Calendar of Events

Exhibit Reception - April 19, 6:30-8:00 PM

Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37918. Hours: Tuesday & Thursday, 9AM-5PM; Wednesday & Friday, 10AM-5PM; Saturday, 9AM-1PM. Information: 865-357-2787, www.fountaincityartctr.com

The Tennessee Volunteer Gourd Society (TVGS) will hold its 6th annual spring gourd festival entitled Home Grown & Hand Made at the Bledsoe Community Complex. The complex is located at 234 Allen P Deakins Rd, Pikeville, TN 37367. This show is a good opportunity for the public to meet regional gourd artisans, crafters and growers. Admission to the event is free to the public and RV parking is available on the grounds. As our theme indicates, all products displayed and demonstrated will be “home grown” and “hand made”. Several gourd growers from the region will be displaying and selling a marvelous variety of gourds--all dried and ready for crafting. Crafters use gourds to create masks, decorative vessels, statues, seasonal ornaments and elegant objects d’art. A ribbon competition will be held this year with approximately 22 classes and judging by American Gourd Society certified judges according to the AGS judging criteria. There will be gourd crafting workshops and demonstrations available throughout the 3 day event. Some techniques used in crafting gourds are pyrography, pine needle weaving, silk dyes, acrylic painting and decoupage. The Tennessee Volunteer Gourd Society is the Upsilon Chapter of the American Gourd Society. We are a 501(c)(3) organization. Our purpose is to band together those persons who are interested in the history, horticulture, culture, uses and art/crafting of gourds. For information about the festival and the TVGS, visit our website www.tennesseevolunteergourdsociety.org.

Outdoor KnoxFest is a three-day urban adventure for people of all ages and skill levels to experience Knoxville from a bicycle seat, paddle board, canoe, trail, climbing wall and more. Teaming with the Dogwood Arts Festival, Outdoor KnoxFest will be Friday, April 19 through Sunday, April 21, 2013 and will benefit the Legacy Parks Foundation.

Saturday, April 20
9:00 am Pickel Road Rides — Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center
9:00 am Urban Wilderness Trail Run — Knoxville Urban Wilderness
10:00 am Bike Maintenance Clinic — Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center
10:00 am Rock Climbing 101 Clinic — Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center
11:00 am Fly Fishing 101 Clinic — Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center
11:00 am Urban Wilderness Hike — Knoxville Urban Wilderness
11-4 pm Get Out & Play Activities — Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center
12:00 pm “First Time in the Woods” Mountain Bike Ride — Knoxville Urban Wilderness
1:00 pm “Where’s the Trail?” South Knox Mountain Bike Ride — Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center
2:00 pm Disc Golf Clinic — Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center
2:00 pm Urban Wilderness Hike — Fort Dickerson Park
3:00 pm Fly Fishing 101 — Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center
3:00 pm “Bikes ‘N Blooms” Scenic Bike Ride South — Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center
3:00 pm Advanced Mountain Bike Ride — Knoxville’s Urban Wilderness
4:00 pm Get on the Greenway Runs — Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center
4:00 pm Group Paddle on the River — Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center
4-10 pm Twilight Criterium Road Race — Downtown/Depot & Gay Street

Sunday, April 21
9:00 am Bike Maintenance Clinic on the Trail — Knoxville’s Urban Wilderness
11-4 pm Mountain Bike Checkpoint Race — Knoxville’s Urban Wilderness
2:00 pm Sunday Singles Disc Golf Tournament — Morningside Park
2:00 pm “Where’s the Trail?” North Knox Mountain Bike Ride — Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center
2:00 pm Urban Wilderness Scramble — Knoxville’s Urban Wilderness
2:00 pm Group Paddle on the River — Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center
3:00 pm “Bikes ‘N Blooms” Scenic Bike Ride North — Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center

The Outdoor Knoxville Adventure Center located on Volunteer Landing will be the hub for this year's mix of outdoor recreational venues that encourages people of all ages and levels of experience to participate. From guided trail rides, runs, hikes and paddles, the festival showcases Knoxville’s outdoor amenities with a special spotlight on the Urban Wilderness, a 1,000-acre urban playground only minutes from downtown. The event is produced by Legacy Parks Foundation, a Knoxville-based non-profit actively working to make East Tennessee a recreational destination of the Southeast. For more details and to register for the events visit OutdoorKnoxville.com.

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

April 19-20 Smoky Mountain Fiber Arts Festival: Vendors, classes, demonstrations and more for fiber arts enthusiasts.
Visit www.smokymountainfiberartsfestival.org for more information.

