Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (3/17 – 3/26/2024)

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(Planner provided weekly by contributing writer Scott McNutt)

Sunday, March 17 

• Downtown Knoxville Vendors / Outdoor Dining Options / Take-Out and Curbside Delivery Hours
• RAM Free Telehealth Clinic, Care Cuts of Knoxville, 519 Williams St, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
• One Nation Spin & Sculpt at Barrelhouse 10:30 am – noon
• Corned Beef Hash & Eggs @ The Hub (St. Paddy’s Day), Knox Brew Hub, 11:00 am
• Weekly Yoga, Hi-Wire Brewing Knoxville, 11:00 am, $8
• Free Matcha Cookie on St. Patty’s Day! The Spice & Tea Exchange of Knoxville, 11:00 am 
• 2024 Knox Shamrock Fest by East TN Kidney Foundation, World’s Fair Park Performance Lawn, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
• Lucky Kidney Run™, World’s Fair Park, 11:00 am, $40, RSVP
• Join the Knoxville Irish Society at the 2024 Knox Shamrock Fest, World’s Fair Park, noon
• The Big Camera: Anna Atkins Cyanotype Pop-Up Event, noon – 2:00 pm, FREE! but RSVP
• St Patrick’s Day Shenanigans, Elst Brewing Company, noon
• Kegs & Eggs at Hi-Wire Brewing Knoxville, noon – 3:00 pm
• St. Patrick’s Weekend, The Bark, noon – 5:00 pm, RSVP
• Self Care Sunday Yoga Class with Hope Irwin, Ijams Nature Center, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm, $5 – $10, RSVP
• Knoxville Official St Patrick’s Day Bar Crawl, Check in at The Local Smokey, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm, starting at $16.16, RSVP
• Daytime Docs Film Series: Sisters with Transistors, Lawson McGhee Library, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
• Open Bluegrass Jam with ETNBA, Ijams Nature Center, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm, FREE!
• 11th Annual Barley’s St. Patrick’s Day 5k & Kids Dash, Barley’s Knoxville, 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm, $30 – $45, RSVP
• Women’s History Month Tea Party, The Bottom, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, $20, RSVP
• March Poetry Xfit, hosted by Sundress Academy for the Arts, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, FREE! but donations welcome
• Trail Fund Get Down with Knoxville Adventure Collective and Appalachian Mountain Bike Club, Star of Knoxville, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, $60, RSVP
• High Heat St. Paddy’s Party at Yee Haw, 2:00 pm
• St. Patrick’s Day Party, Craft Axe Throwing – Downtown, 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm
• As it is in Heaven by Theatre 23, Old City Performing Arts Center, 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm, $23, RSVP
• Showing: Daughters of the Dust, Central Cinema, 2:30 pm
• March Scottish Country Dancing, Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 3:00 pm
• Sunday Class + Practica, The Double S Wine Bar, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm (weekly through June 30)
• Rus’ Romper Room March Edition, The Corner Lounge, 4:00 pm
• St. Patrick’s Day Old City Pub Crawl, Old City KNoxville, 5:00 pm – 2:00 am, $15
• St Patrick’s Day: St. Patrick’s Music with Cody Bauer, Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
• Weekly: A Stand Up Comedy Open Mic, The Pirate Tavern, 5:30 pm
• Showing: Love Lies Bleeding / Love Lies Bleeding, Central Cinema, 5:30 pm / 7:45 pm, $7 – $12
• Crafty Jazz Sunday with Jessica Watson, Crafty Brewery – Emory Place, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
• Jasper Hollow, Last Days of Autumn Brewing, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
• The Sunday Get Down, Maple Hall, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm, $5 – $10
• Cutthroat Shamrock St. Patrick’s Day Bash, Barley’s Knoxville, 7:00 pm, $15
• Laugh Alive Comedy Show, Ale’ Rae’s GastroPub, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
• Four Leaf Peat’s St. Patrick’s Day Celebration, Bijou Theatre, 7:30 pm, $25
• Live at Lucille’s: An Evening with Luther Allison, Regas Square Events, 7:30 pm, from $17.85, RSVP
• Frank Hurricane with Luge, Ex-Gold, and Sam Petschulat, The Pilot Light, 8:00 pm, $10
• St Patrick’s Day: Live Music with The Potato Peelers, Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
• The Tan & Sober Gentlemen / James Leigh and the Rest, Scruffy City Hall, 9:00 pm
• DJ Old Skööl – All your favs chosen by you! Preservation Pub, 9:30 pm

