Calendar of Events

Thursdays
February 03, 10, 17, and 24 6:00pm - 8:00pm

This workshop is a great platform for artists to strengthen their core artistic skills and improve their understanding of the human form and meet other artists in the community. The workshop models are usually nude. The model poses vary from 1 minute to 20 minutes in length.

Fee: $10
*Attendees will pay at the door
https://knoxart.org/events/

The Tune Junkie Weekend started as an excuse for friendships often made at summer music festivals to reconvene and recapture the comradery and collaboration commonly found at such events…. and not have to wait an entire year to do it!

Bringing together those who share a passion for playing, singing and dancing to Traditional Irish music.

Thursday Night Session
Thursday, February 3, 7:30 PM
Boyd's Jig and Reel Scottish Music House
This is the Thursday Night Traditional Irish Session at Boyds Jig & Reel.

Tune Junkies on WDVX
Friday, February 4, 12:00 PM
The Tune Junkies LIVE on East Tennessee’s Own, WDVX

Tune Junkie Weekend
Fri, Feb 4, 2022
This is the first day of the much anticipated Tune Junkie Weekend! This is a great chance to meet the teachers and fellow students. It all begins with an pot luck meal and an open house starting at 5pm. Please feel free to bring a dish to share. The first night Contra Dance, hosted by our own Katelyn Dunn, will begin at 7pm and will run til 9pm; Session in the lobby to follow. Doors open at 5pm and lock at 12am.

Tune Junkie Weekend
Sat, Feb 5, 2022
This is the big day: Workshops begin! Doors open at 11am and it is suggested that you arrive on time and ready with your registration information. Classes are followed by the “Slow Session” for new learners and a new “Master Class” for more advanced players. We break for dinner at 4pm. Doors will be locked until 6:30pm.

Tune Junkie Weekend Showcase Concert
Saturday, February 5, 2022 at 7:30 PM
The Tune Junkie Weekend Showcase Concert: Our teachers gather together to perform for us all. One of the best showcases of Irish and Scottish music to be found anywhere! Doors open at 6:30pm and concert begins at 7pm. Session to follow in the Grove Theater lobby.

Sunday Farewell Brunch and Session
Sunday, February 6, 11:00 AM
Participants of the Tune Junkie Weekend are invited to Boyd’s Jig & Reel Pub for Brunch and a farewell session. This is a closed event and both the Brunch and Sessions are for Tune Junkie Weekend Participants ONLY. $15 Buffet and coffee. The Jig and Reel is kind enough to open their doors and kitchen when they usually would not. If you wish to eat, please arrive at 11am. Please do not arrive earlier than 11am, the Pub WILL NOT open early.

https://www.tradknox.com/events

2/3/22 • 7:30pm

Aquila Theatre is one of the foremost producers of classical theatre in the United States and has been bringing audiences world-class actors, captivating designs, innovative adaptations, and impactful direction since 1991.

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

RIPE
with THE COLLECTION
THURSDAY, FEB 3 • 8PM

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

The Monroe Council for the Arts is delighted to present a celebration of Black History with a unique concert presented by artists from Knoxville Opera. The event, on Thursday, February 3, 2022 at 7:00 p.m., will take place in the auditorium of Sweetwater Elementary School located at 301 Broad Street in Sweetwater, TN.

Knoxville Opera Artistic Director Brian Salesky will host and accompany the soloists: soprano Maria Clark and baritone Michael Rodgers. The program is designed as a series of tributes to legendary Black singers, composers, and lyricists of the 20th Century. In addition to spirituals and gospel music, the program includes highlights from Porgy and Bess and The Color Purple along with popular music associated with Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, and Louie Armstrong.

Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students. Tickets are available at monroearts.com or by going directly to https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/tix/627/event/1252068

For information about Voices of Inspiration please go to http://monroearts.com/upcoming-events/

The Authors Guild of Tennessee (AGT) will hold its monthly meeting on Thursday, February 3 at 11:00 am at the Faith Lutheran Church in Farragut. Social time and book exchange begins at 10:30. Published authors are invited to attend. AGT is now accepting applications for associate membership from authors who have written a book but are not yet published. Serious authors only. In the event of inclement weather, check the AGT Website for updates and information: www.authorsguildoftn.org.

