Calendar of Events

Wednesday-Friday, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM; Saturday: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM (or by appointment)

Additional dates: December 1-4, January 5-8, February 2-5, March 2-5, April 6-9, May 4-7

Description: Free tours are provided for up to three Knox County students (with paying adult) during the first week of every month during the calendar school year.
Advance reservations required? YES
How to obtain admission: Visitors should contact the Mabry-Hazen House at 865-522-8661 or email mabryhazenhouse@gmail.com.
Contact: Calvin Chappelle, 865-522-8661, mabryhazenhouse@gmail.com
1711 Dandridge Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37915 | www.mabryhazen.com

On the first Wednesday of every month at the Square Room in Market Square (next door to Tomato Head). $15 admission includes concert plus a hearty lunch buffet served up by Cafe 4.

Starring trumpeter Thomas Heflin and his quartet
Trumpeter Woody Shaw is considered by many to be the last great innovator on the trumpet in jazz. Shaw began his professional career in the early 1960s, playing with a number of jazz greats including Eric Dolphy, Bud Powell, and Art Taylor. In 1963, he recorded his first album Iron Man (1963), while in Dolphy’s group. In 1965, Shaw gained recognition when he joined the Horace Silver Quintet. He recorded his first album as a leader, Blackstone Legacy in 1970, illustrating his progressive improvisational approach. In 1971, Shaw joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and recorded several albums including Child’s Dance (1973). In 1974, he released his critically acclaimed album Moontrane, which received accolades from Down Beat. Influenced by a number of trumpet greats including Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, and Freddie Hubbard, Shaw developed his own unique approach towards improvisation which included the use of wide intervals, rapid melodic exploration, and warm tone. Shaw’s album Rosewood (1977) was nominated for two Grammy Awards and was voted Best Jazz Album of 1978 in the Down Beat Reader’s Poll. That same year, Shaw was voted Best Jazz Trumpeter of the Year in the Down Beat Poll. In addition to his impressive breadth of recordings, Woody Shaw was also a generous educator, sharing musical concepts with students around the world.

Longtime fans of the KJO remember Thomas Heflin as a founding member of the band. He now resides in New York City, working as a freelance trumpet artist and coordinator of education outreach at the Manhattan School of Music. Heflin is also a recording artist for Blue Canoe Records and has released two albums as a leader, Symmetry (2007) and The New 5 (2009), and is scheduled to release a third later this year entitled The Thomas Heflin/Ron Westray Project. Some of Atlanta’s finest jazz musicians will be joining Thomas for this special concert: Louis Heriveaux, piano, Tommy Sauter, bass, and Marlon Patton, drums.
http://www.knoxjazz.org

Fresh off a triumphant sold-out tour debut, a headlining performance at The White House, a critically-acclaimed, chart-topping album, and an appearance at Coachella that garnered rave reviews from spectators and media alike, DJ Lance Rock and the cast of YO GABBA GABBA! are heading back on the road with YO GABBA GABBA! LIVE!:
THERE'S A PARTY IN MY CITY! to play to enthusiastic fans in Knoxville. Today's hottest live show for families! YO GABBA GABBA! LIVE!: THERE'S A PARTY IN MY CITY! is produced by S2BN Entertainment in association with Wildbrain Entertainment and The
Magic Store and promoted by AC Entertainment. Champions on the stage and in the community, the Gabba Gang will partner with Habitat for Humanity to further their homebuilding efforts in Knoxville. In addition, $1 from every ticket sold for YO GABBA GABBA! LIVE!: THERE'S A PARTY IN MY CITY! in (CITY) will be donated to the local
Habitat for Humanity affiliate.

Tickets are $39 and $29, plus applicable service fees. Historic Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information: 865-684-1200, www.tennesseetheatre.com. For tickets: 865-684-1200, 865-656-4444, www.knoxvilletickets.com

Ms. Fitch paints wooden furniture and toys with colorful, whimsical patterns that bring smiles to adults and children alike. Mr. Gebhart is a nature and landscape photographer who draws much of his inspiration from the Smoky Mountains. He endeavors to initiate the viewer to make a connection with the natural world around them. A First Friday Reception for the Featured Artists is planned for November 5th from 5:30-9 p.m. with complimentary refreshments and live Celtic music performed by Gil Draper.

Starting in November, the gallery will offer hand-made ornaments for sale to benefit the Community School of the Arts, a non-profit program that provides free instruction in music, visual arts, modern dance and drama to children from underserved areas of Knox County.

Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Special Holiday Gallery hours are Monday-Saturday, 11am-6pm & Sunday 1-5 pm. For information: 865-525-5265, www.artmarketgallery.net

String quartets from The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will travel to local libraries during the month of November to read stories and play music for pre-school aged children as part of the orchestra’s Story Time Program. The theme for this season’s program is Happy Birthday KSO! The program will open with a reading of the KSO’s recently published book Better Than Cookies, As Good As Cake, written by KSO cellist Stacy Nickell Miller. Pre-school children will then learn about the “treats” that animals eat in The Wide-Mouthed Frog, hear Dr. Seuss’s Happy Birthday To You! and join in wishing the KSO a happy 75th birthday! These performances will help to highlight the connections between music and literacy and introduce the string instruments to young audience members. All Story Time performances are FREE and open to the public.

