Calendar of Events

R&M Tribute Entertainment will host a fundraiser to include Gospel & Elvis entertainment for “Baby Luke” at Christus Victor Lutheran Church located at 4110 Central Avenue Pike, Knoxville, TN 37912. A donation of $10.00 per person. All proceeds will be donated to the parents of Baby Luke - Jessie and Harriett Lough to help with surmounting medical expenses. For more information contact Missy Miller/R&M Tribute Entertainment at (865) 684-6082 or tribute.entertainment@yahoo.com.

Luke Lough was born August 29th, 2013. He was born with multiple, congenital heart defects to include Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. The left side of the heart is underdeveloped and Transposition of the Great Arteries in which two large arteries that carry blood out of the heart is abnormally connected to the muscle. Luke has already had open heart surgery and most recently had surgery for a pace maker. You can follow Luke’s progress on Facebook at “Prayers for Luke.”

Elvis Tribute Artist, Ronnie Miller will be performing gospel music and a stage style tribute to the King of Rock N’ Roll – “Elvis Presley.” We will also offer concession, silent auction items, raffles and a 50/50. All the proceeds from the fundraiser activities will benefit the parents of Baby Luke. If you have any questions please contact Missy Miller at (865) 684-6082 or tribute.entertainment.com. The doors will open at 5:15 PM. Location for the event is Christus Victor Lutheran Church at 4110 Central Avenue Pike, Knoxville, TN 37912.

Based on the classic works of Dr. Seuss. Horton the Elephant, The Cat In The Hat, and many more of the beloved characters created by Dr. Seuss will spring to life onstage at Knoxville Children’s Theatre in Seussical, Jr. The play is a musical extravaganza from Tony-winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty that has thrilled audiences all around the world.

Although Horton faces ridicule, danger, kidnapping, and a trial, the intrepid Gertrude McFuzz never loses faith in him. Ultimately, the powers of friendship, loyalty, family, and community are challenged and emerge triumphant!

Performances are generally Thursdays and Fridays at 7 PM, Saturdays at 1 PM and 5 PM, and Sundays at 3 PM.

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

The WordPlayers presents Steel Magnolias on Sept. 19, 20, 25, 26, 27 @ 7:30 & Sept. 21 & 28 @ 2:30 at Erin Presbyterian Church, 200 Lockett Rd., Knoxville.

The quintessential story of family and friendship in a unique Southern sisterhood, Steel Magnolias is a skillfully crafted portrayal of eccentricity, loyalty and love set in a small-town beauty parlor. The play is alternately hilarious and touching—and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the antic banter of its characters. (Recommended for ages 13+)

Tickets range from $10-$15 and may be purchased online at www.wordplayers.org or at the door with cash or check. Group Rate available and Thursday is Pay What You Can Night. For more information, call 865.539.2490

The Lyric Theatre Company presents The Importance of Being Earnest
Play by Oscar Wilde.

September 19 & 20 8 PM
September 21 2 PM
September 26 & 27 8 PM
September 28Tickets to theatre events may be purchased online using Paypal or by calling the Lyric Theatre at (865) 458-9020 - Mastercard and Visa accepted. Box office opens one hour prior to show time. Online orders will be sent an order confirmation by e-mail. Tickets will be held at the Box Office under the name of the person ordering the tickets. 2 PM.

320 Grove Street, Loudon, TN 37774 (865) 458-9020 * mailto:thelyrictheatre@bellsouth.net
http://www.lyricloudontn.com/

This event, sponsored by the University of Tennessee and the Arab American Club of Knoxville, will include museum displays, academic lectures, activity booths, Middle Eastern cuisine, Arabic music, and other cultural activities.

