Arts & Culture

Main Stage Play Reading Series

Sep 29th, 2009 | Category: Arts & Culture, Calendar Events

[ September 30, 2009; 1:09 am to 9:30 pm. ] The ongoing play reading series presented by Main Stage Creative Community Center will present a Free reading of the play, ARSENIC AND OLD LACE by Joseph Kesselring at the Writers Colony at 7.00 Wednesday September 30th. The informal reading of this American comedy classic offers many great parts, and will cast on the night of [...]



A Community at Peace Art Installation by John Rankine

Nov 6th, 2008 | Category: Arts & Culture, Building Community, Calendar Events

[ November 17, 2008; 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Eureka Springs artist and photographer John Rankine is once again pictorially documenting the citizens of Eureka Springs. Rankine’s latest project, A Community At Peace, will feature 500 black and white individual portraits to be unveiled November 17 at The Space, 2 Pine Street.



Art Workshops at ESSA

Jul 2nd, 2008 | Category: Arts & Culture, Calendar Events

[ July 7, 2008 9:00 am to July 11, 2008 4:00 pm. ] ESSA Session Five Workshops
Session 5 – Week long classes at Eureka Springs School of the Arts

Felting, Beginning to Advanced with Ruth Walker; Fused & Stained Glass with Judd Mann; Mixed Media/Embellished Crosses and Boxes with Jamie Froelich

For more information call ESSA at 479-253-5384 or visit www.esartschool.org



Book Review: Dissipated Assets

Apr 30th, 2008 | Category: Arts & Culture, Spiritual Perspectives

…And so it was, when I began to read David Zimmermann’s newly released Dissipated Assets. A relatively short read of less than 120 poems (mostly one page and often one sentence), the book sucked me into the heart of Mr. Zimmerman’s honest and vulnerable expressions. Dissipated Assets is about love and death, forgiveness and trust. Though it may touch on topics of war, environmental destruction, and disease as the stories unfold, there is always the thread of an elegant grace of being and regard for the human experience…



Annual Native American Pow-Wow

Apr 27th, 2008 | Category: Arts & Culture, Calendar Events

[ June 13, 2008 to June 15, 2008. ] Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge, located 7 miles south of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, on Scenic Highway 23, will host its 10th Annual Native American Pow Wow on Father’s Day weekend, June 13-15, 2008.

The weekend celebration will include craft booths, dancing, Color Guard, drumming, artists, wildlife exhibits, and other activities. Food and soft drink concessions will [...]



Dances of Universal Peace

Apr 27th, 2008 | Category: Arts & Culture, Spiritual Perspectives

From the beginning of time, sacred movement, song and story have brought people together – at times of seasonal ceremony and celebration, as part of everyday life and life passages, in daily renewal and meditation, etc.
The Dances of Universal Peace are part of this timeless tradition of Sacred Dance. As in the timeless mystic traditions, [...]



POETluck at Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow

Apr 27th, 2008 | Category: Arts & Culture, Calendar Events

[ May 15, 2008; 1:08 am to 8:00 pm. ] Monthly literary salon with visiting writers at The Writer’s Colony – plus potluck…



‘Opera in the Ozarks’ season

Apr 26th, 2008 | Category: Arts & Culture, Calendar Events

[ July 2, 2008; 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point, 16311 Hwy. 62 W. Eureka Springs, AR season runs Fri June 20th – Fri July 18th, 2008. This opera season is recognized nationally and internationally as one of the finest. Performances include Cosi Fan Tutte (W. A. Mozart), La Bohème (Giacomo Puccini) and The Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan). [...]



Book Review: A Call To Power – The Grandmothers Speak

Mar 4th, 2008 | Category: Arts & Culture, Book Reviews, Spiritual Perspectives

A Call to Power: The Grandmothers Speak by Sharon McErlane is a fascinating narration of the author’s experience with a group of divine beings called the Council of Grandmothers. It includes the teachings given to Sharon McErlane over the last ten years as well as practical exercises for how to balance the Yin energy in [...]