November 2 10:00 AM Burlington Library
November 3 11:00 AM Karns Library
November 5 10:30 AM Powell Library
November 5 4:00 PM Cedar Bluff Library
November 9 10:30 AM Sequoyah Library
November 10 11:00 AM Halls Library
November 12 10:15 AM Fountain City Library
November 13 11:00 AM Borders Books (Deane Hill Shopping Center)

Information: 865-291-3310; www.knoxvillesymphony.com

Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Additional dates: November 30 - December 4, February 1-5, March 1-5, April 5-9, May 3-7

Free tours are provided for up to three Knox County students ages 5-18 (per paying adult) during the first week of every month during the school year (except January). Tours are given at the top of every hour between 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM.
Advance reservations required? NO
How to obtain admission: Visitors should stop by the Blount Mansion Visitor’s Center and see a staff member to purchase tickets. Must mention Penny Performances and provide proof of Knox County residency to receive $0.01 admission.
Contact: Ashleigh Oatts, 865-525-2375, educationcoordinator@blountmansion.org
200 W. Hill Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37901 | www.blountmansion.org

The Farragut Folklife Museum invites the community to visit “An Old Fashioned Christmas” exhibit. This special holiday exhibit will feature items from the Museum’s collection of artifacts as well as items belonging to Folklife Museum Committee members. Three dollhouses will be on display, including one designed and built in 1929 by local architect Malcolm Rice for his daughter. The Rice doll house was a National Architecture Award recipient in 1930. Originally with electricity, the doll house was enjoyed by three generations of the Rice family. In addition, visitors will see the Colonial doll house, designed in 1970 by an Atlanta architect and built and furnished by Chester and Mattie Dunlap for their daughter. Chester is the brother of the late Bill Dunlap, who served as the Museum’s exhibits designer since its inception as part of the Tennessee Homecoming ‘86 Celebration. The exhibit will also feature an antique baby cradle donated by Museum Committee member Libbie Moulden Haynes. Built in the 1850s, the cradle was made on a Strawberry Plains farm owned by Libbie’s ancestors and passed down for many generations in the Moulden family. Other highlights of the exhibit will include a doll dating back to 1900 and numerous antique games.

Farragut Folklife Museum, 11408 Municipal Center Dr, Farragut, TN 37934. Hours: Monday-Friday, 10AM-4:30 PM. For information: 865-966-7057, www.townoffarragut.org

Artist Reception is Friday, November 12th from 7-9pm
Refreshments Provided

Red Line Gallery, 11519 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37934. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11AM-6PM. For information: 865-288-0277, www.redlinegallery.net

UT Art Education & Knox County Schools Full Service School Project

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

The Clayton Center for the Arts on the Maryville College campus presents “Distant Conversations: Paintings of Marcia Goldenstein and Tom Riesing”. The exhibition in the Clayton Center’s Blackberry Farm Gallery features paintings by Marcia Goldenstein, a professor at UT’s School of Art, and Tom Reising, chair of the Department of Art at Ball State University. A reception will be held Nov. 22 from 6-8 p.m.

Clayton Center for the Arts: 502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville, TN 37804. Information: 865-981-8590, www.ClaytonArtsCenter.com

The Fifth Annual Southern Appalachian International Film Festival is bringing films from around the world to Pellissippi State Community College. The event, which comes to Knoxville following screenings in Kingsport, is free and open to the public. Screenings take place at all four Pellissippi State locations: the Pellissippi Campus, Blount County Campus, Division Street Campus and Magnolia Avenue Campus.

Among this year’s films is “Broken Springs: Shine of the Undead Zombie Bastards.” A locally made production, the film stars regional cast members and was shot in Rogersville and the surrounding area.

“Broken Springs” is one of more than 130 features and short films submitted to the festival from 10 countries. More than 20 new films arrived from China. Short films include documentaries, live action and animation.

Here are a few of the SOAPIFF highlights:
· “Alfred Noyes’ The Highwayman,” the tragic tale of an 18th century outlaw. The film is by Knoxville filmmaker Kent McQuilkin, with lyrics and music by Grammy-nominated Loreena McKennitt.
· “Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau,” a short feature about Henry David Thoreau’s final two days at Walden Pond. The film focuses on his environmental concerns.
· “Perry County,” a short film by Matt Durning and N’Jeri Eaton (www.perrycountyfilm.com). A true story of legacy, waste and environmental justice, the film documents the controversial decision to dump millions of tons of coal ash from the 2008 spill in Kingston into a landfill in a poor, predominantly black county of rural Alabama. One of the film’s central voices, Perry County Herald publisher and co-editor John Allan Clark, has agreed to attend the screening at Pellissippi State. He will talk about the film and the situation in Perry County at a special pre-festival showing. The event is at 5 p.m. Oct. 27 on the Magnolia Avenue Campus, 1601 E. Magnolia Ave. While in Knoxville, Clark also will testify at an Environmental Protection Agency hearing on coal ash regulation. The hearing is at the Marriott Hotel before the screening.

Visit www.pstcc.edu/filmfest/ for schedule and screening locations. Visit www.soapiff.com for additional film information. Or, e-mail Pellissippi State Media Technologies faculty member Michael Tomlinson at mjtomlinson@pstcc.edu. Individuals with a disability who need accommodations should contact Ann Satkowiak, asatkowiak@pstcc.edu or (865) 539-7153.

Pellissippi State: 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN 37932. Information: 865-694-6405, www.pstcc.edu

By Connie Ray & Alan Bailey. Country holiday songs blend with traditional favorites, including handbells and Christmas ornaments. A joyful, funny, touching, and heartwarming show! Playing for the 11th season.

Crossville, TN. Information: 931-484-5000; www.ccplayhouse.com