Calendar of Events

The Summer Movie Magic Series has arrived!

Rear Window: Friday, July 26 at 8 p.m. & Sunday, July 28 at 2 p.m.
The Godfather Part II: Friday, August 16 at 8 p.m. & Sunday, August 18 at 2 p.m.
National Lampoon's Animal House: Friday, August 23 at 8 p.m. & Sunday, August 25 at 2 p.m.

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

Friday, July 26
2:00 pm FAMILY PROGRAM: Ijams Children's Story Time
Join Ijams volunteer Lynn Keffer as she reads one of her favorite children's books. Whether she takes you into the fascinating world of animals or explores some of her favorite places around the globe, each weekly story is sure to be a treat. This program is FREE, but donations are accepted. Pre-registration is required; please call (865) 577-4717, ext. 110 to register.

Saturday, July 27
8:00 am Ijams Morning Canoe Cruise
(Ages 5 and up) Enjoy the delightful spring air as you cruise around the Mead's Quarry Lake with naturalist Stephen Lyn Bales. Intertwined with the sounds of today's wildlife are the distant echoes of industry past. Although human activity resulted in formation of the lake, there is abundant wildlife that makes this water their home today. The fee for this program is $15 per person for members and $17.50 per person for non-members. Pre-registration is required; please call (865) 577-4717, ext. 119 to register.

11:00 am Ijams Gardening Series: To-may-to, To-mah-to
(Recommended for Adults) No matter how you say it, tomatoes are a delicious and attractive addition to any garden. We'll learn about heirloom species, growing techniques, and even some tasty tomato treats. This program is FREE, but pre-registration is required. Please call (865) 577-4717, ext. 110 to register.

2:00 pm Live Animal Program
(All Ages) Have you met all the animals that call the Ijams Visitor Center home? If not, be sure to stop by every Saturday for a chance to get nose-to-beak with some of our resident furred and feathered ambassadors. This program is FREE, but donations to support animal care are welcome.

3:00 pm Animal Presentation: Red-tailed Hawk on the Plaza
(All Ages) You may have seen Tiger, our Red-tailed Hawk, in her cage by the parking lot, but have you had a chance to see her up close? Join Ijams' resident hawk whisperer, Stephen Lyn Bales, as he brings her out to meet the public. This program is FREE, but donations to support animal care are welcome.

8:00 pm FAMILY PROGRAM: Bug Night
Join us for a chance to catch bugs and show off their charms with some of Ijams own bug-enthusiasts! We'll be going out into the park to buggy stations to catch some critters and to bring 'em back alive to the visitor center for our Bug Beauty and Less-than-Beauty Contests. Bring a plastic container with a lid for each bug you want to put on display. No glass containers please. This program is $5 for members and $8 for non-members. Please call (865) 577-4717, ext. 110 to register.

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

Open mic event for local spoken word artists, singers, poets, dancers, and more!
Admission is $3.

Carpetbag Theatre at Fourth United Presbyterian Church, 1323 N. Broadway Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-544-0447, www.carpetbagtheatre.org

The Dando Dondo Show featuring Nancy Brennan Strange is making their “Sunset” debut as a group, but three of the members have performed at the Heritage Center numerous times with other groups. Multi-instrumentalist, Danny “Dando” Gammon has performed several times at the Center with Y’uns, the wacky jugband from Knoxville. Don “Dondo” Cassell is one of East Tennessee’s finest mandolin players. He and vocalist Nancy Brennan Strange have both performed with The Tennessee Sheiks at “Sunset.” In Dando Dondo, these three combine their multi-genre musical talents to perform a repertoire ranging from folk and bluegrass tunes to jazz and swing.

All the concerts begin at 7:00 pm and are presented in the Heritage Center’s covered outdoor amphitheater with a scenic view of the mountains and sunset. The series is presented by Boyd’s Jig & Reel. Admission to the concerts is $5.00 and may be purchased at the door. Admission is free to all “Sunset Music Series” concerts for members of the Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center. Annual memberships to the Heritage Center may be purchased at the concerts for $15 per individual or $25 per family. Food and non-alcoholic beverages are available at the concession stand.

Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, 3/4 mile east of traffic light at the Highway 321 and 73 intersection towards the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Townsend, TN. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10AM-5PM. Information: 865-448-0044, www.gsmheritagecenter.org

The Last Friday Art Walk is a recurring event to celebrate the arts on the last Friday of every month in Downtown Maryville. What's unique about it is that it's not just galleries participating. It's also businesses like boutiques, retail stores, restaurants, theaters, music halls and coffee shops. Each participating business hosts a "featured artist," this includes all disciplines of art; visual arts, performance artists, actors, writers, dancers, musicians, etc. New artists and new art are required each month, which gives the community a new experience each time they come.

In downtown Maryville; http://maryvilleartwalk.com

This pioneering exhibition will present an underappreciated side to the work of Thornton Dial, Sr. (b. 1928), an artist best known and celebrated for his large scale, multi-media assemblages dealing with a wide range of charged social and political themes. Since the early 1990s, Dial has also produced a rich body of lyrical works on paper, often engaged with themes of gender and human relationships. This exhibition focuses on the very earliest of those drawings, a group of 50 sheets with Dial’s characteristic and broadly coherent iconography of women, fish, birds,
roosters, and tigers, rendered in a variety of media. Organized by the Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina.

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

THE MUSIC MAN - Mainstage Musical
July 12-28, 2013

Despite the fact he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef, fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill arrives to con the good people of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' band that will supposed save the town from moral decline. But his plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he runs up against forthright Marian the librarian, whose own bill of sale captures his heart.
July 12, July 13, July 18, July 19, July 20, July 26, July 27 at 8:00PM
July 21, July 28 at 2:00PM

Online ticket sales begin June 24 at http://www.orplayhouse.com/tickets.html.

This new adaptation of Johanna Spyri's classic novel Heidi contains all of the humor, faith, hope and adventure of the original work, but is reset to our great state of Tennessee. The Alps scenes are transposed to the Great Smoky Mountains. And instead of Frankfurt, Heidi is spirited away to Nashville. But all the timeless characters remain: Heidi, who falls in love with mountain living; Clara, the young invalid who takes her first steps on the mountain; Heidi's grandfather, whom the town fears and Heidi adores; Clara's busy mother, who may not truly know her own daughter; Aunt Deedee, Heidi's villainous aunt, and the cold and cruel Mrs. Rottenmeyer. Featuring a special cameo appearance by The King!

Friday 7/12 at 7 PM
Saturday 7/13 at 1 PM
Saturday 7/13 at 5 PM
Sunday 7/14 at 3 PM
Thursday 7/18 at 7 PM
Friday 7/19 at 7 PM
Saturday 7/20 at 1 PM
Saturday 7/20 at 5 PM
Sunday 7/21 at 3 PM
Thursday 7/25 at 7 PM
Friday 7/26 at 7 PM
Saturday 7/27 at 1 PM
Saturday 7/27 at 5 PM

Knoxville Children's Theatre, 800 Tyson Street, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-599-5284, www.childrenstheatreknoxville.com. Reservations: tickets@childrenstheatreknoxville.com

The Tennessee Stage Company presents its 23rd annual summer Shakespeare Festival, featuring the comedy “Twelfth Night” and the history play “Richard III.” “If Music be the food of love, play on,” declares Shakespeare in his beloved romantic comedy “Twelfth Night.” Though the search for true love lies sweetly at the heart of the play, “Twelfth Night” is adorned with enough raucous ribaldry, outrageous intrigue, vaulted villainy and gender-bending cross-dressing to declare it one of Shakespeare’s most outrageous comedies. “Richard III” makes its return to the Shakespeare in the Square stage the summer after the much-maligned King of England himself made a dramatic comeback, when his remains were discovered last August in a parking lot in England. Look for the skeletal Son of York to make a cameo appearance in the Shakespeare in the Park program.

