Calendar of Events

We are excited to announce our first Guest Artist Show featuring Knoxville based artist Suzanne Jack. We offered a guest artist show to two winners selected from the annual TN Artist Association Annual Show. In addition to our award, one of her pieces earned "Best in Show"! Her art is worth seeing (and owning)!

Please join us for the Show Opening Thursday, Oct. 20 from 5 - 7pm.

Pivot Point Gallery, 15 Emory Place, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-248-0050, www.pivotpointgallery.com

At Maryville's Parkway Drive-In and Knoxville's Central Cinema

Drive-in tickets are available for $25 per night per person (online or at the gate) or as part of our $120 all-access Festival Pass. Friday's drive-in experience includes the fake film trailers of our annual KHFF Grindhouse Grind-out Filmmaking Contest, a 40th anniversary screening of Stephen King & George Romero’s Creepshow (1982), and director Tom Holland’s fan favorite horror comedy Fright Night (1985). We're back at the drive-in Saturday night for a 30th anniversary presentation of Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness (1992) before spotlighting director Stuart Gordon with a double feature of Re-Animator (1985) and From Beyond (1986).

Friday & Saturday's drive-in programming is just a fraction of the horrific fun! 80 horror diehards will join us at KHFF home base Central Cinema (just north of downtown Knoxville) for a four day marathon of specialty programming and a hand-picked slate of this year's hottest horror shorts and independents! Our 2022 festival officially kicks off Thursday night with our FULCI LIVES! mini-retrospective, saluting Italian horror legend Lucio Fulci with a triple feature of City of the Living Dead, The Devil's Honey and a surprise film in between!

In addition to KHFF’s usual load of hand-picked short films, this year’s feature competition includes KHFF 2017 Best Feature winners Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead’s Something In The Dirt; KHFF 2018 Audience Award winner Eric Pennycoff’s sophomore feature The Leech; Clay Tatum & Whitmer Thomas' The Civil Dead; and Michelle Garza Cervera’s Tribeca sensation Huesera. Out-of-competition screenings include "The Langoliers" remix oddity The Timekeepers of Eternity and the Lonanothon, a program collecting the work of Atlanta-based short filmmaker and KHFF mainstay Brian Lonano. (Additional lineup & schedule info will be announced soon.) Then our weekend at the movies wraps up Sunday night with one final repertory classic in Brian Yuzna's Society (1989), followed by our awards party!

Launched in 2009 with a single evening program of local & touring short films, the Knoxville Horror Film Fest has grown into a four-night extravaganza of exciting features and unmissable short films, including special events like live podcasts, trivia sessions and our annual Grindhouse Grind-out filmmaking competition. We’re proud to be not only East Tennessee’s longest-running film festival but also one of the Southeast’s premier annual genre film events.
https://www.knoxhorrorfest.com/

Marble City Opera will produce 3 American operas for their 2022-2023 season. The season’s focus is strong women, and each opera will be performed in English.

Heartbreak Express
by: George Lam & John Clum
October 20-22, 7:30 PM
Venue: Flying Anvil Theatre
Directed by: Marya Barry

Synopsis: Inspired partly by Tai Uhlmann’s documentary film “For the Love of Dolly,” the opera follows four Dolly Parton superfans waiting to meet their idol for the first time. Sisters Darlene and Luanne entered an essay contest and won the chance to meet Dolly Parton in person. Darlene thinks this encounter with Dolly will improve their lives, but Luanne is not so sure. Longtime partners Don and Travis have amassed an enormous collection of Dolly memorabilia. They poured their life savings into making a new Dolly doll and came to get Dolly’s blessing to manufacture the new dolls. The opera follows the four fans as they meet in the waiting room and ends in a quintet (with Dolly’s mysterious Assistant) as they describe their life-changing encounters with the superstar.

For the latest updates visit: www.MarbleCityOpera.com
Social Media links: FB: facebook.com/MarbleCityOpera
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Well-loved indie country music star Corey Smith is returning to Knoxville this October! This fan-made musician has sold over 1 million concert tickets, 1.5 million digital singles and over 220,000 albums. If you haven't seen him live, you're in for a treat! Smith's shows are filled to the brim with foot-tapping energy. We can guarantee you'll leave The Mill & Mine wishing you were Twenty-one too!

The Mill & Mine, 227 W. Depot Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. Tickets/information: 865-343-6000 or https://themillandmine.com

MAVIS STAPLES
Thursday, October 20 | 7:30PM

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

SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT - LIVE BAND KARAOKE
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20 • 6:30PM

We're kicking karaoke up a notch...with a fundraising event like no other! If you love karaoke, this is your chance to sing on the Tennessee Theatre stage with a live band backing you up. If it's not your thing, you can still be here for a good time and support the Theatre. Mark your calendar for Thursday, October 20, and stay tuned for more information

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

Thursday October 20, 7:30pm
The Knoxville Choral Society Chamber Chorale under the direction of Dr. John Orr will present their fall concert.

