Calendar of Events

Recent works by artist Marjorie Horne and clay works created by 11 Art Market Gallery artists will open with a reception at 5:30 p.m., March 3, during Downtown Knoxville’s monthly First Friday Art Walk, with complimentary refreshments, and music performed by Carl Gombert.

Marjorie Horne’s transparent and reflective surfaces have been recurrent themes in her colored pencil drawings and watercolors. More recently she has included landscapes, cityscapes, nature studies, figures, and portraits in her work. Originally from Richmond, Indiana, Marjorie is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and a member of the Colored Pencil Society of America. One of her pieces is included in CPSA’s The Best of Colored Pencil V. Always, art is a form of meditation for her. It feeds her soul and brings wholeness to her life.

The Art Market Gallery’s clay artists and sculptors have gathered together this month to reveal a wide variety of style, vision, and technique. The clay artists include Hugh Bailey, Gray Bearden, Bob Concliffe, Ann Dally, Larry Gabbard, Patricia Herzog, Eun-Sook Kim, Lisa Kurtz, Karen Kyte, Amber Anne Palo, and Linda Sullivan.

Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Tu-Th & Sa 11-6, Fri 11-9, Su 1-6. Information: 865-525-5265, www.artmarketgallery.net or www.Facebook.com/Art.Market.Gallery

Sponsored by Gage Models & Talent Agency, Star 102.1, Hushh Magazine, Go Knox, and Hard Rock Café Pigeon Forge. KFW is an art and fashion event with the ultimate goal of creating buzz and giving a relevant outlet to fashion houses, buyers, and culture enthusiasts. KFW connects consumers with products and services that relate to fashion, beauty and luxury while showcasing incredible Knoxville talent and highlighting the rich fashion community that is thriving in Knoxville. Events include:

The Kickoff Event – Tuesday, February 28: 6-8pm Celebrating our Design Community, the Fashion Arts in Knoxville, and Fashion for a Cause
Hard Rock Café, 2050 Parkway, Pigeon Forge, TN 37863

The Emerging Model Runway – Wednesday, March 1: 6-9pm
Doors open at 6pm and runway starts at 7pm
Emporium Center, 100 S Gay St, Knoxville TN 37902

Couture Hair & Special Effects Makeup on the Runway – Thursday, March 2: 6-9pm
Doors open at 6pm and runway show starts at 7pm
Relix, 1208 N Central St, Knoxville, TN 37917

Swimwear, Couture & The Men’s Show – Friday, March 3 : 7-10pm
Doors open at 7pm for cocktail hour, runway starts at 8pm
Relix, 1208 N Central St, Knoxville, TN 37917

The Grand Finale Runway Event – Saturday, March 4
The Mill & Mine, 227 W Depot Ave. Knoxville, TN 37917

Tickets & information: http://knoxvillefashionweek.com/schedule-tickets/

FEBRUARY 28 & MARCH 1 • 7:30PM
Enter the gates to a lost civilization...

Join us this winter for fascinating stories from 5,000 years of Chinese culture! Shen Yun features vivid and athletic classical Chinese dance, a groundbreaking East-West orchestra, and grand animated backdrops that immerse you in the action! Shen Yun sends you home with a strong message of hope. Every performance overflows with positive energy and is packed with action, courage, beauty, and humor. Experience the all-new 2017 program—it embodies the wisdom of ancient China and the values we all treasure. Tickets on sale now!

ShenYun’s Biggest Season & Tenth Birthday!

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

Australian ambient-jazz experimentalists The Necks return to Knoxville in February!

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

Taking their turn in the spotlight are outstanding student performers from Pellissippi State, who have taken private instruction in voice or instrumental performance. Free and open to the public!

In the Clayton Performing Arts Center. Hardin Valley Campus of Pellissippi State: 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN 37932. Information: 865-694-6405, www.pstcc.edu/arts

Guest artist recital; Christopher Zhong, a professor at Shanghai Conservatory is joined by young pianist Siouan Xu, playing music by Chopin, Liszt, Gershwin, and more in Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, Natalie L. Haslam Music Center

Unless otherwise noted, concerts are FREE and open to the public. The Natalie Haslam Music Center is located at 1741 Volunteer Blvd on the UT campus, and the Alumni Memorial Building is located at 1408 Middle Drive on the UT campus. *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

Faculty recital in Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, Natalie L. Haslam Music Center

Unless otherwise noted, concerts are FREE and open to the public. The Natalie Haslam Music Center is located at 1741 Volunteer Blvd on the UT campus, and the Alumni Memorial Building is located at 1408 Middle Drive on the UT campus. *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

Halito! Hello! I'm with the Native American Student Association at UT, and we'd like to make you and your members aware of an upcoming event we think your group would enjoy. We're teaming up with the Knoxville Irish Society, Latin American Student Assoc., Muslim Student Assoc., Jewish Student Assoc., and African Student Assoc. to host a multicultural show of support for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in its struggle against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The event is a dinner fundraiser featuring cuisine and song/dance from the six participating cultures. Proceeds from food sales will go towards the Standing Rock legal defense fund. We appreciate your help in supporting water rights for indigenous peoples! Yakokih! Thank you! At 1623 Melrose Avenue (The International House). https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fundraiser-for-standing-rock-tickets-32139707731

Enjoy the visual delights of photography and a myriad of fascinating and beautiful images from the portfolios of Pellissippi State photography students. Enjoy the broad range of photographic styles -- and have a chance to meet the artists -- at the opening reception from 3-6 p.m., Feb. 28.

The exhibit is free. Hardin Valley Campus of Pellissippi State: 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN 37932. Bagwell Center Gallery hours: M-F 10-6:30. Information: 865-694-6405, www.pstcc.edu/arts

Reception Feb 27, 6-8 PM with awards at 7 PM.

Ewing Gallery, 1715 Volunteer Blvd on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Information: 865-974-3200, www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu

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Liz-Beth & Co.: 7240 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. Information: 865-691-8129, www.liz-beth.com

A witty and fast-paced farce packed with memorable characters! In this hilarious restoration comedy, a young woman, her handsome lover, and their friends plot to escape a controlling guardian. Will a nosey nobleman ruin the plan or save the day? The play was written by Susanna Centlivre in 1709, with adaptations by UT Faculty Misty Anderson and John Sipes.

According to Restoration scholar Anderson, Centlivre’s comedy was the most popular play written by a woman in the eighteenth century and among the 10 most popular plays of the entire period. Audiences in Charleston, Williamsburg, Baltimore, New York, and other colonial theatre towns in the early days of America flocked to it. It even played in Havana and Kingston, Jamaica! The play’s pace calls for the kind of physical comedy one might have seen on “The Carol Burnett Show.” “The Busy Body” gives us a window into the world of marriage at a time when women’s roles were just beginning to change, and playwrights like Centlivre were beginning to see women as equals to men. Manners and codes of conduct required curtsies, bows, and polite forms of address, but marriage contracts were also big business. The two heroines struggle against arrangements that would turn them into mere goods traded between men using secret identities, tricks, messages in code, and helpful waiting maids. The results are hilarious and surprisingly modern; the young women are frank, spunky, and unstoppable, and their lovers seem to love them all the more for it.

A Pay What You Wish Preview performance, where patrons can name their own price, will be held Wednesday, February 22 from Noon to 7 pm at the theatre. A Talk Back with the actors will take place Sunday, March 5 following the matinee. A panel discussion in association with the Commission for Women will take place on March 9 at 3:30 pm in the Carousel Theatre. The Open Captioned performance is Sunday, March 12 at 2:00 pm.

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