Calendar of Events

The open air ice rink on Market Square opens at 10 a.m. on November 27 and will be open every day through January 3rd (except Christmas Day).

The Tennessee Art Education Association is pleased to announce it's partnership with the Knoxville Museum of Art to present the Fourth Annual East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition. This exhibition features artwork created by East Tennessee middle and high school students. The competition offers students the opportunity to display their talents and be honored for their accomplishments in a professional art museum environment. The student art exhibition provides an excellent competitive arena for young artists. This year exhibition will spotlight a remarkable cross-section of the region's best student artwork from grades six through 12 and encompass an impressive variety of media, including ceramic, drawing, digital imagery, mixed media, painting, computer graphics, sculpture, traditional photography, and printmaking. There will be an awards ceremony at 6pm on Tuesday, December 1, 2009, in the Great Hall of the Knoxville Museum of Art, for the artists participating in the Fourth Annual East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition, their families, friends and school's personnel.
1050 World's Fair Park Drive, Knoxville, TN 37916. Hours: Tuesday-Thursday 10am-5pm, Friday 10am-8pm, Saturday 10am-5pm, and Sunday 1pm-5pm. FREE admission. For more information: (865) 525-6101, www.knoxart.org

November 27,28,29, December 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22.

Our most popular event with Santa, cookies, and storytelling.

More information on our excursions can be found online: www.ThreeRiversRambler.com

By Jones, Hope & Wooten. It's Christmas-time in the small town of Fayro, Texas, and the Futrelle Sisters — Frankie, Twink and Honey Raye — are not exactly in a festive mood. A cranky Frankie is weeks overdue with her second set of twins. Twink, recently jilted and bitter about it, is in jail for inadvertently burning down half the town. And hot-flash-suffering Honey Raye is desperately trying to keep the Tabernacle of the Lamb's Christmas Program from spiraling into chaos. But things are not looking too promising: Miss Geneva, the ousted director of the previous twenty-seven productions, is ruthless in her attempts to take over the show. The celebrity guest Santa Claus — played by Frankie's long-suffering husband, Dub — is passing a kidney stone. One of the shepherds refuses to watch over his flock by night without pulling his little red wagon behind him. And the entire cast is dropping like flies due to food poisoning from the Band Boosters' Pancake Supper. When Frankie lets slip a family secret that has been carefully guarded for decades, all hope for a successful Christmas program seems lost, even with an Elvis impersonator at the manger. But in true Futrelle fashion, the feuding sisters find a way to pull together in order to present a Christmas program the citizens of Fayro will never forget. Their hilarious holiday journey through a misadventure-filled Christmas Eve is guaranteed to bring joy to your world!

Showtimes: Thursday, Friday, Saturday @ 8:00 pm and Sunday @ 3:00 pm
Tickets: Thursday, Sunday $10; Friday, Saturday $15.
319 N. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37917. 865-544-1999, www.theatreknoxville.com

The Tennessee Stage Company, known to Knoxville audiences for Shakespeare On The Square and the New Play Festival returns to our Timeless Works series this fall with the modern classic, I Hate Hamlet. This most outrageous of comedies is a ghost story wrapped up in a theatrical farce. A young Hollywood television star comes to New York to play the role of Hamlet in Shakespeare In The Park. Hopelessly out of his depth he gets surprise tutoring – from the ghost of John Barrymore – dead for seventy years but called back from the other side to assist a young Hamlet in desperate need!
Tickets on sale now: limited availability. Call (865) 546-4280 for Reservations. General Admission: $ 15; Students/Seniors $ 12. Group discounts available. Tennessee Stage Company, P.O. Box 1186, Knoxville, TN 37901.

Unique outdoor holiday shopping! Friday, Nov. 27 from 12-9pm, at Krutch Park & Market Street. The outdoor Christmas Market will continue on Saturday, Nov. 28 from 12-5 pm. Information: 865-215-4248, www.cityofknoxville.org

The Appalachian Arts Craft Center in Norris will celebrate the season with a Holiday Open House, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday-Saturday, Nov. 27-28, at the center. There will be refreshments, craft demonstrations and lots of beautiful handmade crafts to purchase as gifts. The Craft Center is a nonprofit arts center located at 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 near Norris, Tenn., one mile east of I-75 North at Exit 122. For more information call 865-494-9854 or see www.appalachianarts.net.

Brown bag luncheon video presentation.

201 Badger Road, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 9-5; Saturday-Monday, 1-4. Admission is free. For more information, visit the Web site or call (865) 482-1441.

Start or Finish Your Christmas Shopping at the Commissary Museum Store & Spirit of Red Hill Art Shop. Demonstrating Craftspeople...Tours of Historic Buildings...Good Food at the Harrow Road Cafe. Victorian Cream Tea at 1880 Newbury House B & B by Reservation. Advance Reservations for Tea - $16

5517 Rugby Hwy., (State Scenic Hwy 52), Rugby, TN 37733. Information: (423) 628-2441? or www.historicrugby.org

Knoxville's unique live music experience on select Fridays in the museum's Great Hall. Non-smoking, two cash bars, dancing, catering, family-friendly and great for a date. Free parking. Admission is usually $8 for non-members, $4 for members and students.

1050 World's Fair Park Drive, Knoxville, TN 37916. Hours: Tuesday-Thursday 10am-5pm, Friday 10am-8pm, Saturday 10am-5pm, and Sunday 1pm-5pm. For more information: (865) 525-6101, www.knoxart.org

Continues into the evening on the Market Square stage. The Leadbetters are the featured artists at this year's Hoedown.

Free and family-friendly event at Downtown's Krutch Park Extention and Market Square, where the mayor will light the city's 38-foot Christmas Tree. Featuring music, entertainment, photos with Santa, cookie decorating with Mrs. Claus, horse drawn carriage rides, roasting marshmallows over an open fire, hot cocoa, and caroling.
Market Square Stage events begin at 5 pm. Information: 865-215-4248, www.cityofknoxville.org