Calendar of Events

Friday, April 25, 2025

Dogwood Arts: Dogwood Arts Festival

Category: Culinary arts, food, Exhibitions, visual art, Festivals, special events, Fine Crafts, Free event, Kids, family and Meetup

World's Fair Park, 963 World's Fair Park Drive, Knoxville, TN 37916

Established in 1961, the Dogwood Arts Festival is one of the most celebrated cultural events in Knoxville! The festival is held on the beautifully redesigned Performance Lawn at World’s Fair Park and features over 100 fine art vendors, live music, entertainment, children's activities, food & beverage vendors, and more.

Friday & Saturday: 10AM - 7PM
Sunday: 10AM - 5PM

Dogwood Arts, 123 W. Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-637-4561, www.dogwoodarts.com

Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center: Fiber Fair

Category: Classes, workshops, Festivals, special events, Fine Crafts, Free event, History, heritage and Kids, family

Details TBA

865-448-0044 or https://gsmheritagecenter.org
Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center | 123 Cromwell Drive, Townsend, TN 37882

Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Carmina Burana

Category: Music

Thursday, April 24, 2025, at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, April 25, 2025, at 7:30 p.m.
Tennessee Theatre

Fate unfolds in the Knoxville Symphony’s May program with Orff’s masterpiece “Carmina Burana,” featuring the Knoxville Choral Society and Knoxville Symphony Youth Choir, and Simon’s emotional “Fate Now Conquers.”

Aram Demirjian, conductor
Knoxville Choral Society
Knoxville Symphony Youth Choir

CARLOS SIMON: Fate Now Conquers
SAMEUL BARBER: Symphony No. 1 in One Movement
CARL ORFF: Carmina Burana

Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: 865-291-3310, www.knoxvillesymphony.com

River & Rail Theatre Company: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grille

Category: Music and Theatre

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill is a play with music featuring several of Billie Holiday's most famous songs. The play was written by Lanie Robertson and recounts some events in the life of Holiday.

River & Rail Theatre, 111 State Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-407-0727, www.riverandrailtheatre.com

Clarence Brown Theatre: The Play That Goes Wrong

Category: Comedy and Theatre

BY JONATHAN SAYER, HENRY SHIELDS, AND HENRY LEWIS

Welcome to the opening night of 'The Murder at Haversham Manor', where things go from not very good to an utter disaster. 'The Play That Goes Wrong' is an ill-fated play-within-a-play, set on the opening night of the Cornley Drama Society’s newest production. The troupe’s ambitious whodunit has everything you never want in a show: falling props, collapsing scenery, an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything…including their lines. Come see why this show has been called “the funniest play Broadway has ever seen!” (Huffington Post)

Clarence Brown Theatre, 1714 Andy Holt Ave on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. For information/tickets: 865-974-5161, www.clarencebrowntheatre.com

Knoxville Museum of Art: States of Becoming

Category: Exhibitions, visual art, Free event and Kids, family

States of Becoming examines the dynamic forces of relocation, resettling, and assimilation that shape the artistic practices of a group of contemporary artists of African descent working in the United States. The exhibition is inspired by curator Fitsum Shebeshe’s 2016 move from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Baltimore, and subsequent firsthand experience with cultural assimilation. Organized by Independent Curators International.

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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.