Calendar of Events

Friday evening, September 30th, will mark the 24th consecutive year that Maple Lane Farms will open its Corn Maze and other “agritainment” activities that include tractor-pulled hayrides (daytime and nighttime), pumpkin picking, inflatables for the kids, corn hole, food vendors, photo ops, sunflower fields, and other wholesome family fun to the public! Now booking weekday school groups and weekend private parties.

The Maze is located at 1126 Maple Lane in Greenback, just 14 miles south of Knoxville’s McGhee Tyson Airport.

The Maze is open weekends from September 30 through October 31. The Haunted Maze begins NIGHTLY October 21 through October 31. Opening hours are the following:
- Friday 6pm to 10pm
- Saturday 10am to 10pm
- Sunday Noon to 6pm
- Haunted Maze Opens nightly, 7pm-10pm, October 21-31

Special Features this year include:
- Barn Store Collectibles including Fall/Halloween Decorations, Straw Bales, Cornstalks
- Food and Beverage Vendors
- Evening campfires in the Maze Fairway near our Covered Tents
- Private Parties via Tent Reservation with Fire Pit

Visit the farm’s website at www.TNMapleLaneFarms.com, Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/tnmaplelanefarms/ www.Instagram.com/MapleLaneMaze/ or call 865-856-3511

Join us for our annual Knox Pride Parade and the first parade we have done at night! We will be marching from Mary Costa Plaza down Gay St and ending in the Old City. Join us for fun and get there early to for a good spot to watch!
9/30 7pm Gay St

Join us Saturday 10/1 at World's Fair Park for our annual Festival and Sunday 10/2 for a second day of food and shopping
10/1 12pm-8pm World's Fair Park
10/2 12pm-4pm World's Fair Park
https://www.knoxpride.com/

Prehistoric adventure awaits! Jurassic Quest visits Knoxville Convention Center, 701 Henley St., from Friday, September 30, through Sunday, October 2. Come experience the biggest and best dinosaur show in all the land. Ride a dino, dig for fossils, create a dino-riffic craft, and explore the dino bounce houses. Tickets range from $22.00-$36.00 and are available online via Jurassic Quest. General admission tickets for kids under 2 are free.

https://tickets.jurassicquest.com/knoxvilletn/events/38ffadb3-ae0d-e747-830e-e5fb4fc544c7

Celebrating its fifth edition!

The festival, organized by Rusty Odom of BLANK Newspaper, will take place Sept. 30-Oct. 1 at Suttree Landing Park in South Knoxville.

At the top of the bill is Atlanta rapper Big Boi, best known as half of Outkast, and a reunion of '90s/'00s Knoxville rockers Superdrag. It will be their first show together since 2010. The band members announced that they will donate their performance fee to WUTK 90.3 FM, a.k.a. The Rock, the college station of the University of Tennessee. Also on the schedule are the Pittsburgh rapper Benji., local faves Temp Job and 30 Amp Fuse and more.

Weekend passes are available at https://secondbellfest.com/

Details TBA

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/

Friday, September 30 from 4 - 7pm
Preview Sale for Members and UT Employees
Not a member? Join at the sale! Members enjoy a 10% discount on all purchases (both days).

Saturday, October 1 from 9am - 2pm
Public Sale
Shop from a diverse selection of plants including regionally native species, assorted trees, shrubs, conifers, perennial flowers and foliage plants, as well as house plants, daffodil bulbs, and edibles. Gardens staff and Master Gardeners will be on hand to help customers with plant suggestions and general garden advice. All proceeds benefit the UT Gardens.

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

Village Quilters presents "Creative Threads" on September 30th from 9:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. and October 1st from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. The biennial quilt show will be held at Chota Rec Center, 145 Awohili Dr, Loudon, TN 37774

150 quilts will be on display made by the Village Quilters. There will also be a boutique of hundreds of homemade items for sale, a style show, vendors, a raffle quilt, a food truck, and a knife sharpener.

Shuttle service will originate from Berkshire Hathaway Home Services/Lakeside Realty. Admission is $6.00.

(865) 458-6779

DARRELL SCOTT + ROBBIE FULKS
Friday, September 30 | 8PM

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

WITH: Kaitlin Butts
Starts at: $36
DOORS: 5:00 pm
ALL AGES

River Breeze Event Center: 6110 Asheville Hwy., Knoxville, TN 37924. Information: (865) 584-9740 or www.goriverbreeze.com

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 AT 6 PM – 8 PM
“Perennial Ties: A Collective Celebration of the Creative Spirit at Blackberry Mountain"
Clayton Center for the Arts, Blackberry Farm Gallery & William “Ed” Harmon Gallery

Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10am-5pm. A reception will be held in the gallery on Sept. 30 from 6-8 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public.

https://www.facebook.com/events/5387975171294501/

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

Join us for “Seeing is Believing: Why Computers Can’t See Very Well (Yet),” Friday, September 30 at noon via Zoom. Amir Sadovnik, assistant professor in the UT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will discuss the advances being made in this critical field of research.

The amazing progress in artificial intelligence is already making a real impact on our lives, and likely will define the technological advances of the 2020s. When it comes to our most dominant human sense, however, computers are still largely operating in the dark.

“Although artificial intelligence has advanced significantly in the past decades, general vision is still a task that humans perform notably better,” Professor Sadovnik said. “We will explore why ‘seeing’ is a hard task, and discuss a few methods computer vision researchers are using to try and solve it.”

The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
https://tennessee.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkf-6rqDMqHtyeBPFCPKE98IW1VdBQzDQU

Amir Sadovnik is an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research in the field of computer vision has been mostly driven by the way humans understand and interact with images. This human centered view has led him to work on new and exciting projects, which utilize tools from different fields (such as computer vision, signal processing, natural language processing and machine learning), and apply them in new ways. His current research is mostly centered on using deep neural networks for tasks which tend to be more subjective, such as evoked emotions, face similarity, and fashion compatibility. The subjective nature of these problems presents many interesting obstacles and opportunities which he explores in his research. Prior to arriving at UT, Sadovnik was an assistant professor at Lafayette College in Easton, PA. He earned his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.

Fall Sale at Central United Methodist: September 29-October 1 (Members-Only Day September 29), 3:30 p.m.-7 p.m.

https://www.knoxfriends.org/