Calendar of Events

K-Town Sound Show Chorus Annual Show "Music Through The Years" with Special Featured Guests, Dream quartet!

Saturday, October 12, 2013, at the Clayton Center for Performing Arts, Pellissippi State Technical Community College

For more information please visit www.ktownsound.org or email kts@ktownsound.org.

The District Gallery is pleased to present a photographic journey through Paris as seen through the lens of photographer Ben Finch. PARIS: A Journey on Film features classic scenes of Paris and modern views of iconic landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre. Finch also captures common details of everyday French culture and turns them into memorable images with his timeless aesthetic and traditional film photography.

An opening reception will be held on Friday, October 11 from 5:30-9 p.m. with pastries by the French Market. The show continues through November 9.

A jewelry show by Adel Chefridi will also open on October 11. Chefridi’s designs emphasize simplicity, wearability, durability, and openness to light and movement. Made with natural gemstones, his elegant pieces have a friendly and peaceful feel that make them wearable every day.

The District Gallery, (865) 200-4452, TheDistrictGallery.com

The public is invited to the reception and opening of the Annual Fall Awards Art Show on October 11 from 6:00-7:30 p.m. at the Plateau Arts Center (PCAC). The theme of the show is Wild about Art. Artists of the Art Guild at Fairfield Glade will submit their original work to be judged on this theme in the following categories: Watercolor and acrylic under glass, Oil and acrylic not under glass, Mixed media, Pastel, Colored pencil drawing, Black and white drawing, Photography, Three dimensional, and Jewelry. Awards will be given for each category. This year's judge is Bobbie Crews of Knoxville. The reception will include refreshments viewing of the new show, and presentation of awards.

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

Featuring more than 400 traditional musicians, singers, cloggers, and buck dancers. The three-day Homecoming is one of the nation’s largest, most authentic music and folk festivals. Each day, all day, musicians perform on five unique stages, filling the air with bluegrass, old-time, Southern Gospel and Americana music. Homecoming includes historic demonstrations of mountain skills, Revolutionary War and Civil War encampments, and a large arts and crafts fair featuring authentic Appalachian artisans. Pinto beans cooked over an open fire, home-made ice cream, Dutch oven cobbler, sassafras tea and bar-b-que, are some of the southern delicacies available for purchase.

Making their first appearance at Homecoming are Blue Highway, The Box Cars, Chris Jones & The Night Drivers and The Dale Ann Bradley Band. The 2013 lineup also includes returning favorites, Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, The Grascals, Blue Moon Rising, and Brand New Strings, plus scores of local and regional performers. Fall Heritage Day, with special interactive programs for schoolchildren, is Thursday, Oct. 10th. This day of traditional music, historical games, and hands-on pioneer activities is designed for public and private school groups, home-schooled groups, and individual parents and children. Three-day Homecoming tickets include admission to Fall Heritage Day. The Museum offers a picturesque backdrop for this annual festival, with dozens of historic log buildings, display halls filled with authentic artifacts, and gardens and farm animals, surrounded by split-rail fences. A self-guided tour of the Museum and parking is included in Homecoming admission.

All Homecoming proceeds further the Museum’s mission to preserve Appalachian history and heritage. A non-profit organization since 2003, the Museum is an official affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. Museum of Appalachia, 2819 Andersonville Hwy., Clinton, TN 37716 (16 miles north of Knoxville at I-75, exit 122, then one mile east). Open every day except Thanksgiving and Christmas. Information: 865-494-7680, www.museumofappalachia.org

Circle Modern Dance is pleased to continue it’s bi-annual workshop with a weekend long workshop with Danah Bella, artistic director and founder of d a n a h b e l l a DanceWorks and Professor of Dance at Radford University. Danah Bella’s work explores the interaction and interplay of corporal, psychic, and social spaces through and with movement. In Danah’s work the body becomes the primary tool to investigate how we produce/interpret knowledge and signify our sense of being in the world. She received her MFA in Performance from the Ohio State University and her BA in Dance from the University of California Santa Barbara where she studied under such distinguished artists as Bebe Miller, Tere O’Connor, Christopher Pilafian, and Jerry Pearson. Her work has been presented in festivals throughout the country including the Cool New York Festival in New York, the United States of Asian American Festival in San Francisco, and the Bates Dance Festival in Maine, as well as in Mexico and Italy. In addition to dbDW she collaborates with colectivo caliban, an artistic collective that transgresses borders.

