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Children's Festival of Reading features Starship Adventures. Knox County Public Library's 4th annual Children’s Festival of Reading from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on May 31 in World’s Fair Park. The Festival is a midday frolic with writers, illustrators, storytellers, ventriloquists, aliens and characters of all sorts. Set to the theme “Starship Adventures,” the Festival promises to be an
out of this world experience. While there, all attendees, parents, teens, and toddlers, are encouraged to sign up for one of the Library’s summer reading programs.

This year’s Festival features #1 New York Times best selling author and illustrator, Mo Willems, best known for his Caldecott Honor picture books Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity. The American Library Association bestows the Caldecott Medal on the artist who created the most
distinguished picture book of the year.
 
The Library is also pleased to host Ruth White, author of Belle Prater’s Boy, which received the prestigious Newbery Honor for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year. Graphic Novelist and creator of Men In Black, Lowell Cunningham will make a presentation and be available in the teen area. Cunningham lives in Knoxville and once worked for the Knox County Public Library.
 
Other authors include poet Allan Wolf, illustrator Meredith Liddiard, writer Tere Stouffer, illustrator Robert J. Blake, and naturalist Doris Gove.

East Tennessee’s most important cultural heritage sites are partnering to provide the Statehood Day Heritage Festival on Saturday May 31 and Sunday June 1. The sites include places of historical significance in the exciting journey of Tennessee becoming the 16th state in 1796. They include Ft. Loudoun, the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, James White Fort, Marble Springs, Ramsey House, Mabry-Hazen House and the Blount Mansion.

Each site will be providing special activities to commemorate events leading to our Statehood including: historical reenactments, Native American living history, live music colonial cooking, and frontier arts and crafts demonstrations.  All events will be free and open to the public.
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Thursday Evenings at Market Square; 6pm

May 15: North Mississippi All Stars
May 22: The Presidents of the United States of America with Cutthroat Shamrock
May 29: Robert Earl Keen with Jypsi June
June 5: (not yet booked)
June 12: Citizen Cope
June 19: Marc Broussard with Erick Baker
June 26: The Everybodyfields and Amy LaVere
July 3: The Wild Magnolias

Knox County Public Library is now taking applications for Media High, its highly successful documentary program for teens. This year, two workshops are being offered, Session 1: Video and Session 2: Audio. Students can sign up for either workshop or both. Media High is open to rising high school juniors and seniors and recent high school graduates.
 
The workshops meet from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Arts @ the Library Room at Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave. Enrollment for both workshops is limited to 12 students on a first come, first served basis. There is a $25.00 registration fee for participation in Session 1: Video, and $15.00 for Session 2: Audio with a limited amount of needs-based scholarship funds available; if interested in financial assistance indicate so on the application. Applications are available on the Library’s website (www.knoxlib.org) or at any Library location.  Applications and registration fees may be turned in at any Knox County Public Library location, due May 19.   


Session 1: Video
May 27 – June 5
This video documentary workshop teaches high school students the basics of digital video design and production. As individuals or in teams of two, students will make a short historical documentary video and in the process learn research skills, interviewing techniques, shooting, editing, and teamwork. The centerpiece of each project will be precious archival 16mm footage of downtown Knoxville provided by the McClung Historical Collection. The student films will premiere on Thursday June 5th at the East Tennessee History Center.  
 
Session 2: Audio
June 9 – June 13
This is Media High’s first year to expand into the realm of radio documentaries and audio podcasts. This summer a one-week workshop on creating a radio documentary will follow our video documentary workshop. 
 
To see clips of previous Media High video productions with archival content go to Listenup.org and lsearch for Media High in the directory.  For more information, call Nelda Hill at 215-8729.

The sixth annual Blooms Days Garden Festival and Marketplace in the UT Gardens on Neyland Drive in Knoxville will be June 28th and 29th.

Admission to this two-day event is being sponsored by the UT Federal Credit Union, the 2008 Blooms Days' Silver Anniversary Sponsor. Tickets will be available at UTFCU branches at many of the local garden center supporters and on line beginning June 1. For more details, visit www.bloomsdays.utk.edu, send email to bloomsdays@utk.edu or call 865-525-4555. Hours: 9 am - 6 pm on Saturday and 11 am - 5 pm on Sunday.

Kids of all ages will enjoy these exciting, fun-filled activities:
• Sprinkler Time — Have loads of fun frolicking through the UT Garden sprinklers when they come alive every half hour and cool off too!!
• Insect Zoo
• Butterfly House
• Make & Take Projects
• Face Painting — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. daily
• Storytime — 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Lucas Richman are thrilled to announce the new 2008-2009 Moxley Carmichael Masterworks and Chamber Classics Series. All eight Masterworks programs will be held at the Tennessee Theatre on Thursday and Friday evenings at 8:00 p.m. under the direction of Maestro Lucas Richman, unless otherwise noted. All five Chamber Classics concerts will take place on Sunday afternoons at 2:30 PM at the Bijou Theatre. More

Knoxville Farmer's Market, April 26 - November 22 on Market Square in downtown Knoxville. Local Produce, Live Plants, Baked Goods, Herbs, Free Range Meat, Artisan Crafts, and more. Farmer's Market will be open very Saturday 10am-2pm and every Wednesday 11am-2pm.

The Square will be filled with local farmers, gardeners, bakers, and artisans, as well as performers and musicians. The MSFM is producer-only, meaning that everything at the market is grown or made right here in East Tennessee.

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