Calendar of Events

THE LOVER'S GAME TOUR
THURSDAY, MAY 11 | 7:30PM

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

Union Ave Books is excited to present an author event with Erica Abrams Locklear and her new book APPALACHIA ON THE TABLE on May 11, 2023 at 6 pm at Union Ave Books.

While this is a free event, we ask that you register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-author-event-featuring-erica-abrams-locklear-tickets

As someone who grew up in Western North Carolina (Leicester, to be exact), Erica Abrams Locklear feels extremely fortunate to have a faculty appointment in the English department at UNC Asheville. Her research interests include Appalachia, foodways, the South, literacy, and gendered issues within each of these categories. She teaches the survey of American literature on a regular basis, as well as various writing and literature courses related to her field of study. Her first book, Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment: Appalachian Women's Literacies, explores how mountain writers portray the identity conflicts literacy attainment can cause for Appalachian women; Ohio University Press published it in their Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia in 2011. Her next book, Appalachia on the Table: Representing Mountain Food and People, explores how representations of Appalachian food shape national perceptions of mountain people. University of Georgia Press will release it April 15, 2023. When she is not teaching or writing, she enjoys swimming, spending time with her family, and being at home in the mountains of North Carolina.

When her mother passed along a cookbook made and assembled by her grandmother, Erica Abrams Locklear thought she knew what to expect. But rather than finding a homemade cookbook full of apple stack cake, leather britches, pickled watermelon, or other “traditional” mountain recipes, Locklear discovered recipes for devil’s food cake with coconut icing, grape catsup, and fig pickles. Some recipes even relied on food products like Bisquick, Swans Down flour, and Calumet baking powder. Where, Locklear wondered, did her Appalachian food script come from? And what implicit judgments had she made about her grandmother based on the foods she imagined she would have been interested in cooking?

Appalachia on the Table argues, in part, that since the conception of Appalachia as a distinctly different region from the rest of the South and the United States, the foods associated with the region and its people have often been used to socially categorize and stigmatize mountain people. Rather than investigate the actual foods consumed in Appalachia, Locklear instead focuses on the representations of foods consumed, implied moral judgments associated with those foods, and how those judgments shape reader perceptions of those depicted. The question at the core of Locklear’s analysis asks, How did the dominant culinary narrative of the region come into existence and what consequences has that narrative had for people in the mountains?

Union Ave Books, 517 Union Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-951-2180, www.unionavebooks.com

Thu, May 11, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
At Pretentious Beer Co.
131 S Central St
Knoxville, Tennessee 37902

Let the sunshine in this summer! If there's one thing Knoxville loves, it's a good musical. With five huge shows happening at theatres across town this summer, the musical theatre talent in town is on full display, and we want to celebrate it! Join us for an evening of Broadway belting the old fashioned way: a singer, a piano, and a whole lotta heart.

Featuring
Grace Belt, Kathryn Shepas, Abigail Schlichtmann, Robyn Maker, and more singers announced soon!
Pianist Matthew Mimbs
Hosted by Ethan Graham Roeder (founder, First Take Co.)

Scruffy City Sings is a fundraiser for First Take's big ideas the only way we know how: giving y'all a great evening of entertainment, building towards providing bigger and better paid artist opportunities. We may be theatre artists, but we want our community to be more than that! We’re looking to meet as many singers, musicians, songwriters, music lovers, and Knoxvillians as possible this summer so we can learn more about what art you want to see and how we can help. Each month will be completely different: new performers, new musicians, a new guest artist, and a new style. From jazz standards to disco hits, musical theatre to country western, join some of Knoxville's best live performers for a showcase of local vocal talent. All proceeds will go towards First Take Co.'s artist pay fund for our upcoming season. Please follow and share @firsttakeco and @pretentiousbeerco to stay in touch on our summer series!

https://www.simpletix.com/e/scruffy-city-sings-musical-theatre-mixer-tickets-130226

“ECOLOGICAL RECOVERY SINCE THE 1980 ERUPTION OF MOUNT ST. HELENS” VIRTUAL PROGRAM THURSDAY, MAY 11

The May 1980 cataclysmic eruption of Mount St. Helens included many types of disturbances, ranging from a gigantic blast, mudflows into several streams, a massive ash cloud, and the largest landslide in recorded history. Ecological recovery of each disturbance depended not only on the amount of blast, burial, or heat experienced by each locale, but also subsequent natural and human disturbances. Fortunately, in 1982 much of the area was protected by establishment of the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. Now, 42 years after the eruption, the volcano serves as a natural ecological experiment, educational opportunity, and recreational area as well as providing jobs in timber and tourism for the region.

This Zoom program to be cosponsored by Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning (TCWP) and the UT Arboretum Society will be at 7 p.m. on May 11. Our presenter is Virginia Dale, a research professor in the University of Tennessee’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and also corporate fellow emerita at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The program will be free, but participants will need to register to receive a Zoom link and recording. Register at www.utarboretumsociety.org The program will be recorded and closed captions are available. Contact Michelle Campanis at mcampani@utk.edu regarding any questions or registration issues.

Thursday night!
Live at The Mill and Mine
May 11, 2023
Doors 6:30pm
Presentations Begin 7:20pm
It's our second event of the year and we are stoked. RSVP to the Facebook event and help us spread the word! https://www.facebook.com/events/741163024220335/

Vol. 47 Presenters:
• Allison Comer, Muse Knoxville
• Erik Soltan, Get Out Backpacking
• Erika Biddix, Aught Entrepreneurs
• Haseeb Qureshi, Entreheart
• Story VanNess, Likely Story Productions
• Jasmine Newton, Javon Renee Portraits
• Amelia Galvas, Aviary Broom Co
• Sarah Schortz, The Psalty Wild
• Michael Galyean, Roller Coaster Aficionado

// We encourage you to support a current or past presenter during this time.
// This event is family-friendly, however the content is uncensored.