The workshop will be held in the Annex Space in the Emporium building (in the lower level of 100 N. Gay St):
Friday October 11th, 7-9pm
Saturday October 12th 2-4pm
Sunday October 13th, 2-4pm

Dancers can register for the workshop online at circlemoderndance.com or contact CMD at circlemoderndance@gmail.com to participate. Individual classes are $25, or $20 with pre registration, and the full workshop is $50, or $45 with pre registration. All dancers are welcomed by CMD to join Danah Bella’s workshop! Remember you knee pads!

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Circle Modern Dance: (865) 309.5309, www.circlemoderndance.com

The 13th Annual Clinch River Antiques Festival takes place on October 11th and 12th, 2013, in Historic Downtown Clinton, Tennessee. The Festival begins with a kickoff party Friday evening, October 11th from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the Hoskins/Lane Park on Market Street. There will be plenty of food and live musical entertainment with the downtown shops open late for the event.

On Saturday, October 12th , the RAIN or SHINE event is scheduled from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Market Street will be closed to traffic as antique dealers and artisans line the street for the Antiques Festival. The festival will accommodate over 90 exhibitors from all over East Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, as well as other surrounding states

A Shuttle will be available for festival goers this year.
This year's festival will feature an antique appraiser to appraise your personal treasures, reenactment of the famous Aaron Burr-Alexander Hamilton duel at 12:30pm, live entertainment, antique tractor exhibit and children's activities.

Celebrate the most spooktacular time of the year with your little monster
at Knoxville’s largest Halloween event! BOO! at the Zoo presented by U.S. Cellular® kicks off 12 nights of safe and not-too-scary Halloween fun Thursday, Oct. 10-13 and continuing Thursday through Sunday, Oct. 17-20 and Thursday through Sunday, Oct. 24- 37, from 5:30-8:00 p.m. each evening.

BOO! at the Zoo, a Halloween tradition for 27 years, is a family event featuring devilishly good music and games at the Monster Mash tent in The Clayton Family Kids Cove, friendly costumed characters throughout the zoo, and the only “haunted” carousel in East Tennessee, the Scary-Go-Round. (How can you tell it’s haunted? It goes backwards, of course.)
One of the highlights of BOO! at the Zoo is trick-or-treating along the BOO! Trail, where little trick-or-treaters can fill their bag with goodies as they make their way through the zoo. Each night of BOO! at the Zoo will also feature a variety of entertainment, from dancers and jugglers to out-of-this-world STAR WARS characters. For updated information about each evening’s activities, visit the zoo’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/knoxvillezoo.

Boo! at the Zoo tickets are $7 per person. Children under two are admitted free. Parking is $5. Tickets are available at in advance by phone at (865) 637-5331, online at knoxvillezoo.org and at the zoo’s ticket office during regular zoo hours.
Knoxville Zoo members receive a $2 discount on admission purchased online, by phone or at the zoo’s ticket window and free parking. U.S. Cellular customers can show their U.S. Cellular phone and receive $2 off BOO! at the Zoo admission.
Tickets for BOO! at the Zoo can also be purchased at all Knoxville area Kroger stores. (Member discounts and U.S. Cellular customer discounts not available at Kroger locations.)

Thursdays-Sundays: Oct. 10-13, 17-20 and 24-27

Knoxville Zoo, 3500 Knoxville Zoo Drive, Knoxville, TN 37914. Open every day except Christmas. Information: 865-637-5331, www.knoxville-zoo.org

The Appalachian Arts Craft Center in Norris will hold its Fall Porch Sale starting Thursday, Oct. 10, and running for about two weeks. The Porch Sale, held each Spring and Fall, features outdated stock, seconds, student crafts and unjuried work by members of the Craft Center. It’s an excellent time to get great deals. This year we’ll also have handmade baked goods for sale while they last.

Appalachian Arts Craft Center: 2716 Andersonville Highway, Clinton, TN. Hours: Monday-Saturday 10AM-6PM; Sunday 1-5PM. Closed Sunday and Monday in January and February. Information: 865-494-9854, www.appalachianarts.net

A picturesque field near Corryton will transform into a Civil War battlefield as part of a four-day observance of the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Fort Sanders, hosted by Knox County and the Knoxville Civil War Roundtable. The event will be held Oct. 10-13 in the 10,000 block of Washington Pike on the site of the reconstructed northwest bastion of the Civil War fort. Re-enactments of the battle of Fort Sanders and Campbell’s Station are planned for Oct. 12 and 13. The site will be open to the public on Friday afternoon with period military demonstrations, presentations and public lectures.

