Calendar of Events

@ Remedy Back Room
December 13, 14 @ 7:30 pm
December 15 @ 2:30 pm
Tickets $15

Info: www.marblecityopera.com

Written by Allison Gregory and based on the extremely popular "Junie B. Jones" books by Barbara Park, this fast paced play is filled with over-the-top characters, witty dialogue, and hilarious situations. Come along with Junie B. as she learns to cope with her challenged holiday spirit, struggles to find the right gift, and brightens holiday spirits along the way. With plenty of laughs and life lessons, "Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells!" is the perfect holiday treat for the entire family.

December 13, 7:30 p.m. and December 14, 2:00 and 7:30 p.m. at Pellissippi State: 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN 37932. Tickets are $5-$12

Information: 865-539-2490, www.wordplayers.org

Grab a scarf, your family, and some holiday spirit as the Knoxville Gay Men's Chorus' (KGMC) 2nd Annual holiday concert illuminates your weekend and kicks off the holiday season with tunes old and new. Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church hosts the concert. KGMC has added a second evening to 'Holiday Lights' this year, after there was nary a seat to be had at last year's inaugural concert. Throughout the evening, the Chorus will have you laughing to tears, pulling the ones you love a little closer and have you singing along with your new Knoxville family. Special guests include Stoney Sharp, mezzo-soprano Karen Nickell, and other surprises from the community.

Above all the hubbub, Knoxville will meet Freddie Brabson, the new Artistic Director, who takes the baton for his first holiday concert with the Chorus. A phenomenal local talent himself, Brabson brings vast choral experience and performance to this group of men. He will lead over 30 singers and performers from the surrounding area in the production. "These men continue to inspire me, using their talent and courage to blaze a trail here in East Tennessee," Brabson beamed, "and our music makes Knoxville's light shine even brighter."

KGMC is striving to be an all-inclusive community organization of musical excellence,where all men can join in song. KGMC was created in Spring 2012 with the help of its founding sponsors, EastTNGSA.com (Gay-Straight Alliance) and East Tennessee GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network). East Tennessee GSA and GLSEN are local chapters of national organizations dedicated to creating safe spaces for all young people, focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender understanding and awareness. General admission tickets are $20, with a discounted rate of $10 for seniors and students. The concert begins at 8pm both evenings at TVUUC, located at 2931 Kingston Pike in Knoxville. KGMC is a 501(c3) and any tax-deductible donations will go toward KGMC’s programming needs and an eventual scholarship fund. For tickets or more information, visit www.knoxgmc.org or contact Bleu Copas at knoxgmc@gmail.com. Also, find and 'Like' them on Facebook to keep up with their upcoming events. Auditions for the spring and summer season will be announced in January, 2014.

Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919.

This Holiday Season, let The District Gallery help wrap up your holiday shopping in a special way. Our staff is ready to assist with everything from great gift ideas, customized wish lists, and spectacular gift wrapping... And don't forget our distinctive custom framing and gift certificates!
Featured artist: Dawn Whitelaw.
Be sure to ask about our Holiday Wish List!
Holiday Hours:
Open Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. & Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
The District Gallery & Framery | 5113 Kingston Pike | Knoxville | TN | 37919
(located next to Gourmet's Market) | 865.200.4452 | www.thedistrictgallery.com

In July of 2013, eight artists traveled to France to paint en plein air as part of a workshop held at La Bonne Etoile, about an hour outside of Paris. Six of these artists are represented in the exhibit “Fresh Impressions: Tour de France”at Rose Center through December 19.

La Bonne Etoile was developed to assist artists who would benefit from an experience in another culture as well as offer them a time of seclusion and solitude for creating and recreating. Though some subject matter and scenery are the similar, each artist shares her own impressions and discoveries of this experience. The unique styles and colors of the artists complement each other. They were all inspired by the light, colors, flowers, scenery and culture of France.
Rose Center is located at 442 W. Second Street in Morristown, and is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, contact Rose Center at 423-581-4330, visit www.rosecenter.org, or www.facebook.com/rosecenter

Popcorn balls and paper chains; Fruits and nuts in their stockings; Carols by the fire; A cedar tree cut in the nearby woods - that's the Christmas most rural Appalachian children knew.

And it's the Christmas we recreate each year throughout the Museum village at our special Christmas in Old Appalachia. Join us as we recreate a meaningful holiday of simpler pleasures and homier joys. Traditional trees and homemade decorations, typical of austere pioneer days, transform the Museum's authentic log buildings; and in the one-room, dirt-floored "Dan'l Boone" cabin, strings of popcorn and cotton bolls circle a dormant tree. Paper chains and other ornaments trim the tree in the Little Tater Valley Schoolhouse.

Sweet gum and sycamore balls are strung throughout the Mark Twain Family Cabin, and a traditional silver star tops a native red cedar Christmas tree in the turn-of-the-century Peters Homestead House. Apples, nuts, homemade toys, and oranges fill stockings hung in the cabins.

Sing Christmas carols along with musicians in the Homestead House, where they'll be singing holiday and traditional songs every day during December. Sit and visit with the kids over some hot chocolate and Christmas cookies from the Museum Restaurant.

