Calendar of Events

A new series of English Dance classes have begun and will continue to be held at the Cora Veal Senior Center each Thursday in October & three Thursdays in November (12 -1 pm). All are welcome to attend. These classes are free through grant funding provided by the Tellico Community Foundation.

English Country Dance is a style of folk dance preceding Square Dance and a forerunner of modern line dance.

No partner needed. Each dance is taught with a walk-through, having the music played to understand the pace of the dance, and called. Dance patterns are prompted throughout by the caller.

Please visit www.monroearts.com for more information, or call 423-442-3210.

BOO! at the Zoo is Knoxville’s largest Halloween event featuring several nights of not-too-scary Halloween fun perfect for preschool and elementary-aged children. A Halloween tradition, BOO! at the Zoo is a family event featuring trick-or-treating along the BOO! Trail, where little trick-or-treaters can fill their bag with goodies as they make their way through the zoo.

New this year, we have TWO Member Nights: Thursday, October 6th and Wednesday, October 12th.

Star Wars Nights, Princess Nights, the Monster Mash Dance Tent, our Wildly Fun Scientist and more are all back this year!

BOO Dates:
Thursday, Oct. 6 (Exclusively for Zoo Knoxville Members)
Friday, Oct. 7
Saturday, Oct. 8
Sunday, Oct. 9
Wednesday, Oct. 12 (Exclusively for Zoo Knoxville Members)
Thursday, Oct. 13
Friday, Oct. 14
Saturday, Oct. 15
Sunday, Oct. 16
Thursday, Oct 20
Friday, Oct. 21
Saturday, Oct. 22
Sunday, Oct.23

https://zooknoxville.org/event/boo-at-the-zoo-2/

Zoo Knoxville, 3500 Knoxville Zoo Drive, Knoxville, TN 37914. Information: 865-637-5331, www.zooknoxville.org

The WordPlayers of Knoxville opens its 2022-23 season with “Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins” by Stephen Temperley. Performances are Oct. 6, 7, 13 & 14 at 7:30 PM and Oct. 9 & 16 at 2:30 PM at Erin Presbyterian Church, 200 Lockett Rd., Knoxville. Tickets, $22 for adults and $18 for students, are available online at wordplayers.org and at the door. For more information, please call 865-539-2490.

Florence Foster Jenkins, one of the world’s most famous society eccentrics, suffered under the delusion that she was a great coloratura soprano when she was, in fact, incapable of producing two consecutive notes in tune. Nevertheless, her annual recitals in the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton brought her extraordinary fame. As news of her terrible singing spread, so did her celebrity. The climax of her career was a concert at Carnegie Hall in 1944 which sold out in two hours. “Souvenir,” by turn hilarious and poignant, tells her story through the eyes of her accompanist, Cosme McMoon. McMoon initially regards her as little more than an easy way to pay the rent, but, as he gets to know her, his contempt for her gives way to reluctant admiration, then friendship and affection.

Website: www.wordplayers.org
Facebook: The WordPlayers
Twitter: @wordplayers
Instagram: wordplayers

WDVX PRESENTS: THE EARLS OF LEICESTER
Featuring JERRY DOUGLAS
Thursday, October 6 | 8PM

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

Celebrating East TN's most outstanding women
$150 per person includes cocktail reception, dinner and awards ceremony

At The Mill & Mine, 227 W. Depot Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917

Info: 865-523-6126 or www.ywcaknox.com

Thursday, Oct 6, 7 p.m. & 1st Thursdays thereafter

A new monthly affiliate event. Come and feel better with an acoustic music free-for-all in the round.

Jubilee Community Arts at the Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37916. Tickets and information: 865-522-5851, www.jubileearts.org

Newsmakers not covered by the media today
Thursday, October 6, 7:00 PM

Georgiana Vines, retired associate editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel, writes a political column every two weeks for the paper. Her News Sentinel career began in 1968; she has lived in Knoxville since then, except for 1996-97, when she was editor of the now-defunct El Paso Herald-Post in Texas. She was 1992-93 national president of the Society of Professional Journalists; is ex officio on boards of the East Tennessee Pro Chapter of SPJ and Front Page Foundation; past chair, Clarence Brown Theatre advisory board, and taught at the University of Tennessee’s School of Journalism and Electronic Media. She received the Wells Key, national Society of Professional Journalists, 1996; Lifetime Achievement Award, East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame, sponsored by Friends of Literacy, 2015, and 50-Year Club, Tennessee Press Association, 2016.

