Calendar of Events

Painting Workshop & Pizza Lunch at Painting with a Twist for children in grades K-8 with autism spectrum disorders. Lunch provided. Cost $25. Children will be painting a “Happy Pumpkin” on canvas. Contact info@artisticspectrum.org for registration information.

Artistic Spectrum: www.artisticspectrum.org

Students will use individual computers to access the oldest and one of the richest free genealogy sites. Many millions of items including names, surname lists, mailing lists, atlases/gazetteers, birth, census, church, court, death, deed, directory, divorce, foreign, land, marriage, military, mortality, native American, naturalization, newspaper, obituary, passenger, state archives, and tax/voter lists. Instructor: Eric Head, BA, and/or Dr. George Schweitzer, PhD, ScD. Pre-registration is required; begins October 6, 2014. Please call 865-215-8809 to register.

East Tennessee Historical Society, 601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Museum hours: Monday-Friday: 9AM-4PM, Saturday: 10AM-4PM, Sunday: 1-5PM. Library: Monday-Tuesday: 9AM-8:30PM, Wednesday-Friday: 9AM-5:30PM, Saturday: 9AM-5PM, Sunday 1-5PM. Information: 865-215-8824, www.easttnhistory.org

The Historic 4th and Gill neighborhood would like to invite you to our first annual
ARToberfest Knoxville festival, on Saturday, October 18 from 4-10pm, a community festival with an arts focus, in the style of Germany’s Oktoberfest!
As part of the festivities, we will be having an Arts and Crafts show, showcasing and selling work from the fine artists and craftspersons in our region, set up within the festival at the intersection of Morgan and Gratz streets. There will be many other activities on the block including a Biergarten offering high-quality German foods and beer, a 3-Dimensional Fine Art exhibition, live music, and family fun.

www.artoberfestknox.com.

“Intro to herbal medicine”, taught by Susan J. Fidler, owner of Riverdell Herbs, LLC. Cost per student is $10.00. Susan is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild.

Sam Houston Historic Schoolhouse, 3650 Sam Houston Rd, Maryville, TN 37804
Info: 865-983-1550, http://samhoustonhistoricschoolhouse.org

Don Cassell and Danny Gammon are familiar faces on Knoxville’s music scene and have been music pals for years. Don is the formidable mandolin player with the legendary bluegrass band the Dismembered Tennesseans as well as Knoxville’s Tennessee Sheiks. Danny plays old-time fiddle for contra dances and performs in other bands playing guitar and mandolin as well as singing solo and harmony vocals. Some of his endeavors include the jug band Y’uns, the Music Therapy jam session and of course the duo with Don known as The Dando Dondo Show.

Tickets, if available, will be for sale at the door for $12.

The Laurel Theater is located on the corner of 16th and Laurel Avenue in the historic Fort Sanders neighborhood of Knoxville near the UT campus. For additional information, call (865) 522-5851, e-mail concerts@jubileearts.org, or visit www.jubileearts.org.

Professional Development Workshop
Knoxville Museum of Art
1050 World’s Fair Park, Knoxville TN 37916 | 865-525-6101
Cost: Free

This training program is for educators and/or teaching artists of students with disabilities. The program focuses on developing skills and capacity to intentionally serve and specifically include students with disabilities in the arts. The program will build skills and knowledge to apply sound pedagogical principles, quality curricula, and standards based/aligned instructional materials that support teaching and learning, and that develop artistic skills and cultural literacy of students with disabilities. The program prepares educators and/or teaching artists to improve student academic achievement and intellectual development; enhance critical thinking, problem solving and communication skills; and enrich social and interpersonal skills.

Participants will experience sessions in Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Arts. The program is provided FREE of charge, but lunch is not provided.

For more information about this free educational program contact VSA Tennessee (615) 210-8819 or visit our website at www.vsatn.org

The October Sky Festival takes place in Oliver Springs. Local artists and craftspeople. Not just for visual artists. Our Roane Writers Group will be there with us, offering their student anthologies and members' published works.

