Calendar of Events

Mighty Mud's annual Holiday open house and sale including of course, our world famous Island of Misfit pots! Come on down and join us for yummy pot luck food and handmade ceramic gifts for everyone on your list! 12pm-5pm

Mighty Mud, 127 Jennings Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-595-1900, www.mightymudclay.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/1244075505734884/

Sunday at 1 PM – 5 PM
Historic Southern Railway Station, 300 W Depot Ave, Knoxville, Tennessee 37917

Kick off Christmas with a vintage Christmas celebration at the Historic Southern Railway Station!

Shop local craft vendors in our upstairs ballroom, enjoy our specialty holiday cocktails and wines at Blue Slip Winery downstairs, and stop in to enjoy Christmas movies playing in our downstairs ballroom!

Plus, Santa will be here for pictures taken by Stephanie Richer Photography and will be pet friendly! Mrs. Claus will also be here to read Christmas stories on our vintage train cars!

1PM-5PM December 2nd. Free parking and no admission fee!
Santa pictures will be $20.
https://www.facebook.com/events/165795364372367/

Please join the Knoxville Community Band for their annual Christmas Concert!
The concert will feature timeless Christmas classics among other tunes that the whole family can sing and tap along. The concert is free and no tickets are required. Pack up the sleigh and head down to the Bijou Theatre for a holly jolly good time! The Knoxville Community Band is a volunteer band sponsored by the Knoxville Parks & Recreation Department.

https://www.facebook.com/KnoxvilleCommunityBand/

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

At Flynn Dance Center, 828 Tulip Ave, Knoxville, Tennessee 37921

For thousands of years, people all around the world have been celebrating the passing of the longest night and the Return of the Sun. Come join us in a community celebration of Light, Hope, and Peace. Please bring an unscented candle to add to the center of the Circle and wear white to symbolically banish fear, ignorance, and darkness.
Cost: $5/person, $10/household
https://www.facebook.com/events/2220808928161957/

This Sunday, Dec. 2, frrom 7:30-8:15pm, Knoxville-based vocal group Orison will perform an uplifting and meditative a cappella concert at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral. The unique program takes place entirely in candlelight, creating a visually stunning atmosphere within the historic cathedral.

The performance, titled Compline after the traditional holy service, includes adaptations of the daily sequence of prayers that monastic communities have observed for over a thousand years. The 45-minute experience invites the audience into a reflective space of candlelight and incense, and those present can listen, meditate and absorb the mystical beauty.

St. John's Episcopal Cathedral, 413 W. Cumberland Ave., Knoxville, TN 37902.
http://www.stjohnscathedral.org/cathedral-arts

Zoo Knoxville is offering $5 off admission tickets during Kroger Discount Days. Guests can discover why winter is an enjoyable time to visit the zoo. Many animals, including red pandas, river otters, elephants, gorillas, red wolves, lions and tigers, enjoy the cooler temperatures. On days when the temperature drops below 40 degrees, some animals will be moved indoors, but visitors can still see most in their indoor viewing areas. The Pilot Flying J Wee Play Adventure is a popular indoor area that’s a warm stop for creative play and reptile viewing during visits as well.

A December trip to the zoo can even include a visit to Santa’s Village, a special holiday encounter and photo opportunity with Santa Claus. Santa’s Village will be open for holiday photos and Christmas wishes Thursday, Dec. 13 through Sunday, Dec. 16 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. each day in the heated Kids Cove Tent. Santa’s Village is included with general admission. Discounted tickets can be purchased at the zoo ticket window during regular zoo hours and online at zooknoxville.org. Discounted admission tickets must be used by Feb. 28, 2019, and cannot be combined with any other promotion, discount, or coupon.

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

18th Annual Messiah Sing Along presented by director Sandy Wells and the Tri-County Orchestra and Chorus. The audience is invited to participate in the major pieces if they so choose. Music will be provided. Admission is free; donations are welcome.

Concert #1: Dec. 1 at 3 p.m. at Norris United Methodist Church, 62 Ridgeway at Oak Road, Norris.
Concert #2: Dec. 2 at 3 pm at the Historic Grove Theater, 123 Randolph Rd., Oak Ridge.