The re-enactment of the battle of Fort Sanders and Campbell’s Station will take place on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 12 and 13. Event organizers expect as many as 1,000 re-enactors and 16 period-accurate artillery pieces at the event, making it one of the largest attended re-enactments in the event’s history.

Union and Confederate cavalry units, along with horse and mule drawn supply wagons, will take the field during the Battle of Campbell’s Station re-enactment. Civilian re-enactors will also populate a small East Tennessee homestead re-creation complete with a hand-built cabin and other out-buildings.

Admission to the re-enactments is $8 for adults and free to children under the age of 6. Families attending with four or more members pay a maximum of $30. Admission is good for both days. Discount coupons are available at the re-enactment website www.battleoffortsanders.com. The event will be held rain or shine.

865-215-8824, www.battleoffortsanders.com

The East Tennessee Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will begin their annual lecture series on Tuesday, Oct. 8.

The first lecture will feature UT professors Erin Darby and Robert Darby, who will talk about their recent archaeological excavations at 'Ayn Gharandal, Jordan.
Robert Darby, a lecturer in art history in the UT School of Art, and Erin Darby, an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies, direct the 'Ayn Gharandal archaeological project that has uncovered rare new details about an ancient Roman fort in southern Jordan.

The 7:30 to 9 p.m. event will be in the McClung Museum's auditorium.

The lecture series invites scholars from around the world to present the latest archaeological discoveries. It is free and open to the public.

Upcoming lectures this fall include the following:
Nov. 7: "Cultural Interaction and Reaction in the Courtly Art of the Hellenistic World" by Kristen Seaman, Kennesaw State University, Ga.
Nov. 19: "The Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave: Past Findings and Present Research" by Anastasia Papathanasiou, Greek Archaeological Service

The McClung Museum is located at 1327 Circle Park Drive. It is open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Free parking is available on Circle Park Drive in front of the museum.

For more information about the McClung Museum and its collections and exhibits, visit http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu.

Professional Photographer and Art Guild of Fairfield Glade member, Tom Whitehurst, loves to take photos of nature, flowers, and landscapes. His current exhibition of 17 photographs is the October exhibit at the Palace Theatre in Crossville. This artist does his own printing, matting, and framing and prints on canvas, watercolor, and fine art papers using pigmented ink, all of which are Archival. His photographs can be enjoyed for decades. Currently, Tom uses a Digital SLR Camera and shoots wide angle to telephoto and macro shots.

Palace Theatre, 72 S Main Street, Crossville, TN 38555. Information: 931-484-6133, www.palacetheatre-crossville.com

Recent works by Dennis Sabo Photography will be on display at the Tomato Head Restaurant-Market Square in downtown Knoxville from October 5 - November 1 and at the Tomato Head-Bearden location from November 3-December 7. His art exhibit entitled "Leafing Impressions" is an impressionistic and expressionistic viewpoint of the autumn grandeur that Mother Nature has provided to us.

Sabo says, "I challenge myself to capture common subjects that are often overlooked and then refine the photograph into an interpretive collage of color, motion, and textures. With a global community very much focused on environmental impact and fragile ecosystems, my artwork captures natural images and color with a perspective people easily miss." Dennis Sabo is an internationally award winning photographer specializing in contemporary fine art abstract, and scenic photography. His fine art prints interweave his creative compositional expressions and vivid colors into nature’s greater scheme of things. Dennis has refined the photograph into an interpretive collage of colors, and texture. His artwork and photography has appeared in a variety of books and magazines that include Canon, NOVA, PBS, Living Southern Style, Hilton Hotels, NBC, Ocean Conservancy, Shedd Aquarium-Chicago, and Blue Planet. His fine art has been included in gallery exhibitions at the Blowing Rocks Preserve-Hobe Sound, FL., Arts in the Airport Spring 2011/13 Exhibition-Knoxville, TN, the National Juried 2012/13 Exhibition-Knoxville, TN, Emporium Gallery- Knoxville, TN, Red Line Gallery-Farragut, TN, the Dogwood Regional Fine Art 2012 Exhibition-Knoxville, TN, Bliss Home Designs 2013, and ongoing at "The Art Market Gallery", Knoxville, Tennessee. www.dsabophoto.com

Tomato Head - 12 Market Square Knoxville, TN 37902 | (865) 637-4067
Tomato Head - Bearden - 7240 Kingston Pike, Suite 172 | 865-584-1072