Thursday-Sunday at 7:00 PM
Twelfth Night: July 11,13,19, 21, 25, 27 Aug. 2,4,8, 10 (free) with the indoor Square Room matinee on July 13 at 2:00 pm ($10 admission)
Richard III: July 12, 14, 18, 20, 26,28, Aug. 1, 3, 9, 11 (free) with the indoor Square Room matinee on July 20, at 2:00 pm ($10 admission)

“Twelfth Night” alternates performances with “Richard III". “Richard III” is directed by Mark H. Creter, co-founder of the Tennessee Stage Company and professor of theater at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville. “Twelfth Night” is directed by Tom Parkhill, founding artistic director of the Tennessee Stage Company.

Shakespeare on the Square productions are performed on a rough replica of the new Globe Theatre in London (a reconstruction of Shakespeare’s original theater). The plays are presented in the timeless style of Elizabethan theatrical presentations. The Tennessee Stage Company encourages our audiences to spend an evening on the Square: do a little shopping, have a nice dinner, see the play and maybe stop by a pub afterward. All of this and more is available on Market Square nightly. So come early and see the Square! Tennessee Stage Company: 865-546-4280, www.tennesseestage.com

On First Friday July 5th., “2 Many Pixels” photo gallery is proud to present a collection of photographs by artist and 6 times Ilford Prize winner JACQUES GAUTREAU.

This exhibit explores the full extent of the photographic language, composition, colors, textures, shadows and offers a voyage through the most subtle and genuine emotions.
The photographs are all for sale, gallery archival prints, signed and numbered by the artists.
Hope to see you all for the opening on Friday night, July 5th., 6pm to 9:30pm.
The photos will remain on the walls through the months of July and August.
"2 Many Pixels"130 West Jackson avenue, suite 201, Knoxville, TN 37902
The gallery is open weekdays 10 am to 5 pm and after hours or weekends by appointment or chance... at 917 532 4913 or patrice@2manypixelsphoto.com

The Town of Farragut Arts Council presents Knoxville artist Bill Cook as the featured artist for July and August. His work is featured in specially designed cases on the second floor of the rotunda in the Farragut Town Hall through Aug. 30.

As a young child growing up in the foothills of East Tennessee, Cook took up wood carving with a pocket knife, creating small carvings from the plentiful cedar wood on the family farm. As a University of Tennessee student, he discovered sculpting in clay, and, in the late 1990s, he began using marble as a sculptural medium. Cook enjoys the physical, mental and spiritual effort required to use marble to create sculpture. He currently resides in Knoxville with his wife and three children.

For more information about this exhibit or to access a Featured Artist of the Month application, please contact Lauren Cox at lauren.cox@townoffarragut.org or 865-966-7057 or visit www.townoffarragut.org (Departments, Parks & Leisure Services, Arts & Culture). The Farragut Town Hall is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is located at 11408 Municipal Center Drive directly across from the Farragut Branch Post Office.

The gallery at the Plateau Creative Arts Center (PCAC) will feature art in the theme of Celebrating Freedom. The public is invited to the PCAC gallery to view original artwork in the form of oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastels, colored pencil, photography, mixed media, pottery, sculpture, and jewelry, created by Art Guild members.

In addition to viewing this fine art work, visitors also learn about the many art classes available during the month, and depending on the day and time, may view a class in session, or watch the open painting, beading, or figure drawing sessions that take place in the studio. The gallery is also the perfect place to shop for a reasonably priced gift of art.

The PCAC is open Monday through Friday 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM and Saturday and Sunday 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Located at 451 Lakeview Drive (off Peavine), the gallery is handicapped accessible. The Art Guild at Fairfield Glade is a not-for-profit organization and an equal opportunity provider. For more information call 931-707-7249. www.artguildfairfieldglade.net.