Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (7/17-7/26/2022)

Westwood, 3425 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, July 2022
Westwood, 3425 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, July 2022

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Sunday, July 17

 

Monday, July 18

  • HGA Convergence Weaver Show, Knoxville Convention Center, 7:00 am (daily through July 21, 1:30 pm), $10 – $576
  • 2022 Summer Showcase Exhibition: Prints by UT Knoxville Undergraduate & Graduate Students, Faculty and Staff, UT Printmaking Showcase Gallery, second floor, Art & Architecture Building, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm (Mon-Fri through Sept 2)
  • Works by Lily Elizabeth Watson Allen, Awaken Coffee, 8:00 am – 8:00 pm, Mon-Fri (Sat, 8:00 am – 8:00 pm / Sun, 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm)
  • “You Should’ve Been There!” 40th Anniversary of the 1982 World’s Fair, East Tennessee Historical Society, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, Mon – Fri / 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, Sat / 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Sun (through Oct 9), $8 – $10
  • July Exhibitions, the Emporium Center, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Mon-Fri 
  • Waldo Scavenger Hunt, Downtown Knoxville, 10:00 am – 8:00 pm (daily through July 31)
  • Downtown Knoxville Alliance Board Meeting, Knoxville Area Chamber offices at 17 Market Square, #201, 11:30 am – 12:30 am
  • KCHS Quarter Century Crew monthly committee meeting! Barley’s Knoxville, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
  • Still-Life Acrylic Painting, Knoxville Arts & Fine Crafts Center, 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm, $45, RSVP
  • Showing: The Karate Kid, Central Cinema, 6:00 pm, $5 – $10, RSVP
  • Monday Night Yoga with Rigazzi, Alliance Brewing, 6:00 pm, $10 – $12
  • Open Mic Night, hosted by Chris Marshall, Barrelhouse, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm (weekly through Aug 29) 
  • Monday Night Summer Cornhole with Tennessee Brew Works, Hops and Hollers, 7:00 pm (weekly through the summer)
  • UTK Jam hosted by Sam Adams, Bistro at the Bijou, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
  • Out Series: Improvised Music Sets with Wrest, Ryan Clackner, Matt Nelson, Thad Brown, The Pilot Light, 7:00 pm, FREE
  • Listen Up, Knoxville! Singer Songwriter Night, Scruffy City Hall, 8:00 pm
  • Showing: OVA Extreme Anime Series, Central Cinema, 8:45 pm, $5 – $10, RSVP
  • Will Boyd Project, Barley’s Knoxville, 9:00 pm
  • Ben Ricketts, Preservation Pub, 9:00 pm

 

Tuesday, July 19

  • HGA Convergence Weaver Show, Knoxville Convention Center, 7:00 am (daily through July 21, 1:30 pm), $10 – $576
  • Artwork by Leesa Osburn, Lox Salon, 9:00 am – 9:00 pm (Tues- Fri) / 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Sat), through July 31
  • Weekly Art Therapy, Epilepsy Foundation of East Tennessee, 715 E Magnolia Ave, 10:00 am – noon (Tuesdays through Aug 2)
  • Women Artists Highlights from the Hunter Museum and the KMA, Knoxville Museum of Art, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (Tues- Sat) / 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm (Sun), through July 24
  • Dolly Art Exhibitions, Rala, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm (Tue-Sat) / 11:00 am – 5:00 pm (Sun), through July 29
  • Woven, Felted, Sculpted and Crowned, Mighty Mud Studios, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm (Tue-Fri) / 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Sat)
  • Fiber Artist Showcase, Art Market Gallery, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm (Tue-Sat) / 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm (Sun), through July 31
  • WDVX Blue Plate Special: Jessica Willis Fisher / Marlee Hart, Visit Knoxville, noon, FREE!
  • California Dreamin’: Songs from Laurel Canyon, John T. O’Connor Sr Ctr, 611 Winona St, 1:00 pm – 2;00 pm, FREE! but RSVP
  • Behind the Blue Doors Tour, Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley, 967 Irwin St, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm 
  • AmeriCorps Alums: Knoxville Meetup, Barley’s Knoxville, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
  • Newcomer/Beginner Social Dancing, Broadway Academy of Performing Arts and Event Center, 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm (weekly through Dec 27), $20
  • Songwriter Open Mic at Next Level! with Tinca Tinca, Next Level Brewing Company, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
  • Tuesday Weekly Event: Gypsy Mutt Club with SBRET, Barrelhouse, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
  • Weekly Old Time Jam With Sarah Pirkle, Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm, FREE!
  • Instagram Class w/Celsy, Infinite Light Center, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, $10 donation
  • Showing: Lost Highway, Central Cinema, 7:00 pm, $5 – $10, RSVP
  • Taco Tuesday & Pale Root, Last Days of Autumn Brewing, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
  • Comedy on the Corner, Corner Lounge Knoxville, 7:30 pm
  • Weekly: Einstein Simplified – Comedy Improv, Scruffy City Hall, 8:15 pm – 10:00 pm
  • Brother Smith, Preservation Pub, 9:00 pm
Nick and Finn Kitsos, Loyal’s Barber Shop, 204 West Magnolia Avenue, July 2022

