Community Calendar

Midnight Movies is Northwest Arkansas’ immersive haunted attraction, where fictional original horror stories are brought to life through movie-quality sets, live actors, special effects and cinematic sound. From the moment your feature presentation begins, you’ll step directly into a world of slashers, creatures and supernatural terror.

Open every Friday and Saturday in Gravette, Arkansas from 7pm-11pm for the month of October.

This is more than a haunted house—it’s a full-scale horror experience designed to make you feel like you’ve walked into the middle of a scary story. Gather your bravest friends and we'll see you there.

The Ozark Society is soliciting proposals of up to $2,500 for the Youth Grant Program. The program is designed to support, enhance, and expand the implementation of environmental and outdoor education in the Ozark and Ouachita region by classroom teachers and non-formal educators and organizations.

Ozark Society funds projects that include, but are not limited to, direct hands-on conservation projects, equipment for environmental education, and community engagement events that include an environmental or outdoor education emphasis.

Application and details can be found at ozarksociety.net. Deadline for applications is November 30, 2026

Step inside one of the University of Arkansas’s most innovative research environments and explore how interdisciplinary science and technology are shaping the future. During this behind-the-scenes visit to the Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research (I3R), participants will learn how researchers from multiple fields collaborate to solve real-world challenges in areas such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and human-centered technologies. The program will include an introduction to the institute’s mission, guided tours of select spaces, and demonstrations that showcase how ideas move from discovery to implementation.

Visiting as part of an OLLI program offers a unique opportunity to experience these facilities with expert guidance, gain context about the research being conducted, and ask questions directly to those working at the forefront of innovation -- access that is not typically available through a stand-alone visit. The program, which will be led by I3R researchers, will provide first-hand accounts of how interdisciplinary teamwork can deliver solutions to ‘wicked’ problems. Whether you are curious about emerging technologies or enjoy learning how research impacts everyday life, this visit will offer an engaging look at innovation in action in our region. The group will meet at a designated location, with transportation to campus provided. Tour time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm. Activity Level: 1

Keith Haring in 3D is the first exhibition to highlight Keith Haring’s work in three dimensions, inviting visitors to move through, around, and within his art like never before. In the course of his short life, Keith Haring transmitted across a dizzying range of creative channels: painting, sculpture, installation, video, murals, performance, printmaking, early digital art, and more. While Haring helped define the look and mood of the 1980s, he also saw clearly a future that has become our present.

Haring is typically thought of as primarily a two-dimensional artist, but Keith Haring in 3D focuses on a lesser-known and highly compelling aspect of Haring’s practice as a sculptor. He created hundreds of three-dimensional artworks, beginning with painting objects he found in the street. Eventually, Haring made monumental sculptures in wood and metal, and even a whole store for his art.

Haring was, above all, a master of line, with an instinctive ability to compose on multiple scales. Haring’s work in three dimensions has never been the focus of a major exhibition and has rarely been shown. Keith Haring in 3D will fill this gap in public understanding by showcasing a wide range of Haring’s works, including sculpture, totems and masks, skateboards, clothing, boomboxes, paintings, drawings, and even a 1963 Buick Special. The exhibition will be accompanied by a major book published by Phaidon/Monacelli.

British artist Lucy Sparrow is internationally renowned for her unique and immersive installations filled with thousands of items, all meticulously handcrafted from felt. Through her work, Sparrow transforms everyday retail environments into playful, nostalgic, and tactile worlds that are both familiar and entirely new. Lucy Sparrow: The Beginning of Convenience, Sparrow’s first museum exhibition in the United States, will take visitors back in time through an immersive “time capsule” installation of a 1980s-90s Walmart-inspired supermarket.

Expanding on her extensive archival research practice, The Beginning of Convenience includes more than 20,000 individually hand-crafted and exquisitely detailed felt replicas of supermarket products, ranging from food and beverage items to beauty products and household goods typical of a not-so-distant past. Throughout the exhibition, Sparrow will explore a particular moment in history that she refers to as the “beginning of convenience,” a time when the rise of dual-income households in the 1980s necessitated consumer goods that prioritized speed and convenience over effort and taste. Changing roles within the household led to the development and proliferation of quick and easy consumer goods, such as microwave dinners, frozen foods, and out-of-the-box meals.

In addition to the supermarket experience, The Beginning of Convenience will feature a built replica of Sparrow’s studio – known as the Felt Cave – and a new self-made documentary that follows Sparrow’s work in the months leading up to the exhibition at the Momentary.

Free, no tickets required.

Chuck Ramirez (1962-2010) was a San Antonio-based artist with a reverence for material culture. For many years, his day job was as a graphic designer and art director for the Texas grocery chain H-E-B. In his commercial work, he helped sell products that lined store shelves and filled home pantries. Ramirez’s photographs will prompt viewers to consider that the goods people buy, consume, discard, or treasure are more than just things; they are evidence of life. In the photographs, the artist positioned material culture as reflections of humanity, community, memory, and loss.

In his artwork, Ramirez often recast commercial products as windows onto the people who consumed them. Ramirez’s affinity for everyday “stuff” was a continuous thread throughout his practice. The artist’s ability to find wonder in the ordinary takes center stage in this exhibition.

Free, no tickets required.

We often only notice the global supply chain when it breaks. Yet, for millennia, the movement of goods has been the silent engine of civilization. In this course, we will track the evolution of trade from an executive’s perspective. From the sunken treasures of Bronze Age merchant ships to the high-tech intermodal systems of today, we will explore the vessels that carried the world’s wealth and the complex networks that keep our modern shelves stocked.

From its emergence amid rapid cultural change in the early 20th century, country music has resonated with people who feel left behind by a shifting world. A key genre of American roots music, it captures hardships of modern life while intentionally evoking emotional response. Whether facing troubled relationships, unemployment, homelessness, loneliness, or spiritual bereft, there is a country song for you.

This course examines royal succession through acclaimed British films that explore power not as ceremony, but as moral and political crisis. We will trace the monarchy’s evolution from personal rule to institutional authority, beginning with the Plantagenet struggles in Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968). We will then examine the moral costs of king ship and the performance of national leadership through two Shakespeare adaptations: Chimes at Midnight (1965) and Henry V (1989). The course will conclude with the Tudor rupture: A Man for All Seasons (1966) and the consolidation of legitimacy in Elizabeth (1998).

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