Calendar of Events

July 17 & 24, 2-5 PM

Darkhorse Entertainment, LLC, invites you to participate in the 6th Tennessee Medieval Faire in Harriman. The festival is seeking professional performers, costumed street characters, and period-related vendors to recreate the High Middle Ages (circa 1000-1300) in a theatrical way. The theme is “Live the Age of Chivalry,” performed by interactive characters from the legend of Robin Hood.

For those interested in participating as street characters, open auditions will be held on Saturdays July 17 and 24, from 2-5pm, at 150 Culton Lane, Kingston, TN. New auditioners are asked to bring a recent printed selfie. All should come prepared to demonstrate their outdoor performance talents, including singing, speaking loudly with a European accent, and participating in theatre games as directed. Agile adults are preferred, but mature and talented minors will also be considered. Having theatrical experience and an outgoing and friendly disposition are helpful. More information can be found at www.tmfaire.com/theroyalplayers.

Professional comedy, dance, and acoustic musical stage acts are encouraged to audition as soon as possible by emailing performance details and video link(s) to DarkhorseLLC@comcast.net.

TN Medieval Faire: Oct 2-3, 9-10, 16-17, 2021. 10-6:30p ET at 550 Fiske Rd, Harriman, TN
https://www.tmfaire.com/

The Tennessee Association of Vintage Base Ball plays the game by 1864 rules, wears period uniforms, and represents actual baseball teams that existed in 1864. There are some new aspects of this free event this year at Ramsey House. Food trucks will now be providing refreshments at each game, and kids can now participate in a themed craft and game area! The 15% of the proceeds from the food truck sales help us to continue to bring this great educational event to our community. We encourage you to support these local food vendors throughout the season. Please bring a lawn chair an umbrella for shade and leave the coolers at home.

For more information on the Tennessee Vintage Base Ball Association, visit http://tennesseevintagebaseball.com

Historic Ramsey House, 2614 Thorngrove Pike, Knoxville, TN 37914. Information: 865-546-0745, www.ramseyhouse.org

The concert series will feature bluegrass and Americana bands from throughout the region. All shows are free to the public and will be held outdoors at the pavilion in Bissell Park, 1401 Oak Ridge Turnpike in Oak Ridge from 6:00-9:00 PM.

Bring your lawn chairs and your family and friends for a fun, music-filled evening! Local food and beverage trucks will also be on-site. We look forward to seeing you at the Summer Sessions concerts!

UPCOMING CONCERTS

SATURDAY, JULY 17
Sierra Hull & Justin Moses
Po' Ramblin' Boys
6:00–9:00 PM

SATURDAY, AUGUST 21
Rodney Crowell
The Alex Leach Band
6:00–9:00 PM

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
Songs from The Road Band
Grassroots Gringos
6:00–9:00 PM

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23
To Be Determined
Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper
6:00–9:00 PM

https://www.ornlfcu.com/summer-sessions

Don’t let the lofty title put you off spending three Saturday mornings strolling the streets of downtown Knoxville and learning about Knoxville authors and artists. Join Laura Still, owner of Knoxville Walking Tours, for these library tailored tours of Knoxville’s artistic heritage.

Each tour is 90 minutes and will start in front of Lawson McGhee Library at 10:00 a.m. Come light rain or come shine, the tour will go on. Please visit the Knox County Public Library website or use the schedule below to access full descriptions of each tour.

July 17 - Knoxville Literary Heritage
From George Washington Harris and Frances Hodgson Burnett to Cormac McCarthy and Nikki Giovanni, Knoxville has been home to writers who helped create and expand American Literature. On this tour we’ll visit the scenes that inspired them and walk in the footsteps of their characters. We’ll talk about other Knoxville writers also, as well as a few visitors whose writing was inspired by their time in Knoxville.

August 21 - Reading, Writing, and the Struggle for the Vote

Register at https://kcpl.wufoo.com/forms/p1a795ff0nsbjca/

Kids and teens get ready to flex your writing skills! Join us for an afternoon of creative exploration through non-fiction writing & story-telling in this free workshop led by local writer, actor, and activist Jazmin Witherspoon. SIGN UP HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScZx9CT9WhBtLOoBjntBpwjcvxh84VFFZzQF2aWKOkxCjWhvA/viewform

The Bottom, 202 Randolph St, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: thebottomknox@gmail.com or https://www.thebottomknox.com/

Hosted by UUNIK Academy & Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity - Knoxville Alumni Chapter
$30 – $40

Join us in the Knoxville Botanical Garden for live music featuring Brian Clay & Friends. They will keep you grooving to all the hits! It's a grown folks outdoor party. Food trucks, Cash Bar and Vendors will be available. Bring your lawn chair and partner to have a good time!

Sat, July 17, 2021
5:00 PM – 10:00 PM EDT
Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum
2743 Wimpole Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37914

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grooves-in-the-garden-knoxville-tickets-149927913425

July 17, 2021 | 8pm-10PM
Tickets $40

What are the Dumplin Valley Sessions?
It is a new venture we felt we needed to embark on this summer to help support our bluegrass community recover from the drought they are experiencing. Proceeds from the sessions will go to the artists. Please note that tickets are non-refundable.

It's been a long dry spell for fans and entertainers alike. Let's do it right and get back to a world where we can enjoy live music without having to worry about catching covid.

