Calendar of Events

Bringing the beauty, humor and drama of his words to life, Will Power! takes you on a journey of discovering (or rediscovering) Shakespeare through scenes, monologues, and songs from his most famous plays.

Clarence Brown Theatre / Carousel 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

A collage of his Shakespeare’s greatest hits, “Will Power” will play in the Clarence Brown Lab Theatre October 25 – November 11, 2012.

Adapted and directed by UT Theatre faculty member, Kate Buckley, the production is set in a timeless context and includes monologues, scenes, forty-two characters, excerpts from nineteen plays, and six songs.

“Will Power!” runs from October 25 – November 11, 2012. Evening performances begin at 7:30 p.m. Matinee performances begin at 2:00 p.m. Ticket prices vary. For tickets, please call the CBT box office at 865-974-5161 or Tickets Unlimited at 865-656-4444.

October 25, November 1-2-3 at 7:30 PM

For more than 40 years The Carpetbag Theater has been telling stories of empowerment and celebrating African-American culture through the creation of original plays and music. They continue this tradition with the premier of their new play “Speed Killed My Cousin” as a part of The Network of Ensemble Theater’s MicroFest.

“Speed” is the story of a young African-American female veteran of the Iraq war and her struggle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The show explores multiple issues related to war including the history and otherness of African-Americans in the military, and the experiences of women in combat. It is a contemporary story of survival and coping in a confusing and damaging world.

“War has been largely the story of men. The impact is, however, felt by us all. I discovered my way into the story of war’s impact through a conversation with a young African-American recruit. The recruit, a female 2006 version of my 1960s male cousin, was lost, unemployed and looking for a way out... what happens to these women after they serve? Can we know what women in combat will bring home to their families if we don’t hear their stories? As artists, we have the responsibility to break the silence," says Linda Parris-Bailey, playwright.

“Speed” has been a project centered in the experiences of women that has been led by a creative team consisting mostly of women. The team consists of playwright Linda Parris-Bailey, Arab American director and dramaturge Adrea Assaf, visual artist Melody Reeve and music by Kelle Jolly and John Puckett.

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door; 865-523-7521 or www.knoxtix.com.

Speed Killed My Cousin, is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by The Carpetbag Theatre in partnership with Junebug Productions, Mason/Rhynes Productions and NPN. The Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org. This production is also made possible by funding from Alternate Roots and the Ford Foundation through the Roots Tour & Residency Program. For more information, call 865-544-0447.

East Tennessee's early material culture and decorative arts will be a focus of the seventh biennial Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) Conference, October 25-27. Local hosts are the East Tennessee Historical Society and the McClung Historical Collection.

The conference provides the only major forum for scholarly presentation and interaction on American material culture and decorative arts with a specific emphasis on the South. The 2012 conference will include lectures on a variety of interesting topics by distinguished speakers, as well as field trips to regional material culture sites and decorative arts collections in East Tennessee

MESDA is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and is the only museum in the world dedicated to exhibiting and researching the regional decorative arts of the early American South. For the conference schedule and registration, please visit www.MESDA.org/conference or call 335-721-7360.

September 27, 2012 — The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) at Old Salem Museums & Gardens is presenting the eighth biennial MESDA Conference on October 25-27, 2012 at the East Tennessee Historical Society in Knoxville, TN. This is the second time the MESDA conference has gone “on the road.”

The MESDA Conference is the only major forum for scholarly presentation and interaction on American material culture and decorative arts with specific emphasis on the South. This important three-day conference includes a keynote address by noted decorative arts scholar and author Betsy K. White, a day of East Tennessee "Rambles", and a full day of lectures focused on new discoveries in Southern decorative arts with specific focus on the material culture of Tennessee, Kentucky and the Great Road.
Conference registration, which includes Thursday’s keynote lecture and reception, the Saturday Gordon Seminar, and the lunch on Saturday, is $145 ($130 for Friends of MESDA, Old Salem, and the Tennessee Historical Society), $50 for students. Conference Dinner aboard the Volunteer Princess on Friday Evening is $50, $35 for students. Rambles in East Tennessee include transportation, admissions, and lunch for $85. Space for the conference is limited. Pre-registration is required to ensure a place.
To register or learn more, please email mesdaprograms@oldsalem.org or call 336-721-7360. For conference details visit www.mesda.org/conference.

