Calendar of Events

Thursday, August 22, 2024
Old AJ Building
912 South Gay Street

Doors at 6:30pm, Secret side entrance on West Hill Avenue

Pre-Knox Asian Festival Event
Tickets extremely limited: https://www.freshtix.com/events/nakatani-evicshen

This year’s Febb Burn Banquet and Fundraiser will be August 22, 2024, at the Foundry in downtown Knoxville. Tickets will be $104, only $1 for each year we have had a voice in our own government thanks to our courageous, dedicated ancestors. Since this is a presidential election year, our plans include:

1. Readers’ theatre style presentation of the criminal trial of Susan B. Anthony for voting.
2. Candace Corrigan playwright and award-winning song writer with new suffrage music for fun and inspiration.
3. New and expanded original Art Show
4. Silent Auction
5. Sneak Preview of one or two of the items intended for the museum
6. Display of life size cutouts of Tennessee Suffragists
7. Suffrage timeline from 1848 to 1920
8. Dinner, of course
9. More in the planning

You won’t want to miss this! https://suffragecoalition.org/

Fourth Thursdays every month. This is a welcoming social dance open to people of all experience levels. No partner required and instruction provided as we go.

$10 general admission at the door, $5 for JCA members, seniors, and students. Dance at 7, doors at 6:30.

https://www.facebook.com/events/342379521752932/342379535086264/

The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley present the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame Dinner and Induction Ceremony Thursday on August 22, 5:30pm – 9pm at the Knoxville Convention Center. Guest Speakers will be Rick Neuheisel and Adam Zucker with a College Football Preview and a special appearance by Houston Nutt.

Since 1982, the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame Dinner and Induction Ceremony has celebrated Knoxville sports with some of the area’s finest sports achievers. Each year, ten local individuals are inducted into the Hall of Fame for their achievements in athletics, coaching, sports administration, or officiating. Other honorees include Knoxville’s Most Outstanding Male and Female High School Athletes of the Year, the Chad Pennington Professional Athlete of the Year, the Pat Summitt Ignite Greatness Award and other significant special recognition award recipients. The event was founded in 1982 by Emmet P. “Buck” Vaughn, Jr., with founding sponsors Pilot and Cherokee Distributing. Through the years, the event has attracted loyal support from some of the most visible corporations in the Knoxville area. The event is among the most prestigious sports recognition ceremonies in the nation and is one of the most highly attended sports hall of fame banquets in the country. Last year’s Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony sold over 1,300 tickets.

Tickets at: https://bgctnv.org/gkshof

Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley, https://bgctnv.org/

7 pm at 201 Cafe

Members include: Summit Hetman - keys, Bradley Witzel - guitar, Logan Franklin - bass, Karsen Martin - drums. The group welcomes a few horn players as well, including Elijah Sellers, Charlie Fairchild and Sylas Good.

201 Cafe, located at 201 Broadway, Oak Ridge, TN 37830

Union Ave Books and Bike Walk Knoxville are excited to present Megan Kimble for City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, And The Future Of America's Highways. This event will take place on Thursday, August 22nd at 6pm at our bookstore. This is a free event. Please RSVP here.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Megan Kimble is an investigative journalist and the author of Unprocessed. A former executive editor at The Texas Observer, Kimble has written about housing, transportation, and urban development for The New York Times, Texas Monthly, The Guardian, and Bloomberg CityLab. She lives in Austin, Texas.

https://www.unionavebooks.com/event/author-event-megan-kimble
At 517 Union Ave., Knoxville, TN 37902

Thursday, August 22 at 6:30 p.m. at Central Cinema, 1205 N. Central Street

The Tennessee Archive of Moving Image & Sound’s August film screening at Central Cinema will celebrate the legacy of Raven Records & Rarities, a much loved record and film and comic memorabilia store before they close up shop at the end of the month. Raven Records is currently located right across the street from Central Cinema but the business dates back to the mid-1980s, previously located on Cumberland Avenue and Kingston Pike in Bearden. The film screening will include candid footage of past Raven Records locations, performances from Knoxville’s live music scene in the 1980s and 1990s, and other material celebrating the folks involved with Raven. Come and join us and show your love for owners Jay Nations and Jack Stiles. Free program. Drinks and snacks available for purchase.

Knoxville History Project: 865-300-4559, www.Knoxvillehistoryproject.org

At Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Avenue

The Smoky Mountain Storytellers Association is comprised of folks who love telling, listening to, and rejoicing in our rich heritage of stories. You’ll find a multitude of telling styles and genres among our members: whether it’s traditional Appalachian tales, classical stories from foreign lands, contemporary fiction, or personal narratives, you’re never quite sure what you may find as the next story unfolds. True to that form, on Wednesday, August 21 we offer a "Summer Smorgasbord", where tellers share some of their personal favorite stories, old and new!

