Welcome to Low Key Arts
On a Mission since 2005
Low Key Arts is a 501c3 public charity. With the help of dedicated sponsors and volunteers, Low Key Arts has been presenting original, forward-thinking and independent music and art in the town of Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas since 2005.
At Low Key Arts, we believe that artistic expression is essential to the growth and development of people of all ages. We seek to offer all individuals opportunities to experience, understand, and engage in artistic expression across a diverse range of media.
We believe that individual artistic development supports a positive community. By offering educational, experiential, and volunteer opportunities, we bring individuals together in support of a common cause and create an environment which nurtures community bonds.
Our goal in developing a community is to foster an exponential energy which we feel improves the world around us.
We believe that exposure to artistic innovation that challenges its audience to see a wider world promotes further creativity by broadening understanding and possibility. Performances from a wide variety of cultures provide people of all ages within our community encouragement to create and share their unique stories, feelings, and perspectives.
Our volunteers, donors, and sponsors are the foundation of this organization. Community members who generously share their time and resources are the lifeblood of Low Key Arts and the programs we offer.
Low Key Arts connects people and inspires creativity by providing tools, education, and opportunities to experience musical, cinematic, and artistic innovators from around the world.
Arkansas Shorts - A Night of Short Film
January 2, 2021 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm
4501 Central Ave, Hot Springs, AR 71913, USA
Low Key Arts presents the 14th annual Arkansas Shorts: A Night of Short Film festival, taking place on Saturday, January 2, 2021. For the first time in the history of the festival, it will be an outdoor drive-in event, presented in partnership with Hot Springs Mall, Visit Hot Springs, KUHS 102.5 FM, and the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival.
Festival Director, Jen Gerber brings her vision for a provocative, moving experience to this year's Arkansas Shorts. Drawing from a multicultural cross-section of submissions, the program this year represents the diverse population of our state and the peculiar political landscape of our nation, while not losing sight of the fun and creativity that have always been characteristic of this night of short film. Chris Wilks, a veteran of the festival and International Shorts Programmer, has overseen selections from a vast and encouraging number of Arkansas filmmakers, as well as hand-picking additional selections from among the best international shorts of the past year.
"As one might imagine, Arkansas Shorts will look a bit different this year, but after the overwhelmingly positive experience from the HSDFF drive-ins, we are confident that this event will be safe, fun and our strongest lineup to date", says Festival Director, Jen Gerber.
The biggest change organizers are making to the format is the elimination of the three separate screening blocks for International, North American and Arkansas short films. Instead, the program will be a highly curated mix from all 3 sections, with a special showcase granted to the filmmakers who participated in the virtual edition of the Inception to Projection Filmmaking Program. "While 2020 has forced nearly every organization to pivot away from their traditional plans, this year Low Key Arts found tremendous success with Inception to Projection as we made the programs virtual, enabling us to reach students all across Arkansas. We are overwhelmingly proud of the strong filmmaking community in Arkansas that has weathered quite a storm this year and we can't wait to celebrate all these accomplishments in January," says Gerber. "Uptown Hot Springs is proud to be a supporter of Arkansas Shorts," says Scott Green, manager of the Hot Springs Mall. Scott has been a huge champion of these pop-up drive events by supplying a safe venue for this community to gather to see these films on a big screen and we are grateful for all the support we continue to receive from the community.
Covid restrictions presented difficulties in producing Arkansas Shorts in its traditional venue, the Malco Theatre, in 2021. We would like to take this opportunity to extend our gratitude to Maxwell Blade for allowing us into his Theatre of Magic in years past, and for his gracious and very generous support of Low Key Arts.
The 14th annual Arkansas Shorts: A Night of Short Film festival drive-in will take place at 4501 Central Avenue in Hot Springs, in the parking lot facing the former Sears location on Saturday, January 2, 2021. Gates will open at 5:00 pm and the shorts will begin at 6:00. Total running time is 2 hours. Cost per vehicle is $20. Tickets available at the gate or in advance from Prekindle.com
(https://www.prekindle.com/event/23867-arkansas-shorts-a-night-of-short-film)
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Low Key Arts runs on the power of supporters and volunteers like you. It is only through the hard work and passionate commitment of hundreds of people like you that Low Key Arts has been able to put on programming like Arkansas Shorts, The Valley of the Vapors, KUHS community radio, and much more year after year.
Low Key Arts wants to grow. We want to grow our existing programming to be everything it can be. We want to develop new programming to meet the needs of our community. We want to make improvements to our performance space, hire new staff, bring in more artists, and cultivate and support more of the artists that live all around us in Hot Springs.
You can help Low Key Arts grow by donating as little as $10 a month! This donation helps us expand existing programming, make improvements to our performance space, hire new staff and bring in more artists, while we cultivate and support more of the creative people that live in our community.
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