This week in the Arts:
Special Events
Free Family Night will be held Thursday beginning at 5:30 p.m., and AmuseUm 2013, the party for grown-ups that benefits kids, will take place Saturday, April 20, from 7-11 p.m. at the Creative Discovery Museum. Visit www.cdmfun.org for more information.
AVA's 4 Bridges Arts Festival will take place Saturday - Sunday at the First Tennessee Pavilion and will feature over 140 of the nation's most talented artists exhibiting painting, glasswork, jewelry, textiles, photography, sculpture and more. A preview party will open the Festival on Friday at 6:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.4bridgesartsfestival.org.
Art 120 will present The Scenic City Art Car Weekend, with art car artists from across the country bringing their uniquely mobile masterpieces to Chattanooga, on Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. with a tailgate party at West 14th & Market Streets. A parade will be held at noon on Main Street, and the Art Car Ball will take place at Miller Plaza from 7-10 p.m. For more information or to volunteer, visit www.art120.org.
Theatre, Music & Dance
The birthday of Bessie Smith "Empress of the Blues" will be celebrated in a concert featuring Neshawn Calloway on Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center. Visit www.sparkartschattanooga.com for more information.
The Hunter Museum of American Art and Lee University will conclude the fourth season of String Theory at the Hunter on Thursday with a concert featuring a performance by New York-based string quartet Brooklyn Rider. To purchase tickets, call 267-0968 or visit www.stringtheorymusic.org.
The Chattanooga Theatre Centre's Youth Theatre production of How I Became A Pirate will continue through Sunday. The Children's Hour will be presented beginning Friday with an opening night reception at 7 p.m. and continue each weekend through Sunday, April 28. Auditions for Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson will be held Monday-Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Call 267-8534 or visit www.theatrecentre.com for more information.
Choral Arts of Chattanooga will perform A German Requiem, A Requiem For All People by Johannes Brahms on Sunday, April 21, at 4 p.m. at Church of the Good Shepherd and again on Tuesday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m. at Brainerd United Methodist Church. For more information, visit www.choralartsofchattanooga.org or www.facebook.com/choralarts.
Sabrina Fair will be presented by the Lee University Theatre Program Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the school's Dixon Center. For ticket information, call 614-8343 or visit www.leeuniversity.edu/theatre.
Graduates of Chattanooga State's Professional Actor Training Program will present Living Room in Africa by Bathsheba Doran Thursday-Sunday, and Some Girl(s) Friday-Sunday, April 19-21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga. For further information, please call 697-3246.
The Tennessee Valley Theatre will present their production of The Odd Couple Friday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. For more information, visit www.tennesseevalleytheatre.com or call 365-PLAY.
A student voice recital featuring Samantha Nixon, soprano, and Janelle McDonald, piano, will take place Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Chattanooga State Humanities Theatre. Call 697-3383 for more information.
An organ masterworks concert featuring organist Jason DuRoy will be held Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church. Visit www.signalpres.org for additional information.
The Gem Players and the Etowah Arts Commission will present in concert The Greater Cleveland Community Jazz Band at the Gem Theater on Saturday at 7 p.m. Call 263-3270 for ticket information.
The Barking Legs Theater will host a performance by The Champian Fulton Quartet on Saturday at 8 p.m. and by Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band on Monday at 8:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.barkinglegs.org.
Mise en Scenesters will host a showing of the horror film The ABC's of Death on Saturday beginning at 8 p.m. at the Barking Legs Theater. Visit www.mesfilmclub.com for more information.
Comedian Bill Cosby will perform at the Tivoli Theatre on Sunday at 7 p.m. Tickets may be purchased by calling 642-TIXS or visiting www.chattanoogaonstage.com.
Lee University's Opera Theatre class will perform Opera Scenes from Mozart's The Magic Flute, Menotti's The Medium, Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus, and Rossini's La Cenerentola on Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Edna Minor Conn Theatre. For more information, contact James Frost at jfrost@leeuniversity.edu.
The Chattanooga Bach Choir and Orchestra will present a concert featuring Magnificat by J.S. Bach and other pieces on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church. For more information, visit www.chattanoogabachchoir.org.
