Community Spotlight

Geoff and Leslie Oeslner, local music and nature enthusiasts, are releasing their book 'Attunements for the Earth' this evening at Mount Sequoyah in Fayetteville. Pete speaks to them about the event, the book, and what they hope our local community can gain from it.

The Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Arkansas is now accepting applications for scholarships for the Spring 2024 semester. Pete speaks with Jen Para - Communications Director with SPSF about opportunities available.

Pete Hartman wraps up a week of Community Spotlight conversations about the Shiloh Museum of the Ozarks' annual Quilt Fair, the Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund and more.

Arts Live Theatre is gearing up for fall! Classes are available for ages 4 through 18 with productions like ‘The Wizarding Way’, ‘Magic School Bus on the Road’, a ‘Ten Minute Play Production’ class, and ‘Podcast Theatre’. Classes begin the week of September 18th and run for 8 weeks. Teaching artists are theatre professionals and educators. For more information or to register, visit the Arts Live Theatre website. Pete speaks to their education director, Julie Gabel.

The Center for Arkansas Farms and Foods will hold a fundraising event 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, to support the Farmers for Tomorrow fund, a program to help aspiring farmers start their small farm businesses. The event will be at the Milo J. Shult Agricultural Research and Extension Center, at 1005 W. Meade St., in Fayetteville. CAFF is a part of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, the research branch of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. Pete speaks with Heather Friedrich.

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute - a part of the University of Arkansas here in Fayetteville since 2007 - will begin its Fall Classes soon.

Pete speaks to Robert Ginsburg, Shades of Jazz host and long-time member of the Northwest Arkansas Jazz Society, about the last two shows that are wrapping up the group's annual summer concert series.

Pete Hartman wraps up a week of Community Spotlight conversations with local organizations like Art Ventures, Buffalo National River Partners, and more.

What Blues is to eastern Arkansas, Western Swing is to Western Arkansas. The unique American music style will be the star of a multifaceted public kickoff event for the upcoming Fort Smith International Film Festival with a special evening featuring the Arkansas premier of the documentary, “The Birth and History of Western Swing” followed by a dance featuring Western Swing RULES this evening beginning 5pm at the Fort Smith Museum of History. Pete speaks with Caroline Speir, Executive Director of FSMH, about tonight's event.

Buffalo National River Partners, the official Friends group of the Buffalo National River, will be conducting a stilt grass pull in Lost Valley on Saturday, September 9th. Stilt grass is an invasive species native to Asia. It appeared in the U.S. in 1919 and, wherever it grows, it crowds out native plants. Pete speaks with Melinda Caldwell, Board Member of the BNRP.