Featured Events
Featured Village Events COMING IN MARCH MARCH 12 | 7pm Northwest Arkansas Audio Theater Presents: The Man with Bogart’s Face Out of all the movie stars in the world, Humphrey Bogart remains a screen legend many years after his death. Is it any wonder that someone, somewhere, would want to have his face changed to look like Bogart – and in many other ways become Bogart? This radio play follows the adventures of Spencer Drue, a fan who is determined to live his life modeled after Bogart’s famous detective, Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon. Drue has plastic surgery to look like Bogart and changes his name to Sam Marlow. Marlow opens a detective agency, hires a secretary, and is immediately thrust into an international scheme to steal a pair of priceless gems. Shady characters and femme fatales inhabit Sam’s new life in this a wonderful tongue-in-cheek production by NWA Audio Theater, the brainchild of actor and director Scott Anderson.
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COMING IN APRIL APRIL 16 | 7pm Historical Presentation: Siloam Springs in the 1920s Please join Don Warden, historian and director of the Siloam Springs Museum, for a journey into the past of this NWA town and the challenges its residents met entering the Great Depression. Established in 1880, Siloam Springs was known for its natural beauty and scenic parks lining Sager Creek winding through downtown. The original settlement, along the creek, dates back to the arrival of Simon Sager and his family in 1839. By the 1920s, the economic boom and the Jazz Age were over, and the Great Depression was looming. It would be a time of bank failures and devastation in Siloam Springs, but also a time for key privately funded construction.
MARCH 20 | 3pm Documentary Sneak Preview: Indians, Outlaws, Marshals & the Hangin’ Judge BTV residents are invited to an exclusive preview of a new historical film about Arkansas’ infamous hanging judge, Isaac C. Parker. Produced by award-winning filmmaker Larry Foley, chair of the University of Arkansas School of Journalism and Strategic Media, Indians, Outlaws, Marshals & the Hangin’ Judge is a project of the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History. For 21 years after the Civil War, Parker hanged 86 men on gallows nicknamed the “government suspender” in Fort Documentary filmmaker Larry Smith. Legend is those Foley (foreground) gallows could strangle a dozen men at a time. The film tells the story of how desperadoes, depending on your interpretation of history, were either tamed or tortured by a man some historians call a megalomaniac, while others choose to believe the judge was nothing more than a civil servant doing his job.
April 17 | 7pm Hogtown Hot Club The Hogtown Hot Club formed this lively acoustic band to indulge its members’ love of 1930s and ‘40s swing. Hogtown’s inspiration is Hogtown Hot Club the legendary Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club de France – whose sound is known as Gypsy Jazz. Hogtown musicians have been a part of the Northwest Arkansas music scene collectively for over 40 years. They are Jim Greeson on guitar, Ed Nicholson on guitar, Jim Jernigan on clarinet, and Garrett Jones on bass. The evening will also include the vocal talents of Carrie Porter.
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