Andrea Morales: Roll Down Like Water
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art 1934 Poplar Ave, Memphis, United StatesRoll Down Like Water features sixty-five photographs spanning a decade of work by the Memphis-based, Peruvian-American photographer Andrea Morales. These images reflect the collective change of Memphis and the surrounding…
King Iron: The Untold Story of Enslaved Furnace Workers in Tennessee
Promise Land Heritage Association 707 Promise Land Rd, Charlotte, TN, United StatesCreated by the Tennessee African-American Historical Group, this new travelling exhibit examines the little known story of enslaved iron workers in the Volunteer State. Well researched and curated, "King Iron"…
Introduction to Autistic Culture
Operation Stand Down Tennessee 1125 12th Ave S., Nashville, United StatesJoin AutismTN for a Spectrum Chat: "Introduction to Autistic Culture." This hybrid panel discussion is part of the Exploring Autistic Life and Culture project, funded, in part, by Humanities Tennessee. Autistic culture is…
Festival Fundraiser: An Evening with Erik Larson
Paschall Theater at Montgomery Bell Academy 4001 Harding Pike, Nashville, TNAs part of Southern Festival of Books, Humanities Tennessee, Parnassus Books, and Montgomery Bell Academy are thrilled to present an evening with Erik Larson, as he discusses his new book, The…
Writers’ Workshops: a Festival collaboration with The Porch
Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USAWe are proud to welcome our literary friends from Nashville's The Porch back to the Southern Festival of Books with four facilitated writing workshops before the Festival officially begins. For…
Authors in the Round 2024
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum 222 5th Ave S, Nashville, TN, United StatesWe hope you will join us for Authors in the Round, a special event dinner that provides vital funding for the 36th annual Southern Festival of Books. Your participation in the dinner…
The 36th Annual Southern Festival of Books
This fall, Humanities Tennessee will welcome more than 175 authors and 25,000 visitors to Nashville for the 36th annual Southern Festival of Books. The family-friendly weekend festival will be held…
TN Writers | TN Stories: Jared Sullivan at the Southern Festival of Books
Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USAFor more than 50 years, a power plant in the small town of Kingston, Tennessee, burned fourteen thousand tons of coal a day, gradually creating a mountain of ashen waste 60…
Tennessee Book Award Reception: Putnam County
Putnam County Library 50 E. Broad St., Cookeville, United StatesHumanities Tennessee will host a reception, award presentation, and reading with Monic Ductan, winner of the inaugural Tennessee Book Award for Fiction.
Tennessee Book Award Reception: Knoxville
East Tennessee History Center, 601 S Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902, USAHumanities Tennessee will host a reading, reception, and award presentation for Denton Loving, winner of the inaugural Tennessee Book Award in Poetry.
How We Got That Story
VirtualJoin Nashville Public Radio for a webinar that will dive into reporting on Nashville’s growing Kurdish community. International correspondent Rose Gilbert will join online live from Erbil, the Kurdish capital of Iraq, to…
Gallery Talk with Elle Perry
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art 1934 Poplar Ave, Memphis, United StatesJoin the museum for a gallery talk about Andrea Morales' exhibition with Memphian Elle Perry. Born and raised in Memphis, Elle Perry has covered arts and culture (and related subjects)…
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…
Bernard School Rosenwald History Exhibit
Magness Public Library 118 W. Main St, McMinnville, United StatesJoin hosts of the Black History Museum at the library to see the TN State Museum traveling exhibition "Building a Bright Future: Black Communities & Rosenwald Schools in Tennessee," (Jan…
Teaching the Memphis 13: Virtual Workshop
Elementary school educators are invited to a series of three virtual professional development workshops organized by the Memphis 13 Foundation. The focus explores the experiences of children in the desegregation…