Calendar of Events

Husband-and-wife guitar-playing duo Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi united a few years ago to form a new roots rock band. Now, when you listen to the carefully selected 11-piece bluesy-rock group - Tedeschi Trucks Band - you never know just what will be the highlight of each show or which band member will be the one to shine in the next moment. Be sure not to miss them at the Tennessee Theatre on Sunday, January 25th.

Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information/tickets: 865-684-1200, www.tennesseetheatre.com, www.ticketmaster.com

The Showcase Concert
The Grove Theater

The Showcase Concert concert highlights small ensembles made up of many of our band members with a variety of groups and music to delight everyone!

The Oak Ridge Wind Ensemble/The Oak Ridge Community Band: P. O. Box 6980, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6980, 865-483-3044, www.orcb.org

Hailed for her superstar quality, the distinguished Taiwanese pianist Ching-Yun Hu is acclaimed worldwide for her dazzling technique, deeply probing musicality and directly communicative performance style. She was named a winner of the 2009 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, and in 2008, she captured the top prize and the Audience Favorite Prize at the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv. Her career has flourished with a host of engagements on five continents. She currently serves on the faculty of the Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance at Philadelphia's Temple University.

UT School of Music, Natalie L. Haslam Music Center, Sandra Powell Recital Hall, 1741 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville TN 37916
Tickets available online at youngpianistseries.com and onsite before the performance. Adult season ticket $65; individual performance $25. Students admitted free.
Information: 865-408-8083

Join the writer/director and producer team of Paul Harrill and Ashley Maynor on January 25 at 2:00 p.m. at Lawson McGhee Library for an inside view of their new film, Something, Anything.

It is the quiet, lyrical story of a young woman who loses the life she expected to have but gains one she never dared to imagine. Filmed on location in Knoxville, with many scenes set in Lawson McGhee Library, Something, Anything features many fine Knoxville actors in key roles. The film is now making its way, to great acclaim, around the independent film world.

Paul and Ashley will discuss the film including the technical challenges of filming the phenomenon of synchronous fireflies in Elkmont.

Knox County Public Library: 500 West Church Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-215-8750, www.knoxlib.org

The award-winning SAFTA Reading Series proudly presents, Luci Brown and Ben McClendon. The two poets will be reading at The Birdhouse in the Fourth & Gill neighborhood, 800 N 4th Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917

Luci Brown is the author for the chapbook, Home Brew, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She is a managing editor for Stirring: A Literary Collection. Her poems have previously appeared or are forthcoming in Moon City Review, Wherewithal, and scissors & spackle. She was the 2012 recipient of the Margaret Artley Woodruff prize from the University of Tennessee where she majored in Creative Writing. In the fall, she plans to attend an MFA program yet to be determined.

Ben McClendon is working on a PhD in creative writing at the University of Tennessee after graduate work at Northern Arizona University. His poetry has appeared in Indiana Review, Chautauqua, Yemassee, Toad Suck Review, Redivider, and Rattle. He lives with his husband in Knoxville.

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Sundress Academy for the Arts: 195 Tobby Hollow Ln, Knoxville, TN 37931, (865) 560-6106,safta@sundresspublications.com, http://www.sundresspublications.com/safta

The Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra will present “Peter and the Wolf” and Vivaldi’s “Spring” in a free family concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25, at the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge.

Children are invited to come early for paper puppet making and instrument making beginning at 2 p.m. at the museum, 461 W. Outer Dr., which is offering free admission from 1-5 p.m. Sunday to support the concert. Puppets from the “Peter and the Wolf” story are in the Anna Cebrat Puppet Room at the museum, where children may act out the story in the puppet theater in the week leading up to the concert.

A small symphony orchestra will perform the musical story of “Peter and the Wolf,” by Sergei Prokofiev. The composer considered the music as a child’s introduction to the orchestra, with each character represented by a different instrument or group of instruments. The strings represent Peter, for example, and the horn section represents the wolf.

Dan Alcott will conduct the orchestra, and Matt Shafer Powell, of WUOT-FM, will be the narrator.

Special guest violinist Hannah Shipstad, 11-year-old winner of the Youth Aliyah competition in Oak Ridge, will perform with the orchestra in Vivaldi’s “Spring.”
Children may listen to the Vivaldi’s “Spring,” composed in the 1720s, to find signs of the season. The violin concerto is part of “The Four Seasons,” among Vivaldi’s best-known and most popular works.

For more information, see the symphony web site at www.OakRidgeSymphony.org, and the Children’s Museum web site at www.childrensmuseumofoakridge.org.

Marble City Opera will present La Femme Bohème, an all-female cast of Puccini’s opera La Bohème at NV nightclub in Knoxville, Tennessee at 7:30pm on January 24th and January 31st, 2015. The production will be presented with chamber orchestra, conducted by Peter Leonard, former Artistic Director of the Volkstheater in Rostock, Germany.

Marble City Opera was founded in May of 2013 and continues to make waves in the Knoxville music scene. In 2014, Artistic Director and soprano, Kathryn Frady’s world premiere performance of Amelia Lost received the high honor of being named the Most Memorable Operatic Performance in Knoxville by Alan Sherrod in Arts Knoxville.

The La Femme Bohème cast will feature online magazine Sexi Soprano writers as well as Knoxville favorites, including Kathryn Frady as Musetta and Metropolitan Opera National Council Regional Semi-Finalist, Linda Barnett as Rodolfo. There will be an open bar before, during, and after the performance. Admission is $20 for adults, and $10 for students. Tickets may be purchased at the door or online at knoxtix.com.

