Community Calendar

What if you had the time and support to create–to paint, to draw, and to explore?
At Sketch Club, you can! If you’re an emerging or an established artist who feels called to create, but struggles to find the time and space to create consistently, we’re building this community for you.

You don’t have to keep delaying your creative goals. Sketch Club provides an ideal container: two hours a week on Saturdays in a playful, lighthearted setting to learn, explore, and try new things.

If you crave a friendly environment and a passionate creative community, you’re in the right place.

The Oak Ridge Community Band will perform a Veterans Day concert on Sunday afternoon, November 8, at 3 pm in the sanctuary of the First Baptist Church, 1101 Oak Ridge Turnpike in Oak Ridge. This is a FREE event, and all area veterans have a special invitation to attend and be recognized for your service to our country. Our program directed by conductor Bill Kerr will include familiar and loved patriotic songs in honor of all our veterans. Visit our website at www.orcb.org for more information and also see our facebook page at www.facebook.com/OakRidgeCommunityBand.

Honor the stories of those who have served through an extraordinary evening of music at Voices of Valor.

Presented in partnership with the Cathedral Concert Series at the Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, this special Veterans Day concert welcomes the U.S. Army Chorus as a featured performer. The program also brings together Knoxville Opera’s military chorus, Military Voices of East Tennessee (MVET), Knoxville Opera soloists, and the Tennessee Wind Symphony for a moving celebration of service, sacrifice, resilience, and hope through opera, American classics, patriotic favorites, and choral music.

Community announcement from a small independent app developer (ITAPS LLC; not a student group or local business), in case it's useful to your listeners.

Lock It: Calculator Vault is a free Android privacy app. Looks like a calculator. Opens like a vault. It works as a normal calculator, but when you type your own secret equation and press =, it opens a private vault for photos, notes, passwords and 2FA codes, encrypted with AES-256 on the phone. It also has private messages and calls only with people you invite by key or QR code. Handy for anyone whose phone gets passed around among roommates and friends.

Free to download with ads; optional Premium Pro ($4.99/month) and Offline Vault ($9.99 one time).
Available now on Google Play for Android. iPhone (iOS) version coming soon.
Search "Lock It: Calculator Vault" on Google Play, or: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appfactory.calculator&referrer=utm_source%3Dwuot.org%26utm_medium%3Dlisting%26utm_campaign%3Dfree_ads

Contact: lockit@mail.grokbot.com (ITAPS LLC). Thanks for reading!

With the growing awareness of holistic and complementary approaches to personal balance and inner growth, the concept of transformation through spiritual practices is gaining increased attention.
Bruno Groening (1906-1959) brought a simple message: there is a higher power that is the basis of all living things. He showed how this power can be absorbed freely to transform body and soul.
Since 1979 the Bruno Groening Circle of Friends has continued to pass on his Teaching on living in harmony with natural and spiritual laws.
Speakers will include Mrs. Brigitte Hutter from Germany and Mr. Jan Skopic from the Czech Republic.
The event is open to all who are interested.

Student Orientation Session for incoming students: We will review all the essential information to ensure a successful start, including Academic policies, Attendance requirements, Dress Code and our digital Learning Management System. You will also get a guided tour of the campus and classrooms to help you find your way around, alongside dedicated support to set up your new laptop. We look forward to sharing some fun moments together as well!

Opened in 2015, the Ross Medical Education Center Knoxville campus is located just about a mile from the intersection of I-75 and I-140, right off of Kingston Pike in the Windsor Square shopping center.

The John T. O’Connor Senior Center invites the community to kick off the holiday season with the Center’s Annual Fall Craft Fair, featuring a wonderful selection of handmade crafts, unique gifts, seasonal décor and more.

The craft fair provides an opportunity for shoppers to find one-of-a-kind items while supporting local artisans and crafters. The Fair will feature a wide array of beautiful autumnal handmade creations to Holiday inspired treasures; there will be something for everyone.

New Food Pantry now available to neighborhood and surrounding areas twice a month. Every 2nd Thursday of each month we will be giving away non-perishable goods and personal care items. On the 4th Thursday of each month we will be serving a hot meal.

Join actress Anne Van Curen for a portrayal of Lydia Kear Whaley, a midwife, healer and Civil War widow who lived in Sugarlands from 1840 to 1926. Smokies Life Branch Out event. Great Smokies Welcome Center, Townsend, Tenn. Cost: For Park Keepers, $45; to join and attend, $85 (Park Keeper basic membership $40 + event registration $45). Info – SmokiesLife.org/branch-out-events or email: membership@smokieslife.org.

Blount Mansion’s Semiquincentennial Celebration Lecture Series with Dr. Katy Chiles - Phillis Wheatley and the Black American Revolution

This lecture is sponsored by The National Society of Colonial Dames Knoxville Town Committee to honor America’s 250th Anniversary!

Blount Mansion is proud to present Dr. Katy Chiles of the University of Tennessee. She will speak on ”Phillis Wheatley and the Black American Revolution.”
Phillis Wheatley was a Black poet enslaved in Boston during the American Revolution.

This talk discusses how her poetry takes up the themes of liberty, freedom, and slavery and how she started the African American literary tradition.
Katy Chiles is an Associate Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty in Africana Studies at the University of Tennessee. Her first book, Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literatures of Early America was published by Oxford University Press, and her scholarship has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Antiquarian Society. With Professor Cassander Smith (University of Alabama), she is Co-Editor of Early American Literature.

• Lecture will start at 6pm
• The special speaking event will be at Blount Mansion Visitors Center, 200 West Hill Avenue, Knoxville TN 37902.
• Limited free parking onsite
• $10 Donation suggested at the door. Cash and card accepted
• RSVP to Rose@BlountMansion.org