Calendar of Events

First Friday at The Central Collective: Museum of Civilization, Friday, November 3, 2017
6:00pm 9:00pm.

In a post-apocalyptic world, many of the items that we interact with every day will become useless relics of the past. From lipstick to cell phones, our interactions with countless commonplace items will transform or cease.

In partnership with Knox County Library’s Big Read initiative, which is designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and to encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment, The Central Collective will host “The Museum of Civilization” group show for its November 2017 First Friday reception. Inspired by the fictional airport museum in Station Eleven, this show will be comprised of artistic renderings or replications of physical items that the artists believe deserve a place in a museum memorializing modern society, either for their usefulness or hindrance.

The Central Collective, 923 N. Central Street, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-236-1590, info@thecentralcollective.com, www.thecentralcollective.com

Ensemble concert

Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, Natalie L. Haslam Music Center

Unless otherwise noted, concerts are FREE and open to the public. The Natalie Haslam Music Center is located at 1741 Volunteer Blvd on the UT campus, and the Alumni Memorial Building is located at 1408 Middle Drive on the UT campus. *For individual or small group performances, please check the web site or call the day of the event for updates or cancellations: 865-974-5678, www.music.utk.edu/events

McClung Museum will host a First Friday open house. This is part of a recurring series of open houses meant to give UT staff, faculty, and students, as well as museum members, a special behind the scenes peek at gems from the McClung Museum’s collections.

Museum staff will be on hand to handle objects, facilitate conversation, and to take suggestions about what objects should be pulled for future open houses.

Registration is not needed—simply meet museum staff in the museum’s Object Study Room, Room #53, located in the suite of offices on the museum’s bottom floor by the Auditorium.

McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Dr on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Hours: M-Sa 9-5, Su 1-5. Information: 865-974-2144, http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu

Join us as we celebrate the “Homecoming” of the mate to the Tennessee State Artifact on Friday, November 3 from 3–4:30 p.m. in the Museum Lobby.

Enjoy cake, punch, games, and activities for all ages. Free and open to the public.

We will also host a First Friday Open House with the Geography Dept. from 1–3 p.m. in the museum’s Object Study Room, Room #53, located in the suite of offices on the museum’s bottom floor by the Auditorium.

McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Dr on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Hours: M-Sa 9-5, Su 1-5. Information: 865-974-2144, http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu

Celebrate with us as "East Tennessee's Own" WDVX turns 20! The evening will feature the debut of a new book about the history of WDVX with panel discussion by book editors Wayne Bledsoe and Jay Clark, along with station founder Tony Lawson, and WDVX hosts. Books will be available for sale and signing. Guests can also view an accompanying exhibit about WDVX history in the History Center lobby. A reception will begin at 6:00 p.m. with the program beginning at 7:00. Free and open to the public. Presented in partnership with WDVX.

East Tennessee Historical Society, 601 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Museum hours: M-F 9-4, Sa 10-4, Su 1-5. Information: 865-215-8824, www.easttnhistory.org

Matthew Israel will be showing a project that he put together over the last six years while living downtown called “The 706”; panoramic photos out his window from his loft in Sterchi on Gay Street looking south. "The view is amazing and quite different from anything I’ve ever seen," says the artist. He'll also be showing photos that he transferred to small 4”x4” travertine stones...Some are single shots, and others are longer panoramic shots on multiple stones. Finally, he will show some paintings as well, mostly abstract.

