Calendar of Events

Square Dance Club is offering Beginning Dance Lessons at the Square Dance Center, 828 Tulip Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37921. You’ve probably tried a little square dancing sometime in your life, & if not, it’s time to give it a try! No special clothes or talent required. You’ll have fun, make new friends, and get in a little healthy movement, too!
Join us to have fun and DANCE!
BILL FOX, INSTRUCTOR/CALLER
FIRST CLASS: Thursday, October 3, 7:00 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. with open enrollment for the first three weeks. Your first class is free, & it’s just $5.00 per person after that.

CONTACT: Tammy Berry at southerndancegirl@gmail.com or Janice Fox at 865-689-2665 | http://www.volunteertravelers.com

by Timberlake Wertenbaker, directed by Calvin MacLean
At the Carousel Theater
In January 1788, the first of the British prison ships arrive at Botany Bay, Australia and settle the penal colony at Port Jackson, the site of current-day Sydney. Many of the prisoners have committed minor crimes and their wardens are military men who fought and lost the war against the American colonies. When hope and supplies run low, a lieutenant tries to increase morale by staging a comedy using the convicts as the cast. Based on real events, this award-winning drama is an evocative look at a moment in history--the founding of a nation--and an inspiring tale about the transforming power of theatre. This production is directed by Calvin MacLean and is recommended for high school and up. It contains strong language and brief nudity.

Please join us following the production of Our Country's Good for a staged reading of George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer, the comedy actually performed by those first fleeters, immediately following the Friday, October 11 performance. Mix and mingle with the cast of Our Country's Good while enjoying light refreshments between performances.

Please join us for an informative "talk back" about Our Country's Good with Director Calvin MacLean and the cast. Dramaturg
Misty G. Anderson also will be on-hand to discuss George Farquhar's comedy The Recruiting Officer. Discussions generally begin 15 minutes following the matinee and last about 45 minutes.

Clarence Brown Theatre / Carousel Theatre, 1714 Andy Holt Ave on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. For information: 865-974-5161, www.clarencebrowntheatre.com. For tickets: 865-974-5161, 865-656-4444, www.knoxvilletickets.com

Lewis Black, Grammy Award-winning stand-up comedian, will have you laughing into incontinence while making compelling points about the absurdity of our world.

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

Knoxville-based musician Wendel Werner will appear in concert at The Arts Center in Athens on Thursday, October 3, 2013, at 7:30 PM. Hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar will be available. Tickets are $12 for adults and $8 for students in advance and at the door.

Wendel Werner – one of music’s remaining Renaissance men – has musical gifts that cover a broad spectrum encompassing most every musical genre. He is a composer, director, recording artist, teacher, and performer. He served as director for the Knoxville Children’s Show Choir, the Athens Area Children’s Choir, the Knoxville Showstoppers, and is currently director of the UT Singers, the university’s jazz choir. From 2002-2004 Werner served as director of Just In Time, a women’s a cappella jazz choir, which he formed. He was named “Composer of the Year” by the Tennessee Piano Teachers Association, and was the featured entertainer for the Special Olympics Opening Ceremonies.
Werner’s composing credits include three choral suites “The Biblical Fires,” “The Biblical Waters,” and “Requiem.” In 1988 he was commissioned by the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association to compose a work for the Oak Ridge Symphony. The result was a 20-minute piece entitled “Granddaddy’s Church,” which was Werner’s musical interpretation of the familiar sounds of the church where his Grandfather was a minister.
Imaginative and playful improvisation and his good humor are hallmarks of Werner’s performances. No two performances are ever alike, and all are works of art.
Werner’s concert begins a weekend of world-class concert-going as the AACA Big Time/Small Town performance season opens the following night (Friday, October 4) with The Hit Men…featuring former starts of Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons. This performance at Athens City Middle School is part of the season ticket package, which you can purchase online, by phone, or at The Arts Center. Individual tickets are $18 for advanced purchase adult tickets and $10 for student tickets, $20 for adult tickets at the door.

