Calendar of Events

Join us in song this season! We will be holding auditions for all voice parts August 13, 14, 20, and 21. Auditions will be held at Ball Camp Baptist Church, 2412 Ball Camp Byington Road. To reserve an audition time, email membership@knoxvillechoralsociety.org!

During the 2023-2024 concert season, the Knoxville Choral Society will present a fall​ concert titled "Uncaged" that will feature contemporary choral music written within the last few years. Additionally, the KCS will perform a winter concert featuring "The Lost Birds: An Extinction Elegy" by Christopher Tin. Tin is a multi-Grammy award-winning composer of film and video-game soundtracks. His most famous piece being “Baba Yetu” written for the video game Civilization IV was the first video game music to ever win a Grammy. The Lost Birds uses poetry by Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Sara Teasdale. The Knoxville Choral Society will also collaborate with the @knoxsymphony on several of their concerts this upcoming season: Handel’s "Messiah", 37th Annual Clayton Holiday Concerts, Holst’s "The Planets", and Verdi’s "Requiem".

https://knoxvillechoralsociety.org/

Bring your children in grades K-6 to the KMA for Second Sunday Art Activity Day. Children will do a hands-on art activity taught by a certified art teacher. FREE and open to the public! 1-4 PM

Join us for a Docent Guided Tour on the second Sunday of every month at 2pm! KMA visitors can follow a trained docent educator through the galleries to learn more about the KMA collection and temporary exhibitions. Tours are 60 minutes; visitors can meet at the front desk at 1:55pm to join the tour. FREE and open to the public!

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.

The Old City Market returns to the 100 Block of West Jackson Ave!

2ND SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH

https://oldcityknoxville.org/market/

Sunday, August 13 at 3:00 p.m. at Central Cinema, 1205 N. Central Street

KHP’s Jack Neely will be joining independent archivist Bradley Reeves, co-founder of TAMIS, to introduce a rare color tint print of The Goose Woman (1925), directed by Knoxville’s own Clarence Brown, at Central Cinema as a programmatic tie-in ahead of Knox County Public Library’s Clarence Brown Film Festival, which runs August 16-20.

The Goose Woman, a bizarre murder melodrama starring Louise Dresser, Jack Pickford (the short-lived brother of Mary Pickford) and Constance Bennett (very early in her career), was a minor sensation when released in 1925. When it showed at the old Queen on Gay Street, the Knoxville Journal called it "daring ... one of the most unusual and heart-gripping dramas ever shown in a motion-picture theater."

This screening will employ live musician Cody Hensley performing an original score. Tickets are $10 each.

Note: Advance tickets should be available in early August at: https://centralcinema865.com/

Union Ave Books is proud to welcome local authors Denton Loving & Sylvia Woods to Union Ave Books for an afternoon of poetry.

The readings will begin at Union Ave Books on Sunday, August 13 at 2 pm, with a meet and greet to follow directly after.

While this is a free event, we ask that you register for your spot at the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-author-event-featuring-denton-loving-and-sylvia-woods-tickets-678292640547?aff=oddtdtcreator

Based on the book by Mark Twain and adapted by Zack Allen, the play brings the famous book to life on stage.
The play will be performed August 11th-27th. Thursdays and Fridays at 7 PM, Saturdays at 1 and 5 PM , and Sundays at 3 PM.

Huck Finn is on the run from his criminal father, along with his friend Jim, adrift on the mighty Mississippi River. The two fall prey to two con men calling themselves the King and The Duke. Huck and Jim get involved in a number of outrageous schemes. If Jim can get far enough up river, he can become a free man, and Huck discovers there may be a fortune for him too!

The play is performed by 15 talented young actors and designed by 10 talented young designers from ages 9 to 16. The cast includes KCT veterans Luke Meade playing Huck and Mason Cox playing Tom Sawyer. The show is directed by guest director Jonathan Clark with assistant student director Maddy Grace Payne.

KCT is East Tennessee’s leading producer of plays for children and families.
Knoxville Children's Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-208-3677, www.knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com

Friday night showings will begin at 8 p.m. and Sunday matinees begin at 2 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. and 1 p.m., respectively, one hour prior to each movie’s start time. The full schedule of the Summer Movie Magic series includes:

• Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back – Friday, Aug. 11
• Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory – Sunday, Aug. 13

• Clueless – Friday, Aug. 25
• Sleeping Beauty – Sunday, Aug. 27

Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for children under 12 as well as seniors 65 and older. Tickets can be purchased online at www.tennesseetheatre.com or by calling the box office at 865-684-1200.

D​OG DAZE VII, Village Green Shopping Center, 11435-11543 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37934 just south of Planet Fitness, Friday August 11 through Sunday the 13th. It will be a 3 Day Festival of fun, food, shopping and competition!

SHOP FARRAGUT with support from the Town of Farragut has teamed up with Smoky Mountain Dock Dogs and Ricki’s Pet Depot to once again bring a nationally sanctioned regional canine aquatics competition by DOCK DOGS INTERNATIONAL to FARRAGUT!
Smoky Mountain DockDogs is the local club that will be supporting this event.

