Calendar of Events

The Knoxville Watercolor Society will exhibit recent works from its members. Opening reception Saturday June 27, 2015 7:00 – 9:00 and features Gallery Talk at 6:30. For more information about the Knoxville Watercolor Society, membership requirements and to view members' art works go to www.knxvillewatercolorsociety.com.

Oak Ridge Art Center, 201 Badger Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Hours: Tu-F 9-5, Sa-M 1-4. Information: 865-482-1441, www.oakridgeartcenter.org

Guests will have an opportunity to visit a Cherokee campsite, interact with members of the militia, tour the fort, and see a variety of pioneer skills displayed.

Scheduled for 10 am to 3 pm on Saturday, June 27th, the event is once again being offered free to the public. Cherokee Heritage Day is a cooperative effort between the James White’s Fort Association and Indian Creek Productions, Inc.

James White's Fort, 205 E. Hill Ave, Knoxville, TN 37915. Information: 865-525-6514, www.jameswhitefort.org

Saturday, June 27, 1:00-3:00PM.

Don't have yard space? Think about growing up, not out. Learnabout vertical, or wall, gardening, and create a miniature vertical garden to take home. Cost includes materials.
Cost: $20/member, $30 nonmember.

Programs require preregistration. Contact Derrick Stowell, garden educator, at dstowell@utk.edu or 865 974-7151, or visit utgardens.wildapricot.org/UTgardensevents to register.

Saturday, June 27, 10:00AM-Noon.
Gardening takes a team. Parents, grandparents and children come out to the UT Gardens to make memories and learn fun and new gardening ideas.
Add form and shape in your garden. Children will build Lego models of garden structures awhile parents hear tips on how to add structure to the home garden.
Cost: $20/member family
$30/nonmember family

Programs require preregistration. Contact Derrick Stowell, garden educator, at dstowell@utk.edu or 865 974-7151, or visit utgardens.wildapricot.org/UTgardensevents to register.

The Meadow Lark Music Festival 2015 is a day of incredible Americana music at beautiful Ijams Nature Center, just minutes from the heart of downtown Knoxville. Hosted by Ijams and community radio station WDVX, Meadow Lark is a day of music, food, and local artists. The complete lineup for this year includes

Pokey LaFarge
Scott Miller & The Commonwealth Ladies Auxiliary
The Lonesome Coyotes
Emi Sunshine & The Rain
Guy Marshall
Mountain Soul
John Myers Band
Subtle Clutch
The Knoxville Banjo Orchestra

Tickets on sale now online and in person at Ijams and WDVX.

Hosted by WDVX & Ijams Nature Center, at 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920.
Information: 865-577-4717, www.ijams.org
Information: 865-544-1029, www.wdvx.com

All games are at 5:00 PM & 7:00 PM at the Civic Coliseum.

June 27th Hard Knox Allstars vs Circle City
July 11th To Be Decided
August 8th Hard Knox Allstars vs Greensboro
August 22nd Hard Knox Brawlers vs Rome Regulators

http://www.hardknoxrollergirls.com/

"Soon, soon the flesh / The grave cave ate will be / At home on me." Sylvia Plath's images in "Lady Lazarus" are haunting, but they are propelled into nightmare through her expert sense of sound and rhythm. Think about the last poem that pulled you beneath its rhythmic tide. Did it chime with beauty like Elizabeth Bishop's lines in "At the Fishhouses": "It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: / dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free"? If you are wondering how to further develop the natural tempos and patterns in your poems to enhance your poems' images and narrative, this innovative music-poetics workshop is for you.