Wednesday, July 20

 

Thursday, July 21

 

Friday, July 22

  • WDVX Blue Plate Special: Jacob Paul Allen, Visit Knoxville, noon, FREE!
  • Fresh Perspectives by Wayne Blankenship, RED Gallery, 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Sat 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm / Sun 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm), through Jul 29
  • Showing: Marcel the Shell with Shoes on, Central Cinema, 3:00 pm / 5:00 pm, $5 – $10, RSVP
  • Foamy Fridays Foam Party at The Bark, 601 Lamar St, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, RSVP for cost
  • Friday Night Live: “Hurricane” Ruth, The Concourse, 6:30 pm, $10 – $15
  • Showing: Marcel the Shell with Shoes on, Central Cinema, 7:00 pm / 9:00 pm, $5 – $10, RSVP
  • Sister Act Jr, Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 7:00 pm, $12 – $15, RSVP
  • Date Night Puzzle Challenge, Hi-Wire Brewing Knoxville, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
  • Knoxville Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,” Ijams Nature Center, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm, $15 – $50
  • Haynes/Hamar/Deacon at the Bijou, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
  • 2022 YPK Summer Soirée: Scruffy City Prom, The Sunsphere @ World’s Fair Park, 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm, free – $40, RSVP
  • Tony & Mary Negron, Last Days of Autumn Brewing, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
  • Hello Dolly presented by The Wordplayers, Bijou Theatre, 7:30 pm, $22 – $30
  • 1964: The Tribute, Tennessee Theatre, 8:00 pm, $30 – $50
  • Suite Surrender, Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 8:00 pm, $20
  • Pale Root, Barrelhouse, 8:00 pm, FREE!
  • Rituals in Existing: Dance Meditations on Life, Broadway Academy of Performing Arts & Events Center, 8:00 pm, $20 – $40, RSVP
  • Telios Live at Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 9:00 pm – midnight
  • Brother Smith / Buddhagraph Spaceship, Preservation Pub, 9:00 pm / 11:30 pm
  • Dead Ringers, Scruffy City Hall, 9:30 pm
  • Jacob Paul Allen & The Flood, Barley’s Knoxville, 10:00 pm

 

Saturday, July 23

Knoxville Skyline, June 2022

Sunday, July 24

 

