Calendar of Events

Lavell Crawford is a SAG Award Winning actor, writer, & producer who is best known for playing Saul Goodman's bodyguard, "Huell Babineaux" on AMC's BREAKING BAD. Recent projects include a series regular role on Adult Swim’s new series, SPERM WHALE as well as his on-¬-going recurring roles on THE CRAZY ONES, SUPER FUN NIGHT, and IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA.

Lavell has repeatedly guest hosted the STEVE HARVEY RADIO SHOW and has regular appearances on CHELSEA LATELY, TOSH.0 and WORKAHOLICS. He lends his voice as recurring characters on Adult Swim’s SQUIDBILLIES and his second one-¬-hour special LAVELL CRAWFORD: CAN A BROTHER GET SOME LOVE recently premiered on Comedy Central.

TICKET PRICES: $30 FOR GENERAL ADMISSION, $30 FOR PREFERRED SEATING 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. View picture, web site link, and video at www.SideSplittersComedy.com

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

The Picky Chick Fall Pop-up Consignment Sale Event
Grande Event Center at the Knoxville Expo Center
5441 Clinton Hwy., Knoxville, TN 37912
10 a.m.-8 p.m. August 28 & 29, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. August 30 (Half-price day)

A three-day Fall/Winter pop-up children’s consignment sale event. Shop for baby equipment, cloth diapers, strollers and clothes, gently-worn kids’ clothing, toys and books for up to 50-90% off regular retail prices. All in one place, at one time. This season expect to find deals on winter outerwear, Halloween costumes, toys and video games for Christmas. Shop popular brands for picky teens in the new Juniors’ boutique area. Pay $5 at the door and shop early between 6-8 p.m. August 27 during the Charity presale (Proceeds to benefit a local-area school). More info: http://thepickychick.com; follow on Instagram @thepickychick and on Facebook for regular updates.

Knoxville Choral Society will hold auditions for all voice parts on the evening of Thursday, August 28 from 6-8 p.m. Please call or email for a scheduled appointment time. We will provide the location at that time.

Auditions will include assessment of vocal quality, sight-reading and tonal memory drills. No prepared piece is required. For more information about the Knoxville Choral Society or to download an audition form, visit our Website at www.knoxvillechoralsociety.org.

To schedule an audition time: Please call 865-312-2440 or send an e-mail to membership@knoxvillechoralsociety.org. Once a time is set, location and other details will be provided.

Knoxville Choral Society: 865-579-6292, www.knoxvillechoralsociety.org

ETN-USGBC will host our inaugural DesignSlam Knoxville competition August 28 at 5:30PM at The Standard.

What is DesignSlam Knoxville? ETN-USGBC’s DesignSlam Knoxville competition is opening the doors of the meeting room to the public, allowing you to see how teams pool their knowledge to design solutions to a local issue. Five teams will be competing, including a team of the Univ. of Tennessee’s Art & Architecture faculty, and a team of their students. The teams’ work will be projected onto the walls so the audience can monitor their progress, and evaluate their final designs. This particular competition will focus on constructing a way to seamlessly merge the urban and wilderness parts of the South Haven neighborhood.

I’m not a designer and/or I’m not participating in a team, can I still come? Absolutely. The teams are already formed, now we just need an audience to evaluate their designs. Anyone and everyone is welcome to participate. It’s free and open to the public. In fact, we need the public to vote on which team’s design is the best. Please come eat, drink, and judge who out of the five participating teams has the design you like best. Admission is free, but a $5 donation is encouraged.

Location: The Standard, 16 W. Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN
Cost: Free and open to the public ($5 donation encouraged)
Contact: Peter Osickey at designslamknoxville@gmail.com
http://etnusgbc.org/

Talented Pellissippi State alumni artists return to the Hardin Valley Campus Aug. 25 for a commemorative anniversary art exhibit, “A Look in Both Directions.” Artists include Sharon Bachleda, Paige Burchell, Jessica Burleson, Pete Hoffecker, Daniel Huxtable, Steven Kempster, Jamie Schneider, Pamela Simpson, Bill Warden, Elliott White and Dean Yasko. The exhibit will feature two- and three-dimensional works: sculpture, ceramics, painting, and drawing. Bagwell Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. The exhibit will run through Sept. 12 at the Bagwell Center for Media and Art on the college’s Hardin Valley Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road.

For more information about these and other events in the 2014-2015 Arts at Pellissippi State series, visit www.pstcc.edu/arts or call (865) 694-6400. To request accommodations for a disability, contact the executive director of Human Resources at (865) 694-6607 or humanresources@pstcc.edu.

The Ewing Galleryis pleased to Think / Make/ Think. With works in printmaking, sculpture, design, collage, ceramics, painting, and drawing, digital media, photography, and installation, this exhibition showcases recent work from 19 faculty members from UT's School of Art. Opening Reception is Thursday, August 21 from 6-8pm in the Ewing Gallery.

Please join us on Sunday, September 21 from 2-4PM in the Ewing Gallery for a closing reception celebrating our faculty! Excited to announce that we will have music at the closing reception provided by UT's own Rusty Holloway and Mark Boling of the School of Music jazz faculty!

The exhibition features the work of current professors in the School of Art. Exhibiting faculty are:
Joshua Bienko, Emily Bivens, Sally Brogden, Jason S. Brown, Paul Harrill, Paul Lee, Sarah Lowe, Beauvais Lyons, Frank Martin, Althea Murphy-Price, John Powers, Deborah Shmerler, Jered Sprecher, Cary Staples, Claire Stigliani, David Wilson, Karla Wozniak, Koichi Yamamoto, and Sam Yates

Hours: Tues-Fri 1-5, Sun 1-4

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

The Town of Farragut Arts Council presents Jackie Beckner as the featured artist for August and September. Located at the Farragut Town Hall, her exhibit features handmade sewing creations.

