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Kingsport Senior Center Activities April 27, 2014 By Michelle Tolbert
The senior center is offering FREE Trail membership during the months of May and June. Come by the office and sign-up!
Basic sewing on a sewing machine classes on Mondays beginning May 5, 2014 and ending June 9, 2014, 5 week class From 11:00a.m.-12:30p.m. in room 303, Cost: $40.00 for Members, $50.00 non-members payable day of class. Maximum 6 people, minimum of 3. Instructor is John Plutchak. Participants must bring a sewing machine. Participants will learn the basic of sewing on your sewing machine and how to read a pattern and how to determine fabric and notion requirements. We will complete some projects that may include a tote bag, apron and or pajama pants. Requirements for first class, must have sewing machine, bobbins thread, thread scissors, and fabric scraps. Call the senior center office and sign up by May 2nd.
Please join us for an afternoon tea party on Monday, May 5, 2014 at 12:30pm in the cafeteria. Wear your best hat and bring a tea pot. The tea pots will be judged in three categories, including most colorful design, most unusual and oldest. Light refreshments will be served and are sponsored by Smoky Mountain Home Health and Hospice, Inc. Please sign up by May 2nd.
Make a scratch board art flower portrait on Friday, May 9, 2014 from 10:00am – 2:00pm in room 303. Cost is $45.00, includes all supplies, paid the day of class to instructor Michele Howe. Please sign up by May 7th.
Out -to-lunch-bunch travels to The Grovewood Cafĩ, Asheville, NC. *Adjacent to historic Grove Park Inn* Friday, May 9, 2014. Cost is $8.00 for transportation at sign up, plus money day of trip for lunch and shopping. We will leave the senior center at 9:30am and return by 6:00pm. Choose menu at sign up. Lunch is a limited menu; each item is $13.00 plus $2.00 for soda plus 20% gratuity and tax. After lunch there will be time to explore Grovewood Gallery which includes the Homespun Museum, Antique car museum and Art exhibition The In Crowd. There are over 9,000 square feet of crafts for sale by more than 500 artists. Check out the website for more information, www.grovewood.com. Sign up today!
Starting May 12, 2014 senior swim at the Kingsport Aquatic Center will be from 8:00am – 11am, Monday – Friday
Manicures provided by DB Cosmetology, Tuesday, May 13, 2014 from 11:30am – 1:30pm, 1 hour appointments. Cost is $2.00 paid to manicurist. Call the senior center office 392-8400 to schedule your appointment today!
Crochet Classes will be offered beginning Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at Lynn View Community Center. Beginners class will meet at 11:00am and Intermediate class will meet at 11:30am. Cost is $20.00 paid to instructor. Supplies are under $5.00, call for list. Must be right handed. Call the Lynn View Community Center to sign up, 765-9047.
Bristol Motor Speedway Tour Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Bristol, TN 8:30am – 4:30pm Cost: $9.00 plus lunch on your own Lunch at Shoneys. 47 spots available Tour starts at 10:00a.m.Lunch will follow after. Call the senior center office, 392-8400 for availability.
Join us for a Zumba Toning Class Demo on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 from 2:00pm – 3:00pm in the gym with instructor Linn Branchfield. We need a minimum of 5 for the class to go and if enough interest, we will schedule a six week class. Please sign up by May 5th.
Learn how to make chicken salad doves on Wednesday, May 14, 2014 in the lounge from 10:00am – noon. Cost is $2.00 paid day of class to instructor Jeanette Meador. Please sign up by May 12th.
Moses H Cone Memorial Park and Parkway Craft Center Wednesday, May 21, 2014 Blowing Rock, N.C. 8:30am – 5:30pm Cost: $18.00 includes transportation and picnic lunch. This trip will be for everyone with walking trails, scenic views, beautiful Georgian Revival architecture, southern highlands craft shop, ect. Please look up parkway craft center at the Moses Cone Manor on the internet. Sign up now!
Picnic in the Park at Warriors Path State Park on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at 11:30am at Shelter number 5. Cost is $2.00, plus bring a side dish to go with hamburgers that will be provided by the senior center. John Pafford band will entertain us so come out and enjoy the sunshine with us! Sign up today!
