Calendar of Events

Friday, October 21st 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Saturday, October 22nd 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Sunday, October 23rd 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Rothchild Conference Center at 8807 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37923
Admission
Adults: $8.00 a day
Run of Show Pass: $15.00
Children Under 12 Free

The show will have 23 vendors with a wide variety of jewelry, rare fossil and mineral specimens, meteorites, gemstones, and decorative objects. The will also be educational activities and gem and mineral ID tables.
http://www.knoxrocks.org/home/

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2022 AT 7 PM
Jaystorm Unplugged brings the funk to the stage!
FREE

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2022 AT 8 PM
Birthday Bash Weekend: Gypsy Queens' Drag Show
www.simpletix.com/e/the-gypsy-queens-drag-show-barrelhouse-bir-tickets-116969
Stay tuned for more details on the October edition of the Gypsy Queens' Drag Show!

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2022 AT 2 PM
Jewell & Scott take the Barrelhosue stage!
FREE

https://www.facebook.com/BarrelhousebyGypsy/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/

Four millennials discover who they really are when catapulted into whimsical chaos by a strange, other-worldly spec of light. An energetic, alternative rom-com adventure! For mature audiences.

Hannah Benitez’ “Adaptive Radiation” will run in the Clarence Brown Theatre’s Lab Theatre. For tickets: https://clarencebrowntheatre.com/plays/adaptive-radiation/

Information on theatre safety protocols are available here: https://clarencebrowntheatre.com/faq/

Behind the Scenes Sunday will take place following the October 23rd matinee. A Talk Back will take place Sunday, October 30th following the matinee. The Open Captioned performance is Sunday, October 6th at 2:00 pm.

Clarence Brown Theatre, 1714 Andy Holt Ave on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. For information/tickets: 865-974-5161, www.clarencebrowntheatre.com

The Ghostly Tour of Downtown Knoxville! Come and join the spirits for a tour of Downtown Knoxville's scariest landmarks. The tours which last approximately two hours each, will visit the sites of some of Knoxville's best kept secrets.

Stories for 2022: The legend of Knoxville's own Frankenstein, a man's search for a simple drink "A Glass of Water", and the murder of a traveling-man "Oysters in September". This year's tour will also include two new tales: "Death by Fire" and "Murder at The Church Door".

This year's tours will be on October 18, 20, 21, 25, 27 & 28, 7:00 p.m. each evening promptly
The tours are about one mile in length. All tours begin at James White's Fort located at the intersection of Hill Avenue and Hall of Fame Drive. Ample free parking is available for tour participants at the Fort. Enjoy roasting marshmallows by the fire in the courtyard with hot chocolate after the tour.

Adults $10
Children (6 – 15) $6

James White's Fort, 205 E. Hill Ave, Knoxville, TN 37915. Information: 865-525-6514, www.jameswhitefort.org

The family of John F. Richardson has generously donated 31 paintings to the Clayton Center for the Arts and Maryville College. Sales of the artwork will benefit the CCA and MC Fine Arts Division,

John Richardson had a long career painting landscapes in many styles and mediums and in many places from Tennessee to Arizona to Washington State. He lived in Tennessee and Illinois. He studied at Vanderbilt University, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Chicago. Exhibition venues included the Pennsylvania Academy, Art Institute of Chicago and Vanderbilt University. Richardson taught at Watkins Institute in Nashville from 1938 to 1942 and from 1949 to 1969 at the University of Illinois in Chicago Circle. Richardson and wife Margaret, moved to Nashville and became active in the local art scene. His paintings have a very distinctive personal style, strongly representing elements of mid to late 20th Century artistic trends and movements.

Paintings may be viewed in the DENSO and La Dolce Vita Galleries Monday to Friday 9 am to 5 pm and during events.

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

Recent Video Works by Kaz Rahman is on exhibition at Gallery 103, School of Art
University Of Tennessee

These recent video works showcase a collage of elements that combine hand-drawn and animated gestures with live action and archival. An architectural framework wraps these 5 garden tales.

