Vol. 1 — No. 11Weekend Episode · Thu–Sun, Aug 27–30, 2026 · South Knoxville, TN★ soknoear.com
Vol. 1 — No. 11 · Aug 27–30★ soknoear.com
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See
AUG
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Opera Under the Stars — Augusta Quarry
7–8 PM · $5 · Fort Dickerson Park · all ages
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27
Sundresses and Seersuckers
7–9 PM · $40 · the Kern's rooftop
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27
Pint night at Hi-Wire
All-day happy hour too · 2020 Barber St
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27
Trivia at Trailhead Beer Market
7 PM · free · 1317 Island Home Ave
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27
Earl's — $10 Patrón ritas
4–6 PM · 610 Waterfront Dr
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27
LUNAR ECLIPSE BEGINS
9:23 PM · maximum 12:12 AM · free, from anywhere
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28
Movies Under the Stars: Napoleon Dynamite
Doors 7 PM · film ~8:45 · $12 · Ijams Park
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28
Full Moon Paddle — sold out
8:30 PM · Ijams River Landing
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29
GOAT YOGA AT KERN'S
8:30–10:30 AM · $35 · $25 ages 5–12
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29
Storytelling at the Nature Playscape
10 AM – noon · free · Mead's Quarry
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29
Tiny Stage Comedy — Sunflower Show
7:30 PM · Visitor Center patio · Ijams Park
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29
Full Moon Hike
8:30 PM · ages 10+ · registration open
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30
Self Care Sunday Yoga
11:30 AM · Ijams Park
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30
Resin Flower Jewelry Workshop
2–5 PM · registration · Ijams Park
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30
Earl's — $7 mimosas & Bloody Marys
All day · 610 Waterfront Dr
Ijams ParkSun

Set dried flowers in resin and go home with jewelry: a Sunday workshop at Ijams Park

Three hours on Sunday afternoon in the park's Creative Series — pressed wildflowers, clear resin, a mold, and something on a chain by five o'clock.

When
Sun Aug 30 · 2–5 PM
Where
Ijams Park · 2915 Island Home Ave
What
Creative Series: Resin Flower Jewelry Making Workshop
You leave with
The jewelry you made
Sign up
Registration required · open as of Tuesday
Also that morning
Self Care Sunday Yoga with Hope Irwin · 11:30 AM
Sunday afternoon, three hours

Sunday afternoon at Ijams Park, the Creative Series runs a three-hour workshop on setting dried flowers in resin and turning the result into jewelry. Two to five, registration required, and you walk out with the thing you made.

Why it's a good closing move for a weekend

It's a craft that looks harder than it is and produces something durable — pressed wildflowers and fern suspended clear, a pendant that keeps one specific August inside it. Three hours is enough time to do it badly once and then well, which is the correct length for a workshop of this kind.

If you want the whole day out there

Hope Irwin's Self Care Sunday yoga runs at 11:30 the same morning at the park, which makes a full Sunday on Island Home Avenue available to anyone who wants to build one.

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More From This Weekend

SoKnoThu

Thursday night the Earth's shadow swallows 93 percent of the moon over South Knoxville

It starts at 9:23 and peaks at 12:12 Friday morning, with the moon high in the south-southeast and the covered part gone the color of an old penny. No ticket, no drive, no equipment — a driveway will do it.

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Urban WildernessThu

Knoxville Opera sings at the bottom of Augusta Quarry on Thursday, and it's the last night of the series

Three concerts, one rock wall, and this is the third. An hour of opera, musical theatre and songs you already half know, staged inside Fort Dickerson Park and built for every age.

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SoKnoThuFriSatSun

Puckers Sports Grill opened on Blount Avenue Wednesday, and this is its first weekend

The Gatlinburg sports bar came over the mountain and took the room that was Mimosas until Tuesday night. Same owners, same brunch dishes, a wall of televisions — and nine days to get ready for football.

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Kern'sThu

Bourbon, cigars and a seersucker dress code on the Kern's rooftop Thursday night

Alchemy Cigar Lounge takes the roof of the old bakery for two hours: an Angel's Envy tasting, a welcome cocktail, a cigar paired to it, and a theme you're expected to dress for.

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Old SevierThu

Hi-Wire stacks pint night on top of an all-day happy hour every Thursday

Two standing deals on the same day at 2020 Barber Street, in a taproom that takes up an entire second floor and has a roof deck attached.

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Ijams ParkFri

"Napoleon Dynamite" plays on the Visitor Center lawn at Ijams Park on Friday night

Movies Under the Stars is in its fourteenth year. Bring a blanket, a lawn chair and a dog on a leash; the food trucks and the beer garden handle the rest.

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Kern'sSat

Goat yoga comes to Kern's on Saturday morning

Two hours, an all-levels class, and a small herd of goats with no respect for anybody's downward dog. Thirty-five dollars for adults, twenty-five for kids.

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Ijams ParkSat

Somebody reads out loud under the trees at the Ijams Nature Playscape on Saturday morning, and it's free

Two hours at the Playscape out by Mead's Quarry: a story in a shady spot, sometimes a hands-on nature project, and otherwise small kids left to roam.

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Ijams ParkSat

Tiny Stage Comedy brings stand-up and poetry to the Ijams Park patio on Saturday night

The Sunflower Comedy Show closes out the summer run of the Ijams Sunset Series — an hour of local comics and poets on the Visitor Center's back patio, with the beer garden open.

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Ijams ParkSat

Naturalists take a group out on the trails under the full moon on Saturday night

Ninety minutes of walking in the dark at Ijams Park, with blacklights and headlamps handed out at the start. Registration was still open Tuesday — which is more than the paddles can say.

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Suttree LandingThuFriSatSun

The specials board: a different deal every day at Earl's

Down where Suttree Landing meets the river, Earl's runs its own weekly ladder — a new special each afternoon, then two all-day ones once the weekend lands.

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