Calendar of Events

In April, the Guild of the Knoxville Museum of Art held a virtual Studio Visit with Knoxville stone sculptor Jeanne Kidd. Kidd is an internationally recognized master stone sculptor whose works honor family legacy, emotional healing, and a passion for the material.

This virtual visit consists of two prerecorded videos: an interview with the artist and a demonstration of her stone sculpting techniques.

Click here for Video One: https://youtu.be/6zQmCKCBoZ8

Click here for Video Two: https://youtu.be/6zQmCKCBoZ8

The Guild raises funds for the KMA and encourages participation in and support for the museum. For more information about becoming part of the KMA Guild and enjoying more activities like this please visit https://knoxart.org/memberships/

https://knoxart.org/kma_events/artist-studio-visit-2021-with-jeanne-kidd/

1024 Sevier Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920

Join us each month for the Sunday in Old Sevier - Outdoor Market! We will be set up on the pavement next to South Landing Fitness and across from South Coast Pizza.

12-4 PM

Some Vendors include:
- SoKno Woodworking
- Girls Gotta Eat Good
- Beef and Blossoms
- JKwoodworkingNDesign
- SoKno Sourdough
- TuttleBear Custom Designs
- Lick Skillet Farm
- Frog Juice Kombucha
- Knox Girl Soap
- Inquisit Designs
- Front Door & Home Decor by Beth
- Foraged Farms
- scruffybakes
- Old House Pottery
- RaBo Design
- Eat My Granola
- Big Bright Circle Botanicals
- Faces In Bloom
- Ancient Goat Soap
- Adventure Rosie Art

This market will be geared towards supporting our local vendors with a focus on safety. Vendors are required to wear a mask while people are at their table, and shoppers are encouraged to wear their masks while approaching each vendor. Thank you for supporting our Knoxville community's makers #shoplocal #knoxmakers #makercity

https://www.facebook.com/events/2100663960064640

May 30, 2021 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm and 6:30-7:30 pm

Online reservations required.

Artists: Donata Cucinotta, soprano; Kirk Dougherty, tenor; Sean Anderson, baritone;
Brian Salesky, host and pianist

At Crowne Plaza, 401 W Summit Hill Dr SW, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902
https://www.crowneknox.com/

Knoxville Opera: 865-524-0795, www.knoxvilleopera.com

Sunday, May 30: 12-4:00 p.m.

Local craft vendors, reenactors, living history demonstrations, music, educational presentations, and more! Gov. John Sevier and Bonnie Kate welcome you to their home.

Marble Springs State Historic Site: 1220 West Governor John Sevier Highway, Knoxville, TN 37920. Information: 865-712-9076, www.marblesprings.net

We will be at the World’s Fair Park to accommodate space for social distancing. This is a Rain or Shine Event!

Live performances all day long, kid's zone fun activities (children under 8 are free), spades & dominoes tournaments, and more!

The staff of Festivals for Charity and Knoxville’s Caribbean Jerk Festival want to say thanks for your cooperation in advance!

Come and join us in shaking the COVID-19 blues, enjoying an epic day of wonderful culinary experiences, music that will keep you rocking and of course fun for adults and children alike. There are too many activities to name but here are a few: Be sure and enter the spades tourney, and if you are the ultimate bone collector, we dare you to enter the dominoes tourney. We will end with our headliner, Brian Clay of Knoxville, taking us out with melodious, reflective & vibrant tunes. We promise we will leave you wanting more.

https://knoxjerkfest.org/

Enjoy great local music for a great local cause! Ijams and Real Knoxville Music will present a benefit concert featuring rock, Americana and jazz on the Visitor Center lawn next Sunday, May 30. A portion of proceeds will help Averee Young, a child born with Walker-Warburg syndrome. Doors open at 1 p.m. and the music starts at 2 with Josh Smith, followed by The Stragglers, Wasted Major, and Nick Horner. Learn More and Get Tickets

https://www.ijams.org/calendar-of-events

2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920

Join us for our 111th Poets in Pajamas reading featuring Shannon Pulusan. Sundress Publications is pleased to present Poets in Pajamas (PiP), a free, bi-monthly reading series run through Facebook Live that encourages worldwide literary connection by attending a virtual reading from the comfort of your pajamas. Poets read from their work for around fifteen minutes and welcome questions from the audience after the reading. Join us, Sunday 30th May at 7pm ET.

