Calendar of Events

Joshua Bienko, Evan Meaney, Althea Murphy-Price, and Karla Wozniak
November 18 - December 16, 2012
Reception: November 18, 2-4pm, Ewing Gallery

Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday 11:30AM-5:00PM.

Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1715 Volunteer Blvd.
Knoxville, TN 37996-2410
ph: 865.974.3200

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Oak Ridge Civic Ballet Association Presents The Nutcracker

Tchaikovsky’s holiday favorite, “The Nutcracker” in a two-act ballet featuring area performers from over 20 different dance studios as part of ORCBA’S 49th Season! Two full-length public performances: Saturday at 7:00 PM and Sunday at 2:00 PM. Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10. Also presenting a matinee-length “encore” performance takes place Saturday at 11:00 AM, all seats are $8. Tchaikovsky’s holiday favorite, “The Nutcracker” condensed into a one-act ballet, suitable for families with younger kids and large groups. Information: help@orcba.org or 865-898-4637

Oak Ridge High School Performing Arts Center
1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike
Oak Ridge, TN 37830

NOVEMBER 16 - DECEMBER 2

Get your groove on and ease on down the road in this Tony award-winning, hip re-telling of “The Wizard of Oz.” Dorothy’s journey through a land of wicked witches, scarecrows, lions, and men made of tin is told in a dazzling, lively mixture of rock, gospel, and soul! Soaring and exuberant, it radiates so much energy you can hardly sit in your seat.
http://www.orplayhouse.com/
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(Monday - Friday, 12 PM -5:30 PM, Mon-Sat)

Foothills Craft Guild Presents Annual Craft Fair In November

The Foothills Craft Guild will be presenting their 46th Annual Fine Craft Fair on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 16 and 17, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 18, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the historic Jacob Building in Chilhowee Park in Knoxville, Tennessee. Featuring the original work of over 160 Tennessee artisans, this event showcases traditional and contemporary crafts of the Tennessee region that are all handmade by juried members of the Foothills Craft Guild.

Best-selling author Dr. Bill Bass is a special guest for the Authors’ Corner and will be autographing books Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Other featured authors are Bill Landry, Sam Venable, Jim Johnson, and Jeri Landers, who will autograph their books on all three days. For great fun, visit the Make It & Take It Booth on Saturday and Sunday where all ages can explore the fun of doing small crafts projects like straw weaving or stamping greeting cards. There will also be daily Craft Demonstrations such as basket making, woodworking, marbling, and spinning.

Admission is Adults $6, Seniors $5, and Children 6 and under free.
http://www.foothillscraftguild.org/

Tennessee Stage Company presents a Tennessee Williams Weekend featuring three One Act Plays: Lord Byron’s Love Letter, Talk To Me Like The Rain and Let Me Listen and This Property is Condemned at Broadway Academy of Performing Arts 700 N. Broadway, November 16 – 18, 2012. Interspersed among the plays will be special performances of excerpts from Williams’ letters, poems and essays making a full and varied performance of Tennessee Williams brilliant and multi faceted writing.

Broadway Academy of Performing Arts at 700 N. Broadway, at the corner of Broadway and Central Avenue. 8:00 pm Friday. Nov. 16, 3:00 pm and 7:00 pm Saturday. Nov. 17, 3:00 pm Sunday, Nov. 18.
All tickets $ 12.00 available at the door, by phone at 546-4280 or online at www.tennesseestage.com.

Westminster Presbyterian Church is presenting an exhibit of icons which are on view in the church’s Schilling Gallery through December.
Featured are paintings by local artist Clorinda Bell, prints by Mary Grace Thul, and a selection of Greek and Russian icons on loan from St. George Greek Orthodox Church. Westminster Church is located at 6500 Northshore Drive and viewing hours are 9-4 weekdays and Sundays, 9-noon. For additional information, please contact the church office at 584-3957.

Plan a movie date with family and friends for specific Friday evenings in November and December to view "Movies at the Museum" for free at the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge.

For "Movies at the Museum" AMSE opens at 5:30 pm for free admission and the featured movie starts at 7:00 pm in the AMSE auditorium. For links to the six movie descriptions, reviews and ratings, click on www.amse.org for guidance in age or family appropriate content.

On November 9, "The Beginning or The End," a 1947 docudrama on the Manhattan Project and creation of the atomic bomb and subsequent bombing of Japan, is the featured movie to kick-off "Movies at the Museum."

On November 16, "Jurassic Park," produced in 1993, focuses on an age-old fantasy that becomes a reality as dinosuars are genetically re-created for the ultimate theme park in this adaptation of Michael Crichton's best selling novel, Jurassic Park.

On November 30, "King Kong vs.Godzilla" (1962) a pharmaceutical company captures King Kong and brings him to Japan, where he escapes from captivity and battles a recently released Godzilla.

For three Fridays in December, these "Movies at the Museum" include Dec. 7 "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" (1953) as a result of an arctic nuclear test, a carnivorous dinosaur thaws out and starts making its way down the east coast of North America;

Dec. 14 "Godzilla" (1998) a enormous, radioactively mutated lizard runs rampant on the island of Manhattan; and Dec. 28 "Dinosaur" (2000) where an orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sanctuary after a meterorite shower destroys his family home.

The American Museum of Science and Energy, located at 300 South Tulane Avenue in Oak Ridge, is open Monday - Saturday from 9 am - 5 pm and Sunday 1 - 5 pm. For more information on AMSE memberships, exhibits, programs and events, go to www.amse.org.

November 1-30, 2012
Blackberry Farm Gallery
David Underwood: Open to Interpretation Exhibit

This exhibition is Underwood’s 24th solo exhibition. His composite photographs and artworks in other various media are included in the permanent collections of a dozen museums, including The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The California Museum of Photography, The Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, and the Knoxville Museum of Art. His work has also been included in more than 90 group exhibitions, many of which were juried national or international competitions.

Artist Reception at Last Friday Art Walk, November 30, 2012 6pm-8pm

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.

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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.