Arab Cultural Fair
3:00 p.m. September 19 through 5:00 p.m. September 20, 2014
Admission free and open to the pubic
http://religion.utk.edu/arabia/

McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Dr on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 9AM-5PM, Sunday, 1-5PM. Information: 865-974-2144, http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu

Join WDVX and Freddy Smith at Dumplin Valley Bluegrass Festival in Kodak, TN
We're a proud supporter of the Dumplin Valley Bluegrass Festival, and we're looking forward to all the pickin' and grubbin! Stop by the WDVX table to pick up some merch, find out more about WDVX, and say hi to Freddy and his chicken!

12:30-1:30 Adkins & Loudermilk
1:30 - 2:30 The Little Roy & Lizzy Show
2:30 - 3:30 Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice
3:30 - 4:30 Jimbo Whaley & Greenbrier
4:30 - 5:30 SUPPER BREAK
5:30 - 6:30 Adkins & Loudermilk
6:30 - 7:30 The Little Roy & Lizzy Show
7:30 - 8:30 Jimbo Whaley & Greenbrier
8:30 - 9:30 Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice
9:30 - 11:00 Cordle, Jackson & Salley
Friday, September 19

Noon - 1:00 Donna Ulisse & The Poor Mountain Boys
1:00 - 2:00 Volume 5
2:00 - 3:00 James King
3:00 - 4:00 Balsam Range
4:00 - 5:00 Rhonda Vincent & The Rage
5:00 - 6:00 SUPPER BREAK
6:00 - 7:00 Volume 5
7:00 - 8:00 Donna Ulisse & The Poor Mountain Boys
8:00 - 9:00 James King
9:00 - 10:00 Balsam Range
10:00 - 11:00 Rhonda Vincent & The Rage

Saturday, September 20

Noon - 1:00 Darin & Brooke Aldridge
1:00 - 2:00 The Spinney Brothers
2:00 - 3:00 The Bankesters
3:00 - 4:00 Sideline
4:00 - 5:00 Lonesome River Band
5:00 - 6:00 SUPPER BREAK
6:00 - 7:00 The Bankesters
7:00 - 8:00 The Spinney Brothers
8:00 - 9:00 Darin & Brooke Aldridge
9:00 - 10:00 Sideline
10:00 - 11:00 Lonesome River Band

Please check schedule before making your plans as this schedule is subject to change.
Dumplin Valley Bluegrass Festival: www.dumplinvalleybluegrass.com

Art-a-palooza is the Fountain City Art Center’s fabulous fall fundraiser, now in its 10th year!

Inside all three days: great bargains on artwork, pottery, priints, jewelry, decorative items, collector's plates, frames, easels, art supplies, home baked goods!
Saturday, outdoors: Artists' booths, art activities for the whole family, live music all day, food booths, Phil Campbell's stories.

September 18-20: Artists will be on site inside the Center doing demonstrations. Original paintings, easels, frames, art supplies, prints, pottery, jewelry, glassware, and decorative items will be on sale for bargain prices, along with a few small household items, all donated by Center members and area artists! Home-baked goods will be on sale all three days!

Saturday, September 20 from 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM is Family Day with interactive art activities booths for all ages! Saturday, September 20 from 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM is Family Day with interactive art activities booths for all ages! We have 7 art activities booths set up for children, hosted by Central High School National Art Honor Society students. Family passes good for all these activities are $10 and individual passes are $5. No charge just to browse inside or out! Several musical groups will be playing on the grounds 11:30 AM – 4:30 PM. We’re thrilled to have Andy LeGrand on guitar and Chris Brock on mandolin, and two-time National Dulcimer Champion, Tim Simek in the line-up. Our food booths will be selling crepes, chili, and hot dogs. Family, fun with art, food, and music: How could you go wrong!

We will be offering $10 Family Passes on Saturday, good for all the children’s art activities booths. Also on Saturday only, local musicians will be playing on the grounds 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM.

Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37918. Information: 865-357-2787, www.fountaincityartctr.com

The UT Knoxville School of Art is pleased to announce that Natalia Jerzak and Sebastian Łubiński will present “Markings,” an exhibition of their prints and other works at Gallery 1010 from September 18-20th, 2015. A reception will be held on Friday September 19th, from 6-9pm.

