Calendar of Events

Presenting an Open House with Photographer Dean Rice on April 23, 4:30-7 PM. Showcasing his exhibit, "The Children of Zaatari": an exhibition of photographs of Syrian children living as refugees in Jordan’s Zaatari Camp.

The Golden Roast, 825 Melrose Pl, Knoxville, Tennessee 37916. Information: 865-544-1004

Select homes with distinguished and remarkable gardens open their grounds to the public for one weekend only.

Dogwood Arts: 865-637-4561 www.dogwoodarts.com

Whether on a greenway through a historic park or on a natural trail through the woods, you will observe historic relics and beautiful wildflowers among the dogwood trees on these easy, three-mile hikes. The interpretive hikes will highlight interesting facts, features, and flora about the unique locations.

Dogwood Arts: 865-637-4561 www.dogwoodarts.com

Knoxville Opera celebrates the arts with a spectacular feast of dance, music and performance through Knoxville Opera’s annual Rossini Festival International Street Fair. The event is free to the public and draws attendees from around the region and country.

In its 15th year, the Rossini Festival International Street Fair is a full day cultural celebration, spanning 14 city blocks of downtown Knoxville including Gay Street and into Market Square. The approximately 60,000 to 100,000 attendees can celebrate the arts with local and regional artisan exhibits featuring handcrafted works, live musical and dancing entertainment and a plethora of culinary delights. The Festival has something for the whole family. Local and regional multicultural music and dance performances featuring hundreds of entertainers will perform on multiple outdoor stages throughout the event.

12:00-3:00 PM: Tosca artists will be performing on the Opera Stage in Krutch Park Extension
Mayors’ Welcome Ceremonies take place on the Opera Stage at 2:30pm

More information: 865-524-0795, http://www.knoxvilleopera.com/rossini/

Held at the Open Chord, 8502 Kingston Pike, Knoxville TN 37919
10am - 4pm, admission $2.00. Featuring music dealers from all over the South selling rare vintage vinyl LPs, 45s, and bargain records, plus CDs, DVDs, memorabilia and more. Buy-sell-trade. Dealer inquries welcome!

www.Facebook.com/GregNealShows or GregNealShow@gmail.com

Old-time String Band
With influences from the great Georgia musicians of the 1920s and 1930s, the Georgia Crackers keep alive the spirit of spontaneity and improvisation in the old-time string band tradition. Along with old-time singer Kenneth Johnson on guitar and Chip Corbitt on clawhammer banjo, this rhythm section holds it down for Fiddlin’ Mick Kinney.

Tickets $12 (discounts apply to advance purchase, JCA members, students, seniors 65+)
At Jubilee Community Arts, 1538 Laurel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37916. For information/tickets: 865-522-5851, www.jubileearts.org.

Guest artists: The Arabesque Ensemble of Chicago will introduce Middle Eastern compositions that combine Eastern and Western sonorities and instruments. An exploration of how traditional Middle Eastern instruments naturally blend with Western instruments to create new and exciting forms for musical expression.
Artistic and cultural artifact exhibit and reception at 12:30 p.m.
Music and lecture at 2:00 p.m.

McClung Museum Auditorium (ground floor), McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Dr., Knoxville, TN.

UT School of Music: Unless otherwise noted, concerts are FREE and open to the public. *For individual or small group performances, please check the web site or call the day of the event for updates or cancellations: 865-974-5678, www.music.utk.edu/events

The Non-Profit Organization, Project Primavera, which helps orphans and at-risk youth through music and mentorship, presents The Ethan Parker Band at Scruffy City Hall,
32 Market Sq, Knoxville, on Saturday April 23rd 8-11 PM.

For more information please visit projectprimavera.org.

Join us for food, goodies and games at the Loudon Goodwill. Then, head inside the store for 25% off all kids clothing!

Loudon Goodwill - 1587 Hwy 72 N. Goodwill Industries: 865-588-8567, www.gwiktn.org

Kathie's third solo exhibition with the gallery, "Along the Way" is a collection of works in oil featuring simple and nostalgic scenes that too often go unnoticed. Kathie’s paintings are timeless interpretations of the atmosphere, light, and story in the landscape around her.

Day in and day out, we spend our time rushing from place to place in anticipation of whatever might be next. In our haste, countless vistas fly past us, hardly glimpsed. Kathie stops for us, beginning an unhindered dialogue with the landscape through the medium of oil paints. Skillful infusions of color, light and shade grant each image a special resonance. Whether a forgotten farmland, an ordinary cityscape, a common food truck or an unnoticed rural home, Kathie introduces us to the common made beautiful along the way. www.KathieOdom.com

An opening reception will be held Friday, April 22 from 5-8 p.m.

The District Gallery, 5113 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. Hours: M-F 10-5:30, Sa 10-4. Information: 865-200-4452, www.TheDistrictGallery.com

This funny show with the funny name is a hilarious side-splitting take on greed, love, revolution - and musicals! Set in a time when water is worth its weight in gold, a Gotham-like city is facing a 20-year drought that leads to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. As a result, the citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity's most basic needs. But those who fail to pay are sentenced to a dreaded penal colony. A hero decides he's had enough, and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom! An irreverently humorous satire in which no one is safe from scrutiny.

Oak Ridge Playhouse, 227 Broadway, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Information and tickets: 865-482-9999, www.orplayhouse.com

By Harold Pinter. Directed by Patrick McCray.

Actors often have to face the challenge of growing older on stage, but in Harold Pinter's Betrayal they have an even more difficult task: they must grow younger as the play progresses. Pinter's play tracks the course of an affair, but it does so backwards: it opens with a meeting between the two lovers some years after the affair ended; it finishes with the first erotically charged encounter between the two, nine years earlier. The performers chart the stages in the affair, discarding the layers of guilt, to become their younger, fresher selves.

The play begins in 1977 with a meeting between adulterous lovers, Emma and Jerry, two years after their affair has ended. During the nine scenes of the play we move back in time through the states of their affair, with the play ending in the house of Emma and Robert, her husband, who is Jerry's best friend.

The classic dramatic scenario of the love triangle is manifest in a mediation on the themes of marital infidelity, duplicity, and self-deception. Pinter writes a world that simultaneously glorifies and debases love.

Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 319 North Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information & tickets: 865-544-1999, www.theatreknoxville.com