To combat the old struggles of writing and counting metrical lines, you will learn fresh methods like sound mapping, beat-tuning, and creating nonce forms to follow the sound of your poems to their crescendos. These methods will boost sound play in both free verse and metrical poems. If you have always wanted to incorporate slant rhyme or alliteration but it seems wooden, this workshop is for you. In this 3 hour course, we will explore contemporary poets' rhythmic techniques and you will learn to create evolving and enlivening music within your poems. Bring a couple of drafts-in-progress (at any stage) to revise. We will also write at least one new sound-driven piece in workshop. In addition to personalized feedback from the instructor and a helpful list of further readings, there will be a discussion of where and how to place sensual, sound-driven poetry for publication.

Sandy Marchetti is the author of Confluence, a debut full-length poetry collection forthcoming from Sundress Publications, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry from George Mason University. Eating Dog Press also published an illustrated edition of her essays and poetry, A Detail in the Landscape, and her first volume, The Canopy, won Midwest Writing Center's Mississippi Valley Chapbook Contest. Her work appears in The Journal, Subtropics, The Hollins Critic, Sugar House Review, Mid-American Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, Green Mountains Review, South Dakota Review, Phoebe, and elsewhere. She currently works as a writing teacher and freelance creative manuscript editor in her hometown of Chicago.

Tickets ($25) are available at: https://squareup.com/market/sundress-publications/the-confluence-of-rhythms-begins-mapping-the-sounds-of-your-poems
At 195 Tobby Hollow Ln, Knoxville, TN 37931. Sundress Academy for the Arts: (865) 560-6106, http://www.sundresspublications.com/safta/

The 6th Annual Judged and Juried Fine Arts Show begins with an Awards Reception on Friday, June 26th from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. The show’s winning entries will receive cash prizes, which will be presented at the reception. The exhibition was juried by Andrea D. Rudloff. She recently served as the Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center education and visual art director, successfully designing and launching all education, engagement and visual art programming. Rudloff has more than 20 years of experience as an art administrator, curator and professional artist including murals and exhibitions in Bowling Green, Nashville, New York City; Taipei, Taiwan and other national and international exchanges.

In addition to wall art including pieces in photography, watercolor, oil, acrylic, pastel, pen, ink, and pencil, artists proficient in clay, sculpture, jewelry and multi-media will show work.

Art Guild at Fairfield Glade at the Plateau Creative Arts Center, 451 Lakeview Drive, Fairfield Glade, TN 38558. Hours: M-Sa 9AM-4PM. Information: 931-707-7249, www.artguildfairfieldglade.net

From Hitchcock to Spielberg there's something for everyone in the 17th Annual Summer Movie Magic lineup. Movie-goers will travel back in time and see these American classics as they should be: in a historical theater, with a bag of popcorn in their lap, and a cold drink in their hand. This season is the first season all films will be shown with a digital projector! Come experience some of your favorite classics in a completely unique way.

THE BIRDS
Friday, June 26 • 8 PM and Sunday, June 28 • 2 PM

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

The Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) is pleased to announce its annual premiere of OUTSpoken, a revue of original works from both the local and national LGBTQ community. This event provides attendees an opportunity to share in a night of original poems, monologues, and short nonfiction written by Ben McClendon, Raven Ramone, Adam Crandall, Luci Brown, Matthew Ryan, Jennie Frost, Laura Leigh Semon, Noh Anothai, Charles McGregor, and more!

The 2015 OUTSpoken Review will be held at The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture (100 S Gay St, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902) for two nights on Friday, June 26th and Saturday, June 27th, 2015. Performances on both days will begin at 7:00 P.M.. Tickets are $12 if purchased in advance or $15 if purchased at the door. Advance ticket sales are available via the website below.

OUTSpoken was created two years ago by SAFTA as a platform for the LGBTQ community of Knoxville, Tennessee and its surrounding areas to record and perform the experiences of sex- and gender-diverse individuals in the South. The 2015 OUTSpoken Review began with a series of writing workshops in January, February, and March, where community members developed their experiences into poems, monologues, narratives, and other literary forms. These pieces were then revised to be performed in a staged reading.

It is SAFTA’s intention that this project will continue to illuminate the struggles of Southern LGBTQ persons and celebrate sex and gender diversity in East Tennessee and beyond. The OUTSpoken Review will not be an event to miss!

