Calendar of Events

Cattywampus Puppet Council will be hosting Open Studio Days at St. James Episcopal on Sunday, March 20th, 2-6pm, Monday, March 21st, 4-7pm, & Tuesday, March 22nd, 4-7pm for community members to help work on giant puppets and make their own art for the parade on March 26. All are welcome.

To register to be in the parade, access resources for building your own giant puppets and other art, and find out more, please visit www.cattywampuspuppetcouncil.com.

(865) 300-3736 and cattywampuspuppetcouncil@gmail.com

Sunday, March 20, 2022
Natalie L. Haslam Music Center
12:30 - 2:00 p.m. : Exhibits
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. : Program

The Ready for the World Music Series is excited to announce that we are back in person on Sunday, March 20, 2022 and will be featuring the Grammy-winning Harlem String Quartet in a program show works by Afro-Caribbean composers. First-place laureates of the National Sphinx Competition in 2006, the Harlem String Quartet recently performed as an ensemble with the New York Philharmonic. The Harlem Quartet advances diversity in classical music while engaging new audiences with varied repertoire that includes works by minority composers. The musically versatile ensemble has performed with such distinguished artists as Itzhak Perlman, Ida Kavafian, Carter Brey, Fred Sherry, Misha Dichter, Jeremy Denk, and Paquito D’Rivera. More information about the Harlem Quartet can be found on their website: http://harlemquartet.com.

For this program, the doors of UT’s Natalie L. Haslam Music Center will open at 12:30pm, where cultural displays will be presented. A short lecture and recital will begin at 2pm and will feature performances of works and a brief lecture about the composers from this region. The objective for each program is to create a holistic cultural experience for the audiences comprised of faculty, students, and members of the community. By the program, the audience will have gained a greater awareness and appreciation for the artistic and scholarly contributions this cultural group has made to their communities.

General Admission: $25
UT Faculty and Staff: $5
UT Students and Children under 18: Free
Purchase Tickets: https://secure.touchnet.com/C21610_ustores/web/store_cat.jsp?STOREID=31&CATID=332&SINGLESTORE=true
UT School of Music
Main Office: 865-974-3241
Email: music@utk.edu

Take your craft fair booth to the next level. Make Learn Grow is a series of in-person workshops designed to provide makers with business education to grow their small businesses. We tackle informational topics related to makers, navigating the next stage of growth, or learning new skills through expert-led workshops.

This Make Learn Grow is designed for makers who have experience selling their goods at craft fairs and are looking for more in-depth expertise and advice. This workshop will take place in person at Knoxville Entrepreneur Center on Market Square. Space is very limited so get your tickets soon!

Led by Georgia Vogel and Carly Gunning of Honeymouth
Honeymouth is a fully female owned and operated handmade leather goods company based in Knoxville, TN. We use sustainably sourced Italian vegetable tanned leather, which is both eco-friendly and chemical free. Everything is made by hand in our workshop in Knoxville's Old City.

When? Sunday, March 20 from 11am–1pm
Who? Intermediate to advanced makers
How much? $10
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/make-learn-grow-next-level-maker-fairs-tickets-289638144487

March 20, 1:00 PM
All levels welcome, limited seating for a personalized workshop. You may bring your guitar & record the workshop if you like. Includes a complimentary set of GHS strings.

https://murielanderson.com/product/tickets-and-season-pass/mar-20-guitar-workshop-knoxville-tn/

Location: LeGrand Music Studios
213 Hotel Road, Knoxville, TN 37918
https://knoxvilleclassicalguitar.com/events

Help defend the Coliseum against the Macon Mayhem, and help your favorite chamber opera company at the same time!

Our Executive Artistic Director, Kathryn Frady will sing the National Anthem before Sunday’s game against the Macon Mayhem. Then we’re taking part in the Ice Bears’ “Chuck a Puck” fundraiser!

Here’s how it works: Our volunteers will be selling special hockey pucks in the lobby before and during the early part of the game.

Then during the 2nd intermission you get to “Chuck” your puck onto the ice for a chance to win prizes and special offers. MCO gets a portion of the purchase price for each puck.

Sunday, March 20, 5 pm
Knoxville Ice Bears vs. Macon Mayhem: Superhero Night & MCO Chuck-a-Puck
https://www.knoxvilleicebears.com/promotion/superhero-night/

Marble City Opera: 865-226-9756, www.marblecityopera.com

SUNDAY AT 12 PM – 3 PM
206 Randolph St, Knoxville, TN 37917

We’re celebrating spring and opening the store on a Sunday. We’ve invited some great vendors to set up and sell their goods. We would love for you to come by and support local. Keep checking back for an updated vendor list.

