Calendar of Events

Family festivals, musical performances and guest speakers are among the events Pellissippi State Community College has planned for Hispanic Heritage Month – and all are free and open to the public. Themed “Todos Somos Familia” (We Are All Family), Hispanic Heritage Month at the college will celebrate the rich and beautiful complexity of Latino and Hispanic culture at Pellissippi State as well as recognize the importance of the contributions of Latino and Hispanic culture to the local community and the world.

Keynote speakers Karen Ocon-Mora, community schools site coordinator for Knox County, and Megan Barolet-Fogarty, director of youth and family engagement for Centro Hispano de East Tennessee, will kick off the month’s festivities Tuesday, Sept. 19, with an address on “Familia: Relationships and Resilience in Latino Culture.” The event will be held 10:30-11:15 a.m. in the Goins Building Auditorium on Pellissippi State’s Hardin Valley Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road, and livestreamed on Zoom.

Families have two opportunities to come out to Pellissippi State for festivals including games, activities, food and a screening of the film “Encanto” at sunset: 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, on the college’s Hardin Valley Campus and again 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, on Pellissippi State’s Strawberry Plains Campus, 7201 Strawberry Plains Pike

And don’t miss a lively performance by Knoxville’s own Latin jazz band Candela on Wednesday, Sept. 27, in the Hardin Valley Campus Courtyard. Candela will play 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., and refreshments will be served.

For a full list of Pellissippi State’s activities planned for Hispanic Heritage Month, including concerts and lectures, visit www.pstcc.edu/hispanic-heritage. To request accommodations for any campus event, call 865.694.6411 or email accommodations@pstcc.edu.

Chamber Classics Series
Sunday, September 17, 2023, at 2:30 p.m.
At Bijou Theatre

Knoxville Symphony Concertmaster William Shaub tackles Mozart’s most expansive and mature violin solo on the opening Chamber Classics Series concert. Dame Ethel Smyth’s first orchestral work, Serenade in D Major, and Jorge Variego’s BLINK bookend the program.

Aram Demirjian, conductor
William Shaub, violin

JORGE VARIEGO: BLINK (KSO commission)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 5
DAME ETHEL SMYTH: Serenade in D Major

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

Amadeus Chamber Ensemble: Rossini: Selections from Stabat Mater and Messa Solenne
Sun Sep 17, 5:30 PM
Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, 711 S. Northshore Drive, Knoxville, TN 37919

Come enjoy this free-admission, one-hour concert by the fabulous Amadeus Chamber Ensemble under the direction of Maestro Howard Skinner. The program features highlights from two of Rossini’s choral masterpieces, the 1842 Stabat Mater and 1869 Messa Solenne. The featured soloists are soprano Rochelle Bard, alto Diana Salesky, tenor Aaron Short, and baritone Stephen Morscheck (Knoxville debut).

Complimentary required online reservations available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cathedral-concert-amadeus-chamber-ensemble-choir-orchestra-tickets-695548102097. Further information available at bachdouble56@gmail.com.

On Sunday, September 17th, the Smoky Mountain Blues Society and Bluetick Tavern will be pleased to present Duwayne Burnside. Tickets cost $20 for SMBS members and $25 for the general public. Doors open at 5 pm and the performance will run from 6 pm – 9 pm. Bluetick Tavern has a wonderful selection of food, beer, and liquor available to purchase and is located on 128 W Broadway Ave, Maryville, TN 37801

Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Duwayne Burnside is one of 14 children born to legendary North Mississippi musician R.L. Burnside and his wife, Alice. He has been a frequent performer with the North Mississippi Allstars since the early 1990s, when that group, fronted by Luther and Cody Dickinson, formed. The young Burnside learned his first few guitar licks and chords from his father, but proved a quick study and soon began playing with local club owner Junior Kimbrough and the Soul Blues Boys. Growing up in Holly Springs, he was close to Memphis, and as soon as he was able to get to Memphis, he did, and soon had the chance to sit in with Little Jimmy King, Albert King, B.B. King, Bobby “Blue” Bland, and others. Duwayne also began playing in his Dad’s band, Sound Machine Groove, where he further honed his skills as a guitarist and showman. He recorded for Hightone and Fat Possum Records with his father’s group before moving to Memphis, where he opened his own club, Burnside Kitchen and Grill, near Highway 61. He booked the music, cooked the food, sold the beer, and had his own band perform there on a weekly basis. One of the last things he asked his father to do — R.L. Burnside passed at age 80 in 2005 — was sing with him at the massive, popular Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee. Burnside continues to tour, helping to keep the North County, Mississippi hill-style blues flourishing.

Duwayne Burnside will be joined by Kevin Spight on Bass, Tim Scruggs on drums and Chris Richmond on keyboard.

www.smokymountainblues.org

The Sundress Academy for the Arts is excited to present Poetry Xfit hosted by Ashley Hajimirsadeghi. This generative workshop event will take place on Saturday, September 17th from 2 to 4 pm EST via Zoom. Join us at the link tiny.utk.edu/sundress with the password “safta”.

