posted October 9, 2008
This week in the Arts:
Special Events
Free Family Night will take place Thursday from 5:30-8 p.m. at the Creative Discovery Museum. This month you will have a fun time when you join in the October Art Lesson, "Paper Play" which is all about the art of paper sculptures. For more information, please call (423) 756-2738.
The Chattanooga History Center will present its third walking tour based on a section of Maury Nicely's Chattanooga Walking Tour and Historic Guide on Thursday at 7 p.m. beginning at the parking lot across the street from the Chattanooga Theatre Centre. For registration information, call (423) 265-3247.
The Creative Discovery Museum hosts Spooky Days, featuring spooky stories, spooky arts activities, plus s'mores and hot apple cider, every Saturday in October. For more information, call (423) 756-2738.
The Creative Discovery Museum opens its new exhibit, "Kids Like You, Kids Like Me" Saturday. This exhibit offers children and their parents the chance to experience a day in the life of a child with a disability. For more information, please call (423) 756-2738.
The City of Chattanooga, Department of Neighborhood Services and Community Development presents the 10th Annual Neighborhoods Conference Thursday and Friday at the Chattanooga Convention Center. For more information, please call (423) 425-3700.
The Fourth Annual Go!Fest Celebration will be held at the Chattanooga Zoo Saturday from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. The goal of the celebration is to break boundaries and increase disability awareness. For more information, call (423) 425-7800.
The Chattanooga Area Historical Association invites you to join Michael Green, naturalist and board president of Reflection Riding, who will guide a leisurely interpretive ride through Reflection Riding as we explore and discuss what life here must have been like in 1500, 1800, 1838, 1860 and the early 20th century. Meet at the Humphreys House on Sunday at 2 p.m.
Visual Art & Film
The Chattanooga African American Museum hosts Dan Creed's collection entitled Black Diamond: The Negro League in America through Friday, Oct. 31. For more information about the exhibit, please call (423) 266-8658.
The Chattanooga African American Museum presents Root Workers and Railroad Tracks, a solo mixed media exhibition by local artist, James McKissic through Friday, Oct.31. For more information, call the CAAM at (423) 266-8658.
The AEC Independent Film Series continues at the Bijou Theatre with Up the Yangtze through Thursday and Frozen River beginning Friday
AVA's Art Speak will be held at Smart Furniture Tuesdayfrom 5:30-7 p.m. Janna Martin is the featured speaker and will address the notion of how we interact with interior space and how the design of interior space impacts its inhabitants. For more information, please call (423) 265-4282.
A Photoshop I workshop continues each Tuesday through Oct. 28 from 6-8 p.m. at AVA.
A Beginning Video & Video Making workshop continues each Thursday through Oct. 30 from 6-8 p.m. at AVA.
The Hermitage invites individual artists or teams of artists to submit their qualifications to design, fabricate and install a public artwork to memorialize enslaved African Americans on The Hermitage property. The submission deadline is Friday at 4 p.m. CST.
The opening reception for "La Bella Italia" will be held Friday from 5-8 p.m. at The Gallery. The show runs to Nov. 6. For more information, please call (423) 870-2443.
UTC's Foreign Language Department will show the film Frida, starring Selma Hayak and Alberto Molina, Wednesday at 7:15 p.m. as part of the kickoff activities for UTC's new Women's Studies major. For more information, please call (423) 266-6627.
Theatre, Music & Dance
Choral Arts of Chattanooga will join forces with Shakespeare Chattanooga to present an evening of choral music based on Shakespeare texts, interspersed with dramatic vignettes from some of Shakespeare's greatest works. The concert will be presented Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at First Centenary United Methodist Church.
Ballet Tennessee's first studio performance, featuring current repertoire and student choreography, will be performed Friday, Oct. 17, at 8 p.m. For more information, call (423) 821-2055.
The CSO will perform its first Pops concert of the season, Fantastic Journey, at the Tivoli Theatre Saturday, Oct. 18, at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale now online and at the CSO box office by calling (423) 267-8583.
UTC's Music Department continues its 2008-09 Fine Arts Season on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. as the UTC Orchestra presents their fall concert in the Roland Hayes Concert Hall in the UTC Fine Arts Center. For further information, contact the UTC Music Department Office at (423) 425-4601.
Stephen Sondheim's musical thriller Sweeney Todd will be presented Thursday at the Tivoli Theatre, as part of TAPA's 2008-2009 Broadway Series. The series package is on sale now at Memorial Auditorium box office. Call (423) 642-TIXS for more information.
The Gem Players present the comedy First Baptist of Ivy Gap Thursday - Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Historic Gem Theater in Etowah, Tn. For more information and additional show dates, please call (423) 263-3270.
The Community Players present A Little Princess Friday and Saturday, at 7:30 p.m. at the Colonnade Civic Center. For tickets or more information, call (706) 935-9000.
Moises Kaufman's play, The Laramie Project, will be presented by the Ensemble Theatre Company (ETC) Monday at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, Oct. 18, at 3:30 p.m. at the St. Andrews Center Theatre. For more information, contact Garry Lee Posey at (423) 987-5141 or garryposey@yahoo.com.
The Lee University Wind Ensemble will present its first concert of the season on Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Lee University Conn Center. For more information, please call the School of Music offices at 614-8240.
Writing & Literature
The October meeting of the Chattanooga Writers Guild will be held Tuesday from 7-8:45 p.m. at the Downtown Branch of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library. For more information, please call (423) 425-4168.
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