Calendar of Events

Celebrating its 40th Anniversary Season!
by William Shakespeare; Directed by John Sipes

Hermia loves Lysander and Helena loves Demetrius – but Demetrius is supposed to be marrying Hermia. When the Duke of Athens tries to enforce the marriage, the lovers take refuge in the woods and wander into a dispute between the king and queen of the fairies. In Shakespeare’s family-friendly comedy, anything is possible when young lovers – human and fairy royalty – and an amateur theater troupe reel through romance and spell craft in a moonlit Athenian forest.

To enhance the audience experience, the CBT will continue, and in some cases expand, several popular programs in 2014-2015.

“Deaf Night at the Theatre” has been expanded to include Tuesday, March 3 for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Produced through a partnership with UT’s Center on Deafness, these special events are designed to be fully accessible for members of the Deaf community with more than a dozen interpreters stationed throughout the theater and two teams interpreting the productions.

Open captioned productions also will continue in the new season, taking place on the first Sunday matinee of each show. Talk backs, which are informative discussions with the director and cast, will continue to take place following the second Sunday matinee of each show.

Clarence Brown Theatre / Carousel Theatre, 1714 Andy Holt Ave on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. For information: 865-974-5161, www.clarencebrowntheatre.com. For tickets: 865-974-5161, 865-656-4444, www.knoxvilletickets.com

Athens Community Theatre announces the winter 2015 musical production of Pippin, book by Roger O. Hirson, music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Show dates for Pippin are February 19 - March 1, 2015.

Pippin is directed by Art Kimball with musical direction by Ellen Kimball. Sylvia Gossett is the accompanist, Angie Hudson the choreographer, and Amanda Haun the costume designer.

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

2014-2015 Moxley Carmichael Masterworks Season

In February, the Knoxville Choral Society returns to join the orchestra for a powerful performance of Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, conducted by Lucas Richman. This piece is a religious cantata scored for soloists, choir and orchestra based on the text of the Stabat Mater. With the Knoxville Choral Society.

At the Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Tickets and information: 865-291-3310, www.knoxvillesymphony.com

For the second year, East Tennessee PBS presents free screenings and discussions around award-winning PBS documentary films that air as part of Independent Lens (Mondays at 10 p.m.). Knoxville is one of 75 U.S. cities taking part in the Community Cinema series, which this year celebrates 10 years of uniting people through independent film.

Producers of Independent Lens regularly report to East Tennessee PBS that area viewership of the Monday night documentaries ranks among the highest in the country.

Community Cinema screenings will be held at Scruffy City Hall in Market Square.

Screening:
American Denial
Thursday, February 19, 6 p.m.

In 1944 Nobel Laureate Gunnar Myrdal asked: How could America’s belief in liberty and equality also enable Jim Crow segregation? American Denial uses Myrdal’s inquiry to probe — through a diverse chorus of commentators — the power of unconscious biases today in what some have called post-racial America.

Not many college football quarterbacks follow their dream to Nashville to become a musician, but that’s exactly whatSam Hunt did. Now a nationally recognized country singer, Hunt’s new album Montevallo has become country music’s best-selling debut album since 2011. This album includes Hunt’s platinum single “Leave The Night On.”

Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information/tickets: 865-522-0832, www.knoxbijou.com, www.ticketmaster.com

Save the date to raise a glass with our celebrities!

Join us Thursday, February 19th for happy hour at Echo Bistro (http://www.echobistro.com/) in Bearden. Order up fantastic drink and appetizer specials, served by our soon-to-be-announced celebrity bartenders, as they help raise awareness and support for the EAST TENNESSEE COMMUNITY DESIGN CENTER.

1300 N. Broadway Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-525-9945, www.CommunityDC.org

Free preview screening of American Denial
WHERE: Scruffy City Hall in Market Square
DETAILS: For more information, visit http://www.easttennesseepbs.org/news-and-events/community-cinema/

East Tennessee PBS presents an advance screening of American Denial, a film by Llewellyn Smith, Christine Herbes-Sommers, and Kelly Thomson. The screening is part of the station’s Community Cinema series of free screenings, presented by the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and Independent Lens.

American Denial sheds a unique light on the unconscious political and moral world of modern Americans. By highlighting the social research unearthed by Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal’s research in the 1940's, the film weaves a narrative (using research footage, newsreels, home movies, and modern short films) exposing some of the potential underlying causes continuing to affect implicit racial biases inherent in America’s institutions today. The provocative film’s exploration of “stop and frisk” practices, the incarceration crisis, and racially patterned poverty challenges our assumptions about who we are and what we really believe.

In 1938, the Carnegie Corporation commissioned Myrdal to begin a landmark study of race and inequality in the United States. His question: How could a people who cherish freedom and fairness also create such a racially oppressive society? Published in 1944, “An American Dilemma” was cited in the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision to desegregate America’s schools. 70 years later, with many of us looking for answers as to why race is still such a dividing wedge in society, Myrdal’s question continues to challenge America –- how do we explain the disconnect between what we believe and what we practice in what some have called a “post-racial” America? American Denial juxtaposes past and present, shifting from Myrdal’s investigation — and his own personal struggle with denial — and current stories of racial injustice that are often overlooked in our national insistence on the preeminence of the ideals of liberty, justice, and equality.

American Denial premieres on Independent Lens on Monday, February 23, at 10 p.m. on PBS.

