Calendar of Events

The UTK Creative Writing Program, Writers in the Library, Ready for the World, and the Haines-Morris Foundation invite you to our 2011-2012 Series of Readings and Performances, Free and Open to the Public. All events will take place at 7:00 PM in the Hodges Library Auditorium on the UT campus (unless otherwise noted).

Jim Clark is a poet, musician, editor, and author of Notions: A Jim Clark Miscellany. He is Chair of the English Department at Barton College, in Wilson, North Carolina.

Information: http://web.utk.edu/~english/grad/creative/creative.shtml, mkallet@utk.edu

The public is invited free-of-charge to Pellissippi State’s Chinese Mid-Autumn Harvest Festival.

Festival-goers will have the opportunity to sample Chinese cuisine, including moon cakes and Chinese tea, as they learn about the traditional harvest festival from Chinese instructor Qiao Gui-qiang. Qiao Gui-qiang’s presence at Pellissippi State is part of a grant from the Confucius Institute at the University of Memphis establishing a Confucius Classroom.

Kung fu and tai chi demonstrations will be performed by Wah Lum Kung Fu of Knoxville. The performers also will entertain the audience with a Chinese lion dance. The event will wrap up with Qiao Gui-qiang guiding participants in the Chinese tradition of gazing upon the moon.

The community is invited to join in the free festival, which takes place 4-8 p.m. in the Goins Building College Center at the Pellissippi Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road .

The Chinese harvest (or moon) festival is one of the most important occasions in the Chinese calendar. The celebration occurs on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, falling in September most years.

Enjoying the moon is an ancient tradition in China , going back nearly 1,400 years. According to tradition, it’s a time for families to be together, so people far from home gaze longingly at the moon and think about their families.

For more on the festival, contact Gayle Wood, director of Access and Diversity, at (865) 539-7160. To request accommodations for a disability, contact the executive director of Human Resources and Affirmative Action at (865) 694-6607 or humanresources@pstcc.edu.

As part of the Penny Performances organized by the Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville, the Frank H. McClung Museum is hosting an opportunity on Sunday, September 25, 1:30 - 4:30 for K-12 students to bring in rocks, fossils, bones, and Indian relics for identification by University of Tennessee experts. Although the Penny Performances are for K-12 students in Knox County , the Museum will welcome anyone with an object in these categories.

Admission is free. The Museum is located on Circle Park on the University of Tennessee Campus .

Reception: Sun. Sept. 11, 2-4:30pm

Public Lecture: Thurs. October 27, 7:30pm

Ewing Gallery, 1715 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville, TN 37996. For information: 865-974-3200, www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu

"Windows to Heaven: Treasures from the Museum of Russian Icons, Clifton, MA" brings together historically significant works from the collection, dating from 1590 AD to present day. This spectacular exhibition helps demonstrate how religious structures and organizations are created by civilizations to reflect their own spiritual, social and political needs.

Frank H. McClung Museum, 1327 Circle Park on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN
Information: 865-974-2144, http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu

The 13th Biennial International Juried Enamel Exhibition and the 8th International Juried Student Exhibition are hosted at Arrowmont in conjunction with The Enamelist Society conference 2011; Transformation in Contemporary Enamels, Alchemy. The exhibition premiers at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts then travels to the Knoxville Museum of Art and on to the National Ornament Metal Museum. In the Sandra J. Blain Galleries

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

The 92nd annual Tennessee Valley Fair is one of the state’s largest multi-day events attracting nearly 140,000 people each year. The Fair begins the Friday after Labor Day as it invites you to "Let Go” this fall. Known for its innovative exhibits, livestock shows, concert series, action sports, exciting rides and a variety of unique fun foods, the Tennessee Valley Fair offers tremendous family entertainment for a gate adult admission of only $9, $7 in advance (kids 5 and younger are free). The Fair is also proud to present nightly fireworks sponsored by the Tennessee Lottery.

Tennessee Valley Fair: 865-215-1471, www.tnvalleyfair.org

Friday, September 9: Brett Eldredge, Reserved Seat = $5
Saturday, September 10: Fairest of the Fair Pageant, Reserved Seat = $5
Sunday, September 11: James Rogers, Reserved Seat = $5
Monday, September 12: Sister Hazel, Reserved Seat = $7.50
Tuesday, September 13: Thompson Square, Reserved Seat = $10
Wednesday, September 14: Josh Thompson, Reserved Seat = $7.50
Thursday, September 15: .38 Special, Reserved Seat = $15
Friday, September 16: Boyz II Men, Reserved Seat = $15
Saturday, September 17: Con Hunley, Reserved Seat = $5
Sunday, September 18: Jerrod Niemann, Reserved Seat = $10

