Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (3/5 – 3/14/2023)

Travis Bigwood, Tennessee Songwriters Week Knoxville Showcase, Bijou Theatre, Knoxville, February 2023
Hamilton, Tennessee Theatre, Knoxville, February 2023

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Sunday, March 5

 

Monday, March 6 

  • GCA Honor Students, Awaken Coffee, 7:30 am – 8:00 pm (M-F) / 8:00 am – 8:00 pm (Sat) / 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm (Sun)
  • Lights! Camera! East Tennessee! East Tennessee History Center, Mon-Fri, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm / Sat, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm / Sun, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm (through July 3, 2023)
  • East Tennessee Preservation Awards – Call for Nominations Deadline, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • Converge: Coming Together, Embracing Balance, Dogwood Arts, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • March Exhibitions, the Emporium Center, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Mon-Fri)
  • Landfall Press: Five Decades of Printmaking, Knoxville Museum of Art, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (Tue-Fri) / 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm (Sun), through Apr 30, FREE!
  • Astrid Galindo Artistic Scholarship & Competition, HoLa Hora Latina, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, M-F / 10:00 am – 1:00 pm, Sat (through Mar 31)
  • Annual Student Art Competition, UT Art and Architecture Building, Ewing Gallery, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (continues daily through Mar 9)
  • Little History Lessons: Transportation, East Tennessee History Center, 10:30 am, free – $10, RSVP
  • WDVX Blue Plate Special: Bill Kemp, Visit Knoxville, noon, FREE!
  • Mighty Musical Monday featuring House Organist Freddie Brabson on the Tennessee Theatre’s Mighty Wurlitzer with guests Tinca Tinca, Tennessee Theatre, noon, FREE!
  • UTHC Distinguished Lecture Series: “Narrative Fusion: Clinical Arts and Literary Sciences” with Rita Charon, UT John C Hodges Library, Lindsay Young Auditorium (rm. 101), 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
  • Barbara Dombrowski – “Tropic Ice” Exhibit Opening, UT Hodges Library, Gallery & Mary Greer Room, 4:00 pm
  • Appalachian Sessions, Bijou Theatre, 5:00 pm
  • Monday Capoeira Fundo da Mata, Sustainable Future Center, 5:30 pm, $5
  • Tuba/Euphonium Student Soloists and Ensembles, UT Natalie Haslam Music Center, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, 5:30 pm
  • U.S. Policy in the Indo-Pacific: Standing by Our Allies, UT Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, Toyota Auditorium, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
  • Film Screening: “Pastoral Meets Tropic Ice,” UT Hodges Library, Lindsay Young Auditorium, 5:30 pm
  • Spark TN Fundraiser, Harvest – Land, Sea, & Vine, 6:00 pm, $185, RSVP
  • Stretch & Strengthen, Alliance Brewing, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, $10 – $12, RSVP
  • Weekly Monday Fun Run hosted by Flying Pints, Alliance Brewing Co, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
  • Showing: RRR Fan Celebrrration, Central Cinema, 7:00 pm, $5 – $10, RSVP
  • Out Series: Improvised Music Sets, The Pilot Light, 7:00 pm, FREE!
  • Noor Chang, Bistro at the Bijou, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
  • Craft Night (Vision Board Making), Knox Pride, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm, FREE!
  • “Around the World” with the UT Saxophone Studio, UT Natalie Haslam Music Center, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, 7:30 pm
  • Prince of the Burning Sands, Preservation Pub, 9:00 pm

 

Tuesday, March 7

Travis Bigwood, Tennessee Songwriters Week Knoxville Showcase, Bijou Theatre, Knoxville, February 2023

Wednesday, March 8

 

Thursday, March 9

  • Scottish Session, Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 7:15 pm
  • Artist in Residence Lecture with Warith Taha Lecture, UT School of Art, room 109, 7:30 pm
  • Learn Latin Dancing – Thursday Bachata, Broadway Academy of Performing Arts and Event Center, 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm, $10
  • BoDeans, Bijou Theatre, 7:30 pm, $30 – $40, RSVP
  • Kaleidos Duo: Miroslav Hristov, violin; and Vladimir Valjarević, piano, Mozart’s Complete Violin Sonatas, Concert 4, UT Natalie Haslam Music Center, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, 7:30 pm
  • Chatham Rabbits @ Barley’s Knoxville, 9:00 pm
  • 12Eleven, Preservation Pub, 9:00 pm

 

Friday, March 10

 

Saturday, March 11

  • The Dinner Detective: Interactive Murder Mystery Dinner Show! Hilton Knoxville, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, $60, RSVP
Tyson Leamon, Tennessee Songwriters Week Knoxville Showcase, Bijou Theatre, Knoxville, February 2023

Sunday, March 12

 

Monday, March 13

  • GCA Honor Students, Awaken Coffee, 7:30 am – 8:00 pm (M-F) / 8:00 am – 8:00 pm (Sat) / 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm (Sun)
  • Lights! Camera! East Tennessee! East Tennessee History Center, Mon-Fri, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm / Sat, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm / Sun, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm (through July 3, 2023)
  • March Exhibitions, the Emporium Center, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Mon-Fri) 
  • Landfall Press: Five Decades of Printmaking, Knoxville Museum of Art, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (Tue-Fri) / 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm (Sun), through Apr 30, FREE!
  • Astrid Galindo Artistic Scholarship & Competition, HoLa Hora Latina, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm (through Mar 31)
  • March Exhibit, Rala, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm (Mon-Sat) / 11:00 am – 5:00 pm (Sun)
  • WDVX Blue Plate Special: Big Dumb Hick / Patty PerShayla & The Mayhaps, Visit Knoxville, noon, FREE!
  • African American Equity Restoration Task Force Meeting, Pellissippi State Community College – Magnolia Campus, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
  • Monday Capoeira Fundo da Mata, Sustainable Future Center, 5:30 pm, $5
  • Showing: Legally Blonde / Everything Everywhere All at Once, Central Cinema, 6:00 pm / 8:30 pm, $5 – $10, RSVP
  • Stretch & Strengthen, Alliance Brewing, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, $10 – $12, RSVP
  • All Over the Page discussing “The School for Good Mothers” by Jessamine Chan, Lawson McGhee Knox County Public Library, 6:30 pm
  • Carter Beucher, Bistro at the Bijou, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
  • Out Series: Improvised Music Sets, The Pilot Light, 7:00 pm, FREE!
  • Banff Mountain Film Festival, Bijou Theatre, 7:00 pm (continues daily through Mar 15), $25, RSVP
  • Listen Up, Knoxville! Singer Songwriter Night, Scruffy City Hall, 8:00 pm
  • Patty Pershayla & The Mayhaps, Preservation Pub, 9:00 pm

 

Tuesday, March 14