Monday, March 18 

• Mural Exhibition, Maker Exchange, 6:30 am – 11:00 pm, (Mon-Sat, 6:30 am – 11:00 pm / Sun,  6:30 am – 10:00 pm), through May 24
• Keerthana Duddu, Awaken Coffee, 7:30 am – 8:00 pm Mon-Fri (Sat, 8:00 am – 8:00 pm / Sun, 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm)
• Black & Gifted Exhibition, Dogwood Arts, 123 W Jackson Ave, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Mon-Fri
• Featured Artist: Sonia Jackson Summers, Bijou Art Gallery, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm (Mon-Fri), through Mar 31
• March Exhibitions, the Emporium Center, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Mon-Fri)
• Lorna E Vela Exhibit, Birdhouse Knoxville, 9:00 am – midnight, Mon – Sun
• Astrid Galindo Student Art Competition, HoLa Hora Latina, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, M-F / 10:00 am – 1:00 pm, Sat
• MFA Thesis Exhibition – Group 1, UT Art and Architecture Building, Ewing Gallery, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (Mon-Wed, Fri, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm / Thu, 10:00 am – 7:30 am / Sun, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm), through Mar 24
• Little History Lessons: Baseball, East Tennessee History Center, 10:30 am, free – $10
• Derick Kenson Exhibit, Hummingbird South, 3726 Sevier Heights Rd, 11:00 am – 10:00 pm, Mon-Fri / Sun, noon – 8:00 pm
• WDVX Blue Plate Special: Three Times A Lady, Visit Knoxville, noon, FREE!
• Erin McGlothlin Talk: “Imagining Operation Reinhard in Contemporary Holocaust Fiction,” UT Hodges Library, 3:30 pm
• Barbara Enloe Exhibit, Printshop Beer Co., 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Tue-Thu (noon – 9:00 pm, Fri-Sat / noon – 5:00 pm, Sun)
• African American Equity Restoration Task Force Meeting, Knoxville Area Urban League, 1514 E. Fifth Ave, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
• Monday Capoeira Fundo da Mata, Sustainable Future Center, 5:30 pm, $5
• Stretch & Strengthen, Alliance Brewing Co, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm weekly through Dec 30), $10 – $12, RSVP
• The Maltese Falcon – Knoxville Classics Book Club, Barrelhouse, 6:00 pm
• Knox Brew Stories by Brand New Box of Matches, Knox Brew Hub, 6:00 pm
• Bunny Planter Workshop with The Plant Trolley at Barley’s Knoxville, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, $28.52, RSVP
• Showing: Love Lies Bleeding / Love Lies Bleeding, Central Cinema, 6:30 pm / 8:45 pm, $7 – $12
• Yoga – March Mindfulness at the Birdhouse Knoxville, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm (weekly through Mar 25), $15, no one turned away for lack of funds
• Chef Series: Journey Through Spain, Oliver Royale, 6:30 pm, $129.08, RSVP
• Terry Washington, Bistro at the Bijou, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
• The Speakeasy at the Barrel Room, Yee-Haw Brewing Co., 7:00 pm – midnight Nerd Night: DnD, Crafty Brewery – Emory Place, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm (Weekly through Mar 25)
• Latin Dance Mondays, 828 Tulip Ave, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (weekly through Mar 25), starting at $10
• Out Series: Improvised Music Sets, The Pilot Light, 7:00 pm
• Knoxville Contra Dance, Laurel Theater, 8:00 pm, pay what you can up to $10
• Listen Up, Knoxville! Singer Songwriter Night, Scruffy City Hall, 8:00 pm
• Full Service @ Preservation Pub, 9:00 pm

