Cemetery Preservation Workshop
Phoenix Chapel AME Cemetery, 9600 Prospect Road, Prospect TNJoin Wolf Gap and its volunteers to learn how to research historic cemeteries and preserve & maintain them at this hands-on event.Workshops are occurring throughout Giles County this fall. Click here for a complete schedule and more information.Wolf Gap received operational funding from Humanities Tennessee's SHARP grant program to support their work throughout pandemic recovery.
Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong & the Black String Band Tradition
Join the Tennessee Historical Society for the third in a series of free, virtual conversations. Dom Flemons and Dr. Elijah Wald will discuss Louie Bluie;s life, art and legacy. For more information and registration visit the THS website. This event is part of a series, Tennessee 101: the History of Tennessee Music, funded, in part, by Humanities…
Southern Festival of Books
War Memorial Auditorium 301 6th Ave N, Nashville, TNThe Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word is among the oldest literary festivals in the country, annually welcoming approximately 200 authors and 25,000 visitors to downtown Nashville each October. The Festival is free, and includes performance stages, food trucks, and more than 60 publishers and booksellers. After two years of virtual…
Authors In The Round – Fundraising Dinner
War Memorial Auditorium 301 6th Ave N, Nashville, TNWe hope you will join us for Authors In The Round, a special event dinner that provides vital funding for the 34th annual Southern Festival of Books. Your participation in the dinner ensures that Humanities Tennessee may continue to present the Festival at no charge. As a guest, you’ll enjoy a festive cocktail hour, then a…
Cemetery Preservation Workshop
Indian Creek M. B. Church & Cemetery, 4144 Newman Hol Rd, Ardmore, TN 38449, USAJoin Wolf Gap and its volunteers to learn how to research historic cemeteries and preserve & maintain them at this hands-on event. Workshops are occurring throughout Giles County this fall. Click here for a complete schedule and more information. Wolf Gap received operational funding from Humanities Tennessee's SHARP grant program to support their work throughout pandemic recovery.
Greek Architecture & Ancient Color
The Parthenon, 2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN 37203, USA 2901 Parthenon Ave, Tennessee, United StatesJoin the Parthenon for this virtual symposium featuring Dr. Brian Martens, archaeologist and Supervisor at the Athenian Agora Excavations in Athens, Greece, who will speak about polychromy in ancient Greece. Click here for more information and to register for this free, online event. The symposia series is partially funded in conjunction with the exhibition project "The Odyssey: A…