Calendar of Events

The Appalachian Arts Craft Center in Norris is hosting a chili supper with music by the Woodpickers and a silent auction from 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday, November 3, at the Norris Community Building. The cost is only $7.50 for homemade chili, cornbread, dessert, and drink, plus live music by the Woodpickers. Those wanting to purchase a meal served in their own handcrafted pottery bowl (which they can take home after they are through eating), can do so for only $20. There will also be a range of homemade crafts, services, and other items up for bid at a silent auction going on during the evening. For more information, stop by the center, located at 2716 Andersonville Hwy, Norris, TN, 37828, or call 865-494-9854. Or see www.appalachianarts.net.

1st Annual Fundraiser Ball
On November 3rd, Circle Modern Dance will present Threading the Night: A Halloween Ball. This event will run 7-11 p.m. at The Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street in Knoxville. Special musical guests, Hudson K will provide entertainment for the evening and we may have a dance or two up our sleeves as well. Hors D'oeurvres, Wine & Liquour (cash bar) will also be available for the night.

Suggested Dress: Formal Costume, from Edwardian to Steampunk

Tickets: $35 or $60 per couple (includes two drinks and food) available at the door and through http://www.circlemoderndance.com

University Center Auditorium, University Center Bldg.
1502 West Cumberland Avenue

website: www.music.utk.edu • concertline: 865-974-5678

Saturday, November 3, 2012
7:00 pm to 11:30 pm
at Rothchild's Catering

A Fundraiser for ETTAC's HeartSong Center for Accessible Music and Art
Your investment in an evening with friends will make an impact on children with disabilities through accessible music and art!

Great music, fine food, mojitos, Latin dance lessons, casino games with wonderful prizes, and a live auction for a trip to Orlando, Florida.

TABLES FOR 10 STARTING AT $600
INDIVIDUAL TICKETS $60 EACH

1 CABANA TABLE LEFT $1,000 gets you a special covered table, a dedicated server to treat you like royalty, gambling chips, and free advertising for your business. Call today to get this
LAST CABANA TABLE!

Please call ETTAC to purchase your tickets
(865) 219-0130 or email Tracey
Visit www.ettac.org for more information

Saturday November 3 at 6:00 p.m.
Owl Prowl @ 7 Islands
Seven Islands, Six o'clock, and five owls... that all adds up to one good time! Join us as we explore the wilds of Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge in search of the night's silent flyers! Spend the evening with Peg, and we think you'll find that she's a real "hoot!" The fee for this program is $5 for members and $8 for non-members. Please call (865) 577-4717, ext. 110 to register.

The East Tennessee Historical Society and the Tennessee State Museum are pleased to announce that the Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission’s official traveling exhibition, Common People in Uncommon Times, will be on view at the Museum of East Tennessee History through January 13, 2013.

This pictorial narrative represents a diverse array of personalities--Confederate soldiers, Union sympathizers, African-Americans, gallant women-- whose sagas illustrate a land divided. The saga of personal struggle and endurance during the Civil War is presented on 10 graphic panels taken from the State Museum’s collection of photographs and artifacts from the era, as well as from other collections across the state. Each panel portrays a different theme: Confederate leaders, Union leaders, African-Americans, civilian home front, common soldiers, war on the water, reconstruction and commemoration.

The exhibition commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Civil Will and is accompanied by a tie-in exhibit, In Death Not Divided: Civil War Tombstones and the Stories They Tell, organized by the East Tennessee Historical Society.

From bridge burners to hangings, heroes to villains, grand monuments to simple stones, In Death Not Divided: Civil War Tombstones and the Stories They Tell is an intensely personal look at East Tennessee's Civil War experience.

November 2--January 13. Monday--Friday, 9 a.m.-4p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.-4p.m., Sunday 1-5p.m.
Museum of East Tennessee History, 601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville

Circle Modern Dance Classes
Circle classes are continuing on with a great new lineup of teachers coming in ready to have a fun time in the dance studio.

**Note NO classes on 11/21 & 11/25. Have a Happy Thanksgiving.**
Wednesdays 6:00-7:30pm Contemporary Modern Dance Technique with Morgan Fleming
Wednesdays 7:30-9:00pm Adult Open Level Ballet taught by Mary Alford
Sundays 3:00-4:30pm Open Level Modern Dance Technique with TBD
Sundays 4:30-6:00pm Improvisation Techniques with Mary Alford
As a reminder class pricing will remains:
$5 per class (first class free)
$50 Unlimited Classes July-December 2012*
*If you have purchased an unlimited pass in 2011 and have not already registered for the new year, please renew if you plan to attend this way in 2012.

