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  • TN Folklife Institute

    The Tennessee Arts Commission Folklife Program, in partnership with Humanities Tennessee, presents the Tennessee Folklife Institute, an immersive training workshop designed to encourage and increase the documentation, preservation, and presentation of our…

  • TN Association of Museums Conference

    Crowne Plaza Hotel 401 W. Summit Hill Drive, Knoxville, tennessee, United States

    "Hope is like the sun. If you only believe it when you see it, you'll never make it through the night."                           General Leia Organa, Star Wars: Episode VIII-The Last Jedi General…

  • Tennessee History Day

    The 2025 state contest will be held Saturday, April 5th in Nashville for students who qualified at their regional contests and were advanced by their coordinators. Good luck to all!…

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    TN Writers | TN Stories with Keith Wood

    Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

    The Memphis Red Sox: A Negro Leagues History examines Memphis’s symbolic meaning and value as a Negro leagues baseball city during Jim Crow. It locates the main intersections between black professional…

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    TN Writers | TN Stories with John P. Williams

    Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

    The name Montgomery Bell is well known to residents of Davidson County and the greater middle Tennessee region. Montgomery Bell State Park is located in Dickson County, forty minutes west…

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    [POSTPONED] TN Writers | TN Stories with Charlie Peacock

    Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

    In this artful memoir, Roots and Rhythm, Grammy Award–winning music producer Charlie Peacock flexes his literary chops and gives readers the gritty backstage stories they crave: biographical anecdotes, geeky trivia,…

  • TN Writers | TN Stories with Jennifer C. Core and Janet S. Hasson

    Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

    Jennifer Core and Janet Hasson’s study of samplers—embroideries that are “first attempts at a new technique, color combination, or unusual material”—provides vivid descriptions of this nineteenth-century Tennessee art form in…

  • TN Writers | TN Stories with Serina Gilbert and Learotha Williams

    Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

    The Promise Land community, a small village west of Nashville, Tennessee was founded after the Civil War by people who had been enslaved at the Cumberland Iron Furnace. These early…

  • EVENT CANCELED: An Evening with Senator Joe Manchin and Brad Paisley

    Commodore Ballroom at Vanderbilt University 310 25th Avenue South, Nashville

    PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS CANCELED.PREVIOUSLY PURCHASED TICKETS WILL BE REFUNDED. Every ticket includes a pre-signed copy of Joe Manchin's Dead Center: In Defense of Common Sense. (Please note there will…

  • Film Screening: Leap of Faith

    Nashville Public Library Donelson Branch 2714 Old Lebanon Pike, Nashville, Tennessee, United States

    Join us for the first program in our new series Beyond the Divide, presented by Millions of Conversations and hosted by Nashville Public Library. Beyond the Divide is an eight-part series presented…