Radio CALS 10-4-2017

Radio CALS airs on KABF 88.3 FM in Little Rock from 6-6:30 p.m. every Wednesday. It may be streamed live at www.kabf.org (click "Listen Live") or anytime at www.soundcloud.com/radiocals.

Today's broadcast of Radio CALS (10/4/2017) features Primary Sources and an interview with Robin Woods Louck. 

Students from Central High Memory Project and City of Little Rock youth radio interns interview Robin Woods Loucks about her experience offering to share her Algebra textbook with Terrence Roberts,  on the Little Rock Nine’s first day to attend classes at Central in September 1957.  The Memory Project Team, sponsored by CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, is a student-produced effort to collect, preserve, and share oral history about civil rights and human rights experiences.

Upcoming Events: 

Legacies & Lunch 

Arkansas Public Media and 60 Years of KASU-Jonesboro

October 4, 2017  

12PM (Noon)   

Darragh Center, Main Library 100 S. Rock Street

Free

2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and 60th Anniversary of KASU in Jonesboro, Arkansas's oldest public radio station. This event will feature a panel of well-known public media personalities in Arkansas, including Bobby Ampezzan, Managing Editor of Arkansas Public Media and Mike Doyle, Station Manager at KASU, Regina Dean, an early KUAR General Manager and current general manager at WUOT, and representatives from AETN, among others.  Sponsored by the Arkansas Humanities Council.

For more info, contact: Shelle Stormoe   sstormoe@cals.org   501-918-3033

Second Friday Art Night  

October 13, 2017; 5-8PM 

Butler Center Galleries, 401 President Clinton Ave.

Exhibition Opening: Bret Aaker: Conatus 

Exhibition location: Loft Gallery 

These new assemblages by Bret Aaker explore the idea of conatus, which means, in early philosophical thinking about psychology and metaphysics, the innate drive of something to continue to exist and enhance itself.  

Featured Musician: Matt Treadway (solo jazz guitar)

Sounds in the Stacks

The Navy Band Southeast Fair Winds Woodwind

Tuesday, October 17, 6:30 p.m.

CALS Nixon Library, 703 W. Main St., Jacksonville

Free

Brenda & Ellis, a wife and husband pop piano and vocal duo.

Thursday, Oct. 19 

6:30pm Terry Library

2015 Napa Valley Dr, Little Rock, AR 72212

FREE 

For more info, contact: John Miller, jmiller@cals.org, 501-320-5728

A Prized Evening

Thursday, October 26, 6:30 p.m., Free

CALS Main Library Darragh Center, 100 Rock St.

Join us as we honor the winners of the most prestigious literary awards in Arkansas: Kenneth C. Barnes, the winner of the Booker Worthen Prize, and Padma Viswanathan, winner of the Porter Prize. Reception immediately following. 

Top of the Rock Chorus and Acapella Rising

Friday, October 27, 7:00 p.m., Free (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)

CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave. 

This free concert features two award-winning choirs from Little Rock: Top of the Rock Chorus, an all-women’s chorus, and Acapella Rising, an all-men's chorus.