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Upcoming/Ongoing Events

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IJAMS NATURE CENTER'S ANNUAL MARKETPLACE EVENTS
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Enjoy the sights and sounds of nature while you shop for plants, arts and crafts, garden decor, and more at the Ijams Marketplace Events!

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PICKIN' ON NATURE
April-December 2025

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Join Ijams and East Tennessee Bluegrass Association for another year of Pickin' on Nature, featuring great concerts with well-known local and regional artists, and FREE Bluegrass Jams on the third Sunday of each month!

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A Wildflower Affair
May 9, 2025

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Celebrate Ijams Nature Center's 50th anniversary of continuing the Ijams family's envionmental legacy in the place where it all started: the Ijams homesite gardens! This benefit features a delicious seated luncheon, live classical music, and more!

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BIG FUN TUESDAYS
May-October 2025

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Big Fun Tuesdays are back! Join Ijams and Appalachian Mountain Bike Club for a ride, live music, food trucks, and more at Mead's Quarry on the first Tuesday of each month!

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MOVIES UNDER THE STARS
May 23-Oct. 3, 2025​
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Join Ijams and Central Cinema for Movies Under the Stars, including Terror in the Woods and some of your favorite flicks!

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FLEURISH: A SUSTAINABLE FASHION EVENT
June 8, 2025

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This collaborative runway show (and Ijams fundraiser) showcases how sustainability, conservation, and beauty intertwine with our lives and our future.

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KNOXVILLE SHAKESPEARE
July 17-Aug. 10, 2025

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Join Tennessee Stage Company and Ijams for the time-honored tradition of outdoor Shakespeare performances on the lawn at Ijams. The shows for the 2025 season include Love's Labour's Lost and Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.

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IJAMS TAKE ACTION!: BIG AND SMALL WAYS TO SAVE THE PLANET 2024
Throughout 2024

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Join Ijams for a YEARLONG series of programs, workshops, and special events that will help you make your life a little more sustainable and make a big impact in the world around you!

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IJAMS HUMMINGBIRD FESTIVAL: A CELEBRATION OF WINGS
Aug. 16, 2025​
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Celebrate all things wings at the 2025 Ijams Hummingbird Festival! Featuring bird banding sessions, live animal encounters, educational activities, guided nature walks, speakers and hands-on sessions, arts and crafts, a marketplace, and more! 

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TWILIGHT AT IJAMS
Sept. 7, 2025

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This exciting new take on Ijams Nature Center's largest annual fundraiser features a delicious small bites, silent auction, curated, interactive vignettes and art installations.

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HALLO-WEEK AT IJAMS

Oct. 22-29, 2025

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Celebrate fall with family-friendly fun activities centered around the season, from owls prowls and pumpkin carving to storytelling and an enchanted forest!

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BIG EARS PRESENTS ELLEN REID SOUNDWALK: IJAMS NATURE CENTER

Sept. 8, 2021 - Extended!

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Big Ears presents Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK: Ijams Nature Center featuring the Kronos Quartet. Reid's free, GPS-enabled work is a new way to experience Ijams, and it will change every time you visit!

Past Events

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36TH ANNUAL IJAMS RIVER RESCUE

March 8, 2025

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Water is life! Help clean up this community's waterways at the 36th annual Ijams River Rescue!

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