Calendar of Events

Join us for the opening day of our Winter Farmers' Market on January 13th!

Most vendors are located indoors in two fellowship halls, with food trucks outdoors in the parking lot. Farmers across East Tennessee are extending their growing seasons using greenhouses, high tunnels, and row covers, among other methods. Thanks to these hardworking farmers, you'll have a variety of fresh produce to choose from! As always, vendors at our market will offer an array of quality meat, eggs, honey, baked goods, and handcrafted items. Just like last year, we'll have Power of Produce (PoP) Club at each market, offering kids' activities led by educators from Beardsley Community Farm, The Center for Urban Agriculture, the YMCA Community Giving Gardens, Keep Knoxville Beautiful, The Muse, Ijams Nature Center, UT Gardens, and more! At each PoP Club, we'll offer a fruit or vegetable for kids to taste. Every participating child between the ages of 2 and 12 will get $5 in PoP Bucks to spend at the market!

The market will be held every other Saturday, 10am to 2pm, at Central United Methodist Church in the Historic 4th and Gill Neighborhood of Knoxville. Nourish Knoxville: 865-805-8687, https://nourishknoxville.org/

Save the date for the Great Smoky Mountains Outdoor Expo on January 13-14, 2018 at the Jacob Building in Chilhowee Park.

We at the Great Smoky Mountains Outdoor Expo hope that you are getting outside this summer to enjoy the great outdoors. We've been taking advantage of the warm weather exploring mountaintops, creeks and rivers. The Great Smoky Mountains offers countless opportunities to enjoy nature and spend time with family and friends. We're excited to see what adventure awaits us all this summer!

We look forward to a bigger, better show at our 2nd Annual Great Smoky Mountains Outdoor Expo. We are also looking at the prospects of a zipline, a fly fishing fair, archery tournament, and a 5K charity run. All this in addition
to live action entertainment and outdoor exhibitors!

greatsmokymountainsoutdoorexpo.com
GSMOE 2018 | Jacob Building, Chilhowee Park, Knoxville, TN 37914 931.260.5468

Part of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s 2017-2018 Pops Season.

Relive the classic action film as the exploits of Indiana Jones are projected on a big screen while the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra performs John Williams’ epic score live.

At the Civic Auditorium, 500 Howard Baker Jr Blvd, Knoxville, TN 37915. Tickets and information: 865-291-3310, www.knoxvillesymphony.com

The Sheiks are Don Cassell on mandolin, guitar, dobro, and vocals; Nancy Brennan Strange on guitar, vocals; Don Wood on guitar; Barry (Po) Hannah on guitar; Ken Wood on percussion, vocals; Michael Crawley on blues harp, vocals; and Will Yeager on bass. Taking inspiration from the great Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt, they describe their music as acoustic swing. The Sheiks are known individually for their work with area bands and musicians for over 20 years working in bluegrass, old-time, jazz and swing idioms, including the Dismembered Tennesseans and Strange Company.

Tickets (discounts apply to advance purchase, JCA members, students & seniors) available through http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/1118485, 1-800-838-3006 ext 1, and at the door. At the Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37916. For information: 865-522-5851, www.jubileearts.org.

Workshop concert; This concert is open to the public, but requires a ticket. All other workshop events are limited to registered participants only. Tickets can be purchased at: https://secure.touchnet.com/C21610_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=1229&SINGLESTORE=true. Tickets will also be available at the door.

James R. Cox Auditorium, Alumni Memorial Building
Cost: 10
For more information, go to https://secure.touchnet.com/C21610_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=1229&SINGLESTORE=true.

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

Join host Sean McCollough for Kidstuff Live, WDVX’s free show for kids and the kid at heart. Grab your adult and come down to the Knoxville Visitor Center for Kidstuff Live, or listen on your radio and online.

WDVX, 301 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-544-1029, www.wdvx.com

Honoring Beauford Delaney. Join the Knoxville (TN) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated for the unveiling of a spectacular new acquisition by Knoxville native Beauford Delaney.

PRESENTING SPONSORS
Jan and Sylvia Peters
Rob and June Heller

Reception Begins 6pm
Unveiling 7:30pm
Festive Attire

For more information call 865-382-7468 or visit https://knoxart.ejoinme.org/MyPages/BDGala

The ACE Awards (formerly known as the Bijou Awards) has been honoring great young artistic talent in the Knoxville area since 2013.

Originally created as a way to bring a new generation of people into the historic Bijou Theatre in downtown Knoxville, the ACE Awards has grown into a nine county search to find the best singers, actors, writers and film makers from all of the area high schools and middle schools. The search culminates in one spectacular show in which the best in each category get their chance to perform in front of a live audience and the crown as the East Tennessee area’s top artistic talent. Winners receive a prize of $1,000 and an additional $500 will be given back to the teacher from their school! The top 5 in the following categories will perform on stage that evening.

Categories:
Rising Star (Middle School Singer)
Musical Theatre (High School)
Open Singing - Vocalists (High School)
Open Singing - Instrumentalists (High School)

This year we are adding Audience Voting for favorite in each category!
For questions, please call or email Jay Apking at 865-599-6710 or japking@aol.com
803 S. Gay Street: https://knoxbijou.org/event/?id=699665

Opening reception on Fri Jan 12, 6:30-8 PM with awards announced at 7 PM. Free and open to the public.