Tuesday, March 19 

• Coming Into View Exhibit, McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Tue-Sat, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm / Sun, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, through Dec 8)
•  Carmen Winant, A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures, Knoxville Museum of Art, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm – 7:30 (Tue-Sat, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm / Sun, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm, through Apr 14), FREE!
• Harriet Howell and Ron Williams, Art Market Gallery, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm (Tue-Sat) / 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm (Sun)
• One Solitude Speaking by Mandy Cano Villalobos / A Drawing of a Lion Shaped By Fear by Andrew Scott Ross,  Tri-Star Arts, Candoro Marble Building, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm (11:00 am – 5:00 pm, Tue-Sat, through Mar 30), FREE!
• Victoria May Show, Rala: Regional and Local Artisans, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm (Tue-Sat) / 11:00 am – 5:00 pm (Sun)
• The Jars Exhibit, The Bottom, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm, Tue – Sat, through Mar 30
• WDVX Blue Plate Special: My Politic / Margo Cilker, Visit Knoxville, noon, FREE!
• Mini Tarot Readings w/East S.M., New Moon Rising Gifts and Goods, noon – 3:00 pm, $25
• Mosaic Hearts Workshop, Knoxville Museum of Art, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm, $70 – $80
• Circus On Ice Magic Tour, Knoxville Convention Center, 4:30 pm, from $19.50
• Pack Knoxville City Council for a Ceasefire! by Palestine Action and Liberation, City County Building, 5:00 pm
• Let Her Invest | Women Building Wealth Meet-up, Aught Co-working Downtown, 520 W Summit Hill Dr. Southwest Ste 601, 5:30 pm, FREE! but RSVP
• Pen & Ink Illustration, Knoxville Arts Center, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm, $80, RSVP
• Stabilizing U.S. – China Relations in a Time of Tensions with Ambassador Clark T. Randt, UT Howard H. Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs, Toyota Auditorium, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
• City Council Meeting, Main Assembly Room, City County Building, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
• Open House by Premiere Event Experience, The Press Room, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, $12.30, RSVP
• Weekly Old Time Jam With Sarah Pirkle, Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm
• Green & White Tea Tasting & Workshop, The Spice & Tea Exchange of Knoxville, 6:30 pm, $30, RSVP
• Showing: Love Lies Bleeding, Central Cinema, 6:30 pm / 8:45 pm, $7 – $12
• Circus On Ice Magic Tour, Knoxville Convention Center, 7:00 pm, from $19.50
• Almost Funny Comedy and Cocktails, Radius Rooftop Lounge, 507 S. Gay St, 7:30 pm – 9:45 pm, FREE! But RSVP
• Spring Choral Concert: Chamber Singers & Concert Choir, UT Alumni Memorial Building, James R. Cox Auditorium, 7:30 pm
• Margo Cilker with My Politic, Barley’s Knoxville, 8:00 pm, $10 – $15
• Godcaster with Way Below, The Pilot Light, 8:00 pm, $10
• Weekly: Einstein Simplified – Comedy Improv, Scruffy City Hall, 8:15 pm – 10:00 pm
• Full Service, Preservation Pub, 9:00 pm

Wednesday, March 20 

• Chamber Briefing Breakfast, Knoxville Chamber, 9:30 am – 10:30 am, FREE! But RSVP
• WDVX Blue Plate Special: Six Time Losers, Visit Knoxville, noon, FREE!
• “Photorealism: Yigal Ozeri,” Lilienthal Gallery, noon – 6:00 pm, Wed – Sun, through June
• Dine & Discover with Bobbie Crews, Knoxville Museum of Art, noon – 1:00 pm, $15, RSVP
• Motion Sculpture Movement Meditations, Lotus Light Contemplative Community Center, noon – 2:00 pm, RSVP for price
• Benefit Pint Night & Donation Drive for Helping Mamas Knox, Hi-Wire Brewing Knoxville, 3:00 pm – 10:00 pm
• Puzzled, Crafty Brewery – Emory Place, 4:00 pm (weekly through Mar 29)
• Showing: Love Lies Bleeding, Central Cinema, 4:30 pm
• Demystifying the Foreign Service: Lessons from Our Diplomatic Postings Abroad, UT Student Union, Rm 169, 5:00 pm
• New Sound Concert Series, UT Natalie Haslam Music Center, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, 5:30 pm
• Bottom Book Club: The Black God’s Drums, The Bottom, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, pay what you can, RSVP
• Maker Mingle: An inside look at the Pop Fizz studio, 800 Luttrell Ave, 6:00 pm, FREE! but RSVP
• Clay Cats! Knoxville Arts Center, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, $36, RSVP
• Earthtalk & Knoxville Regenerative Co-Op Meetup, SouthSide Garage, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, RSVP
• Boundless: Artist in the Archives, featuring Amythyst Kiah, Knoxville Museum of Art, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, FREE!
• Brisket and Beers with Smoky Mountain Cattle Co, Printshop Beer Co., 6:00 pm
• Travel Channel Debut featuring Pretentious Beer and Glass with Matthew Cummings and Julia Hurley, tuneto Travel Channel at 6:30 pm
• Black Creatives Meet Up with Genesis The Greykid Poetry Workshop, UT Downtown Gallery, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, pay what you can, RSVP
• More Beautiful Community Group, Sustainable Future Center, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm 
• Top Chefs 2024 Dinner, Bistro By The Tracks Happy Holler, 6:30 pm, $150, RSVP
• Queer Youth Writing Workshop w/ Knoxville’s Youth Poet Laureate, Knox Pride, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
• World Storytelling Day, Ijams Nature Center, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm, $10, RSVP
• Open Mic Night with Cullen Kehoe, Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm (weekly through Nov 6, 2024)
• Meet Your Councilwoman, Amelia Parker, Birdhouse Knoxville, 7:00 pm
• Knox Pride Craft Night @ Barrelhouse, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm, $10, RSVP
• Wed Night Hop, Laurel Theater, 7:15 pm – 11:00 pm, $5
• Showing: Knox County Roast Battle, Central Cinema, 7:30 pm, $17.85
• SPRINGBOARD open mic comedy night, Scruffy City Hall, 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm, FREE!
• Silent Disco, Bernadette’s Rooftop, 9:00 pm
• Full Service, Preservation Pub, 9:00 pm