SHIP Volunteer Recruitment Session on Thursday, May 15 at 12:30pm in the card room. Many volunteer opportunities will be discussed. Sign up began May 1st.
Old Smoky Moonshine Distillery Tour with lunch at Mellow Mushroom, Gatlinburg, TN. Wednesday, June 11, 2014. Cost is $8.00, transportation fee due at sign up, plus lunch is on your own day of trip. Lunch will be at 11:00am, you will order off the menu at Mellow Mushroom and gratuity will be included. Tour of distillery begins at 1:00pm, lasts one hour, free tasting available. No fee for tour. Sign up begins May 6th.
Out-to-lunch-bunch goes to Hungry Mother State Park Lakeview Dining Room on Friday, June 13, 2014. We will leave the senior center at 9:45am and return around 3:30pm. Cost is $24.95 payable at sign up that begins May 6th. Menu is roast beef, chicken parmesan, whole green beans with almonds, whipped potatoes, garden salad and fruit cobbler. Max 33 participants.
Roan Mountain Hobo Pack Picnic on Friday, June 20, 2014. We will leave the senior center at 9:30am, return around 4:30pm. Cost is $14.00 for transportation and lunch. This should be peak season with the rhododendron festival on the following two days. We will picnic and then drive to the top to see the rhododendrons in bloom. Please bring a side to go with the hobo packs that include meat and veggies, water and soft drink included. All participants are asked to wear tennis shoes or closed toe shoes, some walking involved. Sign up begins May 6th. Check out the rhododendron festival online.
Folkmoot/Artfest Festival with dinner at the Moose Cafĩ, Waynesville, NC. on Saturday, July 26, 2014. We will leave the senior center at 8:00am and return around 9:00pm. Cost is $8.00 for transportation. Lunch is on your own. This is a street festival with international dancers, bard and crafts. The moose cafĩ has been featured in Southern living magazine; see more information about the cafĩ at www.eatthemoosecafe.com. Sign up begins May 13th, so mark your calendar! 47 spots available.
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KINGSPORT – The City of Kingsport Office of Cultural Arts in partnership with Skyflight Productions presents an evening with Courtney Jaye on Friday May 2, 2014 at The Renaissance Theatre in Kingsport, TN. Shaped by a life spent traveling and observing sounds and styles from all around the US, Nashville-based troubadour Courtney Jaye boasts a personality as massive as the hooks on her latest long player, Love and Forgiveness.
Born in Pittsburgh and raised in Atlanta, Jaye followed her restless heart to such rich cultural settings as Athens, GA, Flagstaff, AZ, Austin, Southern California, and the Hawaiian island of Kauai, before settling in Nashville. Along the way shes collaborated with the likes of Thad Cockrell, Kristen Hall (Sugarland), Ben Bridwell (Band of Horses), Matthew Sweet, comedian Stephen Lynch and members of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. That broad range of experience and musical interests comes together beautifully on Love and Forgiveness.
Jayes latest LP is her third full-length, the follow-up to 2010s tropical-tinged fusion of alt-country and classic pop, The Exotic Sounds of Courtney Jaye. The diverse souls and sounds Courtney has encountered along her journey have influenced her idiosyncratic brand of tropical, 70s-inspired roots-y pop just as much as heroes like Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, The Band and Fleetwood Mac have. Recasting those influences Jaye aims to recapture the timeless qualities of a golden era. Ive always wanted to find a way to not be afraid of pop, she says. Im done apologizing for writing big songs I dont want to be afraid of that. Thats the music I love.
While the songs on Love and Forgiveness themselves which Jaye co-wrote with Thad Cockrell, Bryan Cates and Kristen Hall over the last three years boast undeniable pop hooks, Jayes approach to capturing them on wax is refreshingly organic and rootsy. The albums production and musical team boasted a cross-section of veterans and top younger players – Mike Wrucke (Dixie Chicks, Miranda Lambert) produced the album, and Jaye drafted drummer Fred Eltringham (Dixie Chicks, The Wallflowers), bassist Sebastian Steinberg (Soul Coughing, Fiona Apple), pedal steel virtuoso Greg Leisz (Kris Kristofferson, Bruce Springsteen) and guitarists Josh Grange (The Jayhawks, Pistol Annies) and Neal Casal (Ryan Adams, Willie Nelson) to help fulfill her musical vision, infusing classic pop sounds with a rootsy immediacy.
