Calendar of Events

Smoky Mountain Harmony Show Chorus presents “A Goodtime Barbershop and Variety Show” . This good-natured family-friendly show features guest performers: Sound of Tennessee Chorus, Cross Connection, 3 Nice Guys and other a Cappella quartets. Tickets are only $10 and will be available at the door. Group, senior, and student tickets are $8 but must be purchased in advance.

At Pellissippi State’s Clayton Performing Arts Center, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. For tickets or information, go to www.smokymtnharmony.org or call 865-771-9288.

A LARGE MOVEMENT / SMALL SPACES EVENT with PERFORMANCES BY CIRCLE MODERN DANCE; NEW WORK BY ASHLEY ADDAIR; and MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BY LEVON WALKER. ADMISSION PRICE: FOOD OR DRINK TO SHARE
At the THE MASON JAR, 1241 ARMSTRONG AVE

This event is brought to you as a part of Humanity: Large Movement / Small Spaces, a series of home-based performance events, funded by the East Tennessee Foundation, and designed to both encourage collaboration among Knoxville artists of various media and various neighborhoods and bring the arts into Knoxville’s neighborhoods for a minimum cost to audiences. Audiences simply bring an item for the potluck. No other
admission is required.

www.circlemoderndance.com; (865) 524.7615

Kids of all ages who love trucks and other rough and tumble vehicles will want to visit Knoxville Zoo! Fire trucks, police vehicles, ambulances, military vehicles, and heavy construction equipment will be on display throughout the day. Discover how these vehicles operate and meet the people who work with them every day.

Knoxville Zoo, 3500 Knoxville Zoo Drive, Knoxville, TN 37914. Open every day except Christmas. For information: 865-637-5331, www.knoxville-zoo.org

The health Awareness Day will involve the community in "A Walk with PEPP" starting at Harvest Plaza in Five Points with a health fair and vendors. This event will feature vendors across a broad spectrum of areas. Information: 865-524-6100, projectp@bellsouth.net

Create your own compost. All organic matter eventually decomposes. Composting speeds the process. The final product, humus or compost, looks and feels like fertile garden soil. This dark, crumbly, earthy-smelling material works wonders on all kinds of soil and provides vital nutrients to help plants grow and look better, eliminating the need for chemical fertilizers. Join green-thumb Peg Beute and learn why nature's way is the best way. Program is free.

Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920. Hours: Grounds and trails open during daylight hours. Visitor Center: Monday: by appointment only for tour groups and school trips; Tuesday-Saturday: 9AM-5PM; Sunday: 1-5PM (March 1 - November 30). For information: 865-577-4717, www.ijams.org

The University of Tennessee School of Music cordially invites you to attend a Musicale at the Tellico Village Yacht Club benefiting the music scholarship fund. The Musicale will feature a Welcome Reception with heavy hors d’oeuvres, and entertainment provided by UT School of Music Faculty and Student Artists, including:
+ David Brunell, piano, named as one of the two most memorable soloists of 2009 by Metro Pulse;
+ The Brasswind Quintet, consisting of Cathy Leach, trumpet; T.J. Perry, trumpet; Calvin Smith, horn; Daniel Cloutier, trombone; and Sande MacMorran, tuba/euphonium;
+ Roger and Marjorie Bennett Stephens, Tellico’s own baritone and soprano couple, assisted by Fay Adams, piano; and
+ introducing Gregory Tardy, recording artist and our new Assistant Professor of Music in Jazz Saxophone.

Proceeds from this event support student music scholarships. $60 donation per person is suggested. Additional scholarship donations are accepted. R.S.V.P. to the School of Music at (865) 974-8935; www.music.utk.edu

We will be participating in a great Free Family Event this weekend! On Saturday at Sequoyah Park will be the Paddle for Clean Water by the Fort Loudon Lake Association. This free event will feature live music, games, a dance performance by MDL and wide open spaces to enjoy with your family. The event will be under a big tent so there will be shelter and good shade. Find out more about the event and register for the paddle beforehand here: http://www.fllake.org/article.php?id=64
We hope you will come on out and enjoy a beautiful day with your family!

Momentum Dance Lab: 865-670-2748, www.momentumdancelab.com

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Contemporary Focus 2010 is the second installment of an annual KMA series that serves as a vital means of recognizing, supporting, and documenting the development of contemporary art in East Tennessee. Each year the KMA features emerging artists who work in new and experimental ways. Contemporary Focus 2010 presents the work of Emily Ward Bivens, Nick DeFord, and Evan Meaney. The art categorized as “contemporary” represents the leading edge of where artists are working today. Contemporary art is experimental, provocative, exciting – it is an investigation into new ideas that change the way art is made.

The public is invited to a free exhibition preview at the KMA Thursday, August 26 from 7 to 9pm. Contemporary Focus Artists Emily Ward Bivens, Nick DeFord, and Evan Meaney will be on hand to meet with guests, who can also enjoy the opening of Jane South: Shifting Structures on the same evening.

Emily Ward Bivens uses found and made objects to forge narratives, provoke or encourage interaction, and reveal fictional and non-fictional mysteries. These objects shift from prop to subject to evidence when used in performance, video, and installation. Characters or identities are created to act as subjects, authors, inventors, and curators of the work.

A Knoxville native, Nick DeFord earned his BFA in drawing from the University of Tennessee, and an MFA in fibers from Arizona State University. His work explores the visual culture of geography and cartography using common household materials. Through maps, globes, travel guides, pamphlets and charts, DeFord disrupts commonly recognizable systems to examine our relationship to identity and place, the known and the unknown.

Evan Meaney has been working with film, video, and emerging media for over a decade. Educated at Ithaca College and the University of Iowa, his interests have grown to include deconstructive sequencing, ghost stories, breakdancing, and the poetry of hexadecimal code.

Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World's Fair Park Dr, Knoxville, TN 37916. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM-5PM; Friday, 10AM-8PM; Sunday, 1-5PM. For information: 865-934-2036, www.knoxart.org

Student Exhibit: B. J. Clark’s students

213 Hotel Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37918. Information: 865-357-2787, www.fountaincityart.com

The Knox County Public Libraries team up with renowned artists to foster appreciation for jazz and public libraries. At various locations in downtown Knoxville. Information: 865-215-8729, www.knoxlib.org

Knoxville will be swinging during the 5th annual Knoxville Jazz Festival, August 27-28. Headlining the festival is Jimmy Cobb's So What Band presenting Kind of Blue at 50, a celebration of Miles Davis' classic album. Cobb is the sole surviving member of the original band that included Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, and Paul Chambers. He worked with Miles Davis from 1957-1963 playing on several of Davis' watermark albums including Sketches of Spain and Porgy and Bess. For the past year, Cobb has been touring the world with an all-star band playing the five masterpieces from Kind of Blue.

Another highlight of the festival is the premiere of the documentary film A Place for Me: Living Jazz in a Small Southern City. Sponsored by Knox County Public Library, A Place for Me draws on oral histories, the Library’s archival resources, and rare footage from the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound. What emerges is a portrait of Knoxville's rich musical history, particularly its long lineage of jazz music makers.
See the complete schedule and learn more about the events: www.knoxjazzfest.org