Arts Council of Roane County, P.O. Box 1175, Kingston, TN 37763, www.artscouncilrc.com

The Pope Benedict XVI Schola proudly presents a concert of sacred choral music from Renaissance England at Holy Ghost Church in Knoxville. There is no charge for the program, but donations will be gratefully accepted to support the group's music budget, which is entirely self-funded, as well as Holy Ghost Church.

The schola’s repertory for the concert includes works in English and Latin by Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Christopher Tye, and John Sheppard. Although England was shaken by bloody religious strife during the Renaissance period, its composers nevertheless produced some of the most beautiful music ever written. In several cases, England's most renowned composers wrote works for both the Catholic Church and the new Church of England.

The concert will also feature a set of sacred songs by soprano Maria Magdalena Rist and lutenist Thomas Tallent. Both are frequent performers with the Knoxville Early Music Project (KEMP).

The church is located at 1041 N. Central Street, Knoxville, TN 37917. Schola members come from churches throughout Knoxville, and the group’s director is Mary C. Weaver. The Pope Benedict XVI Schola rehearses on Monday evenings at Holy Ghost and welcomes singers ages 18 and up. For more information, call 865-437-8620 or e-mail mary@b16schola.org.

Vine Art will be displayed at Boo at the Zoo, as well as the Vine dancers will be dancing to Thriller and The Vine Chorus and band will also perform.

Vine Middle Magnet School
1807 Martin Luther King Jr Ave, Knoxville, TN 37915
(865) 594-4461 or http://vinems.knoxschools.org

Knoxville Zoo, 3500 Knoxville Zoo Drive, Knoxville, TN 37914. Open every day except Christmas. Information: 865-637-5331, www.knoxville-zoo.org

R&M Tribute Entertainment present “Tributes to the Kings of Entertainment, Elvis-Cash-M.J.” The entertainment will be held at High Places Community Church at The Grove (historical Grove Theater) located at 123 Randolph Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Admission is $15.00 per person. A portion of the show proceeds will be given to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital and High Places Community Church. For advanced reserved seats contact R&M Tribute Entertainment at (865) 684-6082 or tribute.entertainment.com. Tickets may also be purchased at the door at 6:15 PM.

Celebrate the beautiful autumn weather by building natural abodes for your woodland friends! You can choose to construct a fairy house, gnome home or even a hobbit hole! We will provide all the natural materials you will need; you just need to supply your endless creativity and imagination. Participants are invited to bring a picnic lunch to enjoy in the fairy grove after the event! The fee for this program is $10 per building site. Please call (865) 577-4717, ext. 110 to register. Open to all ages!

Saturday October 18th, 2014 from 10:00 AM to 1:30 PM. at the Knoxville Transit Center.

Is the idea of solar power appealing to you but don't know where to begin? Do you want to learn more about solar energy in Tennessee and in general? Join us for the fifth annual solar tour and learn all about the boundless benefits of solar energy while touring several solar sites in and around Knoxville.

The Tennessee Solar Energy Association in collaboration with the City of Knoxville will meet for the tour at the Knox Area Transit (KAT) center. The KAT center is located at 301 E Church Ave. There is free parking available at the Coliseum parking garage There will be 30 available seats on the bus on a first come, first serve basis. The remaining participants will be able to car-pool and follow the bus on its route. Prior to departure, participants will receive a detailed handout listing and describing the stops on departure.

At the KAT transit center will will view the solar array located on the transit center building as well as the Civic Coliseum Parking Garage solar installation. We will then begin the bus tour at 10:25 AM. We will be viewing the following 4 sites: The historic Jacobs Building, the SPECTRUM solar farm exhibit at the East Town Mall, The Meek Residence in west Knoxville, and the offices of Green Earth Solar, a local solar installer. We will have our lunch break in-transit between the SPECTRUM exhibit and the Meek Residence. Participants on the bus will be given a free brown bag lunch provided by a local vendor. You will be able to dismount the bus and tour the sites. Feel free to ask questions at any time.

We will return to the Knoxville Transit Center at 1:30 PM. If, after the tour, you want more information on solar energy, or have any questions concerning the tour, contact steve@tnsolarenergy.org
(865) 974-9218 (office)
(865) 805-2313 (cell)