Calendar of Events

Support Knoxville's own Hard Knox Rollergirls!

At the Knoxville Civic Coliseum, 500 Howard Baker Ave. 6/29, 7/13, 7/27, 8/10, 8/24, 9/7, 9/21. Whistle blows at 6:00PM.
Tickets for sale at Coliseum box office or Knoxville Tickets. All dates Double Headers!
www.hardknoxrollergirls.com or 865 272 WHIP (9774).

''Kidstuff,'' the WDVX show for kids and kids at heart, goes live on stage at the Knoxville Visitor Center. That's Kidstuff Live on Stage, a free show. 10 a.m. Saturday at 301 South Gay Street in downtown Knoxville, on 89.9 FM, 102.9 fm, 93.9 FM and WDVX.COM.

June 29 - with Katy Koontz, author of The Banana Police

Free 2-hour visitor parking located next door to the Knoxville Visitor Center. One Vision Plaza, 301 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. FREE. For more information: 865-544-1029; www.wdvx.com

The Meadow Lark Music Festival 2013 is a day of incredible Americana music at beautiful Ijams Nature Center, just minutes from the heart of downtown Knoxville. Hosted by Ijams and community radio station WDVX, Meadow Lark is a day of music, food, and local artists. The festival includes both indoor and outdoor stages. Tickets are $10 in advance and $20 at the door. Student tickets on sale for $5 in advance and $10 at the door. Students must present a valid ID upon entrance. Children 12 and under are free, so bring the whole family!

This year's performing artists include: Robinella, Cutthroat Shamrock, The Lonetones, Blue Mother Tupelo, Kevin Abernathy/Mic Harrison, Della Mae, The Barefoot Movement, and WestWend!

http://ijams.org/signature-events/meadow-lark/

Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920. Hours: Grounds and trails open during daylight hours. Call for Visitor Center hours. Information: 865-577-4717, www.ijams.org

Teens, Come Party Like It’s 1399! If you are a history fan—or even if you aren’t, you’re invited to join in the fun for a medieval party with period food, dancing, crafts, music, and even some sword fighting and archery displays.

“Come Party Like It’s 1399!” will happen at the Blount County Public Library on Saturday, June 29, from 3 to 5:30 p.m. in the Meeting Room Hallway of the library.

This event will be presented by the Barony of Thor’s Mountain, a local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). The SCA is an international organization dedicated to researching and re-creating the arts and skills of pre-17th century Europe (and cultures which had contact with Europe). Members dressed in clothing of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, attend events which feature tournaments, royal courts, feast, dancing, various classes and workshops, and more, so they will be in costume at the library.

Free and open to the public, the program is sponsored by the Blount County Public Library, located at 508 N. Cusick Street, Maryville.

For further information about library programs or services, call the library at 982-0981 or visit the Web site at www.blountlibrary.org .

8th Annual Fountain City Art Center Annual Open Show - a spectacular array of area artists’ talents. This exhibit includes pottery, amazing decorative gourds, a handmade book, a leather and fossil sculpture, oils, watercolors, pastels, graphite pencil drawings, fused glass, and many mixed media pieces.

Exhibit Reception - June 28, 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

A Festival of Horns and Drums
Join us as we have a weekend of music on the Plaza, in the R&L Nutt Theatre, in the Haslam Family Theatre and the Lambert Recital Hall. Move through the Clayton Center and find your favorites, listen to something new and enjoy food and drink or dance under the stars. This year's festival features Dor L'Dor, Joy Ride Jazz Septet, Morning Star Flutes, East Tennessee Concert Band, Tuatha Dea Drum Circle, Ensemble Swing Time Band (on the plaza for dancing) and many more! Weekend passes are $25 for adults and $10 for students.

Clayton Center for the Arts: 502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville, TN 37804. Info: 865-981-8590, www.ClaytonArtsCenter.com

Music by Zina Goldrich, Book and Lyrics by Marcy Heisler
Brenda Luggie, Musical Director
Tony Cedeño, Stage Director
Jennifer Austin, Choreographer

This is a family friendly show about a girl from the Midwest who has a talent for giving advice, so she and her friends put on a weekly show from her garage in the hopes that her talent will be recognized. The letters she answers give lessons about etiquette, honesty, friendship, etc. and each letter and response are set to a different musical style.

Performance dates are June 22-23 and June 29-30. Each weekend will include a Saturday matinee (2pm) and evening performance (7pm) and a Sunday matinee (2pm).

