Calendar of Events

Saturday, November 23, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 24, 2013 at 2:00 p.m.

Oak Ridge High School, 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830
Information: 865-974-5678, www.music.utk.edu/events

Saturday, November 23, 7:00 PM and Sunday, November 24, 2:30 PM
Oak Ridge Civic Ballet Association: Tschaikovsky’s The Nutcracker

ORCBA’s annual performance of Tschaikovsky’s The Nutcracker features all your favorite characters come to life! Clara, Fritz, the Nutcracker Prince, and Sugar Plum Fairy all wait to delight and enchant you. This year’s performance will feature the UT Chamber Orchestra.

Contact: Wendie Aurin, 865-567-6092 or e-mail waurin@orcba.org.
Oak Ridge High School Performing Arts Center, 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge, TN 37830 | www.orcba.org
Advance reservations required? NO

Marble Springs State Historic Site is hosting their first annual fundraiser. The Sevier Soiree is a unique opportunity to experience the historic site of John Sevier, first governor of Tennessee, like never before. Join us Saturday, November 23 from 6:30 until 8:30 for a spectacular night under the stars. Your ticket price includes open hearth cooked hors d'oeuvresby the bonfire, wine, dinner, dessert, and music provide by Red Shoes & Rosin. The historic cabins will be open and a silent auction will take place featuring items from local arts and culture venues.

Please register for this event by November 15th. Tickets are $50 per person. Please mail payment to P.O. Box 20195, Knoxville, TN 37940; or please purchase online from the Marble Springs website at www.marblesprings.net. You may also purchase your seat on-site before November 15. This event is generously sponsored in part by the Knoxville News Sentinel, Love That BBQ, Knox County Commissioner Mike Brown, and WDVX.

Marble Springs: 1220 West Gov. John Sevier Highway, Knoxville, TN 37920.

Intermediate Genealogy
Details TBA

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

No admission. Sponsored by East Tennessee Foundation. This event is designed for the family and provides a fun-filled day with tours, crafts, live music and more!

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

Join us! Holiday Market - 3pm till 7pm. Featuring food, children's activities and local craft vendors. Fun for the whole family!
(Vendor spaces available - call for more information)

Annual Benefit Auction - 6pm till 9pm. Includes food, drinks and a performance by the Tennessee Children's Dance Ensemble.
Auction tickets $15 in advance or $20 at the door.

At the Lighthouse Knoxville, 6800 Baum Drive.
For more information or tickets call (865) 584-9636

Storytelling Entertainment! Tellabration 2013! Family Fun! Bring your whole family, your church group, your neighborhood, Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins, to enjoy Professional Performance Artists at American Legion Hall #202, 1222 East Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. Highway 321, across from Food City, between Gatlinburg Police Dept. and Post Office. Refreshments served. FREE Parking. Donation is $10, $8 for students, seniors, and groups. The performing artists are Rick Elliott, Emcee, Finn Bille, Jeanette & Charlie Stevens, Larry & Gayleen Kelley, Lew Bolton, and Shirley Nicholson. All are members of Smoky Mt. Storytellers, Knoxville, Arts & Culture Alliance, Knoxville, Volunteer State Tellers, Nashville, National Storytelling Network, Jonesborough. Members have entertained all over America, and some in Europe and Asia, and even on the high seas.

Storytelling is an art, as practiced by the Smoky Mountain Storytellers. If you have imagination, they’ll take you to times and places in your head and heart you’ll love to go. There is a feeling in the audience that brings shared stories to life, recalls experiences and events that join those listening together. Our stories bring us together, create our history and our culture, and make us who we are.

Info: 865-429-1783, cuznjan@juno.com, www.facebook.com/smokymountainstorytellersassoc

Opening Reception Friday, Nov. 22, 6:30 - 8:00 PM, everyone welcome
Most of the watercolors, oil paintings, mixed media, and acrylic paintings will be for sale by the artists. Awards will be announced for the show at 7 PM during the reception. The show will be on view free of charge.

