Calendar of Events

Hosted by Jurassic Quest and Knoxville Convention Center
701 Henley Street, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902
www.jurassicquest.com

Jurassic Quest is ROARING through KNOXVILLE, TN! Our event features more rides, activities, & dinosaurs than ever before! WHAT’S NEW AT JQ?
- even more LIFE-SIZE, SKYSCRAPING DINOSAURS, now totaling OVER 100 DINOSAURS at our event

At Broadway Studios and Gallery, 1127 N Broadway NE, Knoxville, Tennessee 37917

Fri 5-9 PM
Sat 10 AM - 6 PM
Sun 1-5 PM

The holiday market highlights our resident artists. All the artists will have displays full of their art. We will have refreshments, music and art. There will be sales with plenty of opportunities to purchase art to give as a beautiful one of a kind gift.
https://www.facebook.com/events/547332322723453/

FRIDAY, DEC 6 • 8PM

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

Highlights some of the fine things that are made by people right here in Knoxville! Join us for the Holiday Sale right in the middle of the show on Fri Dec 6.

Buy Handmade for the Holidays!

Knoxville Arts & Fine Crafts Center, 1127 Broadway Suite B, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-523-1401, http://knoxvilletn.gov/cms/One.aspx?portalId=109562&pageId=15402751

Parade will start on Church Avenue near the Coliseum, then turn right onto Gay Street. Join us for everyone's favorite parade, the WIVK Christmas Parade. Bands, dancers, lighted floats, characters and Santa Claus parade down Gay Street and brings fun holiday spirit to all! To enter a float in the parade you will need to fill out an application with WIVK.

http://www.knoxvilletn.gov/government/city_departments_offices/special_events/christmas_in_the_city

A community boombox Christmas caroling event

Nief-Norf presents Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night on December 6th, 209 and invites the Knoxville, and greater East Tennessee, community to participate. Phil Kline's Unsilent Night is a free, outdoor, participatory sound sculpture of many individual parts, recorded on cassettes, CDs, and mp3s, and played through a roving swarm of boomboxes carried through city streets every December. People bring their own boomboxes and drift peacefully through a cloud of sound which is different from every listener's perspective. Since 1992, this 45-minute work has grown into a worldwide annual communal event that has become an essential part of many winter holiday celebrations. Nief-Norf has been offering Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night in Knoxville since 2012.

Knoxville residents know that Nief-Norf brings the brightest, most promising composers, performers, and scholars together in June every summer. However, the multi-tiered contemporary music organization is expanding its role as a cutting-edge laboratory for 21st-century chamber music, offering year-round programming with the new Knoxville Concert Series in 2019-2020. Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night is a highlight this of this season along with a Knoxville Symphony Orchestra collaboration and an appearance at Big Ears Festival.

Mark Mobley, who organizes Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night events in Wilmington, DE and Athens, GA, says, “Carrying one of the four tracks is the closest you can get to being in an orchestra where you are a part of this beautiful welter of sound."

We want to have over one hundred East Tennessee residents join us in making a joyful noise. For those who want to participate:

1. Fill out the form on the Nief-Norf website: http://www.niefnorf.org/2019-20-season/2019/12/6/phil-klines-unsilent-night-in-knoxville
2. Go to http://unsilentnight.com/participate.html to learn more about the piece and download the free App if you want to use an iDevice.
3. Participants can also join Nief-Norf and other participants at Casual Pint from 6:30-8:30pm for drinks and good company before we take to the streets.
4. Following libations, all participants will meet at 9PM at the base (bottom) of the Knoxville Sunsphere. We will get organized, then walk at 9:30 across the bridge and into downtown Knoxville!
5. Participants are encouraged to join the Facebook event (https://www.facebook.com/events/551395638936412) for updates before the event.
6. Note: The success of the piece very much depends on having quality speakers (either line-connected to a device or battery-powered devices). Participants should not plan to simply play the audio off of iPhone / iPad / Laptop speakers.

http://www.niefnorf.org

Irish Music

Knoxville-based Red-Haired Mary delivers Irish and other Celtic songs and tunes, sometimes in the Irish language and often in three-part harmony. Members of the band include Nancy Acuff, flute, tin whistle and vocals; Alycia Petrone, fiddle; Terry Schomer, bouzouki, guitar, mandolin, bodhran and bones; Margaret Scanlan, keyboards and vocals; and Tom Scanlan, bass, bodhran and vocals.

Tickets: $15

Jubilee Community Arts at the Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37916. 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. For information: 865-522-5851, www.jubileearts.org

Join us First Friday, December 6, 6-9 PM
"I'm Sorry / I'm Salty... and other small sentiments" - Prints by Jessie Morris
The event is FREE and open to the public

Includes a coinciding lumen printing workshop the following morning, Sat Dec 7, 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM.

www.jessicalynmorris.com and www.jessiemophoto.com

The Knoxville Community Darkroom, 126 Jennings Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. www.theknoxvillecommunitydarkroom.org

The final event of Maryville College's 200th birthday celebration and a favorite Blount County Christmas tradition is coming in December. The chorus will be performing the Watkins Shaw edition of “Messiah” at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6 in the Clayton Center for the Arts’ Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre. Tickets are on sale now at the Clayton Center for the Arts Box Office. $25 for Adults and $20 for Students and Seniors.

Directors are Maryville College's Stacey Wilner, Alan Eleazer and Eric Simpson. Soloists are Laura Atkinson '05, April Martin '08, Jesse Neace '19, and John Wesley Wright '87.

Clayton Center for the Arts: 502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville, TN 37804. Information/tickets: 865-981-8590, www.ClaytonArtsCenter.com

Cherub brings their Baby Angels Tour to the Mill and Mine Friday, December 6, 2019.
8:00 PM
$22.00
Ages 18+

The Mill & Mine, 227 W. Depot Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. Tickets/information: http://themillandmine.com

Friday, December 6, 6 -9:30 pm, brings the Children’s Museum’s biggest night–and fundraiser–of the year, the Annual Gala.

Join us on a “Journey to Japan.” This year’s Gala will be sure to delight with delicious Japanese-inspired food by Take Out Thyme, amazing performances by local youth, Japanese-themed activities and our signature live and silent auctions.

Children's Museum of Oak Ridge | 461 West Outer Drive, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Tickets and information at https://childrensmuseumofoakridge.org/journey-to-japan-lets-go/

Highlights some of the fine things that are made by people right here in Knoxville! Join us for the Holiday Sale right in the middle of the show on Fri Dec 6, 5-9 PM

Buy Handmade for the Holidays!

Mon: 9am-8:30pm
Tues: 9am-8:30pm
Wed: 9am-8pm
Thurs: 9am-6pm
Fri: 9am-2 pm
Sat: 9:30am-2 pm

Knoxville Arts & Fine Crafts Center, 1127 Broadway Suite B, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-523-1401, http://knoxvilletn.gov/cms/One.aspx?portalId=109562&pageId=15402751