building design by world- attended the 2009 event, despite a full day of renowned architect Moshe Safdie . MUSIC DESTINATIONS: Arkansas’s musical heritage includes country music rain on Sunday, with an estimated economic o A series of pavilions nestled around two and various related styles like bluegrass and rockabilly . impact of $33 million on the community . creek-fed ponds will house galleries, meeting - Offers a wide variety of entertainment such as: and classroom spaces and a large 250-seat 1. Little Rock, AR auditorium . o Arkansas Arts Center’s Tell-a-Tale Troupe • Distance from El Dorado: 118 miles o Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre
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o Some of the best-known names in • During that time, music joints employed blues Brinkley, listen to “the voice of Southeast Arkansas” music: Al Green, ZZ Top, B .B . King, Blues pianist such as Sunnyland Slim, Memphis Slim and at KVSA in McGehee, and visit Twist, where B B. . Traveler, Brad Paisley, Jason Aldean, Heart, Roosevelt Sykes . King ran back into a burning juke joint to save his Hinder, Cheap Trick, Collective Soul, • In1941, a businessman put together the town’s beloved “Lucille,” the fabled guitar everyone now Diamond Rio, Don McLean, Everclear, first radio station KFFA and a group of blues knows by name . Hank Williams, Jr ,. Hootie & the Blowfish, musicians were given a 1-hour radio spot on - Helena’s Delta Cultural Center serves as one of James Brown, Joe Nichols, Lifehouse, the condition that they sign a sponsor, which three key visitor and interpretive sites along the Live, Los Lobos, Loverboy, Mark Wills, King Biscuit Flour agreed to do . Thus was born trail . Arrested Development, Morris Day and King Biscuit Entertainers and the beginning of - In addition to visitor sites along the trail, a 14-track the Time, Nappy Roots, Better Than Ezra, King Biscuit Time, eventually leading later to Blake Shelton, Chaka Khan, Huey Lewis CD is available featuring the sounds of the the popular King Biscuit Blues Festival, renamed Arkansas Delta’s rich music heritage . A 20-minute & the News, Nickel Creek, Pat Green, Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival in 2005 . REO Speedwagon, George Clinton & The DVD accompanies the CD and features interviews P-Funk Allstars, Rick James, Run DMC, • Delta Cultural Center www.deltaculturalcenter. with Sonny Burgess, Willie Cobbs, Wayne Jackson Gym Class Heroes, Dwight Yoakam, Keb com and “Sunshine” Sonny Payne . The CD/DVD Mo, Styx, Switchfoot, The Black Crowes, LL - Museum dedicated to interpreting the history of package is available online or at visitor sites along Cool J, Pat Benatar, Pat Green, The Doobie the Delta through exhibits, educational programs, the trail . Brothers, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, The annual events, and guided tours . - The trail is a collaborative effort of Arkansas Gap Band, Robert Earl Keen, The Neville - Currently the museum is hosting an exhibit on Delta Byways, Main Street Arkansas, the National Brothers, Robert Randolph & the Family the delta blues, “Helena: Main Street of the Blues” Trust for Historic Preservation’s Rural Heritage Band, Ruben Studdard, The Wallflowers, gives a unique perspective of the delta’s rich blues Development Initiative and the National Scenic Carrie Underwood, Train, Trapt, Miranda music history . Byways Program . Lambert, Trick Pony, & Uncle Kracker . • Arkansas Delta Music Trail: Sounds from the Soil & Events: Soul www deltabyways. com. • Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival 2. Helena, AR www.arkansas.com - Traversing 15 counties in eastern Arkansas, the www.bluesandheritagefest.com (the city doesn’t have it’s own site) trail connects sites and stories related to the music - Is one of the nation’s foremost showcases of blues • Distance from El Dorado: 194 miles heritage of the region, following Arkansas’ Great River Road and Crowley’s Ridge Parkway National music; officials have projected attendance figures • Once called a “Little Chicago” because, much like Scenic Byways . for this year of around 65,000 . Chicago, African Americans from rural Arkansas - Travelers can listen live to the daily King Biscuit - Held for 3 days annually in October, thousands of and the Mississippi Delta were drawn to the area . blues enthusiasts attend the event . In the 1940s and 1950s Helena’s population was Time radio broadcast in downtown Helena at the 70% African American . Delta Cultural Center, hear Louis Jordan’s alto sax - Founded in 1986, the first festival was a 1-day playing at the Central Delta Depot in downtown event, with a small gathering of local residents
