Calendar of Events
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Big Ears Festival
Category: Exhibitions, visual art, Festivals, special events, Lecture, panel, Literature, spoken word, writing and Music
This year’s lineup features ANOHNI and the Johnsons, genre-bending bassist Esperanza Spalding, folk-pop innovator Rufus Wainwright, and sitar prodigy Anoushka Shankar. In addition, festival favorite Bèla Fleck, cinematic post-rock maestros Explosions In The Sky, legendary bluesman Taj Mahal, plus over 150 additional performances, discussions, panels, and films will unfold across four days in 12+ venues nestled throughout historic downtown Knoxville. Full lineup and passes at https://bigearsfestival.org
McClung Museum: The Mediterranean Antiquities Provenance Research Alliance
Category: Exhibitions, visual art, Free event, Lecture, panel and Science, nature
Lecture - “The Mediterranean Antiquities Provenance Research Alliance: A collective response to the illicit trade”
AIA/East Tennessee Society and McClung Museum are pleased to present the next program in the 52nd Annual Series, 2024-2025. The lecture will feature Mireille Lee, Executive Director of the Foundation for Ethical Stewardship of Cultural Heritagey. This is AIA’s Nancy Wilkie Lectureship in Archaeological Heritage.
Thursday, March 27, 2025 6pm
https://calendar.utk.edu/event/lecture-the-mediterranean-antiquities-provenance-research-alliance
McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Dr on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Hours: Tu-Sa 9-5, Sun 12-4. Information: 865-974-2144, https://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/
On the run from ownership: Nathaniel Mackey, Music, Centrifugitivity
Category: Free event, Lecture, panel and Music
Poet and MacArthur Scholar Fred Moten and acclaimed Puerto Rican bassist Brandon López draw from contemporary art and cultural theory on Black fugitivity to explore Nathaniel Mackey‘s poetry and music and talk about how listening, with big ears, is always a variation on a kind of spooky, distant jazz practicing.
The pair have collaborated on music albums and performance projects together since 2018. An American cultural theorist, poet, and scholar considered to be one of the foremost theorists of his generation, Moten is a professor of performance studies at New York University and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of California, Riverside. His books include the groundbreaking In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition and numerous poetry collections, and he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2020. López is a bassist, composer, and improviser working at the fringes of contemporary music. His playing has led him to work with the luminaries of the contemporary avant-garde such as Moten, Gerald Cleaver, and John Zorn, and he was a featured soloist with the New York Philharmonic.
This event is in partnership with the Big Ears Festival and is part of the Denbo Center's 2024-25 Distinguished Lecture Series. See the BEF site here. The event is free and open to the public and to UT students and faculty.
Knoxville Museum of Art, Bailey Hall (Great Hall)
1050 Worlds Fair Park Dr, Knoxville, TN 37916
https://calendar.utk.edu/event/on-the-run-from-ownership-nathaniel-mackey-music-centrifugitivity-with-fred-moten-and-brandon-lopez
