• Intellectual Property Survey

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

    Come learn the basics of copyrights, patents, and trademarks! A 45-minute survey course (including a Q&A session), which covers what copyrights, patents, and trademarks are; how to obtain them; and what they can mean for your portfolio. Attendance is Free and Open to the Public, No Reservation is Needed. Dr. Jarrett Wyatt, a patent attorney […]

  • Intellectual Property Survey

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

    Come learn the basics of copyrights, patents, and trademarks! A 45-minute survey course (including a Q&A session), which covers what copyrights, patents, and trademarks are; how to obtain them; and what they can mean for your portfolio. Attendance is Free and Open to the Public, No Reservation is Needed. Dr. Jarrett Wyatt, a patent attorney […]

  • Intellectual Property Survey

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

    Come learn the basics of copyrights, patents, and trademarks! A 45-minute survey course (including a Q&A session), which covers what copyrights, patents, and trademarks are; how to obtain them; and what they can mean for your portfolio. Attendance is Free and Open to the Public, No Reservation is Needed. Dr. Jarrett Wyatt, a patent attorney […]

  • Beginner Bladesmithing: Seahorse Knives (Art for All Series)

    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 […]

  • Beginner Blacksmithing: Steel Hooks

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

    Forge your own hair stick and learn about blacksmithing along the way! In this class we will cover forging out steel hooks along with some blacksmithing history, tooling information, and other basic concepts. Once the forging is complete, we will heat treat the hooks and then polish on the grinder. Students will then be able […]

  • Smith a Copper Rose

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

    Learn how to make a Valentine’s Rose that will last forever! 🌹 Smith a Copper Rose — A Valentine That Lasts Forever Join us for a hands-on metalsmithing workshop where you’ll create a beautiful copper rose from start to finish—a timeless gift for a loved one or a meaningful keepsake for yourself. This beginner-friendly class […]

  • Intro to Stained Glass: Hearts and Shamrocks

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

    Learn traditional stained glass techniques from start to finish. Choose from an assortment of glass colors, textures and transparencies to completely customize it into a one of a kind piece. You’ll learn how to cut glass, grid it to fit a pattern, apply copper foil and finally solder it all together. This is a beginners […]

  • Blender Intensive Beginners Class

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

    Come learn to use Blender’s open source 3-D modeling program! This is a 2 Part Class on Friday February 20th 7-9:30PM and Saturday February 21st 9AM-5PM This class is designed for those interested in learning to use the program Blender with no prior knowledge required. The class will start on February 20th Friday evening 7-9:30PM […]

  • Intermediate Blacksmithing: Forged Calla Lilies (Art for All Series)

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

    Come learn how to forge a Calla lily!! Prerequisite: beginner blacksmithing/bladesmithing workshop OR prior blacksmithing experience. Take the next step in your Blacksmithing journey in this Intermediate Forged Calla Lilies Class. Students will learn how to forge a Calla lily from bar stock. This class will cover heat management, using the peen faces of hammers […]

  • Blacksmithing: Forged Leaves

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

    Practice all the basics of hammer control in this fun leaf-forging workshop! Students will learn some of the fundamentals of blacksmithing: drawing and spreading material, twisting, isolation, and other basics. We will talk about hammer control, basic tooling, items needed to set up a beginner shop, and other concepts useful to the new Smith. This […]

  • Intro to Stained Glass: Hearts and Shamrocks

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

    Learn traditional stained glass techniques from start to finish. Choose from an assortment of glass colors, textures and transparencies to completely customize it into a one of a kind piece. You’ll learn how to cut glass, grid it to fit a pattern, apply copper foil and finally solder it all together. This is a beginners […]

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.