Calendar of Events

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Gallery 1010, 100 S. Gay Street, Suite 114, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Reception Fri 5-7 PM, Sat 10 AM – 1 PM, or by appointment. Information: https://gallery1010.utk.edu/

Muse Knoxville will host Way Late Play Dates, an event for adults 21 and up, on Thursday nights in June from 5-9pm. Tickets to each Way Late Play Date are $20, and include the visitor’s first beverage. Each event will have a food truck, drinks, and a theme with matching activities. This week will be a Game Night theme, complete with Dulce’s Cafe food truck, and board games. Next week’s theme is Cards & Cocktails, featuring trivia from Challenge Entertainment, and the third week will be centered around SINGO, also from Challenge Entertainment.

“Way Late Play Dates are a really fun way for us to engage with members of the community that don’t usually get to interact with us,” said Kelly Styles, Events Coordinator at Muse Knoxville. “They were so popular with young professionals a few years ago, we just knew we had to bring them back.” The organization has previously hosted Way Late Play Dates with themes such as Marvel vs. DC, Love Sense, and Science of Beer.

The event is restarting as a part of the organization’s new summer event, Muse Pop. Muse Pop is an outdoor museum experience hosted right outside of Muse Knoxville throughout the month of June. Families can play with a variety of hands-on activities, brand-new exhibits, and daily-changing events throughout the month of June.

Tickets are available for advance purchase and at the door. For more information on Way Late Play Dates or Muse Pop guests can visit www.themuseknoxville.org/muse-pop.

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

June 3-5, 2021 (3 performances)
At St. John’s Cathedral, 413 Cumberland Ave., Knoxville, TN 37902

Cost: Online Streaming tickets: $30 (Unlimited available)
In-person Seating: $40 (in person seating will be LIMITED based on up-to-date city COVID-19 guidelines regarding social distancing-also includes online access)
Tickets: https://www.MarbleCityOpera.com/tickets

Cast
Kathryn Frady as “Tosca”
Brandon Evans as “Cavaradossi”
Jacob Lasseter as “Scarpia”
David Crawford as “Angelotti”
Maurice Hendricks as “Sciarrone”
Breyon Ewing as “Spoletta”
Daniel Spiotta as “Sacristan”
Kayla Beard as “Shepherd Boy”

Performed with orchestra
Conducted by: Brian Holman
Stage Direction by: Marya Barry
Music Direction by: Brandon Coffer

Duration: Approximately 2 hours

Tosca is a political thriller set in Rome during the Napoleonic wars at a time of great political unrest. The action takes place throughout a tense 24 hours in June of 1800. The plot centers around three characters – Rome’s diva Floria Tosca, her lover Mario Cavaradossi (a painter), and the corrupt Chief of Police, Baron Scarpia. Scarpia has long lusted after Tosca. When he suspects Cavaradossi of assisting an escaped political prisoner, he seizes the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. He plots to manipulate Tosca into revealing the prisoner’s hiding place and Cavaradossi’s involvement so that he can have her for himself. Scarpia has Cavaradossi captured and offers Tosca a horrific bargain – give herself to Scarpia, or he will kill her lover. What will she choose, and who will survive?

Web info: www.MarbleCityOpera.com/Events
www.Facebook.com/MarbleCityOpera

Join UT Libraries and the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture on Thursday, June 3, 2021, at 6:30 p.m. for a virtual event celebrating Marilou Awiakta’s life and work. The livestreamed event is free and open to the public.

Marilou Awiakta is an award-winning poet, storyteller, essayist, and environmental advocate whose work draws on her Cherokee ancestry and Appalachian roots.

Awiakta’s work weaves her Cherokee and Appalachian heritage with her experience of growing up during the nuclear era in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to address both current issues and the interconnectedness of all living things. The poems in her first book, Abiding Appalachia: Where Mountain and Atom Meet (1978), blend Cherokee history with the author’s memories of growing up in the top secret city that produced the atom bomb. In Selu: Seeking the Corn Mother’s Wisdom (1993), Awiakta uses poems, storytelling, and essays to apply Native American philosophy to the problems facing humanity.

Awiakta recently donated her papers to the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, adding a new and distinct voice to the UT Libraries’ primary materials on Appalachian and Cherokee culture. We are grateful to her for entrusting them to UT Libraries and look forward to celebrating her life and work at this upcoming virtual event.

The livestreamed event is free and open to the public. Please register by Thursday, June 3, 2021. The link be sent out with registration confirmation. https://alumni.utk.edu/s/1341/2/20/interior.aspx?sid=1341&gid=2&pgid=16269

McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Dr on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Information: 865-974-2144

Queer History Club
Free · Online Event

Jun 3, 2021 07:00 PM

Event by Voices Out Loud: East Tennessee LGBTQ History Project
Online: tennessee.zoom.us

Interested in Knoxville's LGBTQ+ history? Want a way to connect with the community and stay safe from Covid? Have stories you want to share about people, places, and events in Knoxville's past? Join the Queer History Club for Throwback Thursdays!

On the second Thursday of each month, Donna (librarian and co-director of the project) will share an interesting queer artifact and the story behind it. Then we'll open the room for discussion. On the 4th Thursday of each month we will discuss one of the project's oral histories. Listen to the interview ahead of time and then share and learn from your community.