Featured storytellers for the evening include: Sheri Liles, Roland Mote and Brenda J Southerland.

Doors open at 6 pm, stories begin at 7. Tickets for this event are $12 for adults, $6 for kids (ages 5-12).
The Ijams Beer Garden and concession area will be open all evening. This event will be held on the back patio at the Visitor Center with seating provided. No outside alcohol allowed. In case of inclement weather, this event will move inside to the large room in the Visitor Center.

The Smoky Mountain Storytellers Association comprises folks who love telling, listening to, and rejoicing in our rich heritage of stories. For more information, find them on Facebook or check out www.smokymountaintellers.org.

https://www.visitknoxville.com/event/a-summer-smorgasbord-of-stories/27897

Saturday, August 17, 2024 10am to 3pm
Monday, August 19, 2024 11am to 6pm
Thursday, August 22, 2024 11am to 6pm
Friday, August 23, 2024 11am to 6pm
Saturday, August 24, 2024 10am to 3pm

Join us in welcoming a new cohort to the UT School of Art!
At UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay Street, Knoxville TN 37902
http://downtown.utk.edu
Free! Contact Phone: 865-673-0802
https://calendar.utk.edu/event/first-year-mfa-exhibition

Art Exhibit at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Free and open to the public
Reception Friday, August 9, 2024, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Artist talks at 6:30 p.m.
Gallery hours: 9:30 - 4:30 Monday through Thursday, 9:00 – 1:00 Sunday
At Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Gallery, 2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37918

Mary Bow
Images of many different animals, both domesticated and wild, are rendered in thickly applied acrylic paint on textured canvases using a dry brush technique that allows successive layers of color to show through. Bow hopes to provoke empathy for non-human animals as they live, raise their young and experience joy, sorrow and pain. Mary Bow has degrees in Anthropology, Psychology, and Visual Art, as well as higher degrees in Education. She feels that she has a unique perspective on how human relationships with others in the animal kingdom have changed over time. www.marypbow.com

Curt Imerman’s finely detailed drawings of barns are created by using fine-tipped pens as a brush rather than an instrument to draw lines. As the tip of the pen wears away from use, it produces lighter and finer lines, allowing different effects. Imerman says, “Barns are disappearing from our country’s landscape at an ever-increasing rate. Barns are a part of our Americana. This is my way of memorializing and sharing my fascination with old, weathered barns.” Imerman’s attention to detail comes from his career as a mechanical designer for a major U.S. crane manufacturer. While designing cranes, Curt’s drawing talent was called upon to prepare conceptual drawings of various lift crane designs. He is a member of the Art Market Gallery in Knoxville and serves on their Board of Directors.

https://tvuuc.org/

Performed Thursdays and Fridays at 7 PM; Saturdays at 1 PM and 5 PM; and Sundays at 3 PM.

Tom Sawyer may be the most famous resident of St. Petersburg, Missouri, but he’s a down to earth character who not only knows how to cure warts with stump water and live the swashbuckling life on the high seas, he can also whitewash a fence in no time flat. Mark Twain’s homage to the imagination and high adventure of youth on the mighty Mississippi features Tom and a cast of characters who live at the very heart of Americana: Huck Finn, Aunt Polly, Becky Thatcher, the Widow Douglas, Muff Potter, and more.

The play is performed by 17 talented young actors and designed by 9 talented young designers from ages 9 to 16.

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

First Friday Reception: August 2nd, 5:30 - 9 pm

A native of Virginia, Kathy Holland attended the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCUarts) in Richmond, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and printmaking in 1978. The following summer she studied with master wood-engraver Blair Hughes-Stanton at the Central School of Art and Design in London, England. Ever since graduation from VCUarts, Kathy has worked continually as an artist, exhibiting drawings, etchings, relief prints, and paintings in juried national and international exhibitions and solo shows. In addition to her studio practice, she has worked over the years as a freelance graphic artist, medical illustrator, mura lpainter, portrait artist, art show juror, and drawing instructor. In 1986 she emigrated to Canada, lived in the small rural town of Deep River, Ontario for over11 years, and exhibited her work extensively in solo exhibitions at public galleries throughout Ontario and in juried shows across the US.

Debbie Corley of DC Pottery creates pieces that are mostly wheel thrown, but she constructs some hand-built pieces as well, focusing on functional ware that is intended to be used and enjoyed in daily life. Inspired by the dynamics of the outside world, the changing seasons, and the organic patterns and textures found in nature, her work includes surface designs are created by employing carving techniques to expose the clay material underneath underglazes, hand painting to emphasize and highlight to create contrast and interest, and layering of patterned transfers, textures, and decals.

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