UT School of Art: 1715 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville, TN 37996. Information: 865-974-3200, https://art.utk.edu/

Fri. Oct 14th 2022, 8:00 pm
Sat. Oct 15th 2022, 8:00 pm
Sun. Oct 16th 2022, 3:00 pm
Thu. Oct 20th 2022, 8:00 pm
Fri. Oct 21st 2022, 8:00 pm
Sat. Oct 22nd 2022, 8:00 pm
Sun. Oct 23rd 2022, 3:00 pm
Thu. Oct 27th 2022, 8:00 pm
Fri. Oct 28th 2022, 8:00 pm
Sat. Oct 29th 2022, 8:00 pm
Sun. Oct 30th 2022, 3:00 pm

Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher, from the novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Directed by Tom Eubanks

A new and shocking version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of depravity, lust, love and horror. On the fog-bound streets of Victorian-era London, Henry Jekyll’s experiments with exotic “powders and tinctures” have brought forth his other self—Edward Hyde, a sensualist and villain free to commit the sins Jekyll is too civilized to comprehend. When Hyde meets a woman who stirs his interest, Jekyll fears for her life and decides to end his experiments. But Hyde has other ideas, and so the two sides battle each other in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse to determine who shall be the master and who his slave. With multiple Hydes portrayed by members of the cast.

Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 800 S. Central Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information & tickets: 865-544-1999, www.theatreknoxville.com

The Porch Sale held each year features locally made artwork from members of the AACC. It’s an excellent time to shop for discounted handmade gifts for the holidays! The Porch Sale provides local artisans the opportunity to replenish their artwork for the new year ahead.

Appalachian Arts Craft Center, 2716 Andersonville Highway, Clinton, TN. Hours: M-Sa 10-6, Su 1-5. Information: 865-494-9854, www.appalachianarts.net

Art Exhibit at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church - Free and open to the public
2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37918

Reception Friday, October 14, 6:00 to 7:30 pm.
Artists’ talks at 6:30 pm.

Gallery hours: 9:30-4:30 Monday through Thursday and 9:00-1:00 Sunday

In 1963 a group of Knoxville artists was invited by the late Kermit (Buck) Ewing, Head of the University of TN Art Department, to participate in an exhibition of watercolor paintings at the University’s McClung Museum. During the opening reception Mr. Ewing noted the Knoxville area did not have an organization for artists to share the common interest of painting in aqueous media. He suggested that those artists exhibiting in the McClung show could be the nucleus for such an association. Thus, was the formation of the Knoxville Watercolor Society with Laura Bagwell serving as the first President.

The purpose of this organization is to educate the members as well as the community to the understanding of watercolor as a significant art form. Active membership is juried by the members and consists of Knoxville area artists who are currently active in the serious pursuit of aqueous painting. Annually, the organization provides a scholarship for the University of Tennessee student who is majoring in watercolor painting, donates to the University Ewing Gallery and maintains a membership in the Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville. Additionally, grants have been made to the Arts Council of Greater Knoxville, the Knoxville Museum of Art, The Tennessee Resource Center, The Tennessee Art Association High School Scholarship Program.

http://www.knxvillewatercolorsociety.com/

Oct 8-23, Thu-Sun at 7 PM (and Sun Oct 16, 2 PM)
At Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Avenue Knoxville, TN 37920

Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure is the story of what happens when a man, new in his power and deep in his religion, forces a city to its knees and a woman to the end of her faith. Angelo sentences Claudio to death for impregnating his longtime sweetheart. When Isabella, Claudio’s sister and a soon-to-be Nun, begs for Angelo to change his mind, he offers her a choice: Claudio can die, or she can give up her chastity to Angelo in exchange for Claudio’s life.
“[W]ith an outstretched throat, I’ll tell the world aloud what man thou art.” “Who will believe thee, Isabel?”
Guests should bring their own lawn chairs or blankets so they will have room to spread out and observe proper social distancing while enjoying the outdoor performances.

For more information, please contact: Caitlin Corbitt, caitlin@tennesseestage.com
https://tennesseestage.com

Info: (865) 546-4280, www.tennesseestage.com