RSVP to the event here!
https://www.facebook.com/events/279013767014515/

Shannon Pulusan is currently a poetry candidate at Rutgers Newark's MFA program. She reviews poetry as an editorial assistant for Flock, teaches poetry for NJPAC’s City Verses, and draws round-faced characters with triangle noses and pepperoni cheeks under the name moonmemo. Her work has been featured in Bridge Eight, Entropy, Talon Review, and more.

*All events are free and open to the public!
Details on all of these events at www.tnstatehood.com

Saturday, May 29:
Open houses at Blount Mansion, James White’s Fort, Historic Ramsey House, Mabry-Hazen House, and Marble Springs State Historic Site. Hours vary; check www.hhknoxvile.org for details

Tuesday, June 1:
TN 225th March and Celebration
Blount Mansion (200 W. Hill Ave.), 1:30-3pm (march participants gather at James White’s Fort at 1:00 pm)
Join Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, Knoxville Mayor Indya Kincannon, musicians, historical reenactors, and local students for a march from James White’s Fort (where Knoxville began) to Blount Mansion (where Tennessee was born), followed by a short ceremony, refreshments, and an opportunity to sign your name with a quill pen atop the 1796 Tennessee Statehood Desk in Gov. William Blount’s Office. Blount Mansion will be open free of charge following the ceremony. Event co-sponsored by Blount Mansion, City of Knoxville, and Historic House Museums of Knoxville.

Tennessee Begins
6:00-7:00 p.m., Maple Hall Bowling Alley (414 S. Gay Street), upstairs bar
Presentation by Jack Neely of Knoxville History Project about the events in Knoxville in 1796 which led to the creation of the state of Tennessee in 1796. For more information and to register, visit https://knoxvillehistoryproject.org/events/

Wednesday, June 2:
In Conversation: The Objects that Define Tennessee History at 225 Years
(Virtual Event) June 2, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. Eastern/6:00 p.m. Central
Blount Mansion is partnering with the Tennessee State Museum for this virtual program, which brings experts from both museums together to highlight priceless objects in both of our collections which relate to William Blount, John Sevier, and the beginning of Tennessee statehood in 1796. The registration link for this virtual program will be available soon.

Thursday, June 3:
Knoxville: The Crossroads of America
Joint Hybrid (in-person & virtual) presentation of Blount and Knoxville History Project at 6pm
Blount Mansion Visitors Center (200 W. Hill Ave., downtown Knoxville, TN)
Dr. Chris Magra, professor of early American history at the University of Tennessee, will explore how conflict and compromise brought different people together and made it possible for Tennessee to become the sixteenth state in the Union in 1796. We will stream the lecture on Zoom with up to 25 participants attending in person at Blount Mansion Visitors Center. In-person attendees must register in advance by email info@blountmansion. Please give us your name and the number of individuals in your party. If you would prefer to attend the event virtually, please visit https://knoxvillehistoryproject.org/events/ to register and receive the Zoom link from Knoxville History Project.

May 28 thru May 30
Scott Miller

WDVX is keeping the Real Live Music going from wherever you are with WDVX Live From Home and our Spring Series. Each ticket purchased issues an email that gives you the link to the concert.
+ If you have a smart TV where you can open your email, you can bring the concert up this way to your TV.
+ Open the email on a device that can “cast” its signal to your TV for HD viewing.
+ Use an HDMI cord to join your computer to your TV. Enjoy!

Your tickets to the show will show up as an email within two hours of the show. Thanks in advance for your support of these artists and WDVX. Tickets on sale: https://wdvx.com/watch/

The Bottom is SO excited to be a part of Michelle Williams' Checking In Book Tour! Michelle will sit down for intimate, candid conversations with some amazing personalities and influencers to discuss various topics and themes from her book. Each night promises to be an experience and begins at 7pm EST, lasting for approximately 60 min. VIP tickets includes signed book and meet and greet.

