ART & EXHIBITS

‘Working America’

“Working America,” pictures by Sam Comen of immigrants and first-generation Americans at work in small, expert trades “as icons of the American experience,” in line with a information launch, goes on show Friday on the Rogers Historical Museum, 313 S. Second St. at Cherry Street, Rogers.

The touring exhibit, from ExhibitsUSA, a nationwide program of Mid-America Arts Alliance, stays on show by Jan. 7. Museum hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Admission is free. Call (479) 621-1154.

‘Whimsical and Quirky’

“Whimsical and Quirky Drawings of Ike Garlington,” works primarily in ink and coloured pencil on paper by the Little Rock artist, are on show by Nov. 30 within the College Gallery at East Arkansas Community College, 1700 Newcastle Road, Forrest City. Hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday. Admission is free. Call (870) 633-4480 or go to eacc.edu.

MUSIC

Sax star at HSU

Jazz saxophonist Lou Marini, finest recognized for being a part of the “Saturday Night Live” and Blues Brothers bands, joins the Arkansas All-Star Big Band for a efficiency at 7 p.m. Monday in Arkansas Hall at Henderson State University, 1118 Henderson St., Arkadelphia. Tickets are $15; go to hsu.edu/marini.

‘Arkansas Talent’ tryouts

The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra will kick off its first Arkansas Talent singing competitors Nov. 18 on the River Market Pavilions, behind the Ottenheimer Market Hall, 400 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. The orchestra is looking for the state’s finest vocal expertise; two winners could have the possibility to headline the orchestra’s December 2024 Home for the Holidays pops live shows.

On-site registration begins at 8:30 a.m.; auditions start at 10 a.m. The first 200 candidates are assured an opportunity to check out — join at arkansassymphony.org/arkansas-talent-nov. There’s no charge to take part (you will have to pay to park close by) and no age restrict (dad and mom or guardians might want to signal a waiver kind for contestants underneath 18). Be ready to sing as much as one minute of any music, a cappella (no devices supplied; don’t deliver an accompaniment or music monitor).

Judges embrace “American Idol” Season 8 winner Kris Allen, space musicians Bonnie Montgomery and Rodney Block and Arkansas Symphony Music Director Geoffrey Robson. They have the choice, relying on turnout, to shorten any audition.

This would be the first of three rounds of auditions; semifinalists will vie Jan. 18 with finalists going head-to-head May 11. The two winners shall be named May 12. Visit fb.com/occasions/2459785514194154.

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‘Cemetery Angel’

Ruth Coker Burks, referred to as the “Arkansas Cemetery Angel,” and Andrew Amstutz, assistant professor of historical past on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, will interact in “A Conversation with Ruth Coker Burks, the ‘Arkansas Cemetery Angel’: AIDS Activism & New Archives in Arkansas,” 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Little Rock’s Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E. Third St. It’s a part of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Evenings with History lecture sequence. Refreshments shall be served at 7 p.m.

Burks was a caregiver and AIDS activist in Arkansas from the mid-Nineteen Eighties to the mid-Nineteen Nineties who supplied a last resting place within the Files Cemetery in Hot Springs for a few of the males she cared for.

Admission to the sequence is by subscription, however guests are welcome to attend particular person talks free of charge, as can UALR college students. Email mwheil@ualr.edu or go to ualr.edu/historical past/history-institute.

    Photographs by Sam Comen of booksellers Chris Capizzi and Jenny Yang and dishwasher Jesus Sera are a part of his “Working America” sequence, on show Friday-Jan. 7 on the Rogers Historical Museum. (Courtesy of the artist)
  

    Photographs by Sam Comen of booksellers Chris Capizzi and Jenny Yang and dishwasher Jesus Sera are a part of his “Working America” sequence, on show Friday-Jan. 7 on the Rogers Historical Museum. (Courtesy of the artist)
  

    Ruth Coker Burks, referred to as the “Arkansas Cemetery Angel,” discusses AIDS activism in a chat Tuesday at Little Rock’s Historic Arkansas Museum. (NWA Democrat-Gazette file picture)
  

    Jazz saxophonist Lou Marini joins the Arkansas All-Star Big Band Monday at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/R. Andrew Lepley)