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Community

Donate Gifts For Children Spending the Holidays At The Hospital This Year

Arkansas Children’s Festival of Stars Toy and Donation Drive is set for this Thursday, Dec 14, collecting donations for children and families spending the holidays in the hospital this year.

• Let It Snow: The statewide campaign aims to brighten the holidays for children and families in Arkansas Children's hospitals and community clinics. Donations stock the Snowflake Shoppe, a special holiday store offering free gifts for hospitalized children and their siblings.

• The Christmas Spirit: Collect new and unused items from the hospital’s wishlist and drop them off at Arkansas Children’s Northwest in Springdale between 7a-7p. Or shop online and have your gifts sent directly to the hospital. You can also make monetary donations.

Find links to the wishlists and registries or donate online HERE.

Events

Knock Out Some Christmas Shopping At The FayetteVINTAGE Winter Market

Shop a selection of carefully curated vintage vendors and local artisans during the FayetteVINTAGE Winter Block Party at the Fayetteville Town Center this Friday, Dec 15, from 2-8p.

• Interest: This fully indoor market will feature over 50 local vintage and thrift vendors and artisans from NWA. Stop by and check a few names off your Christmas list, as you’re sure to find some fantastic gift ideas.

• Desire: Making things even more fun, there will be food trucks, live music, a cash bar, a photo booth, and hourly raffles and giveaways! Grab a VIP ticket for early entry, drink tickets, and access to an exclusive lounge area.

Tickets range from $5-$25. Reserve yours HERE.

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Outfit Your Next Adventure With Styles From Beardedgoat

Upgrade your outdoor gear with up to 70% off in-season styles from beardedgoat during a three-day flash sale, only available to local customers in Northwest Arkansas from Dec 17-19.

• Made To Get Dirty: For a few years now, local outdoor brand beardedgoat has been fine-tuning batches of everyday, technical apparel - and releasing it into the wild to chew up singletrack, hiking trails, ski lodges, and the lake where you and your buddies pitch tents and burn driftwood. This gear is comfy but also equipped with outdoor bonafides in case you get caught in a storm. 

• Suit Up: Find your perfect fit during the three-day online popup. The beardedgoat team will be making hand deliveries on Dec 20, and all customers will be entered into a Puritan Coffee & Beer + beardedgoat giveaway for free clothes, coffee, and beer.

Set your reminders for Dec 17 and bookmark the link to shop online HERE.

Events

Have A Holly Jolly FamJam At The Jones Center

FamJam Saturdays are back at the Jones Center with a holiday storytime adventure set for this Saturday, Dec 16, from 10a-2p.

• Festive Fams: FamJam Saturday offers families a low-cost day of fun with monthly themed events. Each FamJam starts with a morning movement class, followed by a cool down with ice skating and swimming. Then, families gather for an afternoon live performance that combines learning, entertainment, and fun!

• Jingle Jams: Dance, prance, and jingle your way across fun fitness challenges during the Reindeer Games Movement Class and twirl your way around the ice rink, then enjoy an immersive reading of the holiday classic, The Polar Express.

Tickets are $5 per person. Reserve yours HERE.

Highlight

Rogers Historical Museum Receives National Recognition Apple Blossoms Exhibit

Rogers Historical Museum has received the 2023 Southeastern Museums Conference Gold Award for Gallery Installations for using technology to bring century-old music back to life in a recent exhibit.

• Apple Of Our Eye: The SEMC Technology Competition celebrates the innovative use of technology in museums. Rogers Historical Museum won the Gold Award in the under $1,000 category for its A Parade of Apple Blossoms exhibit, which showcases the grand Apple Blossom Festivals of the 1920s in Rogers.

• Echoes From The Past: The exhibit resurrected century-old songs from the museum’s permanent collection of sheet music that relates to the region's apple heritage. RHM collaborated with the Arkansas Arts Academy High School music department to record four songs from the 1920s, bringing these forgotten tunes back to life using modern audio recording technology.

Explore the museum’s current exhibits HERE.

NWA Daily Picks

In other news…

• 🛷 Sleigh Bells Ring, Heart Rates Fall: TheatreSquared invites you to escape this hectic season with A Christmas Carol. Enhance your enjoyable outing with a show-themed mocktail or cocktail. This delightful break from the holiday hustle you must take is onstage now to Dec 24.*

• ♻️ Easy Composting: The convenient, at-your-door service of Ozark Compost & Swap makes composting simple and has already diverted over 120,000 lbs of food waste from local landfills. Use discount code NWADAILY for your first month free of bi-weekly pickups.*

• 🏰 Fairytale Property: The Dromborg Castle in Fayetteville sold for $4.8m, making for November’s most expensive home sale in Northwest Arkansas.

• ✈️ Taking Flight: Thaden School in Downtown Bentonville recently announced plans to expand its program by including grades K-5. The school will roll out the lower school gradually, beginning with grades K-1 in the fall of 2024.

• 🚲 Happy Trails: Fayetteville City Council has received a $500K grant to construct Drake Street Trail, connecting nearly 2,000 residences to the Razorback Greenway.

• 📅 Ditch the FOMO: Post your upcoming events on our Events Page, and stay in the know about upcoming events mentioned in the newsletter.

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