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and a flatbed truck as a stage . Since then, the local musicians and guest performers, many - Music programs are scheduled for the stage festival has grown to a 3-day event, with three nationally known, perform ballads, fiddle tunes, every day, with an old-time square dance on stages and several activities, such as the Tour da’ square and jig dances, as well as autoharp, the first night, and gospel music on the final Delta bicycle tour, the Blues in Schools program mountain and hammered dulcimer melodies, all afternoon . and a 5K Run . dating before 1941 . - Throughout the day impromptu music groups • Wild Hog Motorcycle Rally & Musicfest www. • In collaboration with the local school system, offering a wide variety of music styles spring wildhogmusic .org the Center’s Music Roots Program brings area up around the downtown, and play late into - Classic rock music, vendors, motorcycle show and musicians in to teach young people to play the the evening . Visitors are encouraged to bring a Poker Run . old tunes on traditional string instruments . lawn chairs and stay for the duration . • Often lodging must be secured a year in advance - During the festival, the Ozark Folk Center of Mountain View’s two major festivals (see state park kicks off its season offering free 3. Mountain View, AR www.mountainviewar.net below) . Average festival attendance tends to fall admission to the campgrounds Friday • Distance from El Dorado: 219 miles between 40,000 and 60,000 . through Sunday, with free shuttle rides between the park and downtown . • Established in the 1870s, the town is famous for Events: the preservation of folkways and traditional music • Town Square Music and is known as the “Folk Music Capital of the • Mountain View Bluegrass Festival www.mountainview-bluegrass.com - Anytime the weather is nice, people from all World” over gather in and around the Town Square to • Anytime the weather is nice, people from all over - A bi-annual 3-day Bluegrass music event play and listen to music . gather in and around the Town Square to play and that takes place in both mid-March and mid- November . - Bluegrass mostly, but a wide array of Folk, listen to music . Swing, Country and Gospel can be heard • Ozark Folk Center State Park - Many activities are planned indoors, in case of performed by local townsfolk as well as poor weather conditions • A unique state park devoted to preserving Ozark Picker’s from hundreds of miles away . crafts, music, and heritage through traditional craft • Ozark Folk Festival - Musicians range in age from 8 to 80 . www.ArkansasFolkFestival.com demonstrations, live music performances, living - The season is from mid-April through histories, apprentice programs and workshops . - A 4-day event held every April featuring November . numerous folk craft vendors and live folk • Hosts several events throughout the year, - A variety of vendors offer food for attendees . including live concerts by well-known artists, music . the Arkansas State Fiddle Championships, and - An old-fashioned “home-town” parade, • Mountain View Folklore Society Music Hall workshops teaching banjo, dulcimer, and other complete with school bands, patriotic - Provides music and dance every Saturday folk crafts . veterans groups, show horses, and decorated night from 7-9 p .m . from October–April . • The Center’s Live Roots Music program features floats kicks off the celebration .
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4. Fort Smith, AR • Fort Smith Symphony • Distance from El Dorado: 273 miles www.fortsmithsymphony.org • Has an active music scene, with frequent live - The oldest orchestra in the state . The performances in the downtown area by local and symphony is a per-service professional national Jazz, Blues, Country, and Rock bands . orchestra composed of musicians from Fort Smith, Fayetteville, Springfield, Tulsa, • Local bands regularly frequent the riverfront area Oklahoma City, Norman, Dallas, Little Rock, highlighting the river valley’s finest, including New York, Florida and other communities . The blues, bluegrass, country, rock, and heavy metal . Fort Smith Symphony, conducted by John • Regular local artists include: Oreo Blue, Mr. Jeter, regularly performs at the Arkansas Best Cabbage Head and the Screaming Radishes, Performing Arts Center . Truck Stop Poets, Blame Kelly, Barefoot Brigade, • Fort Smith Chorale www.fortsmithchorale.com Copesetic, The Bannister Brothers, S .I C. ,Judge. Parker, Three Foot Pete, The Hubbard Fry Band, - Founded in 1981 by Bill Cromer for the Brandon White and acts from all around the purpose of providing singers with the region . There is even a thriving local Celtic Music opportunity to learn and present Chorale band, Cold Water Dog . music otherwise not available to them locally . • Fort Smith Community Brass Band Events - A British Style Brass Band founded by Michael • Fort Smith Riverfront Blues Fest Cash, which is based in and sponsored by www.riverfrontbluesfest.org the Salvation Army . The band is composed - Since it began in 1991, the Riverfront Blues of students from both high schools and the Festival has become one of the biggest university . annual June events in western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma, attracting jazz aficionados from a wide area of the blues-rich South, and “name” blues artists and performers from all over for the two-day event .
