Vol. 1 — No. 10Weekend Episode · Thu–Sun, Aug 20–23, 2026 · South Knoxville, TN★ soknoear.com
Vol. 1 — No. 10 · Aug 20–23★ soknoear.com
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What’s Happening ThursdayWhat’s Happening FridayWhat’s Happening SaturdayWhat’s Happening Sunday
See
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Pages & Pours at Fly by Night
5:30–9 PM · RSVP · Sevier Ave
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20
Pint night at Hi-Wire
$4 drafts · 2020 Barber St
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20
Earl's — $10 Patrón ritas
4–6 PM · 610 Waterfront Dr
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21
Scruffy City Soul Machine
6 PM · Kern's
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21
Re-Discovery Camp opens
Evening · 18+ · Ijams Park
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21
Ho'Down Social — line dancing
8–11 PM · free · Kern's
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22
Storytelling at the Nature Playscape
10 AM – noon · free · Ijams Park
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22
SCHOOL OF ROCK AT KERN'S
From 11:30 AM · free · runs through Sunday
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Weekly yoga at Hi-Wire
11 AM – noon · also Sunday
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22
Fairy Tales & Fuzzy Tails
2–6 PM · books & adoptable pets · Hi-Wire
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Karaoke rooms at the Pink Cactus
By the hour · 1147 Sevier Ave · all ages till 9
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23
Self Care Sunday Yoga
11:30 AM · Ijams Park
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Stained glass workshop
2–4 PM · RSVP · Hi-Wire
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23
Earl's — $7 mimosas & Bloody Marys
All day · 610 Waterfront Dr
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25
Last day for Mimosas on Blount
Reopens Aug 26 as Puckers Sports Grill
Ijams ParkFriSatSun

Ijams Park is running a summer camp for adults, and Saturday night you sleep in a tent

Re-Discovery Camp is three days of caving, kayaking, naturalist hikes and campfire s'mores for anyone eighteen and up. If that's a bigger commitment than your weekend allows, the park's free Saturday storytelling is still on.

Fri–Sun Aug 21–23
Re-Discovery Camp · 18 and over
Full weekend
$300 · Friday evening through Sunday
Saturday–Sunday only
$210 · Navitat treetop add-on +$35
Bring
A tent and sleeping pad — the park can lend gear
Sat Aug 22
Storytelling at the Nature Playscape · 10 AM – noon · free
Sun Aug 23
Self Care Sunday Yoga with Hope Irwin · 11:30 AM
Caving, kayaking, s'mores — no permission slip

Somewhere along the way, summer camp became a thing that only happens to people under twelve. Ijams Park has decided that was an oversight. Re-Discovery Camp runs Friday evening through Sunday afternoon and is open to anyone eighteen and older — bring a partner, bring a friend, or come alone and meet the rest of the cabin.

What three days actually looks like

Friday opens with dinner and an evening choice of caving or a herping hike — that's going out after dark to find frogs and snakes, and it is exactly as good as it sounds. Saturday stacks welcome games, animal ambassador visits, arts and crafts, wilderness skills, and kayaking, then puts everyone around a campfire with s'mores. Saturday night you sleep on the grounds under the trees; bring a tent and a sleeping pad, or ask and the park will sort out gear. Sunday is breakfast, then yoga or a swim in the quarry, a naturalist hike, lunch, and an optional run through the treetops on the Navitat course.

The cost, plainly

The full weekend is $300 a person and the Saturday-to-Sunday version is $210, with the treetop add-on another $35. That covers Friday dinner, Saturday dinner and s'mores, and Sunday breakfast and lunch — Saturday's breakfast and lunch are on you. Registration runs through the park's camp registration site, and questions go to publicprograms@ijams.org.

If a whole weekend is too much weekend

The park's standing Saturday storytelling runs 10 to noon at the Nature Playscape out at Mead's Quarry, and it's free — small kids, blankets, and somebody reading out loud under the trees. Sunday, Hope Irwin's Self Care Sunday yoga starts at 11:30. Neither one asks anything of you but showing up.

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