Calendar of Events

Topic: Removal in the Heart of the Cherokee Nation: Crisis in Georgia, 1838
W. Jeff Bishop serves as the president of the Trail of Tears Association's Georgia chapter and serves on the executive committee for the national board. He is in his final semester as a graduate student at the University of West Georgia's Center for Public History. His master's thesis examines new ways to restore authentic Cherokee voices to the telling of the Trail of Tears story. He serves as Coordinator for the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society, overseeing the Male Academy Museum, the McRitchie-Hollis Museum, and the Newnan History Center. He recently co-authored an article in Southeastern Archaeology that re-examines the dating and history of the Chief John Ross House in Rossville, Georgia. His public history projects have included partnering with the National Park Service to develop wayside exhibits that interpret the Trail of Tears in Georgia and authoring a new Georgia Trail of Tears map and brochure. He lives in Newnan, GA with his wife and five children.

This lecture is free and is open to the public. For more information contact the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum at 423-884-6246. Sequoyah Birthplace is located off Hwy. 411 at 576 Hwy. 360 in Vonore. This lecture is sponsored in part by the East Tennessee Foundation’s John D. Grubb & Louise G. Sumner Fund for Monroe County grant. www.sequoyahmuseum.org

Farragut Presyterian Church, 209 Jamestowne Blvd., Knoxville, 37934

Information: 865-974-5678, www.music.utk.edu/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

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.

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 Art of the Creche II: Folk Art Nativities from Around the World
Featuring new selections on loan from a private collection.

Also showing - Selections from the Permanent Collection
Featuring International Artists including Henri Matisse, Edouard Manet, Salvador Dali and many others.

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 16, 7 to 9 PM
Gallery Talk: 6:30 PM
The event is free and open to the public. Bring your friends and family!

Oak Ridge Art Center * 201 Badger Avenue * Oak Ridge
(865) 482-1441

The RSCC Playmakers present The Foreigner by Larry Shue.
The setting-a fishing lodge in rural Georgia. The story-a frequent visitor to the lodge, Froggy, has brought along a friend, a pathologically shy young man named Charlie who is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers. Froggy tells all assembled that Charlie speaks no English. The fun begins as Charlie overhears more than he should.
Nov. 14-16 & 21-23, 7:00PM, Nov. 17 & 24, 2:00PM matinee.
General Admission $10, students $7
RSCC Theatre, Harriman

Provides a look at the 1940's history of Oak Ridge as captured through the photographic lens of Ed Westcott, the official U. S. Army Manhattan Project photographer. This exhibition is sponsored by the Y-12 National Security Complex. AMSE Lobby.

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

A book, a play, a poem – all form the basis of the literary arts. Regional artisits submitted original works for this juried art competition and exhibit that was inspired by a title, a line, a theme, or a character from a literary work.

Join us for an exhibit opening and awards ceremony on Tuesday November 19th:
6:00 pm – Opening Reception with light refreshments
7:00 pm – Awards Ceremony

Athens Area Council for the Arts: 320 North White Street, Athens, TN, 37303. Info: 423-745-8781, www.athensartscouncil.org

The Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture is pleased to present two collage exhibitions in November. Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center and Richard Meier: Selected Collage Works will open Monday, November 4 with a reception in the Ewing Gallery at 6:30.

Prior to the lecture, ICC founder and New York gallerist, Pavel Zoubok will deliver a lecture on the history of collage -- "Collage Culture: From Picasso to Facebook." The lecture will begin at 5:30Pm in room 109 of the Art and Architecture building on the UT campus.

Remix presents the work of over 100 artists drawn from the ICC's permanent lending and research collection alongside further loans from prominent artists. Remix weaves the narrative of collage through the history of modern and contemporary art. Coined in the early 20th century from the French word coller, meaning to glue or stick, the term collage originally described a revolutionary method of art-making. Over time its definition has expanded to represent an approach to and perception of the modern world. The 100 artists featured in the exhibition utilize collage's core conceptual traits—heterogeneity, fragmentation and appropriation—to address with clarity and immediacy the circumstances of their times. Remix explores the impact of collage on artistic and cultural expression and gathers together the diverse fragments of a rich artistic tradition.

Richard Meier: Selected Collage Works is a presentation of 20 recent works. They are a collaboration between Meier and Master Printer, Gary Lichtenstein. The images are 11 color silkscreens of original Meier collages with one-of-a-kind collage and drawing on top of the prints.

The Ewing Gallery is open M-F 10AM - 5PM and Sundays 1-4PM.

Ewing Gallery, 1715 Volunteer Blvd on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Information: 865-974-3200, www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu

In the Blackberry Farm Gallery
Knoxville Artist Jered Sprecher’s paintings, drawings and installations focus on the “fleeting images and objects that surround us,” according to the artist. An associate professor in the University of Tennessee’s School of Art, Sprecher received his bachelor of arts degree from Concordia University in Nebraska and a master of fine arts degree from the University of Iowa. His work has been exhibited at The Drawing Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Chinati Foundation, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Des Moines Art Center and Espai d'art Contemporani de Castelló. In 2009, he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Most recently, he was the artist-in-residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.

There will be a reception from 6pm to 8pm, November 26

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