Wendel Werner presents a 3-Day festival that examines multicultural issues through concerts and casual conversations with the artists and speakers themselves.
The event is sponsored by the Arts and Culture Alliance and St. Paul United Methodist Church of Fountain City.
FULL SCHEDULE:
Friday, August 4th
7:00 pm – Wendel Werner and Lillian B. Werner concert with Emilee Jane Bradshaw, Betsy Sonewald, Alison Werner, and Anna Caroline Causey. The concert will take place in the Sanctuary.
Saturday, August 5th
10:00 am – Panel discussion “Marginalized Voices in Music in Knoxville”: featuring Victoria Flowers, Anna Caroline Causey, Jeanine D. Fuller, Chelsie Blair Nunn, and Alison Werner. This will take place in the choir room under the sanctuary.
Lunch will be provided in the fellowship hall between the discussion and the next concert.
Please click HERE to reserve your lunch(s).
1:00 pm – “Stevie and Simon: Two Composers and the Culture of America” featuring Steve Horton, Jeanine Fuller, Emilee Jane Bradshaw, and Wendel Werner. This will take place in the fellowship hall. Please drive around to the back of the church for easier access.
Sunday, August 6th
10:45 am – Sunday Service featuring: Rev. Dawn Chesser, Rev. Leah Burns, Kaia Johnson, Anna Caroline Causey, and Jeanine Fuller
1:00 pm – Chelsie Blair Nunn presents “Sweet Things: A Multidisciplinary Perspective of Melungeon Heritage”
5:00 pm – Jeanine Fuller gospel concert
Various event/artist descriptions::
“Marginalized Voices in Music In Knoxville” Panel discussion with Jeanine Fuller, Chelsie Blair Nunn, Anna Caroline Causey, Victoria Flowers, and Alison Werner.
“Stevie & Simon: Two Composers and the Culture of America” -We will be taking a cultural look at the music of Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder with Steve Horton, Emilee Jane Bradshaw, Jeanine Fuller and Wendel Werner.
“Sweet Things: A Multidisciplinary Perspective of Melungeon Heritage” Chelsie Blair Nunn (they/them) is a poet, artist, and educator working in Knoxville, TN. They recently presented at the Melungeon Heritage Association’s 27th annual union and have been published in various literary journals over the past three years, including Black Fox Lit, Tofu Ink Arts Press, Foglifter Press, and elsewhere. Through poetry, photography, sound, and illustration, this presentation attempts to communicate the experience of being a non-binary, rural Appalachian with Melungeon ancestry. This presentation touches on place, binaries, belonging, erasure, and acknowledgment.