Knoxville Writers’ Guild meetings take place at Central United Methodist Church's Fellowship Hall, 201 E. Third Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: www.KnoxvilleWritersGuild.org

The Authors Guild of Tennessee (AGT) will hold its monthly meeting on Thursday, October 6, 2022 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

Join us on October 6 at 6:00 pm for a bike tour of the North Knoxville greenways! The tour will start promptly at 6:00 pm, so we ask that everyone arrive a few minutes early. We will start and end at the Cansler Family YMCA (616 Jessamine Street). The ride will be approximately 5 miles, and should take no longer than an hour. We will explore the Caswell and First Creek greenways up to Edgewood Park and back. Afterwards, we invite you to join us at Last Days of Autumn Brewing. Even if you are unable to join us for the ride, we still invite you to come have a cold drink and conversation at Last Days of Autumn Brewing. We hope to see you there! https://www.facebook.com/events/405030245106406/

Participants are required to provide their own bicycle and helmet. We also ask that everyone come prepared with a water bottle and closed toed shoes! If you have any questions, please contact our Advocacy, Education, and Communications Coordinator Zoe Scott at zoe.scott@bikewalktn.org.

Join local naturalist Stephen Lyn Bales as we learn how wildlife are nursed back to health at the UT Arboretum Society’s First Thursday Nature Supper Club, via Zoom on Thursday, October 6 at 7 p.m. EDT.

You provide your own stay-at-home supper, and we provide the nature as Stephen Lyn will answer questions such as: Who is allowed to care for an injured hawk, owl, or opossum? What does the work of wildlife rehabilitation entail? He will provide answers explaining how rehabilitators would treat their wounds and give them a safe and quiet place to heal. If it is an orphaned songbird, how often would you feed it until it can fly away on its own?

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 note this program is scheduled on Eastern time. 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

Hip-hop innovator Grandmaster Flash is coming to Pellissippi State Community College next month – and you’re invited to experience his master class on the Birth of a Culture.

Grandmaster Flash will hold an audio and visual lecture and demonstration 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, in the Clayton Performing Arts Center on the college’s Hardin Valley Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville. The event is free and open to the public.

“Student Engagement and Leadership caters to all our students, and this event targets nontraditional students but also will teach our traditional students the history of what they know today,” said SEAL Coordinator Delnita Evans. “So much of their music today is sampled from those that laid the foundation. Why not host the pioneer of what we know, love and continue to use in music today? If it weren’t for Grandmaster Flash, our TikTok sound bites wouldn’t be a thing.”

Grandmaster Flash is one of hip-hop’s original innovators. From the South Bronx in the early 1970s, he manipulated music by placing his fingers on the vinyl, perfected beat looping and discovered many of the most iconic beats still sampled today.

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was the first rap group induced into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. From his electric live shows to his production role on Netflix’s “The Get Down,” Grandmaster Flash is a historian, storyteller and a cultural force.

Grandmaster Flash’s appearance at Pellissippi State will be an educational, entertaining and interactive experience. He will show the audience how, as a teenager, he used his knowledge of electronic repair to begin experimenting in his bedroom with different styles and techniques. As the architect of the quick mix theory and science behind turntablism, Grandmaster Flash will visually lay out these formulas and concepts using two turntables equipped with live cameras. He also will show classic footage of his extensive record collection and treat the audience to some rare break beats.

The mission of Pellissippi State is to provide a transformative environment fostering the academic, social, economic and cultural enrichment of the individual and the community. For more information about the college, visit www.pstcc.edu or call 865.694.6400.

THURSDAY AT 10 AM @ the Soup Kitchen

We will be performing at the Church Street United Methodist Church.
Jorge Variego (clarinet)
Margherita Fava (keys)
Rob Linton (double bass)

This project is being supported in whole or in part by federal award number 21.027 awarded to the City of Knoxville by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Arts & Culture Alliance.

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900 Henley at Main, Knoxville, TN 37902
Office: 865-524-3048
https://www.churchstreetumc.org/