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ART COLLEGES: Northwestern State University, School of Creative camps offer a variety of opportunities for cultural, and Performing Arts educational, and life-enriching activities for all Harding University, Dept. of Art and Design Natchitoches, LA www .nsula .edu ages . Searcy, AR www .harding .edu • Is designated as the Center for Excellence in the • Offered in a relaxed non-credit atmosphere at an • Programs in art education, art therapy, fine arts, Arts for the University of Louisiana System and affordable price, all activities are designed to be graphic design, interior design . is one of only 150 programs in the United States informative and enjoyable . Instructors are chosen John Brown University, Dept. of Art and Design accredited by the National Association of Schools for their special expertise in subjects that others Siloam Springs, AR www .jbu edu. of Theatre . may want to learn . • Programs in digital media arts + art and • Programs in fine and graphic arts (graphic • Community Education programs include illustration . design, painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, instruction in hobbies, crafts, dance, exercise, photography, ceramics), music, theater and dance karate, relaxation, music, golf, art, first aid/ Southern Arkansas University, (acting and directing, dance, musical theatre and safety, self-improvement, computer software College of Art & Design design and technology) . applications, and entrepreneurship . Magnolia, AR www .web saumag. .edu Louisiana State University Shreveport - Continuing • Adult Education programs include workplace • Programs in fine arts + theater. Education education, computer literacy, employability and/ or soft skills . University of Arkansas, Art Dept. Shreveport, LA www .lsus .edu Fayetteville, AR www .art .uark .edu • Programs in communications, English, fine arts, Louisiana State University Shreveport - Continuing • Programs in art education, art history, ceramics, foreign languages and humanities, history and Education painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and social sciences . Shreveport, LA www .ce .lsus edu. visual design . Centenary College of Louisiana • Provides quality learning experiences with University of Central Arkansas, College of Fine Arts Shreveport, LA www .centenary .edu professional instructors offering a flexible course and Communication • Programs include theater, studio art and visual schedule on campus and at other locations Conway, AR www .uca .edu culture . throughout the regional community for a multi- faceted and diverse population based on their • Programs in art, mass communication & theatre, EXTENDED LEARNING/ CONTINUED EDUCATION/ educational needs . music, speech & public relations, and writing . COMMUNITY COLLEGES: • Programs include training in the areas of Williams Baptist College, Dept. of Art South Arkansas Community College - workforce and professional development, Walnut Ridge, AR www .wbcoll .edu Community Education - Adult Education personal growth opportunities, public service, and youth enrichment through credit and non-credit • Programs in art education and studio art. El Dorado, AR www .southark edu. programs . • Classes, programs, seminars, workshops, trips and
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Bossier Parish Community College design, floral design, upholstery, home repair, business writing, creative writing, computers Bossier City, LA www .bpcc .edu firearm safety, cooking/ culinary, sewing/ and technology, graphic and multimedia design, • Enrolling about 5,000 students each semester. needlecrafts, wine/beer appreciation and personal development, arts, children, parents and brewing, online dating course, home brewing, family, digital photography, health and wellness, • Programs include accounting, business, art, photography, bird watching, fly fishing, writing, job search, languages, personal enrichment, and computers, criminal justice, culinary arts, film, motorcycle safety, computer skills, ACT exam prep, personal finance . drama, EMT, languages, literature, humanities, kids summer arts camp, language, golf, fitness management, medical, music, automotive, (yoga, dance, etc ). and art (drawing, painting, zoology, teaching, and many more . sculpting, etc .) . University of Arkansas Global Campus Southern University at Shreveport • Courses are non-credit and are held in various • Fayetteville, AR Music Program - Ceramics Shreveport, LA www .web .susla .edu locations throughout Little Rock (i .e . churches, Program – Elderhostel Program • This institution prepares students for careers community centers, companies associated with • Programs include music industry business, music in technical and occupational fields; awards classes, etc .) production, songwriting, ceramics, Elderhostel (an certificates and associate degrees; and, offers Arkansas State University, Continuing Education international, non-profit organization dedicated courses and programs that are transferable to Department to providing extraordinary learning adventures for other colleges and universities . Dedicated to people 55 and over), and Osher Lifelong Learning excellence in instruction and community service, • Location: classes are conducted at several of the Institute programs (see below) . this open enrollment institution promotes cultural ASU campuses (i .e . Beebe, Jonesboro, etc .) diversity, provides developmental and continuing • The Continuing Education Department at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute education, and seeks partnerships with business Arkansas State University sponsors numerous Fayetteville, AR www .olli .uark .edu and industry non-credit Continuing Education classes that are • Designed to meet the educational interests of designed to meet the needs of the general public . mature adults, classes are open to adults over 50 . National Park Community College Hot Springs, AR www npcc. edu. • These short-term classes are usually offered at • An annual fee allows members to participate in night or on weekends or online and are designed a variety of events and classes; there are no tests, • Offers non-credit continuing education courses, to enhance personal or professional skills . grades, or formal admission requirements . which include seminars for personal enrichment, instruction in specialized technical areas, hobby • Ten students constitute a class and classes are • Member-led committees develop program site instruction, professional continuing education, held upon request by businesses and the general policies and educational activities . Curriculum and adult training programs . public . covers topics in the humanities and sciences, • Programs include accounting, business and current events, performing and fine arts, and Arkansas Extended Learning Center management, grant writing and nonprofit, health active outdoor pursuits . • Little Rock, AR www.extendedlearning.org care, law and legal, sales and marketing, start your • Courses are offered at the University of Arkansas • Programs include interior design, landscape own business, teaching and education, veterinary, campus, Fayetteville, and various other locations
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throughout Northwest Arkansas . University of Timothy Tyler Workshops, Bella Vista, AR http:// evening . Workshops are from Friday to Arkansas faculty and community experts lead timothyctylerfineart.homestead.com Tuesday . Each day will start with a home workshops and special events for the institute . • Oil painting workshops held at numerous resorts, cooked breakfast and then firing up the art academies, or retreats . torches around 9am . There will be a break for lunch . Class will break for dinner . If you want to take a break for a hike, it is encouraged . ARTISAN WORKSHOPS (GLASS BLOWING, ETC.): ART INCUBATORS IN LOUISIANA AND ARKANSAS o Some evenings will be spent with Tom’s Chameleon Art Glass, awesome slide collection of both historic Little Rock, AR www.chameleonartglass.com Meadowcreek Inc. and contemporary beads . He has a vast Fox, AR www .meadowcreekinc com. • Lampworking, fusing, Glaskolben (ornament knowledge of the history of glass and blowing), PMC • Located in the Ozark Mountains, Meadowcreek beadmaking . Tom will also share his personal is a 1600-acre wildlife preserve dedicated to collection of historic beads . Every meal will • Glass Concepts, LLC, Sherwood, AR www. sustainable education, recreation and wildlife be spent poring over the multiple strands of stainedglassconcepts .com preservation . contemporary beadmakers . Other evenings • Beginning and advanced lampwork, beadmaking, • Meadowcreek, Inc. formed in 2006 when The will be spent on the torches! No instruction glass fusing, stained glass and kaleidoscope Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) will be given in the evening, but if you are a classes . Wildlife Land Trust deeded the land and several night owl, it’s a great time to practice . Plan to leave on Wednesday morning after another Learning Center at Terra