Contact: Brenda Luggie, luggieb@roanestate.edu, 865-354-3000 x4236
http://www.roanestate.edu/?8550-Dear-Edwina

Beer lovers rejoice! Following in the footsteps of great craft beer Meccas such as Asheville, NC, and Atlanta, GA, Knoxville now has its own Craft Beer Week to celebrate.

Culminating in the Knoxville Brewfest, Knoxville Craft Beer Week (KCBW) is a full week of special events celebrating the beauty of craft brews. The full week’s schedule spreads from Saturday, June 22 through Saturday, June 29 and consists of a diverse collection of beer-centric events such as special cask-tapping events with beers brewed especially for KCBW, a charity 5k fun-run, beer-pairing brunches and dinners, infusion nights and more. The full schedule is still being determined, but an updated list of events is available at www.knoxbeerweek.com
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The Knoxville Craft Beer Week Association is an affiliation of local brewers, beer drinkers, distributors, craft beer markets, bars, restaurants and pubs. The mission of the association is to promote the availability, diversity, and enjoyment of craft-brewed beer to the Knoxville Metropolitan community through education, camaraderie, and responsible fun.

At the Museum of East Tennessee History through August 7. The exhibit provided by the Y-12 History Center, has appeared at a number of prominent venues, most recently at the National Archives and Records Administration's Southeast Region branch in Atlanta. The photographs, many by the Manhattan Project official photographer Ed Westcott, give visitors a firsthand look at life in the Secret City, the war effort, the Cold War, and ongoing research and technology.

The exhibition is open and free to the public.

East Tennessee Historical Society, 601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Museum hours: Monday-Friday: 9AM-4PM; Saturday: 10AM-4PM; Sunday: 1-5PM. Information: 865-215-8824, www.easttnhistory.org

We've put together a show featuring our favorite photographic work including some exciting new pieces by Christine Patterson! Including work by Michael Underwood, Jurgen Dopatka, Maggie Taylor, Jerry Uelsmann & Studio 193. Each artist has a unique perspective on photography stretching the medium in different directions while creating work you can live with for years to come. This show includes classic black and white photography created from negatives in the dark room as well as cutting edge digital manipulations. Christine even takes it further by adding layers of wax or a chemical pealing process which creates unique one-a-kind photographs.

Also featuring paintings by five of our best local painters, including Allen Cox, Ed Kellogg, Andy Saftel, Robin Surber and newcomer Alex Smith, and turned wood bowls by Roger Luedke.

Bennett Galleries & Company: 5308 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. Hours: Monday-Thursday 10AM-6PM; Friday-Saturday 10AM-5:30PM. Information: 865-584-6791, www.bennettgalleries.com

Art and science are intertwined in Nikon Small World as the photomicrographs showcase the delicate balance between outstanding scientific technique and exquisite artistic quality. "We are proud that this competition is able to demonstrate the true power of scientific imaging and its relevance to both the scientific communities as well as the general public," explains Eric Flem, Communications Manager, Nikon Instruments.

First place winners Dr. Jennifer Peters and Dr. Michael Taylor of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, partnered to capture the image highlighting their research of the blood brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo, which is believed to be the first-ever image showing the formation for the blood-brain barrier in a live animal. The top five images in Nikon Small World include: the blood-brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo; Live newborn lynx spiderlings; Human bone cancer (osteosarcoma) showing actin filaments (purple), mitochondria (yellow) and DNA (blue); Drosophila melanogaster visual system halfway through pupal development, showing retina (gold), photoreceptor axons (blue), and brain (green); and Cacoxenite (mineral) from La Paloma Mine, Spain.

This year's judges were comprised of top science and media industry experts: Daniel Evanko, Editor, Nature Methods; Martha Harbison, Senior Editor, Popular Science; Dr. Robert D. Goldman, Stephen Walter Ranson Professor and Chair, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Northwestern University and Liza A. Pon, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology and Director, Confocal and Specialized Microscopy Shared Resource, Columbia University.

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

June 14 Reception 6pm - 8pm

An exhibition juried by Denise Sanabria from Knoxville.

Plateau Creative Arts Center, 451 Lakeview Drive, Fairfield Glade, TN 38558. Hours: M-F 9AM-4PM; Saturday-Sunday 1-4PM. Information: 931-707-7249; www.artguildfairfieldglade.net