Thursday, March 21 

• Urban Forest Master Plan: Kickoff Event, Dr. Walter Hardy Park, 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave, 9:00 am
• WDVX Blue Plate Special: Amythyst Kiah, Visit Knoxville, noon – 1:00 pm, FREE!
• Fifth Annual Vernacular Symposium, UT Humanities Center, Auditorium, noon – 5:00 pm (continues Mar 22)
• Challenges in clean energy transition: What do economists know and not know? UT Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs, Toyota Auditorium, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
• Wombo, Glad I Didn’t Get My Stupid Wish, Attic Eyes, Imelda Marcos, Duck Butter, Consensual Piss, Mad Mothr, Judge Schreber’s Avian Choir, The Pilot Light, Time TBD
• Human Design Mini Readings, New Moon Rising Gifts and Goods, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm, $20
• Achieving Health Equity Lecture Series | LGBTQ+ Support: Building a Healthier University Community, UT Student Union, Rm 262, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
• KUB Community Expo & Job Fair, Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley, 2:00 pm – 6:30 pm
• Big Ears Festival 2024, multiple venues, 4:00 pm – 12:30 am (daily through Mar 24), starting at $115
• Indigenous Women and Environmental Treaty Making in Early America with Guest Speaker Dr. Hayley Negrin, University of Illinois-Chicago, UT Stokely Management Center, Room G4, 4:00 pm -5:00 pm
• Bi-Monthly Real Good Kitchen Tours, Real Good Kitchen, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm, RSVP
• Is the American Dream Dying – a Debate, UT Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs, Toyota Auditorium, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
• KnoxMedia Monthly Meetup @ Scruffy City Hall, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm, FREE! but RSVP
• *Knoxville* Dinner Meet-up, Marble City Market, 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
• Free Two-Part Heart Health Series, Knox County Health Department, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, RSVP
• Sundress Reading Series Big Ears Special March Event, South Press, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
• Bendy B*stards Yinyasa, Crafty Brewery – Baker Creek, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm (weekly through June 27), $10 – $12
• WUTK Presents: The Six O’clock Serve Featuring a Big Ears Act TBD, Barley’s Taproom, 6:00 pm
• Zoom: A Tour of Irish Town by Knoxville History Project, 6:00 pm, RSVP
• Curator’s Talk with Kren the Curator, UT Downtown Gallery, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
• Paints + Pints Workshop, Printshop Beer Co., 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, $45, RSVP
• The War of the Rosés, The Vault, 531 S Gay St, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, $62.26
• Showing: TAMIS Presents a 16mm Screening of THE AMERICAN WOMAN, Central Cinema, 6:30 pm, FREE!
• Weekly Residency: Frog & Toad’s Dixie Quartet, The Speakeasy at the Barrel Room, Yee-Haw Brewing Co., 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
• Bill Paxton vs. Sci Fi Trivia Night, Crafty Brewery – Emory Place, 7:00 pm
• Irish Session, Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 7:15 pm, FREE!
• Anon(ymous), UT Clarence Brown LAB Theatre, 7:30 pm, starting at $20, RSVP
• Bailemos Bachata Thursdays! Double S Wine Bar, 7:30 pm – 11:30 pm, $5 – $10
• Guest Artist Performance: Kirill Gliadkovsky; piano, UT Natalie Haslam Music Center, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, 7:30 pm
• Cactus Flower, Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 7:30 pm, $20, RSVP
• 10th Anniversary “Band Eat Band” $25,000 Competition, Scruffy City Hall, 8:00 pm 
• Showing: Late Night with the Devil, Central Cinema, 8:15 pm, $7 – $12
• Zoofunkyou, Preservation Pub, 9:00 pm, $5 – $10
• The Wilson Springs Hotel, Barley’s Knoxville, 9:00 pm, FREE!

