This week in the Arts:
Special Events
First Tennessee Free Family Night will take place at the Creative Discovery Museum on Thursday from 5:30-8 p.m. Call 756-2738 or visit www.cdmfun.org for more information.
The Craniofacial Foundation of America will host Palate 2 Palette Friday, March 19, from 7-9 p.m. and Saturday, March 20, from 5-8 p.m. in galleries throughout Chattanooga's historic Southside district. For more information, call 778-9176 or visit www.palate2palette.org.
The Great Southern Old Time Fiddlers' Convention will be held Saturday, March 20, at 3 p.m. at Lindsay Street Hall. Contests will be held with cash prizes awarded in the old time categories of fiddle, banjo, dance and string band.
The Chattanooga Blues Festival will take place at Memorial Auditorium on Sunday, March 21, at 6 p.m. Tickets may be purchased by visiting www.chattanoogaonstage.com or by calling 642-TIXS.
Visual Art & Film
The AEC Spring Indepedent Film Series continues at the Majestic Theater with the showing of That Evening Sun through Thursday and Police, Adjective beginning Friday. Visit
www.artsedcouncil.org for more information or to purchase a Film Club card.
AVA will offer a Basic Introduction to iPhone workshop on Saturday from 10 a.m.-12 p.m., and a Basic Introduction to Social Networking Sites workshop will be held Saturday, March 20, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Visit www.avarts.org to register.
A Friday Morning Art Group with artist/facilitator Jas Milam will be held at the Rivoli Art Mill each Friday morning through March 26 from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. To register, call 322-2514 or visit www.jasmilam.com.
The Folk School of Chattanooga is hosting a Music Documentary Film Series each Friday night at 7 p.m. in February and March. This week's film is Dervish: Live at Johnny Fox's. For more information, visit
www.chattanoogafolk.com/events.
Lookout Mountain Gallery will host the opening reception for "It's a Jungle Out There," an exhibit featuring Beverly Ford Adams, Hubert Wackermann and Erika Gerber, on Friday from 6-9 p.m. For more information, call 596-6622 or visit www.lookoutmountaingallery.com.
Shuptrine Fine Art Group will present a Talk Portraiture workshop with artist Mia Bergeron on Saturday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. For reservations or more information, call 266-4453.
Artists Daniel Liam Gill and Sandra Shannon will demonstrate their techniques Saturday from 1-4 p.m. at My Color Image Boutique & Gallery. Call 598-6202 for more information.
The opening reception for Lawrence Mathis' "Recent Landscapes" exhibit will be held Friday, March 19, at 6 p.m. at Tanner-Hill Gallery. The exhibit continues through April. Visit www.tannerhillgallery.com for more information.
Theatre, Music & Dance
The String Theory at the Hunter series continues Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Hunter Museum of American Art with a performance by guitarists Randall Avers and Benoit Albert. For more information, call 267-0968 or visit www.huntermuseum.org/learn/string-theory.
The Chattanooga Theatre Centre James K. Steakley / Meyer Winer Youth Theatre presents Antigone Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday-Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Call 267-8534 or visit www.theatrecentre.com to purchase tickets.
Pianist Dr. Agnes Wan will present a recital of music of J. S. Bach at the Center for Creative Arts on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. For information, call 209-5942.
The Tennessee Valley Theatre will present Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Barbara Bailey Hutcheson in concert on Friday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets may be reserved by calling 365-PLAY.
Karl Gardner, professional actor and Producing Artistic Director of Destiny Theatre Company, will conduct scene study acting classes on Saturdays from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. at the Barking Legs Theater. To register or for more information, call 242-5156 or email destinytheatre@gmail.com.
The musical Peter Pan - Or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up will be presented at the Tivoli Theatre Saturday, March 13, through Saturday, March 20. For showtimes and tickets, visit www.chattanoogaonstage.com.
Shakespeare Chattanooga will hold auditions for "Scenes from Shakespeare" on Saturday from 12-3 p.m. and Sunday from 2:30-5 p.m. at the Chattanooga Theatre Centre. Contact Janis Hashe at 622-2862 or jhashe@epbfi.com for more information.
Covenant College and the Musical Theatre Club present their production of West Side Story Thursday - Saturday, March 18-20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Dora MacLellan Brown Memorial Chapel. Tickets may be reserved by calling 706 419-1453 or visiting www.covenant.edu.
The UTC Opera Theater will present their spring production of Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte Friday - Saturday, March 19-20, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 21, at 3 p.m. at the UTC Fine Arts Center. For more information, call 425-4601 or visit www.utc.edu/music.
The Chattanooga Choral Society for the Preservation of African American Song will present the Fourth Annual Lee Norris Mackey Memorial Concert on Sunday, March 21, at 5 p.m. at First Baptist Church. In addition to the concert, Wintley Phipps will conduct a master class Negro Spiritual: the Legacy of an American Treasure on Monday, March 22, at 12 p.m. at the Lindsay Street Hall. For more information, call Wilma LeSure at (423) 892-1439.
Musician Sam Glaser will perform at the Jewish Cultural Center on Sunday, March 21, at 4 p.m. For more information or to reserve tickets, contact Ann Treadwell at 493-0270, ext. 13 or atreadwell@jewishchattanooga.com.
Chattanooga musicians Ann Rylands and Bruce Ashton will perform Sunday, March 21, at 3 p.m. in the Baylor School Chapel. For more information, call Tom Schow at 267-8506, ext. 548.
Writing, Literature & Poetry
Rock Point Books will host a Family Saturday Storytime on Saturday at 11 a.m. with the reading of Curly, Randy and the Poultry Show by Lynn Gobler Pomeroy. Visit www.rockpointbooks.com for more information.
Ron Hall, author of Same Kind of Different as Me, will sign copies of his latest book, What Difference Do it Make?, at Rock Point Books on Monday from 6-8 p.m. Call 756-2855 or visit www.rockpointbooks.com for more information.
The Classic Literature Book Club will meet and discuss Jane Austen's Emma on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Rock Point Books. For more information, contact Joel Swanson at 432-8579 or bookclub.classics@gmail.com.