Calendar of Events

Alive After Five is a unique live music series presented on thirty or more Fridays per year in four seasonal series. The programs take place in the smoke-free, casually elegant setting of the Great Hall in the Knoxville Museum of Art. There is a live band on stage, seating at tables, two cash bars, food from area restaurants, free freshly popped popcorn, free parking. Audience members can enjoy listening to music, dancing, and browsing the museum’s art galleries. For more information about the Alive After Five series and admission prices, please contact Michael Gill at (865) 934-2039.

September 21 - Soul Connection
September 28 - Ian Thomas & The Band of Drifters
October 12 - Jenna & Her Cool Friends
October 26 - Boys' Night Out
November 9 - Atomic Horns
November 16 - Lance Owens CD Release with Donald Brown
November 30 - Hard Knox Blues All-Stars
December 14 - Holiday dance party with Streamliners
December 13 - Alive into 2013 with Jenna & Her Cool Friends

Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World's Fair Park Dr, Knoxville, TN 37916. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM-5PM; Sunday, 1-5PM. Information: 865-525-6101, www.knoxart.org

Tennessee Williams' first classic play! Join the Clayton Center family in enjoying this phenomenal performance.

The Clayton Center for the Arts is located on the Maryville College campus, 502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville, TN 37804. Info: 865-981-8590, www.ClaytonArtsCenter.com

Known for her razor-sharp commentary on politics, race and sexuality, Margaret Cho has established herself as one of the most progressive voices in stand-up. In 2010, Cho received a Grammy nomination for her album, Cho Dependent, which featured appearances by Ani DiFranco, Patty Griffin and Andrew Bird.

Visit Knoxville’s wildest art gallery during Art Gone Wild! Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served while guests can peruse work of art created by the Zoo’s artists-in-residence. Original art for sale, live demonstrations of animals, painting, and more will be featured. All proceeds fund the Zoo’s animal enrichment program. Open to guests 21 years or older.

Knoxville Zoo, 3500 Knoxville Zoo Drive, Knoxville, TN 37914. Open every day except Christmas. Information: 865-637-5331, www.knoxville-zoo.org

OUR NEXT ACCESSIBLE MOVIE NIGHT AT ETTAC WILL BE ON FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 21st at 7PM featuring HAPPY FEET.
Closed captioning and DVS available.

FREE--SPACE IS LIMITED SO CALL TO SIGN UP TODAY! 865-219-0130.

Jubilee Community Arts presents
The Dismembered Tennesseans, First Generation Bluegrass, Friday, September 21 at 8 pm at the Laurel Theater.

Chattanooga bluegrass favorites the Dismembered Tennesseans started life in 1945 as teenagers and were ably led by the late Frank McDonald, a local newspaperman, for over 50 years. Now led by champion fiddler Fletcher Bright -- a realtor who pilots their very own tour plane -- their ranks include a retired orthodonist, banjoist Ed "Doc" Cullis; mandolinist and dobroist Brian Blaylock; guitarist Bobby Martin, mandolinist Don Cassell and vocalist Laura Walker. Don Cassell and Laura Walker have each earned acclaim for their solo projects as well as their ongoing work with the DTs. Fletcher Bright was honored with the Tennessee Governor's Folklife Heritage Award in 2005.

Tickets: $12
(discounts apply to advance purchase, JCA members, students & seniors)
Tickets are available through KnoxTix at http://www.knoxtix.com, (865) 523-7521, at Disc Exchange, and at the door.

The Laurel Theater is located on the corner of 16th and Laurel Avenue in the historic Fort Sanders neighborhood of Knoxville near the UT campus.

The Knoxville Museum of Art announces the 19th Anniversary Celebration of Alive After Five featuring the rhythm & blues and rockin’ soul music of Soul Connection on Friday, September 21, from 6:00 to 8:30 pm.

When the Knoxville Museum of Art launched the early Friday evening live music series Alive After Five takes place in the casually elegant atmosphere of the museum’s Great Hall and features tabled seating, food from a variety of area restaurants/caterers, cash bars, dancing, free freshly popped popcorn, free portrait drawings (first come, first drawn), and a licensed therapeutic masseuse/masseur available for chair massages.

Musical entertainment will be provided by Soul Connection, the band that holds the single-show attendance record at Alive After Five. Originally formed in 1966 under the name of Soul Sanction, this nine-member group from Oak Ridge High School became one of East Tennessee’s favorite soul, blues and oldies bands. In 1968, they won the Tennessee State Battle of the Bands and competed in the National Finals in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The band broke up in the early 1970s as band members pursued education, careers, and families. Then in 1988, at the urging of their Oak Ridge classmates, they got together again to play for the 20th-year class reunion. Inspired by the success of that performance, the band stayed together and once again enjoyed great popularity. With their combination of keyboards, horns, guitars, and drums, blended with dynamic male and female vocals and harmonies, Soul Connection covers a wide musical spectrum of Rhythm & Blues, Soul, and dance music, all done with infectious energy and unmistakable style.

