Calendar of Events

The City of Knoxville and Knox County Public Library have teamed up again to bring free outdoor movies to the Midway at Chilhowee Park this fall. The lineup was decided by a public vote. No tickets or reservations are required this year. The grounds open at 6 p.m., and the movies will start at 7:30 p.m. The first few rows will be reserved for moviegoers who want to bring chairs and blankets to enjoy the movie. Designated spots will still be available for guests to drive in and park. Popcorn and concessions such as hot dogs, nachos, doughnuts, and hot cocoa will be available. (Moviegoers can also bring in their own food and drinks; no alcohol or grills are allowed.) The Friends of the Library will distribute free bags of books while supplies last. Participants are encouraged to practice COVID-19 safety measures.

Schedule:
October 1 - "The Karate Kid" (PG, 2010)
October 8 - "Raya and the Last Dragon!" (PG, 2021)
October 15 - no movie, open weekend
October 22 - "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" (PG-13, 2017)
October 29 - "Coco" (PG, 2017)

The origin story behind Drive-In at the Midway is, pre-pandemic, that Movies on Market Square entertained families. Drive-In at the Midway is the ingenious modification that allows everyone to stay safe and in their vehicular “bubble” while still getting to sample KCPL’s great collection of DVDs. For more information, please visit www.knoxlib.org/movies.

https://www.knoxlib.org/calendar-programs/programs-and-partnerships/drive-midway

Friday, October 1
5:30pm-9:00pm
@ Able Trade
No Cost
Sponsored by the Knoxville Museum of Art through the William Shell Endowment Fund

This year's Art Salon will be at Able Trade!
As a part of National Architecture week, AIA East Tennessee will be displaying the curated Art Salon in our humble abode. Join us in celebrating the vast range of original works of art created by architects and related professionals in East Tennessee. Don’t miss out on this one-night only event.
Also joining us for the evening is KnoxFill! KnoxFill is a zero waste refill shop. We offer customers the personal care and household goods they use and love in refillable, reusable containers. We work like a modern day milkman – we bring you full containers and take your empties to sanitize and reuse. At our pop-up events, customers can also bring their own containers to fill up by weight!
The owner Michaela Barnett has a B.S. in Sustainability Science from Furman University, is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Virginia. She is researching our waste system and people’s relationship with it!
Light snacks and drinks provided
https://www.facebook.com/events/265985938491046

Join us for the First Friday pop-up gallery celebrating the vast range of original works of art created by architects and related professionals in East Tennessee. Don’t miss out on this one-night only event. Light snacks and drinks will be provided.

East Tennessee Chapter of the American Institute of Architects
https://www.aiaetn.org/
https://www.facebook.com/events/870018116966325/

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 9:00 AM — 3:00 PM

Groups of 20 or more, reserve your space by e-mailing us at willmeyer@museumofappalachia.org

As the leaves begin to change and the cool air of autumn sets in, the Museum of Appalachia will host a simple celebration of the old-time fall harvest days. On Friday, October 1st, the Museum will host a family-friendly event; a day to step back in time enjoy the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of pioneer Southern Appalachian traditions and old-time demonstrations of the fall harvest season. Guests will enjoy a hayride, traditional music, a tractor exhibition, and old-time demonstrations such as blacksmithing, sorghum and apple butter making, sawmilling, and leatherworking. There are plenty of safe seasonal activities for children including an animal education and petting area, a hay maze, or for an additional charge, they can pick a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch or choose one to paint and take home. To ensure the health and welfare of all our guests, advance tickets are recommended for this event. Advance tickets will be on sale at museumofappalachia.org on August 17th. The event is free to Museum members. School groups and homeschool groups must make reservations ahead of time. To do so, e-mail willmeyer@museumofappalachia.org. For additional information, or for admission details, please call 865-494-7680 or visit the website.

https://wwwmuseumofappalachiaorg.ticketleap.com/fall-heritage-day/

Please join Knox Heritage and Historic House Museums of Knoxville on Friday, October 1 for the 2021 East Tennessee Preservation Conference. This conference is part of our local celebration of Founder’s Day, the 230th birthday of the founding of the City of Knoxville. Highlighting local preservation stories and strategies, this year’s conference will dig deeper into preservation topics relating to historic houses and museums.

Dan Brown, the Historic Sites Program Director at the Tennessee Historical Commisson, will be our keynote speaker. Rev. Renee Kesler will discuss the Delaney Museum at Beck project and Blount Mansion will discuss the recent Craighead-Jackson House restoration. Additional topics include, volunteer recruitment and retention, and much more!