Pianist, composer, arranger and educator Keith Brown returns to Knoxville next week to kick off Pellissippi State Community College’s spring 2022 concert series.

Brown will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3, in the Clayton Performing Arts Center on the college’s Hardin Valley Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville. The concert is free and open to the public. No tickets are required, but masks are encouraged when at least 6 feet of distance cannot be maintained.

Born in Memphis and raised in Knoxville, Brown is the son of world-renowned jazz pianist and composer Donald Brown and Dorothy Brown, who also is a pianist and plays various woodwind instruments. Brown began playing piano and bass at an early age and, by 18, was playing piano and bass around Knoxville in a variety of jazz, R&B, funk and country bands.

Brown attended Pellissippi State and later earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Music. Brown also served as an adjunct instructor of Music at Pellissippi State before taking his talents to New York City, where he continues to make a name for himself as a pianist and composer on the contemporary jazz scene.

“I always try to write and perform in a way that is intellectual, but that has a strong sense of melody or groove that can touch those who are open enough to listen,” said Brown, noting he continues to draw inspiration from his roots in R&B, funk, classical, jazz and hip-hop and constantly explores new ways of integrating these influences.

Keith Brown in Concert is part of The Arts at Pellissippi State, which includes visual arts exhibits as well as theatre and music performances, all of which are open to the public. For a complete list of this semester’s events, visit www.pstcc.edu/arts.

Hardin Valley Campus of Pellissippi State: 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN 37932. Information: 865-694-6405, www.pstcc.edu/arts

Join the University of Tennessee Arboretum Society for our First Thursday Nature Supper Club with Love is in the Air on Thursday, February 3rd, 7:00 p.m. EST as we learn how about avian courtship and pair bonding. Though it is only February, bird courtship has begun. Male birds vie for the attention of the females in a variety of ways. We will explore what all that cooing is about!

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 what counts for beauty in the avian world. We will look at many species. Great horned owls are the first to start courtship rituals while cedar waxwings typically do not begin their pair bonding until June.

The program is free, but registration is required to receive your link. Register at www.utarboretumsociety.org. This program will be recorded, and closed captioning is available. Please contact UT Arboretum Education Coordinator, 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@gmail.com

Due to continued concerns regarding Covid -19 the UT Arboretum Society’s educational programs are currently not on-site activities. The UT Arboretum Society is pleased to bring the public some great online options.

When: Thursday, Feb. 3, 7-8 pm
Where: online via Zoom

Charles Dodd White and A Year Without Months

Author Charles Dodd White, praised by Silas House as “one of the best prose stylists of Appalachian literature,” will discusses his upcoming essay collection A Year Without Months. It explores the boundaries of family, loss, masculinity, and place.

At the beginning of the program, the winners of KWG’s flash fiction contest will be announced and the first-place winner will read that work aloud.

Charles Dodd White is the recipient of the Chaffin Award and the Appalachian Book of the Year Award for his fiction. He teaches English at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, Tennessee. A Year Without Months will be available May 2022 from West Virginia University Press.

Free. Register at www.knoxvillewritersguild.org. for Zoom link

Based on the Novel by Mark Haddon
Adapted by Simon Stephens
Directed by John Sipes

February 2 – 20 | CBT MainStage

“A Broadway smash hit and spectacular, atypical mystery.”

Christopher, an extraordinary young man, discovers the slain body of his neighbor’s dog. Determined to find the killer, he embarks on his first-ever excursion, carefully following the evidence wherever it leads him. His detective work takes the young hero on an exciting journey brimming with adventure and discovery that ultimately transforms his world.

Single tickets on sale January 11. https://clarencebrowntheatre.com/2021-2022-season/

The Dream Deferred
A print portfolio inspired by a poem by Langston Hughes

Printmaking Showcase Gallery
Art and Architecture Building, 2nd Floor Gallery outside of Room 241
1715 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996
https://calendar.utk.edu/event/the_dream_deferred_exhibition#.YhO7XujMLct

With Alan M. Jones (Theophilus) and Xavier Maurice Jones

In the Blackberry Farm Gallery, hours M-F 10-5

Reception Fri Feb 25, 6-8 PM
Masks are required in all galleries

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