The NWACC Spring Arts and Culture Festival (SACF) is a multi-day, interdisciplinary festival that brings together artists, academics, intellectuals and other members of the NWA and NWACC community to reflect on an annual theme. The festival offers in-person, streaming and recorded events that are Free and open to the public.

Theme - Embodiment

This spring, SACF will explore the theme of embodiment. Embodiment can be defined as giving form to what is abstract or ideal or expressing principles, thoughts, intentions in an institution, work of art, action, etc.

Schedule:
Available All Week
The Path-An Immersive Art Installation Burns Hall 1106
Embody: A Collection of Works by NWACC Art Faculty Integrated Design Lab
Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women - Streaming Anytime (NWACC Login Required)
(NWACC Library film available exclusively to NWACC students, faculty and staff)
Personhood - Policing Pregnant Women in America - Streaming Anytime (NWACC Login Required)
(NWACC Library film available exclusively to NWACC students, faculty and staff)

Monday, March 6, 2023
9:00am - 10:15am: Wait a Minute - The (Dis)appearing Body and Bodies of Academic Freedom at NWACC and Academia - Burns Hall, White Auditorium
10:30am - 11:45am: “But You Don’t Look Disabled!?” Surviving & Thriving with Hidden Disabilities at NWACC & Beyond - Burns Hall, White Auditorium; Zoom, Live Streaming
12:00pm - 1:15pm: A Writing Workshop: What Does Our Story Look Like? Using Words to Visualize Community - Washington County Center
1:30pm - 2:45pm: An Art-Making Workshop: What Does Our Story Look Like? Using Collage to Visualize Community - Washington County Center
7:00pm - 8:00pm: Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life with Alice Wong Zoom, Live Streaming

Tuesday, March 7, 2023
9:00am - 10:15am: Race Against Time: Reopening the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era - Burns Hall, White Auditorium; Zoom, Live Streaming
10:30am - 11:45am: Energy Embodiment: Qigong Workshop & Sound Bath Featuring Sonic Bloom - Student Center 108
12:00pm - 12:40pm: Carnival, a Celebratory Choral Song Cycle of Animals - Burns Hall, White Auditorium
1:30pm - 2:45pm: Hive Avenue Reading Zoom, Live Streaming
3:00pm - 4:00pm: Rethinking Human Powered Transportation: Finding Joy in Everyday Journeys - Student Center 108
4:00pm - 6:00pm: Reception for Embody: Faculty Art Exhibit - Integrated Design Lab Lobby
6:00pm: An Evening with Jerry Mitchell - Fayetteville Public Library

Wednesday, March 8, 2023
9:00am - 3:00pm: Alzheimer's Embodiment Discovery: Sensory Overload
9:00am - 10:15am: Workshop: A Mindfulness Voyage - Student Center 108
10:30am - 11:45am: NWACC Book Club: Sissy, A Coming of Gender Story - Student Center 108
12:00pm - 1:15pm: Writing/Righting the Ship: Community College Leadership and the Successful Student (Institution) - Burns Hall, White Auditorium
1:30pm - 3:15pm: Film Screening of Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution - Burns Hall, White Auditorium

Thursday, March 9, 2023
9:00am - 10:15am: Embody Your Body: Yin Yoga and Guided Meditation Practice - Student Center 108
10:30am - 11:45am: The Food Picture: Hunger in NWA - Burns Hall, White Auditorium; Zoom, Live Streaming
12:00pm - 1:15pm: Embodying Beowulf-A Faculty Reading of an Epic Poem - Burns Hall, White Auditorium
3:00pm - 5:00pm: iAnimal: A Unique Immersive Experience into the Lives of Farmed Animals Burns Hall 1217, Information Commons
4:30pm - 5:45pm: Following the Body of Evidence: True Crime Investigation and the Zodiac Killer - Live Streaming

Friday, March 10, 2023
11:00am - 12:15pm: Following the Body of Evidence: True Crime Investigation and the Zodiac Killer - Burns Hall 1208 and Live Streaming
1:00pm - 3:00pm: Workshop: Exploring the Self through Self-Portraiture - Burns Hall 1208
3:00pm - 7:00pm: Embodied Community: Build a Bed for a Child in Need Integrated - Design Lab
Evening Diego Rivera's America-Opening Lecture - Crystal Bridges

Date: March 6 - 10, 2023

Location: Various Venues in Bentonville, AR

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