Calendar of Events

The Mabry-Hazen House invites you to Miss Evelyn Hazen's Birthday Celebration. Author Doug McDaniel will give a talk concerning Miss Hazen's ancestry focusing on the family of her grandmother Laura Churchwell Mabry, the first female resident of the Mabry Hazen House. Afterwards, visitors will enjoy a selection of birthday cakes as well as a guided tour of the museum.

Tickets are $10 per person with no cost to members. Please RSVP by October 10.

Mabry-Hazen House, 1711 Dandridge Avenue, Knoxville, TN, 37915. For information: 865-522-8661, www.mabryhazen.com

Groundbreaking banjoist/composer/bandleader Béla Fleck has reconvened the original Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, the extraordinary initial line-up of his incredible combo. Rocket Science marks the first recording by the first fab four Flecktones in almost two decades, with pianist/harmonica player Howard Levy back in the fold alongside Fleck, bassist Victor Wooten, and percussionist/ Drumitarist Roy “Futureman” Wooten. While all manners of genres come into play, the result is an impossible to pigeonhole sound all their own, a meeting of musical minds that remains, as ever, utterly indescribable. Simply put, it is The Flecktones, the music made only when these four individuals come together. Witness a night of incredible music. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m.

Sunday, October 16: Visit Ijams every Sunday for an Animal Program at 2, 3 and 4 pm. Free to members, $2 for non-members. No registration required.

Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920. Hours: Grounds and trails open during daylight hours. Call for Visitor Center hours. Information: 865-577-4717, www.ijams.org

You are cordially invited to attend “A Taste of Crescent Bend House & Gardens” an Open House for special events. Built 177 years ago in 1834, historic Crescent Bend house museum and its three acre terraced botanical gardens overlook the Tennessee River and can be used as the backdrop for many special occasions including Holiday Parties, Weddings, Receptions, Rehearsal Dinners, Bridesmaid Luncheons, Birthday Parties, Anniversary Parties, Teas, Picnics, Business Meetings, Client or Employee Appreciation Parties, and Family Reunions.
For the Open House the property will be set up as though an actual event was to take place. Local area special event vendors to include Caterers, Photographers, Transportation, Musicians, Entertainers, Bridal Shops, Floral Designs and Rentals will be on hand to assist you as you plan for your special event at Crescent Bend.
Crescent Bend is conveniently located on Kingston Pike (US 11/70) 500 yards west of Alcoa Highway.

Sunday, October 16th, 2011 {1:00pm – 4:00pm}
This event is free and open to the public

For more information and to RSVP please call 865-255-1834 or email events@CrescentBend.com.

Directed By: Sarah Dickinson Hobbs
When: October 15th 7:30pm and 16th 3:00pm, 2011
Where: The Clayton Performing Arts Center at Pellissippi State community college
Tickets: General $18 @ the door, $16 in Advance
Students/Seniors $15@ the door (w/ID), $13.00 in
advance (w/ID at the door)
Children 5 and under free

Momentum dance Lab will be showcasing new choreography from their associate artists and company members as well as guest choreographer Gwendolyn Johnson Delaney, director of Tennessee Conservatory of Fine Arts.

By Agatha Christie
The longest running play, in the world, ever, has been running continuously since 1952 at St. Martin's Theatre in London. But if you can't make it to London, travel on down to Theatre Knoxville Downtown instead! Written by the world’s most successful author, Agatha Christie, it’s one of the finest plays ever written.

It follows a group of strangers – one of whom is a murderer – trapped in a boarding house during a snow storm. Is it the newlyweds whose rampant suspicions nearly wreck their marriage, or the spinster with the curious background? Perhaps it is the architect, the retired Army major, or the odd man who claims his car overturned in a snow drift? The play is also known for its twist ending, which at the end of every performance the audience is asked not to reveal.

Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 319 N. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37917. Performances are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8:00 PM and Sunday at 3:00 PM. Tickets are $10 plus fees for Thursday & Sunday; $15 plus fees for Friday & Saturday. For information: 865-544-1999, www.theatreknoxville.com. For tickets: 865-523-7521, www.KnoxTIX.com

