Calendar of Events

Wallace Coleman, Blues Harmonica
Saturday, January 12, 8 pm at at the Laurel Theater

Growing up in East Tennessee, Wallace Coleman was captivated by the sounds he heard late at night from Nashville's WLAC....the Blues. The sounds haunted him by day where, he says, "I would be sittin' in class and hear the Howlin' Wolf singin' just as clear in my head..." It was on WLAC that Coleman first heard those who would become Blues Legends and his greatest musical influences: Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters. Coleman left Tennessee in 1956 to find work in Cleveland. A self-taught musician, Coleman began playing professionally with Cleveland's Guitar Slim at the Cascade Lounge. There Coleman caught the ear of audience member Robert Jr. Lockwood and joined his band in 1987. Still based in Cleveland, Wallace has been leading his own band since 1997.

Saturday, January 12, 8 pm at the Laurel Theater
Tickets: $14 (discounts apply to advance purchase, JCA members, students & seniors)
Tickets are available through KnoxTix at http://www.knoxtix.com, (865) 523-7521, 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.

It's time for parents to register their students for 2013 Homeschool Friday Programs offered two times a month for Grades K-2 and Grades 3-6 at the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge. Topics for the interactive programs are the same for each of the specific groups; however, the class time varies as does the cost for the Homeschool Friday Programs. The K-2 classes meet at 10:30 am for one hour with cost of $7 for non-members and $5 for AMSE members. The Grade 3 - 6 classes begin at 12:30 pm and continue for two hours with the cost of $12 for non-members and $9 for AMSE members. For more information and to register for the Homeschool Friday Programs go to www.amse.org or come by AMSE.

May 10 HOMESCHOOL FRIDAY PROGRAM features "Geology" for Grades K-2 at 10:30 am for one hour with cost of $7 for non-members and $5 for AMSE members. Grades 3-6 at 12:30 pm for two hours with the cost of $12 non-members and $9 for AMSE members. Students will learn about the layers of the earth, their composition, depth, temperatures, and their relation to minerals. Activities include testing 9 kinds of minerals and observing 15 kinds of rocks. For more information and registration forms, click www.amse.org or get a flyer at AMSE.

May 24 HOMESCHOOL FRIDAY PROGRAM features "Trees" at Freels Bend Cabin in Oak Ridge for Grades K-2 at 10:30 am for one hour with cost of $7 for non-members and $5 for AMSE members. Grades 3-6 at 12:30 pm for two hours with the cost of $12 for non-members and $9 for AMSE members. Which trees are used to make baseball bats, pencils and Popsicle sticks? Learn about the trees of East Tennessee and how they are used in our lives. Students will learn how to measure a tree's height and diameter in this outdoor class. For more information and registration forms, click www.amse.org or get a flyer at AMSE.

American Museum of Science & Energy, 300 S. Tulane Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Hours: Monday-Saturday 9AM-5PM; Sunday 1-5PM. Information: 865-576-3200, www.amse.org

16th Sevier County Biennial Juried Exhibition
January 12 – March 2

Opening Reception & Awards, January 11, 6-8 pm
Sandra J. Blain Galleries
Free Admission
Mon - Fri, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

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

We are so excited and honored to host an exhibit of works by 30 members of the Foothills Craft Guild here at the Fountain City Art Center. Works by our own FCAC membership, Bob Meadows and Jim Gentry, will be featured in the show, too! Everyone is invited to attend the opening reception for the show on Friday, January 11, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM. If you have never been to a Foothills show or sale, you are in for quite a treat! The exhibit will be on display through February 7. Artwork by students from the Karns area schools will also be featured in “Student Exhibits” during this time.

No admission is charged. The Fountain City Art Center is located at 213 Hotel Avenue, next to the Fountain City Park in the old library building. Art Center Hours are: Tu, Th 9-5; W, F 10-5; Sat. 9-1. Contact us at: fcartcenter@knology.net, or 865.357.2787 for more information. Visit us on Facebook or on our website: www.fountaincityartctr.com.

By Yasmina Reza

Performances are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8:00 PM and Sunday at 3:00 PM. Tickets are $10 plus fees for Thursday & Sunday performances and $15 plus fees for Friday & Saturday performances. Theatre Knoxville Downtown has open seating. Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtime. Please arrive at least 15 minutes early to pick up your tickets and claim your seats. TKD reserves the right to seat walk-in patrons during the final 15 minutes prior to showtime. For more information on the show, please call Theatre Knoxville Downtown at (865) 544-1999, e-mail info@theatreknoxville.com, or visit www.theatreknoxville.com.

