Calendar of Events

'The Comedy Experiment' is back on July 19, 2012! Join us for live sketch comedy, audience-inspired improv and stand-up comedian Tom Allen.

Catch us at the Creative Arts Co-op Visual & Performing Arts Center, 426 Ruritan Road, Harriman.

The show begins at 8pm.
Tickets are $5.00 at the door. Must be 18 or older.
Call the Creative Arts Co-op at 865/765-1129 or visit www.creativeartsco-op.com

Monday 7/16
Jackson Ridge Rodeo
Guy Marshall

Tuesday 7/17
Brian Collins
Corpus Callosum

Wednesday 7/18
Wayne Haught
Scissormen

Thursday 7/19
Caleb Wolfe
Adrian Krygowski

Friday 7/20
Daniel Ellsworth
The Shams Band

Saturday 7/21
Flint Blade
Etta Britt

Monday 7/23
Rich Del Grosso
John Del Toro Richardson

Tuesday 7/24
Sweet Wednesday
Tim Fast

Wednesday 7/25
Bonnie Whitmore
Chris Porter

Thursday 7/26
Natasha Borzilova
The Living Trees

Friday 7/27
Cabinet
Drew Gibson Band

Saturday 7/28
Austin Miller
Wilhelm McKay

12:00 noon. Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 South Gay Street, Knoxville, 37902.

Get ready for another roaring, good time! The Creative Arts Co-op is set to unveil its next interactive murder myster 'Happy High School Reunion?' If you think you had issues in high school, just wait until you see this motley crew! And don't forget about the delicious desserts!

The details are:
'Happy High School Reunion?'
July 14 & 21, 2012
Both shows begin at 8pm
at the Creative Arts Co-op Visual & Performing Arts Center
426 Ruritan Road
Harriman

Tickets are $20.pp - includes dessert, beverages,and live show. Reservations recommended.

An entertaining evening of the various writings of the Bard, presented during the summer in Market Square. An old blanket or lawn chair is all you need to view the free performances under the stars. Donations of $5 are always welcome. Performed on a rough replica of the new Globe Theatre in London (a reconstruction of Shakespeare’s original theatre), the plays will be presented in the timeless style of Elizabethan Theatre presentations. The Tennessee Stage Company encourages the audience to spend an evening on the Square: do a little shopping, have a nice dinner, see the play and maybe stop by a pub afterward. All of this and more is available on Market Square nightly. So come early and see the Square!

Thursday-Sunday evenings at 7:00 PM
“As You Like It” July 12, 14, 20, 22, 26 28, and Aug. 3, 5, 9, 11
“Julius Caesar” July 13, 15, 19, 22, 27, 29, and Aug.2, 4, 10, 12

Tennessee Stage Company: 865-546-4280, www.tennesseestage.com

When the schedule was being negotiated for the featured exhibits at the Shanks Center for the Arts, Crossville Tennessee, it was not expected that we would be in the midst of a heat wave. The natural temperature of caves in this area is mid-50 degrees F. So the original idea was that a gallery guest would experience the feeling of coolness at the exhibit. But now, the unusual heat wave, plus the un-air-conditioned Warehouse Gallery, has provided a need for more imagination on the part of viewer. Fortunately the exquisite photographs make up for the temperature difference.

Alan Cressler, a Georgia resident, is a professional photographer who accompanies Dr. Jan Simek, a Distinguished Professor of Science in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, into caves in the area of middle Tennessee. Together they have explored hundreds of caves, many of which have drawings that were made thousands of years ago as determined by carbon-dating charcoal from half-burned slivers of cane. Native American people who made the artwork did so at personal risk, crawling in some cases, miles underground with cane torches. Today’s explorations are not much easier, except that the researchers have helmets with lights to guide their way through the complete darkness, often in mud, water, or very tight places.

The Shanks Center for the Arts is exhibiting twenty-nine enlarged photographs in their Warehouse Gallery beginning July 5 and continuing until Friday August 31, 2012. The Shanks Center is located at 140 North Main Street, across from the Depot, Crossville, Tennessee. Business hours are Thursdays 10 - 7, Fridays & Saturdays 10 - 4, Central Daylight Time.

Thursday 7/12
Pea Pickin' Hearts
Kentucky Knife Fights

Friday 7/13
Shelley King
The Vespers

Saturday 7/14
Blind Corn Liquor Pickers
The Honeycutters

Monday 7/16
Jackson Ridge Rodeo
Guy Marshall

Tuesday 7/17

Granville Automatic

Corpus Callosum

Wednesday 7/18
Wayne Haught
Scissormen

Thursday 7/19
Caleb Wolfe
Adrian Krygowski

Friday 7/20
Daniel Ellsworth
The Shams Band

Saturday 7/21
Flint Blade

12:00 Noon, Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 South Gay Street, 37902.

