Calendar of Events

Saturday September 27 *10 am - 5 pm

All day - Townsend Artisans Guild Art tent - Fair-goers can once again create their own art project to take home.
All Day - Farmer in the Cove - Interactive children's exhibit offering kids of all ages the chance to experience country living in "days gone by".

$5 per person, Free for GSMHC members

Join us for our biggest and one of our most popular events of the year featuring contests, competitions, music and demonstrations.

Schedule of Events
10:15 am Welcome / Opening Ceremony
10:30 am Uncle Bob's Old Timey Singing Circle
11:30 am Catch A Greased Pig Contest
12 Noon Music by Baker Creek
1 pm Music Randy McGinnis - Native American Flute
1:30 pm Best of Show Awards
1:45 pm Rooster Crowing Contest
2 pm Catch a Greased Pig Contest
3 pm Lodge Ladies Skillet Throw
4 pm Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest

Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center | Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center | PO Box 268 | 123 Cromwell Drive | Townsend | TN | 37882 | www.gsmheritagecenter.org

The Knoxville Museum of Art presents the Latino Art Exhibit in the Corridor Gallery. The select works of nine local Hispanic artists will be featured including works from June Crowe, Susana Esrequis, Astrid Galindo, Angel Luna, Cecilia Stella Martin, Rosalina Tipton, Irene Torrealba, Loren Velazquez, and Luis Velazquez. The exhibit captures the diversity in styles of Hispanic artists residing in East Tennessee and of those who support the mission of LoLa Hora Latina.

Notes about three of the artists in the show:
Rosalina Tipton always tries to express beauty and spontaneity in her work even though her style borders on the abstract. She aims to have a connection with the real world and her personal life experiences. She primarily uses oils, mixed media on canvas, and wood and was influenced by the culture of her native Brazil.
Irene Torrealba, who was born and raised in Santiago, Chile, displays special interests in realism in water color and oil. She especially enjoys painting country landscapes that connect with her memories of her childhood, family, and travels.
For Susana Esrequis, painting is a time when her imagination and feelings come together and when she finds peace in genuine and simple things. Her works often depict pristine landscapes from both South America and North America.

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

I would like to invite you to a Fortepiano Residency on Sept. 26 and 27 at the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center. There will be a recital on Friday evening the 26th at 8pm featuring Janice Wenger (fortepiano) and Julie Rosenfeld (violin) performing four early Mozart violin/piano sonatas.

On Saturday morning from 9:30- 11:30 Professor Wenger will present “Haydn and Clementi Sonatinas: Defining the Classical Sound.” The following repertoire will be discussed: Clementi Op. 36 and Haydn Sonatas Hob.XVI: 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. Following the workshop, audience members will be able to briefly try the instrument.

Winner of the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town has been hailed as the greatest American play ever written. The story follows the small town of Grover’s Corners through three acts: “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage,” and “Death and Eternity.” Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, audiences follow the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually—in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre—die.

Show dates are Thursday-Saturday, September 25-27 and October 2-4 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, September 28 at 2:00 pm in the Sue E. Trotter Black Box Theater at The Arts Center in Athens, Tennessee. More details TBA.

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

Side Splitters Comedy Club in Knoxville is currently open under a new management team that is committed to keeping a full time comedy club alive and well in the community. If Knoxville wants to keep its comedy club, then its residents need to come out to see the shows now.

There are 5 shows this weekend, September 25 - 27, with Nathan Brannon of the Seattle Comedy Festival. Nathan takes the audience on a ride full of witty stories, clever punch lines, and amusing shadow puppets. He brings smiles and hilarious anecdotes to the stage every time he grabs the microphone. Nathan also added this sentence because he needed a higher word count.

Side Splitters Comedy Club – Knoxville
9246 Parkwest Boulevard
Knoxville, TN 37923
865.934.5233
www.KnoxvilleStandup.com

Current Exhibits at the Rose Center, Morristown, now thru October 17.

21st Annual Quilt Show
Over 70 handmade quilts
Edith Davis Gallery

Theatre Guild: Past, Present & Future
Celebrating 80 years of Tennessee's oldest communtiy theatre
Hal Noe Gallery

The Rose Center, 442 West Second North St., Morristown, TN, 37814.
423-581-4330, www.rosecenter.org

Bob Patterson, Director of the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center and Don M. Alexander, Cades Cove Heritage Tour Manager announced the 2014 Cades Cove Heritage Tours schedule of specialty tours.

Advance reservations are required.
Limit of 17 guests per tour.
Call 865-448-8838 for reservations.

Sam Venable, author, columnist, humorist, and naturalist will highlight points of interest in the GSM National Park. The 3 1/2 - 4 hour tour is $50 per person and will depart from the GSM Heritage Center at 9:30 am on the following Saturdays: May 10, August 23, September 20, October 18.

The Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center is a not for profit museum
and is located between the traffic light and the national park entrance,
on scenic Highway 73.
For more information, please call 865-448-0044

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/

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