For the week of June 10- June 16
FILM
Tuesday, June 14, come see Robin Williams in drag outside in the
Presidential Courtyard. Big Surf Drive-in Movie Mrs. Doubtfire at
9:00 p.m. Free.
Wednesday, Do the Right Thing, arguably Spike Lee’s best film, at
the University Center. $1 with a UT ID and $2 for others. 6 p.m. and 8
p.m.
EXHIBITS:
Thursday, June 16, through July 31, The Best of Tennessee Crafts at
the Carroll Reece Museum in Johnson City.
Through June 30, fourth floor of the Candy Factory, The Arts Council Artist
of the Month Victoria Kryah’s work “Icons and Images or Earth and Myth.”
Kryah paints and collages her photographs that express “divinity inherent
in nature, especially human nat
ure.”
Through June 19, The Heart of Africa at the Knoxville Museum of
Art. This exhibit celebrates the visual arts component of the ArtREAC*
program, an outreach program conducted by the Knoxville Museum of Art and
African American Appalachian Arts, Inc
. that sent visual and performing artists to schools throughout Knox and
surrounding counties.
BANDS:
Saturday Night at Zarbo’s, Exit 65. Funky acoustic groove. Around 9:30
Free.
Acoustics fly at Manhattan’s Monday at 9:30 p.m. for Club Eclectic night
with Amelia Earhart Returns, “Knoxville’s favorite neo-acoustic duo” and
introducing The Neilds, an acoustic trio from Connecticut. $5 at the
door.
Eagles tickets go on sale this Saturday at 8:30 a.m. Reserved seats go from
$38 to $85. Contact ticket offices and local record stores.
Brother Nature at the Electric Ballroom. Friday at 10 p.m., this trio
will get you groovin’ to a rhythmic extravaganza. $5.
Sunday three living legends of country music: Willie Nelson, Waylon
Jennings and Asleep at the Wheel. Country music at its best, but Willie
also gives a good dose of ballads, rock, pop and jazz. 2 p.m. at the
World’s Fair Park. $22.
Enter Self and Man Sak a Guff’n tattoo on a Fat Bastard. Saturday night at
the Mercury Theatre, four bands (above) and a body piercing and tattoo
show by the eminent Colonel Bacchus. More than just a stud in the nose and
fraternity letters on an ankle.
10 p.m. Supposed to be for the whole family, but don’t you have to be at
least 18 to get in?
CONTESTS/ PARTICIPATION:
Volunteers needed for the Fourth Annual International Jubilee. Workers
needed for concessions, handling stage arrangements, escorting VIPs, etc.
Volunteers have the opportunity to meet people from different countries and
cultures.
Talented? Feeling unappreciated? Need some money? Take a shot in a couple
of poetry contests. The National Library of Poetry has announced that
$12,000 in prizes will be awarded this year to over 250 poets in the North
American Poetry Contest. The deadli
ne in June 30 and the entry is free. To enter send ONE original poem, any
subject/ style, to the National Library of Poetry, 11419 Cronridge Dr.,
P.O. Box 704-YT, Owings, MD 21117, the poem should be more than 20
lines.
Hollywood’s Famous Poets Society is offering a free poetry contest with
over $2,500 in prizes. Send one poem 21 lines or less to Free Poetry
Contest, 7095 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 730, Hollywood, CA 90028. Deadline is
July 1.
The Bijou Theatrical Academy is offering Bijou Camp for the Performing
Arts, sessions start on the 13th of this month. Students will receive
instruction in the areas of drama, music, creative movement and the art of
make-up, costume and set design. At t
he Bijou Theatre.
FESTIVALS:
Southern jazz and blues are not restricted to New Orleans and
Memphis. The Fifth Annual Jazz and Blues Festival hits Knoxville this
weekend in the Whittle Building courtyard: the festival won’t be plagued by
rain this year (the Bijou Theatre will
accommodate in the event of inclement weather). Past festivals have
included such greats as Dizzy Gillispie, Bo Diddly, Koko Taylor, Bela Fleck
and the Flecktones, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, and Ricki Lee Jones, just
to name a few. This weekend will fe
ature Boys Night Out, a thirteen part group performing “Rhythm and Blues,
Beach and Soul”. Show starts at 9 p.m. Saturday features free jazz and
blues from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. At 7 p.m. Tinsley Ellis, a guitarist who
Guitar World claims, “Stands along
side Stevie Ray Vaughn and Johnny Winter…and that ain’t just hype” will
perform and at 9 p.m., Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown will be giving one of the
best blues concerts that K-town has ever seen. Tickets are $10 in advance
and $13 the day of the show.
