10x10 Arts Series

from WAC OnStage Fall 2021

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Cirque Mechanics

Birdhouse Factory Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom

Programming for the 10x10 Arts Series is hand-selected for Northwest Arkansas audiences – and whether or not you’ve heard of these artists, we know that you’re going to love them. Whether you’re a regular at Walton Arts Center, or it’s your first time here, the 10x10 Arts Series has something that everyone will enjoy! So, try something new. After all, tickets are just $10 each!

Cirque Mechanics Birdhouse Factory

Nov. 18, 2021

Enter the most unlikely setting for a circus – a factory – one where the workers are acrobats and the machines are circus props. When a bird is injured by the main steam boiler, the workers come together to care for it and break out of the monotony of the assembly-line. A contortionist performs on a turntable powered by unicyclists, a trapeze artist spins acrobatically inside of a giant wheel, and trampoline wall artists defy the laws of physics in this artful and nostalgic story of love, laughter and flight.

Additional support provided by Dick & Margaret Rutherford

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom

Feb. 3, 2022

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom, a new musical filled with traditional and original gospel and freedom songs, tells the inspiring true story of Lynda Blackmon Lowery, the youngest person to walk from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., during the Voting Rights March in 1965. Jailed nine times before her 15th birthday, Lynda and her friends and neighbors fought alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to secure the right to vote for African Americans. Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club, High Art, “Psych”) adapted the award-winning memoir by Lynda Blackmon Lowery for the stage.

Invoke The Adventures of Prince Achmed

Feb. 17, 2022

Lotte Reiniger’s The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) is the oldest-surviving full-length animated film telling a story pulled from the famous collection of Middle Eastern folk tales One Thousand and One Nights. Achmed is an adventure-seeking prince who finds, loses, then recovers his beloved. The film is brought to life by multistring quartet Invoke, providing a score to match the epic tale’s mix of lighthearted and more sinister themes. Known for its playful “not classical…but not not classical” (SiriusXM) style, Invoke’s musical expertise and improvisatory skill will heighten your journey to another time and place.

Sponsored by Additional support provided by Anton & Linda Myers

TRIVENI Zakir Hussain with Kala Ramnath & Jayanthi Kumaresh

April 5, 2022

Grammy Award® winner and pre-eminent classical tabla master Zakir Hussain presents TRIVENI: a classical Indian program featuring Kala Ramnath on violin and Jayanthi Kumaresh on Saraswati veena. Triveni is a mythical site where three sacred rivers unite in India and the name aptly represents the confluence of these accomplished virtuosos, joining together for the first time. This fluent, joyous and entirely original collaboration features soaring melodies and complex rhythms that seamlessly stitch North and South Indian traditions together – a hallmark of Zakir Hussain’s iconic career.