Love and Forgiveness 10 tracks are key touchstones for Jaye musical memory fragments about breaking the patterns of broken relations (or true and utter fucking heartbreak, as she puts it) and the singer and her wrecking crew arranged and recorded them live during a marathon four-day session at L.A.s Ocean Studio. The process was spontaneous, with minimal notes and direction, and the result lends an emotional intimacy to the big hooks that, in true pop form, are utter heartbreaks silver lining.
In the spirit of classic album-oriented pop/rock, Love and Forgiveness brims with all-killer-no-filler cuts like the jaunty opener Ask Me To, the bouncy Up On Cripple Creek-meets-Wild Horses homage One Way Conversation, the trademark tropical country centerpiece Summer Rain and the direct emotional tug of Say Oh Say and Morning. The albums Laurel Canyon-goes-Brill Building classic pop production pairs perfectly with Courtney & Cos consummate song craft, and the hooks hearken back the heyday of AM radio as much as they spin from the decks like a breath of fresh air on todays playlists. Taking center stage is Jayes smokey, sky-reaching croon, which cuts through the speakers with freewheeling, unmistakable focus.
~SKYFLIGHT~
A new partnership between the City of Kingsport and Mr. Toby Weisend will result in fresh new musical performances at the Renaissance Arts Center Theatre over the next year. Unlike any concert series Kingsport has seen in the past, Toby Weisend brings his eclectic Skyflight Productions brand to the Tri-Cities and we are witnessing the emergence of an exciting new music scene in Kingsport.
Former Ohio resident and president of Skyflight Productions, Toby Weisend, has focused his attention in adding a new cultural element to Kingsport, Tennessee. Over the last three years Weisend has welcomed artists of all genres, including several Grammy-nominated artists, to rural eastern Ohio from literally all over the globe including France, Canada and Australia. The concerts have been very successful, enhancing and enriching the small community of Barnesville, Ohio. Channeling his ideas, visions and goals into a small town setting certainly goes against the grain of most entrepreneurial promoters. Rather than competing for a reputable presence in an overcrowded metropolitan “scene”, Weisend firmly believes that a small community can support and prosper from cultural expression. “Many artistic/creative individuals in a small town have not had the opportunity or resources to experience the nourishment from some of the nation’s underappreciated musicians willing to share their creations.” Weisend believes that his project will survive from word of mouth, lack of competition and stellar performances. Every show I produce, I put my reputation on the line.
Weisend supports community efforts and energy and believes that this is the forum to make a community thrive. If the concert series is supported and well-attended, Weisend will expand his quest, potentially acquiring larger-scale talent. There will be no boundaries in genre selection; national talent will be of utmost importance.
An incredible line up is already set for Kingsport all the way through the summer of 2014 and plans are being set for fall as well.
All Skyflight Production shows feature reserved seating in the beautiful Renaissance Arts Center Theatre, where there is not a bad seat in the house. The Renaissance Arts Center is conveniently located at 1200 East Center Street in Kingsport Tennessee. Visitors may easily access the facility from I-26, by taking exit 51, Wilcox Drive, and proceeding 3.1 miles to Center Street. At Center Street take a left and the facility is on your right as you top the hill.
For complete descriptions of the Skyflight shows and to purchase tickets visit the City of Kingsport Office of Cultural Arts website: www.EngageKingsport.com (there is no extra charge for online ticket purchases) or call (423) 392-8414 or come by room 224 and visit our office.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all citizens of the City of Kingsport, Tennessee, to all persons interested and to the public at large, that the Kingsport Board of Mayor and Aldermen will conduct an open, public, called business meeting on Tuesday, April 29, 2014, commencing at 8:00 a.m. in the Large Council Room located on the second floor of City Hall, 225 West Center Street, Kingsport, Tennessee. The purpose of this meeting is to consider a resolution approving a contribution to the Industrial Development Board of the City of Kingsport, Tennessee for economic or industrial development, including the acquisition and preparation of property, and authorizing one or more agreements pertaining to the same.
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