Here’s a list of what to do this weekend: Opera, pop country, country punk, pottery, metalcore, and the Free the Nipple Protest. Visit the Knoxville Mercury online calendar or pick up this week’s issue for a full list of the weekend’s offerings.

FRIDAY, NOV. 11
Terra Madre Holiday Pottery Show and Sale
Bridgewater Place • 5-8 p.m. • Free
Terra Madre, a local collective of women clay artists, holds its annual two-day holiday sale. Continues on Saturday and Sunday.

Kelsea Ballerini
Tennessee Theatre • 8 p.m. • $25-$49
Knoxville native Kelsea Ballerini’s debut album, The First Time, marks an impressive start to the singer-songwriter’s career. Purists might not approve of the Top 40-friendly production, but the 2015 album has already produced three number-one singles (“Love Me Like You Mean It,” “Dibs,” and “Peter Pan”) and it’s full of big hooks, big feelings, and clever writing.

UT Opera: Ulysses
Carousel Theatre • 8 p.m. • $20

Carol Pratt

The University of Tennessee Opera Theatre takes on Monteverdi’s once-obscure 17th-century opera based on Homer’s Odyssey.

SATURDAY, NOV. 12
KTC Norris Dam Hard Trail Race
Norris Dam State Park • 7 a.m. • $25-$40
The Knoxville Track Club’s longest trail race—choose from 25K or 50K options.

Free the Nipple Protest
Downtown • 1 p.m. 
A group of local activists rally for equality—women, they argue, should be just as free as men to take their shirts off in public. The protest is part of a recent international movement, and nipples are only part of the point; the protest serves as a reminder that we’re a lot further from equal rights for everybody than we like to think. They’ll gather somewhere on Gay Street and march to Market Square.

The Supersuckers
Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria • 10 p.m. • $5

Kevin Baldes

Founded in 1988 in Arizona, the Supersuckers have changed a time or three since first taking their grungy country-punk-rock act onto a Tucson stage, with nearly a dozen members having passed through the ranks since day one. Lead singer, chief songwriter, and bassist Spaghetti is the only member who has persevered through the entirety of that run. And Spaghetti is adamant that the band’s current lineup, responsible for the band’s last two records, 2014’s Get the Hell and 2015’s Holdin’ the Bag, is its best yet. With Reverend Peyton’s Big Dam Band and Jesse Dayton.

SUNDAY, NOV. 13
The Public Cinema: Hotel Dallas
Knoxville Museum of Art • 2 p.m. • Free
The new documentary Hotel Dallas, from filmmaking couple Livia Ungur and Sherng-Lee Huang, focuses on the impact of the ’80s primetime soap Dallas on Romania. The titular “Hotel Dallas” is the Hermes Ranch, a luxury resort designed by corrupt vegetable-oil tycoon Ilie Alexandru, the so-called “J.R. of Romania,” who was imprisoned for fraud and tax evasion in 2000. But that story is only a departure point; Hotel Dallas is less concerned with a strict recreation of the past than it is with how we remember and commemorate it. Hotel Dallas might be better described not as a documentary, but as a dream journal, a record of half-remembered recollections of a country and time that no longer exist. Visit publiccinema.org.

Matewan
UT John C. Hodges Library • 6 p.m. • Free
A screening of John Sayles’ 1987 classic about a labor strike in 1920s West Virginia, followed by an open discussion with Bob Hutton of the University of Tennessee history department.

Dillinger Escape Plan
The Concourse • 7 p.m. • $18 • 18 and up

The Windish Agency

In 1999, when the Dillinger Escape Plan released its dizzying debut album, Calculating Infinity, the New Jersey band was part of a movement, along with similarly minded tech/metal/experimental/hardcore groups like Botch, Coalesce, and Cave In. It didn’t take long for DEP to separate from the rest of the pack; by the time they released their second album, 2004’s Miss Machine, the band had a new vocalist, Greg Puciato, and was incorporating jazzy breaks, ambient interludes, and groovy rhythms alongside the burly breakdowns and fretboard freakouts. On Dissociation, the band’s brand-new sixth album—and probably its last—DEP offers what might be its definitive statement. With O’Brother, Car Bomb, and Cult Leader.

Matthew Everett

Senior Editor Matthew Everett manages the Knoxville Mercury's arts & entertainment section, including the comprehensive calendar section—Knoxville’s go-to guide for everything worth doing in the area. You can reach Matthew at matthew@knoxmercury.com.