Please bring your own festival chairs | Parking is free | Food trucks will be available for supper.

525 East Dumplin Valley Road, Kodak, TN 37764
Tel: 865-397-7942
dumplingrass@comcast.net
https://www.dumplinvalley-bluegrass.com/dumplin-valley-sessions

(All ages) Join Ijams for some FREE family fun at Botanical Connections and The Big Camera next Saturday, July 17, from 1-3 p.m.! The Big Camera, in partnership with A1LabArts, is a 10' x 6' mobile camera obscura and traveling photography classroom. You'll learn how to create a flag for your garden using the Cyanotype printing process and plants!

Learn More and Register: https://www.ijams.org/calendar-of-events
Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920
865-577-4717

(Ages 18+) Celebrate National Moth Week at the Ijams Field Day next Saturday, July 17, from 8:30-11:30 p.m.! You'll learn how to identify and attract common moths, and delve into their evolutionary history and ecology.

Learn More and Register: https://www.ijams.org/calendar-of-events
Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920
865-577-4717

11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday, July 17, 2021
At City-owned parking lot, 400 E. Jackson Ave. (corner of Jackson and Patton Street), beneath the James White Parkway overpass

Join the Block Party downtown, near the site of a proposed multi-use stadium, to learn more about this community-building project. Partners, stakeholders and designers will have information on hand to describe the proposed concepts of the multi-use stadium.

Come to part or all of a drop-in two-hour Saturday, July 17 Block Party at 400 E. Jackson Ave. Talk one-on-one with project planners, representatives of the Tennessee Smokies, their multi-use development partner, Knox Pro Soccer, and community partners like the Knoxville Area Urban League.

Bring the kids to the Block Party, in the shade beneath the James White Parkway. This will be a family-friendly event with food trucks and activities.

Advocates say the stadium and the hundreds of events it will host each year will create jobs and encourage new private investment in East Knoxville.

The stadium, if built, would be leased to Boyd Sports and the Tennessee Smokies AA Southern League baseball team, but the facility would host hundreds of other non-baseball events each year, such as concerts or festivals. As part of a larger redevelopment effort around the stadium, GEM Community Development Group, the private partner to Boyd Sports, is planning to invest more than $100 million to build apartments, condos, restaurants and offices in East Knoxville.

The project is awaiting an economic impact analysis and other detail work by the newly-formed Sports Authority. If the independent data supports going forward and the City and County authorize it, a best-case scenario calls for construction possibly beginning within a year and the multi-use stadium opening for community use and events in 2024.

Info: 865-215-3480 or 985-306-1177

Tri-Star Arts announces the next exhibition at their gallery in the historic Candoro Marble Building. A solo show, Mondegreen, features new work by artist Pete Hoffecker Mejía (Salem, Oregon).

Public receptions will be held on Friday, July 16 from 5:00- 8:00 pm (artist in attendance) and Friday, September 3 from 5:00- 8:00 pm. An in-person artist talk will be held on Friday, July 16 at 3:30 pm.

Pete Hoffecker Mejía states: “This work is engaged with the negotiation of multiform cultural identities. I am expressly concerned with exploring the intersection of contrasting cultural information, hierarchies of representation, and conflation in the expression of otherness.

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, of indigenous ancestry, adopted by a multiracial family, and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, I have created a studio practice that serves as a space for mediation of the resulting geographic and cultural estrangement. Cut and reassembled serape blankets, mochila pattern, molas, and other fragments of a whole speak to cultural and geographic discontinuity. Interrogating the themes of European geometric abstraction and Indigenous art forms allows me to create a sculptural narrative of contemporary Latin-American and Indigenous cultural hybridity, with acknowledgment of the postcolonial landscape.

High art and low, the historical and the ahistorical, the found and the fabricated, caricature and the sincere, all collide and collude. In this way, I explore the blurred points of contact resulting from estrangement, while touching on the obstacles in mediating self through distorted representations of the other in mass culture.”

This exhibition will be open to the public, alongside iconic spaces within the Candoro Marble Building, regularly from Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 am until 5:00 pm. Social distancing is encouraged.

Tri-Star Arts at Candoro Marble Building, 4450 Candora Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37920. Hours: Tue-Sat 11 AM - 5 PM. Information: https://tristararts.org/

Summer Movie Magic presented by Denark Construction is a long-standing tradition celebrating our legacy as a movie palace. Moviegoers will travel back in time and see these classics, as they should be: in a historic theater originally built as a movie palace surrounded by other movie-lovers, enjoying some popcorn and a cold drink. This year, we are pulling out all the stops with a lineup of blockbuster hits! And true to tradition, hear the Mighty Wurlitzer organ fill the auditorium with magnificent music prior to the movie. Experience some of your favorite classics on the big screen!

July 16, 8 PM and July 18, 3 PM: Wizard of Oz
When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy (Judy Garland) and her dog, Toto, are whisked away in their house to the magical land of Oz. They follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, and en route they meet a Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) that needs a brain, a Tin Man (Jack Haley) missing a heart, and a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) who wants courage. The wizard asks the group to bring him the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) to earn his help. (Rotten Tomatoes) This film is 1 hour 52 mins and is rated PG.

Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information/tickets: 865-684-1200, https://www.tennesseetheatre.com/tickets/movies-at-the-tennessee/