Friday, March 22

• eVolve 2024: Be the Change Conference, UT Student Union, 8:00 am – 4:00 pm, FREE! but RSVP
• Big Ears Festival 2024, multiple venues, 9:00 am – 2:00 am (daily through Mar 24), starting at $115
• Meditation at the Museum, UT McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
• WDVX Big Plate Special: Mr Sun (Darrol Anger’s band) / Son Rompe Pera, Barley’s Taproom, noon, FREE!
• Fifth Annual Vernacular Symposium, UT Humanities Center, Auditorium, noon – 5:00 pm
• Square Ramp: Pop-Up, 310 W. Jackson Ave, near Sweet P’s BBQ and the Standard, noon – 7:00 pm (continues through Mar 24)
• Achieving Health Equity Lecture Series | Measurement Considerations With LGBTQ+ Populations, UT Student Union, Rm 169, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
• Greg Saunier & Steve Gigante, Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, Good Guy Collective, Big Kitty, Earwig Deluxe, Telo Hoy, Bursters, The Shrining, Ted Tyro, Slime Ring, Kudzu Municipal, A Certain Zone, Matt Nelson, Maspeth, The Pilot Light, Time TBD
• Animal Communication with Afton Hughes, New Moon Rising Gifts and Goods, 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm, $50 – $85
• Freakshow Beers! Crafty Brewery – Emory Place, 6 Emory Place, 4:00 pm
• Lobster Dogs at Ebony & Ivory Brewing, 5:00 pm
• Showing: Love Lies Bleeding / Late Night with the Devil, Central Cinema, 5:00 pm / 7:15 pm, $7 – $12
• thus spoke the mudpuppies, Gallery 1010, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm (continues Mar 16, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm)
• Reception: MFA Thesis Exhibition – Group 1, UT Art and Architecture Building, Ewing Gallery, 5:00 pm
• Hayden Bright, Barrelhouse, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
• Ray Beltran & BlueMax, Ale’ Rae’s, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
• Billy Mac, Marble City Market, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
• Doug Wilhite, Fanatic Brewing Company, 7:00 pm
• Smoky Mountain Delta Blues, Last Days of Autumn Brewing, 7:00 pm
• Cactus Flower, Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 7:30 pm, $20, RSVP
• Anon(ymous), UT Clarence Brown LAB Theatre, 7:30 pm, SOLD OUT!
• Kenneth Brown, Bistro at the Bijou, 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm
• JK Johns, The Forgettables, and Ben Bannister at Pretentious Beer Co., Pretentious Beer Co, 8:00 pm, $12.55 – $18.29, RSVP
• Alicia Harvey – BAND, Preservation Pub, 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
• The Old-City Ho’Down,  The Double S Wine Bar, 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm, $10-$11
• Big Ears Festival Live at Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 9:00 pm
• The Coveralls, Scruffy City Hall, 8:00 pm
• Friday Night Music at The Pirate Tavern, 9:00 pm – midnight
• Showing: Love Lies Bleeding, Central Cinema, 9:20 pm, $7 – $12
• The Vertical Bird, Barley’s Knoxville, 10:00 pm, $10
• Andres Tapia DJ Night, Bernadette’s Quartz Lounge, 10:00 pm

