Calendar of Events

Four Day Festival Featuring:
+ R. Carlos Nakai
Nine time Grammy awards nominee and Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame inductee

+ Randy McGinnis
Native American Music Award winner and Grammy nominee

+ Cody Blackbird
Youngest recipient for "Flutist of the Year" by the Native American Music Awards.

+ 33 performers
(including 12 new performers in 2014)
+ Exhibits
+ Native American Flute vendors
+ Food Vendors
+ Special workshops and presentations

Full Day Ticket, Per Day $20
(includes evening performance)

Evening Ticket Only, $15
($10 for GSMHC members)

Four Day Ticket, $65
(includes evening performances)

No member discounts are available for Full Day or Four Day Ticket. No chairs may be brought into the GSM Heritage Center. 650 chairs have been placed in the amphitheater for this event. Please plan to arrive early - we anticipate large crowds for this unique four day event.

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

Brad Williams has appeared on numerous TV shows including Mind Of Mencia, Live at Gotham, the Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Pitboss. Brad has also performed for the troops all over the world. He toured as Carlos Mencia’s opening act for 5 years. Brad’s big break came when he would appear in numerous sketches on Comedy Central’s Mind Of Mencia.

TICKET PRICES: $8 for general admission, $10 for preferred seats online. All tickets via phone or at the door are $2 more per ticket. All tickets go up $2 on the day of the show.

Side Splitters Comedy Club - West Knoxville, 9246 Parkwest Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37923. 865.934.LAFF (5233) www.SideSplittersComedy.com

Knoxville Live (JD Bradley and Johnny Newcomb, Subtle Clutch, Laurel Wright) will play on Market Square.

Award-winning author and longtime "Knoxville News Sentinel" columnist Sam Venable will speak about writing humor columns at the next Knoxville Writers' Guild meeting. Venable is the author of 12 books. His two most recent are “WARNING! This Product Contains Nuttiness: A Fun Look at the Bizarre World in which We Live” (University of Tennessee Press 2013) and “How to Tawlk and Rite Good: A guide to the language of Southern Appalachia” (Createspace.com 2013). He has written for the "Knoxville News Sentinel" since 1970, first as outdoors editor and since 1985 as a humor columnist. He has received more than three dozen national and regional writing awards. In recent years, he has been successful as a stand-up comedian, covering a wide range of topics from speaking "hillbyese" to the insanity of warning labels to the perils of growing older.

Knoxville Writer’s Guild: Meetings take place at the Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Avenue. The building is handicapped accessible. Additional parking is available at Redeemer Church of Knoxville, 1642 Highland Ave. The public is invited to attend. A $2 donation is requested at the door. www.knoxvillewritersguild.org

The Tennessee Valley Fair Summer Reading Program celebrates its 7th year in 2014. Hosted by Jasper, the Fair's rooster mascot and the 2013 Fairest of the Fair, Kristen Gallant, participating children will enjoy storytelling and interactive activities. Each child will also receive a free ticket to the 2014 Fair, September 5-14. All summer reading events are free and open to the public:

King Family Library
408 High St., Sevierville, TN 37862
Tuesday, June 3- 11:00 a.m.

Kodak Public Library
319 W Dumplin Valley Rd, Kodak, TN 37764
Tuesday, June 3 - 2:00 p.m.

Halls Public Library
4518 E. Emory Road, Knoxville, TN 37938
Wednesday, June 4 - 11:30 a.m.

Seymour Public Library
137 W. Macon Lane, Seymour, TN 37865
Wednesday, June 4 - 2:00 p.m.

Burlington Public Library
4614 Asheville Hwy, Knoxville, TN 37914
Wednesday, June 18 - 11:00 a.m.

Tennessee Valley Fair: 865-215-1471, www.tnvalleyfair.org

Registration begins in person at 9 am at AMSE Admissions Desk. Must be U. S. citizen and at least 10 years of age. Must have photo ID. This Public Bus Tour which highlights the history of Oak Ridge and the history of science and technology at Y-12, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and K-25, is offered Monday – Friday once a day, except government holidays, July 3 & 4, 2014. First come, first served. Seating limited. Some restrictions apply. Board bus at AMSE at 11:45 am, bus departs at 12 noon, and bus returns to AMSE at 3 pm. Off-the-bus stops include Y-12 History Museum at New Hope Center, Bethel Valley Church and Graphite Reactor, a national historic landmark, both at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Drive by viewing of the Spallation Neutron Source at ORNL and the former K-25 site at the East Tennessee Technology Park.

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

Side/By/Side exhibit celebrating Richard Jolley & Tommie Rush, June 2 - 6, at Bennett Galleries and Company, 5308 Kingston Pike in Bearden. The show’s closing reception and silent auction is Friday, June 6, from 5 to 8 p.m. with Echo Bistro & Wine Bar providing refreshments.