The 92nd annual Tennessee Valley Fair is one of the state’s largest multi-day events attracting nearly 140,000 people each year. The Fair begins the Friday after Labor Day as it invites you to "Let Go” this fall. Known for its innovative exhibits, livestock shows, concert series, action sports, exciting rides and a variety of unique fun foods, the Tennessee Valley Fair offers tremendous family entertainment for a gate adult admission of only $9, $7 in advance (kids 5 and younger are free). The Fair is also proud to present nightly fireworks sponsored by the Tennessee Lottery. For more information: 865-215-1470, www.tnvalleyfair.org

Do you LOVE the movie Gone With the Wind? Then you HAVE TO SEE the play Moonlight & Magnolias at the Clarence Brown! True Story: Three weeks into production, David O. Selznick shut the movie down and fired the screenwriter and director. He then pulled director Victor Fleming off the set of The Wizard of Oz and hired script doctor Ben Hecht. With A WEEK to get the job done, he locked himself, Hecht and Fleming in his office – with only bananas and peanuts to eat – to knock out a workable screenplay.
The comedy, Moonlight & Magnolias, imagines what went on during those days of captivity as the three Hollywood giants acted out the book chapter by chapter to create the movie. The show runs on the Clarence Brown Theater main stage from September 8-25, 2011. Caution: Peanuts and PG-13 language will be used in the show. If you have a peanut allergy, please consider not attending this production.

Clarence Brown Theatre 1714 Andy Holt Ave on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. For information: 865-974-5161, www.clarencebrowntheatre.com. For tickets: 865-974-5161, 865-656-4444, www.knoxvilletickets.com

The Athens Area Council for the Arts is pleased to present “The Space Between”, an exhibit of artwork by Toneeke Runinwater Henderson, September 7 – October 28, 2011, at The Arts Center, 320 North White Street, in Athens, Tennessee.

The public is invited to meet the artist at an opening reception at The Arts Center on Friday, September 16, 2011 from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.

Toneeke was born and spent her early years in the West before moving to Florida as a teen. She flourished in the prominent art communities there and was encouraged by famed wildlife artist, Guy Coheleach, and Bill Grinstead, known for his floral paintings and painting knife oils. A long time resident of Calhoun , Tennessee , Toneeke has gained a measure of regional and national recognition for her eclectic and prolific approach to her art. Working in almost all media, she has made each her own as she experiments, combines, and synthesizes her life’s experience. From delicate watercolor landscapes to large scale textural assemblages, she strives to exceed boundaries and explore the “challenges of her heart and mind”. Manipulated photography, sculptures using traditional and found media, and texturized acrylic paintings are all used to define thoughts and explore ideas. Also a spiritual therapist, certified in several techniques, she uses these skills to encourage self-healing through art classes designed to help others remove creative blocks or work through issues by the process of directional and meditational art therapy.

The Arts Center is open Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. till 5:00 p.m. Admission is free. For more information or directions, call The Arts Center at 423-745-8781, or visit the website at www.athensartscouncil.org.

Blackberry Farm Gallery presents
Surface, Inside-Out
by Alison Oakes
September 6, 2011 through September 30, 2011
Reception for Last Friday Artwalk,
Friday, September 30, 2011 6-8PM

The UT Downtown Gallery is pleased to present the work of Scott Sherk in this exhibition of sound sculptures, soundscapes and field recordings. Mr. Sherk lives and works in Allentown , PA and is a Professor of Art at Muhlenberg College. Mr. Sherk has also exhibited internationally, completing sound projects in Iceland and Italy and his work has also been shown in several exhibitions at the Kim Foster Gallery in New York City .

Mapping sound explores ideas about the representation of space through the use of sound. If sculpture is an exploration of space through form, in these works of sound sculpture, sound becomes the primary focus of the exploration of three-dimensional space.

Included in the exhibition will be a sound drawing in eight channels of field recordings of New York City . This three-dimensional drawing with sound in space uses vector based amplitude panning of three sound sources over eight speakers. Also presented are several sculptural shapes that contain soundscapes of natural sounds in identifiable spaces. These works play with ideas about perspective and the perception of space through sound. Recent works that juxtapose video images with audio will also be presented for listening with headphones.

Scott Sherk will perform a live set of field recordings and audio manipulations along with video actualization of ambient sound during the First Friday Opening event on September 2, at 7:00pm in the UT Downtown Gallery, 106 South Gay Street.

Please join us for a First Friday Opening reception with the artist, September 2 from 5:00pm until 9:00pm. Admission is free and the public is welcome.