Poetry Xfit isn't about throwing tires or heavy ropes, but the idea of confusing our muscles is the same. You will receive ideas, guidelines, and more as part of this generative workshop series in order to complete three poems in two hours. A new set of prompts will be provided after the writers have written collaboratively for thirty minutes. The goal is to create material that can be later modified and transformed into artwork rather than producing flawless final versions. The event is open to prose authors as well!

Ashley Hajimirsadeghi is an Iranian-American multimedia artist, writer, and journalist. Her writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Passages North, The Cortland Review, Salamander, RHINO, Salt Hill, and The Journal, among others. She is the Co-Editor-in-Chief at Mud Season Review and a contributing writer and critic at MovieWeb. She is a six-time Best of the Net nominee, two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and runner-up for the Arthur Flowers Flash Fiction Prize.

While this is a free event, donations can be made to the Sundress Academy for the Arts. https://www.facebook.com/events/2164055897125130/

Willkommen to Schulz Brau! Oktoberfest is our biggest festival of the year here at our Brewery and Biergarten! Meticulous planning goes into creating this special 3-week celebration of Bavarian culture. We proudly follow Munich traditions to offer our guests an authentic and fun experience. Prost!

Public Event, No Ticket Required
*Ticket Required to Attend Opening Tap Ceremony from 5-9AM on Sep 16
https://knoxvilleoktoberfest.com/

A collaboration between the Clarence Brown, the Institute of American Civics, the departments of English, Classics, History, and Theatre at UT, and the international research group the R/18 Collective.

Cato is the play Washington staged at Valley Forge after that 1777-78 winter. It is set in north Africa in 46 BCE, as Cato braces for the invasion of Caesar and imperial Rome. It's about how a republic slips into empire and becomes vulnerable to dictators. The play raises key questions for our time about the nature of citizenship and the challenges of keeping democratic institutions healthy.

Sep 16, 19, 20 & 21 at 7 PM and Sep 17 at 2:30 PM
Each performance will run for about 1:15, after which there will be a brief panel consideration of one of the key questions listed here, followed by a time for the audience to talk to each other about that question. We hope it will model the kinds of conversations we need to have to find our way forward in these times.

Tickets are free but need to be reserved in advance: https://tiny.utk.edu/cato
The conversation after is a chance to bring our community together around issues that matter to all of us.

Sep 16-17, 2023
World’s Fair Park Performance Lawn

TN’s largest arts and culture festival celebrating Latin American and Hispanic Heritage Month! Our mission is to promote unity in the community by creating bridges between the Hispanic /LatinX communities and the community at large through art, culture, education, and leadership.

Join us for another weekend of delicious food, music, dance, authentic Latin arts and crafts, and fun for the whole family!

Facebook @HoLaHoraLatina
Instagram @HoLaHoraLatina
Twitter @CasaHoLa
865-335-3358 or casahola@holafestival.org

9/16 • Early Morning Birding: Fall Migration
9/16 • Paint with a Turtle Workshop
9/16 • Evening Paddle
9/17 • Underwater Basket Weaving Workshop with Craft Appalachia (10 AM)
9/17 • Take Action! Conservation Conversation with fern+daisy
9/17 • Take Action! Eco-Printing & Natural Dyes with Museum of Infinite Outcomes
9/17 • Underwater Basket Weaving Workshop with Craft Appalachia (2 PM)
9/17 • East Tennessee Bluegrass Association Monthly Jam

Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920. Visitor Center open daily 10-6; grounds and trails open daily from 8 AM - dusk. Information: 865-577-4717, www.ijams.org

“Sleeping Beauty,” adapted by KCT Founder Zack Allen, is based on the timeless fairy tale by Charles Perrault. Allen’s adaptation reboots the classic story amidst the color and pageantry of Baroque era France. The happy life of Briar-Rose is interrupted by a curse from one of the Seven Wise Sisters of Fountainbleau, sending the girl into a deep sleep. Can an ancient wizard and a young soldier come to her rescue with some magic of their own?

Performed Thu-Sun at various times: https://knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com/tc-events/sleeping-beauty/

Knoxville Children's Theatre, 109 E. Churchwell Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-208-3677, www.knoxvillechildrenstheatre.com

Get ready for 10 fun-filled, action-packed days full of your fair favorites: concerts, rides, food, competitions, and more! See https://www.tnvalleyfair.org/events for all details.

Concert calendar:
Friday, Sept. 8, 8:00 PM
38 Special

Sunday, Sept. 10, 8:00 PM
KC and The Sunshine Band

Tuesday, Sept. 12, 8:00 PM
Travis Tritt

Thursday, Sept. 14, 8:00 PM
T-Pain

865-2151-471 or https://www.tnvalleyfair.org/

Featuring varied works by current faculty: Heather Hartman Folks, Matthew Jessie, Julie L. Rabun, Jennifer Stoneking-Stewart, and David Underwood.

Opens Thu Sep 7, 3-5 PM and closes Sat Oct 28, 9:30 AM - 12

The Michael Alvis Art Gallery at Carson-Newman University, Warren Art Building, corner of Branner & Ken Sparks Way, Jefferson City, TN 37760. Gallery hours: M-F 8-4. Information: 865-471-4985, www.cn.edu