Participating Vendors to date:
Girls Gotta Eat Good
Sarah Musgrave
Frauleinwunder Bakery
ET Fungi
DSB Pasta
Providence Road Pottery

https://www.facebook.com/events/515577373240349/

In celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the 1982 World's Fair, the Museum of East Tennessee History announces the opening of a new, one-of-a-kind exhibition, "You Should've Been There!," in the Rogers-Claussen Feature Gallery from March 19 to October 9, 2022.

The exhibition’s theme is not only a nod to the international exposition’s marketing catchphrase, “You Have Got to Be There! The 1982 World’s Fair!,” but also an acknowledgement that four decades removed, there is a generation of East Tennesseans who were not alive to experience the historic event.

Organized by the East Tennessee Historical Society and the Knox County Public Library, “You Should've Been There!” traces the fair’s development from conception to the pivotal moment when The Wall Street Journal referred to Knoxville as a “scruffy little city” and questioned its ability to host an international event. More than 11,000,000 visitors from around the world were informed and entertained in the various pavilions, exhibitions, and attractions put on by 22 countries and some 50 private organizations. Popular souvenirs were shirts and buttons proclaiming, “The Scruffy Little City Did It!”

The fair’s theme, “Energy Turns the World,” played to the region’s reputation as a technology and science center. For example, it was at the 1982 World’s Fair that users were able to try out a touchscreen for the first time. Elo, a Knoxville-based company, debuted the touchscreen technology, then known as "talk back" computers, in the United States Pavilion. To honor this spirit of innovation, “You Should've Been There!” incorporates engaging touchscreens alongside displays of original fair materials from pickle pins to deely bobbers and everything in between.

To learn more about the exhibition, please visit: https://www.easttnhistory.org/1982worldsfair

"You Should've Been There!" is an official event of the 40th Anniversary of the 1982 World's Fair. To learn more about upcoming commemorative events, please visit: http://www.knoxvilleworldsfair.com.

East Tennessee Historical Society, 601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Museum hours: M-F 9-4, Sa 10-4, Su 1-5. Information: 865-215-8824, www.easttnhistory.org

March 18-April 1st, Plant Pick Up and Onsite Shopping Friday, April 8

Spring is almost here, and it will soon be time to plant your yard. If you want to buy plants to enhance your garden this spring, visit the UT Arboretum Society’s Annual Spring Plant Sale which will be held online with catalog sales from March 18 through April 1st. Plant pickup is on Friday, April 8 and vendors will have some plants available for in person shopping that day at the UT Arboretum in Oak Ridge. Our plant sales are some of our biggest fundraisers of the year and help support the UT Arboretum’s community education, trail improvements such as our Nature Book Trail, and children’s programs.

For two weeks online you can browse the selection of perennials, trees, and shrubs available from our vendors Tennessee Naturescapes, Riverdale Nursery and East Fork Nursery of Sevierville. The three vendors offer a wonderful selection of plants including unique conifers, both evergreen and native azaleas, hydrangeas, beautyberry, and a wide variety of native pollinator plants to name just a few. Beginning March 18th at 10 am, log on to https://utas-plant-sale.square.site/ to shop and make payment. Online sales will end on April 1st at 5 pm. Payments must be made by credit card online in advance for online purchases. There will be limited sales on site on pickup day but for best selection shop the online sale and then go to visit our vendors to shop onsite after you pick up your order on April 8.

For online orders, you will be provided a link to choose a pick-up time between 9 am and 6 pm on Friday, April 8th at the UT Arboretum, 901 S. Illinois Avenue in Oak Ridge. You must schedule a pick-up time Friday April 8. We are not able to hold orders for other pickup dates. Arboretum Society members will have your plant orders ready for pick-up. This is a no contact pick-up system. When you arrive at your scheduled time, you be directed to designated pick up spots and your order will be brought to your car. If you want to check out the onsite sale you will be able to go up to that location after you pick up your order. This is an amazing opportunity which allows the public to shop from your own home.

Though many of our normal day-to-day activities were curtailed for the past two years, one consistent activity has been working in our yards and enjoying the healing qualities of nature. The UT Arboretum Society is grateful to our vendors for making this opportunity possible.

www.utarboretumsociety.org

March 18-27
Tickets are now on sale for this newly revised version of the compelling story of a family in hiding during WWII.

For nearly two years, a young Jewish girl, her parents, and sister hid with another family in a secret attic space, as the Nazis deported the Jews of Holland to their deaths. Anne Frank's luminous spirit shines through in the real-life diary she kept while in seclusion, allowing us to share in the complexities of adolescence - laughing and playing, fighting with her mother, falling in love for the first time - as she comes of age. Transcending the oppressive circumstances and horrors that surround her, she voices her belief, “in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” Her story of resilience continues to resonate deeply, making her story as vital today as when her diary first was published.

