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Acts of Healing: Theatre & Wellness in Dialogue

02/13/2025 4:00 pm
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Discover how theatre bridges gaps, builds resilience, and transforms lives.

Join us for a thought-provoking panel discussion at the crossroads of art, wellness, and community. Featuring leaders from the arts, healthcare, and community wellness sectors, this event will explore how theatre and the arts foster meaningful connections, address societal challenges like isolation, and drive public health innovation. Learn how integrating arts into wellness strategies can create real, lasting change.

After the discussion, connect with fellow attendees over light refreshments at our post-panel happy hour.

Cacao and Cocktails: A Night of Sweet Indulgence

02/13/2025 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Get ready for an unforgettable evening at Cacao and Cocktails: A Night of Sweet Indulgence! Join us on Thursday, Feb 13th, 2025 at 7:00 PM for a delightful experience that will tantalize your taste buds.

Indulge in the rich flavors of cacao and the art of mixology as we bring you hand-crafted cocktails. Sip on tantalizing concoctions expertly crafted by our talented mixologists, who will take you on a journey of taste and pleasure.

Immerse yourself in the history of chocolate, where it comes from and how it's made. Discover the magic of the very alien fruit, the cacao pod, as we crack open and offer a fresh sample to taste.

You will then have multiple flavors and styles of ganache to roll into classic truffles with a variety of toppings to choose from. You get to take home as many as you make!

Whether you're a chocolate connoisseur or a cocktail lover, this event promises to be a night of pure indulgence. Don't miss out on this extraordinary experience that will awaken your senses and leave you craving for more!

$125 Includes: Cocktails, Take-home chocolate truffles, history of chocolate, and cacao pod tasting. ($225 for two tickets)

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Art and Language – The Works of Prominent Black Artists with Raven Cook

02/16/2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Join Raven Cook, a graduate student at the University of Arkansas, for a lecture exploring the intersection of language and visual art through the works of prominent Black artists.

Author Talk: Oksana Maksymchuk

02/18/2025 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Oksana Maksymchuk will give a talk on her book of selected poems about the invasion of Ukraine, "Still City." Books will be available for sale and signing after the discussion.

The poems in Still City meditate on the changing sense of reality, temporality, mortality, and intimacy in the face of a catastrophic event. While some of the poems have been composed in the months preceding the full-scale invasion of the poet’s homeland, others have emerged in its wake. The collection engages a wide range of sources, including social media posts, news reports, witness accounts, recorded oral histories, photographs, drone video footage, intercepted communications, official documents, and songs, making sense of the transformations that war affects in individuals, families, and communities.

Oksana Maksymchuk is a bilingual Ukrainian-American poet, scholar, and literary translator. Her debut English-language poetry collection Still City is the 2024 Pitt Poetry Series selection, published by University of Pittsburgh Press (US) and Carcanet Press (UK). Oksana’s poems appeared in The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, PN Review, The Poetry Review, and many other journals. Oksana holds a PhD in philosophy from Northwestern University. Born and raised in Lviv, Ukraine, she has also lived in Chicago, Philadelphia, Budapest, Berlin, Warsaw, and Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Their Stories, Our Voices

02/20/2025 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Sharing Their Stories: Voices of Remembrance, the story of Lya Frank

In this storytelling event, Riley Farco will be sharing the story of Holocaust survivor Lya Frank. Riley is a storyteller with Teach the Shoah and a junior at the University of Arkansas, studying English and History.

Teach the Shoah uses professional storytelling techniques to create custodians of memory who share about lives and lessons from an increasingly remote past. Their goal is to widen the network of people who tell the stories of the Holocaust. They believe people of all ages and backgrounds can learn from the Holocaust and be ambassadors for a better world.

Find out more at https://www.teachtheshoah.org/.

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CreativeMornings/Fayetteville - Megan Harris

02/21/2025 7:45 am - 9:15 am
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Creative Mornings/Fayetteville is a monthly breakfast series for the creative community in NWA.

About the speaker:

Megan Harris is the owner of Crown Beauty Bar and a living example of resilience, creativity, and reinvention. Her journey has been shaped by profound challenges, including a breast cancer diagnosis at the age of 28 and the heartbreaking loss of her son to Trisomy 18. Through these experiences, Megan has redefined what it means to find strength and beauty, both in life and in herself.