We're going on the road this May with three family-friendly community concerts in Maryville, Morristown and Knoxville. Enjoy the sounds of the symphony under the sun! All are free and open to the public

Symphony in the Park
Wed., May 10, at 7:30 p.m.
Theatre in the Park on the Maryville Greenbelt

Morristown Community Concert at Cherokee Park
Thur., May 11, at 7:30 p.m.
Citizen Tribune/Jefferson Federal Amphitheater

Knoxville Community Concert at World's Fair Park
Fri., May 12, at 7:00 p.m.
Tennessee Amphitheater

865-291-3310 or https://knoxvillesymphony.com/

When: May 8-June 4 (Downtown) | June 6-July 5 (West Knox)

Don’t miss a personal collection of Market Square Farmers’ Market photos featuring vendors, shoppers, happenings, and memories over the past 20 years, taken by local photographers Holly Rainey and Shawn Poynter.
https://www.instagram.com/holly__rainey/
http://www.poynterphotoco.com/

Enjoy a meal at Tomato Head to view and purchase these beautiful, framed prints - perfect for the MSFM super fan.

Tomato Head, 12 Market Square (865-637-4067) and 7240 Kingston Pike, Suite 172 (865-584-1075), in Knoxville. https://thetomatohead.com/

May 8 – June 15, 2023 the Knoxville Museum of Art will be closed for gallery renovations. We will reopen June 16, 2023 with a projection-based sculptural installation by artist Courtney Egan, up through August 27. Followed by Jane Cassidy’s audio-visual installation Drink Up the Moon September 1-November 12, 2023.

Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World's Fair Park, Knoxville, TN 37916. Hours: Tu-Sa 10-5, Su 1-5. Information: 865-525-6101, www.knoxart.org. Admission and parking are free.

Make plans to join us at Appalachian Arts on Saturday, May 6 to kick off the Spring Plant & Garden Art Sale. Throughout the day (10AM-4PM) there will be live artist demonstrations, live music by Domino Ensemble (12PM-1PM), and Shirley's Boy Country Cooking Food Truck (11AM-2PM).

Beautiful garden-themed artwork by local artists, such as garden markers, garden décor, and nature photography, will also be featured. In addition, the Spring Plant & Garden Art Sale features a variety of donated plants: perennials, annuals, and native varieties – with proceeds directly benefiting the Appalachian Arts. Can’t make it on May 6? The Plant & Garden Art Sale runs from May 6 – May 20. For additional information, call 865-494-9854 or visit appalachianarts.net.

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

CURATED BY ILANA LILIENTHAL, TALLYA BEN-SIRA & ANAT AHOUVI BARUCH

PRESENTING ARTWORKS BY GILI AVISSAR, GITTIT ALEXANDRA FRIDBERG, MARIA MERFELD, CARL GOMBERT, JOSEPH ASHMAN and OREL BRODT

Opening with a 5:30 PM Gallery Talk - wine and live entertainment.

23 Emory Place, Knoxville, TN

Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6 pm or by Appointment
For sales inquires, please call or email. (865) 200-4401 or lilienthalgallery@gmail.com
IG @lilienthalgallery
www.lilienthalgallery.com

Relay Ridge has an open artist studios + opening gallery reception for solo exhibition of Vincent Drake at our gallery (My 5-june 9th) and we'll be doing printmaking demos in the printshop on Friday. we also have 2 open studios available starting in June with applications due May 15th...we have other events coming up too....

We'll be open 6-9pm Friday May 5
We have a new exhibition in the gallery "Our America" by Vincent Drake @artistvincentdrake
Wildflower Printing demo + sale in printshop!

Check out all the Relay Ridge artists and their studios on Friday featuring:
@eleanoraldrich
@childlike.creative
@gstucchio
@knoxflair
@sarahpeeler
@studioswadman
@ashton_ludden
@elysiaallalong

Drake was chosen for our first local Call for Exhibitions via democratic votes. The first-round was judged by a 10-member panel of 2023 Penland Winter Resident Artists, and from that, the finalist was determined by a panel of the Relay Ridge Studio Artists.
“I’m inspired by the absurdity of modern American society; The irrational ideals we’re convinced to accept, the relentless marketing and propaganda, the tribalism, disgust, perverted romanticism and violence that has become characteristic of us. In my art I’m unconcerned with beauty or idealization. I’m interested in investigating our culture’s influence on our identities and the confusion, panic, and suffering that results. My subjects are people; sometimes we as individuals, sometimes us as a group. They are part mechanical construction, part hallucination; both comical and uncomfortable; suffering, confused, and trapped by their emptiness and proselytized ambitions.”

https://relayridge.org/

May’s Guest Artists, Three Dames from Knoxville present “Summer Hues” at the Plateau Creative Arts Center’s Fun & Wine First Friday Reception, Friday, May 5 from 5:00 - 7:00 PM at the Plateau Creative Arts Center, 451 Lakeview Drive in Fairfield Glade.

The area’s high school seniors’ artwork will also be on display in the gallery and a special awards ceremony will be held celebrating the winning entries. The public is invited to come to this free event and enjoy a glass of wine or non-alcoholic beverage, meet the Three Dames; Linda Blair, Marcia Shelly and Cheryl Massey, high school student honorees and other artists, and view a wonderful variety of artwork. Light refreshments will also be served.

The paintings of the Three Dames and the high school seniors’ artwork will be on display along with the members’ gallery artwork exhibit from May 5 through June 1. The Arts Center is open to the public Monday through Saturday from 9:00-4:00. All artwork in the gallery and in the Endless Possibilities Shop is available for purchase.

https://artguildfairfieldglade.net/