Advance tickets are available at: https://squareup.com/market/sundress-publications
Sundress Academy for the Arts: (865) 560-6106, http://www.sundresspublications.com/safta/

The Kuumba Festival serves as the largest African American Cultural Arts Festival in East Tennessee. Every year the festival is a Four day and four night multi-event celebration with hundreds of entertainers performing throughout the festival. There will be live Entertainment with a world class African Marketplace that will host Many crafts and food vendors for your cultural shopping experience.

June 25: KUUMBA Festival kickoff Luncheon and seeding of the minds Awards for KUUMBA Kamp participants, at the East Tennessee History Center on Gay Street - free admission.

June 26: Junkanu Parade and Concert on Market Square - African dance and Drum and Live music - free admission

June 27-28: Morningside Park and Haley Heritage Square will host "African Marketplace"; West African Dance Workshop; a live concert in Haley Heritage Square (admission TBA); children's activities; Gospel music and more! Free admission

www.kuumbafestival.com or kuumbafest@gmail.com

The American Museum of Science & Energy will open Nikon Small World, a traveling exhibit showcasing 20 award winning photomicrographs from the 40th annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. This year’s winner is Rogelio Moreno of Panama for capturing a rarely seen image of a rotifer’s open mouth interior and heart-shaped corona. A computer system programmer by occupation, Moreno is a self-taught microscopist whose photomicrograph serves to show just how close the beauty and wonder of the micro-world truly is - not just for scientists, but anyone willing to open their eyes and look for it. Moreno is recognized along with over 80 other winners from around the world for excellence in photomicrography. Winners from Italy, the United States, Austria, Spain and Australia also ranked in the top ten, for exceptional images selected based on both artistic quality and masterful scientific technique.

“Since the competition began 40 years ago, the caliber in quality and range of subject matter of the images, is matched only by the scientists and photographers who submit them,” said Eric Flem, Communications Manager, Nikon Instruments. “So much has changed in science and technology in the past forty years, opening the door for more and more scientists and artists alike to capture and share their stunning images with the world. A look at our gallery is like a time capsule of the advancements made in the last four decades and truly shows the legacy a Nikon Small World continues to build.”

Rogelio Moreno is a first-time first-place winner of the Small World competition, though he has placed each time he has entered the contest starting three years ago. That success is a testament to his incredible skill, as he only began taking photomicrographs in 2009.

Judges awarded Moreno’s shot of a rotifer caught open-mouthed and facing the camera – for its exemplary technique. Capturing the perfect moment when the rotifer opened its mouth for the camera required extreme patience from Moreno, who watched for hours waiting for his opportunity. With the rotifer in constant motion, he utilized the flash to freeze the movement as soon as the mouth opened – still leaving him with only a one- or two-second window to take the photo, and possibly only one shot to get it right. He also used differential interference contrast (DIC) to enhance the coloration in unstained, transparent samples, and to provide a more detailed image of the rotifer.

“When you see that movement, you fall in love. I thought - wow, that is amazing. I can’t believe what I’m seeing. This is something very, very beautiful,” said Moreno of his winning image. “I hope now it can inspire others as much as it has inspired me – to learn about science, to look closely and notice something truly amazing.”

As the 2014 winner, Moreno joins the ranks of 36 other photomicrographers, artists and scientists from all over the world who have taken the top prize. This year’s competition received over 1,200 entries from more than 79 countries around the world. Top images from the 2014 Nikon Small World Competition will be exhibited in a full-color calendar and through a national museum tour. For additional information, please visit www.nikonsmallworld.com, or follow the conversation on Facebook and Twitter @NikonSmallWorld.

American Museum of Science & Energy, 300 S. Tulane Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Hours: Monday-Saturday 9AM-5PM, Sunday 1-5PM. Information: 865-576-3200, www.amse.org