Please register to help us keep our space secure:
https://tennessee.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMocuCopj0oEtUYGZJaN4Oc78SoZm-O0V9R

Please contact us with any ways that we can make these more accessible to those with disabilities. https://www.facebook.com/events/469101861133062

At 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 3rd, Blount Mansion will team up with the Knoxville History Project to welcome Dr. Chris Magra, a professor of early American history at the University of Tennessee, for a special program titled "Knoxville: The Crossroads of America." Dr. Magra 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. Of course, settlers such as William Blount, Andrew Jackson, and John Sevier had been here since the region was a U.S. territory and the State of Franklin. For the Cherokee, Tanasi is a much older place. The surprising history behind the 1795 constitutional convention that Blount led in Knoxville to start the process for statehood tells us a lot about eastern removals and westward expansion that occurred all over the country in the wake of the American Revolution.

This program will be a hybrid event. 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 emailing info@blountmansion.org. Please give us your name and the number of individuals in your party. If you would prefer to attend the event virtually, please click here to register and receive the Zoom link from Knoxville History Project.

Blount Mansion, 200 W. Hill Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-525-2375, www.blountmansion.org

Free and open to the public. Must register by midnight June 2 at www.knoxvillewritersguild.org

When: Thursday, June 3, 7:00 – 8:00 PM
Where: via Zoom

What began as an idea for a walking trail for the Battle of Fort Sanders grew into years of research and excavation for local historian Terry Faulkner and archaeology professor Charles Faulkner. They discovered that the enormous earthwork was not located where it was long thought to be. How did it almost completely vanish after being abandoned in 1866? How did the slow, relentless impacts of environmental factors and human “progress” reduce the immense fortification to a few almost unrecognizable remnants? Join the Faulkners in a program about the joys and pitfalls of local historical research and writing.

Terry and Charles Faulkner have been married 55 years and worked on many archaeological and history projects together, including Rediscovering Fort Sanders: The American Civil War and Its Impact on Knoxville’s Cultural Landscape (University of Tennessee Press, 2020). He is an anthropology professor emeritus from the University of Tennessee, where he began masters and doctoral programs in historical archaeology. Terry is a retired graphic artist and unofficial historian of Bearden. She is now working on a history of Toole’s Bend.

https://knoxvillewritersguild.org/events/june21program/

Are Birds Bad Dads or Good Dads?

Join the Arboretum Society for our First Thursday Nature Supper Club on Thursday, June 3 as we celebrate Father’s Day. You provide your own stay-at-home supper, and we provide the nature as local naturalist Stephen Lyn Bales will entertain and teach us via Zoom about fatherhood in birds. Are mourning doves good fathers? Are bluebirds? Join us and find out.

This is a virtual Zoom presentation and registration for this free online event is required. To register go to: www.utarboretumsociety.org and click on the event. The program will be recorded. Please contact Michelle Campanis at mcampani@utk.edu with any questions or registration issues.

To contact Stephen Lyn Bales or buy one of his UT Press books, email him at hellostephenlyn@yahoo.com

History Happy Hour -
Thursday, June 3 at 6:00 p.m. on Zoom or at Blount Mansion (limited seating)

Also as part of our celebration of Tennessee’s 225th anniversary, join us to hear guest speaker, UT Professor Chris Magra, 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. This presentation will be jointly hosted by our friends at Blount Mansion—and presented from that location, arguably the only architectural relic that had much to do with the founding of the state. This hybrid event will be broadcast on Zoom, but also in person at Blount Mansion, which has limited seating for 25 people.

Register for these programs at: https://knoxvillehistoryproject.org/events/

GKHA Hospitality Hubbub, A Re-Introduction Social

Location: 35 North Restaurant/Food Truck Park, 11321 Kingston Pike, Farragut

Date: Thursday, June 3, 2021
Time: 2 - 3:30/4 pm

REGISTRATION REQUIRED - Free Event but Limited Availability

Program: Hospitality Hubbub and Farragut Happenings

We've been gone awhile so let's reintroduce ourselves. Bring your business cards, cell phone and get reacquainted with your hospitality/tourism partners. Get up to date news on events, shopping and happenings in the Town of Farragut from Karen Tindell, Tourism Director, Visit Farragut and Steve Krempasky, Executive Director, Farragut Business Alliance. 35 North, General Manager, Andrew Dorcas, has set up some tastings and there will be a great line up of food trucks and vendors on site: Blackie Chan's Sushi, Knoxville Beverage Co., Just Say Queso, Poynor Pomme Frites, Big Kahuna Wings

Register your attendance: https://gkha-june3social-2021.eventbrite.com

Start date: June 2, 2021
End date: August 4, 2021

Zoo Knoxville offers a variety of day camps throughout the year. Camp activities include animal interactions, games, crafts, fun activities, excursions through the zoo and trips behind-the-scenes to learn how we care for zoo animals. Click below for more information about each camp.

Zoo Knoxville is following CDC guidelines for daycares and following the guidance of Knox County Health Department. These measures include increased hand washing/sanitizing throughout the day and increased cleaning and disinfecting of frequently touched surfaces. Classrooms will be disinfected daily and camps will be kept separate from each other. All camp staff and campers will be screened for symptoms of COVID-19 each day before being allowed to attend camp.

Summer Zoo Camp Summer fun at the zoo for kids ages 4-13! The new 2021 summer schedule is here! Registration opens for passholders on February 1st.

https://www.zooknoxville.org/experience/zoo-camp

Mon-Fri 9 AM – 3 PM

"Blessed Are the Meek" and other observations from a pandemic year

Reception June 4, 5-7 PM

Awaken Coffee, 125 W Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. Info: 865-951-0427 or https://www.facebook.com/awakencoffeeoldcity/