Calendar of Events

Opening reception Friday, Nov 2nd 7-10 pm

Our Good Earth is a photo-media installation addressing themes of passage, preservation, ephemerality, and beauty in loss through unstoppable change. Stacy Jacobs is a Professor of Art at Roane State Community College.

Fridays and Saturdays, 7-10 pm and by appointment
At A1LabArts, 23 Emory Place, Knoxville, TN 37917
For more information: stacyjacobsphoto@gmail.com
https://locatearts.org/exhibitions/knoxville/our-good-earth

GRAMMY® nominee, Dove Award winner, and Capitol recording artist, Danny Gokey is gearing up for his first-ever headline tour with this fall’s Hope Encounter. Also featuring GRAMMY® nominee Tauren Wells and breakout artist Riley Clemmons, the tour will hit 29 markets across the country, including Los Angeles, Atlanta, Seattle, Phoenix, Oklahoma City, and more. Produced by general market powerhouse Outback Concerts, the tour will play mostly theaters and performing arts centers.

“It’s been a dream of mine since American Idol to headline my own major tour,” says Gokey. “That platform opened my eyes to the power of mixing hope with entertainment. Hearing a message of hope at just the right time can truly make an impact in someone’s life. Getting this opportunity is a dream come true! I love touring, being with fans, and seeing first-hand how the music can encourage people in a time in our society where hope (mixed with a little fun) is so desperately needed.”

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

Chamber Concert

Frequent guests at international chamber music festivals, Mark Kosower and Jee-Won Oh have collaborated extensively, appearing in concert together and recording together worldwide. Recent season highlights include a tour of South Korea and Cambodia, and performances in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. Ms. Oh also concertizes internationally as soloist and chamber musician. Mr. Kosower is Principal Cellist of The Cleveland Orchestra and Teacher of Cello at the famed Cleveland Institute of Music. Find more information on Mr. Kosower’s cello residency in Oak Ridge at www.ORCMA.org.

At Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church. Tickets/information: 865-483-5569, www.orcma.org

UT Singers, the School of Music's original choral ensemble, and 'Tennessee's Music Ambassadors' presents their annual Homecoming Concert in recognition of their 70th year!

Friday, November 2 at 8:00pm to 11:00pm
Natalie Haslam Music Center

UT School of Music: Unless otherwise noted, concerts are FREE and open to the public. The Alumni Memorial Building located at 1408 Middle Drive on the UT campus. (The James R. Cox Auditorium is located in the Alumni Memorial Building.) The Natalie Haslam Music Center is located at 1741 Volunteer Blvd 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

Cattywampus Puppet Council's First Annual Puppet Sale Fundraiser!

Ever wanted a Cattywampus original to play with at home, take out on the town, or create your own shows with? Need a weird and interesting holiday gift? Well, now is your chance! We'll have puppets of all sizes for sale, as well as other Cattywampus swag to help raise money for our 2019 programming. There will be lots of puppets out and about to play with, a puppetmaking station for kids of all ages, and information about upcoming events and ways to get involved with the Puppet Council!

Cattywampus Puppet Council is a Knoxville-based arts nonprofit that utilizes giant puppets, community-based theatre, parades, and participatory workshops to build power and creativity in community. For more info, visit www.cattywampuspuppetcouncil.com!

Can't make it but still want to buy a puppet or donate? Contact Rachel at cattywampuspuppetcouncil@gmail.com. Thank you again for supporting community-based art in Knoxville!

@ The Cattywampus Studio At The Emporium Center, 100 S Gay St, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902
https://www.facebook.com/events/494712131045231/

Friday, November 2nd 12:30-1:30pm
Included with General Admission
It’s almost time for The Muse's annual Pumpkin Smash! Kiddos are always sad to throw away their Jack-O-Lanterns,so join us for some super fun pumpkin destruction on Nov 2nd during Science and Art a la Cart! Bring your own pumpkin to smash!

The Muse Knoxville, 516 N. Beaman Street, Knoxville, TN 37914. Information: 865-594-1494, http://themuseknoxville.org/calendar

Hosted by Rhea "RheaSunshine" Carmon

November 2, 7 p.m. at Oak Ridge Civic Center, Social Room
1403 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge, 37830.

Spokenword Poetry is coming to Oak Ridge, TN. Come out and enjoy a night with some of the best poets of East Tennessee. You can participate in the open mic, or just come to listen and be inspired by great words and powerful performance poetry. This is a free event but donation will be accepted.

Schedule
7:00 PM - 7:30 PM - Open Mic - Come share your words
7:35 PM - 7:55 PM - Erin Elizabeth Smith - Shares her words and poetry
8:00 PM - 8:20 PM - Joseph "Black Atticus" Woods
8:25 PM - 8:55 PM - Dr. Marilyn Kallet

https://www.facebook.com/events/338652266891148/

The Knoxville Choral Society's November 2 concert, Handel Masterworks, takes a look at the musical legacy of the Baroque musical genius, George Frederic Handel. Handel was well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos. Handel's musical language left a lasting impression on nearly all of the greatest composers who followed him. The Handel Masterworks concert showcases Handel's ability to write both complex and seemingly simple choral music. The repertoire will include two of the grand coronation anthems, Zadok the Priest, and The King Shall Rejoice, Handel's virtuosic setting of Psalm 110, Dixit Dominus, and audience favorites from Messiah.