Tickets and further information on both concerts is available by phone at 423-745-8781, online at www.athensartscouncil.org, and in person at The Arts Center at 320 North White Street in downtown Athens, Tennessee.

John O. Hodges will read and discuss his book "Delta Fragments" at the October meeting of the Knoxville Writers Guild.

The event, which will be open to the public, begins at 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 3, at the Laurel Theater, at the corner of Laurel Avenue and 16th Street in Fort Sanders. A $2 donation is requested at the door. The building is handicapped accessible. Additional parking is available at Redeemer Church of Knoxville, 1642 Highland Ave.

"Delta Fragments: The Recollections of a Sharecropper's Son" (UT Press 2013) consists of thirty-two autobiographical episodes or vignettes that deal with Hodges' struggles to get an education and to possess his life in the Mississippi Delta during the 1950s and 1960s.
Copies of "Delta Fragments" will be available for purchase at the meeting.

Additional information about the Knoxville Writers’ Guild can be found at www.knoxvillewritersguild.org.

Pellissippi State Community College’s Music Concert Series for the 2013-14 academic year gets under way Thursday, Oct. 3, with a showcase of musical talents performing in the annual Faculty Recital.

The Faculty Recital, which normally runs about 90 minutes, begins at 7 p.m. in the Clayton Performing Arts Center on the college’s Hardin Valley Campus. The event features the talents of the Music program’s faculty. It is free and the community is invited.

The Faculty Recital is the first of nine concerts to take place throughout the academic year. Close on its heels is the Fall Choral Concert, 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, and also in the Clayton Performing Arts Center.

The Music Concert Series is part of The Arts at Pellissippi State, which brings to the community cultural activities ranging from music and theatre to international celebrations, lectures, and the fine arts.

All series events are free, but donations are accepted at the door for the Pellissippi State Foundation on behalf of the Music Scholarship Fund. All performances are also open to the public, and plenty of free parking is available.

For additional information about the Pellissippi State Music Concert Series 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 and Affirmative Action at (865) 694-6607 or humanresources@pstcc.edu.

Pellissippi State: 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN 37932. Information: 865-694-6405, www.pstcc.edu/arts

Personal privacy rights have been a national hot topic recently, and Pellissippi State Community College’s next Faculty Lecture Series speaker has them on her mind. Lisa Bogaty, associate professor in Business and Computer Technology, delivers the lecture “What They Know: Privacy in the Age of Digital Tracking”. The free event, which takes place in the Goins Building Auditorium on the Hardin Valley Campus, is open to the public.

“There’s a huge debate going on about people’s right to privacy following various leaks about information gathering by businesses and governmental entities such as the NSA,” Bogaty said. “The issue is, should we be collecting this level of data about the public when people have not been charged with a crime or are not the subject of an investigation, and how long should this information be stored?” Bogaty, who teaches business administration and e-commerce courses at Pellissippi State, will focus on behavioral online tracking—tracking an internet user’s shopping patterns, search queries, online friends, social media behavior, and other information—and how businesses and marketers use that information. Bogaty will touch briefly on government online tracking. “There was a time when almost everyone got junk advertisements in their emails,” she said, “but that doesn’t happen often anymore. Your online experience now involves very focused advertising based on your real shopping and searching patterns. These ads can only be this targeted by knowing you—and they do know you.” Bogaty says she hopes her lecture leaves listeners with more questions than answers, since the debate about online privacy is an ongoing one.

The Faculty Lecture Series is part of The Arts at Pellissippi State, which brings to the community cultural activities ranging from music and theatre to international celebrations, lectures, and the fine arts. Pellissippi State: 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN 37932. Information: 865-694-6405, www.pstcc.edu/arts

Oct. 3 "Embryos Under the Microscope: Negotiating Contested Ground Between Science and Society" presented by Jane Maienschein Ph.D for the Dick Smyser Community Lecture Series sponsored by Friends of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Professor Maienschein is Director of the Center for Biology and Society at Arizona State University. Public cordially invited to the reception for speaker at 5:30 pm in the AMSE Lobby and lecture at 6:30 pm in the AMSE Auditorium. Free admission.