Special guests include: Chloe Bailey, Taraji B. Henson, LeCrae, Ms. Tina Lawson, LeToya Luckett, Dr. Anita Phillips, Darrel Walls, Tamar Braxton, Chandler Moore, DeVon Franklin and Tabitha Brown

For tickets & more info: https://screenz.live/en/workshop/609ad76f4dd830002526a80e

https://www.thebottomknox.com/

The Tennessee Pirate Fest will be open rain or shine on May 22-23, 29-30-31, from 11am-6pm ET.

The fifth annual Tennessee Pirate Fest invites you to go back in time to the Age of Piracy. This outdoor daytime interactive entertainment-oriented festival will be held the last two weekends in May plus Memorial Day at the Tennessee Medieval Faire site in Harriman--just 30 miles west of Turkey Creek. Patrons will be transported to the pirate haven of Barataria, Louisiana, circa 1814.

Patrons are encouraged to dress in costume and enter the Costume Contest. Learn how to be a pirate in Pirate School. Compete in yard games in Pirate Olympics. Share your talents on stage in the Pirate Recruiting Gong Shows. Have fun with the new Scavenger Hunt. Take pictures with Mermaids and enjoy the Bubble Show. Make noise in the mid-day parade, where the Bucketeers will be featured on Saturdays. Other free activities will include corn hole, volleyball, croquet, the stocks, giant chess, and steel drum. There will also be games to play for a fee, including Sword Master’s Challenge, Skittles, Slay the Dragon, and Storm the Castle. Goats will also be available for petting and feeding.

Rotating on several stages will be numerous professional acts. Music will be brought to you by Tom Mason and the Blue Buccaneers, The CrossJacks, PanEZ Steelband, and Black Mash Hollow. Interactive danger and dance shows will be performed by The Flaming Ginger and the Misfit Gypsies. Children’s puppet shows will feature Punch and Judy , the Dragon Puppet, and the Mermaid Queen. On Saturday May 22, youth classical musicians with Bravura Music Academy will share their talents. Interactive costumed street characters will seek to entertain in Kombat Kroquet, Lafitte’s Follies, Ball’s Best Bits, and Throw Me A Line. If you like slightly spooky things, join Captain Davy Jones and other supernatural characters on the Trail of Doom (PG)--a pirate version of A Christmas Carol. Entertainment schedules will be posted online and will be available at the entrance.

Pirate merchants of Barataria will be selling their custom wares such as costumes, leather pouches, drinking horns, soaps, blacksmith items, and jewelry. A variety of food will be available, including smoked turkey legs, BBQ, Philly steak sandwiches, shaved ice, and ice cream. Beverages will also be available, including water, soda, sweet tea, fresh lemonade, and beer (age 21+ years with valid photo ID). A list of vendors can be found on the festival website.

The festival location is at 550 Fiske Road, Harriman, TN. Free field parking is provided. Entrance ticket prices are $17 for ages 13+, $8 for ages 5 to 12; and free admission for ages 4 and under. Tickets may be purchased on festival days at the ticket house for cash or credit. Ticket prices include sales tax; however, a $1 convenience fee will be added per entrance ticket for credit usage. Festival beverage tickets will also be available in $1 increments, or patrons can use exact change to purchase water ($2), soda ($3), or beer ($5). There will be no ATM onsite, so patrons are encouraged to bring cash for purchases, tips, and convenience.

Safety rules include the following: no pets (service animals only), no loaded firearms or sharp weapons (all stage weapons must be sheathed and zip tied), and no outside food or drinks. There will be no onsite public camping; however, a motel discount is available with free breakfast at the Baymont Inn in Harriman (call 865-882-5340 with promo code LKDE). For more information, please visit www.TNPirateFest.com, “like” and “follow” the Tennessee Pirate Fest on https://www.facebook.com/Tennesseepiratefest, or call 865-376-0319.

A View of the City features more than 20 paintings and works on paper of Knoxville and vicinity by artists from East Tennessee and beyond representing the city and outlying areas during and after the 1940s. This diverse selection offers a complex and compelling portrait of our area over the course of a vital period in its development.

Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World's Fair Park Dr, Knoxville, TN 37916. Information: 865-525-6101, https://knoxart.org/exhibitions/a-view-of-the-city-knoxville/