Seating may become limited due to social distancing requirements, so get your tickets early. Order online today by clicking the button below (or by phone or in person at the Playhouse box office Tuesday-Friday, noon-5:30 PM).

As an added safety measure for our patrons and volunteers, masks will be required at all times while in the building.
SUITABLE FOR GENERAL AUDIENCES

Oak Ridge Playhouse, 227 Broadway, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Information and tickets: 865-482-9999, www.orplayhouse.com

In a year like no other, Arrowmont's 2021-2022 Artists-in-Residents lived and worked together in the intimate environment of shared housing and adjoining studios. Their 11-month residency culminates in a group exhibition, now on display in the Sandra J. Blain Galleries at Arrowmont.

Please join Elizabeth Belz, Horacio Casillas, Kyle Cottier, Naomi David Russo, and Lena Schmid at the closing reception for their exhibition, "Party of Five." The reception is free and open to the public. We hope to see you there!
May 13, 2022, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Sandra J. Blain Galleries
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, 556 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. Information: 865-436-5860, https://www.arrowmont.org/visit/galleries/exhibition-schedule/

Flying Anvil Theatre presents the dark comedy Loot, by Joe Orton

This outrageous farce combines a bank heist, a murder, and one very mobile corpse in a show that takes nothing seriously, not even death. The show is sponsored by Bill Cherry and directed by Artistic Director Jayne Morgan.

Joe Orton’s gleefully anarchic satire of British hypocrisy caused a scandal when it premiered in 1965. Loot concerns the events surrounding the death and subsequent burial of the McLeavy family matriarch. A bank robbery has been committed by her son Hal and his friend/sometime boyfriend, Dennis; they need to find somewhere to stash the stolen money and decide her coffin is the best place to put it. This means that they need to find somewhere else to hide the body, and her corpse is dragged around the stage throughout the play. Mrs. McLeavy’s corpse is hidden in a cupboard, her former nurse, Fay proposes marriage to the newly widowed Mr. McLeavy and Inspector Truscott arrives on the hunt for the money while claiming to be from the City Water Board. As the preparations for the funeral proceed, Dennis professes love for Fay. Mr. McLeavy is savaged by a crazed Afghan hound and Truscott discovers he can’t pin a crime on anyone. Bribes are negotiated and everyone agrees that “We must keep up appearances”.

Dennis and Hal are portrayed by Malik Baines and Eric Walker with Kara Van Veghel as the nurse, Fay. Greg Congleton and Jacques Durand are Mr. McLeavy and Truscott. Tim Coleman plays Meadows and Lisa Silverman plays the physically demanding role of the Corpse. (Van Veghel and Durand were last seen in Flying Anvil’s beloved Christmas show, Scrooge in Rouge.)

The show opens with a Pay What You Can preview on Thursday, March 17 and runs through Sunday, April 3. Tickets are $27 and $28, $13 for students. Flying Anvil Theatre, 1300 Rocky Hill Road, Knoxville. Information: 865-357-1309, www.flyinganviltheatre.com. Follow them on Facebook and Instagram, @flyinganviltheatre

Ijams Nature Center will host in-person and virtual open houses for families interested in fall 2022 enrollment for the full-time Ijams Nature Preschool and part-time Ijams Nature Play Club.

Virtual open houses are March 17, and April 28 from 6-7 p.m. Virtual events will take place via Zoom.

In-person open houses are March 20, and May 1 from 1-3 p.m. at the Ijams Miller Education Building, 2915 Island Home Ave. In-person events will follow COVID-19 safety protocols, including wearing masks inside the building, to ensure everyone stays safe.

More information and registration is available on the Ijams Calendar of Events at www.Ijams.org/calendar-of-events.

Fall classes start Monday, Aug. 8. The Ijams Nature Preschool meets Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. and focuses on child-led, age-appropriate, experiential learning. Children ages 3-5 spend more than 50% of their time outdoors.

The Ijams Nature Play Club follows the same model, but is 100% outdoors. There are two, two-day sessions, Monday/Wednesday and Tuesday/Thursday. Both sessions meet from 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

The Ijams Nature Preschool and Play Club programs blend traditional education standards with the opportunity to learn about and explore the natural world. Children spend the majority of their time outdoors, where they learn through play, discovery and inquiry. Activities focus on sensory experiences with live animals, natural objects, artifacts and art materials. The programs encourage curiosity, cognitive growth and motor skills through unstructured, child-led outdoor adventures. Children build problem-solving, math and engineering skills through hands-on experiences, and cultivate social skills through group play and opportunities for cooperative learning.

For more information about the Ijams Nature Preschool and Ijams Nature Play Club, visit www.Ijams.org/nature-preschool or www.Ijams.org/nature-play-club. Additional questions may be directed to Abby Branstetter at 865-679-5491, or via email at preschool@ijams.org or playclub@ijams.org.