The VOV and HSDFI present
"Arkansas Shorts" - A Night Of Short Film

The Valley of the Vapors Independent Music Festival (march 2010) is gearing up for our fundraising season. The VOV depends on grants, donations, and fundraisers to pull off the country’s most affordable, down to earth, humble, small town, volunteer run, rock –n- roll festival.

‘Making of a masterpiece’
Film screening honors Gallery Walk anniversary

By: From Staff Reports - The Sentinel-Record - Published: 08/08/2009
 

 

SIGN SHOWCASE: The Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute presents “The Making of a Masterpiece” today at the Historic Malco Theatre. Earlier in the week the HSDFI’s new signage was created and installed by Seiz Sign Co. at a new height and prominence on the building. In honor of the 20th anniversary of Hot Springs Gallery Walk that took place on Friday, “The Making Of A Masterpiece” will screen at 5:30 p.m. today presented by Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute.

The Historic Malco Theatre, 817 Central Ave., will be the site of the event and the audience will get a behind-the-scenes look at how the arts community became the “masterpiece” it is today.

Many of the original founders will attend the event along with present gallery owners and arts supporters. After the film, there will be an informal question-and-answer period.

Admission is free although donations will be appreciated.

To make the film, the EAST (Environmental and Spatial Technology) students conducted numerous personal/film interviews a few years ago under the guidance of Coach Dick Warrington of Fountain Lake High School focusing on the people and history of the early arts movement in
Hot Springs.

We All Hears Voices opens at the Malco

 

The Royal Players of Benton, Arkansas and Dr. Sam Taggart are proud to announce the production of We All Hear Voices─The Play at the Malco Theater to benefit the Literacy Council of Garland County. The show will go up the weekend of August 14th, 15th and 16th. Show times are 7:30 PM for the Friday and Saturday evening performances and 2:00 PM for Sunday afternoon. General Admission is $10.00

We All Hear Voices─The Play is a stage play adapted from the novel of the same name by Dr. Taggart. Brimming with Southern flavor and peppered with quirky characters with their own unique challenges, We All Hear Voices serves up a tale of unlikely friendships and the human desire for happiness.
 

Jack, the troubled cook at Moon’s Bar and Grill, has the gift of synesthesia; that is, he hears colors and tastes shapes. His passion for flavors and smells turn even the most ordinary dishes into magnificent creations and soon Moon’s is the hottest eatery in the Mississippi Delta.
 

Mary Ann, the waitress who befriends Jack, is waiting for some tall-cotton cowboy to sweep her off her feet and far away from this town. The problem is: when Mr. Right shows up she isn’t sure she wants to go.

Restoring History

Artist spruces up landmark mural

HEAT WAVE: Artist Steven Payne, of Apache Junction, Ariz., formerly of Hot Springs, shields himself from the sun Monday as work begins on the mural wall at Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute’s Malco Theater.

Artist Steven Payne of Apache Junction, Ariz., has arrived in Hot Springs to spruce up the chipped and weathered mural that graces the north side of the historic Malco Theater.

Payne’s landmark mural is a giant painted filmstrip made up of a number of frames that each illustrate an Academy-Award winning documentary that has been screened at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute’s annual film festival, HSDFI board member and project coordinator Sissi Bennett of Hot Springs said Thursday.

“This is so important. I’m on a bandstand about getting it preserved,” Bennett said.

The mural’s varied subjects, such as boxer Muhammad Ali, photographer Richard Avedon’s model Dovima posed with elephants, and actor Orson Wells, rise two-stories high in the parking lot at HSDFI.

‘Reel’ fun

The Sentinel-Record/Richard Rasmussen

Malinda Herr-Chambliss, executive director, Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute, on Friday welcomed students from Park International Baccalaureate School to the historic Malco Theater. More than 135 area students and teachers took part in the institute’s “What’s Up Doc?” children’s education outreach program, viewing “Learning With Our Fun Brain.” The program was held in collaboration with WOW Village for Big and Little Kids and Dr. Shamshad Haroon, M.D.