Humanities Tennessee
Carrie Tipton: From Dixie to Rocky Top: Music and Meaning in Southeastern Conference Football
Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USAThe first book to explore the history of college fight songs as a culturally important phenomenon, From Dixie to Rocky Top zeroes in on the US South, where college football has forged a powerful, quasi-religious sense of meaning and identity throughout the region. Tracing the story of Southeastern Conference (SEC) fight songs from the late nineteenth to the…
50 Years | 50 Books: Jane Marcellus talks to Denise Kiernan
VirtualJoin us for a conversation between Chapter16.org contributor Jane Marcellus and Denise Kiernan, author of "The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II." This event is part of the "50 Years/50 Books" series marking the 50th anniversary of Humanities Tennessee. For more information, please visit www.chapter16.org.
Tennessee Music Box: History, Mystery, Revival
VirtualJoin the TN Historical Society for a free, virtual discussion with musician and educator Sandy Conatser, who will share her research of these ingenious folk instruments made of materials at hand in the counties of southwest and south middle Tennessee, 1880s-1940s. The event is part of a series, "Tennessee Music 101: The History of TN Music."…
Festival Event: Erica Waters at Parnassus Books
Parnassus Books, 3900 Hillsboro Pike #14, Nashville, TN 37215, USA 101 Hillsboro Pl, United StatesHumanities Tennessee and Parnassus Books are pleased to present an evening with Erica Waters as she discusses her new YA novel, All That Consumes Us, as part of the 35th annual Southern Festival of Books. This is a free event which will take place IN STORE on Wednesday, October 18th at 6:30pm Central Time. Because space will be limited, registration…
Festival Event: Terrance Hayes at Tennessee State University
TSU Forum Auditorium 3500 John Merritt Blvd, Nashville, TNTerrance Hayes is a 2014 MacArthur Fellow and a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry. He is the author of American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin and To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight. To Float In The Space Between was winner of…
Festival Event: John Scalzi at Parnassus Books
Parnassus Books, 3900 Hillsboro Pike #14, Nashville, TN 37215, USA 101 Hillsboro Pl, United StatesHumanities Tennessee and Parnassus Books are pleased to present an evening with John Scalzi as he discusses his new book, Starter Villain, as part of the 35th annual Southern Festival of Books. This is a ticketed event which will take place IN STORE on Thursday, October 19th at 6:30pm Central Time. JOHN SCALZI is one of the…
Authors in the Round: a fundraiser benefiting the Southern Festival of Books
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum 222 5th Ave S, Nashville, TN, United StatesOne of your favorite events, and ours, returns Friday, October 20, 2023 at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. We hope you will join us for Authors in the Round, a special event dinner that provides vital funding for the 35th annual Southern Festival of Books. Your participation in the dinner ensures that Humanities Tennessee may continue…
35th Annual Southern Festival of Books
The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word 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. In 2023, we’re launching new community events to…
TN Writers | TN Stories and Festival Event with Margaret Renkl
Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USAIn The Comfort of Crows, New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons—from a crow spied on New Year’s Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the…
Community Author Experience Project
The Kelcurt Foundation concludes its inaugural Community Author series with school visits by author Rita Mae Hubbard. Ms. Hubbard will visit students for reading discussions at the following elementary schools in north Hamilton County: Soddy-Daisy, Allen, Big Ridge, North Hamilton and McConnell. Humanities Tennessee provided partial support for the author series, which occurred over nine…