Jerzak and Łubiński are printmaking students from The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland, and are spending the month of September as guest artists at UT. Their campus residency is part of an exchange that also allows two students from The University of Tennessee to spend time in Wrocław each May. During their residency they work in the School of Art printmaking studios, sharing their experiences with the UT students.

Gallery 1010 is located at 113 S. Gay St. and is open Thursdays through Saturdays from 1-4pm. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Beauvais Lyons (blyons@utk.edu) or http://art.utk.edu/printmaking/index.html.

The Guild of the Knoxville Museum of Art presents Art Fair KMA 2014 September 14-20 at the museum. Art Fair KMA 2014 encompasses Artscapes, the Guild’s popular annual art sale and gala, as well as a day of family art activities. Festivities begin with a kickoff brunch and sale preview on Sunday, September 14; continue with a gala masked ball and art auction on Friday, September 19; and wrap up with an exciting day of free family art activities on Saturday, September 20. The purpose of Art Fair KMA 2014 is to raise money for museum programs and engage a broad and diverse segment of the community in museum activities.

The kick-off preview brunch on Sunday, September 14, noon-3pm, features a first look at the Artscapes art offerings. Preview brunch reservations are $40 per person.
Items for sale can also be previewed free of charge during regular museum hours Tuesday September 16-Friday September 19.
The gala Artscapes art auction begins on Friday evening September 19 with a reception and silent auction at 6:30, and dinner and live auction at 8:30, with a stellar group of more than 70 carefully selected works by artists of regional and national reputation. This year Artscapes has a masked ball theme. Another new feature is the offering for sale of sculpture specifically designed for outdoor display, as well as painted ceramic plates and bowls painted by local young people and inspired by the KMA collection. Artscapes: A Masked Ball reservations are $150 per person.

Art Fair KMA culminates in a full day of family art activities on Saturday, September 20 10am-6pm. Approximately 50 artists will offer live demonstrations and have work available for sale around the museum grounds. Visitors can enjoy a display of vintage motorcycles organized by Time Warp Room Motorcycle Club, and delicious meals from the food trucks parked around the museum. Family activities will also extend across the street, where the Kids of Fort Kid Committee, a team of volunteers, will be hosting a work day to preserve the much-loved playground and city landmark.

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

Saturday, September 13 - 3:00
Kerry Madden – “Offsides,” memoir

Thursday, September 18 - 6:00
Amber Roessner – “Inventing Base-ball Heroes,” non-fiction

Friday, September 19 - 6:00
Carol Bradley – “The Last Chain on Billie,” non-fiction

Wednesday, September 24 - Noon
Bookaholics Book Group - “The Good Lord Bird,” fiction

Tuesday, September 30 - 6:00
Perre Coleman Magness –“Pimento Cheese: The Cookbook”

Union Ave Books, 517 Union Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902, (865) 951-2180, www.unionavebooks.com

Drawing on the collections of the McClung Museum, the University of Tennessee Library’s Special Collections, as well as private collections, this exhibit explores the fascinating intersection of art and science in the tradition of natural history illustration and features over fifty rare books, prints, and objects.

From 16th century imaginings of fantastical beasts, to the extremely accurate 19th illustrations of plants and animals, the works on view highlight how increasing access to travel, technology, and books, as well as the evolution of the field of science, changed how these artful illustrations were created and interpreted. The curators of the exhibit, Catherine Shteynberg and Christine Dano Johnson, are available for interviews or walkthroughs of the exhibit, and can be contacted directly at: cshteynb@utk.edu, 865-974-6921.

McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Dr on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 9AM-5PM, Sunday, 1-5PM. Information: 865-974-2144, http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu

Photography exhibit, David Habercom
Art Exhibit at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church
Free and open to the public

Opening reception Sept. 12 from 6 to 7:30 p.m.; artists’ talks at 6:30 p.m.
Exhibit runs Sept. through Oct. 2014

Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Gallery: 2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37918, www.davidhabercom.com