For more information, visit: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/american-denial/

February 13-March 1, 2015
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change by Joe DiPietro, Music by Jimmy Roberts

The second-longest running Off Broadway musical. Nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award as Outstanding Off-Broadway musical in 1997. This celebration of the mating game takes on the truths and myths behind that contemporary conundrum know as 'the relationship.' Act I explores the journey from dating and waiting to love and marriage, while Act II reveals the agonies and triumphs of in-laws and newborns, trips in the family car and pick-up techniques of the geriatric set. This hilarious revue pays tribute to those who have loved and lost, to those who have fallen on their face at the portal of romance, to those who have dared to ask, 'Say, what are you doing Saturday night?'

"Hilarious! The most entertaining show on or off Broadway!" – Gannett Newspapers
"If this show were a blind date, you'd feel relieved, grateful and pleasantly surprised." – Newsday
"So smartly conceived...catchy tunes and witty lyrics." – Variety

Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 319 North Gay Street, Knoxville
865 544 1999 or email: info@theatreknoxville.com / www.theatreknoxville.com

Elissa Graff, Recent Work
February 9-27
Elissa Graff’s work in enamel draws on nature in both functional and spiritual ways. For each enamel piece, Graff’s art is drawn twice with wire—first fused into fired silica and then drawn as an abstraction of the enamel image for the pendant setting. Each piece is then set like a stone into a related metal and hung from chains, and each encapsulates a moment and memory forever within glass.

Bagwell Center for Media and Art
Pellissippi State Community College
10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville 37933
www.pstcc.edu/arts

We've got some amazing paintings to fall in love with and have more than one Date Night event for an unforgettable evening with your special one. Stay warm and cozy while painting at one of our great venues and enjoy the food, drink and art like only Wine and Canvas Knoxville can provide.

We're also running a special promotion for all the new brides to be! If you book a Private Bridal Event with us, be it a bridal shower, bachelorette party or a "last" girls night out to celebrate, the bride gets her seat for freeI Call us for details on our Private Events at 865-356-9179 and lets get you booked as dates are filling up fast!

"Cup of Love" - Einstein Bros Bagels in Farragut
February 9th at 6pm

"Tennessee Theater at Night" - Mimi's Cafe
February 10th at 6pm

"Mount LeConte Moonlight" **DATE NIGHT**
Club LeConte
February 12th at 6pm

"Blue Horizon" – Blue Slip Winery
February 13th at 7pm

"5 Wine Bottles" - Barley's (Maryville)
February 16th at 6pm

"Colorful Stony Shore" - Blue Coast Grill
February 18th at 6pm

"Rain" - The Crown and Goose
February 23rd at 6pm

"Winter Radiance" - Original Copper Cellar
February 26th at 6pm

Wine & Canvas: Knoxville, TN, 865-356-9179, http://www.wineandcanvas.com/knoxville-tn.html

The Cast List by Gayle Greene – Two star-crossed cast lists wreak havoc on a struggling community theatre’s ill-fated production of Romeo & Juliet.
2/7/15 2:30 pm at Fountain City Library
2/14/15 1:00 pm at Bearden Branch Library
2/28/15 3:00 pm at Lawson McGhee Library

The Third Proposal by Dennis Duff – Struggling against his feelings for neighbor Anna Wagner, Helmut can only watch as his two brothers vie for her hand, then fall as victims of WWII.
2/14/15 3:00 pm at Bearden Branch Library
2/21/15 2:30 pm at Fountain City Library
3/1/15 2:00 pm at Lawson McGhee Library

American Farce by Michael Reimann – A woman from Max’s past shows up at his door and claims he is the father of her 10 year-old son. Max soon devises a plot to use his estranged son’s uncanny ability to pick race horses to pay off a loan shark.
2/21/15 2:30 pm at Bearden Branch Library
2/23/15 6:00 pm at Fountain City Library
2/28/15 1:00 pm at Lawson McGhee Library
Tennessee Stage Company: 865-546-4280, www.tennesseestage.com

Recent works by architectural painter Dede Christopher of Maryville, and pen and pipe maker Ron Smith of Dandridge will be on display during the month of February at the Art Market Gallery. An opening reception for these featured artists will be held during Downtown Knoxville’s monthly First Friday Art Walk beginning at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 6, with complimentary refreshments and jazz/funk music performed by Alix DeAngelis.

Encouraged to paint and draw since early childhood by her artist mother, Dede Christopher has always been attracted to architecture, and in her artwork she strives to capture the beauty of a place or setting and how buildings interact with each other. “I decided to pursue architectural illustration as a career, believing it would lead me to a more artistic life and a more fulfilling occupation,” she says. With a BA and graduate degree in architectural design she has had her own architectural illustration business since 1989 and has been drawing and painting for clients and her own inspiration nearly every day since then. Recently, Christopher has devoted time to plein air and studio art, focusing on the beauty, light and detail in a particular setting or place, at different times of the day, year, and season.

Ron Smith never had formal art training in college and graduate school. Following retirement, however, he took classes at Walters State Community College. During a sculpture course he discovered an affinity for power tools and generating sawdust which, combined with his lifelong enjoyment of writing and pipe smoking, led him to further instruction at Woodcrafters in Knoxville and to renowned American pipe maker Tim West in Columbus, OH. The result: Smith’s pens that take a mostly traditional form, but with distinctive materials, colors, shaping and weight; while his pipes, created from ebauchon briar, are mostly free-form rather than classic shapes. “Pens and pipes are functional art,” Smith explains, “and to succeed, they require not only an appeal to the eye, but a comfort and feel to the hand.”

Owned and operated by 62 professional regional artists, the Art Market Gallery, at 422 South Gay St., is a few doors from Mast General Store and next to Downtown Grill & Brewery. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday and Saturday; 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday; 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday. The gallery is wheelchair accessible, and parking in the abutting garage and on the street is free on weekends and after 6 p.m. weekdays. For more information, call 865-525-5265, or visit artmarketgallery.net, or facebook.com/Art.Market.Gallery.