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Arts and Culture

This Native American Heritage Month, a Nashville gallery is celebrating with a photography exhibit that indigenizes colonized spaces

Cynthia Abrams

November 25, 2021

COOP Curatorial Collective is celebrating National Native American Heritage Month by bringing more context to Thanksgiving with an exhibit from Apsáalooke (Crow) photographer Adam Sings in the Timber called “Reclaim: Indigenizing Colonized Spaces.”

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Adam Sings in the Timber, American Indians, Art, Arts and Culture, COOP Gallery, Indigenous, Native American

Nashville Youth Theater Troupe Confronts A Year Behind Screens In ‘Selfie The Musical’

Paige Pfleger

July 28, 2021

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An original play about what it’s like to be a kid online is being performed in Nashville through Aug. 1. The director of the Theater Bug troupe says this show felt timely, because the pandemic made a generation who grew up online even more reliant on it.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Arts, Arts and Culture, performing arts, Theater, Theater Bug

This Black Nashville Artist Experiencing Homelessness Reflects On Seeing His Work Displayed On Prominent Street

Paige Pfleger

July 6, 2021

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Nashville artist Edwin Lockridge has been experiencing homelessness and other challenges, but is among the artists with the group Poverty and the Arts to see his work displayed on the city’s Avenue of the Arts.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Arts and Culture, downtown Nashville, nonnarrated storytelling

‘We Want You To Feel Seen’: A Clarksville Company That Sends Princesses To Parties Adds More Roles For Black Actresses

Hanna Bullard

October 5, 2020

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The majority of the most famous cartoon princess characters are white, and that fact has never been comfortable for the actresses and leaders of a small company in Clarksville. So it’s shaking up how it casts.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Race & Equity Tagged With: Arts and Culture, clarksville, Race

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