Saturday, March 23

• Hard Knox Roller Derby: Honky Tonk Stomp Tournament, World’s Fair Exhibition Hall, 9:00 am – 8:00 pm (continues Mar 24), starting at $10
• Big Ears Festival 2024, multiple venues, 9:00 am – 1:00 am (daily through Mar 24), starting at $115
• UT Jazz Festival, UT Natalie Haslam Music Center, 9:15 am – 4:30 pm, $10 – $125, RSVP
• Winter Farmers’ Market, Market Square, Union Avenue, & Market Street, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm (weekly through Mar 30)
• thus spoke the mudpuppies, Gallery 1010, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
• Handbuilt Dice Tower for Kids, Knoxville Arts Center, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm, $50, RSVP
• Tennessee Sport Show with  VFL Jamal Lewis and Knoxville Ice Bears, Knoxville Civic Coliseum, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, RSVP
• March Tree Walk, Knoxville Botanical Gardens, 10:00 am – noon, free – $5, RSVP
• Hair of the Dog Yoga, Printshop Beer Co, 10:45 am – 11:45 am (weekly through Apr 27), $10 – $12, RSVP
• Weekly Yoga, Hi-Wire Brewing Knoxville, 11:00 am, $8
• Knox Pride Saturday Markets, Knox Pride,  11:00 am – 3:00 pm
• WDVX Blue Plate Special: Joe Henry / Eric Mingus, Visit Knoxville, noon, FREE!
• March LitKidz Workshop, The Bottom, noon – 2:00 pm, RSVP
• Birthday Party/Meet and Greet with Melanie Kohn – voice actor for Lucy van Pelt, Tall Man Toys & Comics, noon – 5:00 pm
• Square Ramp: Pop-Up, 310 W. Jackson Ave, near Sweet P’s BBQ and the Standard, noon – 7:00 pm (continues Mar 24)
• EquiKnox Block Party 2024 on Sevier Avenue, noon – 8:00 pm
• Spike Hellis, Sunny War, Cattywampus Puppet Council, W8ing4ufos, Basic Letters, Generation Of Vipers, Lan Line, Nightjar, Alice Galerina and the Tyranny of Quantum Mechanics, The Pilot Light, Time TBD
• Spring Tea at the Tennessean Hotel Personal Luxury Hotel, 1:00 pm, $258.49 – $771.43
• Big Ears Bottle Share @ The Hub, Knox Brew Hub, 2:00 pm
• Wildflower Walk, Ijams Nature Center, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm, $15, RSVP
• Showing: Love Lies Bleeding / Love Lies Bleeding, Central Cinema, 4:30 pm / 6:45 pm, $7 – $12
• Alicia Harvey – solo, Barrelhouse by Gypsy Circus, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
• UT Jazz Festival Concert, UT Natalie Haslam Music Center, Band Room (Room 135)
• Battle of the Barrel: One Knox Home Opener vs. Lexington SC, Regal Soccer Stadium, 6:30 pm, $15 – $40
• The Griefers Band, Ale’ Rae’s, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
• Gas Station Sushi, Last Days of Autumn Brewing, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
• Alex and the Animals, Schulz Brau Brewing Co, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
• Hot Cha Salsa, Marble City Market, 7:00 pm
• The Speakeasy at the Barrel Room, Yee-Haw Brewing Co., 7:00 pm – midnight, RSVP
• Cactus Flower, Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 7:30 pm, $20, RSVP
• Legends Night / Knoxville Ice Bears vs. Birmingham Bulls, Civic Coliseum, 7:30 pm / 7:35 pm, $22 – $48
• Taber Gable, Bistro at the Bijou, 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm
• Gypsy Queens Drag Night, Barrelhouse 8:00 pm, $10, RSVP
• MW&TBS w/ Ross Osteen & Hillbilly Casino, Preservation Pub, 8:00 pm
• Skankbanger, Scruffy City Hall, 8:00 pm 
• Gabriel Iglesias: Don’t Worry Be Fluffy, Civic Coliseum, 8:00 pm, $30 – $250
• Saturday Night with Fade To Grey Music at Courtyard by Marriott Knoxville Downtown, 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm
• Big Ears Live at Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 9:00 pm – midnight
• Crafty After Dark: 90’s Mom Cleaning Playlist Night, Crafty Brewery, 6 Emory Place, 9:00 pm
• Renée Maggart & Michael Bates at Pour Taproom, 9:00 pm – 11:59 pm
• Parrothead Boat Drinks Cruise benefiting Alzheimer’s TN, Tennessee Riverboat, 300 Neyland Dr, 9:00 pm, $20 – $25, RSVP
• Showing: Loves Lies Bleeding, Central Cinema, 9:00 pm, $7 – $12
• Optic Sink, Eve Maret, The Loinettes and Calla Burke, Barley’s KNoxville, 10:00 pm, $5
• Andres Tapia – Latin Night, Bernadette’s Quartz Lounge, 10:00 pm

