Calendar of Events

(Ages 6+) Get your family outdoors and explore Ijams in a new light (or no light) during a First Friday Ijams Night Hike! The first one is next Friday, March 5, from 6:30-8 p.m.! You’ll use all five senses, play games, call for owls and more! https://www.ijams.org/event-details/ijams-night-hike-family-program

Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920. www.ijams.org

Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920. www.ijams.org

Works by Hannah Oakes

Opening receptions via Zoom, Fri 6-9 PM. Link on the website.

Gallery 1010, 1150 McCalla Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917. Exhibition hours by appointment only. Information: https://gallery1010.utk.edu/

Nina Fefferman, professor in the UT Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics, will present “Epidemics, Societies, and Math: How Disease Changes Animal Evolution,” Friday, March 5 via Zoom.

Animals, including humans, have had to evolve in order to balance the risk of catching infectious diseases from each other against the need for social contact and useful group organization. In her presentation, Professor Fefferman will use mathematical modeling to show how some of the behavioral patterns we see in nature achieve this balance really efficiently. She will apply some of these lessons to human society today.

The UT Science Forum takes place via Zoom Friday, March 5 from noon to 1 p.m. Registration is required. Once registered, you will receive a link to join the Zoom presentation.

Register Today : https://tennessee.zoom.us/webinar/register/8416131624750/WN_yxIgjA8HQ26ybWSwT-ScMQ

The UT Science Forum is weekly lecture series presented by the UT College of Arts and Sciences.

In this talk, sociologist Tristan Bridges (University of California-Santa Barbara) will discuss his research with both pro-feminist and anti-feminist White men. Faced with a historically novel context in which gender and racial privilege are more visible than perhaps ever before, this work asks how groups of gender-politically engaged, straight White men navigate the increasing visibility of privilege. Rather than undoing privilege, Bridges documents the strategies each group mobilized that he shows work to sustain these men's collective denial of their structural positions of power. This process has the consequence of making gender and racial subordination, power, and marginalization less visible.

Sponsored by the Women, Gender & Sexuality Interdisciplinary Program with support from the Department of Sociology and the Intersectionality Community of Scholars.

Registration is required.
Friday, March 5 at 12:10pm to 1:10pm
https://calendar.utk.edu/event/the_enduring_myth_of_white_mens_disadvantage#.YD0lUGhKjct

Mar 05, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920, USA

Ijams Night Hikes are recommended for ages 6 and up

Description: Explore Ijams Nature Center in a new light, or perhaps no light. Ijams Night Hikes get you out on the trails to experience the night using all of your senses. Each walk includes night games and activities as well as exploration for nocturnal creatures. Search for salamanders using the ears of a bat, or call for owls while staying as silent as possible. You never know what you might experience on a fun night hike at Ijams.

Materials Participants Should Bring: Good walking shoes, water, flashlight, and weather appropriate clothes.
https://www.ijams.org/event-details/ijams-night-hike-family-program

KNOXVILLE CONVENTION CENTER – 2021 BOAT SHOW SCHEDULE
Thur March 4th – 2pm To 8pm
Fri March 5th – 12pm To 8pm
Sat March 6th – 10am To 8pm
Sun March 7th – 11am To 5pm

SHOW ADMISSION
Single Day Admission: $12 | Weekend Pass: $20
Children 4-10 – $5
Tickets are available ONLINE ONLY this year

The safety and health of our attendees, exhibitors, dealers, and staff is our absolute top priority. Show officials are working with local, state, and federal officials and their guidelines to provide a safe and fun experience. The show will adhere to all Covid-19 guidelines for the upcoming show:
– Must wear a mask at all times.
– Social Distancing throughout the building
– Please stay home if you have any symptoms or are high risk.
– Hand sanitation stations will be spread through the building.
– Online Ticket sales only

http://downtownknoxvilleboatshow.com/

Tue Mar 2, 10-12: Smorgasbord Class: Oil & Acrylic Painting with Debbie Toney. $20
Fri Mar 5, 5-7: Fun Friday Art Reception celebrating Debbie Toney
Tue Mar 16, 9:30: Monthly Members Meeting
Thu Mar 18, 1-4: Chain Maille Jewelry class, “Pleasingly Purple Bracelet,” with George Gallant, $55 + $20

Art Guild at Fairfield Glade at the Plateau Creative Arts Center, 451 Lakeview Drive, Fairfield Glade, TN 38558. Information: 931-707-7249, www.artguildfairfieldglade.net

An exhibition featuring work by 25 contemporary women printmakers, opens Monday, March 1, in the Printmaking Showcase Gallery.