Studios, Fayetteville, AR buildings to a newly formed Board of Directors . home cooked breakfast . The cost is $1000 . www.terrastudios.com • As a way to keep Meadowcreek a viable • Artisans produce glass and pottery homewares, organization, the board decided to lease the land gifts and fine art pieces as well as teach classes in and the facilities to individuals and families who pottery and glass blowing to all ages . wanted to achieve sustainable livelihoods in a COMMUNITY ART CENTERS (ART CLASSES): remote and natural setting . Some of them are ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER Sage and Tom Holland, Mountain View, AR www. teaching workshops, such as the one listed below . Little Rock, AR meadowcreekinc.com • Example: Glassblowing Workshops by Sage and The Arkansas Arts Center, the state’s largest • Classes in glassblowing and beadmaking; home Tom Holland (currently this is the ONLY class that cultural institution, includes an active exhibitions base is in Fox, AR at Meadowcreek (see below) . is taking place here) program, a world-class collection of drawings and Hot Glass Beads, Fayetteville, AK www. o Rooms and all meals are provided (Sage cooks an extraordinary collection of contemporary crafts, hotglassbeads.com the meals) . a studio school, a State Services department, a Children’s Theatre, and the nearby Decorative Arts • Classes in glass beadmaking, glass fusing and art o Lodging is primitive but very comfortable . Museum . clay . o Arrival for all the workshops is on Thursday
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BATESVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL THE ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ART TOWNS Batesville, AR ARKANSAS Yes – as I mentioned in previous research, Eureka The Batesville Area Arts Council is a non-profit Pine Bluff, AR Springs, AR has been: organization focusing on arts-in-education, The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas • Named as a “Top Twenty-five Arts Destination” for community theater, community concerts and the presents the visual arts, performing arts, and the the past two years by “American Style” magazine . visual arts . sciences through exhibits, performances, lectures, For 2010, Eureka Springs is listed as #10 in their films, classes and partnerships . Small Cities category . CRAWFORD COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION Van Buren, AR WALTON ARTS CENTER • Described in every edition of Jim Villani’s book, “The 100 Best Small Art Towns in America ”. Crawford County Art Association provides children Fayetteville, AR and adults with arts education, monthly exhibits Walton Arts Center is a vibrant arts facility in featuring nationally known artists, traveling Northwest Arkansas that boasts a full season of Does anyone in northern Louisiana or Arkansas exhibits, traveling art camps, theater and musical performing and visual arts events like the Broadway, promote quilt festivals, quilting schools, quilt shows? performances at the historic King Opera House . We Dance and Center Stage Series, as well as widely acclaimed educational experiences for schools and also provide an arts educator for Van Buren School QUILT SHOWS District . community . • Pork Fest Quilt Show Bernice, LA CRITTENDEN ARTS COUNCIL WILDWOOD PARK FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS • Claiborne Jubilee Quilt Show Homer, LA West Memphis, AR Little Rock, AR • North Louisiana Quilters’ Guild Show Monroe, Crittenden Arts Council is the local arts agency that Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts is a 105-acre LA www .nlqg net. serves Crittenden County, Arkansas . They provide site presenting a month-long Summer Arts Festival in • Red River Quilters’ Quilt Show Shreveport, LA theatre, visual arts, and a broad range of arts in June, year-round educational programs and display education activities to students in a five county region gardens . • Heritage Quilt Guild Show (biennial) of the Arkansas Delta . Jonesboro, LA • Piney Needles Quilt Show Springhill, LA SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS ARTS COUNCIL • Silver Threads - Quilt Show (biennial) ART SPACE Hope, AR Mountain Home, AR Southwest Arkansas Arts Council provides No, they don’t have any properties in Arkansas or any programming, arts-in-education, Summer Arts for of the adjoining states, with the exception of two in students, support of local artists, exhibits at the Texas (1 in Houston and 1 in Galveston) . Pruden Center for the Arts, and much more for all of Hempstead County and beyond .
