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Blender 101

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

Blender 3D is a free, open-source program which can be used for 3D modeling and videography; let’s learn the basics together! Class Dates: November 12th, 19th and December 3rd This class is designed for those interested in learning to use the program Blender with no prior knowledge required. The class will last 3 weeks on […]

Blender 101

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

Blender 3D is a free, open-source program which can be used for 3D modeling and videography; let’s learn the basics together! Class Dates: November 12th, 19th and December 3rd This class is designed for those interested in learning to use the program Blender with no prior knowledge required. The class will last 3 weeks on […]

Arts Outreach for Seniors

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

Free Senior Painting Class-Join our free painting class designed especially for seniors on a budget! No experience is necessary. Free Senior Painting Class – Unleash Your Creativity! Are you a senior looking for a fun and relaxing way to explore your artistic side? Join our free painting class with Instructor Merci Berry designed especially for […]

Felt Wreath Ornament Class

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

Come join us to create your own cute and cozy felt wreath ornaments for the holiday season! Join us for a fun-filled class creating a Festive Felt Wreath Holiday Ornament! Get into the holiday spirit by crafting your very own unique ornaments to decorate your home or give as gifts. This class will guide you […]

Intro to Stained Glass: Holiday Ornaments

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

Join us in making a beautiful stained glass ornament! 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 […]

Intro to Stained Glass: Holiday Ornaments

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

Join us in making a beautiful stained glass ornament! 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 […]

Intro to Stained Glass: Holiday Ornaments

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

Join us in making a beautiful stained glass ornament! 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 […]

Intro to Stained Glass: Holiday Ornaments

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

Join us in making a beautiful stained glass ornament! 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 […]

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 […]

Beginner Blacksmithing: Forged Wands

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

Practice drawing and rounding your metal, plus isolating for designs in this introductory workshop! Students will learn some of the fundamentals of blacksmithing: drawing, rounding and squaring material, twisting, isolation, and other basics. We will also discuss how to make some more advanced twists and a few tricks geared toward getting visually appealing results in […]

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 […]

Intro to 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 […]

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.