Knoxville Children’s Theatre will present a live stage version of the grand chase novel Around the World in 80 Days for children and families from January 11 through 26. The play will be performed at Children’s Theatre at 800 Tyson Street in downtown Knoxville.
The time is 1872, decades before the invention of the airplane. A gentleman thief has just robbed the Bank of England, and three days later, Phileas Fogg makes a daring wager: that he can travel around the world and return home to England in 80 days. But Inspector Fixx of Scotland Yard is convinced that Mr. Fogg is the thief, and that the wager is merely a clever means to escape justice. Around the World in 80 Days is full of comic episodes, adventure scenes, wise advice, and good old British ingenuity.

Performances:
Friday 1/11 at 7 PM, Saturday 1/12 at 1 PM & 5 PM, Sunday 1/13 at 3 PM
Thursday 1/17 at 7 PM, Friday 1/18 at 7 PM, Saturday 1/19 at 1 PM & 5 PM, Sunday 1/20 at 3 PM, Thursday 1/24 at 7 PM, Friday 1/25 at 7 PM, Saturday 1/26 at 1 PM & 5 PM

Tickets: $12 or Any adult & Child entering together = $10 each
Reservations by phone at (865) 599-5284, or by e-mail at tickets@childrenstheatreknoxville.com
800 Tyson Street, 300 feet off Broadway, near Old Gray National Cemetery

More than fifty years ago one musical changed theater forever. Now it's back and mesmerizing audiences once again. From the first note to the final breath, WEST SIDE STORY soars as the greatest love story of all time. This revival, based on Tony® Award-winning librettist Arthur Laurents' Broadway direction, remains as powerful, poignant and timely as ever. The Bernstein and Sondheim score is considered to be one of Broadway's finest and features such classics of the American musical theatre as "Something's Coming," "Tonight," "America," "I Feel Pretty" and "Somewhere." As the Associated Press says, "WEST SIDE STORY remains Broadway's best dance-driven musical. Five decades have not dimmed the extraordinary choreography or the score that pulsates throughout."

Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information: 865-684-1200, www.tennesseetheatre.com. For tickets: 865-684-1200, 865-656-4444, www.knoxvilletickets.com

January 2-27, Art Market Gallery of Knoxville is pleased to present a special 30th Anniversary Exhibit. This exhibit will feature artworks by nine active and inactive artist-members that are among the earliest or original members of the Art Market Gallery.

From its establishment 30 years ago as an adjunct of the former Dulin Gallery of Art, Art Market Gallery has become one of the longest-standing cooperative artist groups in the Southeast and boasts the largest selection of local and regional art and fine craft in Knoxville. The gallery shows and sells only original, one-of-a- kind artworks in a historic space located on Gay Street in downtown Knoxville. All of the gallery’s active members are involved in the operation of the gallery.

Art Market Gallery is located a 422 South Gay Street in Knoxville next to the Downtown Grill & Brewery. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 11 am – 6 pm and Sunday 1-5 pm. For more information, call 865-525-5265, visit artmarketgallery.net or join us on facebook: facebook.com/Art.Market.Gallery

Monday 1/7
The Newbees
Les Kerr

Tuesday 1/8
Rockwood Ferry
Greg Horne

Wednesday 1/9
Keith Kenny

Thursday 1/10
Sarah Morgan
Christian Cole

Friday 1/11
Wallace Coleman
Sugar Lime Blue

Monday 1/14
Laura Thurston
Secret B-Sides

Thursday 1/17
E.G. Kight

Friday 1/18
If Birds Could Fly
Samantha Harlow & Andrew Leahey

Wednesday 1/23
Jay Clark
Jimmie Davis

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

Works by Hali Maltsberger on view by appointment at A1 LabArts, 23 Emory Place, Knoxville, January 5-18.
Contact Hali Maltsberger,n 865-850-0006 or hlmaltsy@g.mail.com.
www.halimaltsberger.com.

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a new exhibition of hand drawn and hand stamped ink artworks by Carl Gombert entitled “Radiant Geometries”, on display in the Balcony at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville from January 4-25, 2013. An opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on January 4 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, January 5, 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.

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a new exhibition of woven mixed media works and drawings and paintings by artists Geri Forkner and Elizabeth Porter entitled “Alternate Realities”. Geri Forkner creates alternate realities by collecting various papers, cutting or tearing and then reweaving these papers into themselves, and Liz Porter draws and paints human figures that have electrical components showing our dependency upon technology and external power sources.

The exhibition will be displayed at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from January 4-25, 2012, and an opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on January 4 from 5:00-9:00 PM. The Emporium will be open from 11AM-3PM Saturday January 5 and Monday through Friday 9AM-5PM.