Calendar of Events

Annual Pellissippi State book sale offers bargains, benefits students

Starting on Feb. 28, area residents will have six days in which to bag bargains during Pellissippi State Community College’s annual Faculty Senate Book Sale. Most items range in price from 50 cents to $4.

In addition to books, shoppers can purchase CDs, DVDs, videos, vinyl records, magazines, calendars, puzzles and computer games. The sale is conducted at all of Pellissippi State’s four campus locations. Dates and hours of operation vary.

Since its inception 29 years ago, the Faculty Senate Book Sale has raised more than $89,000. The annual event is a fundraiser for the Pellissippi State Foundation, with proceeds going toward student scholarships.

Sale dates, times and locations are as follows:

Feb. 28-March 2, 8 a.m.-6 p.m., and March 3, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.,
Blount County Campus, 2731 W. Lamar Alexander Pkwy.

· March 2-3, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Division Street Campus, 3435 Division St.

· March 2-3, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Magnolia Avenue Campus, 1610 E. Magnolia Ave.

· March 16-17, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Pellissippi Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road

Attendees may park for free in visitor lots at all locations.

For information about the Blount County event, contact Brenda Ammons, book sale site coordinator, at (865) 981-5340 or bammons@pstcc.edu. For all other book sale questions, contact Bobby Jackson, event co-chair, at (865) 539-7060 or rtjackson@pstcc.edu.

Knoxville Restaurant Week benefiting Second Harvest Food Bank (February 27 - March 4) During Knoxville Restaurant Week, local restaurants ranging from Aubrey’s and La Costa to the Melting Pot and Ruth’s Chris Steak House will offer three-course dinners at fixed prices of $25 or $35. For each meal purchased, $5 will be donated to Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee to help feed the hungry.

Visit www.knoxvillerestaurantweek.com
for a complete list of participating restaurants and more dining details. Restaurants are expected to fill quickly, so make your reservations today!

by William Shakespeare. Scheming Sir John Falstaff tries to swindle and seduce not one, but two married women. Mistress Page and Mistress Ford exact their revenge and feminine wisdom triumphs! Performances will take place on the mainstage in the CBT.

1714 Andy Holt Avenue on the UT Campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. For information: 865-974-5161, www.clarencebrowntheatre.org

Cutline: Ángel Bracho’s “The Dictatorship is Stopped” is one of several pieces on display in Pellissippi State’s “Historia de México” exhibit, Feb. 21-March 4.

Pellissippi State Community College is one of only two venues in the state to host a traveling historical art exhibit from Mexico. Slated for display Feb. 21-March 4, “Historia de México” features engravings that celebrate Mexico’s 1810 independence from Spain and its 1910 revolution.

The artwork depicts various stages of Mexican history as seen from the point of view of the artists. The pieces include technical descriptions and brief commentaries on the historical significance of each work.

The Tennessee Consortium for International Studies, whose headquarters are at Pellissippi State, and the Ministry of Culture of Michoacán, a Mexican state, are sponsoring the exhibit.

Exhibit hours are Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and Friday, 9-noon. The exhibit is in Pellissippi State’s Bagwell Center for Media and Art gallery, on the Pellissippi Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road.

To learn more about the exhibit or to schedule a group tour, contact Theresa Castillo, TnCIS coordinator, at (865) 539-7280 or tcastillo@pstcc.edu. To request accommodations for a disability, contact Ann Satkowiak at (865) 539-7153 or asatkowiak@pstcc.edu.

Additional information about TnCIS is available at www.tncis.org. More can be learned about Pellissippi State at www.pstcc.edu.

Part farce, part comedy of manners, this classic is given a new twist in a re-set from the foibles and hypocrisy of the Victorian era to the foibles and hypocrisy of the mid 20th century. Replete with witty dialog, fictitious identities, and unwelcome social obligations, it has proved Wilde most enduringly popular play. Suitable for teens and older.

