Calendar of Events

The International Biscuit Festival is a downtown event that celebrates the heritage of home cooking. The event begins at 5:00 pm June 4th with First Friday Biscuit Art openings and performances. Saturday June 5th, Market Square will be bombarded with biscuit revelry in all forms all day long and into the evening! Activities include: Biscuit Bake Off, Biscuit Boulevard, VIP Biscuit Breakfast, entertainment by White Lightnin’ Burlesque, Naughty Knots, The Black Bottom Biscuits, and Einstein Simplified; Biscuit Bazaar; Biscuit Art; and more!

Market Square District Association, PO Box 2263, Knoxville, TN 37901. Information: 865-405-3135, knoxvillemarketsquare@gmail.com, http://knoxvillemarketsquare.com/biscuit/.

Once a month, Knoxville's pedestrian-friendly streets transform into a block party during FIRST FRIDAY. Each celebration, enjoy receptions at your favorite art galleries, live music by local musicians, and more! FIRST FRIDAY is a stage for local galleries and Knoxville's vital downtown cultural scene. It's a place to meet friends new and old! From the shops and galleries on Gay Street (The Emporium Center, Art Market Gallery and more) to Market Square (Bliss, World Grotto and others) to the spaces in the Old City (Old City Java, A1ArtSpace, and more) and in Old North Knox (Fluorescent Gallery), there's something for everyone! You can always expect a diverse crowd, cool local art, live music, and plenty of surprises! Information: http://knoxvillefirstfriday.com/wp

Meet Paul James as he signs his new book, Images of America Ijams Nature Center. Located on the banks of the Tennessee River, Ijams Nature Center has evolved into a natural showplace known as the Island Home Bird Sanctuary. James, executive director of the center, chronicles the Ijams legacy and development with fascinating vintage photos, maps, illustrations, Ijams family archives and local source documents.

Mast General Store, 402 South Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. (865) 546-1336

At the Moses Teen Center in Mechanicsville, TN. Information: 865-544-0447, www.carpetbagtheatre.org

Enjoy Ferd’s First Friday with live, on-air performances from top secret special guests on the Visitor Center stage! Kathryn Byrd will also be joining us to display and sell her handmade pottery.

Free two-hour visitor parking located next door to the Knoxville Visitor Center at 301 South Gay Sreet. For more information contact Meagan Clark at 865-342-9150.

Meet Paul as he signs his new book, Images of America Ijams Nature Center. Located on the banks of the Tennessee River, Ijams Nature Center has evolved into a natural showplace known as the Island Home Bird Sanctuary. James, executive director of the center, chronicles the Ijams legacy and development with fascinating vintage photos, maps, illustrations, Ijams family archives and local source documents. 402 South Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. 865-546-1336, www.mastgeneralstore.com. For information: 865-577-4717, www.ijams.org

Come celebrate “First Friday” at the Museum of East Tennessee History! Well known local artist Amy Campbell’s collection of paintings called “What’s for Supper?” will be the featured display of the evening. The collection features the restaurants landmarks and early restaurateurs of Knoxville, including images of Harold’s, Helma’s, Kerns Bread, S & W Cafeteria, Vic & Bill’s, JFG, The Varsity, the Roman Room, and more. A total of 12 paintings will be for sale along with prints and postcards of the paintings. Prints of Amy’s historic portraits of Sam Houston, Isaac Anderson, Will McTeer and others are available in the ETHS museum shop. First Friday guests are also invited to tour the new feature exhibition at the Museum of East Tennessee History, Vanishing Appalachia: Photographs by Don Dudenbostel, Field Recordings by Tom Jester, as well as the signature exhibition Voices of the Land. Guests will also enjoy refreshments provided by Club Leconte. The “First Friday” evening is free and open to the public.

601 South Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Info: 865-215-8883, www.east-tennessee-history.org

Come get an inside look at how our aerial classes have been going! Several aerial students will give demonstrations of what they have been working on, as well as some aerial improv. If you've ever wanted to take aerial dance classes, come on out next week and get a real glimpse of it! Suzanne Devan will be providing the artwork for the evening and the month of June. She recently graduated from UT with a BA in Studio Art. Swing by to take a look at these student performances and enjoy Suzanne's beautiful work.

URBhana, 115 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information: 865-951-5454, www.urbhana.com

Work by Nick DeFord

627 N Central St
Knoxville TN
865.386.8848
Grey Floor Projects

Southern Fried will take place at venues all over the old city and downtown area of Knoxville, TN. The bouts will occur in the art district with late night events in the Old City and Market Square. The Southern Fried Poetry Slam was started by Allan Wolf in 1993 in Asheville, North Carolina. This performance poetry competition, which travels to a different southern city annually, has grown into one of the largest poetry convention in the nation, second only to the Poetry Slam, Inc.'s National Poetry Slam, which started in 1990. Over four days, teams and independent spoken word artists from our Southern Cities will compete head to head on local stages. They prepare for months in order to be on stage for mere minutes. Info: 865-406-1616, rheasunshine@blacksunshine.org, www.southernfried2010.com

Jubilee Community Arts announces a three-day series of workshops focusing on folklore and folk arts, oral history, and the narrative stage, which have been approved for optional in-service credit in the Knox County School system and are free to all East Tennessee educators. Folk arts education specialist Dr. Gregory Hansen will conduct the workshops, made possible by a grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission. Advance registration is required.

A folk arts workshop held on the first day is an introductory course on background concepts and theory, which teachers must complete before enrolling in the oral history or narrative stage workshops. The second day will focus on basic necessities for conducting folklife and oral history interviews. Training will encourage the exploration of teachers' and students' communities and the development of listening skills, note taking, researching, and oral and written language arts skills. On the final day participants will learn to interview traditional artists who may visit their classroom.

The Laurel Theater is located at 1538 Laurel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37916. For information: 865-522-5851, www.jubileearts.org, info@jubileearts.org.

Department of Energy Facilities Public Bus Tour with guide commentary, Monday through Friday, except government holidays (July 5 & 6). Tour participants can register at AMSE beginning at 9 am. Must be U.S. citizen 10 years of age and up. Photo ID required. Seating limited. First come, first served. Off the bus stops include Y-12 New Hope Visitor Center; Spallation Neutron Source Lobby and Graphite Reactor, both at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; and K-25 Overlook. No advance reservations. Some restrictions apply.

American Museum of Science & Energy, 300 S. Tulane Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Hours: Monday-Saturday 9AM-5PM; Sunday 1-5PM. For information: 865-576-3200, www.amse.org