For more information, visit the Tri-County Messiah Sing Along Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/Tri-county-Messiah-Sing-along-887260184690820/

Hosted by Historic Old North Knoxville's Annual Holiday Home Tour
Tickets: www.victorianholidayhometour.com

Make plans now to join us for the 30th Annual Victorian Holiday Home Tour on December 1st & 2nd! Old North Knoxville features beautiful homes built in the Queen Anne, Craftsman/Bungalow, Neoclassical Revival, and American Four Square style. To help you kick off your holiday season, Old North Knoxville neighbors will open the doors of select homes in a variety of these styles, restored and decorated for the season for your viewing pleasure!

Candlelight Tour: Saturday Dec. 1st, 2018 4:00PM – 9:00PM
Afternoon Tour: Sunday Dec. 2nd, 2018 12:30PM – 5:00PM

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Families on Mission will be sharing the Real reason for the Season with the people of Knoxville on Saturday & Sunday December 1 & 2. We will have a Live Nativity in Krutch Park, directly behind the Knoxville Christmas tree on Gay Street & connected with Market Square. We need many people to be involved with this mission opportunity through helping to set up or take down the nativity, dress in costume in the nativity, greet people, take photos of people in front of the nativity and share the gospel with those who stop by the nativity. We will have live animals in the nativity along with people dressed as Mary, Joseph, a shepherd, & an angel.

Sat Dec 1, 10 AM
Sun Dec 2, 1 PM

If you or your family are interested in being involved with this mission opportunity, please email us at carl@familiesonmissionintl.org or call Carl Smith at 865-661-5611 and we would love to help you get involved!

https://www.facebook.com/events/338969509983979/

Knoxville Children’s Theatre, in partnership with Clayton Foundation, will present 16 live performances of “Best Christmas Pageant Ever,”
based on the classic novel by Barbara Robinson. In this hilarious Christmas classic, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids: probably the most inventively awful kids in history! You won't believe the mayhem - and the fun - when the Herdmans collide with the Christmas story head on! This delightful comedy is adapted from the best-selling book and has become a holiday staple for theatre audiences everywhere, featuring lots of laughs for audiences of all ages.

The live stage musical will be performed:
Thursdays and Fridays at 7 PM, Saturdays at 1PM & 5 PM, Sundays at 3 PM

The play is performed by 22 talented young actors, from ages 9 to 16. Derrick Washington, Jr., a senior at STEM Academy will direct the
production. STEM Academy student Quintin Rhodes will serve as the Stage Manager.

TICKETS are $12 per Adult, $10 per child. Reservations are strongly recommended. Group rates are available for groups of 12 or more. To obtain a group rate, reservations must be placed by telephone. Knoxville Children's Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-208-3677, www.knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com

"No Good Know-How, and exhibition by Dana Potter welcomes visitors to play a technologically enhanced version of the classic children’s game “I Spy”. I Spy is played by using a guide to find a certain number and kind of object in a composed image. The game is technologically enhanced with eye-tracking software, which records data about where the viewer looked and for how long. The data is then turned into a visualization, printed, and offered for sale in the gallery space. As a direct commentary on the way personal data is invisibly bought and sold online, this system uses physical materials to show how the intimate motion of looking is collected, packaged, and sold.

“No Good Know-How” will open at Gallery 1010 on November 30th, 2018. Potter is a graduate student in studio art (printmaking) at UTK and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Northern Iowa in 2015. Recently Potter’s work has been in both national and international exhibitions including the “2017 3rd Global Print,” Douro, Portugal; “2017 Beyond Printmaking 5,” Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; and “Stand Out Prints 2016,” Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN.

Reception: Friday November 30, 2018, 6-9pm
Hours: Friday – Sunday, 12-4pm

Gallery 1010, 150 McCalla Ave, Knoxville, TN 37915
https://gallery1010.utk.edu/

By Charles Dickens. Adapted by Edward Morgan and Joseph Hanreddy. Music by John Tanner.CBT Mainstage

There’s a reason we perform this tale every year. No matter how many times you’ve seen it, the story still proves to be the spirit of the season. Relive Scrooge’s ghost-guided look into his past, present and future, and his journey of redemption. A yearly tradition to treasure with family and friends.

Clarence Brown 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