An exhibit featuring the talent of both the artists and the athletes.
3 photographers are showing their images:
Andrew Kornylak from Atlanta, GA
Janine Hill from London, UK
John May from Knoxville, TN

Opening reception - First Friday August 3, from 6pm to 9:30pm:

130 West Jackson Avenue, Suite 201, Knoxville, TN 37902. The gallery is open weekdays 10 am to 5 pm and after hours or weekends by appointment at 917 532 4913 or patrice@2manypixelsphoto.com

Bliss Home will feature Callie Farmer for July's First Friday. A reception will be held at Bliss Home, 29 Market Square, from 6 to 9 p.m., Friday, July 6th. Callie is currently working on her MFA in Studio Art and Printmaking at Bradley University in Chicago, Illinois. Callie's most recent work, primarily in intaglio, invites the viewer to see her interpretation of the world through new and creative printing techniques. Callie's work intends to 'show the beauty in the overlooked images all around us.'

July 6, 2012 through the end of the month.
Website: shopinbliss.com and callie-farmer.wix.com/calliefarmer
Facebook: Bliss Home

The East Tennessee Historical Society and the Tennessee Sampler Survey are pleased to announce the opening of the traveling exhibit, Tennessee Samplers: 19th Century Schoolgirl Embroidery on view now at the Museum of East Tennessee History.

The exhibit will be on view at the East Tennessee History Center, Knoxville, TN, from July 6 through July 29, 2012.

Since 2004, the Tennessee Sampler Survey has been documenting 19th century embroidery across the state. Twenty Tennessee samplers were selected for the exhibit, each from a different county. The exhibit presents the samplers on full-sized panels; the actual samplers are not part of this exhibit due to their fragility. Five text panels, explaining the work of the Tennessee Sampler Survey and the regional characteristics of the samplers, are also part of the exhibit.

The East Tennessee History Center is open 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Monday through Friday; 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, Saturday; and 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, Sunday. Admission to the Tennessee Samplers exhibit is free. The other exhibits at the Museum of East Tennessee History have an admission fee except for Sunday which is “Family Day” with free admission. The East Tennessee History Center is located at 601 South Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37901. For more information call (865) 215-8830, email eths@eastTNhistory.org, or visit www.easttnhistory.org.

A Brown Bag lecture with co-curators Jennifer Core and Janet Hasson is planned for Wednesday, July 25, at noon at the East Tennessee History Center.

Land Portrait - Culture Laboratory Collective - Curated by Brian R. Jobe
Opening reception, First Friday July 6, 5:00-9:00pm
Free Admission

Land Portrait features works from members of the Culture Laboratory Collective based upon their relationship with a particular place, landform, landscape, topography, or state of current residence. These pieces, when combined, serve as comprehensive land portraits. Translations of localities can act as reflections of communities continually in flux. The visual statements produced for this exhibition may provide a more complete understanding of who (and where) we are. The value of place and landscape is immeasurable. Memories from places can become etched in our minds and contextualized over time. This exhibit offers a view into a collective memory and re-locates interpretations of place into a public, conversational setting.

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

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a new group exhibition featuring six regional artists opening Friday, July 6, at 5:00 PM in the Balcony of the Emporium Center:

Evelyn M. Bryant (Townsend) – Figurative and whimsical equine sculptures
Dawn Hawkins (Powell) – Acrylic and watercolor abstracts
J. Austin Jennings (Dayton, OH) – A combination of bold acrylic paint and cut-paper collage that takes mixed media to a new level
Randy Jennings (Dayton, OH) – Black and white images created with Holga "toy cameras"
Mary Klopfer (Fort Wayne, IN) – Charcoal and graphite drawings
Işik Sönmez (Crossville) – Oil on canvas with a palette knife

The group exhibition will be displayed in the Balcony at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, from July 6-27, 2012. An opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on July 6 from 5:00-9:00 PM with complimentary hors d’oeuvres. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM with additional hours on Saturday, July 7, from 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543 or visit www.knoxalliance.com.

Major League Baseball meets Faust in this light, fast-paced and devilishly clever musical comedy. Middle-aged Joe Boyd trades his soul for a chance to lead his hometown Washington Senators to victory in the pennant race against the New York Yankees. The Devil, along with his most successful temptress, Lola, makes a deal and transforms him into young baseball sensation Joe Hardy, who, in turn, transforms the hapless Senators into a winning team. But will it be worth the life and devoted wife Joe has left behind?

227 Broadway in
Historic Jackson Square
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