In Montgomery, Alabama, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival is in full effect.
This is one of the top six major Shakespeare festivals in the world.
Othello, The Tempest, Henry V and many others, along with
professional modern farces and tony-winning
musicals (Dancing at Lughnasa, for example, which will also offer a series
of lectures by the actors and director) showcase the 1994 season. At the
Carolyn Blount Theatre, the only year-round professional classical
repertory theatre in the Southeast.
The Sunset Musicfest in our own beloved Dollywood kicks off this weekend
and lasts until June 26th with Grand Ole Opry stars Jeanne Pruett, Jack
Greene, and Connie Smith along with up and comers The Blenders, Exile (in
an “unplugged” performance), Kenn
y Chesney, Darron Norwood, Jon Brennan, and Cindy Morgan, Andy Childs,
Bryan Austin, Ricky Lynn Gregg, and many others. Be sure not to miss the
original Dollywood musical production, “Sundown Hoedown.” All activites are
included in the cost of admission t
o Dollywood.
THEATRE:
Just below the state line between Tennessee and Georgia, in Hiwassee’s
Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds, The Reach of Song, an Appalachian
drama, will be performed. This story of a mountain culture is told by
natives of Appalachia, providing a first-ha
nd view of a mysterious and sometimes maligned mountain people though drama
filled with haunting mountain ballads. Tuesday through Saturday at 8 p.m.
until July 30. Tickets are $5 to $12.
Starting Thursday, June 16, comedy A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around
Talking , opens and continues on to July 16 at the West Side Dinner
Theatre on Kingston Pike.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Created by Larry
Gelbart (of M.A.S.H. fame) and Bart Shrevelove with music and lyrics by
the legendary Stephen Sondheim. This hilarious musical farce focuses on a
classical setting of confusion, come
dy and romance. Tickets range from $3 to $18. Show times are at 8 p.m. ,
with matinees at 2 p.m. this weekend. Ends Sunday, so don’t miss it.
WE RECOMMEND:
This Weekend looks ambidextrously fruity.
Knoxville’s premier rappers L.I.F.E. (Living In a Fu#ked-up Environment)
are def, dope, dumb, fly, fresh, freak, rough and rottenly righteous
rappin.’ Nice to find things in this area that don’t resemble the Dead.
Along with this onslaught of funk is the
90′ s answer to the BarKays, the band in Memphis, Big Ass Truck is
pretty funkin’ good. At the Mercury Theatre Friday night. Show starts at 10
p.m.
Kuumba Festival. Yaa-hoo!!! It’s that time of year again. If you missed the
kick-off party last night (should have read your Entertainment Calendar)
there’s still tons of stuff to do now through Sunday. Here’s a brief
schedule of events:
FRIDAY – the the Carpet Bag Theatre presents the Youth Theatre Festival at
Knoxville College featuring “The Kelsie Collie Playmakers” from Washington,
D.C. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
– Junkanu Parade in the Old City and Street Party featuring: Champion
Gumbay Dancers from Bermuda, Hotep International, African All-Star Djembe
Drummers, Kuumba Watoto Dance & Drum Ensemble (not to be missed) and the
Empress Menen of Bermuda. 7 p.m. – 10
p.m.
– O.J. Ekemode & the Nigerian All-Stars at the “Old City Late Night Club”
125 E. Jackson Avenue. 9 p.m. $8 in advance and $10 at the door.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY- at Chilhowee Park. For $1 all this can be yours: African
Marketplace, Mr. and Ms. Kuumba pageant, reggae, R & B, Jazz, Rap, Blues,
Gospel, Dancing, Free Spirit Stiltwalkers, Art Exhibits, Children’s Tent,
African All-Star Djembe Drumme
rs, Craft Vendors, Food and More. Friday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday 12
p.m. to 8 p.m.
