Calendar of Events

Join us on Friday, December 4th for a night of holiday fun! We'll have ornaments made by local artists up for silent auction. There will also be a make-your-own ornament station for the kiddos!

The Basement Community Art Studio, 105 W Jackson Ave, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902
http://www.thebasementartstudio.com/p/about-us.html

AIGA Knoxville: http://knoxville.aiga.org/

At the Knoxville Sunsphere - We invite you to join us for Boombox Christmas Caroling with Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night!

If you wish to join us this year, PLEASE REGISTER at http://www.niefnorf.org/2015-2016-season/2015/10/30/unsilent-night-knoxville, where you can tell us if you need a tape, CD, or will bring your own iDevice. This is so we know how many of each to bring! We will provide you with a copy of the audio tracks on the media of your choice once you get in touch with us.

Unsilent Night is an original composition by Phil Kline, written specifically to be heard outdoors in the month of December. It takes the form of a street promenade in which the audience becomes the performer. Each participant gets one of four tracks of music in the form of a cassette, CD, or Mp3. Together all four tracks comprise Unsilent Night. The fact that the participants play different "parts" simultaneously helps create the special sound of the piece. Participants carry boomboxes, or anything that amplifies music, and simultaneously start playing the music. They then walk a carefully chosen route through their city’s streets, creating a unique mobile sound sculpture which is different from every listener's perspective.

It all started in winter 1992, when Phil had an idea for a public artwork in the form of a holiday caroling party. He composed a multi-track electronic piece that was 45 minutes long (the length of one side of a cassette tape), invited a few dozen friends who gathered in Greenwich Village, gave each person a boombox with one of four tapes in it, and instructed everyone to hit PLAY at the same time. What followed was a sound unlike anything they had ever heard before: an evanescence filling the air, reverberating off the buildings and city streets as the crowd walked a pre-determined route. Phil says: “In effect, we became a city-block-long stereo system.”

The piece was so popular that it became an annual tradition, and then an international phenomenon, spreading across the USA and to other countries worldwide. Since 1992, it has been presented in over 50 cities and four continents, drawing crowds of up to 1,500 participants in cities like New York and San Francisco. Flavorpill describes the New York event as: "An annual seasonal favorite, Unsilent Night is an open procession for an unlimited number of boomboxes that starts under the arch of Washington Square Park. Musically, it begins with delicate strains of Phil Kline's composition rising as marchers turn their boomboxes up to 10 and wind their way through the streets of the East Village, enveloped in the bubble of Kline's glorious ambient score. Unsilent Night’s pageant ends under the giant elm in Tompkins Square as the final notes once again reach up to the heavens, offering thanks for the past 45 minutes of joy and redemption."

Listen to WUOT's radio interview about Unsilent Night Knoxville: http://wuot.org/post/cacophonous-beauty-knoxvilles-unsilent-night#stream/0

This is a great way for all of Knoxville to actively participate in the arts, while needing no musical experience. Friends, family, kids, and parents are all welcome. https://www.facebook.com/events/827292260724505/

Hosted by FLOW A Brew Parlor. 603 W Main St, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902

First Friday at FLOW with Kate Faulkner, KMA Curator for Education, Blue Pants tap takeover, tastings and flights. Come hungry!

https://www.facebook.com/events/790421534413440/

Join us for for festivity and fine art. We loved Heather Hartman's paintings so much, we're leaving them up for another First Friday. If you missed the show last month, you have another chance to view Hartman's work from 6-8 p.m., complete with seasonal snacks and sips.
At 8 p.m., we'll be screening A Very Murray Christmas, Bill Murray's new Christmas special to be released on December 4th.

At The Central Collective, 923 N Central St, Knoxville, Tennessee 37917. https://www.facebook.com/events/1645664502360307/

The Music Department of Volunteer Radio WUTK 90.3 The Rock is proud to announce the station’s seasonal fundraiser, Exam Jam XI, happening Friday, December 4 at The Concourse at the International beginning at 8 p.m. All proceeds from this fundraiser concert will go directly to the non-profit WUTK Gift Fund, helping to keep the self-supporting broadcast lab and station on the air. WUTK is an award winning college radio station and student instructional lab that receives no day-to-day operations funding from UT’s Department of Journalism and Electronic Media, making donations and fundraisers a key means of generating much-needed revenue to keep the station on air. WUTK has gained local and national acclaim for the variety of programming it has provided Knoxville since 1982. WUTK 90.3 The Rock was recently voted “Knoxville’s Best Radio Station” in the inaugural Knoxville Mercury “Top Knox” readers’ poll. This is the tenth straight year that WUTK has received such an award. As a student instructional lab it allows students the chance to experience what it is like to work for a professional radio station. The station provides many educational and professional opportunities available nowhere else on campus, such as the chance to be an on-air deejay, with positions made available to University of Tennessee students seeking class credit as well as volunteers with a passion for music. Organizing this event has been a semester long undertaking for the members of WUTK’s Music Department. In addition to organizing the event, the students have solicited donations from local businesses for raffle prizes for this event. Student members of WUTK’s Music Department reached out to a variety of local bands in order to ensure a diversity of entertainment for the evening. Since the event is an effort by students, for students, WUTK hopes to see a great showing of support from university students. Entertainment will be provided by local Americana rockers Handsome & The Humbles, the very hot 3-piece pop-punk band Hellaphant, genre flipping giants Senryu, and the electro-indie rock sounds of The Enigmatic Foe. The variety of music scheduled for the night reflects the diverse local scene, as well as the broad scope of music heard on WUTK, who has been promoting, supporting, and playing local musicians since the early 1980’s.

At The Concourse at The International, 940 Blackstock Ave., Knoxville, TN. $5 minimum donation at the door the night of the show. More info is at www.wutkradio.com or call 865-974-2229.

