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Events

Celebrate All Things Green & Blooming During Fayetteville’s First Thursday

The First Thursday Fayetteville series is back with a blossoming theme at the Historic Fayetteville Square on Jun 6 from 5:30-9p.

• Thurs Yay: First Thursday is a free monthly arts & culture festival organized by Experience Fayetteville. From May through October, the event features live music, a vendor market, community activations, group bike rides, and different activities based around a new theme each month!

• Awesome Blossom: June’s theme is Avant Garden, a celebration of all things green and blooming, where art meets nature with innovative art, music, and fashion. Mainstage music will feature Fight Dream and 1oz Jig. Local crochet artist Gina Gallina and Art Experience will lead a festive puppet parade.

Follow along for more information HERE.

Events

June’s First Friday In Bentonville Celebrates The World Of Fashion

Downtown Bentonville’s First Friday celebration returns this weekend with a full day of fashion-themed activities, live music, great food, and community fun this Friday, Jun 7, from 11a-9p.

• Model Citizens: June’s First Friday will turn the Downtown Square into a fashion showcase, including active art, pieces from the NWA fashion community, clothing vendors, and runway shows by local boutiques and multicultural groups in NWA.

• Staged For Fun: In addition to multiple fashion shows, some fun entertainment to expect on the Slim Chickens Mainstage include Ashytn Barbaree, Emma Hallam, and The Phase. An awesome lineup of food trucks will open at 11a, Yoga Story will lead a free yoga session on the Square at 12p, and booths will officially open at 3p.

Find a list of performers, vendors, and food trucks to expect at First Friday HERE.

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Responders Bursts Onto The Stage At TheatreSquared

Don’t miss the world premiere of Responders, written by Arkansas native Joseph Scott Ford, on stage at TheatreSquared in Fayetteville from Jun 5–30.

• Fresh Plays: Responders was originally workshopped during T2’s 2022 Arkansas New Play Festival, which showcases original plays by local and national playwrights at multiple venues across Northwest Arkansas. The Arkansas New Play Festival returns for its 16th year from June 14–23.

• Dark Comedy: Two small-town paramedics are the first to arrive at a macabre scene. Since the cops got a flat, and there’s no help to render, all they can do is wait—until they realize every school bus in the county is about to drive right by. When the local star reporter arrives to film the whole fiasco, things go from bad to ridiculous in this genre-bending dark comedy about just trying to do the right thing.

Get your tickets for Responders HERE.

Events

Unleash The Summer Vibes At The Jones Center

The Jones Center is turning up the summer vibes with its Summer in the City Series, including themed events in June, July, and September. The fun begins with the Obstacle Runaround on Jun 15.

• Summer in the City: The Summer in the City series also features the Splash Bash on July 13, which includes inflatable water slides, water balloons, a giant slip-n-slide, music, and dancing. The series will conclude with a salute to nature, exploration, and shared time around the campfire during the Community Campout from September 6-7.

• Fun Around: The Obstacle Runaround is a popular race where kids and adults team up in pairs to navigate over 10 challenges, such as a mud pit, tire run, noodle forest, and more. Grow your endurance, strength, and teamwork while seeing which team can have the most fun!

The Obstacle Runaround is $35 per team. Register HERE.

Outdoors

Get Hooked On A New Hobby During Arkansas’s Free Fishing Weekend

Dive into the incredible world of fishing in Arkansas during Free Fishing Weekend. Residents and nonresidents may fish without a fishing license or trout permit from Friday, Jun 7, at noon until midnight on Sunday, Jun 9.

• Natural State: With over 9,700 miles of rivers and streams and some of the country's most pristine lakes, Arkansas is home to world-class fishing. Those 16 and older require a fishing license but during Free Fishing Weekend, anyone can fish!

• Hatching Fun: The Charlie Craig State Fish Hatchery in Centerton will host a Fishing Derby on Saturday, Jun 8, from 8a-12p. All adults and children must register prior to the derby. Bring your fishing gear and bait along with chairs, water, sunscreen, and snacks for the morning. There is a limit of three fish per person.

Register for the Fishing Derby HERE.

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• 🦒 Story Time: Join Arkansas PBS for a free Family Fun Reading Event at Fayetteville Public Library, including lunch, activities, and a story time featuring Giraffes Can't Dance on Friday, Jun 7 at 10a. Families will receive a take-home bag with literary resources, including a book.

• 🏀 Hoop History: DWTN Now recently sat down with Former Head Coach Nolan Richardson to talk about the 30-year anniversary of the Razorbacks Basketball National Championship victory in 1994.

• 🪨 That Rocks: Arkansas Times recently shared the story of Jesse Gagnon, owner of Orthodox Farmhouse Brewery, discovering a centuries-old milling stone near the brewery’s property in Goshen — connecting the past to the present.

• 🪰 Fly’s Eye: Local photographer and Arkansas Ambassador Larry Fleury captured a shot of the Fly’s Eye Dome sculpture at Crystal Bridges — broken during the May 26 tornados in NWA.

• 🛶 Float On: Bentonville Outdoors, in partnership with 37 North Expeditions, will offer a Beginner Stand-Up Paddleboard workshop at Lake Bentonville this Friday, Jun 7, at 6p. Find other activities and register HERE.

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