Downtown Knoxville on Saturday will be diverse and festive, with special events ranging from the 20th anniversary induction ceremony at the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame to Big Orange Brawl, a fitness festival and CrossFit competition to be held at World’s Fair Park Festival Lawn.

There’s the Forget You Not celebration at the World’s Fair Park Amphitheatre, which honors survivors and caregivers and remembers lost loved ones.

But the two events that will have the biggest effect on downtown drivers and transit passengers will be the weekly Market Square Farmers’ Market and the Suffrage Coalition’s historical re-enactment Suffrage Parade. The parade will briefly close Main and Gay streets.


JUNE 9TH STREET CLOSURES:


Market Square Farmers’ Market – 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

The 15th season of the downtown farmers’ market offers locally grown produce, meat, eggs and plants, as well as locally made artisan foods and crafts. For details, visit www.nourishknoxville.org/market-square-farmers-market/.

Street closures:
• Market Street, between Union and Clinch avenues – closed from 6:45 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Union Avenue, between Walnut and Gay streets – closed from 6:45 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Temporary no-parking zones begin at 4:45 a.m.


Suffrage Parade and sculpture unveiling – 4-6 p.m.

Celebrate the installation of the Febb and Harry Burn Memorial Sculpture, honoring the East Tennessee mother who encouraged her legislator son to cast the crucial vote to ratify the 19th Amendment. 

The Suffrage Coalition’s parade stages on Main Street (beginning at 3 p.m.) in front of the City County Building and steps off at 4 p.m., turning left (north) onto Gay Street, then turning left onto Church Street and right onto Market Street. 

The parade ends at Market Square, and a program at the pavilion (including Mayor Madeline Rogero) starts at 4:30 p.m. At 5:15 p.m., the sculpture at the southeast corner of Clinch Avenue and Market Street will be unveiled. (For more details, visit http://suffragecoalition.org/.)

Street closures:
• Main Street, between Walnut and Gay streets – closed from 3-4:30 p.m.
• Gay Street, between Main and Church streets – closed from 3:45-4:30 p.m.
• Church Avenue, between Walnut and Gay streets – closed from 3:45-4:30 p.m.
• Market Street, between Cumberland and Union avenues – closed from 3:45-6 p.m.
• Clinch Avenue and Union Avenue, between Walnut and Gay streets – closed from 3:45-6 p.m.
• Temporary no-parking zones on Gay Street (between Hill and Clinch avenues), on Market (between Cumberland and Union), and on Main (between Walnut and Gay) begin at 2 p.m.


KAT DETOURS

For information about detours to Knoxville Area Transit’s bus and trolley routes, call KAT at 865-215-7800 or visit www.katbus.com.