Join the Knoxville Choral Society under the direction of conductor and artistic director, John R. Orr, and a professional orchestra for an evening of Baroque music by George Frederic Handel. The Handel Masterworks Knoxville performance takes place Friday, November 2, 2018 at 7:30 PM at Central Baptist Bearden, 6300 Deane Hill Dr., Knoxville, TN 37919. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students. Tickets can be purchased at the door, from a choral society member or by visiting the Knoxville Choral Society website, www.knoxvillechoralsociety.org. A second performance will take place Sunday, November 4 in Loudon County at The Community Church at Tellico Village. See www.tellicochurch.org for information on the Loudon performance.

Knoxville Choral Society: 865-312-2440, www.knoxvillechoralsociety.org.

Please come celebrate this launch with Art From the Hills, The Phoenix Pharmacy, and Beth Meadows. Prints will be on display and for sale, food & wine will be served, and there will, of course, be ice cream at the Phoenix Pharmacy.

The first 10 attendees will receive a free print! Prints will be available to view and purchase on November 2nd at noon @ http://artfromthehills.com/

At The Phoenix Building - 418 S Gay St, Knoxville, TN

FREE MUSICAL EVENT AT THE BIJOU THEATRE! An audio-visual homage to Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree

In 1996, two German musicians besotted with Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree traveled to Knoxville, determined to explore the city and landscapes so memorably depicted in the novel. Roland Kopp and Michael Stroll also had another goal while in town: record an album. The pair spent some time at South Knoxville’s Underground Studios, recorded a bit at Old City jazz bar Lucille’s, and expanded on the work with other musicians when back home in Bavaria. The session resulted in two albums of soundtracks for an imagined film, Music For A Still Undone Movie Maybe Called Suttree and a sequel, credited to Buddy and The Huddle, a reference to Cornelius Suttree’s nickname and his favorite bar. The music is a mix of jazz, country blues, rock, ambient and spoken word passages, one courtesy of Old City denizen Walter McGinnis from the Tri-City Barber Shop/junk store.

Twenty-two years later, Kopp and Stroll return to Knoxville with Buddy and the Huddle. As part of the University of Tennessee’s McCarthyFest, the band will perform a soundtrack to a film created by the Knox County Public Library’s Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound. Culled from the archive’s extensive collection of home movies, news footage and regional promotional films, the piece will feature mid-century scenes of downtown Knoxville, Market Square, houseboats on the Tennessee River, the Smoky Mountains, and other locales featured in Suttree. Further underscoring the German-Knoxville connection, photographs taken by Annemarie Schwarzenbach during her 1937 travels to the region, as well as the photos Kopp took with his antique box camera during his 1996 visit, will be included in this impressionistic tribute to the city and one of its most celebrated novels.

Following a premiere in Nuremberg on October 23, and an October 28 performance at Atlanta’s Synchronicity Center in conjunction with the Goethe-Zentrum German Cultural Center, the band and film will appear at The Bijou’s on Friday, November 2.

This FREE event is presented by The Knox County Public Library’s Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound and The University of Tennessee’s Departments of English and Modern Foreign Language and Literature as part of UT’s McCarthyFest. http://knoxvillehistoryproject.org/events/

Friday, November 2, 2018 at 8 PM – 9:30 PM at the Bijou Theatre
803 S Gay St, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902.

In 1996, two German musicians besotted with Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree traveled to Knoxville, determined to explore the city and landscapes so memorably depicted in the novel. Roland Kopp and Michael Stroll also had another goal while in town: record an album. The pair spent some time at South Knoxville’s Underground Studios, recorded a bit at Old City jazz bar Lucille’s, and expanded on the work with other musicians when back home in Bavaria. The session resulted in two albums of soundtracks for an imagined film, Music For A Still Undone Movie Maybe Called Suttree and a sequel, credited to Buddy and The Huddle, a reference to Cornelius Suttree’s nickname and his favorite bar. The music is a mix of jazz, country blues, rock, ambient and spoken word passages, one courtesy of Old City denizen Walter McGinnis from the Tri-City Barber Shop/junk store.

Twenty-two years later, Kopp and Stroll return to Knoxville with Buddy and the Huddle. As part of the University of Tennessee’s McCarthyFest, the band will perform a soundtrack to a film created by the Knox County Public Library’s Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound. Culled from the archive’s extensive collection of home movies, news footage and regional promotional films, the piece will feature mid-century scenes of downtown Knoxville, Market Square, houseboats on the Tennessee River, the Smoky Mountains, and other locales featured in Suttree. Further underscoring the German-Knoxville connection, photographs taken by Annemarie Schwarzenbach during her 1937 travels to the region, as well as the photos Kopp took with his antique box camera during his 1996 visit, will be included in this impressionistic tribute to the city and one of its most celebrated novels.

Following a premiere in Nuremberg on October 23, and an October 28 performance at Atlanta’s Synchronicity Center in conjunction with the Goethe-Zentrum German Cultural Center, the band and film will appear at The Bijou on Friday, November 2.

This FREE event is presented by The Knox County Public Library’s Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound and The University of Tennessee’s Departments of English and Modern Foreign Language and Literature as part of UT’s McCarthyFest.

Black Friday Sale at Goodwill Stores.
Friday, November 23, 2018
1:00 PM 5:00 PM

Join Goodwill on Black Friday for 50% off everything in stock (excluding UT and Christmas items) between 1-5pm!