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

Oct. 3 "Mobile Biomass Gasification Scale Model" demonstration showing how to turn plant based materials, including wood chips and switchgrass, into electricity on a small scale. This tractor-trailer scale mobile biomass gasifier is a research project of the Southeast Partnership for Integrated Biomass Supply Systems, a collaborative project of Auburn University, North Carolina State University, University of Georgia and University of Tennessee. Public invited to view the working biomass gasifier scale model from 10 am - 2 pm in the AMSE Parking Area.

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

By LAURIE BETH CLARK at 7:30PM in ROOM 109 of the ART and ARCHITECTURE BUILDING!

OS·SU·AR·Y (OSH-OO-ER-EE) | NOUN: REPOSITORY OF BONES \ FROM LATIN, FIRST KNOWN USE 1658
Three hundred artists have contributed to this Ossuary. Their work, in many media, includes single bones, clusters of bones, and art works inspired by, using, or playing with the idea of bones. These bones are political statements and personal elegies, memorials to individuals and statements about mortality. They represent connections to our ancestors and/or to our descendants. Some works are serious and some use bones in a completely playful manner. Ossuary was developed in response to the repositories of bones that have accured in countries like Cambodia and Rwanda, but Ossuary is not a project about those traumas. Rather, Ossuary offers a poignant counter-image to mass violence. It is a project about the hope that art brings. Images and statements for all the bone works from this iteration can be found online at www.ossuaries.net. Ossuary is a cummulative traveling project. It began in Madison, Wisconsin. Artists interested in contributing bones to future exhibitions should write to ossuaries@gmail.com. This relational project was initiated and developed by the artist Laurie Beth Clark. Clark, who is a Professor in the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin, has shown work in galleries, museums, theatres, and public spaces in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Extensive documentation of prior projects can be found at www.lbclark.net. For additional information on this exhibition, please call the UT Downtown Gallery at 865.673.0802 or visit us online at http://web.utk.edu/~downtown.

Please plan on attending the first monthly MetroFest Music Tour. MetroFest Music Tour is Metro Pulse working to bring together musicians, venues, sponsors and audiences in Knoxville by presenting donated performances in donated spaces for the purpose of raising support for the Joy of Music School, a nonprofit organization that provides free music lessons and instruments to financially disadvantaged, at-risk youth.
The show is at the Bowery. Doors open at 7pm and the show starts at 8PM.
Information: www.metropulse.com, 865-342-6070

Join The Melting Pot of Knoxville during the month of October in our efforts to raise funds for “Casting for Recovery”. All proceeds from drinks sold with Chambord will go to CFR. We will kick off this month long effort with our "Ladies' Night Out" event on October 2. Banana Republic will showcase some of their designs. Knoxville Photo Booth will be capturing every moment with complimentary photos for our guests. We will have special guest from WIVK and Knoxville Ice Bears. We have crafted a fantastic four-course dinner of which we will donate $5 dollars for every purchase. (Please see our website for details or call 865-971-5400) The four-course dinner will include: Cheese Fondue, Freshly Made Salad, Petite entrée and ending with our decadent Chocolate Fondue all for $30 dollars per person. $5 dollars from each dinner sold will go to “Casting For Recovery”. Please visit www.meltingpotknoxville.com to see menu and restrictions or call (865)971-5400

Our “Casting for Recovery” MENU will be offered from 10/03 - 10/10 - after said dates, the menu will be available every Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday for the Month of October. Chambord and D&V Distributing have partnered with The Melting Pot of Knoxville to offer a set of three cocktails featuring Chambord liquor. $1 dollar, from each featured cocktail sold, will be donated to Casting for Recover. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND THOSE OF OUR PARTNERS!

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(865) 971-5400 • 111 NORTH CENTRAL ST., KNOXVILLE, TN 37902