MUSIC
Sean of the South
Sean Dietrich, columnist, novelist, multi-instrumentalist and stand-up storyteller who writes as Sean of the South, performs at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Vada Sheid Community Development Center, Arkansas State University-Mountain Home, 1600 S. College St., Mountain Home. It kicks off the university’s Gaston Lecture Series and its 13th Performing Arts Series season. Admission is free. Visit seandietrich.com.
Orchestral ‘Airbender’
An orchestra brings to life the musical score of the Nickelodeon show “Avatar: The Last Airbender” as scenes from the series play out on screen in “Avatar: The Last Airbender in Concert,” 7 p.m. Tuesday at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., part of the center’s 2024-25 Family Fun Series. Emmy Award-winning composer and musician Jeremy Zuckerman has teamed up with show co-creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, along with Jeff Adams (the show’s original editor), to expand the series’ original compositions. Tickets, if any remain, are $68-$72. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
Pvt. First Class Carter (center), wounded by friendly fire, was the only American injured at My Lai. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/National Archives)
FILM
‘My Lai’ documentary
The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock, screens the documentary “My Lai,” focusing on the 1968 My Lai massacre, its subsequent cover-up, and the efforts of soldiers who broke ranks to try to halt the atrocities and bring them to light, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday as part of its Movies at MacArthur series. Admission, popcorn and soft drinks are free. Call (501) 376-4602.
Sculptor and ceramic artist Jonathan Christensen Caballero is in residence Sept. 9-13 and Nov. 3-8 at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette) Submitted photo
ART
Sculptor in residence
Sculptor and ceramic artist Jonathan Christensen Caballero will work with University of Central Arkansas ceramics and sculpture students and take part in a panel discussion during the first part of his residency this week at the Conway university.
The panel discussion, titled “Harvesting Change: Art Activism and Latin American Labor in Arkansas,” takes place at 5 p.m. Thursday in Lecture Hall 167 in UCA’s Windgate Center, Donaghey Avenue and Bruce Street, Conway. The other panelists include Magaly Licolli, co-founder of Venceremos, a worker-based organization in Arkansas whose mission is to ensure the human rights of poultry workers; Benjamin Garner, an independent filmmaker and associate professor of marketing at UCA; and Alejandro González Landeros, assistant professor of Spanish at UCA.
During the completion of his UCA residency Nov. 3-8, Caballero will discuss his work, on display at the Windgate Center Gallery through Oct. 4 (10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday), at 6 p.m. Nov. 7 in Windgate Center lecture hall 167.
Caballero, who studied at Indiana University Bloomington, teaches sculpture and works as a sculpture shop technician at the Kansas City Art Institute. His mixed-media work focuses on the human figure and Latin American laborers in the United States.
Call (501) 450-3293, email [email protected] or visit uca.edu/cahss/artists-in-residence.