The Chattanooga Music Club, AGO Chattanooga, and the City of Chattanooga's Education, Arts & Culture department will host an organ concert featuring the Austin Pipe Organ at Memorial Auditorium on Monday from 1-1 p.m. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/events/124601547730525/?fref=ts.
The UTC Trumpet Ensemble, the UTC Trombone Ensemble, and the UTC Tuba/Euphonium Quartet will perform at the UTC Fine Arts Center on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Call 425-4601 or visit www.utc.edu/Academic/Music/Events.php.
The Chattanooga State Opera Theatre and Concert Choir will present Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas on Thursday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. This semi-staged production will also feature members of the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra. For further information, call 697-3383.
Celtic Woman will appear in concert at Memorial Auditorium on Friday, April 19, at 8 p.m. Visit www.chattanoogaonstage.com or call 642-TIXS for ticket information.
Tennessee Valley Theatre will present Roane Choral Society's Turn Your Radio On at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 20. For reservations, call 365-PLAY or visit www.tennesseevalleytheatre.com.
The Lee University Choral Union and Symphony Orchestra will present Mozart's Requiem on Saturday, April 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Conn Center. For more information, please contact the Lee University School of Music at 614-8240 or email music@leeuniversity.edu.
Rock of Ages will be performed at the Tivoli Theatre on Sunday, April 21, at 7 p.m. To purchase tickets, call 642-TIXS or visit www.chattanoogaonstage.com.
Winners of the recent Chattanooga Music Club scholarship competition will be featured in a recital on Sunday, April 21, at 2:30 p.m. at First Cumberland Presbyterian Church. The performers will include Wesley Carroll, John Burton, Jonathan Lau, Hannah Porter, Hollis Neel, Hannah Kuhn, Aaron Smith, Abigail Hinchman and Aaron Hairston. For additional information, visit www.chattanoogamusicclub.org.
Visual Art & Film
A Wheel Throwing for Beginners pottery workshop will be held each Tuesday and Thursday through April 13 from 6-9 p.m. at the EAC Pottery Studio. For more information, contact David Chambers at chambers_d@chattanooga.gov.
The North River Civic Center is hosting an exhibit by the North Georgia Sky Painters Society entitled "Sky Rhythms" through Thursday, May 30. For more information, visit www.chattanooga.gov/education-arts-and-culture/north-river-civic-center.
Shuptrine's Gold Leaf Designs' first annual Scenic City Paint Out, a week-long Plein Air painting festival, will take place Friday, April 12, through Friday, April 19, from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. each day. The gallery will also host the opening reception for "Plein Air - The Art of Outdoor Paintings" on Thursday, April 18, from 5-8 p.m. For more information, call 266-4453 or visit www.shuptrines.com.
A small works painting workshop with instructor Cindy Procious will be held Saturday-Sunday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m at Townsend Atelier. Call 266-2712 or visit www.townsendatelier.com to register.
The UTC Cress Gallery of Art will host the opening reception for "Show Two," the 2013 Senior BFA Thesis Exhibitions, on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the UTC Fine Arts Center lobby. Artists' talks begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Cadek Hall auditorium. For more information, visit www.cressgallery.org.
Front Gallery at Chenoweth . Halligan Studios will be exhibiting new works by Savannah sculptor and mixed media artist Jerome Meadows during April and May and will host an opening reception on Wednesday, April 17, from 5-8 p.m. Visit the gallery's Facebook page for more information.
Writing, Literature & Poetry
Chattanooga State Community College's Writers @ Work series will host the Intersection of Poetry and Jazz: Interpretive and Hip Hop dance exhibition Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Chattanooga State Humanities Theatre, which will be followed by a Behind the Writer interview and book signing with poet Ishmael Reed. For more information, visit "Writers at Work" on Facebook.
The River City Sessions will be held at The Camp House on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. For more information, please email graysigsys@aol.com or visit http://therivercitysessions.weebly.com/this-months-line-up.html.
Journalist and teacher Janis Hashe will conclude a series of classes entitled "Shakespeare for the Elizabethan Impaired" at The English Rose Tea Room on Tuesday from 6:30-8:30 p.m. To register and for more information, call 622-2862 or email jhashe@epbfi.com.