Many regional communities have been highlighted by the conference. Townsend, Rugby, Jonesborough, Gatlinburg, Maryville, Oak Ridge, Knoxville, Morristown, and Clinton have hosted the event. Attendees include preservation professionals, architects, planners, tourism professionals, government and community leaders, economic developers, real estate professionals and others who have found that advanced knowledge of historic preservation principles and practices has value. It is a great event for learning, networking and experiencing historic sites distinctive to the host community.

Conference tickets are $55 for members of Blount Manson, James White’s Fort, Knox Heritage, Mabry-Hazen House, Marble Springs, and Ramsey House. Tickets are $75 for non-members. Please visit www.knoxheritage.org for more information and to register.

Date: October 1, 2021
Time: 10am-12pm
Cost: $10 members/$15 nonmembers

During this program, we will learn about what a plant needs to grow. We will plant something for your family to take home to practice responsibility and share in the excitement of watching something grow up, up, up! This program is designed for children between the ages of three and five, but all children are welcome.

UT Gardens, Chapman Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996. Information: 865-974-7151, http://utgardens.tennessee.edu

October's featured artist is the one and only Ryan Blair!
Matt Morelock will also be there playing some fun music opening night on October 1st, 5-8 PM

214 Magnolia, 214 W. Magnolia Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917. Friday 5-8, Saturday 12-5, and by appointment, via IG button, during the week: https://www.instagram.com/214magnolia/. 865-337-7106 or https://www.214magnolia.com/

@ Real Good Kitchen- 2004 E Magnolia Ave
Friday October 1st, 5:30pm-8pm

You are invited to Real Good Kitchen for our FIRST Pop-Up! Meet our members, shop, eat delicious food, and most importantly, SUPPORT your local Knoxville food entrepreneurs!

We've got an incredible roster planned with at least 9 of our Real Good Kitchen member businesses participating. You'll be able to buy products, baked goods, dinner, desert, and more! We're so excited to have you out to the kitchen.

PARTICIPATING VENDORS
Pippili Tea Co.
Goody Two Chews
Real McCoy Purees
Pastelitos Cuban Bakery
NeverFull Waffles
Sybaris Bread Co
SoKno Sourdough
Cooks on the Curb
Daddy D's Food Truck

www.realgoodkitchen.com

Taps & Tunes on the Corner – 10/1 – Tinca Tinca
October 1 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Tinca Tinca weaves retro-futuristic indie-rock and electronics with themes of love, transience, joy, anxiety, loneliness, and redemption. They will be releasing their self-titled debut album on October 9th, 2021.

Tinca Tinca was started by multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer Travis Tench.
https://wdvx.com/event/taps-tunes-on-the-corner-10-1-tinca-tinca/
https://www.facebook.com/TincaTincaMusic/

The annual James Agee Conference for Arts and Literature at Pellissippi State Community College will be held as the James Agee Online Reading Series this fall, after having been canceled due to COVID-19 in 2020.

“By rethinking the conference as an online reading series that will be available on YouTube throughout the academic year, we can reach a wider audience,” said conference founder Charles Dodd White, an author and associate professor of English at Pellissippi State. “We are encouraging instructors to use it in their classrooms, but the entire series is free and open to the public as well.”

White, whose 2020 novel “How Fire Runs” won a 2021 Independent Publishers gold medal for Best Regional Fiction – South, created the James Agee Conference six years ago to give Pellissippi State students an opportunity to attend a scholarly conference while also celebrating the literature, culture and arts of Appalachia.

While the online reading series continues in the spirit of the James Agee Conference, White noted that an online reading series allows Pellissippi State to expand the featured writers beyond Appalachia to the general Southeast. Their readings will be recorded, not live, and will include the authors’ thoughts on writing and publishing in addition to sharing from their books.

The three authors on tap this fall include:

• Crystal Wilkinson, Kentucky’s Poet Laureate and the award-winning author of “Perfect Black,” “The Birds of Opulence,” “Water Street” and “Blackberries, Blackberries.” Her reading will premiere Sept. 30.
• Ravi Howard, author of two books of fiction, “Driving the King” and “Like Trees, Walking,” which won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. His reading will premiere Oct. 30.
• Jim Minick, author of five books, including “The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family,” winner of the SIBA Best Nonfiction Book of the Year Award. His reading will premiere Nov. 30.

For more about each featured author and the link to their readings, please visit www.pstcc.edu/events/ageeconference/.

FOR RELEASE ON: September 10, 2021
Contact: Zachary Greene
Phone: 865-585-1710
Email: zachary.greene@lmunet.edu

The 4.5th annual Mountain Fiesta will run from Thursday, September 30 to Sunday, October 3. The Mountain Fiesta is a local festival that strives to harmonize community and celebrate Latin American and Appalachian culture within the Cumberland Gap region. The logo of The Mountain Fiesta represents the spirit of the event. Corn, being central to both cultures (think tortillas and cornbread), is the centerpiece of the logo. The cornhusks in the logo contain Appalachian quilt patterns and indigenous textile patterns from Latin America.

One of the highlights of this year’s festival is the MacArthur Award Winner Baldemar Velásquez. Baldemar was invited to attend, educate, and perform folk music that animated decades of work protecting farmers and farm workers. He is an organizer who was raised by migrant workers and eventually founded the Farm Labor Organizing Community (FLOC). He has dedicated his heart and soul to helping farmers and migrant farmworkers achieve fairer contracts and increased securities. He formed a band, the Aguila Negra Band (Black Eagle Band), and has used all the earnings produced by the sales to fund FLOC.

Thursday’s musical performances include a female songwriter round-robin led by Carla Gover and Paulina Vazquez followed by the lively sound of the CornMaiz String Band. The main event, which is the Saturday street festival most people are familiar with, will include food, family activities and games, art and cultural exhibits, musical performances, free professional dance classes, and vendors of all kinds. Saturday’s eight-hour lineup includes local artists Michael Jones, Daniel Chumley, Caleb Carney, and the charming Danielle Tennessee. Coming from out of town are Baldemar Velasquez and the Aguila Negra Band, Appalatin, Wayne Graham, Joe Troop (of the Grammy-nominated band Che Apalache), and Dale Ann Bradley (Grammy nominee and 5-time IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year) as the closing headline act. Sunday morning in Berkau Park there will be a bluegrass and gospel “superjam” where many of the festival musicians will come together for a casual, old-fashioned pickin’.

J. Frank White Academy’s Spanish teacher, Zachary Greene, has organized this event for five years now with many generations of students by his side. The current festival organizers express their gratitude for the students who came before them. This year’s student organizers are Caleb Carney, Amanda Kotlar, Lilly Stubblefield, Jaymin Huddleston, Tony Collingsworth, Jacob Yeary, Blake Stoner, Micah Harrington, Cameron Tomfohrde, Charley Leach, Ryan Saylor, and Samuel Tompkins. Special thanks to recent graduates Tanner Brush, Olivia Nichols, and Patrick Moore, who planned the 2020 Mountain Fiesta that was cancelled due to COVID-19.

If you would like more information about this topic, please call Zach Greene at 865-585-1710 or email zachary.greene@lmunet.edu
https://www.facebook.com/TheMountainFiestaCG/

Please hold on to your tickets as they will be honored at the rescheduled show. If you are unable to attend the new date, refunds are available at the point of purchase beginning on Friday, December 18, 2020 at 10am through Monday, January 18, 2021 at 10pm. Refunds will no longer be available after 10 pm on Monday, January 18, 2021. Please contact the point of purchase if you have any questions or to request a refund on your purchase. The Black Jacket Symphony offers a unique concert experience by recreating classic albums in a live performance setting with a first class lighting and video production. A selected album is performed in its entirety by a group of hand-picked musicians specifically selected for each album. With no sonic detail being overlooked, the musicians do whatever it takes to musically reproduce the album.

Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information/tickets: 865-684-1200, www.tennesseetheatre.com, www.ticketmaster.com

I have lived overseas while in the Army and most recently 14 years in Las Vegas, Nevada. The last two years, my family has been getting acquainted with East Tennessee. Knoxville has been so welcoming, it is quickly becoming our home. Mostly, I paint in water based oils in a fairly realistic style. My subject matter is mostly landscapes, seascapes, animals & insects, and pets. I belong to Fountain City Art Guild, Tennessee Artist Association, and Tuesday Painters, a Plein Air Group. To see examples of my work, please see website: www.ArtisticEscape.studio

Smilin' Jack's is open Monday through Wednesday 11-4, and Thursday through Saturday 11-7.
4620 Mill Branch Lane, Knoxville, TN 37938 in Halls Crossroads