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Community Book Fair Books-A-Million	Fri., July 3, 10:00am-5:00pm	Charlotte Pike/ Sylvan Park/ West Nashville	Book Events Community Events Festivals Free Events
If you need an excuse to spend money at a bookstore, here's a good one. On the eve of celebrating Americ's independence, you can help the estimated 8,000 Sudanese refugees who now call Nashville home. For one day only, Books-A-Million will host a book fair at its Charlotte Pike location in West... More>>

Poolapalooza feat. Autovaughn Opryland Hotel	Fri., July 3, 6:00pm	Airport/ Donelson/ Opry Mills	Music
As if most of us aren’t already taking a beating from the Great Recession, the summer sun is also pummeling everything in its path into submission with UV rays, greenhouse gases and blood-boiling temperatures. If you’re looking to beat the heat, dig on some live music and cool off... More>>

Kink Ador w/Pale Blue Dot, Brandi Sellerz, Maureen Murphy, Ernest Chapman & more The Basement	Fri., July 3, 8:00pm	Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End	Music
How might one describe two engagingly eclectic bands who share the same bill at The Basement? East Nashvillians Pale Blue Dot have earned acclaim for gritty and impassioned music that’s been described variously as garage-folk, “Neil Young with the wit and deviance of The Kinks,”... More>>

Heartbeat: The Rhythm of Freedom Nashville Friends Meeting House	Fri., July 3, 8:00pm	Charlotte Pike/ Sylvan Park/ West Nashville	Community Events Dance Music Performing Arts
Bay Area resident Masankho Banda travels worldwide as a performing artist, blending African dance and percussion with singing and storytelling to spread messages of peace, social justice and cultural understanding. Originally from Malawi in southeast Africa, Banda draws upon folktales and... More>>

Work by E.J. Holmes and Zachariah Fincher Blackbird Tattoo and Gallery	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Mon., June 29 until Wed., July 8	8 South/ 12 South/ Berry Hill	Art - Ongoing Photo
Whether you agree that smoking is sexy and tattoos are art, this pair of shows about to close in the 12South neighborhood's Blackbird Gallery is a great introduction to the space's aesthetic mission. In its short history, Blackbird has shown an exhibit of porn-inspired paintings and featured a... More>>

HOME Blend Studio	Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., June 6 until Sun., July 19	Downtown	Art - Ongoing
The Arcade art venues and the other Fifth Avenue galleries threw Nashville's art community--not to mention Nashville's art writers--a curveball this week, moving the First Saturday Art Crawl to July 11 to avoid the July 4 pyromania. With that in mind, we're saving up our downtown picks for next... More>>

Process and Collaboration Frist Center for the Visual Arts	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., June 26 until Sun., September 13	Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End	Art - Ongoing
If the idea of teamwork and collaboration fills the self-centered perfectionist in you with dread, this exhibit will make you crazy. Since the early '70s, Chuck Close's paintings and photographs have garnered attention for the boundary-breaking concepts they've embodied as well as for the... More>>

Terra Incognita Frist Center for the Visual Arts	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., June 26 until Sun., September 13	Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End	Art - Ongoing
Along with their anticipated show of Chuck Close prints, the Frist will also be opening a new exhibit of large collage paintings by Dean Byington. Terra Incognita features a collection of new images that pair nicely with the Close show. Where Close's paintings disintegrate into beautiful,... More>>

Nashville Originals Restaurant Week Restaurants Across the City	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Mon., June 29 until Sun., July 5	8 South/ 12 South/ Berry Hill	Community Events Food & Drink
Back by popular demand, the second--and now semi-annual--Restaurant Week kicks off earlier this year, with prix-fixe meals and two-fer dinners priced festively at $20.09 or $30.09. The weeklong bargain makes it easy to explore the 30 locally owned and independent restaurants that comprise the... More>>

Telling the Story: Letterpress Printing and Community Nashville Public Library	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., July 1 until Sun., September 27	Downtown	Art - Ongoing Free Events History
From the time Johannes Guttenberg invented letterpress in the 15th century, this form of movable-type printing was in widespread use for hundreds of years, even stretching into the 20th century. Along the way, printed documents changed the world as we know it, transforming literacy from a... More>>

Seeing Stars in Dixie Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., June 11 until Sat., July 18	Bellevue	Theater - Ongoing
Southern charm and Hollywood history converge in Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre's major summer production. Ron Osborne's script revolves around the 1956 filming of Raintree County, a rather notorious Civil War romance that featured Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and other big-name actors.... More>>

