This week in the Arts:
Special Events
The Hunter Museum of American Art and the members of the Hunter's Avant-art group will host Hunter Underground on Friday, March 26, beginning at 8 p.m. To purchase tickets, visit www.huntermuseum.org or call 267-0968.
The Craniofacial Foundation of America will host Palate 2 Palette Friday from 7-9 p.m. and Saturday 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.
Lee University presents the 4th Annual Culture Fest on Thursday, March 25, at 5 p.m. For more information, email culture@leeuniversity.edu or call 614-8405.
Visual Art & Film
The Hunter Museum of American Art will present a program entitled "Imaging Identity," which includes a moderated discussion of how we view ourselves as Americans and as Chattanoogans, on Thursday at 6 p.m. Visit www.huntermuseum.org for more information.
The AEC Spring Indepedent Film Series continues at the Majestic Theater with the showing of Police, Adjective through Thursday and A Town Called Panic beginning Friday. Visit www.artsedcouncil.org for more information or to purchase a Film Club card.
AVA will offer a Basic Introduction to Social Networking Sites workshop Saturday from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. An eBay & Etsy workshop will be held in the AVA Media Lab on Wednesday from 10 a.m.-12 p.m., and a Camera to Computer Art Documentation workshop will take place Saturday, March 27, from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Visit www.avarts.org to register or for more information.
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 High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music. Visit
www.chattanoogafolk.com/events for more information.
The opening reception for Lawrence Mathis' "Recent Landscapes" exhibit will be held Friday at 6 p.m. at Tanner-Hill Gallery. The exhibit continues through April. Visit www.tannerhillgallery.com for more information.
The Finale' Gala for artists Daniel Liam Gill and Sandra Shannon will be held Thursday, March 25, from 4-7 p.m. at My Color Image Boutique & Gallery. For more information, call 598-6202.
Bill Shores Frames and Gallery will host artist Evelyn Marie Williams and her show entitled "Scenes of a Native Land" during an opening reception to be held Thursday, March 25, from 6-8 p.m. Call 756-6746 for more information.
A Screenwriting Mini-Course, presented by the Chattanooga Writers Guild, the local Association for the Future of Film and Television and CreateHere, will be held at CreateHere Thursday, March 25, April 1 and 8 from 7-9 p.m. each evening. To make a reservation, please email Lantz Powell at lantzlp@aol.com or call 893-5539.
A reception will be held at the Exum Gallery and Memorial Garden at St. Paul's Episcopal Church on Friday, March 26, from 4-6 p.m. featuring paintings from the collection of Helen Exum and works by other artists. For more information, call 266-8194 or email stpauls@stpaulschatta.org.
A collage mosaic weekend workshop with artist Steve Terlizzese will be held Saturday-Sunday, March 27-28. Contact Steve at 883-7825 or steve@mosaicguy.com for more information.
A Murrini Glass Magnet workshop will be offered Saturday, March 27, from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. at Ignis Glass Gallery & Studio. To register, call 265-2565 or email us at info@ignisglass.com.
Theatre, Music & Dance
Auditions for Pig Farm will be held Monday-Tuesday, March 22-23, at 7:30 p.m. and for Arthur Miller's The Crucible Sunday-Monday, March 28-29, at 7:30 p.m. with girls auditions scheduled for Tuesday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m. at the Chattanooga Theatre Centre. Visit www.theatrecentre.com for more information.
The CSO, with special guests Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Anne-Marie McDermott, will perform Thursday-Friday, March 25-26, at 8 p.m. at the Tivoli Theatre. Visit www.chattanoogasymphony.org for more information.
The Chattanooga Theatre Centre hosts the Biennial Festival of New Plays Friday-Saturday, March 26-27, with the performance of Hunter Rodgers' grand-prize winning play The Primitive Steak and reading of runner-up Dakota Brown's Sunday in the South. Readings of Fortunes of Warren by Lee Wright and Life Without Tom by Logan Lee will be held Friday-Saturday, April 2-3. To purchase tickets, call 267-8534 or visit www.theatrecentre.com.
The musical Peter Pan - Or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up will be presented at the Tivoli Theatre Thursday-Saturday. For showtimes and tickets, visit www.chattanoogaonstage.com.
Covenant College and the Musical Theatre Club present their production of West Side Story Thursday-Saturday, and Thursday-Friday, March 25-26 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, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. For more information, call 425-4601 or visit www.utc.edu/music.
Jockstrap U.'s Festival of the Bard and Multidiscipline Extra-credit Seminar will be presented at the Tennessee Valley Theatre Saturday-Sunday. For tickets and showtimes, visit www.tennesseevalleytheatre.com.
The Chattanooga Choral Society for the Preservation of African American Song will present the Fourth Annual Lee Norris Mackey Memorial Concert on Sunday 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 at 12 p.m. at the Lindsay Street Hall. For more information, call Wilma LeSure at 892-1439.
Musician Sam Glaser will perform at the Jewish Cultural Center on Sunday 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 at 3 p.m. in the Baylor School Chapel. For more information, call Tom Schow at 267-8506, ext. 548.
The Center for Creative Arts Music Department presents John Rutter's "Gloria" on Sunday at 3 p.m. at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. For more information, contact Neshawn Calloway at 209-5929 or calloway_neshawn@hcde.org.
The Presidential Concert Series concludes at Lee University with a performance by acclaimed Italian pianist Fabio Bidini on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets may be reserved by calling 614-8343.
Guest artist Dennis Thurmond will present a concert entitled "400 Years of Keyboard Improvisation" on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the UTC Fine Arts Center. For more information, call 425-4601 or visit www.utc.edu/music.
Destiny Theatre Company will present Miss Ever's Boys at the Chauncey-Goode Auditorium on the campus of Tennessee Temple University Friday-Saturday, March 26-27, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 28, at 4 p.m. Tickets are available by calling 242-5156 or visiting www.destinyentertainment.org.
John Prine will appear in concert at the Tivoli Theatre on Saturday, March 27, at 8 p.m. Visit www.chattanoogaonstage.com or call 757-5050 for ticket information.
Writing, Literature & Poetry
The Southern Literature Book Club will meet and discuss Gap Creek by Robert Morgan on Monday at 6 p.m. at Rock Point Books. For more information, e-mail Abbie Tilley at southernlitclub@comcast.net.
The C.S. Lewis Society will finish its discussion of Lewis's Space Trilogy with the third book, That Hideous Strength, on Friday, March 26, at 7 p.m. at Rock Point Books. Visit www.cslewischattanooga.org for more information.