Shop and Support Music for Deserving Kids!

Talbots Hosts an Evening of Shopping to Benefit Joy of Music School.
Shop and enjoy refreshments and light holiday music. It's that easy.
Friday, December 4, 2015, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Ten percent of your merchandise purchases goes to the Joy of Music School in support of free music lessons and instruments for children and teens who have the talent, but who lack the means.

Talbots: 5614 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, Tenn.
Call 865-584-3714 to RSVP, but it's not required.
joyofmusicschool.org.

by David Sedaris; adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello; directed by Jeff Stanley. At the Carousel Theatre

“80 solid minutes of legit laughs.” Sun Times

An unemployed, chemically dependent writer takes a job as a “helper elf” at Macy’s Santaland. Hear his tale of drunken Santas, screaming kids, and the un-wonderful insanity of the holidays. Sedaris’ cutting, sardonic wit is on full display in this one man show that is crazy funny! For mature elves only.

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

Santa Claus has come to town and made “Santa’s Village” at Knoxville Zoo his temporary East Tennessee headquarters. The jolly old elf will be available to hear Christmas wishes and pose for holiday photos Thursday, Dec. 3 through Sunday, Dec. 6 and Thursday, Dec. 10 through Sunday, Dec. 13 from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. each day. Guests may bring their own cameras for photos or purchase portraits taken by a professional photographer.

Located indoors at the Pilot Flying J Wee Play Adventure play area, the halls of Santa’s Village are all decked for the holidays with dozens of trees and thousands of lights. Guests can celebrate the season with special yuletide crafts, creative play and encounters with special animal visitors throughout the day. Santa’s Village is included with general zoo admission. Currently, the zoo is offering buy one, get one free tickets through February 29, 2016 during Kroger BOGO Days.

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

The Appalachian Ballet Company in their 44th season will present the annual holiday tradition - The Nutcracker. The production features live music by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. The Appalachian Ballet Company will present four public shows and two school matinees (includes K-8 curriculum guide covering common core standards).

December 3 & 4: 10:00 AM - Full length school matinee at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium - $6
December 5 at 7:30PM and December 6 at 2:00PM - Full length public performances at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium.
December 11 at 7:30PM and December 12 at 2:00PM - Full length public performances at the Clayton Center for the Arts in Maryville.

For over 100 years, this classic story has proven to be a favorite, enchanting audiences of all ages. Come see the magic with lavish scenery, glorious tutus, soldiers, snowflakes and sugar plums! For more information: 865-982-8463, www.appalachianballet.com

A Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody by Ron Bernas is a spoof of and love letter to the screwball comedies of the 1930s and to stage mysteries in general. As the show opens, the Perrys make their traditional New Years resolutions together: Matthew declares to Julia that he wants something more . . . to be able to travel abroad, to play golf every day, to spend more time at his club. Thus, he resolves to kill her by next New Years Eve so he will be free to pursue his heart’s desires. Julia takes his resolution in stride and resolves to still be alive a year later. Their games begin and they let no one stand in their ways as they attempt to keep their resolutions as the year goes by. To liven things up, we add the Perry’s spoiled, dingy daughter Bunny, her bright and forgiving boyfriend Donald, Buttram, the Perry’s longtime butler who harbors a dreadful secret, and Plotnik, a bumbling police detective who tries to figure out “who-done-it” --- that is if something really has been done. Who will succeed in his or her resolution --- and who gets caught in the crossfire? This hilarious comedy has lots of surprises, right up to the end.

At the Clayton Center for the Arts in Maryville. Foothills Community Players: 865-712-6428, www.foothillscommunityplayers.com

The 11th Annual Santa Mouse Christmas House is sponsored by Blount County Arts and Crafts Guild (a nonprofit organization). The show offers unique, one of a kind handcrafted items made by 50 well known artisans from the area. There will be Christmas gifts and ornaments, holiday home décor, fine art paintings, prints and cards, exceptional one of a kind beaded and sterling jewelry, wood turnings, pottery, clay figurines, handmade soaps and creams, unique gourd creations, wearable and knit items, plus much more. Enter to win a Smoky Mountain Getaway raffle for $1 which includes a two night stay in the Smokies, two tickets to Dollywood and a basket full of gifts from the guild.

Admission and parking for the event are free.
December 3-5, 2015, Thursday and Friday, 10am – 6pm and Saturday, 10am – 3pm.
Maryville College Alumni Gym, 502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville, TN 37801.
For more information go online to www.blountartsandcrafts.com.

We're excited to announce as well that we've added glass painting classes! We'll start in December painting some snowman wine glasses but we plan to add other types of glassware to our repertoire so keep a look out for those.

Red Ornament - Imagination Forest - Powell - Dec 2nd - 6 - 9pm
Tennessee Theater at Night - White Fox Beads Studio - Dec 5th - 3 - 6pm
Let It Snow - Mind Yer P's & Q's - Farragut - Dec 8th - 6 - 9pm
Starry Christmas **Cookies and Canvas** - Imagination Forest - Powell - Dec 9th - 6 - 8pm
Be Good For Goodness Sake - Casual Pint Hardin Valley - Dec 14th - 6 - 9pm
Snow Covered Bridge - Original Copper Cellar - Dec 15th - 6 - 9pm
Snowy Night - Green Meadow Country Club - Alcoa - Dec 17th - 6 - 9pm
Snowy Moon Branches **Date Night** - Gibby's Dining & Drinks (inside Holiday Inn) - Dec 21st - 6 - 9pm
Snowman Wine Glasses **SPECIAL EVENT** - Carolina Ale House - Dec 30th - 6 - 9pm

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