October 25, 2012: Jeffrey Valance -- Jeffrey Vallance's work blurs the lines between object-making, installation, performance, curating, and writing. Critics have described his work as an indefinable cross-pollination of many disciplines. In 1979, he received a B.A. from California State University, Northridge. In 1981, he earned an M.F.A. from the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles. His exhibitions have attracted worldwide audiences in Dakar, Reykjavik, Zurich, Milan, Paris, Mexico City, Amsterdam, Vienna, Sydney, Stockholm, London, and Athens. He is represented by galleries in Athens, Paris, Los Angeles, and New York. Vallance was host of MTV's The Cutting Edge in 1983 and has appeared on NBC's Late Night with David Letterman. In 2004, he received the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation award for installation art. Vallance's work can be playful or provocative, including projects like burying a piece of chicken in a California pet cemetery. He currently teaches at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

January 31, 2013: Chad Curtis
February 28, 2013: William Lamson
March 14, 2013: Katy Siegel

UT Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture - A+A Bldg. 1715 Volunteer Blvd., Knoxville, TN 37996.
ph: 865.974.3200 - email: ewing@utk.edu - web: www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu

Third Day lead singer Mac Powell’s love affair with music started at a young age. While his four-time Grammy award winning band is still going strong, Mac has put together a collection of foot-stompin’, country songs for a solo show that pays tribute to his early musical inspirations.

Bijou Theatre, 803 South Gay Street, Knoxville - 865-522-0832 or www.knoxbijou.com

Pellissippi State Community College presents the second performance in its 2012-13 free music series with the Oct. 25 staging of the Fall Choral Concert.

The annual event features a variety of music styles and includes compositions from the Baroque and Classical periods and the 20th century.

The Fall Choral Concert begins at 7 p.m. and takes place in the Clayton Performing Arts Center at the Hardin Valley Campus. Ample free parking is available, and admission is free. Donations are accepted at the door for the Pellissippi State Foundation on behalf of the Music Scholarship Fund.

The 2012-13 Pellissippi State Music Concert Series is one component of Pellissippi State’s new arts series, “The Arts at Pellissippi State.” The series brings to the community cultural activities ranging from music and theatre to international celebrations, lectures, and the fine arts.

For additional information about the Pellissippi State Music Concert Series or The Arts at Pellissippi State, call (865) 694-6400 or visit www.pstcc.edu/arts.

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

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts invites you to:
Utilitarian Clay VI: Celebrate The Object
Invited Mentor’s Exhibition
September 14 – November 10
Sandra J. Blain Galleries
Free
Mon-Sat
8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
556 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN
865.436.5860
www.arrowmont.org

Due to the upcoming HeathScares Tour and The Hearth-Scares Ball, a few changes are being made in the opening hours at James White's Fort. The Fort will open at Noon on Thursday October 18 and Friday October 19 and remain open until 6 p.m. when we will transition over to the HearthScares Tour. The Fort will be closed to visitors, Wednesday October 24 thru Sunday October 28 to allow for the set-up and take-down of our Hearth-Scares Ball on Friday night October 26th. We will reopen to normal schedule on Monday October 29th.

HearthScares Tours will depart from the Fort Thursday October 18, Friday October 19, Monday October 22, Tuesday October 23, Monday October 29 and Tuesday October 30th at 7 p.m. each evening.

Tuesday 10/23
New Rain
The Trishas

Wednesday 10/24
Tom House
Rachel van Slyke

Thursday 10/25
Tonight's NoiseThe Gloria Darlings

Friday 10/26
Charlie Morris
The Troubadour Kings

Monday 10/29
Tiller's Folly
The Barrell Jumpers

Wednesday 10/31
Jack Rentfro's Apocalypto Quartet
Norwegian Wood

Thursday 11/1
Ray Cashman

Friday 11/2
The Universal Thump
Jeff Blaney

Saturday 11/3
Meet The Seavers

12:00 Noon, Knoxville Visitors Center, 301 South Gay Street, 37902
www.wdvx.com/events

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will perform for over 10,000 elementary school students at their annual series of Young People’s Concerts on October 23, 24 and 25 at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium. The KSO has hosted this series of Young People’s Concerts for over 60 years with the goal of introducing students in grades 3-5 to live orchestral music.

KSO Resident Conductor James Fellenbaum will conduct the concert, themed Scientific Symphony, for students from East Tennessee, Southeast Kentucky and Western North Carolina. Performances are: 9:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. on October 23 and 24 and at 9:30 a.m. on October 25. All 9:30 a.m. performances are sold out but availability remains for the 10:45 a.m. shows. Tickets can be can purchased for $6 at the door.
Scientific Symphony is an educational program designed for students grades three through five. “This year’s program will follow the scientific method as we experiment with the Scientific Symphony. Students will learn about the physics of sound including concepts that are in the TCAP test,” said KSO Director of Education and Community Partnerships Jennifer Barnett. “An on-screen oscilloscope will give students a visual representation of sound as the orchestra plays pieces that demonstrate high and low pitch and loud and soft volumes.”

“The show will open with a huge chemical science display created by the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge. By joining dynamic science concepts with dynamic classical music we hope to introduce the symphony to thousands of young people in our region,” Barnett said.

Those wishing to attend the Young People’s Concerts or looking for more information should call the KSO Young People’s Concert Line at 865-521-2338.