Please check out our website:http://www.circlemoderndance.com and Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CircleModernDance! Follow us on Twitter too! @CircleModern

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a new exhibition of works by Nick DeFord entitled “Alleged Posthumous Writings”, opening Friday, November 2, at 5:00 PM on the north side of the Balcony at the Emporium Center in Knoxville. Nick DeFord is an artist and educator from Knoxville. He received his MFA from Arizona State University and his BFA from the University of Tennessee. His work has been exhibited nationally, with recent exhibitions at the Knoxville Museum of Art and the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts in New Jersey. His work has also appeared recently in Elephant Magazine and Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexualities. He has previously taught at both Arizona State University and the University of Tennessee and recently became the Program Manager for Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts.

“Alleged Posthumous Writings” will be displayed in the Balcony at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, from November 2-30, 2012. An opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on November 2 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, November 3, from 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM. Please note, the Emporium will be closed November 22-23 for the holiday. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543 or visit www.knoxalliance.com.

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a new exhibition of drawings and sculptures by local artists Sally Ham Govan and Bill Cook, Jr. entitled “Drawn and Carved”. Govan’s charcoal pencil, pastel, and digital works will be displayed with Cook’s marble sculptures at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from November 2-30, 2012, and an opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on November 2 from 5:00-9:00 PM.

Sally Ham Govan has an MFA in illustration from the University of Hartford and a BFA in drawing and graphic design from the University of Tennessee. She currently designs and edits websites and publications at Middle Tennessee State University.

As one of six children, Bill Cook, Jr. grew up in the foothills of East Tennessee. As a young child, he took up wood carving with a pocket knife and could often be found creating small carvings from the plentiful cedar wood on the family farm. He attended the University of Tennessee and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1995. It was there that he discovered sculpting in clay and in the late 1990s, he started to use marble as a sculptural medium.

“Drawn and Carved” will be displayed at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, from November 2-30, 2012. An opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on November 2 from 5:00-9:00 PM with complimentary hors d’oeuvres and wine. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM with additional hours on Saturday, November 3, from 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM. Please note, the Emporium will be closed November 22-23 for the holiday. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543 or visit www.knoxalliance.com.

Based on A True Story
Chris Miner, Matthew Garrison & Yeon Jin Kim
UT Downtown Gallery
November 2 – 21
Reception Friday November 2, from 5 - 9 pm

UT Downtown Gallery will behosting during the month of Novemeber, the exhibition: BASED ON A TRUE STORY.
The artists in “Based on a True Story” use narrative in their work in a variety of ways.

Chris Miner`s videos include autobiographical fragments, ruminative monologues, family history, dramatic events, and sometimes allegorical or iconic elements.

Matthew Garrison`s videos also complicate the issue of the real and the fictional, combining, for example documentary footage from the Iraq war with sequences from D.W. Griffiths films.

Yeon Jin Kim makes scroll drawings hundreds of feet long and builds models and sets out of common household materials, which she then films to make narrative videos.

Please join us for a reception and meet these artists, Friday night November 2 from 5:00pm until 9:00pm. Admission is free and open to the public.

Gallery hours are Wed- Fri 11-6 and Sat 10-3.

Twenty-eight members of the Art Guild of Tellico Village will be presenting their latest creations for sale at the Fourth Annual Fine Arts Market at the gym at Chota Recreation Center, 145 Awohili Drive, Loudon - at Tellico Village on November 2nd and 3rd, 9am to 4pm both days.
Featured will be paintings in watercolor, oil and acrylic, original custom jewelry, commissioned pencil portraits, photography, sculpture, wood turned art, gourd art, mixed media, hand painted china, warm glass and fiber art. A holiday theme with music, decorations and light refreshments will put patrons in a festive mood as they browse the artistic displays. A wide range or prices will be offered with many items under $30.00 A percentage of the sales will go to the Chota Center. Come and carpool with friends due to limited parking.

For more information please call Cheryl Peyton, Chairperson at 865-458-3582.

"2 X 20" works by Kentucky's finest working folk artists on display November 1 -February 2, 2013 at the Kentucky Folk Art Center 102 West First Street, Morehead, KY 40351,
(606) 783 2204. www.kyfolkart.org