A Knoxville native, Beckner acquired her love of sewing from watching and learning from her mother as a child. When she became a mother, she made clothes for her two daughters, including prom dresses and eventually even a wedding dress. Today, Beckner enjoys sewing children's clothes, purses and other handmade items which she sells to raise funds for missions trips to Haiti. She volunteers with the One Vision International Children's Home in Haiti to teach girls the simple skill of sewing so they will have a means to provide for a family when they age out of the orphanage. Beckner is employed by the Knox County Public Building Authority.

Each month, the work of an artist or group of artists is featured in specially designed cases on the second floor of the rotunda in the Farragut Town Hall. For more information about this exhibit or to access a Featured Artist of the Month application, please contact Lauren Cox at lauren.cox@townoffarragut.org or 966-7057 or visit www.townoffarragut.org/artsandculture.

The Farragut Town Hall is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is located at 11408 Municipal Center Drive directly across from the Farragut Branch Post Office.

This year, events get under way with the inaugural art exhibit at the Blount County Campus: “Quantum Confusion,” featuring the mind-bending artwork of Denise Stewart-Sanabria. The show runs Aug. 18-Oct. 18. The art will be on display in the lobby of the campus, 2731 W. Lamar Alexander Pkwy., during normal business hours, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. each weekday.

The exhibit will feature installations of large charcoal drawings on plywood that suggest the presence of portals, using existing walls and building spaces. Visitors and students will walk through the installation when they visit the Blount County Campus.

Exhibit Reception at Blount County Campus/Pellissippi State on Thursday, September 25 at 5:00pm

For more information about these and other events in the 2014-2015 Arts at Pellissippi State series, visit www.pstcc.edu/arts or call (865) 694-6400. To request accommodations for a disability, contact the executive director of Human Resources at (865) 694-6607 or humanresources@pstcc.edu.

“Radiant Geometry,” an exhibit by Maryville College Professor of Art Dr. Carl Gombert, will be on display in the Clayton Center for the Arts’ Blackberry Farm Gallery. Receptions will be held from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. on Aug. 29 and Sept. 26, in conjunction with the Maryville Last Friday Art Walk.

Gombert’s exhibit will include ink drawings, which consist only of straight lines drawn with a T-square, and rubber stamp monotypes. Most of the pieces Gombert will display in his exhibit were created during a sabbatical last semester. Gombert joined the Maryville College faculty in 1993, and his areas of teaching include painting, drawing and art history. He has exhibited in more than 200 shows throughout the country.

The exhibit is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

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

Knoxville Children’s Theatre will present a new stage adaptation of the epic, medieval legend of King Arthur: Knights Of Camelot. The play will be performed August 15 through 31, Thursdays and Fridays at 7 PM; Saturdays at 1 PM and 5 PM; Sundays at 3 PM. The show is KCT’s 60th full-scale production and features 22 young actors in the cast.

TICKET PRICES: $12. SPECIAL RATE: Any adult & Child entering together = $10 each
RESERVATIONS: by phone at (865) 208-3677, or online
NEW LOCATION: 109 E. Churchwell Avenue; corner of Central & Churchwell Avenues

The play is performed by 22 talented young actors, from ages 9 to 16. KCT veteran performers will play the familiar roles of King Arthur (Andrew Fetterolf), Merlin the Magician (Cody Chaffins), Guinevere (Jaden Lily Branson), and Sir Percival (Zak Terry).
Five actors are making their KCT debuts: Cian Bell, Reece Brown, Brody Copeland, Gemma Nash, and Jacob Sousley.

Knoxville Children's Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-599-5284, www.childrenstheatreknoxville.com. Reservations: tickets@childrenstheatreknoxville.com

Lower galleries
This exhibition of more than 50 photographs traces this influential street photographer's career from 1962 to the present. Lyon rode with a notorious Chicago biker gang, marched against segregation during the Civil Rights Movement, and spent hours inside the death-row "Walls Unit" of Texas' Huntsville Prison. His goal, he said, was "to destroy Life magazine" - to present powerful, real alternatives to the hollow pictures and stories permeating mass media in America. A special group of Lyon's photographs taken during his visit to Knoxville in 1967 will be featured in the KMA's presentation.

August 14, 5:30-7:30pm Exhibition Opening Reception - This World is Not My Home: Danny Lyons Photographs

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 series will include varied musical genres: country, Americana/bluegrass, Scottish tunes, aires and waltzes and opera. All concerts will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday evenings in August. They are free and indoors in air conditioned comfort in the library’s main gallery! All performances in this annual series are sponsored by the Blount County Friends of the Library.

+ August 7: Erin Ott is a 10-year-old country singer who claimed two awards—Female Vocalist of the Year and Female Entertainer of the Year in her age category--at the North American Country Music International's (NACMAI) Country Music Week 2014 in Pigeon Forge.

+ August 14: Ma Crow and the Lady Slippers. This all-female Bluegrass/Americana/Mountain-Music band from Cincinnati, Ohio, is a 3-time nominee for the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards.

+ August 21: The Good Thymes Ceilidh Band. In 2008, The Good Thymes Ceilidh (kay-lee) Band formed from members of the Knoxville Scottish Music Club. They play fiery Scottish tunes along with lovely aires and waltzes.

+ August 28, Knoxville Opera Company. Two opera singers, Kevin Doherty, baritone, and Sarah Fitch, mezzosoprano, will preview the coming season’s Knoxville Opera Company operas. Maestro Brian Salesky, Executive Director and Conductor of Knoxville Opera, will be the guest speaker and accompanist.

Blount County Public Library: 508 N Cusick St, Maryville, TN 37804, (865) 982-0981, www.blountlibrary.org