For more information: www.MyAttemptsatArt.com, 865-386-9090, matthew.israel@MyAttemptsatArt.com

The White Dog Gallery: 514 West Jackson Avenue, Knoxville, Tennessee
@whitedoggalleryKnoxville
Call (865) 455-9748 or thewhitedoggalleryknoxville@gmail.com

Printmaking graduate student Ashlee Mays will be serving limited edition printed images of hot dogs, with your choice of freshly screen-printed condiments. As an artist responding to the parallels between printmaking and manufactured commodification, Mays sells her wares at a competitive market price (one penny cheaper than the nearest actual hot dog vendor). The Hot Dog Cart accepts cash, checks, cards, and additional forms of traded currency.
This street cart will be outside the gallery for two hours only, so try not to miss it.
http://art.utk.edu/ashlee-mays-hotdog-cart-at-ut-downrown-gallery-for-first-friday-november-3-2017/

You can follow the Hotdog Cart on Instagram, @hotdogcart_official
www.ashlee-mays.com
At UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay Street, Knoxville

First Friday Art Show with Josh Shorey and Jessica Stewart

Friday, November 3 at 6 PM - 10 PM

Mighty Mud, 127 Jennings Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. Hours: Tu-F 11-6, Sat 9-5. Open studio time on Thu 6-9. Information: 865-595-1900, www.mightymudclay.com

We have a fun celebration planned for November's First Friday! We will have crafts from Magui Garza and Hector Saldivar on display and for sale, as well as Día de los Muertos altars by Magui Garza and winners of the UT altar contest. And if you're hungry...we'll also have tamales for sale!

Information: 865-335-3358, www.holahoralatina.org

The Basement Community Art Studio, 105 W Jackson Ave, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902

Join us Friday Nov 3 in welcoming our featured artist, Daje! Daje will be performing throughout the evening. We will serve light refreshments and offer coloring stations for both adults and kiddos! The event is FREE, but tips/donations are welcome!

Daje Morris is a singer-songwriter and poet who is often found toeing the lines between introversion, extroversion, and shamelessness. She is deeply devoted to exposing beauty in all of its messy and inarticulate forms. In the Spring of 2016, she released her first EP, "The Bloom Project", which granted her a placement in Knoxville Music Warehouses' "Knoxville's Top 16 Album/EP Releases of 2016" as well as Knoxville BLANK Newspaper's 2016 "Newcomer of the Year" award. Her style is a subtly soulful approach to Americana and Folk. Her influences include Regina Spektor, The Weepies, Corinne Bailey Rae, and Billie Holiday. Her music can be found on iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud, and Google Play.

As a spoken-word poet, she has performed with 5th Woman, a team of poets who write, teach and speak on the souls of women and their diverse expressions in culture (2016 - 2017). She is now working alongside the 5th Woman as a creative director, writer, contributor, and sometimes mentor to younger poets in the Greater Knoxville area. She will release her first printed and bound collection of poems, "On Becoming Gold" in June of 2017. Her poetic influences include Nayyirah Waheed, Warsan Shire, Donte Collins, and Sarah Kay.

https://www.facebook.com/events/129772791015858

By: Craig Lucas

A long running Off-Broadway hit by the playwright of Reckless and God's Heart.

A portrait of loneliness in one of the world's most densely populated cities. Libby, for her own private reasons, has invited six disparate friends to her apartment in New York for dinner and drinks. As their conversations drift, they begin to open up to one another...but how do you really know anyone?

Lab Theatre, 1714 Andy Holt Ave on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. For information: 865-974-5161, www.clarencebrowntheatre.com. For tickets: 865-974-5161, 865-656-4444, www.knoxvilletickets.com

November 4 & 5, the Katharine Slowburn Experience presents "The Garden," a dance theatre tour of a living garden, filled with turns sensual, sorrowful, soft, and strong. Featuring 14 dance numbers, choreographed by Katharine Slowburn, unearthing what it means to grow and bloom in a world that doesn't always nourish its soil.

Saturday, Nov. 4 at 9 PM, and Sunday, Nov. 5 at 2 PM, at Modern Studio, 109 W Anderson Ave.

Featuring a cast of modern, jazz, and cabaret dancers: Amelea Faith Everett, Julie Rauen, Pam Skatzes, Katharine Slowburn, Rebekah Wallace, Jennifer Weatherspoon, and Ashley White.

This show is recommended for audiences aged 16 and over. $10 general admission. BYOB for 21 and over with a corking fee of $3/person.

Modern Studio, 109 W Anderson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-323-2425, www.modernstudio.org