Calendar of Events

2010 and 2009 Grammy-nominated pianist and composer Geoffrey Keezer joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in 1989 at the age of 18, after completing his first year at the Berklee College of Music. Since then, he has worked with virtually all of the living legends of jazz and has appeared on countless recordings both as a leader and as an accompanist. This intimate evening of music will feature a cross section of Geoff’s unique writing for big band, from fresh looks at standards to striking original compositions.

At The Square Room (adjacent to Café 4 in Market Square), Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-573-3226, www.knoxjazz.org

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).

Pamela Schoenewaldt served two years as the Jack E. Reese Writer in Residence for UT Libraries, and is the author of numerous short stories and a novel, When We Were Strangers (Harper, 2010).

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

"Join the Smoky Mountain Harmony Show Chorus" in a free open house event
on Monday evening, January 23rd, 2012 at 7:00 PM at the First Cumberland
Presbyterian Church, 6900 Nubbin Ridge Road, Knoxville, TN. The chorus
will perform during the evening and will invite attendees to join them
in singing 4-part a cappella music. It promises to be an evening of fun
and song. For information please call Nancy Torrence at 865 521 6975.
Smoky Mountain Harmony Show Chorus is a member of Sweet Adelines
International.

January 12 - April 14th
A Timeless American play that inspired the Academy Award winning film, Driving Miss Daisy, is the Affecting story of the decades long relationship between a stubborn Southern matriarch and her compassionate chauffeur

Admission: $24 for Adults, $23 for Seniors, $22 for groups (15 or more Adults/ Seniors), $12 Kids/Students. Includes a $3 Service/facility charge

The WordPlayers, a Knoxville theatre company, will tour “Walk Don’t Ride! - A Celebration of the Fight for Equality” by Peter Manos from January 20 through Feb. 29, 2012.

“Walk, Don't Ride” is a presentation of drama and song depicting events that helped shape American freedom. Events included are: The Montgomery Bus Boycott, The Nashville Lunch Counter Sit-ins, and The Greyhound/Trailways Freedom Rides.

“Walk, Don't Ride” is an example of the best kind of “edu-tainment,” and has been booked in 14 different venues, including middle schools, high schools, colleges, and churches.

There are seven public performances, the first being Jan. 25 at First Baptist Church, 510 Main St., Knoxville at 6:00 pm. For a complete list of performances, please visit www.wordplayers.org.

For more information, please call 865.539.2490 or visit www.wordplayers.org.

Curated by Sam Yates and Hideki Kimura, professor of art at Kyoto City University of Arts, Redefining the Multiple unites 13 printmakers from Japan who bring the techniques and concepts of printmaking to a wide range of contemporary and traditional media.

Of the selected participants, four make three-dimensional objects and installations, two paint with printmaking tools and techniques, three use digital photography and technology, while others utilize traditional and recognizable printmaking methods.

Participating artist and co-corator Hideki Kimura will give a lecture Thursday, January 19 at 7:30pm with a reception to follow. Please join us! All events are free and open to the public.

There will be 2 opening receptions for Redefining the Multiple. Join us, Thursday, January 19, after Professor Kimura's lecture, or come to the UT Downtown gallery Friday January 20, 2012 from 5-9pm!

For additional information on this exhibition, please call the Ewing Gallery at 865.974.3200 or visit us online at www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu.

UT Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture - A+A Bldg. 1715 Volunteer Blvd., The University of Tennessee School of Art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Steve Scarborough, a founder of Dagger Canoe Co, will talk about The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century by Alex Prud'homme, in the year’s first Brown Bag Green Book program, 12 p.m. on Wednesday, January 18 at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 South Gay Street.

The series continues on February 15th with Elandria Williams, Educational Consultant for Highlander Education and Research Center talking about My Work Is That of Conservation: An environmental biography of George Washington Carver by Mark D. Hersey.

On March 28th, Katie Ries, Marketing and Outreach Director for Three Rivers Market, will talk about Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer.

On April 18th, David Massey, Neighborhood Coordinator for the City of Knoxville, will discuss the book Bringing Buildings Back: From abandoned properties to community assets by Alan Mallach.

On May 16th, Dr. Agricola Odoi, Associate Professor in UT’s College of Veterinary Medicine will talk about Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It by Paul R. Epstein

The Brown Bag Green Book program series is sponsored by the Knox County Public Library (KCPL) and the City of Knoxville. For more information, please call Emily Ellis at 215-8723.

BAIN BUTCHER: PAINTINGS

Exhibit Opening Reception

5:30-7:00PM January 20th

Come and meet the artist!

Exhibit Dates: January 18 - February 24, 2012

Opening Reception: Sunday, January 15, 2012 from 2-4 PM. Gallery Talk 2 PM.

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

Curated by Professor and Distinguished Scientist Robert D. Hatcher, Jr. and Assistant Professor Micah Jessup, both from UT's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the exhibition focuses on the formation of mountain ranges and the forces that continually alter them. Our own beautiful landscapes of East Tennessee and western North Carolina, part of the Appalachian Mountains, whose genesis was more than 250 million years ago, is one focus of the exhibit; the other is the striking and rugged Himalaya Mountains, the much younger and still rising result of tectonic movements, the global effects of which we learn about often in the news.

Introducing the subject in the gallery will be a fifteen minute video, created by award-winning producer Steve Dean (the Heartland Series) and featuring views of a number of sites in the Blue Ridge and Smokies sections of the Appalachians as well as original images of Himalayan locales and the Tibetan plateau. The dynamics of plate tectonics and processes of erosion are explained in animated segments.

Breathtaking as the surface topography may be, the exhibit will also delve into the structure of the respective ranges, as that is where the keys to the how and the why may be found. Three-dimensional maps, video animations, and of course, rocks will show visitors how we know what we know, and perhaps give viewers a new way to look at the world as well as the landscape around them. The past, the present, and the tectonic future await.

Frank H. McClung Museum, 1327 Circle Park Dr on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 9AM-5PM; Sunday, 1-5PM. Information: 865-974-2144, http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu

Tennessee Mountain Writers January Jumpstart workshops - January 13-15, 2013
Tennessee Mountain Writers will present "January Jumpstart XIII" featuring a fiction workshop led by Darnell Arnoult, Writer-in-Residence at Lincoln Memorial University, and a poetry workshop led by Nashville poet Bill Brown. The event, to be held at the Magnuson Hotel in Sweetwater, will open with an informal social hour on Friday evening; workshop sessions will run from 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. on Saturday and from 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. Sunday. Participation is limited to 20 per workshop. The registration fee of $110 includes lunch on Saturday; there will be an optional catered dinner at the hotel Saturday night for an additional $16. For registration information, see www.tmwi.org, or email theorrs@usit.net.

Opening Reception: Friday, January 13, 2012 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Open Monday - Saturday 8:30 am to 5:00 pm

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, 556 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. Information: 865-436-5860, www.arrowmont.org