Mexico

Next semester a University of Arkansas Honors Signature Symposium will focus on Mexico. Rogelio Garcia Contreras, a teaching faculty member at the Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Venture Innovation at Walton College, will lead the symposium and spoke with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams about it last week.

The Arkansas Crisis Center is now offering a text-to-chat helpline. On today's show, reporter Daniel Caruth provides more details about the new initiative. Also, we learn more about Mexico with the University of Arkansas Honors College. Plus, Ozarks at Large’s Sophia Nourani talks with songwriter, singer and musician Ashton Byrd.

The annual Explosion Chinelera is a vibrant, daylong festival that fills northwest Arkansas traditions of Morelos, Mexico. This year's event featured a band that filled Shiloh Square in Springdale with energetic music and dancers in colorful costumes whirling to the beat. Ozarks at Large invited Alma Altimirano, with dance group Chinelos Morelenses, to the Carver Center for Public Radio.

Today on The Outline: The CDC grants Arkansas funding to reduce overdoses. Also, state officials signed a new agreement with the Government of Mexico to ensure the safety of at-risk workers.

Composer Carlos Chavez, who was born in Mexico City in 1899, wrote three string quartets. The slow movement of his 3rd has become known as a "Mexican…