Also debuting on Friday night during the reception is the first annual "Fountain City Art Center Holiday Gift Shoppe." Most, but not all, of the items for sale will be between $5 and $20 and have been handmade by FCAC members. All of the items are donated for this fund raising event to help with Art Center operating expenses, especially tough winter weather heating bills. All proceeds go directly to benefit the Center

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

Leapin' Lizards! The popular comic strip heroine is back in one of the world's best loved musicals. With equal measures of pluck and positivity, determined little orphan Annie escapes the orphanage and the clutches of the embittered Miss Hannigan in search of her parents, who abandoned her years ago. Yet, with a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City, she manages to charm the hearts of billionaire Oliver Warbucks, a loveable stray mutt named Sandy, and even the President!
November 22-December 8, 2013.

Purchase tickets online 24 hours a day: www.orplayhouse.com.
Purchase by phone or at box office: 865 482 9999, 12:00-5:30PM Mon.-Sat. during performance weeks.

Friday Nov 22, 2-6pm & Sat Nov 23, 9am-2pm
Benefits "those in need among us." Offering two days of fun, shopping, fellowship and MUCH MORE. Pictures with Santa, the Soulfood Cafe, children’s shopping area, and nearly 30 vendors (jewelry, home decor, fashion accessories, UT clothes, art, vintage, makeup, crafts) fully run both days, and Sacred Heart School's Praise Band at 11 am on Sat.
Support Ladies of Charity's clients and ENJOY the days!
711 S. Northshore Dr 37919 in the Sacred Heart School gym around back.

November 21-24, 2013
Haslam Family Flexible Theatre

Rest Home is the third and final play of Mike Everett's Maryville trilogy. Brought to you by the team of Hillbilly Homecoming and Holey Rollers, this play is sure to be a hilariously good time!
Some of the characters in his first two plays — “Hillbilly Homecoming” and “Holey Rollers” are set to make a return. They’re a little older, a bit more confused but just as mischievous as ever as they settle into the reality of senior living. Life never gets old!

Tickets are $14
For more information please visit www.claytonartscenter.com
Call the Clayton Center Box Office for ticket information (865) 981-8590

The Arts Center in Athens, TN is pleased to announce the HOLIDAY TRUNK SHOW, a 3-day indoor show and sale of fine art, crafts, and handmade gifts from local and regional artisans. The Holiday Trunk Show begins Thursday November 21st with a preview party and ends on Saturday November 23rd. The event is sponsored by Athens Federal Community Bank.

The Holiday Trunk Show is a one-of-a-kind shopping opportunity for the holidays, featuring something for everyone’s gift-giving budget. Among the featured items are accessories for home & holiday, original art and prints, jewelry, pottery, baskets, art gourds, glass, scented soaps and body care products, hand woven and knitted scarves and shawls, hand painted silk garments, handmade ornaments, handbags, books, candles, and more. The event begins Thursday, November 21st at the Preview Party from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM. Admission is $5 or a donation of recently purchased non-perishable food items for the Coordinated Charities of Athens food bank. The Preview Party, hosted by AACA volunteers, features early shopping, refreshments, door prizes provided by the artists, and entertainment by guitarist Oneta Wright. Tickets for Thursday’s Preview Party are available at The Arts Center or at the door. Other shopping hours are admission-free on Friday, November 22nd 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM, and Saturday, November 23rd, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM.

A “Twilight Shopping Spectacular”, sponsored by the Athens Downtown Business Association, will take place Friday evening, November 22nd from 5:00 PM– 8:00 PM. The stores of the downtown business district will be open late so visitors may see and shop their holiday selections. During that time, The Arts Center will host “Pictures with Santa” from 5:30 – 7:30 PM along with the Holiday Trunk Show. The photo package includes one 5 x 7 and 4 wallet size photos for $10.00. Children of all ages are invited to come and have their picture taken with Santa. The photo packages will be available for pick-up beginning 10:00 AM on Monday, December 2.

The Arts Center is located just two blocks from the downtown square at 320 North White Street, Athens, Tennessee. For more information on The Arts Center and all arts programming, go to www.athensartscouncil.org or call 423-745-8781.