Upcoming Events
From music festivals, racing, history, heritage, food and everything in between. Here's your guide.
Martin Center for the Arts
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Johnson City: The 5 Browns star in “Digging Through the Darkness”
The Millenium Center 2001 Millennium PIace, Johnson City, TN, United StatesThe stars come out in February, beginning with a film about the dark secret shared by the three sisters of the world-renowned piano quintet, The 5 Browns. “Digging Through the Darkness,” on Monday, Feb. 4, is the featured event for An Evening of Health, Wellness and the Arts, co-sponsored annually by the Martin School, the
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Johnson City: Screening of award-winning film “306 Hollywood”
On Monday, Feb. 18, the award-winning documentary film “306 Hollywood,” which chronicles a journey through the life of two siblings’ late grandmother, based on the objects she left behind, will be shown in the ongoing South Arts Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers series. The free film begins at 7 p.m. in the Ball Hall
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Johnson City: Performance by the Sybarite5 string quintet
On Feb. 22, the Sybarite5 string quintet brings its innovative programming – from Bowie to Radiohead and Akiho to Assad – and new sounds to Johnson City for a 7:30 p.m. performance at First Presbyterian Church. Their mission, they say, is to engage the senses and redefine the rules, and music reviewers have taken notice.
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Johnson City: “Everything is Connected – A Collection of Stories – Most Weird, Many True”
Adventurous artist, Peterson Toscano, brings a “quirky” look at issues – including sexism, racism, privilege, gender, LGBTQ and climate change – in late February as the storyteller, actor and activist visits campus. Toscano, a Quaker from Pennsylvania and self-proclaimed Bible scholar, will present “Everything is Connected – A Collection of Stories – Most Weird, Many
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Johnson City: Screening of film “Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
March dawns with the South Arts Southern Circuit Tour documentary “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” a film that director RaMell Ross calls “a lyrical innovation to the form of portraiture that boldly ruptures racist aesthetic frameworks.” Adapting author and screenwriter James Agee’s concept of organizing by light and mood, Ross follows the ordinary lives
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Johnson City: Musical performance by Lawler + Fadoul
On Thursday, March 7, two more young music luminaries bring their unique repertoire of classics and new music to Johnson City. Lawler + Fadoul, the duo of flutist Zara Lawler and marimbist Paul Fadoul, will perform at 7:30 p.m. in Mathes Hall. The duo promises “an unexpected mélange of classical virtuosity, lively commentary, theatrical
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Johnson City: Performance by pianist Christopher Taylor
Next in the Martin School spring season of innovation is pianist Christopher Taylor, performing at Munsey Memorial United Methodist Church, on Thursday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m. Taylor has performed and won piano competition honors around the globe, as well as being known for his agility on the Steinway double-keyboard piano. In addition to piano
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Johnson City: Screening of award-winning film “Minding the Gap”
The spring season closes on Monday, April 15, with “Minding the Gap,” another free Southern Circuit documentary film screening, in the Ball Hall auditorium at 7 p.m. In this award-winning film, three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long
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Webs Circus, Dragonfly Aerial
"Webs" is a physical theater show about the experience of gender-based violence – from street harassment to assault. Their performances explore the broad range of violence against people identifying as women, the experience of being a victim of violence and the healing, justice and change needed to end the violence. With circus and aerial artists
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FLETCHER Exhibition Juror Talk & Reception
Reece Museum @ ETSU 363 Stout Drive, Johnson City, TN, United StatesSue Coe began her American career as an illustrator for The New York Times and has contributed drawings to The Nation, Entertainment Weekly, The Progressive, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone and Artforum, as well as having written four books. Coe is known for her stark renderings of victims and their tormentors. The breadth of her
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