Admission to the”19th Anniversary Celebration” of Alive After Five is $10 for general admission and $6 for college students with valid ID. Museum members and ages 17 and under are admitted free.
www.knoxart.org

Fall is in the air, which means the Taste of Farragut Presented by TDS is not far behind! The much-anticipated Farragut Business Alliance and Town of Farragut event will be held in the old Kroger parking lot on Kingston Pike. 20-30 restaurants will participate, as well as several beverage distributors offering wines and pre-packaged adult beverages. Eateries committed thus far include: Blue Sky Cafe; Costco; Einstein Bros Bagels; Kroger, Mario's Pizza & Grill; Meksiko Cantina; Newk's Express Cafe; Oskie's Bar & Grill; Restaurant Linderhof; Scoop'd; Season's Cafe; Shrimp, Oysters & Beer; Snappy Tomato; The Shrimp Dock; Turkey Creek Medical Center/Tennova Healthcare Tailgate; and Webster's Deli.

New to the event this year is online ticketing at www.FarragutBusiness.com. Adult tickets are available for $20 (a $5 discount from the gate price), through September 19th. Tickets for children 7-11 are $10, with children under 7 free.

Also new this year, attendees will vote on two awards. First, they'll decide which booth best decorates to the theme "Colors of East Tennessee." Second, their votes will decide the "Best of Taste." The Best of Taste winner will be the first to provide a home to a new, perpetual trophy that will travel annually to the winning restaurant.

Proceeds from the event help fund the Shop Farragut program. Also, there will be a special booth for the Farragut High School Marching Band to help raise funds for its trip to London to participate in the New Years day Parade next year.

For more information, visit the www.FarragutBusiness.com or 865-307-2486

Pellissippi State Community College marks National Hispanic Heritage Month with celebrations on Sept. 20 and Oct. 12 at the Hardin Valley Campus in West Knoxville.

The Sept. 20 presentation features dance groups performing in the Goins Building College Center. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. It includes the following scheduled performances:
5:15-6 p.m.—Knoxville Argentine Tango Society
6:15-7 p.m.—Academy Ballroom Latin Dance Ensemble
7:15-8:15 p.m.—Pablo Garzon and Serenatta, Romantic Latin Ensemble, of Nashville

On Oct. 12, the Core Ensemble performs its chamber music theatre work “Tres Vidas,” 7-8:30 p.m. at the Clayton Performing Arts Center. Chamber music theatre is a format developed by the Core Ensemble that blends theatrical narrative and chamber music performance.

“Tres Vidas” is a celebration of the life, times and work of three significant Latin American women: painter Frida Kahlo of Mexico, peasant activist Ruffina Amaya of El Salvador and poet Alfonsina Storni of Argentina.

This year’s National Hispanic Heritage Month events are sponsored by Pellissippi State’s Access and Diversity Office, Student Life and Recreation, and Liberal Arts Department. The Hardin Valley Campus is located at 10915 Hardin Valley Road. For more information, call (865) 539-7160.

To request accommodations for a disability, contact the executive director of Human Resources and Affirmative Action for Pellissippi State, (865) 694-6607 or humanresources@pstcc.edu.

Zuzanna Dyrda and Agnieszka Sierzputowska, students from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland will present an exhibition “4765 miles = 7665 kilometers” at Gallery 1010 September 20-22, 2012. Dyrda and Sierzputowska are artists-in-residence in printmaking for the month of September at the UTK School of Art. A reception will be held on Friday September 21 from 5-8pm. Gallery 1010 is located at 113 South Gay Street in downtown Knoxville. Gallery hours are Thursday through Saturday from noon to 4pm. For more information, contact the UTK School of Art at 974-3408.
Website: http://art.utk.edu/printmaking/

The KSO will open the 2012-2013 season with Rachmaninoff’s piano Concerto No. 2 featuring guest artist, Orion Weiss, on the piano. Also included on this program are Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture, Copland’s El Salon Mexico, and Maestro Richman’s very own Summer Excursions. Under the direction of Maestro Lucas Richman.

Performed at the Historic Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information and tickets: 865-291-3310, www.knoxvillesymphony.com

He lived on the roof of a five-story apartment building in Mexico, and his room was so small that it contained little more than a bed, some canvases and his painting tools. It was from there, though, that African-American artist Harold Winslow created more than 1,300 pieces, securing a place in art history as a prolific chronicler of Mexican culture.

A collection of 50 of Winslow’s works will be shown at a special traveling art exhibit hosted by Pellissippi State Community College and the Tennessee Consortium for International Studies. The works have been on tour since August 2011 at selected Kentucky and Tennessee colleges and universities.

Slated for display at Pellissippi State Sept. 19-Oct. 3, “Una Visión de la Mexicanidad”—“Mexicanidad” refers to the Mexican national identity and culture—offers a record of one artist’s experience in two cultures. Winslow, who was born in 1918 in Dayton, Ohio, moved to Mexico in 1940 in the hopes of escaping racism. He remained there until his death in 2001, at the age of 83.

At the Bagwell Center Gallery. Hours: M-F 9-4. Hardin Valley Campus (10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN 37933). Contact: 865-694-6400, www.pstcc.edu