A fundraiser at the Laurel

Preview, 6:00-9:00 PM on Friday - $10 members, $15 non-members.
Refreshments, beverages and music - tickets for the preview event are limited.

Sale, 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM on Saturday

Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37916. 865-522-5851, www.jubileearts.org

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

April 19
Music of the Mountains Concert: Celtic music kicks off a weekend of music in Townsend, Gatlinburg and Cosby as residents and visitors alike celebrate the mountains’ musical past. Presented by Great Smoky Mountains Association.

Features the classic blues of Jenna & Her Cool Friends. In 2010, vivacious vocalist Jenna Jefferson gathered Her Cool Friends - Michael “Crawdaddy” Crawley (harmonica/vocals) “Detroit” Dave Meer (guitar/vocals), Keith Ford (rhythm guitar/vocals), Glyn Loyd (bass/vocals), Kevin Redding (drums), and Ben Maney (keyboards/vocals) - for a Blues Cruise on the river, and a very cool new blues band with an all-star lineup was born. In less than three years together, they have become Knoxville’s most popular Blues band, playing for appreciative audiences everywhere they go. Two years ago, they represented Knoxville at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis and made it to the semi-finals in competition with 118 other bands, and more recently they played for a packed house at “Alive into 2013!” the New Year’s Eve party at the KMA.

Alive After Five is a unique live music series presented on thirty or more Fridays per year in four seasonal series. The programs take place in the smoke-free, casually elegant setting of the Great Hall in the Knoxville Museum of Art. There is a live band on stage, seating at tables, two cash bars, food from area restaurants, free freshly popped popcorn, free parking, and a licensed therapeutic masseuse available. Audience members can enjoy listening to music, dancing, and browsing the museum’s art galleries. Admission to the spring series premier of Alive After Five is $10 for general admission and $6 for museum members and college students with ID. Ages 17 and under are admitted free.

Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World's Fair Park Dr, Knoxville, TN 37916. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM-5PM; Sunday, 1-5PM. Information: 865-525-6101, www.knoxart.org

We're putting up a new and exciting exhibit, "The Knoxville Book Arts Guild and the Southern Appalachian Photography Society." The opening reception is Friday, April 19, 6:30 - 8:00 PM at the Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Avenue,
Knoxville, 37918, next to Fountain City Park.

Fountain City Art Center
865.357.ARTS
www.fountaincityartctr.com

The Townsend Artisan Guild, Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center and Blount Partnership are presenting the fourth annual Smoky Mountain Fiber Arts Festival at the Heritage Center in Townsend Tennessee. This festival is an interactive fiber arts event ranging from the source of the fiber to finished products. Activities include animal exhibitions and spinning fur into fiber, educational demonstrations of fiber processes, hands-on projects for children and adults, classes and workshops, fiber arts market of competed fiber goods and fiber arts supplies, and information about local fiber activities, businesses, and instructional resources. Further information is available on www.smokymountainfiberartsfestival.org.

In April the Knoxville Choral Society will join with the KSO to perform Verdi’s Requiem, Messa da Requiem. Under the direction of Maestro Lucas Richman.

Performed at the Historic Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information and tickets: 865-291-3310, www.knoxvillesymphony.com

MFA Thesis Exhibition: Neil Ward and Shelly O'Barr
April 17 - April 19, 2013
RECEPTION, Friday, April 19, 2013, 6-9pm
GALLERY HOURS: Wed - Fri 11-6PM, Sat 10-3PM

The best of local humor returns in Forbidden Knoxville Goes Psycho - a musical satire of all things Knoxvegas. Flying Anvil Theatre presents this no-holds-barred cabaret skewering the foibles and follies of naughty local newsmakers and politicians using songs from Carly Rae Jepsen to Elvis to Broadway.
Stacey Campfield? Check. UT Frat boys' unusual drinking habits? Check.TVA, local news casts, wine in grocery stores? They're all covered.

The show is produced by Flying Anvil Theatre's Executive Director Staci Swedeen and musical directed by Christopher Hamblin. Rounding out the cast are Dana Wham, Krisha Newport, Jim Richardson and Bill Howard.
Forbidden Knoxville Goes Psycho runs Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13, Friday April 19 and Friday and Saturday, April 26 and 27. All shows are at 10 PM. Tickets are $15 at the door. Big Fatty's is located at 5005 Kingston Pike. Seating is limited and reservations can be made by calling (865) 219-8317.