Exhibit viewing hours: Tu, Th 9-5; W, F 10-5; Sat 9-1. Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37918. Information: 865-357-2787, www.fountaincityartcenter.com

Dennis E. Perkins, in association with Zack Allen and Caroline King, will present three rarely-performed short plays by renowned playwright Samuel Beckett. Catastrophe, Come And Go, and Footfalls will be performed at The Hive near downtown Knoxville.

The production will be performed Fri., Jan. 12, Sat., Jan. 13, Sun., Jan. 14, Thurs., Jan. 18, Fri., Jan. 19, and Sat., Jan. 20. All performances begin at 7 PM.

For a man of notoriously few words, Samuel Beckett has inspired more scholarly publications than any other 20th century dramatist. Winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, "for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation," Beckett’s plays distill and condense language, character and scene to an absolute minimum. Beckett’s work consists over 20 full length plays, as well as several anthologies of poetry and short works of drama. Footfalls, an almost ghostly confabulation on memory, features Caroline King and Carrie Thompson. Come And Go is often considered Beckett’s most perfect play. Three childhood friends meet and talk about and talk around certain aspects of their lives. The play contains only 121 words that are woven into and repeated in 3 segments of 7 lines each. The play is performed by Caroline King, Biz Lyon, and Carrie Thompson. Catastrophe is often described as Beckett’s only overtly political play as it was commissioned for a night of support for playwright Vaclav Havel, who would later be named the first president of the Czech Republic. A Director and his Assistant put the final touches on a dramatic presentation which consists only of a man who Beckett calls “The Protagonist.” The cast include Kevin Collins, Tyler Gregory, and Biz Lyon.

The Hive, 854 N. Central Street, Knoxville. Info: Call Dennis Perkins at 865-216-1844 or e-mail at Mr.perkins@live.com

TMW January Jumpstart XVIII - January 12-14, 2018
Do you believe it's time again...to mark your calendars for January Jumpstart XVII on January 12-14, 2018. It will be at the Best Western Morristown Conference Center in Morristown, TN, at Exit 8 off I-81.

Darnell Arnoult will lead Fiction and Bill Brown returns to lead Poetry. Saturday session will run 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. and Sunday session 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. (EST)

Registration Fees: $135.
Coffee and tea before the morning sessions and Saturday lunch are included.

Fiction leader Darnell Arnoult is Writer-in-Residence at Lincoln Memorial University and author of the novel Sufficient Grace and What Travels With Us: Poems, winner of the Weatherford Award and named SIBA Poetry Book of the Year. Her short prose and poetry have been published in a variety of journals and anthologies including Southern Cultures, Southwest Review, Asheville Poetry Review, and Appalachia Now: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia. Her second collection, Galaxie Wagon: Poems, is forthcoming from LSU Press in spring 2016. She is co-editor of Drafthorse: A literary Journal of Work and No Work. She lives in Cumberland Gap, TN.

Poetry leader Bill Brown is the author of nine poetry collections and a writing textbook. His most recent titles are Elemental (3: A Taos Press 2014), The News Inside (Iris Press 2010), and Late Winter (Iris Press 2008). In 1999 Brown wrote and co-produced the Instructional Television Series, Student Centered Learning, for Nashville Public Television. The National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts awarded him The Distinguished Teacher in the Arts. He has been a Scholar in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, a Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a two-time recipient of Fellowships in poetry from the Tennessee Arts Commission. Brown has published hundreds of poems and articles in college journals, magazines and anthologies. The Tennessee Wrtiers Alliance named Brown the 2011 Writer of the Year. He lives wih his wife, Suzanne, and a tribe of cats in the hills north of Nashville.

Meals: Attendees are responsible for their own meals.
Participation Limit: 20 per workshop.
Registration Deadline: December 30, 2017.
Room Reservations: Attendees are responsible for their own reservations. Rate is $82.95 + tax for single or double. Full breakfast is included. Call (423) 587-2400 and mention TMW/January Jumpstart.
Additional Information: Contact Sue Richardson Orr at theorrs@usit.net

Tennessee Mountain Writers: 865-671-6046, www.tmwi.org.

Gallery 1010 will present ”From One to the Next” January 12-14, 2018. The exhibition is a printmaking exchange portfolio created by graduate students and faculty from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and the University of Georgia. ”From One to the Next” was organized by graduate students from each program, and the prints reflect a range of approaches and techniques in response to the portfolio theme.

Participants from University of Tennessee Knoxville include Kristina Key, Beauvais Lyons, Ashlee Mays, Emmitt Merrill, Althea Murphy-Price, Dana Potter, Lila Shull, Baxter Stults, Johanna Winters, and Koichi Yamamoto. Participants from the University of Georgia include Catherine Clements, Mary Gordon, Melissa Harshman, Kimberly McWhorter, Katherine Miller, Ali Norman, Johanna Norry, Sanaz Haghani, Erin Potter, Paula Runyon, Kaleena Stasiak, Jon Swindler and Eileen Wallace.

A reception for thee artists will be held on Friday January 12th from 6-9pm. Gallery hours are 12-4pm Friday-Sunday. Gallery 1010 is located at 1150 McCalla Ave., Knoxville, TN. https://gallery1010.utk.edu/