As a stylist, losing her hair during chemotherapy was a deeply personal and transformative moment. It inspired her to connect more authentically with her clients and her community, creating a space at Crown Beauty Bar that is about so much more than beauty—it’s about empowerment and self-expression.

Megan’s story is a testament to the power of embracing life’s layers, finding joy in the journey, and turning life’s challenges into opportunities for growth and creativity.

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Author Talk: "We Are Animals" with Jennifer Case

02/22/2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Arkansas writer Jennifer Case is the author of We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood (Trinity University Press, 2024) and Sawbill: A Search for Place (University of New Mexico Press, 2018).

Her essays have appeared widely in journals such as The Rumpus, Orion, Literary Mama, and North American Review. She teaches at the University of Central Arkansas and serves as an assistant nonfiction editor at terrain.org.

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Basic Map & Compass Class

02/26/2025 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
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This class is great for beginners, or anyone that needs a refresher on navigation fundamentals. The class will be approximately 2 hours and includes both classroom and field exercises for developing reliable navigation skills. No experience or equipment is needed, though, if you own a compass, bring it with you.

When: February 26, 5:30-7:00
Where: Pack Rat Outdoor Center
$10.00 USD

Honors College Mic: Greg Karber, Author of Murdle

02/27/2025 5:15 pm
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Bestselling Author and Honors Alum G.T. Karber Cracks the Case on Creativity in Honors College Mic Lecture

Location: Gearhart Hall Honors Studnet Lounge (GEAR 130)

Before Deductive Logico became a prolific detective, he was a student. In the latest installment of the best-selling mystery logic puzzle series, Murdle, fans follow the beloved character to Deduction College—where University of Arkansas students might recognize some familiar locations.

“The campus—Old Main in particular—has a mythology in my mind that still lives on,” said Greg Karber, an honors alum from Fort Smith, Bodenhamer Fellow and author of Murdle. “I wanted to celebrate that.”

Karber, who graduated summa cum laude in 2009 and writes under the name G.T. Karber, first sketched the idea for Murdle on a napkin for a friend. He later adapted the game for online play, eventually attracting millions of plays per month. The daily puzzle has expanded into a three-volume book series, collegiate spin-off, junior version, board game, future television series and undoubtedly more. Karber even won “Book of the Year” at the 2024 British Book Awards.

Following in the footsteps of his iconic character, Karber is returning to campus this February for an Honors College Mic lecture open to the public and an interactive game of Murdle for students during Honors Recess.

The lecture will take place on Thursday, February 27th at 5:15 p.m. in the Honors Student Lounge. Students can meet with Karber personally and attend a Murdle-inspired Recess that same day at 3 p.m.

Honors College Mic showcases notable leaders, alumni and scholars who share insights and expertise on a wide range of topics. Overall, these lectures foster intellectual conversation at the University of Arkansas through dialogue between lecturer and student, faculty and staff, and the wider populace.

Orchid Society of the Ozarks Show and Sale 2025

02/28/2025 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Great new location for our show this spring! This is a multi-day event; come one or all three days! 

Friday, Feb. 28, 5pm -7:30pm
Saturday, March 1, 9am- 5pm
Sunday, March 2, 12pm - 4pm

Tickets are just $5 for adults and free for kids 12 and under!

If you have attended a previous show, you know that other orchid societies around our region, including Kansas City, Springfield, Tulsa, and Memphis, will put in exhibits at our show, as well as our society and several individuals and groups.

This is an official American Orchid Society judged show. To be an AOS orchid judge takes years of study and one is continuously evaluated by the more senior judges.

We usually have several plants at our show that are given AOS "flower quality" awards, a sign of excellence.

We order orchids to sell from various vendors that we've vetted, from Hawaii, California, Louisiana, and one from Missouri who has won many awards for his Vanda orchids. We always try to have a wide selection - things already in bud for people who want a quick hit of the tropics in March, smaller plants for those who like to grow things up themselves, odd things for people that like 'weird', things for a wide range of growing conditions ... the one kind you won't find many, or any, of is the ones you can find at grocery stores.

We have some very good growers among our members and they'll be there to help regarding how to care for each type, or what might do best in their conditions. We are offering free orchid care classes and since we have more space this year, they'll be less crowded.

We'll have a basic orchid care class with a demo on how to repot an orchid (something that worries a lot of new orchid owners), and one that goes deeper into some aspects of orchid growing for those who like to get a bit more technical.

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