The festivities will start on Friday afternoon with local dogs taking a “Pooch Plunge!” Area dog owners will have the opportunity to have their ‘puppy’ try a Dock-Dive free of charge between 4 and 7pm as an introduction to the sport. Attendees and their pets can enjoy the event worry-free with access to an on-site veterinarian both Saturday and Sunday.

Actual competitions will commence on Saturday at 9am and registrations can be made at https://dockdogsevents.com/login.

THE ENTIRE WEEKEND IS FREE to the public!

https://www.farragutbusiness.com/dogdaze.html

We are excited to announce local artist Summer Small as our featured artist for the month of August! Her work unfolds a complicated but passionate relationship with modern Appalachia and the people and places that call the valley home. Please join us at Rala in the Old City for the show opening from 6 to 8pm on August 4th, 2023. Summer's work will be on display August 4th through August 31st.

https://www.facebook.com/events/307835021665435/

Rala: Regional and Local Artisans, 112 W. Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Tu-Sa 11-6, Su 11-5. Information: 865-525-7888, https://shoprala.com or www.instagram.com/ShopRala

First Friday Reception: August 4th, 5:30 – 9:00 pm

AMG Gallery Potters, an eclectic group of clay artists, each with their own unique style are the featured 3D artists in August.
+ Lisa Kurtz has a Master’s Degree in Ceramics and has taught clay classes at colleges and community art centers. She is currently teaching at the Oak Ridge Art Center. To create her functional pottery and clay wall art she throws on the wheel and hand builds and often combines the two to create her wares.
+ Linda Sullivan, with a keen interest in glaze chemistry, uses multilayered glazes to depict landscape imagery. She applies her self-developed glazes by pouring and overlapping them on wheel-thrown and hand-built pieces using porcelain and stoneware clays.
+ Patricia Herzog produces functional, colorful and highly textured hand-built pottery with an emphasis on animal imagery and the natural world. Her sculptural pieces are inspired by the art of ancient cultures.
+ Larry Gabbard seeks out alternative kilns and firing techniques to finish his wheel thrown pottery. He finds the unexpected marks that result when clay, heat and smoke interact are often intriguing and beautiful.
+ Karen Kyte creates colorful, whimsical terra cotta sculptures that often tell a story.

Lynnda Tenpenny, an award-winning mixed media artist, is a native Knoxvillian and a graduate of UT. Her new work focuses on the word “Interstices”, such as “to stand between, an intervening space, interval, small opening, chink, crack, crevice.” She loves mystery in her work, small surprises and hidden images that present themselves or pop through from the background, a glimpse of something in a previous layer that has been exposed by sanding or scraping paint off. Her creativity inspires imagination on the part of the viewer.

Art Market Gallery, 422 S. Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Tu-Sa 11-6, Su 1-6. Information: 865-525-5265, www.artmarketgallery.net, www.Facebook.com/ArtMarketGallery

Friday, August 4, from 6-8 Awaken Coffee will host an opening reception for artist Jordan Abba.

Jordan is an artist and visual art teacher for Knox County Schools. “As an art educator, I find joy in art as an experimental process. I embrace growth through exploration. The series, “Under DE-construction,” explores positive and negative space, line, and shape to create compositions that express the experiences and emotions of life. Art, to me, is about appreciating the things in life that we love the most. This body of work embodies the bittersweet nostalgia of memory while engaging the principles of abstract painting.”

Please join us for some fantastic art, light refreshments, and great coffee!

Awaken Coffee, 125 W Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. Open daily. Information: 865-951-0427, www.instagram.com/awaken_coffee or www.facebook.com/awakencoffeeoldcity/

The Tennessee Stage Company presents its 33rd Shakespeare Festival, now renamed Knoxville Shakespeare and performing at Ijams Nature Center where there is room for the audience to spread out and observe proper social distancing while being able to enjoy the outdoor performances which will feature a season of comedies, Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew and the outrageous comedy of The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (Abridged).

The performances will be held in the open field in front of the Visitors Center of Ijams Nature Center, located at 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920, just a short drive from downtown. There is an indoor space at Ijams Nature Center where performances will move in case of rain and where the matinees will be performed. Reservations and in-person ticket cost will be $15 with a four pack for families offering a 15% discount. Tickets are on sale now at www.Ijams.org/shakespeare

TAMING OF THE SHREW
July 20 22, 28, 30, Aug. 3, 5, 11, 13
7:30 pm nightly outdoors at Ijams Nature Center
Sunday, July 30, 2:00 pm

Suitors are lined up to court the young and beautiful Bianca – daughter of Baptista Minola of Padua. However, Baptista is determined that her older sister, Katherina, known as “Kate the Cursed” for her wild temper must be married first. No man is Padua is willing to court the willful Katherine, until Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona in search of a suitable wife, arrives and sets out to woo her with a vengeance – and does. In this, the original comedic battle of the sexes, beauty and brawn vie for love in a true war of wills, wits and words: Come on and kiss me Kate!”

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Abridged)
July 21, 23, 27. 29. August 4, 6, 10, 12
Sunday, August 6, 2:00pm

Three actors, Thirty Six Plays, 90 minutes. Don’t try this at home!

For further information please contact the Tennessee Stage Company at 865-546-4280.
https://tennesseestage.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TNStageCo