The theme of viscosity, flexibility, and fluidity of ink used in printmaking serves as the organizing principle for the portfolio. Dynamic viscosity, by definition, is the sheer stress and sheer rate of a fluid material. The push and pull of ink under pressure can result in the pulling of a perfect film of color and texture. However, the wrong body of ink can result in tearing, push, or saltiness of the color field and render the print an unsuccessful. Constant trial and error of different additives to the ink body can and will be made. It is only after failure, success, and time, do printers, begin to understand how the ink body will react under the pressure of the printing press.

The exhibition encompasses a variety of printmaking media, and includes work by alumnae Ericka Walker (MFA ‘10), associate professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art University and Deb Chaney (BFA ‘01) a Tamarind Master Printer based in Brooklyn, New York and Paris, France.

The gallery is located on the second floor of the Art + Architecture Building outside the print shop, room 241. The exhibition is on view through Friday, April 30.

Art and Architecture Building, Outside of room 241
1715 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996
https://calendar.utk.edu/event/viscosity_women_of_print#.YDPza-hKjct

Ijams Take Action!: Big and Small Ways to Save the Planet is back, and it’s bigger than ever! Throughout 2021, you’ll find workshops, recycling events, and more to help you make a difference in the world.

March 1-31
Help Creatures Great and Small: Wildlife Rehabber Collection Event
Licensed wildlife rehabilitators work 24/7 to help injured or orphaned animals heal, grow and hopefully be released back into the wild. Help them accomplish this important work during this collection event!

https://www.ijams.org/wildlife-rehab-collection

Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920. www.ijams.org

This year's Winter Warmer will be a little later than in the past. Not quite spring, but Winter.....ish.
Some of your favorite things from our annual fundraiser are still happening: a delicious locally-sourced meal and a silent auction, plus a Good Sport Box in collaboration with The Central Collective!

How it Works:
Register at https://www.betterunite.com/NourishKnoxvilleInc-winter-ishwarmer2021
Purchase your meals and/or your Good Sport Boxes
Tune back in on March 19 - 26 to bid on silent auction items
Pick up all your treasures on March 27 between 1-4 pm at Real Good Kitchen

Each course will be lovingly prepared and packaged, and ready for you to put the finishing touches on at home and enjoy at your leisure! Omnivore and Vegan options are available. The Vegan meal option is also gluten-free, excluding the dessert. Email info@nourishknoxville.org to request a GF dessert option.

Starter by Jenna Baker of Cook to Be Well
Main course by Matt Gallaher of Knox Mason/Emilia*
*Vegan main prepared by Jenna Baker
Dessert by Emily Williams and Laurence Faber of Lesser Babka

The Good Sport Box is the brainchild of The Central Collective owners Shawn Poynter and Dale Mackey, and was created in March 2020 as a way to stay connected with our community, support local makers, and help sustain their business in a time when owning a community event venue is especially challenging. Built on the success of their Good Sport events, in which people bought tickets to an unspecified event, the GSB is a curated collection of items by local makers, sort of an adult grab bag! We're excited to collaborate with The Central Collective on this Local Food Edition, compiling a mystery box of local foods, and a few food-adjacent crafts that you can add on to your meal or purchase as a stand along item as a part of Winter-ish Warmer! Each box will be different, so get one or more! Some of the items are made by fine local businesses such as Lirio Chocolate, All-Sum Foods, and McQueen Pottery, to name a few!

Can you make it to all 20 checkpoints? What will be more difficult…riding or decoding the clues? Time will tell!

Join us for our Spring Checkpoint Ride! We’ll be celebrating the coming of longer days, drier trails, and the 4th trip around the sun for our presenting sponsor and longtime supporter SoKno Taco Cantina! The ride will celebrate our spring riding opportunities both on and off trail, explore new destinations over the course of 3 weeks in this COVID friendly fundraiser for AMBC. We’re dedicated to educating trail users as well as building and maintaining the trails here Knoxville.

Passport Pickup and ON SITE registration @ SoKno Taco – March 1st – March 21st
Open Daily from 11am – 11pm
Don’t want to go inside? No worries – Order some tacos and margs to-go and add on a passport!

For just 10 Bucks you get:
Passport containing clues for 20 checkpoints
The chance to win great prizes
5+ checkpoint stamps = 1 entry into the Prize Giveaway
10+ checkpoint stamps = 3 entries into the Prize Giveaway
ALL 20 checkpoint stamps = 5 entries into the Prize Giveaway
3 weeks of fun in March

https://ambcknox.org/spring-checkpoint-ride-march-1st-march-21st-2021-presented-by-sokno-taco/

On display in the Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture March 1 - 10
Featuring work by UT students

Ewing Gallery, 1715 Volunteer Blvd on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Information: 865-974-3200, www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu