Calendar of Events

Big Ears Festival will come to a riveting, celebratory conclusion with a performance of the festival’s 2016 Composer-in-Residence John Luther Adams’ outdoor masterpiece Inuksuit, featuring up to 99 percussionists, around Mead’s Quarry at Ijams Nature Center at 12 noon on Sunday, April 3. Thanks to the generous support of Moxley Carmichael, the Big Ears grand finale performance will be free and open to the public. Co-directed by master percussionist Steven Schick, who also leads the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra in Thursday evening’s performance of Adams’ orchestral tour de force, Become Ocean, and Andy Bliss, Artistic Director of the contemporary music ensemble Nief-Norf and UT’s Director of Percussion Studies, the performance will bring together several dozen percussionists from throughout the region in a collaboration with the UT Percussion Ensemble.

At Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville. https://www.facebook.com/events/1133650626686699/

For this program centered on the majestic and wondrous music from Scandinavia, the special guest artists will include Espen Lilleslåtten, former concertmaster of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in his native Norway and now violin professor at Louisiana State University. Joining him will be the violist Elias Goldstein, prizewinner of the International Primrose, Bashmet, and Tertis Viola Competitions, and also a member of the LSU faculty. Finally, our own Kevin Class, Associate Professor and Director of Collaborative Piano for the UT School of Music will be joining the ensemble in what will be an exciting presentation of the music of Scandinavia.

We are excited with our lineup of exhibitors which include: the George F. DeVine Music Library as well as various Scandinavian families from East Tennessee.

Artistic and cultural artifact exhibit and reception at 12:30 p.m.; music and lecture at 2:00 p.m.

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

UT School of Music: 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. *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

Oak Ridge Community Band/Wind Ensemble.
Sunday, April 3 concert, 3:30PM
Oak Ridge High School Performing Arts Center,
1450 Oak Ridge Tpke,
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
Celebrating American composers and music celebrating America.

Tickets at the door $5 for all adults over 18. Free of charge for students 18 and under.
For more information please see www.orcb.org

Join us at Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, on Sunday, April 3, 2016 for a free lecture presentation featuring Bill Landry from the Heartland Series. The lecture will begin at 2:00 and seating is limited.

Bill Landry of the Heartland Series will do a special program on William Bartram, 18th Century naturalist who visited Cherokee country and recorded his experiences there. “The Travels of William Bartram” through Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Pennsylvania was first published in 1791 and is one of the first and best documentations on the natural history of America and its Native American cultures. It introduced the world to the beauty, wonder and majesty of the wilds of America, helped create the character of a continent, and probably had the first, if not longest lasting and greatest, effect on the European concept of this period in America.

Nevertheless, Bartram continues to be a little known historical figure. Birder, artist, flower and seed collector, botanist, anthropologist, explorer and adventurer, Bartram is the author of one of the first great American books of Literature. Many of our ideas about wild places, primitive nature and freedom originate with the ideas of William Bartram.

This lecture is free and open to the public. Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, 576 Hwy 360, Vonore, TN 37885. Hours: M-Sa 9-5, Su 12-5. Information: 423-884-6246, www.sequoyahmuseum.org

The Tennessee Stage Company will hold auditions for the 2016
Shakespeare On The Square season on Saturday, April 2, from 1:00 – 3:00 pm and Sunday. April 3, from 1:00 – 5:00 pm at the Emporium Building, 100 S. Gay Street.

Auditionees are requested to prepare two contrasting monologues, at least one classical, of no more than one minute each. Please bring two copies of a resume and standard theatrical headshot. All auditions are by appointment only. For appointments please call the Tennessee Stage Company at 546-4280 or by e-mail at
tennesseestage@comcast.net.

The two shows to be performed this summer are The Merry Wives of Windsor and King Lear. They will run from July 14 – August 14. Rehearsals will begin the end of May.

For more information contact Tennessee Stage Company at 546-4280 or look at our web site at www.tennesseestage.com.