Pick up some stocking stuffers in the Museum Gift and Antique Shop, which features everything from hand-crafted ornaments, locally made muscadine and moonshine jellies, and beautiful pottery, along with baskets, quilts, and plenty of Appalachian specialties. Or just come relax in a rocking chair by the cozy, crackling fire in the big stone fireplace.

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

The Market Square Farmers’ Market reprises the popular Holiday Market on the three Saturdays before Christmas and invites shoppers to buy local from area farmers, artisan food vendors, artists and crafters.
Saturdays, December 7, 14, and 21. Farm vendors from 12 – 3 p.m. Food
trucks, artisan food and arts & craft vendors from 12 – 7 p.m.
Where: Market Square, Market Street and Union Avenue

Although the peak growing season is over, regional farmers are offering many root crops, hearty greens, meat, eggs, dairy and other preserved foods —ideal for serving at festive seasonal gatherings or giving to your favorite food lover.

Craft and artisan food vendors will line Market Street, creating a marketplace for handmade items perfect for satisfying recipients on shoppers’ gift lists. Items include jewelry, home décor, bath and body products, hand-blown glass, pottery, turned wood and folk art. And when hunger threatens to distract visitors from the task at hand, Knoxville’s best food trucks will be stationed on Union Avenue to quench cravings.

Visit the Market Square Farmers’ Market information booth to purchase the market’s annual letterpress poster, canvas tote bag and Market Money, which can be used to purchase from any vendor on site. Gift certificates are also available!

The Market Square Holiday Market is presented by Nourish Knoxville, a non-profit organization founded to cultivate and support relationships between farmers, artisanal producers, and the community through outreach, education, and advocacy and to build healthy communities through connections to local food.

For more information, visit http://marketsquarefarmersmarket.org, email
knoxfarmersmarket@gmail.com or call Charlotte Tolley at 865-405-3135.

Farmers' Market season may be over, but that just means that it is time for the Market Square Holiday Market! On Saturdays from December 7 through 21, craft and artisan food vendors will be set up along Market Street to satisfy your shopping needs. Whether you need the perfect wreath or a wonderful holiday gift, the Holiday Market is the place to visit. For more information, visit marketsquarefarmersmarket.org.

This 42nd anniversary production featuring over 80 dancers and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will showcase guest artists Kylie Morton as the Sugarplum Fairy and Adam Schiffer as the Cavalier. David Dwyer, television and movie actor, will appear in the story as Herr Drosselmeyer, the toy maker who creates the Nutcracker. This magical production of the Appalachian Ballet Company Nutcracker is filled with lavish sets, scenery, costumes, orchestra, choir and dancers. Come enjoy Knoxville's tradition of 42 years and now also playing in Maryville.

Knoxville Civic Auditorium Saturday, December 7th - 8:00 pm
Sunday December 8th - 2:00 pm AND
Clayton Center for the Arts Saturday, December 14th - 2:00 and 8:00pm

School matinees also available on December 5th and 6th.

Tickets are on sale at the following locations: Appalachian Ballet 865.982.8463
Knoxtickets.com 865.656.4444
The Clayton Center for the Arts 865.981.8590
Advance - $40, $35 & $25 At door - $45, $40 & $30 Student and Senior Discount $5 Off Ask about Group Rates

The UT Downtown Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Artist in Residence program at UT’s School of Art. Begun after the retirement of painting professor Carl Sublett, the Artist-in-Residence Program enriches a student's experience further by regularly bringing new artists from outside the university who are actively showing in the contemporary gallery and museum arenas. Each semester an invited resident artist teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses in the painting and drawing curriculum. The AIR program has been highly successful in making a direct connection to the marketplace of ideas that surrounds art centers such as New York City, Chicago, and LA. The artists we bring to campus represent a spectrum of current sensibilities in painting and drawing holding sway in the art world today.

This exhibition features work from past participating artists from the Ewing Gallery permanent collection.

Please join us December 6 from 5-9pm for an opening reception celebrating the program.

UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Wednesday-Friday: 11AM - 6PM; Saturday: 10AM - 3PM. Information: 865-673-0802, http://web.utk.edu/~downtown

December First Friday at Bliss Home, 29 Market Square Knoxville, TN 37902 featuring the artwork of Elizabeth Kidder.
Friday, December 6, 2013 through the end of the month.
Opening Reception on Friday, December 6, 2013 6pm to 9pm

Bliss Home is pleased to present Knoxville artist, Elizabeth Kidder, for December's First Friday. Bliss Home, located at 29 Market Square, will host an opening reception on Friday, December 6th, from 6pm to 9pm. Complimentary Steamboat Sandwiches will be provided and Elizabeth's art will be featured for the month of December.

Elizabeth's December exhibit is comprised of illustrations that invite the viewer to walk around the landscape, become the figure and read the underlying tale.
Elizabeth Kidder is a freelance illustrator currently living in Knoxville, TN.

Beginning on December 6, the gallery at the Plateau Creative Arts Center (PCAC) will feature art in the theme of Food for Thought. 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 for Christmas.
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. Beginning on December 24 the gallery hours will change to 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Monday through Saturday. 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.