Monday, July 25 

  • NOAC 2022, with Order of the Arrow of Boy Scouts of America, University of Tennessee, 8:00 am – 6:00 pm (daily through July 30), $675, RSVP
  • 2022 Summer Showcase Exhibition: Prints by UT Knoxville Undergraduate & Graduate Students, Faculty and Staff, UT Printmaking Showcase Gallery, second floor, Art & Architecture Building, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm (Mon-Fri through Sept 2)
  • Works by Lily Elizabeth Watson Allen, Awaken Coffee, 8:00 am – 8:00 pm, Mon-Fri (Sat, 8:00 am – 8:00 pm / Sun, 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm)
  • “You Should’ve Been There!” 40th Anniversary of the 1982 World’s Fair, East Tennessee Historical Society, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, Mon – Fri / 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, Sat / 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Sun (through Oct 9), $8 – $10
  • July Exhibitions, the Emporium Center, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Mon-Fri 
  • Waldo Scavenger Hunt, Downtown Knoxville, 10:00 am – 8:00 pm (daily through July 31)
  • Hospitality Industry Night, pivotpointgallery, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
  • Monday Capoeira Fundo da Mata, Sustainable Future Center, 5:30 pm, $5
  • Meet the Artist: Arri Lemons, Barrelhouse, 6:00 pm
  • Showing: Marcel the Shell with Shoes on, Central Cinema, 6:00 pm / 8:00 pm, $5 – $10, RSVP
  • Yoga at Ijams Nature Center, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, $10
  • Monday Night Yoga with Rigazzi, Alliance Brewing, 6:00 pm, $10 – $12
  • Weekly Monday Fun Run hosted by Flying Pints, Alliance Brewing Co, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
  • August Burns Red, The Mill & Mine, 6:45 pm, $28
  • Monday: Open Mic Night, hosted by Chris Marshall, Barrelhouse, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm (weekly through Aug 29)
  • Monday Night Summer Cornhole with Tennessee Brew Works, Hops and Hollers, 7:00 pm (weekly through the summer)
  • David Zavracky Trio, Bistro at the Bijou, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
  • Out Series: Improvised Music Sets with Matt Nelson, The Pilot Light, 7:00 pm, FREE!
  • Dinner with Bardstown Bourbon Company, Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm, $125, RSVP
  • Listen Up, Knoxville! Singer Songwriter Night, Scruffy City Hall, 8:00 pm
  • Pale Root Live, Crafty Bastard Brewery, 8:00 pm
  • Rossdafareye, Preservation Pub, 9:00 pm
  • Jesse Daniel Edwards, Barley’s Taproom, 9:00 pm

 

Tuesday, July 26

  • Artwork by Leesa Osburn, Lox Salon, 9:00 am – 9:00 pm (Tues- Fri) / 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Sat), through July 31
  • Weekly Art Therapy, Epilepsy Foundation of East Tennessee, 715 E Magnolia Ave, 10:00 am – noon (Tuesdays through Aug 2)
  • Women Artists Highlights from the Hunter Museum and the KMA, Knoxville Museum of Art, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (Tues- Sat) / 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm (Sun), through July 24
  • Dolly Art Exhibitions, Rala, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm (Tue-Sat) / 11:00 am – 5:00 pm (Sun), through July 29
  • Woven, Felted, Sculpted and Crowned, Mighty Mud Studios, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm (Tue-Fri) / 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Sat)
  • Fiber Artist Showcase, Art Market Gallery, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm (Tue-Sat) / 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm (Sun), through July 31
  • WDVX Blue Plate Special: TBA, Visit Knoxville, noon, FREE!
  • Showing: Marcel the Shell with Shoes on, Central Cinema, 6:00 pm, $5 – $10, RSVP
  • City Council Meeting, City County Building, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
  • Newcomer/Beginner Social Dancing, Broadway Academy of Performing Arts and Event Center, 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm (weekly through Dec 27), $20
  • Tuesday Gypsy Mutt Club with SBRET, Barrelhouse, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
  • Weekly Old Time Jam With Sarah Pirkle, Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm, FREE!
  • Broom-Making Workshop, Trailhead Beer Market, 7:00 pm, $45, RSVP
  • Showing: Skate Video, Central Cinema, 8:00 pm, $5 – $10, RSVP
  • Weekly: Einstein Simplified – Comedy Improv, Scruffy City Hall, 8:15 pm – 10:00 pm
  • Blue Willow / Lady HD, Preservation Pub, 9:00 pm / 11:30 pm