Calendar of Events

Tinsel & Treasure is an annual shopping event and fundraiser for the Junior League of Knoxville, highlighting local and regional merchants. Our merchants sell everything from women's fashions to home decor to handcrafted jewelry and leather goods. Proceeds from vendor booth purchases and ticket sales go directly back into the community.

Shopping days are Friday, October 20th, 2017 from 9 AM-6 PM, Saturday, October 21st from 10 AM-6 PM and Sunday, October 22nd from 12-5 PM. This year's event will be held at Rothchild Catering and Conference Center in West Knoxville.

The Junior League of Knoxville is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and improving the community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.

Please visit https://www.jlknoxville.org/?nd=tinseltreasure for tickets and information.

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

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

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

Part of the 2017-18 "Best of Theatre Knoxville Downtown" Season!

By Agatha Christie. The longest running play, in the world, ever, has been running continuously since 1952 at St. Martin's Theatre in London. But if you can't make it to London, travel on down to Theatre Knoxville Downtown instead!

Written by the world’s most successful author, Agatha Christie, it’s one of the finest plays ever written.

It follows a group of strangers – one of whom is a murderer – trapped in a boarding house during a snow storm. Is it the newlyweds whose rampant suspicions nearly wreck their marriage, or the spinster with the curious background? Perhaps it is the architect, the retired Army major, or the odd man who claims his car overturned in a snow drift?

The play is also known for its twist ending, which at the end of every performance the audience is asked not to reveal.

"One of the most skillfully written murder mysteries ever produced"
—The New York Times

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

Tiger Lily Theatre is proud to present Neil Labute’s Fat Pig. This production will be performed at Modern Studio. Performances are being held over two weekends; on October 13-15 and October 19-22. Performances are at 8pm with Sunday Matinees at 3pm. Admission is $15 for adults, $12 for students. Both cash and credit cards are accepted.

Since the its debut in 2004, Fat Pig has been making audiences laugh, cry, and think about human nature and the lengths one will go to fit in. Fat Pig is a brutally honest look at a relationship between an average guy and a plus sized woman. The topics of fitting in, being normal, and conforming to society’s notions of being attractive have never been more relevant. How far will one man go for the woman he loves? Will he be willing to take the ridicule to find happiness? Neil Labute’s Fat Pig takes us on a heart wrenching journey of acceptance of who we are, and who we want to be; for better or worse.

Tiger Lily Theatre is dedicated to furthering opportunities for women in the Knoxville arts community. Through the performance of both classical and contemporary works, we provide performance, directing, writing and design opportunities while bringing impassioned and engaging live theatre to our audience.

If you would like more information about this production, please contact Jennifer Brown or Christian Rue at 770-560-2767 or 615-496-2743. Email at TigerLilytheatreTn@gmail.com. Modern Studio, 109 W Anderson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-323-2425, www.modernstudio.org

Are you creating a jaw dropping costume this year? Enter the Ghoulishly Goodwill Costume contest and show off your ultimate Halloween costume! Submit your entry by 8am Friday, November 3rd and win tickets to the Knoxville Zoo. Enter the contest by doing one of the following:
• Post to the Goodwill Industries-Knoxville, Inc. Facebook page at www.facebook.com/gwiktn or
• Post the picture on Twitter and tag @GWIKTN or
• Post the picture on Instagram and tag @goodwillknoxville or
• E-mail the image to marketingteam@gwiktn.org.

Don’t forget to include a picture, description and which parts came from Goodwill. Check out www.goodwillknoxville.org/halloween for more information on the contest!

BOO! at the Zoo presented by U.S. Cellular® is Knoxville’s largest Halloween event featuring 12 nights of safe and not-too-scary Halloween fun perfect for preschool and elementary-aged children. A Halloween tradition for 31 years, BOO! at the Zoo is a family event featuring trick-or-treating along the BOO! Trail, where little trick-or-treaters can fill their bag with goodies as they make their way through the zoo. Each night of BOO! at the Zoo will have a variety of entertainment.

New This Year: Annual Passholder Night! On Thursday, October 12th, only annual passholders will have the chance to experience BOO! at the Zoo before anyone else!

DETAILS
October 12 – 15, 2017
October 19 – 22, 1017
October 26 – 29, 2017

5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. each evening

$9 per person, Children under 4 admitted free, Free parking
$2 off for Zoo Knoxville members and U.S. Cellular customers

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

The Tennessee STEAM Festival is an event-based celebration of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math. Making it engaging for the diverse areas of Tennessee requires the entire community. The Festival will go well beyond the walls of children’s museums and science centers and into our businesses, universities, schools, and neighborhoods. From families to young adults, Tennesseans of all ages and backgrounds will interact with scientists, engineers, and designers and just about every sort of expert in between.

STEAM in the City OCTOBER 14, 2017 PRESENTED BY TVA
This unique event brings science to life in the heart of Downtown Knoxville in Market Square. The FREE event welcomes all ages to compete in a variety of robotics competitions, create in a global cardboard challenge, and to enjoy some ‘busker science’--roaming hands-on science entertainment!

ORNL Traveling Science Fair OCTOBER 16-18, 2017
The ORNL SCIENCE FAIR provides guests of all ages the opportunity to learn more about science and the importance of research being done at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This event will be held at the Jacob Building in Chilhowee Park across from The Muse and Zoo Knoxville. Students and families enter carnival-style interactive trailers that describe various fields of research and areas of future job opportunities.

FAMILY STEAM Night at west town mall OCTOBER 19, 2017
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 oppotunity for families to learn and play together!

WAY LATE PLAY DATE: Marvel v. DC OCTOBER 20, 2017
Where do your allegiances lie?! Join us for the comic book battle of the ages at Schulz Brau! We’re going to explore the science behind the two powerhouses of the comic book world – from high-tech gadgetry to super powers –this ones for ‘big kids’ 21 and up!

STEAM Carnival Family Fun Day OCTOBER 21, 2017
Help us cap off the TN Steam Festival with a family-freindly carnival at the muse! We will inspire all ages at this event with hands-on activities, play and fun! Activities include a magic show, live music, science demos, arts and crafts, special characters and more!

Contact Ellie Kittrell at 865-594-1494 X100 or ellie@themuseknoxville.org for more information. Or see http://tennesseesteamfestival.org/

Hosted by Rala: Regional and Local Artisans

Rala is proud to introduce new sculptural work by Pippin Long. She is a native Tennessean and a recent graduate of UT Knoxville with a degree in art. She currently lives in Asheville, NC where she spends her time sculpting faces, painting, and hiking with her dog Egon.

Opening reception October 6th from 6-9pm

Rala, 112 W. Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-525-7888, https://shoprala.com/

Read and discuss Emily St. John Mandel's bestselling novel Station Eleven with the entire community

When a community reads a book together, neighbors are inspired to be more empathetic, more aware, and more engaged. We are pleased to partner with more than 20 community agenices to share Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel with you. Join us for dozens of programs that explore Station Eleven and its themes.

Take the Station Eleven creative response challenge. Read the book, imagine you were there, and respond with a creation of your own—be it a poem, a painting or a video. You could win a prize, but you're guaranteed the satisfaction of trying.

Most events are free and open to the public, but a few require reservations (link is external). http://www.knoxlib.org/calendar-programs/programs-and-partnerships/big-read-2017