2008-2009 Performing Arts & Lecture Series

Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church

2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, Tennessee 37919-4624

(865) 523-4176

Thursday October 23, 2008 - 7:30 p.m.
Handel in Miniature: The Newberry Consort, David Douglass, Director
G.F. Handel, a consummate showman, wrote stimulating, accessible, and astoundingly beautiful music that endures today.  The musicians of the Newberry Consort, including the incomparable Ellen Hargis, return to Knoxville to present Handel's greatest hits, in miniature.

Thursday & Friday January 15 & 16, 2009 - 7:30 each evening
"Dawn's Light: The Journey of Gordon Hirabayashi,"
This one-man theatre piece reflects on the quietly heroic life of a young Quaker, who refused to be incarcerated when people of Japanese ancestry were forced to leave their homes during World War II.  Ryun Yu reprises the role he created at the show’s L.A. premier,

March 28, 2009 - 7:30 p.m.
Sounds & Sweet Airs: Shakespeare and Music
Knoxville’s finest musicians and actors, lead by James Carlson, present an innovative and imaginative evening of theater, music and dance inspired by the Bard, with music by Purcell, Mendelssohn, Korngold, Prokofiev, and Carlson, and dance by Momentum Dance Lab.

Prices: $15 for adults, $10 fixed income

Tickets for all performances on sale at the door 45 minutes before start .

Visa/MC, cash or check welcome