Our friend Bill Lee, a potter who does gorgeous work (including our communion chalices) has just gone through six months of cancer treatment and is trying to rebuild his pottery business and transform an old school room into a live/work studio. It will have lots of room for teaching classes and a production studio and a sleeping loft. It needs an outside door, plumbing, insulation, tables, shelves, venilation for the kilns, sleeping loft, and working capitol for clay, glazes and marketing. If you would like to contribute click here.

Judy Long Pate completing her first stained-glass creation. So gorgeous!

Festival on the Fourth - Worlds Fair Park

The City of Knoxville's Festival on the Fourth delivers a wide variety of family fun including live entertainment, free activities and food vendors.

Live music will be on the Festival Lawn from 4pm-7:30pm

Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will perform on the Performance Lawn beginning at 8pm

Fireworks at 9:35pm

This event is rain or shine.

No Pets, No Alcohol, No personal tents or tent canopies

Free Parking available: World's Fair & Blackstock Parking Lots, 11th Street, Locust Street., State Street & Market Square Garages - ADA Parking at Fort Kid Parking Lot.

 

 

Reading Appalachia: Voices from Children's Literature exhibit
This ground breaking exhibit explores childhood in Appalachian as seen in books. Sporting life-size characters, you'll feel like you're walking through the pages of a storybook. Children can stand eye-to-eye with characters from "Journey Cake Ho", "A Mountain Rose", "When Otter Tricked the Rabbit", "When I Was Young", and others.

More than 50 books are available to touch, read, and explore. Also see representative clothes and toys from Appalachia, music, and hands-on activities that bring the subject to life for kids of all ages. Children can try on masks of storybook characters and find themselves in a story or create their own story of childhood set in Appalachia.

Plus, you can see original films and hear the voice of old time storyteller Ray Hicks along with some of your favorite authors and illustrators.

Presented by Knox County Public Library and East Tennessee Historical Society.

For More Info Click Here   

 

Happy Birthday, Kelli Morelock!

 

Books & Blooms - every Thursday (beginning May 15th), 10:30 am - 12 noon.

Books & Blooms is one of the UT Garden's most popular children's activities. This free story time program includes reading, music, coloring, and sprinkler time (during warmer weather). Contact Derrick Stowell at 865-974-7151 or dstowell@utk.edu for more information.

Cost: Free (Pre-registration not required)

 

 

Knoxville Square Dancing at Laurel Theater (1538 Laurel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37916) with Live Old-Time Music by the Hellgrammites. Old-time square dance every second Thursday at the Laurel at 8pm. Leo Collins and other callers with music by the Hellgrammites. Keep the energy alive!

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Knoxville Women's Expo