Calendar of Events

Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center
www.gsmheritagecenter.org or call 865-448-0044

January 30 – February 2 Winter Heritage Festival: http://www.smokymountains.org/do/events_festivals/winter_heritage.aspx
Presentations and programs throughout Townsend and the national park, celebrating the region’s cultural history.

http://activities.utk.edu/cpc/cac/

Fans who have followed Umphrey’s McGee for any period of time know that there are only two guarantees for their live shows: you never know what you’re going to get, and Umphrey’s always delivers. Built upon a relentless live schedule of 100-plus shows a year, this band's stellar reputation is based mixing original, technically demanding tunes with complex epics and, playful covers. Jam with UM at the Tennessee Theatre in Knoxville on Wednesday, January 30.
tennesseetheatre.com.

The University of Tennessee Cultural Attractions Committee, the University of Tennessee International House, and the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity are proud to present Step Afrika! on Wednesday, January 30th, at 7:30 PM at the Bijou Theatre.

Step Afrika! is the first professional company in the world dedicated to the tradition of stepping. Founded in December 1994, the company is celebrated worldwide for its efforts to promote an appreciation for stepping and the dance tradition’s use as an educational tool for young people. Step Afrika! reaches tens of thousands of Americans each year and has performed on many stages in North & South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean.

Tickets will be free for current UT students, $10 for UT faculty and staff, and $15 for the general public. For more information or to arrange disability accommodations please contact the Office of Student Activities at 865-974-5455.

Becoming the Volunteer State, a traveling exhibition of the Tennessee State Museum, Nashville will be on display in the East Tennessee History Center from January 28, 2013 through May 19, 2013.

There will be a preview for ETHS members from 2:00-4:00PM, Sunday, January 27, 2013 and a Brown Bag Lecture and Gallery Tour with exhibit curator Myers E. Brown II, at noon at the East Tennessee History Center on Wednesday, February 6, 2013.

East Tennessee History Center, 601 South Gay Street, Knoxville.
More information online at www.eastTNhistory.org.

Want to learn a new language for the New Year? Sequoyah Birthplace Museum in Vonore, TN is offering a beginning and an advance beginner Cherokee language class on the following Mondays, January 28, February 4, 11, & 18, from 6:30 – 9 p.m. The cost of the class is $40 for all four evenings. If you have taken the class before with the museum a discount of $5 will be given. The class will be taught by Shirley Oswalt and Mary Brown who are members of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indian.

Anyone interested in taking this class should contact the museum at 423-884-6246 to reserve your space. In case of inclement weather please be sure to call ahead first.

Pellissippi State Community College is currently hosting “Quiet Histories and Futures From the Republic,” a 15-day exhibit by artist Jason Stout, at the Hardin Valley Campus. The event runs through Feb. 6.

Stout’s vivid and political work deals primarily with variations of past, current and future narratives, almost always concerning our identity or history. He is known for his Southern interpretation of American culture.

The exhibit and a closing reception, both of which are free and open to the public, take place in the Bagwell Center Gallery. Regular exhibit hours are Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. The closing reception is Feb. 6, 4-6 p.m.

For additional information about the exhibit 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 at (865) 694-6607 or humanresources@pstcc.edu.

Mirror of My Soul: The Ecstasy of the Black Ecclesia
Alan Jones who paints under the pseudonym, “Theophilus”, will exhibit paintings and drawings from the art he has completed over the past 30 plus years.
January 27th through February 21st, 2013.

SOULVISUAL ART EXHIBITION featuring ALAN JONES (THEOPHILUS)XAVIER JONES, SALATHIEL JONES, XCIA JONES, HADASSAH JONES, & ISAAC JONES, SR.
ARTISTS RECEPTION SUNDAY, JAN, 27, 2013, 2:00PM - 4:00PM
KINGSPORT RENAISSANCE CENTER
1200 EAST CENTER STREET, KINGSPORT, TN 37660 PHONE 423.392.8414

Friday, January 25, 6:30-9 p.m.

Judge Harold Wimberly's photography is the product of his travels throughout the U.S. and Europe. His imagery conveys a sense of surrealism through unusual subject matter
coupled with the shimmering effect of the printing process.
Show continues through February 16
Gallery Hours:
Open Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. & Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

The District Gallery & Framery | 5113 Kingston Pike | Knoxville | TN | 37919
(located next to Gourmet's Market) | 865.200.4452 | www.thedistrictgallery.com

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

Thursday 1/24
CaroMia Tiller
Ganasita

Friday 1/25
10 String Symphony
Crispy Watkins

Saturday 1/26
Great Day In The Morning

Monday 1/28
Poor Howard Stith
Blackwater Mojo

Tuesday 1/29
Andrew Combs
Lilly Hiatt

Wednesday 1/30
Diali Cissokho &
Kaira Ba
Doug Mains and the City Folks

Thursday 1/31
Kentucky Knife Fight
Humming House

Friday 2/1
Renee WahlThe Wrong-Omar

Saturday 2/2
Angela Perley and the Howling Moons
South Carolina Broadcasters

January 19 - May 12 "Zoom Into Nano" traveling exhibition offers a hands-on, interactive experience on how scientists see and make things that are too small to see. Nanoscale science and engineering is the process through which materials are manipulated on the molecular scale to generate very, very small structures and devices. Exhibit activities include a magnification station, particle progression, shrink a pattern, atom transporter, shaking solids, infinity crystal, carbon nanotubes, stretch a molecule dissolve a crystal and more. AMSE second level

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. AMSE admission is Adults $5, Seniors (65+) $4, Students (6 - 17) $3, Children (5 and under) no charge. AMSE members are free.

Elaborate silver and gilt jewelry, as well as carpets and textiles from the Turkomen tribes of Iran, Afghanistan, and Turkmenistan are the focus of the current exhibition. The Turkomen are one of the major ethnic groups of Central Asia who traditionally lived a semi nomadic existence, migrating with the seasons to access pasture and fertile land. Both jewelry and textiles were forms of transportable wealth that often served as markers of social position. While tribal lands and traditions have changed and evolved, Turkomen peoples continue to play an important role in the culture of Central Asia.

Hours are Monday-Saturday 9:00AM-5:00PM and Sunday 1:00-5:00PM. Admission is free. McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Drive, Knoxville, 37996. 865-974-2144 or mcclungmuseum.utk.edu.