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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Sadie: A Narrative film
Part coming-of-age story and part slow-burn thriller, this 2018 film introduces us to Sadie, a troubled teen who lives in a trailer park with her mother, while longing for her absent soldier father. She might not stop at anything to get what she wants. Megan Griffiths' Sadie has been called "disquieting," "absorbing" and populated with
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Switchback Concert
Playing a mix of mandolin, guitar and bass, Switchback – Brian FitzGerald and Martin McCormack – has been compared to famous duos, such as the Louvin Brothers, Everly Brothers and Simon and Garfunkel. Touring together since 1993, this team brings its “stunning" vocals to a program of original Americana songs and Celtic music that reflects
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FL3TCH3R Exhibit, visual art
Reece Museum @ ETSU 363 Stout Drive, Johnson City, TN, United StatesThe FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social & Politically Engaged Art focuses on work with strong and timely contemporary content. In addition to providing a venue for socially relevant expression, the FL3TCH3R Exhibit supports the annual Fletcher H. Dyer Memorial Scholarship for an ETSU Art & Design student. Exhibition Oct. 8-Dec. 14 at the ETSU Reece Museum. Thursday,
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Upstate, photography exhibition
Reece Museum @ ETSU 363 Stout Drive, Johnson City, TN, United StatesFeaturing photos by ETSU Art & Design professor Tema Stauffer, Upstate examines the social, economic and cultural landscape of American spaces, focusing on urban and rural environments in the Hudson, N.Y., area. Alison Nordström, an independent scholar, specializing in photographs, will give the pre-reception talk on Nov. 29. Exhibition Oct. 22-Dec. 14, Reece Museum, Wed.,
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Man Made, documentary film
Called “a sensitive snapshot of four lives in transition," Man Made traces the varied lives of four transgender men as they prepare to compete in the only all-trans bodybuilding competition in the world. The 2018 documentary, directed by novelist T Cooper and executive-produced by actress Téa Leoni, focuses on the emotional and physical journeys and
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Hamlet, Actors from the London Stage
TN, United StatesFive actors from British theatre companies, such as the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare’s Globe, will visit ETSU for one week Oct. 22-27, giving three performances of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Minimal props, costumes and set showcase the ensemble’s talents while keeping the focus on Shakespeare's words, says founding director Sir Patrick Stewart. Thursday & Friday, Oct.
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Chasing Portraits, documentary film
Elizabeth Rynecki's new film tells the story of her two-decade quest to find – and share with the world – her great-grandfather's works of art that illustrate pre-war Polish/Jewish life. With the German occupation of Warsaw imminent, Moshe Rynecki distributed about 800 paintings to people he trusted for safekeeping. After the war, his widow was
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