Sunday, March 24 

• Downtown Knoxville Vendors / Outdoor Dining Options / Take-Out and Curbside Delivery Hours 
• Hard Knox Roller Derby: Honky Tonk Stomp Tournament, World’s Fair Exhibition Hall, 9:00 am – 8:00 pm, starting at $10
• Big Ears Festival 2024, multiple venues, 9:00 am – 10:00 pm (daily through Mar 24), starting at $115
• Weekly Yoga, Hi-Wire Brewing Knoxville, 11:00 am, $8
• Square Ramp: Pop-Up, 310 W. Jackson Ave, near Sweet P’s BBQ and the Standard, noon – 6:00 pm 
• Self Care Sunday Yoga Class with Hope Irwin, Ijams Nature Center, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm, $5 – $10, RSVP
• KBC & Brunch N Beats Presents 865 vs 423 Brunch, Knoxville Botanical Garden & Arboretum, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm, $60.31 – $643.19, RSVP
• Anon(ymous), UT Clarence Brown LAB Theatre, 2:00 pm, SOLD OUT!
• Variety Show with ya boy! UT Gardens Knoxville, 2:00 pm – 8:00 pm
• Knoxville Opera: Cinderella Family Performance, 612 East Depot Ave, 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm, SOLD OUT!
• Cactus Flower, Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 3:00 pm, $20, RSVP
• Showing: Love Lies Bleeding / Love Lies Bleeding, Central Cinema, 4:00 pm / 6:15 pm, $7 – $12
• Superhero Night & Kid Takeover / Knoxville Ice Bears vs. Quad City Storm, Civic Coliseum, 5:00 pm, $22 – $48
• Weekly: A Stand Up Comedy Open Mic, The Pirate Tavern, 5:30 pm
• Crafty Jazz Night, Crafty Brewery – Emory Place, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
• Stand-Up Comedy Show, Ale’ Rae’s GastroPub, 7:00 pm, $10 – $15
• Corey James Clifton, Barley’s Knoxville, 8:00 pm, FREE!
• Showing: Late Night with the Devil, Central Cinema, 8:30 pm, $7 – $12
• DJ Old Skööl – All your favs chosen by you! Preservation Pub, 9:30 pm

Monday, March 25 

• Mural Exhibition, Maker Exchange, 6:30 am – 11:00 pm, (Mon-Sat, 6:30 am – 11:00 pm / Sun,  6:30 am – 10:00 pm), through May 24
• Keerthana Duddu, Awaken Coffee, 7:30 am – 8:00 pm Mon-Fri (Sat, 8:00 am – 8:00 pm / Sun, 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm)
• Featured Artist: Sonia Jackson Summers, Bijou Art Gallery, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm (Mon-Fri), through Mar 31
• March Exhibitions, the Emporium Center, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Mon-Fri)
• Lorna E Vela Exhibit, Birdhouse Knoxville, 9:00 am – midnight, Mon – Sun
• Astrid Galindo Student Art Competition, HoLa Hora Latina, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, M-F / 10:00 am – 1:00 pm, Sat
• Small Business Matters – The Monday Edition, Fanatic Brewing Company, 10:00 am – 11:30 am 
• Derick Kenson Exhibit, Hummingbird South, 3726 Sevier Heights Rd, 11:00 am – 10:00 pm, Mon-Fri / Sun, noon – 8:00 pm
• WDVX Blue Plate Special: TBA, Visit Knoxville, noon, FREE!
• NSK9 Pack Walk – Downtown “City Walk” Loop, World’s Fair Park, 3:30 pm
• Blue Sky Girls After School MTB Camp! Baker Creek Preserve, 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm, $375, RSVP
• Chiasmus Reading and Open Mic, Union Ave Books, 6:00 pm
• Stretch & Strengthen, Alliance Brewing Co, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm (weekly through Dec 30), $10 – $12, RSVP
• Showing: Love Lies Bleeding, Central Cinema, 6:15 pm, $7 – $12
• Yoga – March Mindfulness at the Birdhouse Knoxville, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm , $15, no one turned away for lack of funds
• Carter Beucher, Bistro at the Bijou, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
• Knox Pride Presents: March Book Club Meetup, Knox Pride, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
• The Speakeasy at the Barrel Room, Yee-Haw Brewing Co., 7:00 pm – midnight Open Mic Night! Barrelhouse, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm (weekly through Feb 26, 2024)
• Nerd Night: DnD, Crafty Brewery – Emory Place, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm (Weekly through Mar 25)
• Latin Dance Mondays, 828 Tulip Ave, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (weekly through Mar 25), starting at $10
• Out Series: Improvised Music Sets, The Pilot Light, 7:00 pm
• Banff Mountain Film Festival, Bijou Theatre, 7:00 pm, starting at $25
• Knoxville Contra Dance, Laurel Theater, 8:00 pm, pay what you can up to $10
• Listen Up, Knoxville! Singer Songwriter Night, Scruffy City Hall, 8:00 pm
• Showing: OVA Extreme Series, Central Cinema, 8:30 pm, $5
• Sun-Dried Vibes  / Craig Waters and the Flood, Preservation Pub, 9:00 pm