Tuesdays With Morrie Art Space Nashville	Every week Friday, Sunday from Fri., June 19 until Sun., July 26	Madison	Theater - Ongoing
Street Theatre Company doubles its pleasure in presenting two "two-handed" shows within the space of the same monthlong run. Parallel Lives dates from 1989, and is based on the stand-up comedy of Kathy Najimy (Sister Act, Hocus Pocus, etc., and since 1997 the voice of Peggy Hill on King of the... More>>

Architecture Tour Frist Center for the Visual Arts	Fri., July 3, 6:30pm more dates/times	Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End	Art - Openings & Events Community Events History Lectures Tours
In the wake of opening their highly anticipated Chuck Close show, the Frist Center's Museums in the 21st Century exhibit continues to resonate with the ongoing local conversation the art community is having about architecture. Adding more fuel to the fire, the Frist turns a spotlight on itself,... More>>

Act Like a Grrrl Belmont's Black Box Theatre	Thu., July 2, 7:30pm more dates/times	Belmont/ Edgehill/ Hillsboro Village	Theater - Opening
Founded in 2005, Actors Bridge producer Vali Forrister's spring/summer retreat program for girls ages 12-17 continues to draw in participants eager to explore their identity and exercise their burgeoning personal independence. Their conduit is a creatively driven regimen that stresses peer... More>>

Works by Brother Mel The Arts Company	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., June 6 until Sat., July 18	Downtown	Art - Ongoing
Bother Mel's shows are always a special occasion at the Arts Company, and this will be his 11th annual exhibit at the Fifth Avenue gallery. As usual, the good brother has brought plenty of goodies back to Nashville. For his show this year, Brother Mel has been experimenting with wagon wheels,... More>>

Works by Courtney Ann Greenlee The Belcourt	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sun., June 7 until Sun., August 2	Belmont/ Edgehill/ Hillsboro Village	Art - Ongoing Photo
If you want the inside scoop on Courtney Ann Greenlee's new show, you have to read her diary. No dear reader, we would never suggest thoughtlessly bumbling through anyone's private thoughts, but we do recommend visiting the artist's website and snooping through the journals she has posted... More>>

Summer Gallery Artist Exhibit Cumberland Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., June 13 until Sat., September 5	Green Hills	Art - Ongoing
Cumberland Gallery will be keeping it simple this summer, leaving rotating gallery shows to the Art Crawlers downtown in favor of one expansive group exhibit that will last the whole season...sort of. Of course, the Green Hills Gallery is too savvy to program one single show for three months,... More>>

Be a Doll: Women Artists Looking at Women Today Estel Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., June 4 until Sat., July 25	Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End	Art - Ongoing
Once upon a time, women were the keepers of the flame when it came to maintaining the mores and traditions of civilized, domestic life. Women's roles and opportunities have changed and expanded over the years, but are women still keeping vigil over hearth and home? Be a Doll--the latest show at... More>>

Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings Frist Center for the Visual Arts	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., May 29 until Sun., August 23	Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End	Art - Ongoing
In their earliest days, museums were literally conceived of as temples to the Muses, and their sacred architecture demonstrated the vaulted position that the arts occupied in places like ancient Greece and Rome. Since then, the role of museums has evolved, and shifting missions have been... More>>

Architectural Pen & Ink Drawings Nashville Public Library	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., May 30 until Wed., September 30	Downtown	Art - Ongoing
What local artists such as Ann Tiley and Peggy Snow attempt in paint--capturing Nashville landmarks, homes and street scenes in defiance of the wrecking ball--R.E. Proctor has done for more than three decades with an ink pen. Area churches, private homes and institutions such as the old Howard... More>>

SCAD-N Rymer Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., June 6 until Sat., July 18	Downtown	Art - Ongoing
Just when you thought it was safe to forget all about school days in preparation for the dog days, Rymer Gallery goes and puts together a show of work by students and faculty from Savannah College of Art and Design, creating a dynamic exhibit despite the fact that we've been waking up from bad... More>>

Out of My Mind Tinney Contemporary	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., June 6 until Sat., July 11	Downtown	Art - Ongoing
Painter Donny Smutz makes art that is full of contradictions. He is a Midwesterner whose work reflects on American culture, but he favors sardonic satire over patriotic praise. He unexpectedly sets his pop cultural narratives in surrealistic landscapes, but he pulls predictably from easy,... More>>

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Red, White and Zoo Nashville Zoo at Grassmere	Fri., July 3, 11:00am-4:00pm	Nolensville Rd./ Woodbine/ Murfreesboro Rd.	Children's Events Community Events Family Events Fourth of July Holiday Holiday - Parties Zoo & Animals

Interview and Performance feat. Holly Williams Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum	Fri., July 3, 1:30pm	Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End	Music

Autograph Signing with Holly Williams Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum	Fri., July 3, 3:00pm	Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End	Community Events Free Events