A world-class visual arts exhibition of large-scale outdoor sculpture which enliven downtown Knoxville, the McGhee Tyson Airport and Oak Ridge. Sculpture artist Isaac Duncan III, a Brooklyn, New York native who currently resides in Chattanooga, Tennessee served as the Juror for the 2016-2017 exhibition. #AIPP

Dogwood Arts: 865-637-4561 www.dogwoodarts.com

Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) invites you to Scruffy ‘Scapes and Sonnets, an art and poetry exhibit featuring two-dimensional art depicting the scruffy city of Knoxville, TN and the sonnets that were written with the pieces of art in mind.

SAFTA introduces this exhibit from 6 to 8 p.m. in Preservation Pub’s second floor Speakeasy. This event will feature a reception with the artists as well as a reading from the featured poets. Please join us as we celebrate the tremendous amount of talent that Knoxville holds!

The show itself runs from April 1 through May 5, 2016 and features photography by Michelle Jephcott, Jessica Hanneken, Anita Koester, Keith Norris, and Shae Hacker, paintings by Starr Cline and Dawn Hawkins, and sonnets by nationally-acclaimed poets Kristi Maxwell, Chris Petruccelli, Ben McClendon, Keri Withington, Erin Elizabeth Smith, and more!

Sundress Academy for the Arts: (865) 560-6106, safta@sundresspublications.com, http://www.sundresspublications.com

A celebration of the artwork of Susanne C. Barrie (née Susan Jenkins). Selected drawings and prints will be on exhibit from April 1-30th. The exhibit’s opening reception is on April 8th from 6-9 pm.

Susanne earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Arizona State University. Susanne traveled the world honing her skills as an artist/printmaker, with extensive travel and work in Mexico, Europe, and Japan. Susanne moved to Knoxville in the early 1980s where she has been a long-time, active member of the local arts community.

Cafe hours 10-2 every Friday. The gallery is often accessible, but one would need to check the website for a complete schedule of when the Birdhouse is open and the gallery is accessible to the public. The Birdhouse Bird Feeder Gallery, 800 N 4th Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: http://birdhouseknoxville.com, birdhouseknoxvillegallery@gmail.com

ART OPENING & Show
PODS, Sculpted by Nature, recent double exposure photography
by Darrell Cecil Belcher, a University of Tennessee graduate, living in New York City.

Show opens First Friday April, 1, come by for a reception for the artist from 6-9pm.
The show will be on display & pieces for sale April 1 - April 30. Free
Hours per the Pioneer House web site.
413 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902
865-200-8084
http://www.pioneer-house.com/events/

A dynamic survey of diverse art encompassing all styles and genres from both emerging and established artists from a seven stage region selected by juror, Nandini Makrandi, chief curator at the Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga.

The Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Hours: Mon-Fri 9 AM - 5 PM and Saturday, April 16, 10 AM - 4 PM (open for Art DeTour) and Sunday, April 17, 10 AM - 6:30 PM (Art DeTour and Jazz Jam in the Black Box).
Dogwood Arts: 865-637-4561 www.dogwoodarts.com

First Friday Opening Reception at Casa HoLa. Whimsical and Reflective: oil paintings and drawings by Stephanie Robertson. April 1, from 5:00-9:00PM.

HoLa Hora Latina, 100 S. Gay Street, Suite 112, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-335-3358, www.holahoralatina.org

April 1st - 6:00 - 9:00 PM - Henley Street Bridge - Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Fundraiser at Mimi's Cafe
April 9th - 4:00 - 7:00 PM - Tennessee Love at Saw Works Brewing Co.
April 12th - 6:00 - 9:00 PM - Mountain Irises at Quaker Steak and Lube - Sevierville
April 18th - 6:00 - 9:00 PM - Red Barn at Gibby's Dining & Drinks
April 21st - 6:00 - 9:00 PM - Day and Night (Two 12"x12" canvases) at Blue Coast Grill
April 22nd - 6:00 - 9:00 PM - Blue Zen at Le Noir Restaurant - Lenoir City.
April 25th - 6:00 - 9:00 PM - Starry Night Wine Glasses at Barley's - Maryville
April 27th - 6:00 - 9:00 PM - Late Spring at Carolina Ale House

Classes are $35 unless otherwise noted. Wine & Canvas: Knoxville, TN, 865-356-9179, http://www.wineandcanvas.com/knoxville-tn.html