Clarksville Parks and Recreation Report for January 18th, 2015
Clarksville, TN – The weekly Clarksville Parks and Recreation Department Recreation Report provides Clarksvillians with a glimpse at the activities and events that are available from the Parks and Recreation Department for them to enjoy together as a family.
This weeks highlights include: Spring Adult Leagues Meeting Scheduled, Book a Liberty Park Facility for Your Big Day, Register now for February Swim Lessons, Surrender of Clarksville event and Fort Defiance Interpretive Center to commemorate the 153rd Anniversary Commemoration of the Surrender of Clarksville.
Clarksville Parks and Recreation reminds everyone that registration for Spring Softball and Kickball begins January 26th
Clarksville, TN – Clarksville Parks and Recreation is gearing up for spring and summer adult leagues! This year, teams of those 18 and older can sign up for not only a variety of softball leagues, but an adult kickball league as well!
Registration is set to begin January 26th, with a league meeting to be held at 3:00pm on January 24th at the Burt-Cobb Community Center for both leagues.
Customs House Museum presents 6th Annual Champagne and Chocolate Fundraiser
Clarksville, TN – On Thursday, January 22nd, Champagne and Chocolate is back for its sixth installment to benefit the Customs House Museum. Doors open at 6:00pm at the Museum. Live music will be performed by 8th and Marion Jazz Combo. Don’t miss this signature event of the winter season!
Clarksville Community Concert Association brings Dallas Brass to APSU Tuesday, January 20th
Clarksville, TN – The celebrated Dallas Brass will present its American Tableau concert in Clarksville this Tuesday, January 20th at 7:30pm in the George and Sharon Mabry Concert Hall on the campus of Austin Peay State University in the Music/Mass Communication building at Eighth and Marion Streets.“
A Dallas Brass concert is intended for the entire family. Our ideal audience has a range in ages from five to 95. Our goal is to entertain and enrich by playing great music, while showing our audience how much we enjoy what we do.” says Michael Levine, artistic director and founder. This is part of the Clarksville Community Concert Association series.
The Dallas Brass
APSU University Department of Art presents “Sound”, an art exhibit at the Trahern Gallery
Clarksville, TN – Inviting museum-goers to use their ears as much as their eyes is quickly gaining traction in the art community. Much like using color on a physical canvas, sound artists use the noises that exist around us to fill space and grab the attention of the listener in a way no different than a sculpture, painting or mosaic.
Students at Austin Peay State University, as well as the community at large, will have an opportunity to explore this branch of contemporary art when the APSU Department of Art presents “SOUND”, an exhibition of sound art held at the APSU Trahern Gallery from January 20th-February 6th.
Clarksville Parks and Recreation seeks vendors for 3rd Annual Chocolate Affair
Clarksville, TN – The 3rd Annual Chocolate Affair hosted by Clarksville Parks and Recreation is a festive occasion that provides an opportunity for Clarksville’s chocolate-lovers to sample products and enjoy a fun social event. This year it will be held on Saturday, February 7th, 2015, at the Wilma Rudolph Event Center.
If you are interested in becoming a potential vendor or know someone who may be please contact Kate Dula at Clarksville Parks and Recreation.
New exhibit at APSU showcases road trip paintings across America
Clarksville, TN – For the last 12 years, Gregory Botts has been criss-crossing the nation with a car loaded full of art supplies, painting the sites and varying light he encountered.
At first begun as a clarification of the larger abstract works that he was making in the studio, these paintings have grown into their own body of impressive works that feed and inform his larger body of work. Austin Peay State University’s Trahern Gallery is proud to host the first large survey of these works in connection with his larger studio paintings this winter, “Gregory Botts: Painting Along the Road.”
“Gregory Botts: Painting Along the Road.” – Monument Valley Approach
There’s still time to get in on the fitness action at the Kleeman Center
Clarksville, TN – There’s still time to get in on the Kleeman Community Center’s Fun Interval Training program in 2015! F.I.T. starts back up for a third round on January 26th, and continues through March 26th at the Kleeman Center, located at 166 Cunningham Lane.
Two honored during APSU Candlelight Ball Award Luncheon
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University’s 31st Annual Candlelight Ball is just around the corner, and to help announce the event, two individuals were honored and recognized during a luncheon held Tuesday, January 13th.
The Wendell H. Gilbert Award and the Spirit of Austin Peay Award were presented to two individuals for the outstanding achievement, contribution or recognition they have brought to Austin Peay.
Candlelight Ball award recipients Tom Creech and Congressman Phil Roe were honored at the 2015 Candlelight Ball Awards Luncheon at F&M Bank on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015. (Beth Liggett, APSU)
APSU Diversity Committee to host meal packaging event on MLK Jr. Day
Clarksville, TN – More than 500 student volunteers will gather on the campus of Austin Peay State University Friday, January 30th for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.
In honor of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., volunteers will do their part to help alleviate hunger in a third-world country with a meal-packaging event hosted by the APSU Diversity Committee and Feed My Starving Children. The event will take place from 10:00am-5:30pm at the Foy Fitness and Recreation Center.
Martin Luther King Jr.
