Calendar of Events

Free family event at West Town Mall that includes 5 different STEAM learning activity stations. Each station contains hands-on activities and provide a wonderful opportunity for families to learn and play together! http://themuseknoxville.org/family-steam-night-at-west-town

Come join us here at the Slamdot Store on Thursday, October 19th, from 5 to 7 pm as we continue our tradition of hosting a Halloween-themed networking event, in partnership with the Farragut West Knox Chamber.
You can also earn a chance to win an Apple TV while enjoying the festivities! We'll be announcing some new services, and have a lot in store for the evening.
Here are the details:
- Thursday, October 19th, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm
- 2053 Thunderhead Road, Knoxville, TN 37922
- Free to attend, and family-friendly
- Costume contest and prize for those who partake - costumes encouraged, but not required!
- "Guess the Candy Corn" Game with prize for the winner
- Grand door prize will be an Apple TV!
- Food from Rothchild Catering
- Beer from The Casual Pint Northshore
- Wine from Northshore Wine & Spirits
We'll have a great spread to dine from, including fingers...sorry, finger foods, and a selection of adult and children's beverages, such as white and red blood for you Vampires, a variety of Witch's brew, and carbonated concoctions from Dr. Frankenstein's lab.

There will be hair-raising music, ghastly gift cards and other ghoulish giveaways (must be present, and alive, to win - sorry to all of our undead guests), along with a gruesome (but friendly) group of people and other creatures to meet and get to know!
You can also visit our Haunted Open House event on Facebook!
Please RSVP no later than Tuesday, October 17th, to rsvp@slamdot.com with your name and the number of additional guests you will be bringing.

Come enjoy some business networking, toast with us to 12 years, and have some bone-chilling fun at the same time!
www.slamdot.com

In room 109, Art + Architecture Building

Morehshin Allahyari is an artist, activist, educator, and occasional curator. She is the recipient of the leading global thinkers of 2016 award by Foreign Policy magazine.

Morehshin was born and raised in Iran and moved to the United States in 2007. Her work deals with the political, social, and cultural contradictions we face every day. She thinks about technology as a philosophical toolset to reflect on objects and as a poetic means to document our personal and collective lives struggles in the 21st century. Morehshin is the co-author of The 3D Additivist Cookbook in collaboration with writer/artist Daniel Rourke– (published on December 2016 online in 3DPDF format and in print by the Institute of Networked Cultures). Her modeled, 3D-printed sculptural reconstructions of ancient artifacts destroyed by ISIS, titled Material Speculation: ISIS, have received widespread curatorial and press attention and have been exhibited worldwide. Her work will be on exhibition at the UT Downtown Gallery until November 22.

UT School of Art: 1715 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville, TN 37996. Information: 865-974-3200, http://art.utk.edu/

The Evolving Lines of Conflict in the Post-ISIS Middle East by Michael Hanna, Thursday, October 19, 2017, 6:00 pm in the Baker Center in the Toyota Auditorium.

Michael Wahid Hanna is a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation and an adjunct senior fellow at the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. Hanna works on issues of international security, international law, and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and South Asia.

Please join us in the Baker Center’s Toyota Auditorium as Dr. Michael Hanna speaks on “The Evolving Lines of Conflict in the Post-ISIS Middle East.”

Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
1640 Cumberland Avenue
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-3340
Phone: 865-974-0931 •www.bakercenter@utk.edu">www.bakercenter@utk.edu

Gay Street’s Infamous Shoot-Out of 1882
At THE PARLOR AT MAPLE HALL on Gay Street.

Join renowned historian and author, Jack Neely, and the Knoxville History Project for our monthly history talk at this new venue offering special cocktails and finger foods on the night. Limited seating, please plan to get there early to avoid disappointment. Free. Donations welcome.

Knoxville History Project, 516 West Vine Avenue #8, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-300-4559, www.Knoxvillehistoryproject.org

Hosted by Knoxville Food Truck Park
At Historic Southern Railway Station, 300 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, Tennessee 37917

Join us and Knoxville's yummiest food trucks for your favorite community event! Don't forget your chairs to stay a while and enjoy the band! **Sponsored by All Occasions Party Rentals and WIVK 107.7**
Attending Food Trucks:
GypsyKitchen Foodtruck
Oishii Knox Food truck
Forks on the Road
HOLY SMOKIN BBQ
Sweet Smuckers Doughnuts
Bananagans - Chocolate Covered Frozen Bananas
Mattie Moox the Coffee Camper, LLC
Taste-o-Texas
Kenny's Good Eats & Treats
Empire Pizza
Hawg Dawg's
Oinks & Cluckers food truck
Meatball Madness and More
Chef Aaron's Creations
Gridiron Grille
Chicken Coop
Mamma Gallinas
Bow Tie Street Food and Catering
Big O's Famous BBQ
Bruster's of Knoxville
Mike's Fried Green Tomatoes
The Coffee Run
Brown Bag Now
Tacos California

Credit and Debit accepted; Free admission; No coolers allowed. Contact katie@blueslip.com for more information
https://www.facebook.com/events/1471552049596368