BOO! at the Zoo presented by U.S. Cellular® kicks off 11 nights of safe and not-too-scary Halloween fun beginning Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 13, 14 and 15 and continuing Thursday through Sunday, Oct. 20-23 and 27-30, from 5:30-8:00 p.m. each evening.
BOO! at the Zoo, a Halloween tradition for 25 years, is a family event featuring
devilishly good music and games at the Monster Mash tent in The Clayton Family
Kids Cove, your favorite costumed characters throughout the zoo, and the only
“haunted” carousel in East Tennessee, the Scary-Go-Round. (How can you tell it’s
haunted? It goes backwards, of course.)
One of the highlights of BOO! at the Zoo is the BOO! Trail, where little trick-or-treaters can fill their bag with goodies as they make their way through the zoo. Each night will feature a variety of entertainment, from belly dancers and jugglers to out-of-this-world STAR WARS characters. For updated information
about each evening’s activities, visit the zoo’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/knoxvillezoo.
Boo! at the Zoo tickets are $6 per person. Children under two are admitted free. Parking is $5. Tickets are available at in advance by phone at 865.637.5331, online at www.knoxville-zoo.org, or at the zoo’s ticket office during regular zoo hours. Knoxville Zoo members receive a $1 discount on admission and free parking.

It?s 1961 and all of Maryville, Tennessee is abuzz at it prepares for its annual event, "A Hillbilly Homecoming." You won't want to miss a minute of the parade, the fireworks and, of course, the Miss Belle of the Smokies pageant because all your friends and family will be there! So join us for a toe-tapping, belly-laughing romp as we laugh, love and remember this little slice of Americana in the heart of Blount County. It's a celebration of the times, the event and oh, that hair!
October 13, 14 & 15 at 7:30 PM and October 16 at 2 PM. For Tickets or Information for Events call 865-981-8590 or www.claytonartscenter.com.

Fountain City Art Center Annual Membership Show

Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Avenue, Knoxville , TN 37918
October 7 - November 4, 2011
Contact Info: 865.357.2787
www.fountaincityartctr.org

129 North Main Street
Greeneville, TN 37743
(423) 787-0195

www.james-ben.com

"LARGER THAN LIFE" Exhibit at NPAC Displays Great Talent and Inspiration

As a prelude to the holiday season, the final 2011 exhibit in the lobby of the Niswonger Performing Arts Center by James-Ben: Studio and Gallery Art Center is set to open Friday, October 7th. "LARGER THAN LIFE" features work from 4 of the Art Center's most gifted artists who are expressing themselves in large format images. Barbara de Saussure, Medha Karandikar, David Daus, and Lorna Paquin have all been represented in previous NPAC exhibits but "LARGER THAN LIFE" brings together some of their more striking works in a group show of larger images. The exhibit is open free to the public and can be viewed during lobby hours at NPAC,10:00 am to 5:30 pm Monday through Friday, and during scheduled performances.

For further information about "LARGER THAN LIFE" or the Art at NPAC series, contact James-Ben Stockton at (423) 787-0195.

Justin Randolf Thompson's "The Pits" is a multi-disciplinary installation and performance that investigates the political employment of sound, both in realm of propaganda and as protest, and the visual hierarchies of the architectural organization of theatre space. The work involves a direct collaboration with sculpture, architecture and music department students and can be broken down into four interrelated parts:
-A raised stage supporting a faux marble inlay floor
-A pit orchestra performance
-A chandelier
-A series of three freestanding sculptures

This orchestra will be a collaboration with students and faculty of the UT music department. Jazz musician and composer Jason Thompson (a Knoxville local and UT Graduate) will work with this group to create an 8-10 piece pit orchestra that will be conducted to perform a score that shifts from classical, triumphant marches, into the drum and flute sound of Black Power poets, through folk styles of spiritual praise, and finally into abrasive Hip Hop. The score will be recorded with each instrument taken separately, and following the opening performance; the orchestra will be replaced (in each of their seats) by their recording. The mix of sound references is meant to associate triumph with climax and climax with ascent and the skewing of the elements geographical and cultural identity addresses sound's social transcendence and simultaneous role as entertainment.

The stage and sculptural elements will be created as a collaboration with the artist, UT's architecture department, and UT's sculpture department.

Opening Reception: October 7, 5-9pm with live musical performance as part of First Friday opening.

UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Wednesday-Friday: 11AM - 6PM; Saturday: 10AM - 3PM. Information: 865-673-0802, http://web.utk.edu/~downtown

Norman and Ethel Thayer return for the forty-eighth year to their summer home on Golden Pond. Ethel is the perfect foil for an aging Norman, who suffers heat palpitations and a failing memory—but is still as tart-tongued and observant as ever. A visit from their middle-aged daughter and her fiancé leaves them with a teenaged boy, who, for the summer, becomes the “grandchild” the elderly couple always longed for. A touching, funny and warmly perceptive study of a spirited and lovable trio brought even closer together by incidence.

Oak Ridge Playhouse, 227 Broadway, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Information and tickets: 865-482-9999, www.orplayhouse.com