Saint John's Episcopal Cathedral, 413 Cumberland Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-525-7347, https://www.stjohnscathedral.org/

Bring your kids, lawn chairs, blankets, pets, and friends to enjoy outdoor Knoxville nights, live music, food, fun, and community in Market Square. The City of Knoxville provides these free Concerts on the Square all summer long.

Variety Thursdays – Every 3rd Thursday at 7 pm
Features a broad spectrum of musical genres.

Commodore Fox followed by Joe Lasher

To stay updated on bands and any cancellations due to weather, visit the City of Knoxville Special Events Facebook page. No Tickets. It's Free! https://www.downtownknoxville.org/featured/concerts/

October 20 Prior to Monthly Meeting

Do you have unused art supplies gathering dust and cluttering your art room? If so, participate in an Art Sale and Swap at our next monthly meeting at the Yacht Club prior to our featured speaker.

Art Sale (Items for sale): Please come at 9:30 AM with your art supplies to sell. Everyone selling will share tables on the perimeter of the room. Please clearly mark your items with a price and stay with your items they sell or until the meeting begins. Members will collect payments directly from buyers.

Art Swap (Free items): Place art supplies you want to give away on the tables marked "Free Art Supplies." You don't have to stay with your items. Meeting attendees may pick up any of these items to take home with them.

The Art Sale tables will be on the opposite side of the room from the Art Swap (Free!) tables.

We hope to have everything sold and/or claimed by the time announcements begin at 10 AM, but if not, there will be time after the speakers finish to browse. Any items left at the end of the meeting will be taken to the art closet and/or donated.

Chota Recreation Center, located at 145 Awohili Drive in Loudon
https://www.tellicoartguild.com/

Ada's Journal, Emma's Letters, and Charley's Novel: 1800s East Tennessee History Brought to Life
with speaker Andy Peck

Thursday, October 20, 2022 @ 12:00 pm

Register to Join on Zoom Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/adas-journal-emmas-letters-charleys-novel-1800s-east-tn-history-tickets-372224983947
Register to Join In Person Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/adas-journal-emmas-letters-charleys-novel-1800s-east-tn-history-tickets-372235665897

Andy Peck will share his story of discovering previously unpublished writings from the Pecks of Mossy Creek (Jefferson City) and the rich stories they contain. After publishing Ada’s Journal and Emma’s Letters: The Civil War Era Journal and Letters of Emma Peck during the COVID pandemic, Andy discovered and published an epic 1879 serial called Charley’s Novel: Mary Anderson and Peacock the Mineralogist, the Bad Luck of a Young Southern Girl. His family members, Emma and Charley Peck, wrote prolifically from 1853-1900, and these books tell their incredible stories. Stagecoach rides, steamboat journeys, and travel on the iron horse await the reader of these colorful books. These writings are great resources for family researchers, time-period historians, and also teachers/students seeking to learn history using primary sources.

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

Collier Preserve | Oct 20 | 4:30-6:30

Join us to celebrate our latest permanent Storybook Trail in Knox County! The trail meanders along the banks of Beaver Creek where the bird watching is sublime and the reading just got better. Enjoy food trucks, rock painting, and a delightful story of a rock who is anything but bored.

https://www.knoxcountylibrary.org/storybook-trails

Date: October 20, 2022
Time: 10 AM (Coffee at 9:45 AM)
Location: Tellico Village Yacht Club, 100 Sequoyah Road, Loudon, TN 37774, Gallery Floor

Lisa Bell & Timberly Guffey at Fuller’s Frame Shop and Print Studio in Athens will be sharing top tips for framing your artwork for the best impact, including when to use a pre-made frame versus a custom frame, how to pick a frame color that works with your art, and the impact of matting.

They also work closely with artists to provide professional fine art reproductions featuring the artist’s own artwork. The process begins with high resolution scanning and expert editing. High quality archival prints can then be done on a variety of substrates including papers, canvas, metal, and fabrics. In addition, artwork can be reproduced on notecards, t-shirts, signs, banners, table runners, ornaments, flags, magnets and much more.

About the Artist: Fuller’s Frame Shop and Print Studio in Athens has been serving the area for over 35 years offering a perfect combination of fine art printing and professional framing. They love working with artists!

This featured guest artist presentation is free & open to the public

The Yacht Club is now serving lunch, so please join us for lunch afterward!

Prior to our featured speaker, we will have an Art Sale and Swap. Art Sale: Please come at 9:30 am with Art Supplies you want to sell. Everyone selling will share tables on the perimeter of the room. Please clearly mark your items with a price and stay with your item(s) until the meeting begins. Members will collect money directly from buyers. Art Swap: (Free items) Place art supplies you want to give-away on the tables marked "Give-Away Free Art Supplies". You don't have to stay with your items. Meeting attendees may pick-up any of these items to take home with them. The Art Sale tables will be on the opposite side of the room from the Art Swap tables. We hope to have everything sold and/or claimed by the time announcements begin at 10 am, but if not, there will be time after the speakers finish to browse. Any items left at the end of the meeting will be taken to the art closet and/or donated.

www.tellicoartguild.com