The work in this exhibition explores the non-objective and propositional quality that sculpture can have, and the ways in which we can understand something devoid of specificity and illustration. Presented on custom-built risers and linear structures, individual components are often physically or conceptually networked together with arrangements of objects ranging from the random and chaotic to the precise and articulate. Through careful positioning and intentional framing the works are suggestive of abstracted models and diagrammatic systems that allude to a sculptural logic that is both pragmatic and allusive at the same time.

Paul Sacaridiz will be lecturing at UT in room 109 of the Art and Architecture building on Thursday, January 22 at 7:30 PM. There will be an opening reception the following evening, Friday, January 23, with the artist at the UT Downtown Gallery from 5-9PM. We hope you can make it to these events.

UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Wednesday-Friday: 11AM - 6PM, Saturday: 10AM - 3PM. Information: 865-673-0802, http://web.utk.edu/~downtown

Drawn from the McClung Museum is an innovative exhibition project involving 28 artists, each of whom will produce original prints in response to objects from the collection of the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture. The exhibition will pair the objects and the prints to address how we perceive and interpret art, science, and culture. Like the museum itself, the objects are varied, ranging from a mastodon mandible and an Egyptian ibis mummy, to a Victorian hair necklace and an Ojibwa men’s ceremonial dance apron.

The exhibition is being held in conjunction with the SGC International Printmaking Conference, which will bring 1,500 printmakers to Knoxville from the United States and abroad March 18–21, 2015.

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

Tennessee Stage Company Presents Its 6th Timeless Work – A Benefit Production of HARVEY

Where: The Historic Southern Railway Station, 300 West Depot Avenue
When: Jan. 22 – Feb. 1, 8:00 pm Thursday – Saturday; 2:00 pm Sunday matinees

Tickets on sale now: limited availability. Call (865) 546-4280 for reservations or go online to purchase tickets through Paypal at www.tennesseestage.com. General Admission: $ 15; Students/Seniors $ 12. Group discounts available.

The Tennessee Stage Company, known to Knoxville audiences for Shakespeare On The Square and the New Play Festival returns to our Timeless Works series this winter with the Mary Chase’s classic comedy, Harvey. This most gentle of comedies is the story of a most unconventional man who has dropped out of the rat race to live a simple life with his most unusual best friend, Harvey, who just happens to be a six foot tall invisible white rabbit! Harvey is a collaboration with the Historic Southern Railway Station newly renovated and now being operated as an event space by the Blueslip Winery. This beautiful structure is a perfect backdrop for the simplicity and whimsy of the story of Elwood P. Dowd and his rabbit. Timeless Works was conceived by the Stage Company as a benefit series to help raise funds for our other programs, Shakespeare On The Square, the New Play Festival and our Education and Outreach programs. All the artists donate their time and talents and all funds raised go directly back into the work of the Company.

Tennessee Stage Company: 865-546-4280, www.tennesseestage.com

Arrowmont invites exhibiting artists and their families, members of our community and the public to the 17th Sevier County Biennial Juried Exhibition celebrating the creative talent within Sevier County. The opening reception will be held Friday, January 16 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM in the Sandra J. Blain Galleries and the exhibit will be on display through March 13, 2015. The Gallery is open Monday – Friday 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM and Saturday 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Tours are available by reservation, and can be arranged by calling 865-436-5860. The opening reception, gallery and tours are free to the public.

Arrowmont is grateful to Sherry Masters, owner of Art Connections in Asheville, North Carolina, who served as juror this year. With over 140 entries and 103 works of art accepted into the exhibition, this show is a glowing testament to the artistic talent and dedication of Sevier County residents. Of the works accepted, 13 were chosen to receive awards. The artists will be presented their awards on the evening of the gallery reception.

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, 556 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. Information: 865-436-5860, www.arrowmont.org

Free and open to the public - Opening reception January 16 from 6 to 7:30 p.m.; artists’ talks at 6:30 p.m.

Claudia Dean - I Live in Knoxville Now
Through her watercolors, Dean tries to express Knoxville through images of its places. She begins with a photograph, which allows her to isolate and formalize the image before she draws. The photographs are "snapshots" of places that resonate for her and she wants to express the feeling of intimacy and significance in the image. She acknowledges her love of craft and repetition in the quilt pieces, which are intended to convey feeling or emotion in a more musical way than the representational images. She carries over discoveries and lessons learned in each type of work to the other. Dean was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and studied painting and printmaking at Kansas City Art Institute. She was a craft jeweler in Albuquerque for many years, selling work in craft galleries in the southwest and California. In 2003 Dean moved to Knoxville with her family and returned to two-dimensional artwork.

Mark Evans - En Plein Aire
Evans has always enjoyed taking pictures in national parks, and he likes to bring joy and beauty to the viewer. He entitled this show “En Plein Aire” because just as the invention of oil paints in tubes allowed people to work outdoors in the countryside and get the images they wanted, digital photography has allowed Evans to create the images he wants. He started taking photographs as a child with his father’s old camera. He shot black and white film and did his own darkroom work because he couldn’t afford color slide film. What he really liked was slide shows of people’s trips. Eventually he could afford slide film and he hasn’t been in a darkroom since. He’s been doing digital photography for five years. eBooks of Evans’ national park pictures can be found at marksparks.us.

Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday 9AM-5PM, Friday 9AM-4:30PM, Sunday 9AM-1PM. Information: 865-523-4176, www.tvuuc.org