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TOP 6 DESTINATIONS (other than New Orleans): • Several smaller art galleries, including the Baton and stocking up on fresh produce at the Based on Welcome Center Visits and Hotel Rooms Rouge Gallery, offering a range of local art are neighboring Farmers’ Market . Sold scattered throughout the city . • Art Melt www.artmelt.org • There is also an emerging performance arts scene: 1 . Shreveport, LA www .shreveport-bossier .org - A feast for the senses and the city’s most popular - The Baton Rouge Little Theater, Baton Rouge art show, the annual Art Melt has everything from 2 . Alexandria, LA www .cityofalexandriala com. River Center, and Manship Theatre mostly host music to food to visual and performance art . 3 . Lafayette, LA www .lafayettetravel com. traveling shows, including broadways, musical artists, and plays . 2. Shreveport-Bossier, LA 4 . Baton Rouge, LA www .visitbatonrouge com. www.shreveport-bossier.org 5 . Lake Charles, LA www visitlakecharles. .org - Opera Louisiane is Baton Rouge’s newest and only professional opera company . • Distance from El Dorado: 95 miles 6 . Monroe, LA www .monroe-westmonroe org. - Other venues include Reilly Theater, which • Home to nearly 30 museums and galleries, the area’s artistic expression and production is one ART DESTINATIONS: is home to Swine Palace, a non-profit professional theater company associated with of the first positive impressions people get of the 1. Baton Rouge, LA www.visitbatonrouge.com the Louisiana State University Department of area . The vibrant arts community can be seen in • Distance from El Dorado: 236 miles Theatre . everything from attractions such as the gleaming three-level Artspace to the African and African- • Has an expanding visual arts scene, which is American inspired artwork at Pamoja Cultural Arts centered downtown . Events: Center . • Shaw Center for the Arts www.shawcenter.org • FestforAll Art Festival www.artsbr.org • The beautiful cultural expression of Shreveport- - A large festival featuring crafts, fine arts, - Opened in 2005, this award-winning 6 Bossier City can also be found in the public performing arts, 3 stages of continuous music, floor facility houses the Brunner Gallery, artwork . The city buses, walls, and benches Children’s Village, fireworks and food booths . LSU Museum of Art, the Manship Theatre, a are all canvases for some of the area’s greatest Has a distinguished 30-year history earning a contemporary art gallery, traveling exhibits, artists . One of the most breathtaking works of reputation as one of Louisiana’s premier arts restaurants and shops, studios, classrooms, community art is The Once in a Millenium Moon events attended by thousands . offices and meeting spaces—all centered on Mural, the nation’s largest public outdoor mural . the arts . • Baton Rouge Arts Market www.artsbr.org • Louisiana Art and Science Museum (LASM) - An open-air art market and cultural event held Events: www.lasm.org on the 1st Saturday of every month (excluding • TNT EXPRESS: A Trolley Tour that Explodes Art - Contains Irene W . Pennington Planetarium, January/May) and the 1st 3 Saturdays in & Culture traveling art exhibits, space displays, and an December from 8am-12pm . Shoppers wile - Every THIRD THURSDAY of each month, the ancient Egyptian section . away the morning hours sipping on coffee, THURSDAY NITE TROLLEY (TNT Express) purchasing the creations of regional artists transports people throughout downtown
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Shreveport to and from various art and performing arts programs on five outdoor State University, Louisiana Crossroads and the cultural venues to discover downtown stages . Folkmaster Series) . through art, history, culture and science . Events: - The FREE trolley tour features a guided narrative tour that offers interesting tidbits MUSIC DESTINATIONS: • Music festivals include: into Shreveport’s past multicultural history . Louisiana is the cradle of the Blues and the birthplace - Festival International de Louisiane, Festivals - Tours run approximately every 25 minutes of Jazz, Dixieland, Rhythm & Blues, Rockabilly, Rock & Acadiens, Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm . Trolley stops on the Roll and Zydeco . Festival, “Le Cajun” Music Awards Festival, Mamou Cajun Music Festival, Creole Zydeco TNT Express will vary every month . Some of 1. Lafayette, LA these stops include artspace, the Municipal Festival, Cajun French Music Association’s Auditorium, Millennium Mural, Sci-Port • Distance from El Dorado: 236 miles Salute to Cajun Musicians, Lafayette Reggae Discovery Center, The Barnwell Garden and • Is home to hundreds of musicians. More than & Cultural Festival, Downtown Alive!, Les Art Center, Spring Street Historical Museum, half of the nearly 300 Lafayette-based musicians Cadiens du Teche Cajun Music Festival, and Multicultural Center of the South, Southern listed in the Offbeat