Humanities Tennessee
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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 state’s folklife traditions. Over the course of five daylong sessions spread over three months, participants will develop skills necessary to cultivate Tennessee’s diverse cultural traditions.…
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FeaturedTN Writers | TN Stories with Keith Wood
Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USAThe 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 baseball and the South in the four decades that spanned the modern Negro leagues era and analyzes the racial dynamics in the city through the…
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FeaturedTN Writers | TN Stories with John P. Williams
Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USAThe 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 of Nashville, and Nashville is home to Montgomery Bell Academy. Both were named for the successful 19th century industrialist and iron master, who moved to…
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An Evening with Candace Parker
Join us for a conversation with WNBA legend Candace Parker. Your ticket purchase includes a signed copy of her book, "The Can-Do Mindset: How to Cultivate Resilience, Follow Your Heart, and Fight for Your Passions." You will receive the book upon showing your ticket at the entry to the event. As one of the most…
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Featured[POSTPONED] TN Writers | TN Stories with Charlie Peacock
Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USAIn 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, and how the hits were written and recorded (from jazz to rock and pop). Threaded throughout is Peacock’s unique ancestral and spiritual story—the roots. Like…
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FeaturedYoung Writers’ Workshop at Austin Peay State University
Austin Peay State University Clarksville, United StatesIn collaboration with Humanities Tennessee, Austin Peay State University is the proud new home of the Tennessee Young Writers' Workshop. The Tennessee Young Writers' Workshop provides high school students ages 14-18 with a unique overnight summer camp experience focused on Creative Writing. This year's camp will be hosted at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville,…
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TN Writers | TN Stories with Jennifer C. Core and Janet S. Hasson
Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USAJennifer 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 its many varieties. The authors not only catalogue and describe samplers from each of Tennessee’s major regions—West, Middle, and East—but also incorporate research on the…
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From the Ozarks to the Smokies, the bayous to the bluegrass: Great Reads for 2025
Online TN, United StatesIn the run up to this year's National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. (Sept. 6) the Tennessee Center for the Book (housed within Humanities Tennessee) teamed up with other Centers in the region to showcase celebrated books ("Great Reads from Great Places") from our respective states. Tennessee's 2025 selections are Run for the Hills by Kevin…
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Roadmap to Reading at the National Book Festival
Walter E. Washington Convention Center 801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW HALL D, Washington, DC, DC, United StatesCome find us in DC! As the Tennessee Center for the Book, we'll be representing the Volunteer State at the Library of Congress' National Book Festival and showcasing our Great Reads from Great Places selections: Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson and A Two-Placed Heart by Doan Phuong Nguyen. THIS PROJECT WAS MADE POSSIBLE IN…
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FeaturedThe 37th Annual Southern Festival of Books
Vanderbilt University Presents: The Southern Festival of Books, a program of Humanities Tennessee, is among the oldest literary festivals in the country, annually welcoming approximately 150 authors and 25,000 visitors each October. The Festival is free, and includes performance stages, food trucks, and more than 60 publishers and booksellers.