Oak Ridge Playhouse, 227 Broadway in Historic Jackson Square, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. For information and tickets: 865-482-9999, www.orplayhouse.com

In the Painting Studio. Opening Reception: Friday, February 18, 6:00-8:00 pm

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, 576 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. For information: 865-436-5860, www.arrowmont.org

For almost five decades, Jim Gray has painted in the shadow of the Great Smoky Mountains, creating a body of work that captures, according to the artist, "the ever changing pattern of light and shadow [that moves] across the ancient faces of the Smokies." The retrospective exhibition, Roads I've Traveled, showcases these East Tennessee-inspired landscapes, as well as additional selections from Gray's life's work, including wildlife, floral, and marine paintings and assorted sculptures in bronze.

East Tennessee Historical Society, 601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Museum hours: Monday-Friday: 9AM-4PM; Saturday: 10AM-4PM; Sunday: 1-5PM. For information: 865-215-8824, www.easttnhistory.org

Saturday February 5, 2011 at 6pm, The Beck Cultural Exchange Center will be hosting the Opening Ceremony of the annual Beck Cultural Exchange Center Black History Month Exhibit entitled, WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED!; an extensive collection of historical artifacts from the actual Civil Rights Era touring from the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. This brilliant and yet delicate display is celebrating the 51st Anniversary of the Tennessee Civil Rights Sit-In Movement and is scheduled to tour across the United States beginning right here in Knoxville, Tennessee! The WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED Exhibit contains tables, bar stools, signs, pamphlets, booklets, magazines, postcards, photos, and a host of other original treasures that have been preserved from the actual Sit-In Movement during the 1960’s and beyond! This one of a kind exhibit that also features postcards of Dr. Martin Luther King at our very own Highlander Center in New Market Tennessee, will inspire you and move you to a deeper understanding of the African American heritage and their determination to Overcome, as well as the many other cultures that aided in that “Dream” coming into fruition!

The Opening Night Ceremony of the WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED Exhibit will feature our area’s most talented speakers, presenters, musicians, actors, and dancers, including The legendary Robert J. Booker, Dr. Harold Middlebrook, Avon Rollins, Sr., Will Boyd & Kelle Jolly, Knoxville Opera’s Michael Rogers, Vocalist Horace Smith, Orator Janice Nzie, Poet Andre Canty, Dancers Mikael Merchant & Daniel Lineberger, Singer/Producer Lar’Juanette Williams & Optasia Productions cast of We Shall Overcome!, and the outstanding Blues Hall of Fame East Tennessee native, Wallace Coleman with His Band from Cleveland Ohio! WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED Exhibit will be on display at The Beck Cultural Exchange Center, Inc. during the entire month of February. Come relive history through the walls of the Beck Cultural Exchange Center with tours of the facility, exhibits, and music all month long. We invite you to enrich your life by learning more about the birth of the Civil Rights Movement and Sit-in Demonstrations here the state of Tennessee. WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED is sponsored by AT&T, Premiere Building & Maintenance, The Arts and Cultural Alliance of Greater Knoxville, and The Tennessee Arts Commission. WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED opens February 5, 2011 at The Beck Cultural Exchange Center, 1927 Dandridge Avenue, 6pm and will run the entire month of February! Don’t Miss It!

1927 Dandridge Avenue, Knoxville. TN 37915. Phone: (865) 524-8461; www.beckcenter.net

We are proud to have new paintings by Kimberly Woods-Pelton. Her nostalgic and colorful work will be on display and available for purchase all month.

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

Oak Ridge Art Center, 201 Badger Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 9AM-5PM; Saturday-Monday, 1-4PM. For information: 865-482-1441, www.oakridgeartcenter.org

The Farragut Folklife Museum will feature the “Out of the Attic” exhibit this winter and spring. This special exhibit will showcase interesting artifacts from the Museum collection that have not been displayed in many years or have never been on display.

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

An exhibit featuring the photographs and painting of Terri Swaggerty and oil paintings of Emily Spence Stables will be on display at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church. Free and open to the public. Opening reception Friday, January 14, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.; artists' talks at 6:30 p.m.

Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. Art Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday 9AM-5PM; Friday 9AM-4:30PM; Sunday 9AM-1PM. Information: 865-523-4176, www.tvuuc.org