Music Directory identified the Acoustic Music Festival, plus dozens of University Museum of Art in Shreveport, and themselves as playing either Cajun or Zydeco others, like the Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival, The Robinson Film Center . music, with about twice as many of the former which features 32 bands over the course of a weekend, provide ongoing employment and • ARTBREAK www.shrevearts.org than of the latter . performance opportunities for local bands . - Each May, this event features Caddo and • Has a rich community of small businesses built • Festival International de Louisiane Bossier Parish students in juried exhibits up around the music industry . A database search www.festivalinternational.com and free hands-on art activities . The largest of businesses just in Lafayette reveals about children’s festival in the state, ARTBREAK is a 250 businesses ranging from recording studios; - Founded in 1986, this immensely popular weekend of dance, music, theater, food, fun musical instrument makers and retailers; music event draws over 100,000 loyal attendees from and a 5K road race . Admission is free! photographers; concert promoters; record labels; around the country and takes place in August radio stations; record, CD, and tape stores; DJ the same weekend as the first weekend of • Red River Revel Arts Festiva services; and music attorneys . New Orleans’ Jazz Fest . www.redriverrevel.com • There are at least 16 recording studios in Lafayette, - Historic downtown Lafayette is transformed - Since 1976 the annual arts festival has grown including La Louisianne studios that, for 45 years into an entertainment complex featuring to an eight-day event, attracting more than have recorded musicians from all over the world . six music stages, food court areas, street 200,000+ people to the Shreveport riverfront . musicians and animators, arts and crafts The festival features arts and craft displays, 24 • Is passionate about its musical heritage and has boutiques, art galleries, beverage stands, food booths run by non-profit organizations, numerous organizations that keep alive its past cultural workshops, international cooking arts education programs, exhibits, a series of and support its present (i .e . Louisiana Folk Roots, demonstrations and a world music store . readings and lectures, as well as music and the Vermillionville Heritage Center, Louisiana
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2. Shreveport-Bossier, LA Events: www.shreveport-bossier.org • Mudbug Madness www.mudbugmadness.com • Distance from El Dorado: 95 miles - A four-day festival featuring renowned Cajun, • Home to many of America’s best-loved stars of zydeco, and blues and jazz artists . Held each music, theater and the big screen, Shreveport- Memorial Day weekend the event is recognized Bossier has live theater and symphony as one of the Southeast Tourism Society’s Top 20 performances, and on any given weekend Events, drawing more than 50,000 people per day . concerts by today’s popular artists as well as those by yesterday’s favorites . 3. Batton Rouge, LA www.visitbatonrouge.com • Home to northern Louisiana’s lasting contribution • Distance from El Dorado: 236 miles to the world of popular music “The Louisiana Hayride ”. A radio program that started Events: broadcasting in 1948 on KWKH in Shreveport . • Baton Rouge Blues Week - Hank Williams, George Jones, Elvis Presley and www.louisianasmusic.com nearly every other country legend, or future - Held in April, this annual event is entering country legend alive during the 1950s stepped on it’s 15th year and features concerts in stage at the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium . the Manship Theater, Teddy’s Juke Joint, - They performed, many for the first time on radio, Chelsea’s and Boudreaux and Thibadeaux’s on a signal that covered much of the southeastern with blues dishes . The entire week includes: US . blues-themed tv shows, radio programs and - The original production of the show ended in seminars, as well as the Slim Harpo Awards, 1960, but re-runs and the occasional special Sunday in the Park, Jam Sessions and The broadcast continued for a few years . Baton Rouge Blues Festival . The music festival features local, regional & national Blues and - The Louisiana Hayride was regarded as a stepping- Jazz artists on several different stages, crafts & stone to Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry . food booths . • Shreveport Symphony Orchestra has performed • Live After 5 for 60 seasons and the Shreveport Opera, too, is a vibrant source of music . - Skip out early from work on Friday afternoon and head downtown for Baton Rouge’s official • Has 5 riverboat casinos and along with traditional street party, Live After Five . These fall and gaming, the casinos host live entertainment . spring concerts are free and feature some of the area’s best live music .
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