Tuesday, March 26 

• Coming Into View Exhibit, McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Tue-Sat, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm / Sun, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, through Dec 8)
• Carmen Winant, A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures, Knoxville Museum of Art, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm – 7:30 (Tue-Sat, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm / Sun, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm, through Apr 14), FREE!
• Harriet Howell and Ron Williams, Art Market Gallery, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm (Tue-Sat) / 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm (Sun)
• One Solitude Speaking by Mandy Cano Villalobos / A Drawing of a Lion Shaped By Fear by Andrew Scott Ross,  Tri-Star Arts, Candoro Marble Building, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm (11:00 am – 5:00 pm, Tue-Sat, through Mar 30), FREE!
• Victoria May Show, Rala: Regional and Local Artisans, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm (Tue-Sat) / 11:00 am – 5:00 pm (Sun)
• The Jars Exhibit, The Bottom, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm, Tue – Sat, through Mar 30
• AIA East Tennessee Design Feed with Gunny Harboe, FAIA, The Foundry on the Fair Site, 11:50 am – 1:00 pm, $10 – $25
• WDVX Blue Plate Special: TBA, Visit Knoxville, noon, FREE!
• Lunch & Learn: Business Finance Basics, Knoxville Entrepreneur Center, noon – 1:30 pm, RSVP
• Order & Flow Workshop, Knoxville Museum of Art, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm, $70 – $80
• RAM Free Telehealth Clinic, Steps House, 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm
• Barbara Enloe Exhibit, Printshop Beer Co., 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Tue-Thu (noon – 9:00 pm, Fri-Sat / noon – 5:00 pm, Sun)
• Empowering Futures: The Crucial Contribution of Teachers in Shaping Lives, UT Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs, Rm 103, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
• The Great Cookie Tasting – Knoxville, Yee-Haw Brewing Co., 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, $20, RSVP
• KCDP District 1 and 4 March Meeting, Knoxville Public Works Service Center, 6:00 pm
• Dungeons & Drafts, Hi-Wire Brewing Knoxville, 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm, $15, RSVP
• Showing: Late Night with the Devil, Central Cinema, 6:30 pm, $7 – $12
• Weekly Old Time Jam With Sarah Pirkle, Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm, FREE!
• Dance Night by Trollkretsen Scandinavian Dancers, Laurel Theater, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
• Banff Mountain Film Festival, Bijou Theatre, 7:00 pm, starting at $25
• Bassoon Studio Recital, UT Natalie Haslam Music Center, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, 7:30 pm
• Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox – The 10 Tour, Tennessee Theatre, 7:30 pm, $40 – $100
• Anon(ymous), UT Clarence Brown LAB Theatre, 7:30 pm, starting at $20, RSVP
• Spring Choral Concert 2, Alumni Memorial Building, James R. Cox Auditorium, 7:30 pm
• Einstein Simplified – Comedy Improv, Scruffy City Hall, 8:15 pm – 10:00 pm
• Showing: Skate Video Night, Central Cinema, 8:30 pm, $5
• Jive Talk / Joey’s Van at Preservation Pub, 9:00 pm