In the GEOFFREY A. WOLPERT GALLERY

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, 556 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. Gallery hours are Monday – Friday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm and Saturday and Sunday 10:00 am – 4:00 pm. Information: 865-436-5860, www.arrowmont.org

Concert #1
10/18/2017 at 8:00 PM

UT Contemporary Music Festival
Concert #2
10/19/2017 at 8:00 PM

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

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 2, 2-5 pm

Inexteriors is a series of paintings by artist Marcia Santore that address ideas of impossible architectural spaces. The series has developed over a number of years and has been inspired by visions of windows through doorways through windows, the patterns of light in interior spaces created by seen or unseen openings, indeterminate interior and exterior spaces, unknown houses seen from within and without, mysterious stairways and hallways and hidden rooms, figures that inhabit (haunt?) those spaces, and the potential for these spaces to tell or conceal multiple, unfolding stories. Some of these paintings are in oil and others in acrylic. Some include collaged elements such as recycled paper.

“As someone who has moved many times, both as a child and as an adult, houses have multiple meanings for me—they are places full of mystery and possibility, suggestive of many potential futures or outcomes.”
—Marcia Santore

A portion of the proceeds of sales from this exhibition will be donated to the Oak Ridge Art Center. www.marciasantore.com

O'Brien Art Gallery, Roane State Community College, 276 Patton Lane, Harriman, TN 37748

The Barbara West Portrait Group will showcase an exhibition of its work in October at Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Drive. Located in the rotunda, the free exhibition is 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, Oct. 16 - 27. A reception for the artists is 5 - 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 17.

The group's namesake, the late Barbara West, was an artist who shared her hospitality and home with fellow artists. After living in California for many years, she relocated to Knoxville in 2002. West was the founding member of the Pastel Society of San Diego. The Barbara West Portrait Group meets twice a week to draw and paint. To learn more about the group, call 865-675-6339.

For more information about the exhibition, please contact Special Event and Program Coordinator Lauren Cox at lcox@townoffarragut.org or 218-3372.

Farragut Town Hall, 11408 Municipal Center Dr, Farragut, TN 37934.

Free and open to the public
Opening reception October 13 from 6 to 7:30 p.m.; artists’ talks at 6:30 p.m.

Gallery hours: 10 AM – 5 PM, Monday through Thursday and 10 AM – 1 PM, Sunday
Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Gallery, 2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37918

Genie Even’s paintings are contemporary realism and include florals, trees, people, animals, and still life. She is drawn to color, the play of sunlight, and reflections. She uses a camera to create reference photos, composing as she shoots. The computer is only for cropping. She enjoys sketching as she develops a composition, stressing or eliminating lines or areas. Even is a graduate of Scripps College in Claremont, California. As an art major, she was privileged to study with an outstanding art faculty. For twenty-five years, transparent watercolor has been her preferred medium. Her watercolor education has been supplemented by quality workshops with nationally known watercolor artists. Her work has been accepted in many national exhibitions. She holds signature memberships in the California Watercolor Association, Watercolor West, the Texas Watercolor Society, and the Tennessee Watercolor Society.

Art is the first passion Terri Swaggerty recalls; it has always been an integral part of her essence and her path. Her painting explores different techniques and subjects. She paints subjects that pique her interest and especially the ones that take her breath away. These subjects are eclectic: nature, older and often kitschy objects, and body language and the energy between people. As she paints, she savor the colors, the composition, and applying the paint to the canvas. Swaggerty is a professional, award-winning photographer and photo re-toucher. Her work has been shown at TVUUC and Tomato Head Restaurant. She has also participated in Artemis Galley in Apalachicola, Florida and in the 2016 Plein Aire Show at Knoxville’s Emporium. She was a sidewalk portrait artist at the 1982 World’s Fair.

Flying Anvil Theatre presents a haunting tale of desire and obsession. Something dark and irresistible lives deep in the woods of Appalachia in The Love Talker by Deborah Pryor. Gowdie and Bun are orphaned sisters haunted by a mysterious presence that lured their mother away when they were very young. While Gowdie is tempted to follow the siren call of the Love Talker, her sister will do anything to save her, including sacrificing herself.

Based on an Irish folk tale, The Love Talker is an eerie, sensual play—set in a world where strange spirits walk the earth and magic is all around—recalling the darkest of Grimm’s' fairy tales. The play was originally produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville and published in an anthology, where director Jayne Morgan first read it.

“I’ve been wanting to do this play for about 30 years,” Morgan says. “It’s familiar because we know these lovely accents and the wild beauty of the forest. But it also taps into our primeval fear of the dark, of losing control. This show will seduce and unsettle you and make you examine your own obsessions and secrets.” Morgan says she has found strong actors to bring this haunting tale to life. The play reunites the two leads from an earlier Flying Anvil show, Venus in Fur—Carolyn Corley and JD Sizemore. Younger sister Gowdie is played by UT theatre student Emily Cullum, and Margy Ragsdale is the malignant spirit, the Redhead.

The production marks the theatre’s first use of an upgraded lighting system. The show is recommended for adults.

Performances are Wed-Sat at 7:30 PM and Sun at 2 PM.

Flying Anvil Theatre, 1300 Rocky Hill Road, Knoxville. Information: 865-357-1309, www.flyinganviltheatre.com