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Beginner Bladesmithing: Seahorse Knives

The Inventor Center 118 Shelby Street, Kingsport, TN, United States

Forge your own small knife and learn about blacksmithing along the way! This is a required pre-req for advanced classes to come! In this class we will cover forging out a small, simple, all-steel knife along with some blacksmithing history, tooling information, and other basic concepts. Once the forging is complete, we will heat treat […]

Intermediate Bladesmithing: Railroad Spike to Knife

The Inventor Center 118 Shelby Street, Kingsport, TN, United States

Forge your own knife from a railroad spike and learn about blacksmithing along the way! Prerequisite: beginner blacksmithing/bladesmithing workshop OR prior blacksmithing experience. In this class we will cover forging a railroad spike into a knife and cover some blacksmithing history, tooling information, and other basic concepts. We will also discuss the properties of spike […]

Lanterns: Light Up the Night

The Inventor Center 118 Shelby Street, Kingsport, TN, United States

Create a lantern to carry at the Kingsport ARTS Festival kick-off, Light Up the Night! Create colorful, chaotic paper lanterns with us at The Inventor Center! We encourage you to embrace your creativity and decorate a lantern to carry as we walk through Downtown Kingsport the evening of April 19th! This workshop is open to […]

Lanterns: Light Up the Night

The Inventor Center 118 Shelby Street, Kingsport, TN, United States

Create a lantern to carry at the Kingsport ARTS Festival kick-off, Light Up the Night! Create colorful, chaotic paper lanterns with us at The Inventor Center! We encourage you to embrace your creativity and decorate a lantern to carry as we walk through Downtown Kingsport the evening of April 19th! This workshop is open to […]

Lanterns: Light Up the Night

The Inventor Center 118 Shelby Street, Kingsport, TN, United States

Create a lantern to carry at the Kingsport ARTS Festival kick-off, Light Up the Night! Create colorful, chaotic paper lanterns with us at The Inventor Center! We encourage you to embrace your creativity and decorate a lantern to carry as we walk through Downtown Kingsport the evening of April 19th! This workshop is open to […]

Lanterns: Light Up the Night

The Inventor Center 118 Shelby Street, Kingsport, TN, United States

Create a lantern to carry at the Kingsport ARTS Festival kick-off, Light Up the Night! Create colorful, chaotic paper lanterns with us at The Inventor Center! We encourage you to embrace your creativity and decorate a lantern to carry as we walk through Downtown Kingsport the evening of April 19th! This workshop is open to […]

Lanterns: Light Up the Night

The Inventor Center 118 Shelby Street, Kingsport, TN, United States

Create a lantern to carry at the Kingsport ARTS Festival kick-off, Light Up the Night! Create colorful, chaotic paper lanterns with us at The Inventor Center! We encourage you to embrace your creativity and decorate a lantern to carry as we walk through Downtown Kingsport the evening of April 19th! This workshop is open to […]

Ukrainian Egg Dyeing (Pysanky)

The Inventor Center 118 Shelby Street, Kingsport, TN, United States

Learn the art of Pysanky, traditional Ukrainian decorated eggs. Students will learn to make traditional Ukrainian decorated eggs, using layers of wax, colored dye, and hollow chicken eggs. Each student will leave with an abstract “practice” egg and a finished Ukrainian-style design. This class is suitable for both complete artistic beginners and more experienced artists […]

EVENT CALENDAR PURPOSE AND CRITERIA

A calendar has been created called the This is Kingsport events calendar which will serve as a non-public forum to provide citizens with information about social and organizational gatherings held within the city. The city will disseminate information to the public through this online calendar about social and organizational gatherings which are conducted or promoted by community partners with which the city currently has partnership agreements. Additionally, social or organizational gatherings held on city owned property to which the public at large is invited will be published on this calendar.

Each year the city enters into partnership agreements with multiple community partners some of whom in turn support the city by organizing events or promoting events of members and affiliates. By creating a common source for the dissemination of information about community events the city will be furthering its support of those community partners which in turn support the city. Moreover, the city wishes to and will benefit from highlighting gatherings which will be of benefit and enjoyment to the public.

Community partners may communicate their events or those which they promote to the city which will disseminate the information through the event calendar. Furthermore, the city of Kingsport will publish on the calendar those community events which are held on city property. In order to achieve the city’s goals only those events described herein will be published on the This is Kingsport event calendar which will be curated by city staff.