This annual exhibit and fundraiser features the collaborative works of professional artists and their student apprentices, who work together throughout the school year to create pieces of glass art, pottery, paintings, and other multi-media works which are displayed “side by side” and auctioned to benefit the school.

2014 Artists:
+ Bill Capshaw
+ Tina Curry
+ Joyce Gralak
+ Janet Harper
+ Jean Hess
+ Richard Jolley
+ Chris McAdoo
+ Tommie Rush
+ Robin Surber

Community School of the Arts is a nonprofit after-school program that provides free instruction in the visual and performing arts to underserved youngsters from Knox and surrounding counties.

Community School of the Arts: 620 State Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-523-5684, www.csaknox.org

May 29-June 14, 2015
Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling

Theatre Knoxville Downtown
319 North Gay Street, KNoxville
865 544 1999 or email: info@theatreknoxville.com
www.theatreknoxville.com

Free AMSE admission available to active-duty military ID holder and five immediate family members. Active duty military include Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, active duty National Guard and active duty Reserve members. Must show active duty military ID for this admission. Blue Star museums is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense and more than 2,000 museums across America.

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

“Sordid Lives” by Del Shores opens at Theatre Knoxville Downtown
A black comedy about white trash! The author of Daddy's Dyin' (Who's Got the Will?) brings you a comedy that was nominated for over thirty awards during its long run in Los Angeles.
When Peggy, a good Christian woman, hits her head on the sink and bleeds to death after tripping over her lover's wooden legs in a motel room, chaos erupts in Winters, Texas.
"[This play by] the master of Texas Comedy...is maybe funnier than Daddy's Dyin'. His colorful eccentrics are dead on, teetering on a Bowie knife's edge between the hilarious improbable and the achingly real."
— The Los Angeles Times
For Mature Audiences Only.

Performances are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8:00 PM and Sunday at 3:00 PM. Tickets are $10 plus fees for Thursday & Sunday performances and $15 plus fees for Friday & Saturday performances. If available, tickets will be sold at the door.

Theatre Knoxville Downtown has open seating. Doors open 30 minutes prior to show time. Please arrive at least 15 minutes early to pick up your tickets and claim your seats. TKD reserves the right to seat walk-in patrons during the final 15 minutes prior to show time.

Tickets: 865-523-7521; www.KnoxTIX.com. Information: 865-544-1999, www.theatreknoxville.com

Hall & Rogers Gallery
Docent walk-through at 11:30 AM on May 16

This display features three monumental canvases by Leonardo Silaghi that were recently acquired by the KMA. Silaghi (born 1987) is a Romanian painter whose abstractions powerfully express the chaotic transition of his homeland from a decaying Communist nation to a contemporary urban society still taking shape. Often using black and white photographs of abandoned Cold War machinery as starting points, the artist launches into large, forcefully executed paintings populated by conveyor belts, vehicles, ductwork, and other industrial debris.

Leonardo Silaghi is a graduate of the University of Art and Design in Cluj, Romania. Since 2009, he has been featured with solo exhibitions at the Laika Gallery in Cluj, Marc Straus Gallery in New York, and the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill, where he was artist in residence in 2010. Recently his works were shown at the exhibition "After the Fall" at the HVCCA in Peeksville and the Knoxville Museum of Art. Through a generous gift of New York collectors Marc and Livia Straus in 2013, and a purchase, the KMA is fortunate to be among the first American museums to have acquired a group of Silaghi’s works.

Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World's Fair Park Dr, Knoxville, TN 37916. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM-5PM; Sunday, 1-5PM. Information: 865-525-6101, www.knoxart.org

The District Gallery is pleased to present Dreamscapes: Poetry Inspired Paintings by Rachael McCampbell. The arts often inspire one another – visual arts can inspire writers, and the written word can send artists to their easels. Native Knoxvillian painter, writer and curator, Rachael McCampbell, has done just that. She has always loved literature and poetry and the rich way words inspire her art.

McCampbell has created a collection of paintings inspired by the poetry of poets such as Mary Oliver, Donald Justice, Wallace Stevens, Robert Creeley, Wendell Berry, W. B. Yeats, Maya Angelou, Raymond Carver and more. Her paintings are highly textured with layers of acrylic, charcoal and oil. She applies paintand then removes it until eventually the story she needs to tell emerges.

Opening Reception: Friday, May 16, 5-8 p.m. and Artist Talk: Thursday, May 29, 7-8 p.m.

The District Gallery | 5113 Kingston Pike | Knoxville, TN 37919 | (865) 200-4452 | www.TheDistrictGallery.com